Machine Learning Contracts in the South West

Machine Learning (ML)
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 138 107 152
Rank change year-on-year -31 +45 -57
Contract jobs citing Machine Learning 12 64 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.38% 1.80% 0.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.45% 2.01% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 54 16
10th Percentile £465 £421 £347
25th Percentile £488 £475 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year - +1.85% -10.00%
75th Percentile £613 £669 £625
90th Percentile £635 £700 £631
England median daily rate £584 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -2.71% - +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £52.50 -
England median hourly rate £52.50 £35.00 £41.25
% change year-on-year +50.00% -15.15% -2.94%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,638 3,178 3,274
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 83.17% 89.57% 88.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,681 2,329 2,324
10th Percentile £220 £313 £300
25th Percentile £405 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +5.82%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £590
90th Percentile £700 £723 £670
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 336 329 194
10th Percentile £13.86 £9.80 £15.90
25th Percentile £29.19 £15.44 £20.37
Median hourly rate £55.00 £60.00 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +23.08% +12.06%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £83.40 £69.95
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.34 £24.30
% change year-on-year -2.25% +53.69% +3.38%

Machine Learning
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Machine Learning in the South West

Machine Learning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Machine Learning in the South West

Machine Learning
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Machine Learning in the South West over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Machine Learning in the South West

Machine Learning
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Machine Learning in the South West

Machine Learning
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 8 May 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
Bristol +14 7 £450 -18.18% 32
Wiltshire -23 3 - - 2
Dorset +5 1 £550 - 5
Somerset -3 1 £600 +33.33% 3
Machine Learning
England

Machine Learning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 2 (16.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 6 (50.00%) GCP
2 4 (33.33%) OCI
3 2 (16.67%) AWS
3 2 (16.67%) Azure
3 2 (16.67%) OpenShift
3 2 (16.67%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (33.33%) Data Lake
1 4 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (33.33%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Bitbucket
1 2 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 1 (8.33%) Marketing
1 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Data Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Architect
2 2 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
2 2 (16.67%) Automation Architect
2 2 (16.67%) Data Scientist
2 2 (16.67%) Office Automation Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Analytics Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Computer Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Computer Vision Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (33.33%) OpenID
1 4 (33.33%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (16.67%) .NET
2 2 (16.67%) .NET Framework
2 2 (16.67%) ModSecurity
3 1 (8.33%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Algorithms
1 4 (33.33%) Blockchain
2 2 (16.67%) PKI
2 2 (16.67%) Product Ownership
2 2 (16.67%) Public Cloud
2 2 (16.67%) Security Posture
3 1 (8.33%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (75.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 4 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 4 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (33.33%) Data Science
2 4 (33.33%) Domain-Driven Design
2 4 (33.33%) Event-Driven
2 4 (33.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 4 (33.33%) Microservices
2 4 (33.33%) Zero Trust
3 2 (16.67%) Business Strategy
3 2 (16.67%) CI/CD
3 2 (16.67%) DevSecOps
3 2 (16.67%) GitOps
3 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Automation
3 2 (16.67%) IT Strategy
3 2 (16.67%) LLM
3 2 (16.67%) NsoIT
3 2 (16.67%) Office Automation
3 2 (16.67%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 4 (33.33%) Python
2 2 (16.67%) PowerShell
3 1 (8.33%) C
3 1 (8.33%) C++
3 1 (8.33%) R
3 1 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) Degree
1 4 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 4 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 2 (16.67%) Master's Degree
3 1 (8.33%) DV Cleared
3 1 (8.33%) Numerate Degree
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) Docker
1 2 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (16.67%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) Ansible
1 2 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 2 (16.67%) OPNET
1 2 (16.67%) PowerCLI
1 2 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) Oracle
2 2 (16.67%) Atlassian
2 2 (16.67%) Cisco
2 2 (16.67%) Google
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (16.67%) VMware