Machine Learning Engineer Contracts in the North West

Machine Learning Engineer
England > North West

The median Machine Learning Engineer daily rate in the North West is £625, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 124 - 156
Rank change year-on-year - - +15
Contract jobs requiring a Machine Learning Engineer 1 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.051% - 0.066%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.055% - 0.069%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £581
25th Percentile £588 - £591
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - £625
Median % change year-on-year - - +56.25%
75th Percentile £663 - £678
90th Percentile - - £699
England median daily rate £625 £550 £575
% change year-on-year +13.64% -4.35% -4.17%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North West. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the North West with a recognized job title 1,805 2,565 2,887
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.61% 94.61% 95.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,199 1,639 2,044
10th Percentile £263 £268 £304
25th Percentile £380 £382 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.41% -2.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £580 £586
90th Percentile £653 £675 £675
England median daily rate £517 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.52% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 110 292 128
10th Percentile £13.00 £11.13 £14.62
25th Percentile £14.38 £14.00 £18.50
Median hourly rate £28.75 £32.12 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year -10.48% +5.16% +29.71%
75th Percentile £60.00 £47.50 £48.06
90th Percentile £83.52 £70.90 £66.00
England median hourly rate £29.30 £37.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -21.87% -16.67% +91.49%

Machine Learning Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings that featured Machine Learning Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Machine Learning Engineer in the North West

Machine Learning Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Machine Learning Engineer in the North West

Machine Learning Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Machine Learning Engineer within the North West region over the 6 months to 30 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
Manchester - 1 £625 - 10
Machine Learning Engineer
England

Machine Learning Engineer Skill Set
Top 27 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West

For the 6 months to 30 May 2025, Machine Learning Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the North West region featuring Machine Learning Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) TensorFlow
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Team
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon SageMaker
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (100.00%) MLflow
1 1 (100.00%) MLOps
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 1 (100.00%) LLM

Machine Learning Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (100.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon SageMaker
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) MLflow
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (100.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) MLOps
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes