Machine Learning Contracts in Essex

Machine Learning (ML)
East of England > Essex

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Essex requiring Machine Learning skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Machine Learning over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 31 -
Rank change year-on-year +16 - -
Contract jobs citing Machine Learning 4 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Essex 4.55% 0.44% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.76% 0.54% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 0
10th Percentile £318 - -
25th Percentile £318 £363 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £320 £375 -
Median % change year-on-year -14.69% - -
75th Percentile £359 £388 -
90th Percentile £427 - -
East of England median daily rate £638 £375 £600
% change year-on-year +70.00% -37.50% +9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Essex

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 Essex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84 186 214
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex 95.45% 82.67% 85.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 94 136
10th Percentile £187 £194 £218
25th Percentile £315 £300 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -10.00% +1.01%
75th Percentile £476 £551 £555
90th Percentile £500 £600 £647
East of England median daily rate £500 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 52 17
10th Percentile £13.25 £10.59 £23.29
25th Percentile £15.19 £15.93 £36.25
Median hourly rate £32.50 £57.25 £44.53
Median % change year-on-year -43.23% +28.57% +60.79%
75th Percentile £48.30 £80.00 £65.75
90th Percentile £144.00 - £72.56
East of England median hourly rate £36.75 £40.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -8.13% +81.82% +41.94%

Machine Learning
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

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

Job vacancy trend for Machine Learning in Essex

Machine Learning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Essex

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

Daily rate trend for Machine Learning in Essex

Machine Learning
Daily Rate Histogram in Essex

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Machine Learning in Essex over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Machine Learning in Essex

Machine Learning
Contract Job Locations in Essex

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 Essex region over the 6 months to 31 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
Basildon - 3 £321 - 5
Machine Learning
East of England

Machine Learning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Essex 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 1 (25.00%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Apache
1 1 (25.00%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (25.00%) CMS
1 1 (25.00%) Headless CMS
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) GCP
2 1 (25.00%) Anthropic Claude
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) ChatGPT
2 1 (25.00%) dbt
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub
2 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (25.00%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (75.00%) Metadata
2 1 (25.00%) BigQuery
2 1 (25.00%) Looker
2 1 (25.00%) Power BI
2 1 (25.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (25.00%) SonarQube
General
1 2 (50.00%) Automotive
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Data Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Senior
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) DBA
2 1 (25.00%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) PySpark
2 2 (50.00%) React
3 1 (25.00%) AngularJS
3 1 (25.00%) JSR 170
3 1 (25.00%) Kafka
3 1 (25.00%) Next.js
3 1 (25.00%) NumPy
3 1 (25.00%) OSGi
3 1 (25.00%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) Use Case
2 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) Critical Thinking
2 3 (75.00%) Customer Requirements
2 3 (75.00%) Data Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) Data Security
2 3 (75.00%) ETL
2 3 (75.00%) User Experience
2 3 (75.00%) User Stories
3 2 (50.00%) Analytics
3 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (25.00%) Code Quality
4 1 (25.00%) Data Management
4 1 (25.00%) DevOps
4 1 (25.00%) Generative AI
4 1 (25.00%) Migration
4 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
4 1 (25.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Python
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Adobe
2 1 (25.00%) Checkmarx
2 1 (25.00%) Dynatrace
2 1 (25.00%) OpenAI