Machine Learning Contract Job Trends in Merseyside

Machine Learning (ML)
North West > Merseyside

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Merseyside requiring Machine Learning skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 - 32
Rank change year-on-year - - +11
Contract jobs citing Machine Learning 4 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Merseyside 2.19% - 0.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.58% - 0.51%
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 - -
North West median daily rate £490 £477 £575
% change year-on-year +2.83% -17.13% +6.98%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Merseyside

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 Merseyside.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 155 152 198
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside 84.70% 72.73% 85.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 78 126
10th Percentile £129 £181 £241
25th Percentile £222 £213 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £420 £486
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -13.54% +12.97%
75th Percentile £573 £514 £539
90th Percentile £682 £591 £600
North West median daily rate £450 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -10.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 9 12
10th Percentile - £16.24 £15.35
25th Percentile £12.21 £18.11 £16.25
Median hourly rate £17.30 £22.88 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.37% +14.38% +14.29%
75th Percentile £17.44 £40.00 £34.25
90th Percentile - £54.00 £50.00
North West median hourly rate £25.15 £40.16 £34.00
% change year-on-year -37.38% +18.13% +55.32%

Machine Learning
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

Job vacancy trend for Machine Learning in Merseyside

Machine Learning
Daily Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

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

Machine Learning
Contract Job Locations in Merseyside

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 Merseyside region over the 6 months to 3 September 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
Liverpool - 4 £413 - 7
Machine Learning
North West

Machine Learning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Merseyside 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:

Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (75.00%) Amazon Bedrock
2 3 (75.00%) Azure AI
2 3 (75.00%) Vertex AI
3 1 (25.00%) Firebase
3 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (25.00%) Vercel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Pinecone
1 3 (75.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (25.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (25.00%) Power BI
General
1 1 (25.00%) Automotive
1 1 (25.00%) Banking
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Applications Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) LangChain
2 3 (75.00%) CrewAI
3 2 (50.00%) Gradio
3 2 (50.00%) Streamlit
4 1 (25.00%) AngularJS
4 1 (25.00%) D3.js
4 1 (25.00%) Faiss
4 1 (25.00%) FastAPI
4 1 (25.00%) Flask
4 1 (25.00%) Flutter
4 1 (25.00%) JSON
4 1 (25.00%) LangGraph
4 1 (25.00%) Material-UI
4 1 (25.00%) Next.js
4 1 (25.00%) Node.js
4 1 (25.00%) React
4 1 (25.00%) React Native
4 1 (25.00%) RESTful
4 1 (25.00%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (75.00%) AI Agents
2 3 (75.00%) Autonomous Agent
3 1 (25.00%) Low-Code
3 1 (25.00%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) Conversational UI
1 4 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 4 (100.00%) LLM
1 4 (100.00%) Use Case
2 3 (75.00%) API Integration
2 3 (75.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) Memory Management
2 3 (75.00%) Multi-Agent System
2 3 (75.00%) Observability
2 3 (75.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
2 3 (75.00%) Semantic Search
3 2 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (25.00%) Co-Creation
4 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 1 (25.00%) Generative AI
4 1 (25.00%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
4 1 (25.00%) Integration Patterns
4 1 (25.00%) Interaction Design
4 1 (25.00%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
2 3 (75.00%) SQL
3 1 (25.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) MCP
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Google
2 1 (25.00%) Netlify
2 1 (25.00%) OpenAI