Machine Learning Contract Job Trends in Liverpool

Machine Learning (ML)
Merseyside > Liverpool

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Liverpool 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 30 31 27
Rank change year-on-year +1 -4 -
Contract jobs citing Machine Learning 5 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in Liverpool 2.54% 0.53% 0.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.79% 0.70% 0.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £331 - -
25th Percentile £359 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 - -
75th Percentile £439 - -
90th Percentile £452 - -
Merseyside median daily rate £413 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Liverpool

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 Liverpool.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 179 142 136
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Liverpool 90.86% 75.13% 88.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 75 61
10th Percentile £134 £147 £220
25th Percentile £163 £170 £290
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £400 £450
Median % change year-on-year - -11.11% -5.26%
75th Percentile £500 £500 £563
90th Percentile £650 £630 £600
Merseyside median daily rate £280 £413 £450
% change year-on-year -32.12% -8.33% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 7 13
10th Percentile £12.80 £12.86 £13.56
25th Percentile - £15.10 £16.25
Median hourly rate £15.18 £22.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.00% +15.79% +8.57%
75th Percentile £51.02 £23.53 £28.44
90th Percentile - £28.52 £45.80
Merseyside median hourly rate £20.04 £20.19 £18.75
% change year-on-year -0.74% +7.68% +6.78%

Machine Learning
Job Vacancy Trend in Liverpool

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

Machine Learning job vacancy trend in Liverpool

Machine Learning
Daily Rate Trend in Liverpool

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

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

Machine Learning
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Liverpool 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:

Applications
1 4 (80.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (60.00%) Amazon Bedrock
2 3 (60.00%) Azure AI
2 3 (60.00%) Vertex AI
3 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (20.00%) Firebase
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Purview
3 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (20.00%) Vercel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Pinecone
1 3 (60.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (20.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (20.00%) Power BI
General
1 1 (20.00%) Automotive
1 1 (20.00%) Banking
1 1 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (20.00%) Military
1 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Applications Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) LangChain
2 3 (60.00%) CrewAI
3 2 (40.00%) Gradio
3 2 (40.00%) Streamlit
4 1 (20.00%) AngularJS
4 1 (20.00%) D3.js
4 1 (20.00%) Faiss
4 1 (20.00%) FastAPI
4 1 (20.00%) Flask
4 1 (20.00%) Flutter
4 1 (20.00%) JSON
4 1 (20.00%) LangGraph
4 1 (20.00%) Material-UI
4 1 (20.00%) Next.js
4 1 (20.00%) Node.js
4 1 (20.00%) React
4 1 (20.00%) React Native
4 1 (20.00%) RESTful
4 1 (20.00%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (60.00%) AI Agents
2 3 (60.00%) Autonomous Agent
3 1 (20.00%) Low-Code
3 1 (20.00%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) AI
2 4 (80.00%) Conversational UI
2 4 (80.00%) Data Protection
2 4 (80.00%) LLM
2 4 (80.00%) Use Case
3 3 (60.00%) API Integration
3 3 (60.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
3 3 (60.00%) Memory Management
3 3 (60.00%) Multi-Agent System
3 3 (60.00%) Observability
3 3 (60.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
3 3 (60.00%) Semantic Search
4 2 (40.00%) Collaborative Working
5 1 (20.00%) Co-Creation
5 1 (20.00%) DevOps
5 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 1 (20.00%) Microservices
5 1 (20.00%) Presales
5 1 (20.00%) Prototyping
5 1 (20.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Python
2 3 (60.00%) SQL
3 1 (20.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) MCP
2 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Google
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Netlify
2 1 (20.00%) OpenAI