Machine Learning Contracts in the South East

Machine Learning (ML)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 100 179 156
Rank change year-on-year +79 -23 +35
Contract jobs citing Machine Learning 60 26 66
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.99% 0.47% 1.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.18% 0.55% 1.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 21 49
10th Percentile £357 £359 £422
25th Percentile £488 £463 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% -
75th Percentile £600 £675 £738
90th Percentile £738 £688 £1,188
England median daily rate £600 £580 £600
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
Median hourly rate - £80.00 £22.16
Median % change year-on-year - +261.01% -62.44%
England median hourly rate £65.00 £52.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year +23.81% +50.00% -22.22%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,757 4,716 5,181
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.59% 84.85% 89.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,756 2,743 3,594
10th Percentile £256 £243 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £508
Median % change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
75th Percentile £600 £621 £619
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 434 219
10th Percentile £13.85 £13.00 £18.25
25th Percentile £15.79 £18.23 £23.83
Median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%
75th Percentile £62.50 £62.49 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £74.83
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Machine Learning
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Machine Learning as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Machine Learning in the South East

Machine Learning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Machine Learning in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Machine Learning in the South East

Machine Learning
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for Machine Learning in the South East

Machine Learning
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Machine Learning in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Machine Learning in the South East

Machine Learning
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Thames Valley +67 35 £519 +6.96% 174
Berkshire +50 27 £563 +21.62% 28
Hampshire +35 13 £575 +15.00% 47
Buckinghamshire +22 8 £506 -27.68% 117
Surrey +15 8 £454 -24.38% 41
West Sussex - 3 £725 - 12
Kent - 1 £775 - 11
Machine Learning
England

Machine Learning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 10 (16.67%) Apache Spark
2 8 (13.33%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (8.33%) Apache
4 1 (1.67%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.67%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (1.67%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 25 (41.67%) Azure
2 16 (26.67%) AWS
3 12 (20.00%) Azure Machine Learning
3 12 (20.00%) GCP
4 10 (16.67%) PaaS
5 8 (13.33%) IaaS
5 8 (13.33%) OpenShift
6 6 (10.00%) Power Platform
7 5 (8.33%) Azure AKS
8 4 (6.67%) Microsoft Copilot
9 3 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (5.00%) Entra ID
9 3 (5.00%) Serverless
9 3 (5.00%) Snowflake
10 2 (3.33%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (3.33%) Amazon S3
10 2 (3.33%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (3.33%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (3.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 2 (3.33%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 8 (13.33%) DHCP
1 8 (13.33%) DNS
1 8 (13.33%) Firewall
1 8 (13.33%) SMTP
1 8 (13.33%) VPN
2 1 (1.67%) LAN
2 1 (1.67%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (31.67%) Big Data
2 8 (13.33%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (13.33%) Elasticsearch
3 6 (10.00%) Power BI
4 5 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (8.33%) Hadoop
5 4 (6.67%) Data Lake
6 2 (3.33%) Relational Database
6 2 (3.33%) Tableau
7 1 (1.67%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (1.67%) Apache Hive
7 1 (1.67%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.67%) HBase
7 1 (1.67%) HDInsight
7 1 (1.67%) Impala
7 1 (1.67%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 4 (6.67%) Git
2 3 (5.00%) GitLab
3 2 (3.33%) JIRA
4 1 (1.67%) CMake
4 1 (1.67%) ERwin
4 1 (1.67%) Jenkins
General
1 17 (28.33%) Social Skills
2 8 (13.33%) Public Sector
3 7 (11.67%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (8.33%) Telecoms
5 3 (5.00%) Finance
6 1 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 13 (21.67%) Architect
2 10 (16.67%) Data Scientist
3 8 (13.33%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 8 (13.33%) 3rd Line Support
3 8 (13.33%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
3 8 (13.33%) Support Engineer
4 7 (11.67%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
4 7 (11.67%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
4 7 (11.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 7 (11.67%) Infrastructure Support
4 7 (11.67%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
5 6 (10.00%) Consultant
6 5 (8.33%) Data Architect
6 5 (8.33%) Data Engineer
7 4 (6.67%) Developer
7 4 (6.67%) Senior
8 3 (5.00%) Systems Engineer
8 3 (5.00%) Systems Test Engineer
8 3 (5.00%) Telecoms Architect
8 3 (5.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.67%) PySpark
1 4 (6.67%) PyTorch
1 4 (6.67%) scikit-learn
1 4 (6.67%) TensorFlow
2 3 (5.00%) Kafka
2 3 (5.00%) NumPy
2 3 (5.00%) Pandas
3 2 (3.33%) .NET
3 2 (3.33%) CSS
3 2 (3.33%) HTML
3 2 (3.33%) Middleware
4 1 (1.67%) ARM Templates
4 1 (1.67%) CNTK
4 1 (1.67%) FHIR
4 1 (1.67%) Hugging Face
4 1 (1.67%) OpenVINO
4 1 (1.67%) Prophet
4 1 (1.67%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 8 (13.33%) Clustering
1 8 (13.33%) Data Centre
1 8 (13.33%) PKI
2 5 (8.33%) Algorithms
2 5 (8.33%) Data Structures
2 5 (8.33%) IoT
3 3 (5.00%) Management Information System
4 2 (3.33%) Distributed Computing
4 2 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (3.33%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.67%) CUDA
5 1 (1.67%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (1.67%) Cyberattack
5 1 (1.67%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.67%) NHS
5 1 (1.67%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.67%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (1.67%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 14 (23.33%) Linux
1 14 (23.33%) Windows
2 8 (13.33%) Windows Server
3 3 (5.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (1.67%) Android
4 1 (1.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (70.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 16 (26.67%) DevOps
3 15 (25.00%) Data Science
4 13 (21.67%) Problem-Solving
5 12 (20.00%) Analytics
6 11 (18.33%) Agile
6 11 (18.33%) Data Engineering
7 10 (16.67%) LLM
8 9 (15.00%) Data Governance
9 8 (13.33%) Business Intelligence
9 8 (13.33%) Software Deployment
10 7 (11.67%) Decision-Making
10 7 (11.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 7 (11.67%) Roadmaps
11 6 (10.00%) Computer Science
11 6 (10.00%) Containerisation
11 6 (10.00%) Data Modelling
12 5 (8.33%) Data Analysis
12 5 (8.33%) Software Testing
12 5 (8.33%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 20 (33.33%) Python
2 10 (16.67%) SQL
3 8 (13.33%) PowerShell
4 6 (10.00%) JavaScript
5 5 (8.33%) R
6 4 (6.67%) TypeScript
7 3 (5.00%) C#
8 1 (1.67%) C++
8 1 (1.67%) Perl
Qualifications
1 16 (26.67%) Security Cleared
2 14 (23.33%) Degree
3 9 (15.00%) DV Cleared
4 5 (8.33%) SC Cleared
5 2 (3.33%) Azure Certification
5 2 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (3.33%) Master's Degree
5 2 (3.33%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (1.67%) CISA
6 1 (1.67%) CISM
6 1 (1.67%) CISSP
6 1 (1.67%) GCIA
6 1 (1.67%) GCIH
6 1 (1.67%) GIAC
6 1 (1.67%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
6 1 (1.67%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.33%) Data Quality
2 3 (5.00%) GDPR
3 2 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.67%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.67%) NIST
4 1 (1.67%) NIST 800
4 1 (1.67%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.67%) QA
4 1 (1.67%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 12 (20.00%) Docker
2 8 (13.33%) Active Directory
2 8 (13.33%) BitLocker
2 8 (13.33%) Hyper-V
2 8 (13.33%) Microsoft App-V
2 8 (13.33%) Terminal Services
2 8 (13.33%) VMware ESXi
2 8 (13.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.67%) Apache Flume
3 1 (1.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 15 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 8 (13.33%) Ansible
2 8 (13.33%) Nagios
2 8 (13.33%) Puppet
2 8 (13.33%) vCenter Server
2 8 (13.33%) vMotion
3 3 (5.00%) Terraform
4 1 (1.67%) QRadar
Vendors
1 15 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 12 (20.00%) Google
3 8 (13.33%) Citrix
3 8 (13.33%) Databricks
3 8 (13.33%) HP
3 8 (13.33%) Symantec
3 8 (13.33%) VMware
4 4 (6.67%) Foundry
4 4 (6.67%) Palantir
5 3 (5.00%) OpenAI
6 2 (3.33%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.67%) Alteryx
7 1 (1.67%) BMC
7 1 (1.67%) SAP
7 1 (1.67%) Splunk
7 1 (1.67%) StreamSets
7 1 (1.67%) Virgin Media