Machine Learning Engineer Contracts in England

Machine Learning Engineer
UK > England

The median Machine Learning Engineer daily rate in England is £588, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 441 489 608
Rank change year-on-year +48 +119 +95
Contract jobs requiring a Machine Learning Engineer 44 53 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.18% 0.14% 0.089%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.15% 0.094%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 38 29
10th Percentile £370 £450 £533
25th Percentile £509 £492 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £559 £575
Median % change year-on-year +5.15% -2.83% -4.17%
75th Percentile £800 £638 £593
90th Percentile £868 £798 £658
UK median daily rate £600 £568 £575
% change year-on-year +5.73% -1.30% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 9 0
Median hourly rate - £62.50 -
UK median hourly rate - £62.50 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 22,549 34,488 47,741
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 92.73% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,007 22,894 33,903
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £643 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 900 2,432 1,409
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.35
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.60
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Machine Learning Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Machine Learning Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Machine Learning Engineer in England

Machine Learning Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Machine Learning Engineer in England.

Daily rate trend for Machine Learning Engineer in England

Machine Learning Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Machine Learning Engineer in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Machine Learning Engineer in England

Machine Learning Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Machine Learning Engineer in England.

Hourly rate trend for Machine Learning Engineer in England

Machine Learning Engineer
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Machine Learning Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 1 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
London +43 42 £575 +6.98% 124
South West - 2 £825 - 5
Machine Learning Engineer
UK

Machine Learning Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Machine Learning Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Machine Learning Engineer in the job title.

1 44 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 37 (84.09%) Python
3 21 (47.73%) Deep Learning
4 19 (43.18%) Artificial Intelligence
5 18 (40.91%) Data Science
6 17 (38.64%) Java
6 17 (38.64%) AWS
7 16 (36.36%) Apache Spark
8 15 (34.09%) C++
8 15 (34.09%) Distributed Computing
9 14 (31.82%) Degree
9 14 (31.82%) Computer Science
10 13 (29.55%) C
10 13 (29.55%) Shell Script
10 13 (29.55%) Master's Degree
11 12 (27.27%) PhD
12 11 (25.00%) CI/CD
12 11 (25.00%) LLM
13 10 (22.73%) MLOps
13 10 (22.73%) Parallel Computing
13 10 (22.73%) Azure
13 10 (22.73%) Big Data
13 10 (22.73%) Analytics
14 9 (20.45%) Low Latency
14 9 (20.45%) Containerisation
15 8 (18.18%) Docker
15 8 (18.18%) Finance
16 7 (15.91%) Data Mining
16 7 (15.91%) Kubernetes
16 7 (15.91%) Roadmaps

Machine Learning Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 16 (36.36%) Apache Spark
2 3 (6.82%) Jupyter
3 2 (4.55%) Apache
4 1 (2.27%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 17 (38.64%) AWS
2 10 (22.73%) Azure
3 5 (11.36%) Azure Stack
4 3 (6.82%) GCP
5 2 (4.55%) Amazon SageMaker
5 2 (4.55%) Vertex AI
6 1 (2.27%) Amazon Kinesis
6 1 (2.27%) Amazon S3
6 1 (2.27%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (2.27%) AWS Step Functions
6 1 (2.27%) Azure Machine Learning
6 1 (2.27%) GitHub
6 1 (2.27%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (2.27%) IaaS
6 1 (2.27%) PaaS
6 1 (2.27%) Power Platform
6 1 (2.27%) SaaS
6 1 (2.27%) Serverless
6 1 (2.27%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.27%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (22.73%) Big Data
2 7 (15.91%) Data Mining
3 1 (2.27%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (2.27%) Hadoop
3 1 (2.27%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.27%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.27%) Power BI
3 1 (2.27%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (11.36%) MLflow
2 1 (2.27%) Git
2 1 (2.27%) GitLab
2 1 (2.27%) Jenkins
General
1 8 (18.18%) Finance
2 5 (11.36%) Social Skills
3 2 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (4.55%) Banking
3 2 (4.55%) Retail
4 1 (2.27%) Aviation
4 1 (2.27%) Investment Banking
4 1 (2.27%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (15.91%) PyTorch
1 7 (15.91%) Ray
2 6 (13.64%) TensorFlow
3 5 (11.36%) scikit-learn
4 3 (6.82%) AWS CDK
4 3 (6.82%) PySpark
4 3 (6.82%) XGBoost
5 2 (4.55%) Kafka
5 2 (4.55%) Matplotlib
6 1 (2.27%) Keras
6 1 (2.27%) Loki
6 1 (2.27%) Metaflow
6 1 (2.27%) NumPy
6 1 (2.27%) OpenCV
6 1 (2.27%) Pandas
6 1 (2.27%) Plotly
6 1 (2.27%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 15 (34.09%) Distributed Computing
2 6 (13.64%) Algorithms
3 4 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (9.09%) Product Ownership
3 4 (9.09%) Tandem
4 2 (4.55%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (4.55%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.27%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.27%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.27%) Linux
1 1 (2.27%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 21 (47.73%) Deep Learning
3 19 (43.18%) Artificial Intelligence
4 18 (40.91%) Data Science
5 14 (31.82%) Computer Science
6 11 (25.00%) CI/CD
6 11 (25.00%) LLM
7 10 (22.73%) Analytics
7 10 (22.73%) MLOps
7 10 (22.73%) Parallel Computing
8 9 (20.45%) Containerisation
8 9 (20.45%) Low Latency
9 7 (15.91%) Roadmaps
9 7 (15.91%) Technical Debt
9 7 (15.91%) Technical Leadership
10 6 (13.64%) Agile
10 6 (13.64%) Natural Language Processing
11 5 (11.36%) Data Governance
11 5 (11.36%) Data Pipeline
11 5 (11.36%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 37 (84.09%) Python
2 17 (38.64%) Java
3 15 (34.09%) C++
4 13 (29.55%) C
4 13 (29.55%) Shell Script
5 6 (13.64%) SQL
6 5 (11.36%) Scala
7 2 (4.55%) Rust
8 1 (2.27%) Bash
8 1 (2.27%) C#
8 1 (2.27%) Clojure
8 1 (2.27%) Haskell
8 1 (2.27%) JavaScript
8 1 (2.27%) Perl
8 1 (2.27%) PowerShell
8 1 (2.27%) R
8 1 (2.27%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 14 (31.82%) Degree
2 13 (29.55%) Master's Degree
3 12 (27.27%) PhD
4 6 (13.64%) SC Cleared
4 6 (13.64%) Security Cleared
5 3 (6.82%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.27%) DV Cleared
6 1 (2.27%) MCITP
6 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 8 (18.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (15.91%) Kubernetes
2 4 (9.09%) Terraform
3 1 (2.27%) Grafana
3 1 (2.27%) Kubeflow
3 1 (2.27%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (6.82%) Databricks
2 1 (2.27%) Google
2 1 (2.27%) OpenAI