Machine Learning Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Machine Learning (ML)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Machine Learning skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 139 108 117
Rank change year-on-year -31 +9 +17
Contract jobs citing Machine Learning 51 41 18
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 1.03% 1.52% 0.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.25% 1.71% 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 26 15
10th Percentile £413 £431 £258
25th Percentile £425 £494 £326
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £400
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% +31.25% -27.27%
75th Percentile £825 £631 £488
90th Percentile - £775 £526
England median daily rate £583 £565 £600
% change year-on-year +3.19% -5.83% +2.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £11.46 - -
Median hourly rate £11.92 - -
75th Percentile £43.07 - -
90th Percentile £61.48 - -
England median hourly rate £77.00 £55.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +40.00% +10.00% +8.27%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,073 2,393 2,240
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 82.05% 88.66% 83.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,307 1,543 1,406
10th Percentile £306 £250 £253
25th Percentile £409 £363 £365
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £465 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.15% -7.00% -
75th Percentile £585 £575 £600
90th Percentile £675 £663 £699
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 415 194 68
10th Percentile £13.01 £13.96 £14.53
25th Percentile £14.56 £17.87 £15.44
Median hourly rate £19.85 £21.35 £23.05
Median % change year-on-year -7.00% -7.40% -16.18%
75th Percentile £33.99 £26.51 £40.32
90th Percentile £54.50 £42.41 £53.25
England median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% -3.37%

Machine Learning
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Machine Learning job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Machine Learning
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Machine Learning

Machine Learning
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Machine Learning in the Midlands over the 6 months to 6 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Machine Learning in the Midlands

Machine Learning
Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Machine Learning

Machine Learning
Hourly Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Machine Learning in the Midlands over the 6 months to 6 October 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Machine Learning in the Midlands

Machine Learning
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 6 October 2026. 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
West Midlands -37 41 £538 +2.38% 139
East Midlands -9 6 £425 -8.11% 122
Machine Learning
England

Machine Learning
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (11.76%) ArcGIS
2 5 (9.80%) Apache Spark
3 4 (7.84%) SAS
4 3 (5.88%) Apache
5 1 (1.96%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 3 (5.88%) Chatbot
2 1 (1.96%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.96%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 24 (47.06%) Azure
2 15 (29.41%) Power Platform
3 12 (23.53%) AWS
4 9 (17.65%) GitHub
5 6 (11.76%) Cloud Computing
6 5 (9.80%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 5 (9.80%) GCP
7 4 (7.84%) Amazon S3
7 4 (7.84%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (7.84%) Serverless
8 3 (5.88%) Azure Data Factory
8 3 (5.88%) Azure Machine Learning
8 3 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (5.88%) Snowflake
9 2 (3.92%) Amazon EMR
9 2 (3.92%) Amazon SageMaker
9 2 (3.92%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (3.92%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 2 (3.92%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (3.92%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.92%) Broadband
1 2 (3.92%) Internet
2 1 (1.96%) AMQP
2 1 (1.96%) Firewall
2 1 (1.96%) IPsec
2 1 (1.96%) LoRaWAN
2 1 (1.96%) Modbus
2 1 (1.96%) MQTT
2 1 (1.96%) OpenVPN
2 1 (1.96%) VPN
2 1 (1.96%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (29.41%) Power BI
2 6 (11.76%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (11.76%) GIS
3 5 (9.80%) Data Lake
3 5 (9.80%) Metadata
3 5 (9.80%) NoSQL
4 3 (5.88%) Oracle Database
5 2 (3.92%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (3.92%) Delta Lake
5 2 (3.92%) Looker
5 2 (3.92%) Tableau
6 1 (1.96%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (1.96%) Data Vault
6 1 (1.96%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.96%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.96%) Pentaho
6 1 (1.96%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.96%) Spark SQL
6 1 (1.96%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (3.92%) MLflow
2 1 (1.96%) Cypress.io
2 1 (1.96%) Git
2 1 (1.96%) JIRA
General
1 11 (21.57%) Social Skills
2 7 (13.73%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (13.73%) Finance
3 5 (9.80%) Manufacturing
4 3 (5.88%) Banking
4 3 (5.88%) Marketing
4 3 (5.88%) Telecoms
5 1 (1.96%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (1.96%) Publishing
5 1 (1.96%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (17.65%) Senior
2 8 (15.69%) Data Scientist
2 8 (15.69%) Lead
3 7 (13.73%) Architect
3 7 (13.73%) Data Engineer
3 7 (13.73%) Solutions Architect
4 6 (11.76%) Analyst
4 6 (11.76%) Data Analyst
4 6 (11.76%) Data Science Manager
5 5 (9.80%) Data Manager
5 5 (9.80%) Data Science Leader
5 5 (9.80%) Project Manager
6 4 (7.84%) Consultant
6 4 (7.84%) Data Architect
6 4 (7.84%) Data Consultant
6 4 (7.84%) Senior Data Engineer
7 3 (5.88%) Data Insight Analyst
7 3 (5.88%) Insight Analyst
7 3 (5.88%) Lead Data Analyst
7 3 (5.88%) Project Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (11.76%) Terraform
2 4 (7.84%) Kafka
3 3 (5.88%) LangChain
3 3 (5.88%) PyTorch
3 3 (5.88%) scikit-learn
3 3 (5.88%) TensorFlow
4 2 (3.92%) LangGraph
4 2 (3.92%) NumPy
4 2 (3.92%) Pandas
4 2 (3.92%) REST
4 2 (3.92%) SciPy
4 2 (3.92%) Semantic Kernel
5 1 (1.96%) .NET Core
5 1 (1.96%) Apache Avro
5 1 (1.96%) ASP.NET Core
5 1 (1.96%) Entity Framework
5 1 (1.96%) GraphQL
5 1 (1.96%) gRPC
5 1 (1.96%) Protocol Buffers
5 1 (1.96%) React
Miscellaneous
1 10 (19.61%) AI Agents
2 8 (15.69%) Cloud Native
3 6 (11.76%) Industrial Internet of Things
4 5 (9.80%) IoT
4 5 (9.80%) SCADA
5 4 (7.84%) Low-Code
6 3 (5.88%) Algorithms
6 3 (5.88%) Credit Risk
6 3 (5.88%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (3.92%) Educational Technology
7 2 (3.92%) Embedded Systems
7 2 (3.92%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (3.92%) Industry 4.0
7 2 (3.92%) Operational Technology
7 2 (3.92%) Product Ownership
7 2 (3.92%) Social Media
8 1 (1.96%) Autonomous Agent
8 1 (1.96%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.96%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (92.16%) AI
2 23 (45.10%) Analytics
3 21 (41.18%) Data Science
4 19 (37.25%) Generative AI
5 14 (27.45%) Stakeholder Management
6 11 (21.57%) CI/CD
6 11 (21.57%) LLM
7 10 (19.61%) Data Engineering
8 9 (17.65%) Actionable Insight
8 9 (17.65%) Business Intelligence
8 9 (17.65%) Data Modelling
8 9 (17.65%) Data Pipeline
9 8 (15.69%) Agile
9 8 (15.69%) Data Governance
9 8 (15.69%) Validation
9 8 (15.69%) Visualisation
10 7 (13.73%) Change Management
10 7 (13.73%) DevOps
10 7 (13.73%) ETL
10 7 (13.73%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 25 (49.02%) Python
2 17 (33.33%) SQL
3 3 (5.88%) Java
3 3 (5.88%) TypeScript
4 2 (3.92%) Bicep
4 2 (3.92%) C#
4 2 (3.92%) Scala
5 1 (1.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (1.96%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 7 (13.73%) Degree
2 5 (9.80%) Master's Degree
3 2 (3.92%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (3.92%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.96%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.96%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.96%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.96%) PhD
4 1 (1.96%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (19.61%) Data Quality
2 6 (11.76%) QA
3 4 (7.84%) GDPR
4 2 (3.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.96%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 5 (9.80%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (7.84%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.96%) Ansible
2 1 (1.96%) Grafana
2 1 (1.96%) Kibana
2 1 (1.96%) logstash
2 1 (1.96%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 12 (23.53%) Databricks
2 6 (11.76%) Microsoft
3 5 (9.80%) Informatica
4 4 (7.84%) OpenAI
4 4 (7.84%) SAP
5 3 (5.88%) Oracle
5 3 (5.88%) Teradata
6 1 (1.96%) Dataiku
6 1 (1.96%) DataRobot
6 1 (1.96%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.96%) Foundry
6 1 (1.96%) New Relic
6 1 (1.96%) Talend