Machine Learning Contracts in the North West

Machine Learning (ML)
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 113 127 143
Rank change year-on-year +14 +16 -22
Contract jobs citing Machine Learning 24 33 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.87% 1.03% 0.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.01% 1.14% 1.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 20 26
10th Percentile £387 £424 £400
25th Percentile £416 £500 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £588 £556
Median % change year-on-year -10.64% +5.62% +17.11%
75th Percentile £606 £650 £666
90th Percentile - £676 £750
England median daily rate £580 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -3.33% - +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £20.00 £32.25
Median hourly rate - £27.50 £34.50
Median % change year-on-year - -20.29% -
75th Percentile - £35.00 £36.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £52.50 £35.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year +50.00% -22.22% +1.93%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,385 2,894 3,584
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 86.32% 90.58% 88.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,526 2,058 2,629
10th Percentile £306 £313 £231
25th Percentile £401 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £589 £588 £575
90th Percentile £688 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 243 144 166
10th Percentile £10.95 £16.85 £10.63
25th Percentile £13.28 £21.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +68.72% +9.18%
75th Percentile £45.44 £48.91 £43.75
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £58.75
England median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
% change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%

Machine Learning
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Machine Learning in the North West

Machine Learning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Machine Learning in the North West

Machine Learning
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Machine Learning in the North West over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Machine Learning in the North West

Machine Learning
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Machine Learning in the North West

Machine Learning
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 within the North West region over the 6 months to 28 April 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
Cheshire +11 12 £588 +6.82% 3
Manchester -3 7 £425 -27.66% 42
Lancashire +4 3 - - 4
Cumbria - 2 £520 -
Machine Learning
England

Machine Learning
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 (4.17%) Apache Spark
1 1 (4.17%) GeoServer
Cloud Services
1 8 (33.33%) Azure
2 5 (20.83%) AWS
3 2 (8.33%) Amazon EMR
3 2 (8.33%) Amazon SageMaker
3 2 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (8.33%) Miro
3 2 (8.33%) SaaS
3 2 (8.33%) Serverless
3 2 (8.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (4.17%) ChatGPT
4 1 (4.17%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (4.17%) GCP
4 1 (4.17%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.33%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (20.83%) Data Warehouse
1 5 (20.83%) Tableau
2 3 (12.50%) Big Data
3 2 (8.33%) Data Lake
3 2 (8.33%) Metadata
3 2 (8.33%) NoSQL
3 2 (8.33%) RDBMS
3 2 (8.33%) Relational Database
4 1 (4.17%) GIS
4 1 (4.17%) Hadoop
4 1 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (4.17%) Power BI
4 1 (4.17%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 5 (20.83%) Jenkins
2 4 (16.67%) Git
3 2 (8.33%) JIRA
3 2 (8.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 4 (16.67%) Manufacturing
1 4 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (8.33%) Banking
2 2 (8.33%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.17%) Finance
3 1 (4.17%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (20.83%) Architect
1 5 (20.83%) Data Architect
1 5 (20.83%) Splunk Engineer
2 3 (12.50%) Developer
2 3 (12.50%) Project Manager
3 2 (8.33%) AWS Developer
3 2 (8.33%) Cloud Developer
3 2 (8.33%) Data Modeller
3 2 (8.33%) Data Scientist
3 2 (8.33%) Information Architect
3 2 (8.33%) Lead
3 2 (8.33%) Python Developer
4 1 (4.17%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
4 1 (4.17%) Azure Architect
4 1 (4.17%) Azure Data Architect
4 1 (4.17%) Digital Programme Manager
4 1 (4.17%) GIS Developer
4 1 (4.17%) SAP Manager
4 1 (4.17%) Supply Chain Manager
4 1 (4.17%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (12.50%) PyTorch
1 3 (12.50%) TensorFlow
2 2 (8.33%) JSON
2 2 (8.33%) Lambda Expressions
2 2 (8.33%) REST
2 2 (8.33%) Swagger
2 2 (8.33%) YAML
3 1 (4.17%) CSS
3 1 (4.17%) HTML
3 1 (4.17%) Hugging Face
3 1 (4.17%) LangChain
3 1 (4.17%) OpenLayers
3 1 (4.17%) PostGIS
3 1 (4.17%) React
3 1 (4.17%) RESTful
3 1 (4.17%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.83%) Onboarding
2 4 (16.67%) Industry 4.0
2 4 (16.67%) Taxonomies
3 3 (12.50%) Algorithms
4 2 (8.33%) Data Centre
4 2 (8.33%) Public Cloud
5 1 (4.17%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (4.17%) Insider Threat
5 1 (4.17%) IoT
5 1 (4.17%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (62.50%) Analytics
2 10 (41.67%) DevOps
3 8 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
3 8 (33.33%) ETL
4 7 (29.17%) Data Mapping
4 7 (29.17%) Decision-Making
5 6 (25.00%) Data Analysis
5 6 (25.00%) Data Analytics
5 6 (25.00%) Data Strategy
6 5 (20.83%) Data Governance
6 5 (20.83%) Data Science
6 5 (20.83%) Digital Twin
6 5 (20.83%) Use Case
6 5 (20.83%) Visualisation
7 4 (16.67%) Data Integration
7 4 (16.67%) Data Modelling
7 4 (16.67%) Ontologies
7 4 (16.67%) Predictive Analysis
7 4 (16.67%) Predictive Analytics
7 4 (16.67%) Statistical Analysis
Programming Languages
1 13 (54.17%) Python
2 9 (37.50%) SQL
3 5 (20.83%) Search Processing Language
3 5 (20.83%) Shell Script
4 2 (8.33%) C#
5 1 (4.17%) JavaScript
5 1 (4.17%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (4.17%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 3 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 2 (8.33%) Degree
3 2 (8.33%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.17%) Data Quality
1 1 (4.17%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (8.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 5 (20.83%) Splunk
3 2 (8.33%) Sage
4 1 (4.17%) Google
4 1 (4.17%) SAP