Machine Learning Contracts in the East of England

Machine Learning (ML)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England requiring Machine Learning skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Machine Learning over the 6 months leading up to 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 47 95 106
Rank change year-on-year +48 +11 -11
Contract jobs citing Machine Learning 35 18 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 3.65% 0.94% 0.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.03% 1.12% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 7 11
10th Percentile £362 £338 £450
25th Percentile £534 £363 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £375 £600
Median % change year-on-year +70.00% -37.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £675 £441 -
90th Percentile - £515 -
England median daily rate £575 £588 £600
% change year-on-year -2.13% -2.08% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 9 2
10th Percentile £72.30 - -
25th Percentile £80.17 £51.25 £51.25
Median hourly rate £80.68 £60.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +34.46% +14.29% -
75th Percentile £88.00 £66.25 £53.75
90th Percentile - £67.25 -
England median hourly rate £78.10 £52.50 £37.75
% change year-on-year +48.76% +39.07% -16.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East of England

Machine Learning falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 868 1,614 1,706
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 90.42% 84.28% 87.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 459 667 997
10th Percentile £230 £200 £207
25th Percentile £400 £325 £335
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £600 £575 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 173 613 325
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.16 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.30 £15.50 £14.25
Median hourly rate £36.00 £40.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +81.82% +41.94%
75th Percentile £72.50 £62.50 £64.50
90th Percentile £83.70 £75.00 £70.00
England median hourly rate £28.00 £37.18 £37.32
% change year-on-year -24.69% -0.38% +49.28%

Machine Learning
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing Machine Learning as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for Machine Learning in the East of England

Machine Learning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Machine Learning in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for Machine Learning in the East of England

Machine Learning
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Machine Learning in the East of England over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Machine Learning in the East of England

Machine Learning
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Machine Learning in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for Machine Learning in the East of England

Machine Learning
Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Machine Learning in the East of England over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Machine Learning in the East of England

Machine Learning
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Machine Learning within the East of England region over the 6 months to 29 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Hertfordshire +46 23 £650 +73.33% 254
Bedfordshire +5 8 £800 - 169
Essex +17 4 £320 -14.69% 248
Machine Learning
England

Machine Learning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 13 (37.14%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.86%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (2.86%) Apache
2 1 (2.86%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.86%) CMS
2 1 (2.86%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 5 (14.29%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 2 (5.71%) Workday HCM
2 1 (2.86%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 14 (40.00%) AWS
1 14 (40.00%) Azure
2 6 (17.14%) GCP
3 2 (5.71%) GitHub
4 1 (2.86%) Anthropic Claude
4 1 (2.86%) ChatGPT
4 1 (2.86%) dbt
4 1 (2.86%) Power Platform
4 1 (2.86%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 7 (20.00%) DNS
1 7 (20.00%) FTP
1 7 (20.00%) HTTP
1 7 (20.00%) Network Security
1 7 (20.00%) SMTP
1 7 (20.00%) SSL
2 5 (14.29%) Ethernet
3 1 (2.86%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (45.71%) Tableau
2 13 (37.14%) Big Data
2 13 (37.14%) Hadoop
3 3 (8.57%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (8.57%) Metadata
4 1 (2.86%) BigQuery
4 1 (2.86%) Looker
4 1 (2.86%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (5.71%) Git
2 1 (2.86%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.86%) SonarQube
General
1 21 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
2 16 (45.71%) Social Skills
3 5 (14.29%) Electronics
3 5 (14.29%) Games
4 3 (8.57%) Finance
4 3 (8.57%) Law
5 2 (5.71%) Automotive
5 2 (5.71%) Telecoms
6 1 (2.86%) Marketing
6 1 (2.86%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 16 (45.71%) Developer
2 13 (37.14%) Data Science Developer
3 10 (28.57%) Senior
4 8 (22.86%) Senior Developer
5 6 (17.14%) Analyst
5 6 (17.14%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
5 6 (17.14%) SOC Analyst
6 3 (8.57%) FPGA Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) Data Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) Firmware Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) Gen AI Developer
7 2 (5.71%) Principal Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) Senior Data Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) Workday Manager
8 1 (2.86%) Cybersecurity Analyst
8 1 (2.86%) Cybersecurity Specialist
8 1 (2.86%) Security Analyst
8 1 (2.86%) SOC Specialist
8 1 (2.86%) Technology Manager
8 1 (2.86%) Workday Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (45.71%) NumPy
1 16 (45.71%) Pandas
2 15 (42.86%) Matplotlib
2 15 (42.86%) PyTorch
2 15 (42.86%) scikit-learn
2 15 (42.86%) Seaborn
2 15 (42.86%) TensorFlow
3 7 (20.00%) LDAP
4 3 (8.57%) PySpark
5 2 (5.71%) React
6 1 (2.86%) AngularJS
6 1 (2.86%) JSR 170
6 1 (2.86%) Kafka
6 1 (2.86%) Next.js
6 1 (2.86%) OSGi
Miscellaneous
1 21 (60.00%) Algorithms
2 7 (20.00%) Analytical Mindset
2 7 (20.00%) Cyber Threat
2 7 (20.00%) Cyberattack
2 7 (20.00%) Management Information System
3 6 (17.14%) CSOC
3 6 (17.14%) Security Operations Centre
4 5 (14.29%) FPGA
4 5 (14.29%) PCIe
4 5 (14.29%) Verilog
5 2 (5.71%) Cloud Native
6 1 (2.86%) Life Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 23 (65.71%) Analytics
3 17 (48.57%) Data Analysis
3 17 (48.57%) Data Science
3 17 (48.57%) Generative AI
4 16 (45.71%) Computer Science
4 16 (45.71%) LLM
4 16 (45.71%) Visualisation
5 15 (42.86%) Data Munging
6 14 (40.00%) Reinforcement Learning
7 13 (37.14%) Data Analytics
7 13 (37.14%) Decision-Making
7 13 (37.14%) Predictive Analytics
7 13 (37.14%) Statistical Modelling
7 13 (37.14%) Time Series Forecasting
8 12 (34.29%) Feature Engineering
9 7 (20.00%) Behavioural Analytics
9 7 (20.00%) Customer Requirements
9 7 (20.00%) Network Packet Capture
9 7 (20.00%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 18 (51.43%) Python
2 15 (42.86%) R
3 5 (14.29%) MATLAB
3 5 (14.29%) SystemVerilog
3 5 (14.29%) Tcl
4 3 (8.57%) SQL
5 1 (2.86%) Java
Qualifications
1 16 (45.71%) Degree
2 11 (31.43%) Master's Degree
2 11 (31.43%) PhD
3 10 (28.57%) Security Cleared
4 9 (25.71%) SC Cleared
5 5 (14.29%) DV Cleared
5 5 (14.29%) HNC
5 5 (14.29%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (54.29%) Data Quality
2 5 (14.29%) DO-254
3 2 (5.71%) QA
4 1 (2.86%) GDPR
System Software
1 5 (14.29%) Firmware
2 1 (2.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (5.71%) Terraform
2 1 (2.86%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (14.29%) Actel
1 5 (14.29%) Altera
1 5 (14.29%) Intel
1 5 (14.29%) Microsemi
1 5 (14.29%) Xilinx
2 2 (5.71%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.71%) OpenAI
2 2 (5.71%) Workday
3 1 (2.86%) Adobe
3 1 (2.86%) Ariba
3 1 (2.86%) Checkmarx
3 1 (2.86%) Dynatrace
3 1 (2.86%) SAP