Machine Learning Contract Job Trends in Shropshire

Machine Learning (ML)
West Midlands > Shropshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Shropshire requiring Machine Learning skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Machine Learning 7 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Shropshire 2.19% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.38% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £468 - -
25th Percentile £477 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 - -
75th Percentile £500 - -
90th Percentile £507 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £514 £463 £635
% change year-on-year +11.14% -27.17% +10.43%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Shropshire

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 Shropshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 294 104 41
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire 92.16% 83.20% 80.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 205 73 24
10th Percentile £400 £240 £271
25th Percentile £447 £358 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £477 £410
Median % change year-on-year +7.97% +16.34% -22.64%
75th Percentile £538 £519 £496
90th Percentile £560 £567 £576
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £517 £500
% change year-on-year -3.29% +3.40% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 0
10th Percentile £26.13 - -
25th Percentile £27.59 - -
Median hourly rate £31.31 £12.18 -
Median % change year-on-year +157.02% - -
75th Percentile £36.30 £17.89 -
90th Percentile £38.53 £21.32 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £20.25 £21.80 £24.60
% change year-on-year -7.09% -11.40% +38.98%

Machine Learning
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

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

Machine Learning job vacancy trend in Shropshire

Machine Learning
Daily Rate Trend in Shropshire

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

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

Machine Learning
Contract Job Locations in Shropshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Machine Learning within the Shropshire region over the 6 months to 4 December 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Telford - 7 £496 - 1
Machine Learning
West Midlands

Machine Learning
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Shropshire 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:

Applications
1 7 (100.00%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) AWS
1 7 (100.00%) Azure
1 7 (100.00%) GCP
General
1 7 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) Engagement Manager
2 6 (85.71%) SAP Engagement Manager
2 6 (85.71%) SAP Manager
3 5 (71.43%) Senior
3 5 (71.43%) Senior Engagement Manager
3 5 (71.43%) Senior Manager
Miscellaneous
1 7 (100.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Agile
1 7 (100.00%) AI
1 7 (100.00%) Budget Management
1 7 (100.00%) Budgeting and Forecasting
1 7 (100.00%) Change Management
1 7 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 7 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 7 (100.00%) Data Management
1 7 (100.00%) DevOps
1 7 (100.00%) Migration
1 7 (100.00%) Performance Management
1 7 (100.00%) Project Planning
1 7 (100.00%) Regulatory Compliance
1 7 (100.00%) Resource Allocation
1 7 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 7 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 7 (100.00%) Waterfall
2 6 (85.71%) Project Management
Qualifications
1 6 (85.71%) SC Cleared
1 6 (85.71%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 7 (100.00%) SAP
1 7 (100.00%) ServiceNow