Machine Learning Contracts in South Yorkshire

Machine Learning (ML)
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Yorkshire 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 25 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 53 37
Rank change year-on-year -13 -16 +25
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Machine Learning 8 9 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 1.26% 1.95% 3.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.32% 2.26% 3.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 6 11
10th Percentile £433 £477 -
25th Percentile £453 £556 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £570 £400
Median % change year-on-year -14.91% +42.50% -18.28%
75th Percentile £518 £670 £556
90th Percentile £533 £719 £587
Yorkshire median daily rate £488 £557 £450
% change year-on-year -12.48% +23.78% -16.28%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 605 399 415
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 94.98% 86.36% 92.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 400 214 266
10th Percentile £295 £330 £363
25th Percentile £369 £425 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £515 £597
Median % change year-on-year -8.93% -13.66% +19.30%
75th Percentile £545 £588 £688
90th Percentile £625 £645 £745
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 15 6
10th Percentile £15.00 - £14.63
25th Percentile £17.33 £12.55 £18.31
Median hourly rate £18.36 £12.83 £20.25
Median % change year-on-year +43.08% -36.64% +25.58%
75th Percentile £18.87 £20.75 £29.13
90th Percentile - £21.80 £40.63
Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.14 £13.87 £20.00
% change year-on-year +59.63% -30.65% +6.95%

Machine Learning
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Machine Learning in South Yorkshire

Machine Learning
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Machine Learning.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Machine Learning

Machine Learning
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 25 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Sheffield -14 8 £485 -14.91% 16
Machine Learning
Yorkshire

Machine Learning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 (25.00%) Apache
1 2 (25.00%) Apache Pig
1 2 (25.00%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) Azure
1 4 (50.00%) Azure AKS
1 4 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (25.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) Data Mining
1 4 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (25.00%) Apache Hive
2 2 (25.00%) Hadoop
2 2 (25.00%) OLTP
2 2 (25.00%) Power BI
3 1 (12.50%) Metadata
General
1 3 (37.50%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Banking
2 1 (12.50%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Data Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Data Scientist
4 1 (12.50%) Machine Learning Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) Hugging Face
1 4 (50.00%) OpenCV
1 4 (50.00%) PyTorch
1 4 (50.00%) Regular Expression
1 4 (50.00%) SpaCy
1 4 (50.00%) TensorFlow
2 2 (25.00%) Middleware
2 2 (25.00%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Algorithms
1 4 (50.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Agile
1 4 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) Data Collection
1 4 (50.00%) Deep Learning
1 4 (50.00%) DevOps
1 4 (50.00%) Generative AI
1 4 (50.00%) Image Processing
1 4 (50.00%) KYC
1 4 (50.00%) Natural Language Processing
1 4 (50.00%) OCR
1 4 (50.00%) Open Source
2 3 (37.50%) Client Onboarding
2 3 (37.50%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (37.50%) Data Science
2 3 (37.50%) Storage Management
3 2 (25.00%) Data Munging
3 2 (25.00%) Decision-Making
3 2 (25.00%) Linear Algebra
3 2 (25.00%) Naive Bayes
3 2 (25.00%) Support Vector Machines
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) Python
2 4 (50.00%) Java
2 4 (50.00%) Scala
3 2 (25.00%) SQL
System Software
1 5 (62.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 2 (25.00%) Splunk