Machine Learning Contracts in the South East

Machine Learning (ML)
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 173 149 196
Rank change year-on-year -24 +47 -72
Contract jobs citing Machine Learning 28 62 60
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.50% 1.09% 0.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.60% 1.23% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 47 37
10th Percentile £359 £413 £425
25th Percentile £400 £481 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% - +15.00%
75th Percentile £688 £758 £715
90th Percentile £750 £1,135 £763
England median daily rate £588 £595 £600
% change year-on-year -1.26% -0.83% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £56.50
Median hourly rate £80.00 £22.16 £59.00
Median % change year-on-year +261.01% -62.44% -
75th Percentile - - £61.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £52.50 £37.75 £45.00
% change year-on-year +39.07% -16.11% +55.98%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,684 5,048 6,906
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 82.95% 89.05% 89.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,709 3,470 4,714
10th Percentile £260 £250 £233
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £505 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.99% +1.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £625 £619 £600
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £545
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 451 221 274
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.23 £12.25
25th Percentile £18.26 £22.50 £15.13
Median hourly rate £47.50 £52.50 £21.99
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +138.80% -17.81%
75th Percentile £62.60 £65.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £76.86 £75.00 £62.95
England median hourly rate £37.50 £37.15 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.94% +48.60% +11.11%

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 2 June 2024.

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 2 June 2024. 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 +5 12 £675 +28.57% 67
Surrey +18 9 £600 +20.00% 6
Berkshire -21 9 £495 -7.91% 25
Hampshire -1 4 £500 -13.04% 19
East Sussex +6 3 £400 -30.43% 10
Buckinghamshire +30 2 £700 +21.74% 14
Oxfordshire +2 1 £675 +237.50% 28
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 1 (3.57%) Apache
1 1 (3.57%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (3.57%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (10.71%) Chatbot
2 1 (3.57%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 10 (35.71%) Azure
2 6 (21.43%) AWS
3 2 (7.14%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (3.57%) Azure Cognitive Services
4 1 (3.57%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (3.57%) Azure Machine Learning
4 1 (3.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (3.57%) ChatGPT
4 1 (3.57%) GCP
4 1 (3.57%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.14%) LAN
1 2 (7.14%) WAN
2 1 (3.57%) Network Security
2 1 (3.57%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.14%) Big Data
1 2 (7.14%) Qlik Sense
1 2 (7.14%) Tableau
2 1 (3.57%) Data Hub
2 1 (3.57%) Data Lake
2 1 (3.57%) Data Mining
2 1 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (3.57%) Hadoop
2 1 (3.57%) HDInsight
2 1 (3.57%) NoSQL
2 1 (3.57%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (10.71%) Git
2 1 (3.57%) CMake
2 1 (3.57%) JIRA
2 1 (3.57%) MLflow
General
1 12 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 7 (25.00%) Finance
3 6 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (17.86%) Electronics
5 2 (7.14%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (7.14%) Legal
6 1 (3.57%) Military
6 1 (3.57%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (3.57%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (17.86%) Architect
1 5 (17.86%) Developer
1 5 (17.86%) Machine Learning Engineer
2 4 (14.29%) Python Engineer
3 3 (10.71%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
3 3 (10.71%) Azure Architect
3 3 (10.71%) Software Developer
4 2 (7.14%) Analytics Manager
4 2 (7.14%) Android Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
4 2 (7.14%) C++ Android Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Cloud Architect
4 2 (7.14%) Computer Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Computer Vision Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Data Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Graphics Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Security Architect
4 2 (7.14%) Senior
4 2 (7.14%) Technical Architect
5 1 (3.57%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (28.57%) PyTorch
1 8 (28.57%) TensorFlow
2 4 (14.29%) DirectX
2 4 (14.29%) OpenGL
2 4 (14.29%) OpenGL ES
2 4 (14.29%) Vulkan
3 2 (7.14%) Kafka
3 2 (7.14%) Middleware
3 2 (7.14%) PySpark
3 2 (7.14%) scikit-learn
3 2 (7.14%) Unity (Game Engine)
4 1 (3.57%) CNTK
4 1 (3.57%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (3.57%) Google JAX
4 1 (3.57%) GraphQL
4 1 (3.57%) Hugging Face
4 1 (3.57%) LangChain
4 1 (3.57%) OpenVINO
4 1 (3.57%) Prisma
4 1 (3.57%) React
Miscellaneous
1 6 (21.43%) Algorithms
2 3 (10.71%) Photography
3 2 (7.14%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (7.14%) Animation
3 2 (7.14%) Augmented Reality
3 2 (7.14%) Mixed Reality
3 2 (7.14%) Public Cloud
4 1 (3.57%) Biopharmaceutical
4 1 (3.57%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.57%) Data Structures
4 1 (3.57%) Digital Media
4 1 (3.57%) GNSS
4 1 (3.57%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (3.57%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 7 (25.00%) Android
2 4 (14.29%) Linux
3 3 (10.71%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (67.86%) Artificial Intelligence
2 10 (35.71%) Analytics
3 9 (32.14%) Data Science
3 9 (32.14%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (28.57%) Computer Science
5 7 (25.00%) Deep Learning
6 6 (21.43%) Agile
7 5 (17.86%) Natural Language Processing
7 5 (17.86%) Visualisation
8 4 (14.29%) Data Visualisation
8 4 (14.29%) Decision-Making
8 4 (14.29%) DevOps
9 3 (10.71%) Android Development
9 3 (10.71%) Chat Support
9 3 (10.71%) CI/CD
9 3 (10.71%) Computer Vision
9 3 (10.71%) Conversational UI
9 3 (10.71%) Customer Service
9 3 (10.71%) Data Engineering
9 3 (10.71%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 14 (50.00%) Python
2 10 (35.71%) C++
3 7 (25.00%) Java
4 5 (17.86%) SQL
5 3 (10.71%) C#
5 3 (10.71%) Kotlin
6 2 (7.14%) C
6 2 (7.14%) GLSL
6 2 (7.14%) HLSL
6 2 (7.14%) R
7 1 (3.57%) Bash
7 1 (3.57%) JavaScript
7 1 (3.57%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (3.57%) PowerShell
7 1 (3.57%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 8 (28.57%) Degree
2 7 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (17.86%) Master's Degree
4 2 (7.14%) PhD
5 1 (3.57%) Azure Certification
5 1 (3.57%) SC Cleared
5 1 (3.57%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.71%) GDPR
2 2 (7.14%) QA
3 1 (3.57%) Data Quality
3 1 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (3.57%) NIST
Systems Management
1 2 (7.14%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.57%) Ansible
2 1 (3.57%) Prometheus
2 1 (3.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (10.71%) Databricks
1 3 (10.71%) OpenAI
2 1 (3.57%) Microsoft