Machine Learning Contracts in Reading

Machine Learning (ML)
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading requiring Machine Learning skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Machine Learning over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 85 80
Rank change year-on-year +37 -5 +5
Contract jobs citing Machine Learning 12 6 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 2.01% 0.50% 0.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.16% 0.56% 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 5 7
10th Percentile £352 £386 £503
25th Percentile £452 £425 £556
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £475 £600
Median % change year-on-year +21.05% -20.83% -4.00%
75th Percentile £597 £495 £653
90th Percentile £700 £498 £680
Berkshire median daily rate £563 £463 £550
% change year-on-year +21.62% -15.91% -8.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 555 1,075 936
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 92.96% 90.18% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 329 581 620
10th Percentile £313 £213 £363
25th Percentile £450 £413 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £619 £660
90th Percentile £700 £688 £721
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £511 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% -2.71% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 46 23
10th Percentile £33.82 £27.58 £45.50
25th Percentile £41.05 £53.74 £53.00
Median hourly rate £53.10 £62.07 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.46% -4.50% +132.14%
75th Percentile £65.14 £82.55 £74.40
90th Percentile £72.37 £87.50 £79.19
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.50 £61.60 £57.82
% change year-on-year -0.17% +6.54% +174.67%

Machine Learning
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Job postings citing Machine Learning as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Job vacancy trend for Machine Learning in Reading

Machine Learning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Machine Learning in Reading.

Daily rate trend for Machine Learning in Reading

Machine Learning
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Machine Learning in Reading over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Machine Learning in Reading

Machine Learning
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Machine Learning in Reading.

Hourly rate trend for Machine Learning in Reading

Machine Learning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 3 (25.00%) Apache Spark
2 2 (16.67%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 8 (66.67%) Azure
2 5 (41.67%) Azure Machine Learning
3 3 (25.00%) AWS
3 3 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (16.67%) Azure AKS
4 2 (16.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (16.67%) Power Automate
4 2 (16.67%) Power Platform
5 1 (8.33%) Amazon ELB
5 1 (8.33%) Azure AI
5 1 (8.33%) Azure Cognitive Services
5 1 (8.33%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (8.33%) Azure Functions
5 1 (8.33%) Azure Storage
5 1 (8.33%) GCP
5 1 (8.33%) Serverless
5 1 (8.33%) Snowflake
5 1 (8.33%) WhatsApp
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (33.33%) Big Data
2 2 (16.67%) Data Lake
2 2 (16.67%) Power BI
3 1 (8.33%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (8.33%) Apache Hive
3 1 (8.33%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (8.33%) Hadoop
3 1 (8.33%) HBase
3 1 (8.33%) HDInsight
3 1 (8.33%) Impala
3 1 (8.33%) Metadata
3 1 (8.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Git
2 1 (8.33%) CMake
2 1 (8.33%) ERwin
2 1 (8.33%) GitLab
2 1 (8.33%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (25.00%) Architect
2 2 (16.67%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Data Scientist
2 2 (16.67%) Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Platform Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) C# Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) Data Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Data Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Enterprise Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Machine Learning Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) SAP Architect
3 1 (8.33%) SAP Enterprise Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Data Scientist
3 1 (8.33%) Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (25.00%) PyTorch
1 3 (25.00%) TensorFlow
2 2 (16.67%) .NET
2 2 (16.67%) CSS
2 2 (16.67%) HTML
2 2 (16.67%) Kafka
2 2 (16.67%) scikit-learn
3 1 (8.33%) ARM Templates
3 1 (8.33%) CNTK
3 1 (8.33%) FHIR
3 1 (8.33%) Hugging Face
3 1 (8.33%) Middleware
3 1 (8.33%) OpenVINO
3 1 (8.33%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) IoT
1 2 (16.67%) Management Information System
2 1 (8.33%) Algorithms
2 1 (8.33%) Cyberattack
2 1 (8.33%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (8.33%) NHS
2 1 (8.33%) Public Cloud
2 1 (8.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Linux
1 2 (16.67%) Windows
2 1 (8.33%) Android
2 1 (8.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (83.33%) Artificial Intelligence
2 4 (33.33%) Agile
2 4 (33.33%) Data Governance
2 4 (33.33%) Data Science
2 4 (33.33%) ETL
3 3 (25.00%) Analytics
3 3 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (25.00%) Computer Science
3 3 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
3 3 (25.00%) DevOps
3 3 (25.00%) LLM
3 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (16.67%) Containerisation
4 2 (16.67%) Integration Testing
4 2 (16.67%) MLOps
4 2 (16.67%) Roadmaps
4 2 (16.67%) Software Engineering
4 2 (16.67%) Software Testing
4 2 (16.67%) System Testing
4 2 (16.67%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (50.00%) Python
2 4 (33.33%) SQL
3 3 (25.00%) C#
4 2 (16.67%) JavaScript
4 2 (16.67%) R
5 1 (8.33%) C++
5 1 (8.33%) Perl
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) Degree
2 2 (16.67%) Azure Certification
2 2 (16.67%) Master's Degree
3 1 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (8.33%) DV Cleared
3 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) Data Quality
1 1 (8.33%) GDPR
1 1 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (8.33%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) Docker
2 1 (8.33%) Apache Flume
2 1 (8.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) OpenAI
2 2 (16.67%) Google
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (8.33%) Databricks
3 1 (8.33%) SAP
3 1 (8.33%) StreamSets
3 1 (8.33%) Virgin Media