Machine Learning Contract Job Trends in Northern Ireland

Machine Learning (ML)
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Northern Ireland requiring Machine Learning skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 32 -
Rank change year-on-year -4 - -
Contract jobs citing Machine Learning 1 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Northern Ireland 0.40% 0.52% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.45% 0.65% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 - -
UK median daily rate £553 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -7.92% +4.35% -8.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 222 153 135
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 88.45% 79.27% 88.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 61 79
10th Percentile £263 £148 £205
25th Percentile £325 £167 £298
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £388 £400
Median % change year-on-year +16.13% -3.13% -15.79%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £528
90th Percentile £625 £575 £600
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.41% -3.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 23 10
10th Percentile £12.56 £22.48 £11.08
25th Percentile £14.78 - £12.49
Median hourly rate £17.30 £24.18 £13.46
Median % change year-on-year -28.45% +79.64% +22.64%
75th Percentile £25.15 £32.94 £15.49
90th Percentile - £43.05 £18.08
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +27.14%

Machine Learning
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Machine Learning job vacancy trend in Northern Ireland

Machine Learning
Daily Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Machine Learning

Machine Learning
Contract Job Locations in Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 25 November 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
County Antrim -7 1 £700 - 10
Machine Learning
UK

Machine Learning
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Mining
General
1 1 (100.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Benchmarking
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Natural Language Processing
1 1 (100.00%) Pattern Recognition
1 1 (100.00%) Records Management
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared