Machine Learning Contracts in the North East

Machine Learning (ML)
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North East 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 27 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 28 45
Rank change year-on-year -1 +17 +10
Contract jobs citing Machine Learning 8 11 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North East 2.61% 3.43% 1.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.25% 4.26% 1.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 3
10th Percentile £235 - £440
25th Percentile £325 - £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - £600
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.00%
75th Percentile £475 - -
90th Percentile £573 - -
England median daily rate £556 £588 £600
% change year-on-year -5.36% -2.08% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
Median hourly rate - £46.18 £46.18
England median hourly rate £76.25 £52.50 £43.34
% change year-on-year +45.24% +21.14% -3.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North East

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 North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 246 258 305
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 80.13% 80.37% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 167 113 228
10th Percentile £220 £263 £255
25th Percentile £359 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £480 £512
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -6.16% +2.30%
75th Percentile £541 £588 £625
90th Percentile £625 £650 £706
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 49 9
10th Percentile - £11.44 £16.85
25th Percentile £11.60 £12.13 £18.00
Median hourly rate £17.00 £19.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.82% -2.50% +23.61%
75th Percentile £19.97 £48.75 £33.75
90th Percentile £48.51 £69.00 £36.24
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £37.17
% change year-on-year -34.02% +2.56% +44.74%

Machine Learning
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Job vacancy trend for Machine Learning in the North East

Machine Learning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North East

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

Daily rate trend for Machine Learning in the North East

Machine Learning
Daily Rate Histogram in the North East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Machine Learning in the North East over the 6 months to 27 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Machine Learning in the North East

Machine Learning
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North East

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

Hourly rate trend for Machine Learning in the North East

Machine Learning
Contract Job Locations in the North East

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 North East region over the 6 months to 27 June 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
Tyne and Wear - 8 £400 - 26
Machine Learning
England

Machine Learning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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 2 (25.00%) CMS
2 1 (12.50%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (25.00%) MadCap Flare
2 1 (12.50%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 6 (75.00%) AWS
2 2 (25.00%) Amazon S3
2 2 (25.00%) AWS CodePipeline
2 2 (25.00%) Azure
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon Bedrock
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon Kinesis
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon SageMaker
3 1 (12.50%) AWS CodeBuild
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Cognitive Search
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Cognitive Services
3 1 (12.50%) GCP
3 1 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (12.50%) Google Analytics
3 1 (12.50%) Google Tag Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Serverless
3 1 (12.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Big Data
1 2 (25.00%) Data Hub
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (12.50%) BigQuery
2 1 (12.50%) Flink
2 1 (12.50%) Looker
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Git
1 1 (12.50%) GitLab
General
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) AWS Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) CloudOps Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Lead
2 1 (12.50%) Operations Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Python Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Senior Cloud Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Senior CloudOps Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Senior Operations Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Senior Technical Writer
2 1 (12.50%) Technical Writer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) GatsbyJS
1 1 (12.50%) HTML
1 1 (12.50%) JSON
1 1 (12.50%) Kafka
1 1 (12.50%) Next.js
1 1 (12.50%) Node.js
1 1 (12.50%) OpenAPI
1 1 (12.50%) Playwright
1 1 (12.50%) React
1 1 (12.50%) REST
1 1 (12.50%) Swagger
1 1 (12.50%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (62.50%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (12.50%) AI Agents
2 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (12.50%) Freedom of Information
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Artificial Intelligence
1 5 (62.50%) Data Protection
1 5 (62.50%) Data Science
2 3 (37.50%) CI/CD
3 2 (25.00%) Cloud Operations
3 2 (25.00%) Cloud Security
3 2 (25.00%) Data Engineering
3 2 (25.00%) DataOps
3 2 (25.00%) Natural Language Processing
3 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (25.00%) Test Automation
4 1 (12.50%) Analytics
4 1 (12.50%) Content Management
4 1 (12.50%) DevOps
4 1 (12.50%) Mentoring
4 1 (12.50%) Scrum
4 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (12.50%) TDD
4 1 (12.50%) User Experience
4 1 (12.50%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) Python
1 2 (25.00%) TypeScript
2 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
2 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) AWS Certification
2 1 (12.50%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (12.50%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Data Quality
1 1 (12.50%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Google
1 1 (12.50%) Sage