Machine Learning Contract Job Trends in Leicester

Machine Learning (ML)
Leicestershire > Leicester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leicester requiring Machine Learning skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 12 -
Rank change year-on-year -5 - -
Contract jobs citing Machine Learning 1 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Leicester 1.10% 2.78% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.47% 3.08% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £425 £625 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £650 -
Median % change year-on-year -30.77% - -
75th Percentile £475 £675 -
90th Percentile - - -
Leicestershire median daily rate £450 £650 -
% change year-on-year -30.77% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Leicester

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 Leicester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 68 65 115
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leicester 74.73% 90.28% 82.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 45 88
10th Percentile £192 £225 £187
25th Percentile £400 £275 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £436 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.83% -12.90% +23.46%
75th Percentile £609 £575 £575
90th Percentile £626 £715 £698
Leicestershire median daily rate £425 £428 £455
% change year-on-year -0.58% -6.13% +13.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 3
10th Percentile £15.17 - £20.80
25th Percentile £17.17 £21.25 £34.00
Median hourly rate £22.00 £22.50 £56.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% -59.82% -12.16%
75th Percentile £23.50 £23.75 £60.50
90th Percentile - - £63.20
Leicestershire median hourly rate £23.50 £22.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +4.44% +7.14% -65.00%

Machine Learning
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicester

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

Machine Learning job vacancy trend in Leicester

Machine Learning
Daily Rate Trend in Leicester

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

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

Machine Learning
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leicester 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 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
General
1 1 (100.00%) Publishing
1 1 (100.00%) Retail
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Commercial Awareness
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Data Visualisation
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks