Machine Learning Contracts in Manchester

Machine Learning (ML)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 18 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 60 89 92
Rank change year-on-year +29 +3 +36
Contract jobs citing Machine Learning 19 7 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 1.94% 0.51% 1.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.21% 0.59% 1.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 6 14
10th Percentile £413 £413 £510
25th Percentile £437 £425 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £588
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -17.02% +5.62%
75th Percentile £600 £523 £594
90th Percentile £656 £546 £633
North West median daily rate £550 £504 £588
% change year-on-year +9.18% -14.26% +4.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile £73.00 - -
25th Percentile £73.75 - -
Median hourly rate £75.00 - £35.00
75th Percentile £78.13 - -
90th Percentile £78.50 - -
North West median hourly rate £75.00 - £46.18
% change year-on-year - - +60.63%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 859 1,183 1,633
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 87.74% 86.60% 89.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 570 768 1,194
10th Percentile £300 £321 £313
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £467 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.70% - -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £600
90th Percentile £700 £688 £675
North West median daily rate £450 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -8.72% -1.40% +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 71 59
10th Percentile £15.35 £13.25 £14.52
25th Percentile £19.45 £16.43 £16.15
Median hourly rate £24.62 £30.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.93% +50.00% +9.59%
75th Percentile £63.75 £62.50 £38.13
90th Percentile £78.25 £72.50 £66.00
North West median hourly rate £29.01 £27.00 £29.30
% change year-on-year +7.44% -7.85% +19.20%

Machine Learning
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Machine Learning in Manchester

Machine Learning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Machine Learning in Manchester

Machine Learning
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Machine Learning in Manchester over the 6 months to 18 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Machine Learning in Manchester

Machine Learning
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for Machine Learning in Manchester

Machine Learning
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

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 Manchester region over the 6 months to 18 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
Bolton - 3 - - 5
Machine Learning
North West

Machine Learning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 3 (15.79%) Apache Spark
1 3 (15.79%) Confluence
2 1 (5.26%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 7 (36.84%) AWS
1 7 (36.84%) Azure
2 5 (26.32%) Azure Machine Learning
3 3 (15.79%) Power Platform
4 2 (10.53%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (10.53%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (10.53%) dbt
4 2 (10.53%) GCP
4 2 (10.53%) Serverless
5 1 (5.26%) Amazon Bedrock
5 1 (5.26%) Amazon S3
5 1 (5.26%) Amazon SageMaker
5 1 (5.26%) Azure AI
5 1 (5.26%) Figma
5 1 (5.26%) GitHub
5 1 (5.26%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (5.26%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.79%) Big Data
1 3 (15.79%) Power BI
2 2 (10.53%) Data Mining
2 2 (10.53%) Data Vault
2 2 (10.53%) Hadoop
2 2 (10.53%) Tableau
3 1 (5.26%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (5.26%) Delta Lake
3 1 (5.26%) Relational Database
3 1 (5.26%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (15.79%) JIRA
2 2 (10.53%) Jenkins
3 1 (5.26%) GitLab
3 1 (5.26%) MLflow
General
1 6 (31.58%) Social Skills
2 4 (21.05%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (15.79%) Finance
4 2 (10.53%) Public Sector
5 1 (5.26%) Aerospace
5 1 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (5.26%) Legal
Job Titles
1 5 (26.32%) Data Scientist
2 3 (15.79%) Data Engineer
2 3 (15.79%) IT Manager
2 3 (15.79%) IT Project Manager
2 3 (15.79%) Project Manager
3 2 (10.53%) Developer
4 1 (5.26%) Analytics Consultant
4 1 (5.26%) Architect
4 1 (5.26%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
4 1 (5.26%) Computer Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Computer Vision Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Consultant
4 1 (5.26%) Data Consultant
4 1 (5.26%) Designer
4 1 (5.26%) IT Technical Manager
4 1 (5.26%) Machine Learning Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Senior Data Scientist
4 1 (5.26%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (5.26%) Technical Manager
4 1 (5.26%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (21.05%) TensorFlow
2 3 (15.79%) scikit-learn
3 2 (10.53%) Kafka
3 2 (10.53%) Pandas
3 2 (10.53%) PyTorch
3 2 (10.53%) XGBoost
4 1 (5.26%) FastAPI
4 1 (5.26%) LangChain
4 1 (5.26%) Matplotlib
4 1 (5.26%) OpenCV
4 1 (5.26%) pytest
4 1 (5.26%) React
4 1 (5.26%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.79%) Virtual Team
2 2 (10.53%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (10.53%) Onboarding
3 1 (5.26%) Algorithms
3 1 (5.26%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (5.26%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (68.42%) Artificial Intelligence
2 8 (42.11%) Agile
3 7 (36.84%) Data Science
4 6 (31.58%) LLM
5 5 (26.32%) Analytics
5 5 (26.32%) CI/CD
6 4 (21.05%) Actionable Insight
6 4 (21.05%) Generative AI
6 4 (21.05%) Project Management
7 3 (15.79%) Business Intelligence
7 3 (15.79%) Data Engineering
7 3 (15.79%) Data Pipeline
7 3 (15.79%) Data Protection
7 3 (15.79%) Data Visualisation
7 3 (15.79%) Kanban
7 3 (15.79%) Natural Language Processing
7 3 (15.79%) Predictive Modelling
7 3 (15.79%) Project Delivery
7 3 (15.79%) Scrum
7 3 (15.79%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 11 (57.89%) Python
2 4 (21.05%) SQL
3 1 (5.26%) R
Qualifications
1 3 (15.79%) Degree
2 2 (10.53%) Security Cleared
3 1 (5.26%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (5.26%) Postgraduate
3 1 (5.26%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.53%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.26%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (5.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (10.53%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (5.26%) Databricks
1 1 (5.26%) Foundry
1 1 (5.26%) Genesys
1 1 (5.26%) Google