Machine Learning Contract Job Trends in East Sussex

Machine Learning (ML)
South East > East Sussex

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in East Sussex requiring Machine Learning skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 - 12
Rank change year-on-year - - +9
Contract jobs citing Machine Learning 3 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in East Sussex 3.53% - 4.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.23% - 5.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £488 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - £400
Median % change year-on-year - - -30.43%
75th Percentile £563 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £600 £563 £525
% change year-on-year +6.67% +7.14% -4.55%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East Sussex

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 East Sussex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 71 115 52
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in East Sussex 83.53% 94.26% 81.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 35 39
10th Percentile £220 £290 £307
25th Percentile £363 £356 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -13.64%
75th Percentile £623 £575 £619
90th Percentile £672 £656 £703
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +5.00% -2.44% -0.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 4 4
10th Percentile - £18.04 -
25th Percentile £61.87 £20.61 £11.00
Median hourly rate £63.73 £26.29 £13.44
Median % change year-on-year +142.46% +95.57% -25.33%
75th Percentile £65.60 £31.24 £15.38
90th Percentile - £32.12 -
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £22.29 £50.00
% change year-on-year +146.80% -55.43% -

Machine Learning
Job Vacancy Trend in East Sussex

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Machine Learning relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in East Sussex.

Machine Learning job vacancy trend in East Sussex

Machine Learning
Daily Rate Trend in East Sussex

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in East Sussex citing Machine Learning.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in East Sussex citing Machine Learning

Machine Learning
Contract Job Locations in East Sussex

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 Sussex region over the 6 months to 15 July 2026. 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
Brighton - 2 £525 - 11
Hove - 1 - -
Machine Learning
South East

Machine Learning
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in East Sussex by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) GitHub
1 2 (66.67%) n8n
1 2 (66.67%) Power Automate
1 2 (66.67%) Zapier
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Datadog
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) .NET Developer
1 2 (66.67%) .NET Software Developer
1 2 (66.67%) .NET Software Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Developer/Software Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Software Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Software Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Site Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) .NET
1 2 (66.67%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) AI Agents
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) AI
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Software Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Workflow
3 1 (33.33%) Analytical Thinking
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Anomaly Detection
3 1 (33.33%) Chaos Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Incident Management
3 1 (33.33%) Microservices
3 1 (33.33%) Predictive Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Strategic Thinking
3 1 (33.33%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) C#
2 1 (33.33%) Python
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Dynatrace