Machine Learning Developer Contracts in Sheffield

Machine Learning Developer
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The median Machine Learning Developer daily rate in Sheffield is £493, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Machine Learning Developer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 0.22% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.24% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £493 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Sheffield

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Sheffield. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Sheffield with a recognized job title 410 378 411
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.91% 88.52% 98.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 276 220 279
10th Percentile £285 £375 £318
25th Percentile £388 £425 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £513 £588
Median % change year-on-year -7.32% -12.77% +17.50%
75th Percentile £550 £580 £694
90th Percentile £638 £619 £745
South Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -5.10% -9.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 7 5
10th Percentile - £10.90 £13.60
25th Percentile £18.10 £15.70 £17.50
Median hourly rate £18.35 £21.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.61% +10.53% +13.43%
75th Percentile £18.50 £22.00 £22.50
90th Percentile £18.51 £22.70 £22.65
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.35 £14.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year +31.09% -26.32% +4.11%

Machine Learning Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Sheffield

For the 6 months to 5 July 2025, Machine Learning Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Sheffield region featuring Machine Learning Developer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Private Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Image Processing
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source
1 1 (100.00%) Natural Language Processing
1 1 (100.00%) Regular Expression
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) OpenCV
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Deep Learning
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) KYC
1 1 (100.00%) TensorFlow
1 1 (100.00%) OCR
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Client Onboarding
1 1 (100.00%) SpaCy
1 1 (100.00%) Storage Management
1 1 (100.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 1 (100.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (100.00%) Hugging Face
1 1 (100.00%) Generative AI

Machine Learning Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Sheffield 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 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Private Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Hugging Face
1 1 (100.00%) OpenCV
1 1 (100.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (100.00%) Regular Expression
1 1 (100.00%) SpaCy
1 1 (100.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Client Onboarding
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Deep Learning
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 1 (100.00%) Image Processing
1 1 (100.00%) KYC
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Natural Language Processing
1 1 (100.00%) OCR
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source
1 1 (100.00%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes