Machine Learning Contracts in the Midlands

Machine Learning (ML)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 94 107 155
Rank change year-on-year +13 +48 +16
Contract jobs citing Machine Learning 17 26 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.89% 0.94% 0.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.01% 1.15% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 22 9
10th Percentile £363 £466 £413
25th Percentile £401 £565 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £580 £500
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +16.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £500 £686 £575
90th Percentile - £750 £652
England median daily rate £600 £580 £600
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £21.73 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £52.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year +23.81% +50.00% -22.22%

All Process and 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 1,676 2,266 3,045
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 87.57% 82.19% 88.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,099 1,510 2,125
10th Percentile £200 £237 £250
25th Percentile £358 £356 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year - -4.04% +4.21%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 172 119
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.07 £11.96
25th Percentile £13.81 £13.81 £15.05
Median hourly rate £18.13 £19.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -4.58% +7.22% +1.37%
75th Percentile £24.22 £35.00 £26.81
90th Percentile £36.55 £55.00 £55.50
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Machine Learning
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Machine Learning in the Midlands

Machine Learning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Machine Learning in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Machine Learning in the Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Machine Learning in the Midlands

Machine Learning
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Machine Learning in the Midlands

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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 1 May 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
West Midlands +4 11 £500 -13.79% 213
East Midlands +11 6 £450 -33.33% 225
Machine Learning
England

Machine Learning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 1 (5.88%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (5.88%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 6 (35.29%) Azure
2 5 (29.41%) Azure Data Factory
3 4 (23.53%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (11.76%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (11.76%) Power Platform
5 1 (5.88%) AWS
5 1 (5.88%) Serverless
5 1 (5.88%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) 3G
1 1 (5.88%) 3GPP
1 1 (5.88%) 4G
1 1 (5.88%) 5G
1 1 (5.88%) LTE
1 1 (5.88%) Network Security
1 1 (5.88%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (23.53%) Data Lake
2 2 (11.76%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (11.76%) Power BI
3 1 (5.88%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
3 1 (5.88%) DynamoDB
3 1 (5.88%) GIS
3 1 (5.88%) Metadata
3 1 (5.88%) SAP BW
3 1 (5.88%) Spark SQL
3 1 (5.88%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Cypress.io
1 1 (5.88%) Eclipse
1 1 (5.88%) NetBeans
General
1 3 (17.65%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (11.76%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.88%) Advertising
3 1 (5.88%) Finance
3 1 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (5.88%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (47.06%) Architect
2 5 (29.41%) Applications Architect
3 4 (23.53%) Data Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Lead
4 2 (11.76%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (5.88%) Business Intelligence Solutions Architect
5 1 (5.88%) Contracts Manager
5 1 (5.88%) Data Architect
5 1 (5.88%) Data Manager
5 1 (5.88%) Developer
5 1 (5.88%) GIS Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Lead Data Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Network Architect
5 1 (5.88%) Principal Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Principal Systems Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Python Developer
5 1 (5.88%) QA Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Senior
5 1 (5.88%) Senior QA Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (29.41%) PySpark
2 1 (5.88%) Middleware
2 1 (5.88%) POSIX
Miscellaneous
1 6 (35.29%) IoT
2 5 (29.41%) Blockchain
3 4 (23.53%) Data Structures
4 1 (5.88%) Algorithms
4 1 (5.88%) Cloud Native
4 1 (5.88%) Educational Technology
4 1 (5.88%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (5.88%) Management Information System
4 1 (5.88%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.88%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (41.18%) Artificial Intelligence
2 6 (35.29%) Agile
3 5 (29.41%) Data Modelling
3 5 (29.41%) DevOps
3 5 (29.41%) Migration
3 5 (29.41%) Roadmaps
3 5 (29.41%) Technical Leadership
4 4 (23.53%) Analytics
4 4 (23.53%) Architectural Design
4 4 (23.53%) Cost Reduction
4 4 (23.53%) Data Governance
4 4 (23.53%) Data Transformation
4 4 (23.53%) Enterprise Architecture
4 4 (23.53%) Interface Catalogue
4 4 (23.53%) Microservices
4 4 (23.53%) Project Planning
4 4 (23.53%) SOA
4 4 (23.53%) Thought Leadership
5 3 (17.65%) Data Analysis
5 3 (17.65%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 5 (29.41%) Python
1 5 (29.41%) SQL
2 1 (5.88%) C
2 1 (5.88%) C++
2 1 (5.88%) Java
2 1 (5.88%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (35.29%) SC Cleared
1 6 (35.29%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.88%) Azure Certification
2 1 (5.88%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) Data Quality
1 2 (11.76%) QA
2 1 (5.88%) GDPR
2 1 (5.88%) IEC 61508
2 1 (5.88%) MISRA
2 1 (5.88%) MISRA C
2 1 (5.88%) Software Quality Assurance
Vendors
1 2 (11.76%) Databricks
1 2 (11.76%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.88%) QNX
2 1 (5.88%) SAP