Machine Learning Contract Job Trends in Oxford

Machine Learning (ML)
Oxfordshire > Oxford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Oxford requiring Machine Learning skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Machine Learning 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Oxford 4.55% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.67% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £775 - -
25th Percentile £850 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £900 - -
75th Percentile £1,025 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Oxfordshire median daily rate £900 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Oxford

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 Oxford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 75 55 58
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxford 68.18% 93.22% 73.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 20 48
10th Percentile £284 £218 £180
25th Percentile £381 £222 £274
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £363 £450
Median % change year-on-year +37.93% -19.44% -
75th Percentile £638 £541 £500
90th Percentile £775 £609 £556
Oxfordshire median daily rate £500 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +11.11% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 7 6
10th Percentile £19.34 £23.43 £12.50
25th Percentile £34.88 - £13.38
Median hourly rate £62.50 £25.15 £21.02
Median % change year-on-year +148.51% +19.68% -
75th Percentile £63.75 £86.32 £29.38
90th Percentile - £89.63 £47.75
Oxfordshire median hourly rate £47.52 £25.15 £16.00
% change year-on-year +88.95% +57.19% -50.46%

Machine Learning
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxford

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

Machine Learning job vacancy trend in Oxford

Machine Learning
Daily Rate Trend in Oxford

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

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

Machine Learning
Daily Rate Histogram in Oxford

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Machine Learning in Oxford over the 6 months to 31 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Machine Learning in Oxford

Machine Learning
Hourly Rate Trend in Oxford

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxford citing Machine Learning.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxford citing Machine Learning

Machine Learning
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Oxford 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon Bedrock
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon SageMaker
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) GitLab
1 2 (40.00%) MLflow
General
1 1 (20.00%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) LangChain
1 2 (40.00%) LangGraph
1 2 (40.00%) PyTorch
1 2 (40.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) AI Agents
2 2 (40.00%) Distributed Computing
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) AI
2 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (80.00%) LLM
3 2 (40.00%) Architectural Patterns
3 2 (40.00%) Biotechnology
3 2 (40.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (40.00%) Data Integration
3 2 (40.00%) Enterprise Architecture
3 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 2 (40.00%) MLOps
3 2 (40.00%) Observability
3 2 (40.00%) Open Source
3 2 (40.00%) Platform Engineering
3 2 (40.00%) Signal Processing
3 2 (40.00%) Statistics
4 1 (20.00%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) GxP
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Docker
1 2 (40.00%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) OpenAI