Machine Learning Engineer Contracts in England

Machine Learning Engineer
UK > England

The median Machine Learning Engineer daily rate in England is £559 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 486 603 692
Rank change year-on-year +117 +89 -78
Contract jobs requiring a Machine Learning Engineer 51 44 87
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.14% 0.091% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.097% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 30 55
10th Percentile £450 £534 £500
25th Percentile £505 £554 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £559 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.83% -4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £668 £588 £738
90th Percentile £873 £654 £850
UK median daily rate £571 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -0.65% -4.17% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51.25 - -
Median hourly rate £62.50 - -
75th Percentile £66.25 - -
90th Percentile £73.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £62.50 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 33,809 45,522 67,131
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.60% 95.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,413 32,346 47,872
10th Percentile £283 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £644 £663 £644
90th Percentile £750 £760 £743
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.82% +2.90% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,440 1,342 1,849
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.92 £44.77 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.54% +94.63% +4.55%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

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 17 May 2024.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Machine Learning Engineer in England over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram 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 17 May 2024. 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 +97 35 £538 -6.52% 54
East of England - 8 - - 6
South East +13 7 £600 +6.67% 9
Machine Learning Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 17 May 2024, 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 51 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 43 (84.31%) Python
3 32 (62.75%) Artificial Intelligence
4 22 (43.14%) TensorFlow
5 20 (39.22%) Software Engineering
6 18 (35.29%) Data Science
7 16 (31.37%) DevOps
8 15 (29.41%) scikit-learn
9 14 (27.45%) Deep Learning
9 14 (27.45%) MLOps
10 13 (25.49%) PyTorch
10 13 (25.49%) Azure
10 13 (25.49%) Java
11 12 (23.53%) AWS
12 11 (21.57%) C++
12 11 (21.57%) NumPy
12 11 (21.57%) CI/CD
13 10 (19.61%) Pandas
13 10 (19.61%) Algorithms
13 10 (19.61%) Degree
13 10 (19.61%) Computer Science
14 9 (17.65%) SQL
14 9 (17.65%) Kubernetes
14 9 (17.65%) Generative AI
15 8 (15.69%) Computer Science Degree
15 8 (15.69%) GCP
15 8 (15.69%) Natural Language Processing
15 8 (15.69%) Azure Machine Learning
15 8 (15.69%) Apache Airflow
15 8 (15.69%) Data Mining

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 8 (15.69%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (3.92%) Apache
2 2 (3.92%) Apache Spark
2 2 (3.92%) Confluence
2 2 (3.92%) Jupyter
3 1 (1.96%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 13 (25.49%) Azure
2 12 (23.53%) AWS
3 8 (15.69%) Azure Machine Learning
3 8 (15.69%) GCP
4 6 (11.76%) Vertex AI
5 5 (9.80%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (3.92%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 2 (3.92%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (3.92%) ChatGPT
6 2 (3.92%) Power Platform
6 2 (3.92%) PowerApps
7 1 (1.96%) Amazon Kinesis
7 1 (1.96%) Amazon SageMaker
7 1 (1.96%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.96%) Dagster
7 1 (1.96%) dbt
7 1 (1.96%) GitHub
7 1 (1.96%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.96%) SaaS
7 1 (1.96%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (15.69%) Data Mining
2 3 (5.88%) NoSQL
3 2 (3.92%) Big Data
3 2 (3.92%) Power BI
4 1 (1.96%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (1.96%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (1.96%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.96%) Flink
4 1 (1.96%) Hadoop
4 1 (1.96%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (11.76%) MLflow
2 4 (7.84%) Git
3 3 (5.88%) Mercurial
4 2 (3.92%) Cucumber
4 2 (3.92%) GitLab
4 2 (3.92%) JIRA
4 2 (3.92%) Selenium
5 1 (1.96%) Poetry
General
1 7 (13.73%) Electronics
2 5 (9.80%) Social Skills
3 4 (7.84%) Finance
4 3 (5.88%) Multimedia
4 3 (5.88%) Retail
5 2 (3.92%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.96%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (43.14%) TensorFlow
2 15 (29.41%) scikit-learn
3 13 (25.49%) PyTorch
4 11 (21.57%) NumPy
5 10 (19.61%) Pandas
6 4 (7.84%) SciPy
7 3 (5.88%) LangChain
7 3 (5.88%) React
8 2 (3.92%) DirectX
8 2 (3.92%) FastAPI
8 2 (3.92%) HTML
8 2 (3.92%) OpenCV
8 2 (3.92%) OpenGL
8 2 (3.92%) OpenGL ES
8 2 (3.92%) Torch
8 2 (3.92%) Vulkan
8 2 (3.92%) XGBoost
9 1 (1.96%) Kafka
9 1 (1.96%) Lambda Expressions
9 1 (1.96%) LAPP Stack
Miscellaneous
1 10 (19.61%) Algorithms
2 5 (9.80%) Social Media
3 3 (5.88%) Life Science
3 3 (5.88%) Photography
4 2 (3.92%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (3.92%) Tandem
5 1 (1.96%) Digital Media
5 1 (1.96%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.96%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.96%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.84%) Android
2 3 (5.88%) Windows
3 1 (1.96%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 32 (62.75%) Artificial Intelligence
3 20 (39.22%) Software Engineering
4 18 (35.29%) Data Science
5 16 (31.37%) DevOps
6 14 (27.45%) Deep Learning
6 14 (27.45%) MLOps
7 11 (21.57%) CI/CD
8 10 (19.61%) Computer Science
9 9 (17.65%) Generative AI
10 8 (15.69%) Natural Language Processing
11 7 (13.73%) LLM
11 7 (13.73%) Test Automation
12 6 (11.76%) Agile
12 6 (11.76%) Data Ingestion
12 6 (11.76%) Workflow
13 5 (9.80%) Computer Vision
13 5 (9.80%) Parallel Computing
13 5 (9.80%) Pattern Recognition
13 5 (9.80%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 43 (84.31%) Python
2 13 (25.49%) Java
3 11 (21.57%) C++
4 9 (17.65%) SQL
5 7 (13.73%) JavaScript
6 6 (11.76%) Shell Script
7 5 (9.80%) C
8 4 (7.84%) C#
9 2 (3.92%) Go
9 2 (3.92%) Scala
10 1 (1.96%) Kotlin
10 1 (1.96%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (19.61%) Degree
2 8 (15.69%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (9.80%) Master's Degree
4 4 (7.84%) PhD
5 2 (3.92%) SC Cleared
5 2 (3.92%) Security Cleared
6 1 (1.96%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.92%) QA
2 1 (1.96%) Data Quality
System Software
1 7 (13.73%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (17.65%) Kubernetes
2 6 (11.76%) Kubeflow
3 2 (3.92%) Grafana
3 2 (3.92%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (11.76%) Databricks
2 2 (3.92%) Splunk
3 1 (1.96%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.96%) OpenAI