Machine Learning Contracts in England

Machine Learning (ML)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Machine Learning skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Machine Learning over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 150 208 198
Rank change year-on-year +58 -10 -39
Contract jobs citing Machine Learning 588 653 1,071
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.59% 1.29% 1.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.84% 1.43% 1.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 441 462 744
10th Percentile £413 £450 £413
25th Percentile £500 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £738 £738 £700
90th Percentile £788 £898 £806
UK median daily rate £575 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 16 15
10th Percentile £41.24 £21.08 £24.00
25th Percentile £45.26 £22.16 £33.38
Median hourly rate £52.50 £35.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -22.22% +1.93%
75th Percentile £66.38 £54.69 £61.63
90th Percentile £75.38 £79.38 £73.15
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £35.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year +50.00% -6.67% -15.06%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Machine Learning is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,992 45,544 64,506
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.53% 90.24% 90.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,975 31,977 45,770
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £765 £749
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,229 1,592 1,769
10th Percentile £12.86 £10.87 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
Median % change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.60
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.30 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.17% +49.20% -

Machine Learning
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Machine Learning in England

Machine Learning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Machine Learning in England

Machine Learning
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Machine Learning in England over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Machine Learning in England

Machine Learning
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Machine Learning in England

Machine Learning
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Machine Learning in England over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Machine Learning in England

Machine Learning
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 within the England region over the 6 months to 28 April 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 +82 423 £618 -1.20% 521
North of England +28 46 £550 -6.38% 81
South East -21 25 £600 +4.35% 148
Midlands +39 24 £580 +16.00% 50
North West +14 24 £525 -10.64% 50
East of England +14 23 £450 -25.00% 113
West Midlands +40 20 £580 +16.00% 31
Yorkshire +23 16 £554 -9.55% 26
South West -37 11 £550 - 58
North East +28 8 - - 5
East Midlands +22 4 £675 +58.82% 19
Machine Learning
UK

Machine Learning
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 58 (9.86%) Apache Airflow
2 51 (8.67%) Apache
3 23 (3.91%) Apache Spark
4 7 (1.19%) SharePoint
5 4 (0.68%) Confluence
5 4 (0.68%) Jupyter
6 3 (0.51%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.34%) SAS
8 1 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.17%) CMS
8 1 (0.17%) GeoServer
Applications
1 12 (2.04%) Chatbot
2 4 (0.68%) Simulink
3 3 (0.51%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.17%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 14 (2.38%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 12 (2.04%) Aladdin
3 3 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.17%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 194 (32.99%) AWS
2 169 (28.74%) Azure
3 165 (28.06%) GCP
4 37 (6.29%) Power Platform
5 29 (4.93%) Vertex AI
6 24 (4.08%) Serverless
7 23 (3.91%) Cloud Computing
8 22 (3.74%) Snowflake
9 21 (3.57%) Azure Machine Learning
10 16 (2.72%) AWS Lambda
11 15 (2.55%) Azure DevOps
11 15 (2.55%) GitHub
11 15 (2.55%) OCI
12 14 (2.38%) Amazon SageMaker
13 10 (1.70%) Amazon S3
13 10 (1.70%) Google Compute Engine
14 9 (1.53%) Azure Data Factory
14 9 (1.53%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 8 (1.36%) ChatGPT
15 8 (1.36%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 23 (3.91%) HTTP
2 3 (0.51%) LAN
2 3 (0.51%) SSL
2 3 (0.51%) WAN
3 2 (0.34%) Firewall
3 2 (0.34%) Wireless
4 1 (0.17%) DVB
4 1 (0.17%) Internet
4 1 (0.17%) Network Security
4 1 (0.17%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (10.37%) Big Data
2 54 (9.18%) PostgreSQL
3 51 (8.67%) Data Warehouse
4 46 (7.82%) Tableau
5 42 (7.14%) Apache Ignite
6 35 (5.95%) Data Lake
7 34 (5.78%) Power BI
8 32 (5.44%) BigQuery
9 25 (4.25%) Data Mining
10 24 (4.08%) Hadoop
11 23 (3.91%) Apache Cassandra
12 18 (3.06%) NoSQL
13 12 (2.04%) Relational Database
14 10 (1.70%) Amazon Athena
15 8 (1.36%) Apache Hive
15 8 (1.36%) Metadata
16 7 (1.19%) Amazon Redshift
16 7 (1.19%) SQL Server
17 6 (1.02%) DynamoDB
17 6 (1.02%) Looker
Development Applications
1 50 (8.50%) Git
2 27 (4.59%) Cypress.io
3 23 (3.91%) JIRA
4 18 (3.06%) Jenkins
5 14 (2.38%) ER Studio
5 14 (2.38%) ERwin
6 9 (1.53%) MLflow
7 8 (1.36%) Mercurial
8 7 (1.19%) GitLab
9 6 (1.02%) TeamCity
10 5 (0.85%) Maven
10 5 (0.85%) Postman
10 5 (0.85%) Subversion
11 4 (0.68%) Bitbucket
12 3 (0.51%) Poetry
13 2 (0.34%) Cucumber
13 2 (0.34%) RStudio
13 2 (0.34%) Selenium
13 2 (0.34%) Visual Studio
14 1 (0.17%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 137 (23.30%) Finance
2 98 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 80 (13.61%) Banking
3 80 (13.61%) Front Office
4 62 (10.54%) Analytical Skills
5 28 (4.76%) Public Sector
6 24 (4.08%) Pharmaceutical
7 19 (3.23%) Marketing
8 15 (2.55%) Retail
9 14 (2.38%) Investment Banking
10 13 (2.21%) Electronics
11 10 (1.70%) Influencing Skills
12 9 (1.53%) Manufacturing
12 9 (1.53%) Multimedia
13 7 (1.19%) Telecoms
14 6 (1.02%) Advertising
14 6 (1.02%) Police
14 6 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
15 5 (0.85%) Financial Institution
15 5 (0.85%) Legal
Job Titles
1 120 (20.41%) Developer
2 84 (14.29%) Architect
3 70 (11.90%) Data Scientist
4 66 (11.22%) Software Engineer
5 56 (9.52%) Python Developer
6 55 (9.35%) Python Engineer
7 52 (8.84%) Machine Learning Engineer
8 47 (7.99%) Python Software Engineer
9 41 (6.97%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 40 (6.80%) Analyst
10 40 (6.80%) React Developer
11 37 (6.29%) Senior
12 34 (5.78%) Data Engineer
12 34 (5.78%) Lead
13 31 (5.27%) Business Analyst
14 30 (5.10%) Data Architect
15 24 (4.08%) Full Stack Developer
15 24 (4.08%) Solutions Architect
16 23 (3.91%) Finance Business Analyst
16 23 (3.91%) Financial Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (11.22%) React
2 65 (11.05%) TensorFlow
3 52 (8.84%) PyTorch
4 41 (6.97%) gRPC
4 41 (6.97%) Material-UI
4 41 (6.97%) Protocol Buffers
4 41 (6.97%) Redux
5 39 (6.63%) Kafka
6 38 (6.46%) Pandas
7 37 (6.29%) scikit-learn
8 34 (5.78%) RESTful
9 25 (4.25%) NumPy
10 23 (3.91%) Akka
11 19 (3.23%) CSS
12 18 (3.06%) HTML
12 18 (3.06%) Node.js
13 14 (2.38%) .NET
14 11 (1.87%) PySpark
15 10 (1.70%) Hugging Face
15 10 (1.70%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 108 (18.37%) Algorithms
2 68 (11.56%) Fixed Income
2 68 (11.56%) Hedge funds
3 44 (7.48%) Equities
4 36 (6.12%) Product Ownership
5 29 (4.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 27 (4.59%) Derivative
7 22 (3.74%) Data Structures
8 15 (2.55%) Greenfield Project
9 13 (2.21%) Public Cloud
10 12 (2.04%) Management Information System
11 11 (1.87%) Data Protection Act
11 11 (1.87%) Team-Oriented Environment
12 10 (1.70%) Distributed Systems
12 10 (1.70%) Social Media
13 9 (1.53%) Onboarding
14 8 (1.36%) Analytical Mindset
14 8 (1.36%) Cloud Native
15 7 (1.19%) Distributed Computing
16 6 (1.02%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 24 (4.08%) Linux
2 11 (1.87%) Windows
3 8 (1.36%) Android
4 6 (1.02%) Unix
5 4 (0.68%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.17%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 329 (55.95%) Artificial Intelligence
2 196 (33.33%) Data Science
3 190 (32.31%) Agile
4 127 (21.60%) Analytics
5 110 (18.71%) DevOps
5 110 (18.71%) Software Engineering
6 108 (18.37%) Computer Science
7 76 (12.93%) Data Modelling
8 74 (12.59%) CI/CD
9 73 (12.41%) Asset Management
10 70 (11.90%) Problem-Solving
11 69 (11.73%) Investment Management
12 61 (10.37%) Data Pipeline
12 61 (10.37%) Visualisation
13 58 (9.86%) Full Stack Development
14 57 (9.69%) Natural Language Processing
15 56 (9.52%) Data Governance
16 55 (9.35%) Data Analysis
17 51 (8.67%) Business Intelligence
18 50 (8.50%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 343 (58.33%) Python
2 166 (28.23%) SQL
3 62 (10.54%) Java
4 60 (10.20%) TypeScript
5 43 (7.31%) JavaScript
6 40 (6.80%) Scala
7 35 (5.95%) C#
8 32 (5.44%) R
9 24 (4.08%) C++
10 21 (3.57%) Shell Script
11 20 (3.40%) PowerShell
12 13 (2.21%) Bash
13 7 (1.19%) Kusto Query Language
13 7 (1.19%) Search Processing Language
14 6 (1.02%) C
14 6 (1.02%) Clojure
14 6 (1.02%) Haskell
14 6 (1.02%) Rust
15 4 (0.68%) Go
15 4 (0.68%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 120 (20.41%) Degree
2 62 (10.54%) Computer Science Degree
3 57 (9.69%) Security Cleared
4 53 (9.01%) SC Cleared
5 48 (8.16%) Master's Degree
6 27 (4.59%) PhD
7 16 (2.72%) AWS Certification
7 16 (2.72%) DV Cleared
8 6 (1.02%) CISSP
8 6 (1.02%) Numerate Degree
9 4 (0.68%) Azure Certification
9 4 (0.68%) PMI Certification
9 4 (0.68%) PMP
10 3 (0.51%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (0.51%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 3 (0.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (0.51%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.34%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 2 (0.34%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.34%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (4.42%) Data Quality
2 20 (3.40%) QA
3 4 (0.68%) Dodd-Frank
3 4 (0.68%) MiFID
4 3 (0.51%) PMO
5 2 (0.34%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.34%) Basel III
6 1 (0.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.17%) GDPR
6 1 (0.17%) ISO 26262
6 1 (0.17%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.17%) SLA
6 1 (0.17%) WCAG
System Software
1 38 (6.46%) Docker
2 7 (1.19%) HDFS
3 1 (0.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.17%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 66 (11.22%) Kubernetes
2 47 (7.99%) Terraform
3 17 (2.89%) Ansible
4 12 (2.04%) Puppet
5 7 (1.19%) Kubeflow
6 5 (0.85%) Hadoop YARN
7 4 (0.68%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.17%) Functional Safety
8 1 (0.17%) Grafana
8 1 (0.17%) OPNET
8 1 (0.17%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 76 (12.93%) Google
2 35 (5.95%) Microsoft
3 32 (5.44%) Databricks
4 23 (3.91%) Oracle
5 18 (3.06%) Typelevel
6 14 (2.38%) Sparx
7 12 (2.04%) Bloomberg
8 11 (1.87%) BISAM
9 8 (1.36%) Splunk
10 7 (1.19%) Adobe
10 7 (1.19%) OpenAI
10 7 (1.19%) SAP
11 6 (1.02%) Foundry
11 6 (1.02%) Optimizely
11 6 (1.02%) Palantir
11 6 (1.02%) Sage
11 6 (1.02%) ServiceNow
12 5 (0.85%) Monetate
12 5 (0.85%) Omniture
12 5 (0.85%) Tealium