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 5 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 81 79
Rank change year-on-year +33 -2 +8
Contract jobs citing Machine Learning 15 10 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 2.51% 0.89% 1.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.72% 1.03% 1.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 6 10
10th Percentile £353 £427 £400
25th Percentile £443 £546 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £725 £575
Median % change year-on-year -22.41% +26.09% -11.54%
75th Percentile £597 £791 £627
90th Percentile £625 £800 £643
Berkshire median daily rate £575 £725 £525
% change year-on-year -20.69% +38.10% -15.19%

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 551 972 970
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 92.29% 86.09% 88.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 349 524 635
10th Percentile £350 £343 £350
25th Percentile £450 £463 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £583 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.80% +6.00% +10.00%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £638
90th Percentile £700 £715 £710
Berkshire median daily rate £501 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -9.00% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 33 23
10th Percentile - £14.50 £23.80
25th Percentile £14.75 £52.90 £50.95
Median hourly rate £20.75 £61.60 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year -66.31% -6.67% +120.00%
75th Percentile £38.42 £76.99 £74.40
90th Percentile £60.50 £87.46 £76.64
Berkshire median hourly rate £34.80 £61.60 £56.89
% change year-on-year -43.51% +8.29% +89.62%

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 5 August 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 2 (13.33%) Apache Spark
2 1 (6.67%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (6.67%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 4 (26.67%) AWS
1 4 (26.67%) Azure
2 3 (20.00%) GCP
2 3 (20.00%) Snowflake
3 1 (6.67%) Amazon SageMaker
3 1 (6.67%) Azure Cognitive Services
3 1 (6.67%) Azure Machine Learning
3 1 (6.67%) Power Platform
3 1 (6.67%) Vertex AI
3 1 (6.67%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) 4G
1 1 (6.67%) 5G
1 1 (6.67%) Converged Networks
1 1 (6.67%) DOCSIS
1 1 (6.67%) GPON
1 1 (6.67%) LTE
1 1 (6.67%) MPLS
1 1 (6.67%) Radio Access Network
1 1 (6.67%) VoIP
1 1 (6.67%) xDSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (20.00%) Big Data
2 1 (6.67%) Power BI
2 1 (6.67%) SQLite
2 1 (6.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (40.00%) Git
2 1 (6.67%) CMake
2 1 (6.67%) ERwin
2 1 (6.67%) GitLab
2 1 (6.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (6.67%) MLflow
General
1 7 (46.67%) Social Skills
2 5 (33.33%) Telecoms
3 3 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (73.33%) Architect
2 7 (46.67%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
3 5 (33.33%) Security Architect
4 2 (13.33%) Data Architect
4 2 (13.33%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Data Scientist
5 1 (6.67%) Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Enterprise Architect
5 1 (6.67%) OSS Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Principal Data Scientist
5 1 (6.67%) Python Developer
5 1 (6.67%) SAP Architect
5 1 (6.67%) SAP Enterprise Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Data Scientist
5 1 (6.67%) Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (40.00%) PyTorch
1 6 (40.00%) TensorFlow
2 4 (26.67%) Google JAX
2 4 (26.67%) JAX
2 4 (26.67%) scikit-learn
3 3 (20.00%) Kafka
4 1 (6.67%) CNTK
4 1 (6.67%) FHIR
4 1 (6.67%) Hugging Face
4 1 (6.67%) Middleware
4 1 (6.67%) OpenVINO
4 1 (6.67%) PyQt
4 1 (6.67%) Qt
4 1 (6.67%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Algorithms
2 2 (13.33%) Cloud Native
2 2 (13.33%) Security Posture
3 1 (6.67%) AI Agents
3 1 (6.67%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (6.67%) Management Information System
3 1 (6.67%) NHS
3 1 (6.67%) TM Forum
Operating Systems
1 2 (13.33%) Windows
2 1 (6.67%) Android
2 1 (6.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (93.33%) Artificial Intelligence
2 8 (53.33%) LLM
3 6 (40.00%) Data Science
4 5 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 5 (33.33%) DevOps
4 5 (33.33%) MLOps
4 5 (33.33%) Security Architecture
5 4 (26.67%) Analytics
5 4 (26.67%) Data Pipeline
5 4 (26.67%) Incident Response
5 4 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (26.67%) Software Engineering
5 4 (26.67%) Threat Modelling
6 3 (20.00%) Architectural Patterns
6 3 (20.00%) Data Protection
6 3 (20.00%) Deep Learning
6 3 (20.00%) Roadmaps
6 3 (20.00%) SDLC
6 3 (20.00%) Secure Coding
6 3 (20.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 8 (53.33%) Python
2 5 (33.33%) C++
3 4 (26.67%) Java
3 4 (26.67%) R
4 3 (20.00%) C
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) Degree
1 2 (13.33%) Master's Degree
1 2 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (6.67%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (33.33%) EU AI Act
1 5 (33.33%) GDPR
1 5 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (20.00%) NIST
3 1 (6.67%) SNOMED CT
Systems Management
1 6 (40.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (6.67%) Kubeflow
2 1 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) Databricks
2 1 (6.67%) Google
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.67%) OpenAI
2 1 (6.67%) SAP