Machine Learning Contracts in South Wales

Machine Learning (ML)
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Wales 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 24 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 - 51
Rank change year-on-year - - +19
Contract jobs citing Machine Learning 14 0 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 5.88% - 0.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.45% - 0.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile £553 - £350
25th Percentile £556 - £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - £463
Median % change year-on-year - - -24.49%
75th Percentile £588 - £525
90th Percentile - - £555
Wales median daily rate £575 - £463
% change year-on-year - - -24.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
Median hourly rate £45.00 - -
Wales median hourly rate £45.00 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Wales

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 South Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 217 263 393
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 91.18% 75.14% 88.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 151 172 300
10th Percentile £190 £143 £190
25th Percentile £289 £261 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £488 £553 £588
90th Percentile £625 £625 £650
Wales median daily rate £400 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -17.95% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 30 25
10th Percentile £12.99 £11.69 £16.52
25th Percentile £14.23 £15.48 £16.98
Median hourly rate £16.00 £20.24 £19.49
Median % change year-on-year -20.93% +3.82% -3.71%
75th Percentile £28.13 £49.50 £23.75
90th Percentile £45.00 £86.18 £49.50
Wales median hourly rate £22.50 £20.24 £18.82
% change year-on-year +11.19% +7.55% -6.49%

Machine Learning
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Machine Learning in South Wales

Machine Learning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Daily rate trend for Machine Learning in South Wales

Machine Learning
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Hourly rate trend for Machine Learning in South Wales

Machine Learning
Contract Job Locations in South Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 24 June 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
Newport - 10 - - 10
Cardiff - 4 £575 - 22
Machine Learning
Wales

Machine Learning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales 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 (7.14%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 4 (28.57%) Azure
2 3 (21.43%) Azure Machine Learning
2 3 (21.43%) GCP
3 2 (14.29%) AWS
4 1 (7.14%) GitHub
4 1 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (14.29%) Firewall
1 2 (14.29%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Artifactory
1 1 (7.14%) Git
General
1 4 (28.57%) Organisational Skills
2 3 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (21.43%) Presentation Skills
2 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
3 2 (14.29%) Marketing
4 1 (7.14%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 7 (50.00%) Senior
2 6 (42.86%) Research Scientist
3 2 (14.29%) Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Data Scientist
4 1 (7.14%) Machine Learning Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Machine Learning Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Python Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Python Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Security Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) PyTorch
1 2 (14.29%) RESTful
1 2 (14.29%) scikit-learn
1 2 (14.29%) TensorFlow
2 1 (7.14%) Anaconda
2 1 (7.14%) Express.js
2 1 (7.14%) NestJS
2 1 (7.14%) Node.js
2 1 (7.14%) NumPy
2 1 (7.14%) Pandas
2 1 (7.14%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 10 (71.43%) Algorithms
2 3 (21.43%) Blog
3 2 (14.29%) Cyberattack
3 2 (14.29%) Onboarding
3 2 (14.29%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (7.14%) Cloud Native
4 1 (7.14%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Linux
1 1 (7.14%) VMS
1 1 (7.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (92.86%) Artificial Intelligence
2 10 (71.43%) Cybersecurity
3 8 (57.14%) Roadmaps
4 6 (42.86%) Knowledge Transfer
5 5 (35.71%) Data Science
6 4 (28.57%) Analytics
6 4 (28.57%) Data Analytics
7 2 (14.29%) Cloud Security
7 2 (14.29%) Computer Science
7 2 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (14.29%) SDLC
7 2 (14.29%) Security Operations
8 1 (7.14%) CI/CD
8 1 (7.14%) Containerisation
8 1 (7.14%) Customer Experience
8 1 (7.14%) Data Munging
8 1 (7.14%) Deep Learning
8 1 (7.14%) Feature Engineering
8 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure as Code
8 1 (7.14%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (57.14%) Python
2 5 (35.71%) Rust
3 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
3 1 (7.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (64.29%) Degree
2 5 (35.71%) Master's Degree
2 5 (35.71%) PhD
3 4 (28.57%) Postgraduate
4 3 (21.43%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (14.29%) CCNA
5 2 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Docker
1 1 (7.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes
1 1 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) Cisco
1 2 (14.29%) Google
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft