Machine Learning Contracts in the Midlands

Machine Learning (ML)
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for Machine Learning skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Machine Learning over the 6 months to 3 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 106 140 177
Rank change year-on-year +34 +37 -53
Contract jobs citing Machine Learning 27 17 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.97% 0.52% 0.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.19% 0.59% 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 11 15
10th Percentile £453 £413 £415
25th Percentile £565 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +16.00% -4.76% +18.64%
75th Percentile £684 £606 £628
90th Percentile £750 £688 £680
England median daily rate £588 £590 £600
% change year-on-year -0.42% -1.67% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £21.73 - -
England median hourly rate £52.50 £37.75 £45.00
% change year-on-year +39.07% -16.11% +55.98%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

Machine Learning is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,263 2,867 4,454
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 81.37% 87.68% 87.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,520 2,015 3,272
10th Percentile £231 £263 £250
25th Percentile £357 £370 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £694 £672
England median daily rate £525 £550 £545
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 173 97 135
10th Percentile £11.07 £12.30 £10.68
25th Percentile £14.00 £14.50 £13.94
Median hourly rate £19.00 £22.50 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.56% +25.00% +20.00%
75th Percentile £35.00 £46.25 £24.25
90th Percentile £55.00 £60.50 £35.00
England median hourly rate £37.50 £37.15 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.94% +48.60% +11.11%

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

Machine Learning
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Machine Learning in the Midlands over the 6 months to 3 June 2024.

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 3 June 2024. 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 +26 22 £580 +10.48% 34
East Midlands +10 5 £675 +42.11% 15
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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (11.11%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.70%) Apache
Applications
1 4 (14.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.70%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 18 (66.67%) Azure
2 8 (29.63%) Power Platform
3 4 (14.81%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (11.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 2 (7.41%) Azure Machine Learning
5 2 (7.41%) Serverless
6 1 (3.70%) Amazon SageMaker
6 1 (3.70%) AWS
6 1 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (3.70%) AWS Step Functions
6 1 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (3.70%) Azure Functions
6 1 (3.70%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.41%) LAN
1 2 (7.41%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (29.63%) Power BI
2 4 (14.81%) Data Lake
3 3 (11.11%) Big Data
3 3 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (11.11%) NoSQL
4 2 (7.41%) Tableau
5 1 (3.70%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (3.70%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (3.70%) Apache Hive
5 1 (3.70%) Data Mining
5 1 (3.70%) Hadoop
5 1 (3.70%) SQL Server
5 1 (3.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (3.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Jenkins
General
1 10 (37.04%) Social Skills
2 6 (22.22%) Finance
3 2 (7.41%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (7.41%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (7.41%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (7.41%) Retail
4 1 (3.70%) Back Office
4 1 (3.70%) Banking
4 1 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (3.70%) Marketing
4 1 (3.70%) Multimedia
4 1 (3.70%) Police
4 1 (3.70%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.70%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 9 (33.33%) Developer
2 8 (29.63%) Architect
2 8 (29.63%) Azure Developer
3 6 (22.22%) Azure Architect
4 5 (18.52%) Senior
5 3 (11.11%) Analyst
5 3 (11.11%) Azure Data Architect
5 3 (11.11%) Data Analyst
5 3 (11.11%) Data Architect
5 3 (11.11%) Data Engineer
6 2 (7.41%) Business Intelligence Architect
6 2 (7.41%) Technical Architect
7 1 (3.70%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
7 1 (3.70%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
7 1 (3.70%) Cloud Architect
7 1 (3.70%) Enterprise Solutions Architect
7 1 (3.70%) HR Analyst
7 1 (3.70%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
7 1 (3.70%) Machine Learning Scientist
7 1 (3.70%) Technical Infrastructure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.41%) Middleware
1 2 (7.41%) PySpark
2 1 (3.70%) .NET
2 1 (3.70%) Dask
2 1 (3.70%) Kafka
2 1 (3.70%) Keras
2 1 (3.70%) NumPy
2 1 (3.70%) Pandas
2 1 (3.70%) PyTorch
2 1 (3.70%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.11%) Algorithms
2 2 (7.41%) Public Cloud
3 1 (3.70%) Insider Threat
3 1 (3.70%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.41%) Linux
1 2 (7.41%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (33.33%) Analytics
1 9 (33.33%) Full Stack Development
1 9 (33.33%) Human-in-the-Loop
1 9 (33.33%) Use Case
1 9 (33.33%) Workflow
2 7 (25.93%) Business Intelligence
3 6 (22.22%) Artificial Intelligence
3 6 (22.22%) Data Modelling
3 6 (22.22%) Data Science
3 6 (22.22%) ETL
4 5 (18.52%) Agile
4 5 (18.52%) DevOps
5 4 (14.81%) Data Strategy
6 3 (11.11%) Actionable Insight
6 3 (11.11%) CI/CD
6 3 (11.11%) Computer Science
6 3 (11.11%) Data Privacy
6 3 (11.11%) Open Source
6 3 (11.11%) Project Management
6 3 (11.11%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 9 (33.33%) Python
2 8 (29.63%) SQL
3 2 (7.41%) Scala
4 1 (3.70%) C#
4 1 (3.70%) C++
4 1 (3.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (3.70%) Java
4 1 (3.70%) MATLAB
4 1 (3.70%) R
4 1 (3.70%) Search Processing Language
4 1 (3.70%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (11.11%) Degree
2 1 (3.70%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (3.70%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.11%) GDPR
2 2 (7.41%) QA
3 1 (3.70%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (3.70%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 2 (7.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (7.41%) Kubernetes
1 2 (7.41%) Terraform
2 1 (3.70%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 5 (18.52%) Databricks
1 5 (18.52%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.70%) Alteryx
2 1 (3.70%) Anaplan
2 1 (3.70%) Sage
2 1 (3.70%) Splunk