Machine Learning Contract Job Trends in Northamptonshire

Machine Learning (ML)
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Northamptonshire requiring Machine Learning skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 24 -
Rank change year-on-year -18 - -
Contract jobs citing Machine Learning 7 4 0
As % of all contract jobs in Northamptonshire 2.52% 2.58% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.75% 2.82% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 0
10th Percentile £372 £310 -
25th Percentile £385 £329 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £399 £348 -
Median % change year-on-year +14.51% - -
75th Percentile £413 £356 -
90th Percentile £434 - -
East Midlands median daily rate £525 £356 £675
% change year-on-year +47.47% -47.26% +65.14%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 255 142 157
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 91.73% 91.61% 92.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 206 111 116
10th Percentile £313 £311 £263
25th Percentile £380 £356 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £439 £400 £450
Median % change year-on-year +9.84% -11.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £518 £475 £519
90th Percentile £575 £575 £568
East Midlands median daily rate £445 £425 £425
% change year-on-year +4.71% - -5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 24
10th Percentile - - £10.90
25th Percentile - £13.75 £14.00
Median hourly rate £25.50 £14.50 £28.64
Median % change year-on-year +75.86% -49.37% +15.33%
75th Percentile - £15.25 £51.50
90th Percentile - - -
East Midlands median hourly rate £18.87 £22.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year -16.13% +28.57% +3.98%

Machine Learning
Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Machine Learning relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire.

Machine Learning job vacancy trend in Northamptonshire

Machine Learning
Daily Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northamptonshire citing Machine Learning.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northamptonshire citing Machine Learning

Machine Learning
Contract Job Locations in Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire region over the 6 months to 25 February 2026. 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
Northampton -21 6 £399 +14.51% 5
Machine Learning
East Midlands

Machine Learning
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northamptonshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (57.14%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 6 (85.71%) AWS
2 5 (71.43%) Azure
2 5 (71.43%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) Big Data
1 3 (42.86%) Data Lake
1 3 (42.86%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (14.29%) Hadoop
2 1 (14.29%) Metadata
2 1 (14.29%) Metadata Repository
2 1 (14.29%) NoSQL
2 1 (14.29%) RDBMS
2 1 (14.29%) Relational Database
2 1 (14.29%) Sqoop
General
1 4 (57.14%) Finance
2 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Banking
3 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Data Scientist
2 2 (28.57%) Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Data Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) Pandas
1 3 (42.86%) scikit-learn
1 3 (42.86%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Onboarding
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Data Science
1 5 (71.43%) Data Visualisation
1 5 (71.43%) Statistical Modelling
1 5 (71.43%) Visualisation
2 4 (57.14%) Analytics
3 3 (42.86%) Data Engineering
3 3 (42.86%) Data Pipeline
3 3 (42.86%) Fintech
3 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (28.57%) A/B Testing
4 2 (28.57%) Actionable Insight
4 2 (28.57%) Anomaly Detection
4 2 (28.57%) Customer Experience
4 2 (28.57%) Data Governance
4 2 (28.57%) Exploratory Data Analysis
4 2 (28.57%) Fraud Detection
4 2 (28.57%) Natural Language Processing
4 2 (28.57%) Regulatory Compliance
4 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) Python
2 5 (71.43%) SQL
3 3 (42.86%) R
4 2 (28.57%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) AWS Certification
1 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
1 1 (14.29%) Master's Degree
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) GDPR
2 2 (28.57%) PCI DSS
3 1 (14.29%) HIPAA
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Databricks
2 1 (14.29%) Ab Initio
2 1 (14.29%) Informatica
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Teradata