Machine Learning Contracts in Hampshire

Machine Learning (ML)
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hampshire 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 22 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 61 99 95
Rank change year-on-year +38 -4 +28
Contract jobs citing Machine Learning 15 5 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hampshire 1.63% 0.30% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.91% 0.37% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 5 4
10th Percentile - £432 £295
25th Percentile £563 £438 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £475 £513
Median % change year-on-year +21.05% -7.32% -21.15%
75th Percentile £594 £538 £603
90th Percentile £600 £605 £631
South East median daily rate £575 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -4.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 786 1,366 1,149
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 85.43% 81.55% 87.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 542 807 678
10th Percentile £325 £363 £255
25th Percentile £463 £461 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £585 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.26% +11.43% +1.94%
75th Percentile £613 £672 £613
90th Percentile £660 £738 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £519 £515
% change year-on-year -3.57% +0.68% +3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 145 109
10th Percentile £18.87 £15.40 £15.50
25th Percentile £24.21 £27.00 £21.05
Median hourly rate £41.00 £57.35 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.51% +4.27% +69.23%
75th Percentile £59.06 £71.25 £66.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.25 £75.00
South East median hourly rate £22.07 £54.88 £50.00
% change year-on-year -59.78% +9.75% +105.25%

Machine Learning
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Machine Learning in Hampshire

Machine Learning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Daily rate trend for Machine Learning in Hampshire

Machine Learning
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Machine Learning in Hampshire

Machine Learning
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

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 Hampshire region over the 6 months to 22 July 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
Basingstoke +25 10 £575 +26.37% 6
Farnborough +7 2 £525 +10.53% 7
Portsmouth - 1 £575 - 7
Machine Learning
South East

Machine Learning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hampshire 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 (53.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 10 (66.67%) OpenShift
2 8 (53.33%) AWS
2 8 (53.33%) GCP
2 8 (53.33%) IaaS
2 8 (53.33%) PaaS
3 1 (6.67%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 8 (53.33%) DHCP
1 8 (53.33%) DNS
1 8 (53.33%) Firewall
1 8 (53.33%) SMTP
1 8 (53.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (53.33%) Amazon RDS
1 8 (53.33%) Big Data
1 8 (53.33%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (13.33%) MongoDB
3 1 (6.67%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 3 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 6 (40.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (13.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Automotive
3 1 (6.67%) Banking
3 1 (6.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (53.33%) 3rd Line Engineer
1 8 (53.33%) 3rd Line Support
1 8 (53.33%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
1 8 (53.33%) Support Engineer
2 7 (46.67%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (46.67%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
2 7 (46.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (46.67%) Infrastructure Support
2 7 (46.67%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Release Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Release Train Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Agile Scrum Master
4 1 (6.67%) Data Scientist
4 1 (6.67%) Design Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Scrum Master
4 1 (6.67%) Senior
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Data Scientist
4 1 (6.67%) Software Design Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Virtualisation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) Kafka
1 1 (6.67%) NumPy
1 1 (6.67%) Pandas
1 1 (6.67%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 8 (53.33%) Clustering
1 8 (53.33%) Data Centre
1 8 (53.33%) PKI
2 1 (6.67%) CUDA
Operating Systems
1 8 (53.33%) Linux
1 8 (53.33%) Windows
1 8 (53.33%) Windows Server
2 3 (20.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (13.33%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (80.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 10 (66.67%) DevOps
3 8 (53.33%) Software Deployment
4 7 (46.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 3 (20.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 2 (13.33%) Agile
6 2 (13.33%) Containerisation
6 2 (13.33%) DevSecOps
6 2 (13.33%) Full-Stack Development
6 2 (13.33%) Release Train
6 2 (13.33%) Software Engineering
6 2 (13.33%) Unit Testing
7 1 (6.67%) Digital Signal Processing
7 1 (6.67%) Kanban
7 1 (6.67%) Platform Engineering
7 1 (6.67%) Roadmaps
7 1 (6.67%) Scrum
7 1 (6.67%) Signal Processing
7 1 (6.67%) Sprint Planning
7 1 (6.67%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (53.33%) PowerShell
2 1 (6.67%) Python
2 1 (6.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (73.33%) Security Cleared
2 8 (53.33%) Degree
2 8 (53.33%) DV Cleared
3 3 (20.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) GDPR
System Software
1 8 (53.33%) Active Directory
1 8 (53.33%) BitLocker
1 8 (53.33%) Docker
1 8 (53.33%) Hyper-V
1 8 (53.33%) Microsoft App-V
1 8 (53.33%) Terminal Services
1 8 (53.33%) VMware ESXi
1 8 (53.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (66.67%) Ansible
1 10 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 8 (53.33%) Nagios
2 8 (53.33%) Puppet
2 8 (53.33%) vCenter Server
2 8 (53.33%) vMotion
3 2 (13.33%) Cilium
3 2 (13.33%) Rsyslog
3 2 (13.33%) SCOM
Vendors
1 9 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 8 (53.33%) Citrix
2 8 (53.33%) Google
2 8 (53.33%) HP
2 8 (53.33%) Symantec
2 8 (53.33%) VMware
3 2 (13.33%) NVIDIA
4 1 (6.67%) Oracle