Machine Learning Contract Job Trends in Lancashire

Machine Learning (ML)
North West > Lancashire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Lancashire requiring Machine Learning skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 24 21
Rank change year-on-year -11 -3 +14
Contract jobs citing Machine Learning 2 2 17
As % of all contract jobs in Lancashire 0.95% 1.39% 7.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.14% 1.72% 8.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £525 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
75th Percentile £575 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £458 £478 £500
% change year-on-year -4.29% -4.40% -5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 17
Median hourly rate - £46.18 £46.18
North West median hourly rate - £46.18 £46.18
% change year-on-year - - +8.66%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Lancashire

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 Lancashire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 176 116 205
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Lancashire 83.81% 80.56% 91.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 53 119
10th Percentile £165 £262 £375
25th Percentile £363 £406 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £500 £623
Median % change year-on-year -9.00% -19.68% +18.57%
75th Percentile £575 £563 £717
90th Percentile £670 £618 £720
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 20 52
10th Percentile £39.53 £24.65 £20.58
25th Percentile £43.70 £29.36 £45.88
Median hourly rate £45.46 £46.18 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year -1.56% - +15.45%
75th Percentile £69.25 £52.23 £50.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £65.93 £61.37
North West median hourly rate £34.50 £32.01 £35.50
% change year-on-year +7.78% -9.83% +37.54%

Machine Learning
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Machine Learning relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Lancashire.

Machine Learning job vacancy trend in Lancashire

Machine Learning
Daily Rate Trend in Lancashire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Lancashire citing Machine Learning.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Lancashire citing Machine Learning

Machine Learning
Hourly Rate Trend in Lancashire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Lancashire citing Machine Learning.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Lancashire citing Machine Learning

Machine Learning
Contract Job Locations in Lancashire

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 Lancashire region over the 6 months to 14 December 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
Blackpool - 1 - -
Machine Learning
North West

Machine Learning
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Lancashire 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EMR
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon SageMaker
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon Redshift
General
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) AWS DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Lead DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Lead DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Python Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) AI
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Architecture Roadmap
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) LLM
2 1 (50.00%) MLOps
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform