Machine Learning Contracts in the North of England

Machine Learning (ML)
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 141 167 182
Rank change year-on-year +26 +15 -17
Contract jobs citing Machine Learning 45 46 60
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.97% 0.82% 0.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.13% 0.91% 0.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 23 39
10th Percentile £404 £453 £320
25th Percentile £444 £563 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £588 £538
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% +9.30% +13.16%
75th Percentile £606 £625 £638
90th Percentile £619 £685 £750
England median daily rate £588 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -2.08% - +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 2
10th Percentile - - £22.58
25th Percentile - £20.00 £24.19
Median hourly rate £46.18 £35.00 £28.75
Median % change year-on-year +31.94% +21.74% +91.67%
75th Percentile - - £33.69
90th Percentile - £39.95 £35.53
England median hourly rate £52.50 £35.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year +50.00% -22.22% +21.87%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,974 5,062 6,347
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 85.50% 90.49% 88.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,420 3,486 4,633
10th Percentile £300 £300 £250
25th Percentile £401 £413 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.07%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £569
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 365 203 262
10th Percentile £11.07 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.50 £15.36 £13.28
Median hourly rate £17.72 £27.98 £18.94
Median % change year-on-year -36.67% +47.71% +5.24%
75th Percentile £45.00 £44.13 £36.31
90th Percentile £59.00 £65.00 £62.97
England median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.69% +45.00% +7.94%

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 17 May 2024.

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 17 May 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
North West +10 23 £525 -10.64% 61
Yorkshire +15 16 £554 -3.65% 24
North East +21 8 - - 12
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 4 (8.89%) Apache Spark
2 2 (4.44%) Apache
2 2 (4.44%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (2.22%) GeoServer
Cloud Services
1 17 (37.78%) Azure
2 13 (28.89%) AWS
3 9 (20.00%) GCP
4 5 (11.11%) Cloud Computing
5 3 (6.67%) Serverless
5 3 (6.67%) Vertex AI
6 2 (4.44%) Amazon EMR
6 2 (4.44%) Amazon SageMaker
6 2 (4.44%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (4.44%) AWS Data Pipeline
6 2 (4.44%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (4.44%) Miro
6 2 (4.44%) SaaS
6 2 (4.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (2.22%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (2.22%) Azure Functions
7 1 (2.22%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (2.22%) GitHub
7 1 (2.22%) Google Analytics
7 1 (2.22%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.44%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (15.56%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (13.33%) NoSQL
2 6 (13.33%) Relational Database
3 5 (11.11%) Big Data
3 5 (11.11%) Data Mining
3 5 (11.11%) Tableau
4 4 (8.89%) Data Lake
5 3 (6.67%) Bigtable
5 3 (6.67%) Cloud Spanner
5 3 (6.67%) Hadoop
6 2 (4.44%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (4.44%) Apache Hive
6 2 (4.44%) BigQuery
6 2 (4.44%) Metadata
6 2 (4.44%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (4.44%) RDBMS
6 2 (4.44%) Spark SQL
7 1 (2.22%) InterSystems Cache
7 1 (2.22%) Power BI
7 1 (2.22%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 11 (24.44%) Git
2 5 (11.11%) Jenkins
3 2 (4.44%) JIRA
3 2 (4.44%) Visual Studio
General
1 6 (13.33%) Social Skills
2 4 (8.89%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (8.89%) Banking
2 4 (8.89%) Manufacturing
2 4 (8.89%) Public Sector
3 2 (4.44%) Finance
3 2 (4.44%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (2.22%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 11 (24.44%) Architect
2 8 (17.78%) Data Scientist
3 7 (15.56%) Lead
4 5 (11.11%) Data Architect
4 5 (11.11%) Splunk Engineer
5 4 (8.89%) Developer
5 4 (8.89%) GCP Architect
6 2 (4.44%) AWS Developer
6 2 (4.44%) Cloud Developer
6 2 (4.44%) Data Modeller
6 2 (4.44%) Information Architect
6 2 (4.44%) Project Manager
6 2 (4.44%) Python Developer
7 1 (2.22%) Digital Architect
7 1 (2.22%) GIS Developer
7 1 (2.22%) Node.js Developer
7 1 (2.22%) Platform Architect
7 1 (2.22%) Product Manager
7 1 (2.22%) Scrum Master
7 1 (2.22%) Supply Chain Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (15.56%) PyTorch
1 7 (15.56%) TensorFlow
2 2 (4.44%) JSON
2 2 (4.44%) Kafka
2 2 (4.44%) Lambda Expressions
2 2 (4.44%) REST
2 2 (4.44%) Swagger
2 2 (4.44%) YAML
3 1 (2.22%) CSS
3 1 (2.22%) HTML
3 1 (2.22%) Hugging Face
3 1 (2.22%) Node.js
3 1 (2.22%) OpenLayers
3 1 (2.22%) PostGIS
3 1 (2.22%) React
3 1 (2.22%) RESTful
3 1 (2.22%) SignalR
3 1 (2.22%) Spring
3 1 (2.22%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.11%) Onboarding
2 4 (8.89%) Distributed Computing
2 4 (8.89%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (8.89%) Industry 4.0
2 4 (8.89%) Taxonomies
3 3 (6.67%) Algorithms
4 2 (4.44%) Data Centre
4 2 (4.44%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.22%) Blockchain
5 1 (2.22%) Insider Threat
5 1 (2.22%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (40.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 18 (40.00%) DevOps
2 16 (35.56%) Analytics
2 16 (35.56%) Visualisation
3 13 (28.89%) Data Analysis
3 13 (28.89%) Data Science
4 12 (26.67%) Decision-Making
5 11 (24.44%) Data Modelling
6 10 (22.22%) Data Governance
6 10 (22.22%) Software Engineering
7 9 (20.00%) ETL
7 9 (20.00%) Statistical Analysis
8 8 (17.78%) Use Case
9 7 (15.56%) Data Analytics
9 7 (15.56%) Data Mapping
9 7 (15.56%) Data Visualisation
9 7 (15.56%) Digital Engineering
9 7 (15.56%) GitOps
9 7 (15.56%) Predictive Modelling
9 7 (15.56%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 25 (55.56%) Python
2 11 (24.44%) SQL
3 5 (11.11%) Search Processing Language
3 5 (11.11%) Shell Script
4 4 (8.89%) Java
5 3 (6.67%) Scala
6 2 (4.44%) C#
6 2 (4.44%) JavaScript
7 1 (2.22%) R
Qualifications
1 10 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 9 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.44%) Degree
3 2 (4.44%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.22%) Data Quality
1 1 (2.22%) QA
System Software
1 2 (4.44%) Docker
1 2 (4.44%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 10 (22.22%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 13 (28.89%) Microsoft
2 7 (15.56%) Google
3 5 (11.11%) ServiceNow
3 5 (11.11%) Splunk
4 2 (4.44%) Sage
5 1 (2.22%) Databricks