Machine Learning Contracts in Reading

Machine Learning (ML)
Berkshire > Reading

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading with a requirement for Machine Learning skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Machine Learning over the 6 months to 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 89 77 81
Rank change year-on-year -12 +4 -30
Contract jobs citing Machine Learning 5 8 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 0.43% 0.77% 0.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.48% 0.87% 1.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 8 9
10th Percentile £386 £413 £505
25th Percentile £427 £441 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year -13.91% -8.00% +47.06%
75th Percentile £598 £617 £763
90th Percentile £659 £648 £773
Berkshire median daily rate £495 £538 £625
% change year-on-year -7.91% -14.00% +38.89%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

Machine Learning is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Reading with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,046 922 1,227
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 89.63% 89.00% 90.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 561 608 810
10th Percentile £213 £363 £250
25th Percentile £413 £460 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.09% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £619 £652 £600
90th Percentile £688 £721 £650
Berkshire median daily rate £513 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -2.38% +5.00% +6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 23 8
10th Percentile £14.50 £45.50 £12.73
25th Percentile £50.89 £58.32 £19.44
Median hourly rate £61.33 £66.00 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.08% +135.71% +1.82%
75th Percentile £78.84 £75.27 £33.13
90th Percentile £87.48 £79.19 £40.25
Berkshire median hourly rate £60.30 £63.00 £21.03
% change year-on-year -4.29% +199.64% -0.12%

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 23 May 2024.

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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Cognitive Services
1 1 (20.00%) ChatGPT
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (20.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Big Data
1 1 (20.00%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Git
2 1 (20.00%) CMake
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Security Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) C++ Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) PyTorch
1 3 (60.00%) TensorFlow
2 1 (20.00%) CNTK
2 1 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (20.00%) Google JAX
2 1 (20.00%) Hugging Face
2 1 (20.00%) Kafka
2 1 (20.00%) LangChain
2 1 (20.00%) OpenVINO
2 1 (20.00%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Algorithms
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (20.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
2 1 (20.00%) Android
2 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (60.00%) DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (40.00%) Data Science
3 2 (40.00%) Deep Learning
3 2 (40.00%) LLM
3 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (40.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (40.00%) Threat Modelling
3 2 (40.00%) Workflow
4 1 (20.00%) Agile
4 1 (20.00%) Analytics
4 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (20.00%) Data Management
4 1 (20.00%) Data Protection
4 1 (20.00%) Data Visualisation
4 1 (20.00%) Open Source
4 1 (20.00%) Security Architecture
4 1 (20.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Python
2 3 (60.00%) C++
3 2 (40.00%) C
4 1 (20.00%) Bash
4 1 (20.00%) Java
4 1 (20.00%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
4 1 (20.00%) R
4 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
1 1 (20.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) GDPR
1 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (20.00%) NIST
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (20.00%) Ansible
2 1 (20.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (20.00%) Terraform