MLlib Contract Job Trends in England

Apache Spark Machine Learning Library (MLlib)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring MLlib skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 641 - 525
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing MLlib 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.002% - 0.003%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.010% - 0.012%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £463 - £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - £575
75th Percentile £488 - £613
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £475 - £575

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

MLlib falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 9,906 7,059 8,221
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.28% 25.38% 24.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,513 4,805 5,494
10th Percentile £380 £354 £363
25th Percentile £440 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £519 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.99% -5.73% -1.79%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £666
90th Percentile £738 £750 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 278 169 179
10th Percentile £29.72 £31.54 £27.60
25th Percentile £52.97 £43.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £67.47 £55.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +22.67% -12.00% -1.57%
75th Percentile £76.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £70.00 £74.45
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.70 £61.60
% change year-on-year +18.83% -11.20% -1.44%

MLlib
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing MLlib relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

MLlib job vacancy trend in England

MLlib
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing MLlib.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing MLlib

MLlib
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (100.00%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EMR
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Hudi
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) Data Transformation
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Model Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Assessment
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kibana