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

6 months to
24 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 123 132 160
Rank change year-on-year +9 +28 +29
Contract jobs citing Machine Learning 41 45 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.24% 0.97% 0.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.38% 1.14% 0.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 24 23
10th Percentile £340 £404 £453
25th Percentile £433 £444 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £588
Median % change year-on-year - -6.38% +9.30%
75th Percentile £650 £606 £625
90th Percentile £671 £619 £685
England median daily rate £575 £588 £600
% change year-on-year -2.13% -2.08% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 5
10th Percentile £73.00 - -
25th Percentile £73.75 - £20.00
Median hourly rate £75.00 £46.18 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +62.41% +31.94% +21.74%
75th Percentile £78.13 - -
90th Percentile £78.50 - £39.95
England median hourly rate £75.00 £52.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year +42.86% +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 2,965 3,931 5,040
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 89.88% 84.92% 90.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,910 2,403 3,455
10th Percentile £263 £300 £300
25th Percentile £375 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £600
90th Percentile £645 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 147 372 202
10th Percentile £13.23 £11.07 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.51 £12.52 £15.18
Median hourly rate £25.43 £18.65 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +36.39% -32.20% +45.18%
75th Percentile £53.88 £45.22 £43.75
90th Percentile £76.75 £62.38 £65.00
England median hourly rate £28.00 £36.50 £37.30
% change year-on-year -23.29% -2.14% +49.20%

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 24 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 24 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 +19 32 £575 +9.52% 786
Yorkshire 0 6 - - 631
North East -5 3 £350 - 188
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 (12.20%) Apache Spark
2 4 (9.76%) Confluence
3 2 (4.88%) CMS
4 1 (2.44%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 3 (7.32%) Chatbot
2 2 (4.88%) MadCap Flare
Business Applications
1 1 (2.44%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (2.44%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 19 (46.34%) AWS
2 18 (43.90%) Azure
3 13 (31.71%) GCP
4 5 (12.20%) Azure Machine Learning
5 4 (9.76%) Anthropic Claude
5 4 (9.76%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (9.76%) Azure AI
5 4 (9.76%) Google Gemini
5 4 (9.76%) Serverless
6 3 (7.32%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (7.32%) PaaS
6 3 (7.32%) Power Platform
7 2 (4.88%) Amazon SageMaker
7 2 (4.88%) dbt
7 2 (4.88%) GitHub
7 2 (4.88%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (2.44%) AWS CodePipeline
8 1 (2.44%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (2.44%) Figma
8 1 (2.44%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.44%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (9.76%) Big Data
1 4 (9.76%) Data Mining
1 4 (9.76%) Neo4j
1 4 (9.76%) Tableau
2 3 (7.32%) Hadoop
2 3 (7.32%) Power BI
3 2 (4.88%) Data Vault
4 1 (2.44%) BigQuery
4 1 (2.44%) Flink
4 1 (2.44%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (14.63%) Git
2 4 (9.76%) JIRA
3 3 (7.32%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.44%) GitLab
4 1 (2.44%) MLflow
General
1 12 (29.27%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (21.95%) Social Skills
3 8 (19.51%) Finance
4 6 (14.63%) Legal
4 6 (14.63%) Pharmaceutical
5 4 (9.76%) Manufacturing
6 3 (7.32%) Public Sector
7 2 (4.88%) Banking
8 1 (2.44%) Advertising
8 1 (2.44%) Aerospace
8 1 (2.44%) Marketing
8 1 (2.44%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (19.51%) Data Scientist
1 8 (19.51%) Senior
2 6 (14.63%) Architect
2 6 (14.63%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 4 (9.76%) IT Manager
3 4 (9.76%) IT Project Manager
3 4 (9.76%) Project Manager
3 4 (9.76%) Solutions Architect
4 3 (7.32%) Security Architect
4 3 (7.32%) Security Solutions Architect
5 2 (4.88%) Administrator
5 2 (4.88%) Applications Architect
5 2 (4.88%) Cloud Architect
5 2 (4.88%) Consultant
5 2 (4.88%) Data Engineer
6 1 (2.44%) Analytics Consultant
6 1 (2.44%) Automation Engineer
6 1 (2.44%) Computer Vision Engineer
6 1 (2.44%) Senior Data Scientist
6 1 (2.44%) Splunk Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (21.95%) TensorFlow
2 8 (19.51%) PyTorch
3 4 (9.76%) Kafka
4 2 (4.88%) LangChain
4 2 (4.88%) Node.js
4 2 (4.88%) React
4 2 (4.88%) Regular Expression
4 2 (4.88%) scikit-learn
4 2 (4.88%) XGBoost
5 1 (2.44%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (2.44%) FastAPI
5 1 (2.44%) GatsbyJS
5 1 (2.44%) Matplotlib
5 1 (2.44%) Next.js
5 1 (2.44%) OpenAPI
5 1 (2.44%) OpenCV
5 1 (2.44%) Pandas
5 1 (2.44%) Playwright
5 1 (2.44%) REST
5 1 (2.44%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 9 (21.95%) Algorithms
2 4 (9.76%) Data Protection Act
2 4 (9.76%) Onboarding
2 4 (9.76%) Virtual Team
3 3 (7.32%) Blockchain
4 2 (4.88%) Data Structures
4 2 (4.88%) IoT
5 1 (2.44%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (2.44%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.44%) Insider Threat
5 1 (2.44%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.44%) Private Cloud
5 1 (2.44%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (68.29%) Artificial Intelligence
2 16 (39.02%) Agile
3 15 (36.59%) Data Science
3 15 (36.59%) LLM
4 14 (34.15%) Generative AI
5 13 (31.71%) CI/CD
5 13 (31.71%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (29.27%) Natural Language Processing
7 8 (19.51%) Analytics
7 8 (19.51%) Decision-Making
8 7 (17.07%) Containerisation
8 7 (17.07%) Data Engineering
8 7 (17.07%) Data Protection
8 7 (17.07%) DevOps
8 7 (17.07%) Microservices
9 6 (14.63%) SDLC
10 5 (12.20%) Actionable Insight
10 5 (12.20%) Computer Vision
10 5 (12.20%) Data Cleansing
10 5 (12.20%) Data Ingestion
Programming Languages
1 23 (56.10%) Python
2 9 (21.95%) SQL
3 4 (9.76%) R
4 3 (7.32%) Scala
5 2 (4.88%) TypeScript
6 1 (2.44%) Java
6 1 (2.44%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.44%) Search Processing Language
6 1 (2.44%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (9.76%) Security Cleared
2 3 (7.32%) Degree
3 1 (2.44%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.44%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.44%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.76%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 4 (9.76%) Data Quality
1 4 (9.76%) GDPR
2 2 (4.88%) Accessibility
System Software
1 8 (19.51%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (21.95%) Kubernetes
2 4 (9.76%) Terraform
3 2 (4.88%) Ansible
4 1 (2.44%) Grafana
4 1 (2.44%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (12.20%) Databricks
2 3 (7.32%) Google
3 1 (2.44%) Apple
3 1 (2.44%) Ariba
3 1 (2.44%) Criteo
3 1 (2.44%) Fortinet
3 1 (2.44%) Genesys
3 1 (2.44%) Infoblox
3 1 (2.44%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.44%) Red Hat
3 1 (2.44%) SAP
3 1 (2.44%) ServiceNow
3 1 (2.44%) Splunk
3 1 (2.44%) VMware