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 21 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 97 110 142
Rank change year-on-year +13 +32 +23
Contract jobs citing Machine Learning 24 27 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.20% 1.00% 0.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.36% 1.22% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 22 9
10th Percentile £368 £466 £443
25th Percentile £413 £565 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £580 £575
Median % change year-on-year -15.95% +0.87% +9.52%
75th Percentile £500 £686 £688
90th Percentile £545 £750 £692
England median daily rate £575 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -4.17% - -
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 1,764 2,205 2,903
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 88.29% 82.06% 88.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,161 1,486 2,037
10th Percentile £200 £235 £250
25th Percentile £358 £356 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £558 £600 £594
90th Percentile £650 £700 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 169 103
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.06 £12.10
25th Percentile £13.81 £13.91 £14.76
Median hourly rate £18.63 £18.00 £22.26
Median % change year-on-year +3.47% -19.14% +26.98%
75th Percentile £25.04 £33.25 £37.66
90th Percentile £44.60 £55.00 £57.00
England median hourly rate £28.41 £36.50 £36.54
% change year-on-year -22.16% -0.11% +46.16%

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 21 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 21 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 16 £500 -13.79% 83
East Midlands +12 6 £444 -34.26% 54
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 1 (4.17%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 5 (20.83%) SAP PM
2 1 (4.17%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 13 (54.17%) Azure
2 9 (37.50%) Azure Data Factory
3 8 (33.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 7 (29.17%) Power Platform
5 6 (25.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 5 (20.83%) Collibra
6 5 (20.83%) Microsoft Purview
7 4 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (16.67%) GitHub
7 4 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (16.67%) Serverless
8 3 (12.50%) AWS
9 2 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (8.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 2 (8.33%) Snowflake
10 1 (4.17%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (4.17%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.33%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (29.17%) Power BI
2 6 (25.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 6 (25.00%) Delta Lake
2 6 (25.00%) GIS
3 4 (16.67%) Oracle Database
4 3 (12.50%) Data Lake
4 3 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (12.50%) NoSQL
5 2 (8.33%) DynamoDB
6 1 (4.17%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 1 (4.17%) Hadoop
6 1 (4.17%) Metadata
6 1 (4.17%) SAP BW
6 1 (4.17%) Spark SQL
6 1 (4.17%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Cypress.io
1 1 (4.17%) Eclipse
1 1 (4.17%) NetBeans
General
1 6 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (8.33%) Finance
3 2 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (4.17%) Advertising
4 1 (4.17%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (45.83%) Architect
2 5 (20.83%) Applications Architect
2 5 (20.83%) Data Architect
3 4 (16.67%) Data Engineer
3 4 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
4 3 (12.50%) Lead
5 2 (8.33%) Data Migration Specialist
5 2 (8.33%) Migration Specialist
6 1 (4.17%) Business Intelligence Architect
6 1 (4.17%) Cloud Architect
6 1 (4.17%) Cloud Solutions Architect
6 1 (4.17%) Contracts Manager
6 1 (4.17%) Data Analytics Architect
6 1 (4.17%) Data Scientist
6 1 (4.17%) GIS Developer
6 1 (4.17%) Principal Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Principal Systems Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Python Developer
6 1 (4.17%) QA Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Senior QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (20.83%) Kafka
2 4 (16.67%) PySpark
3 1 (4.17%) Middleware
3 1 (4.17%) POSIX
Miscellaneous
1 11 (45.83%) IoT
2 5 (20.83%) Blockchain
2 5 (20.83%) SCADA
3 4 (16.67%) Cloud Native
3 4 (16.67%) Data Structures
4 2 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (8.33%) Onboarding
5 1 (4.17%) Algorithms
5 1 (4.17%) Educational Technology
5 1 (4.17%) Management Information System
5 1 (4.17%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.17%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (58.33%) Artificial Intelligence
2 12 (50.00%) Analytics
2 12 (50.00%) Data Governance
3 9 (37.50%) DevOps
4 7 (29.17%) Agile
4 7 (29.17%) Business Intelligence
4 7 (29.17%) Data Modelling
4 7 (29.17%) ETL
4 7 (29.17%) Migration
5 6 (25.00%) Roadmaps
6 5 (20.83%) Data Engineering
6 5 (20.83%) Data Integration
6 5 (20.83%) Data Mapping
6 5 (20.83%) Technical Leadership
6 5 (20.83%) Thought Leadership
7 4 (16.67%) Data Architecture
7 4 (16.67%) Data Transformation
7 4 (16.67%) Enterprise Architecture
7 4 (16.67%) Project Planning
7 4 (16.67%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 13 (54.17%) Python
2 11 (45.83%) SQL
3 5 (20.83%) Kusto Query Language
4 4 (16.67%) Bicep
5 3 (12.50%) Java
6 1 (4.17%) C
6 1 (4.17%) C++
6 1 (4.17%) R
6 1 (4.17%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (29.17%) Security Cleared
2 6 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.17%) Azure Certification
3 1 (4.17%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (29.17%) Data Quality
2 5 (20.83%) GDPR
3 2 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (8.33%) QA
4 1 (4.17%) IEC 61508
4 1 (4.17%) MISRA
4 1 (4.17%) MISRA C
4 1 (4.17%) Software Quality Assurance
Systems Management
1 4 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 8 (33.33%) Databricks
3 6 (25.00%) SAP
4 5 (20.83%) Informatica
5 4 (16.67%) Oracle
6 1 (4.17%) QNX