Machine Learning Contracts in the South West

Machine Learning (ML)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 75 139 99
Rank change year-on-year +64 -40 +46
Contract jobs citing Machine Learning 36 17 58
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 2.10% 0.52% 1.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.31% 0.64% 1.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 6 50
10th Percentile £508 £456 £424
25th Percentile £550 £478 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £640 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year +13.78% +2.27% +1.85%
75th Percentile £873 £634 £625
90th Percentile £900 £700 £728
England median daily rate £575 £588 £600
% change year-on-year -2.13% -2.08% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £27.00 - -
25th Percentile £35.61 - £52.50
Median hourly rate £50.60 - £55.00
75th Percentile £64.96 - £57.50
90th Percentile £73.21 - -
England median hourly rate £77.50 £52.50 £37.75
% change year-on-year +47.62% +39.07% -16.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,557 2,668 3,037
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 90.84% 82.32% 89.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 948 1,694 2,209
10th Percentile £220 £227 £313
25th Percentile £381 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £549
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -4.37% +9.80%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £650
90th Percentile £688 £700 £725
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 161 358 318
10th Percentile £18.13 £13.86 £9.80
25th Percentile £18.87 £29.75 £15.29
Median hourly rate £36.00 £55.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.55% -8.33% +27.66%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.23
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £82.74
England median hourly rate £28.53 £37.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -23.93% - +50.00%

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 31 May 2025.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Machine Learning in the South West over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Machine Learning in the South West

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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 31 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
Somerset +17 15 £865 +44.17% 13
Bristol +23 8 £545 +6.34% 62
Dorset +12 8 £550 -12.00% 9
Gloucestershire - 3 £668 - 34
Wiltshire +33 2 - - 6
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 (5.56%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.78%) Apache
2 1 (2.78%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Chatbot
1 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.78%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 8 (22.22%) AWS
2 4 (11.11%) Azure
3 3 (8.33%) Amazon S3
3 3 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (8.33%) Serverless
4 2 (5.56%) GCP
5 1 (2.78%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.78%) Dialogflow
5 1 (2.78%) Google Ads
5 1 (2.78%) Power Automate
5 1 (2.78%) Power Platform
5 1 (2.78%) PowerApps
5 1 (2.78%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.56%) LTE
2 1 (2.78%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (11.11%) Hadoop
1 4 (11.11%) Metadata
2 3 (8.33%) Big Data
3 2 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (5.56%) Redis
4 1 (2.78%) BigQuery
4 1 (2.78%) Data Mining
4 1 (2.78%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (2.78%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Git
General
1 11 (30.56%) Social Skills
2 10 (27.78%) Public Sector
3 4 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (11.11%) Influencing Skills
4 3 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (8.33%) Marketing
5 2 (5.56%) Electronics
5 2 (5.56%) Finance
5 2 (5.56%) Manufacturing
5 2 (5.56%) Telecoms
6 1 (2.78%) Advertising
6 1 (2.78%) Military
6 1 (2.78%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (27.78%) Senior
2 7 (19.44%) Lead
3 5 (13.89%) Developer
3 5 (13.89%) Head of AI
3 5 (13.89%) Head of Data Science
3 5 (13.89%) Lecturer
4 4 (11.11%) Data Scientist
5 3 (8.33%) Architect
5 3 (8.33%) Backend Developer
5 3 (8.33%) Software Developer
6 2 (5.56%) Analyst
6 2 (5.56%) Chief Architect
6 2 (5.56%) Data Analyst
7 1 (2.78%) Business Analyst
7 1 (2.78%) Data Business Analyst
7 1 (2.78%) Machine Learning Engineer
7 1 (2.78%) Senior Developer
7 1 (2.78%) Senior ServiceNow Developer
7 1 (2.78%) ServiceNow Developer
7 1 (2.78%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (11.11%) CSS
1 4 (11.11%) HTML
1 4 (11.11%) Node.js
2 3 (8.33%) AngularJS
2 3 (8.33%) jQuery
2 3 (8.33%) PyTorch
2 3 (8.33%) RESTful
3 2 (5.56%) Hugging Face
4 1 (2.78%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (2.78%) Django
4 1 (2.78%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (2.78%) Kafka
4 1 (2.78%) OpenCV
4 1 (2.78%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 7 (19.44%) Algorithms
2 5 (13.89%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.78%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (83.33%) Artificial Intelligence
2 12 (33.33%) Agile
3 11 (30.56%) Data Science
4 6 (16.67%) Data Analysis
4 6 (16.67%) Data Governance
4 6 (16.67%) Data Management
4 6 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (13.89%) Budget Management
5 5 (13.89%) Computer Science
5 5 (13.89%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (13.89%) Data Governance Strategy
5 5 (13.89%) Project Management
5 5 (13.89%) Software Engineering
5 5 (13.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 5 (13.89%) Supplier Management
6 4 (11.11%) Business Case
6 4 (11.11%) CI/CD
6 4 (11.11%) Containerisation
6 4 (11.11%) Regulatory Compliance
6 4 (11.11%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 15 (41.67%) Python
2 3 (8.33%) JavaScript
2 3 (8.33%) R
2 3 (8.33%) SQL
3 2 (5.56%) C++
3 2 (5.56%) Java
4 1 (2.78%) Bash
4 1 (2.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 16 (44.44%) Security Cleared
2 11 (30.56%) SC Cleared
3 9 (25.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.89%) Data Quality
2 3 (8.33%) QA
3 1 (2.78%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (2.78%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (11.11%) Ansible
1 4 (11.11%) Kubernetes
1 4 (11.11%) Terraform
2 3 (8.33%) Grafana
3 1 (2.78%) Kibana
3 1 (2.78%) logstash
3 1 (2.78%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (8.33%) Microsoft
1 3 (8.33%) ServiceNow
2 2 (5.56%) NVIDIA
2 2 (5.56%) SAP
3 1 (2.78%) Apple
3 1 (2.78%) Criteo
3 1 (2.78%) Databricks
3 1 (2.78%) Google
3 1 (2.78%) Oracle