Machine Learning Contracts in the North of England

Machine Learning (ML)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 121 139 170
Rank change year-on-year +18 +31 +6
Contract jobs citing Machine Learning 45 46 50
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.37% 0.96% 0.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.52% 1.12% 0.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 25 25
10th Percentile £374 £385 £435
25th Percentile £426 £413 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £588
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% -6.38% +14.63%
75th Percentile £650 £606 £650
90th Percentile £723 £618 £683
England median daily rate £600 £580 £600
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 4
10th Percentile £73.00 - -
25th Percentile £73.75 - £20.00
Median hourly rate £75.00 £46.18 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +62.41% +67.93% -20.29%
75th Percentile £78.13 - £35.00
90th Percentile £78.50 - -
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
North of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,966 4,089 5,288
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 90.02% 85.76% 90.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,908 2,506 3,674
10th Percentile £263 £300 £302
25th Percentile £378 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £563 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 154 355 207
10th Percentile £13.83 £11.03 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.20 £12.45 £15.25
Median hourly rate £28.75 £17.50 £27.70
Median % change year-on-year +64.29% -36.82% +49.73%
75th Percentile £55.76 £44.41 £45.05
90th Percentile £82.56 £53.90 £65.00
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 North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Machine Learning in the North of England

Machine Learning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Machine Learning in the North of England

Machine Learning
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Machine Learning in the North of England

Machine Learning
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Machine Learning in the North of England

Machine Learning
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England 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
North West +24 31 £600 +14.29% 246
Yorkshire -1 7 £500 -9.75% 197
North East -1 7 £358 - 47
Machine Learning
England

Machine Learning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 5 (11.11%) Apache Spark
2 4 (8.89%) Confluence
3 1 (2.22%) CMS
3 1 (2.22%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (2.22%) Chatbot
1 1 (2.22%) MadCap Flare
Business Applications
1 1 (2.22%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (2.22%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 21 (46.67%) Azure
2 18 (40.00%) AWS
3 13 (28.89%) GCP
4 6 (13.33%) Azure Data Factory
5 5 (11.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 5 (11.11%) Cloud Computing
6 4 (8.89%) Anthropic Claude
6 4 (8.89%) Azure AI
6 4 (8.89%) Azure Machine Learning
6 4 (8.89%) Google Gemini
7 3 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (6.67%) PaaS
7 3 (6.67%) Power Platform
7 3 (6.67%) Serverless
8 2 (4.44%) dbt
9 1 (2.22%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 1 (2.22%) Amazon SageMaker
9 1 (2.22%) AWS CodeBuild
9 1 (2.22%) AWS CodePipeline
9 1 (2.22%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.22%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (11.11%) Data Lake
1 5 (11.11%) Data Mining
2 4 (8.89%) Big Data
2 4 (8.89%) Neo4j
2 4 (8.89%) Tableau
3 3 (6.67%) Hadoop
3 3 (6.67%) Power BI
4 2 (4.44%) Data Vault
5 1 (2.22%) BigQuery
5 1 (2.22%) Flink
Development Applications
1 6 (13.33%) Git
2 4 (8.89%) JIRA
3 2 (4.44%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.22%) GitLab
General
1 15 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 8 (17.78%) Finance
4 6 (13.33%) Pharmaceutical
5 5 (11.11%) Legal
6 4 (8.89%) Manufacturing
6 4 (8.89%) Public Sector
7 2 (4.44%) Banking
8 1 (2.22%) Advertising
8 1 (2.22%) Aerospace
8 1 (2.22%) Marketing
8 1 (2.22%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (2.22%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (20.00%) Data Scientist
2 8 (17.78%) Senior
3 7 (15.56%) Data Engineer
4 6 (13.33%) Architect
4 6 (13.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 4 (8.89%) IT Manager
5 4 (8.89%) IT Project Manager
5 4 (8.89%) Project Manager
5 4 (8.89%) Solutions Architect
6 3 (6.67%) Security Architect
6 3 (6.67%) Security Solutions Architect
7 2 (4.44%) Administrator
7 2 (4.44%) Applications Architect
7 2 (4.44%) Cloud Architect
7 2 (4.44%) Consultant
7 2 (4.44%) Principal Technologist
7 2 (4.44%) Technologist
8 1 (2.22%) Analytics Consultant
8 1 (2.22%) Automation Engineer
8 1 (2.22%) Computer Vision Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (20.00%) TensorFlow
2 8 (17.78%) PyTorch
3 5 (11.11%) PySpark
4 4 (8.89%) Kafka
5 2 (4.44%) LangChain
5 2 (4.44%) Regular Expression
5 2 (4.44%) scikit-learn
5 2 (4.44%) XGBoost
6 1 (2.22%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (2.22%) FastAPI
6 1 (2.22%) Matplotlib
6 1 (2.22%) Node.js
6 1 (2.22%) OLE
6 1 (2.22%) OpenCV
6 1 (2.22%) Pandas
6 1 (2.22%) React
Miscellaneous
1 10 (22.22%) Algorithms
2 4 (8.89%) Onboarding
3 3 (6.67%) Blockchain
3 3 (6.67%) Virtual Team
4 2 (4.44%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (4.44%) Data Structures
4 2 (4.44%) IoT
5 1 (2.22%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (2.22%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.22%) Insider Threat
5 1 (2.22%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.22%) Private Cloud
5 1 (2.22%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (57.78%) Artificial Intelligence
2 18 (40.00%) Data Science
3 15 (33.33%) Agile
4 14 (31.11%) Problem-Solving
5 13 (28.89%) Generative AI
5 13 (28.89%) LLM
6 11 (24.44%) Analytics
6 11 (24.44%) CI/CD
6 11 (24.44%) Natural Language Processing
7 9 (20.00%) Data Modelling
7 9 (20.00%) Decision-Making
8 7 (15.56%) Actionable Insight
8 7 (15.56%) Containerisation
8 7 (15.56%) Data Engineering
8 7 (15.56%) DevOps
8 7 (15.56%) Microservices
9 6 (13.33%) Data Analytics
9 6 (13.33%) Data Protection
9 6 (13.33%) Mathematics
9 6 (13.33%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 23 (51.11%) Python
2 15 (33.33%) SQL
3 4 (8.89%) R
4 3 (6.67%) Scala
5 1 (2.22%) Java
5 1 (2.22%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.22%) Search Processing Language
5 1 (2.22%) Shell Script
5 1 (2.22%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (8.89%) Degree
1 4 (8.89%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.22%) AWS Certification
2 1 (2.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (2.22%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (2.22%) SC Cleared
2 1 (2.22%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.11%) Data Quality
2 4 (8.89%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 4 (8.89%) GDPR
3 3 (6.67%) Accessibility
System Software
1 7 (15.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (17.78%) Kubernetes
2 4 (8.89%) Terraform
3 2 (4.44%) Ansible
4 1 (2.22%) Grafana
4 1 (2.22%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (11.11%) Databricks
2 3 (6.67%) Google
3 2 (4.44%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.22%) Apple
4 1 (2.22%) Ariba
4 1 (2.22%) Criteo
4 1 (2.22%) Fortinet
4 1 (2.22%) Infoblox
4 1 (2.22%) Red Hat
4 1 (2.22%) SAP
4 1 (2.22%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.22%) Splunk
4 1 (2.22%) VMware