Machine Learning Contract Job Trends in Oxfordshire

Machine Learning (ML)
South East > Oxfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Oxfordshire requiring Machine Learning skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 17 24
Rank change year-on-year -11 +7 +3
Contract jobs citing Machine Learning 2 1 4
As % of all contract jobs in Oxfordshire 1.02% 1.08% 1.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.20% 1.19% 2.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £525 £388 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £425 £180
Median % change year-on-year +29.41% +136.11% -65.71%
75th Percentile £575 £463 £434
90th Percentile - - £586
South East median daily rate £550 £525 £530
% change year-on-year +4.76% -0.94% -7.83%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 167 84 182
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 85.20% 90.32% 84.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 49 120
10th Percentile £200 £249 £149
25th Percentile £263 £360 £262
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +17.65% -8.85%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £528
90th Percentile £605 £658 £623
South East median daily rate £500 £505 £500
% change year-on-year -0.99% +1.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 8 30
10th Percentile £15.62 £13.08 £13.00
25th Percentile £17.98 £23.60 £16.25
Median hourly rate £20.18 £45.65 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -55.79% +134.10% -25.00%
75th Percentile £25.08 £46.60 £32.76
90th Percentile £27.50 £53.50 £56.00
South East median hourly rate £25.15 £45.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -44.11% - -

Machine Learning
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Machine Learning job vacancy trend in Oxfordshire

Machine Learning
Daily Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

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

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

Machine Learning
Hourly Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

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

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

Machine Learning
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Oxfordshire 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 2 (100.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Power BI
2 1 (50.00%) Big Data
2 1 (50.00%) Delta Lake
2 1 (50.00%) Hadoop
2 1 (50.00%) Spark SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Star Schema
2 1 (50.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
1 1 (50.00%) Matplotlib
1 1 (50.00%) PySpark
1 1 (50.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (50.00%) Seaborn
1 1 (50.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Mindset
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (100.00%) Data Science
2 1 (50.00%) A/B Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Dashboard Development
2 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (50.00%) Data Transformation
2 1 (50.00%) Data Visualisation
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) Deep Learning
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Mathematics
2 1 (50.00%) Predictive Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Bicep
2 1 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) R
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Databricks
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft