Machine Learning Contract Job Trends in Swindon

Machine Learning (ML)
Wiltshire > Swindon

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Swindon requiring Machine Learning skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 19 22
Rank change year-on-year -5 +3 +5
Contract jobs citing Machine Learning 2 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in Swindon 1.12% 1.04% 0.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.34% 1.14% 0.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
Wiltshire median daily rate £500 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Swindon

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 Swindon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 149 88 109
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Swindon 83.24% 91.67% 78.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 57 63
10th Percentile £305 £252 £200
25th Percentile £366 £313 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £550
90th Percentile £725 £617 £600
Wiltshire median daily rate £525 £563 £544
% change year-on-year -6.67% +3.45% -5.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 9
10th Percentile £21.20 - -
25th Percentile £30.36 - £12.00
Median hourly rate £47.00 - £16.50
75th Percentile £49.13 - £30.25
90th Percentile £49.75 - -
Wiltshire median hourly rate £25.15 £25.08 £14.54
% change year-on-year +0.30% +72.46% -80.61%

Machine Learning
Job Vacancy Trend in Swindon

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Machine Learning relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Swindon.

Machine Learning job vacancy trend in Swindon

Machine Learning
Daily Rate Trend in Swindon

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Swindon citing Machine Learning

Machine Learning
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Swindon by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Power Automate
1 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (50.00%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Big Data
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI
1 1 (50.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) MLflow
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Digital Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Keras
1 1 (50.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (50.00%) React
1 1 (50.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) AI
1 1 (50.00%) Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (50.00%) Complex ETL
1 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (50.00%) Data Cleansing
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
1 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (50.00%) Deep Learning
1 1 (50.00%) Digital Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) ETL
1 1 (50.00%) Feature Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Feature Extraction
1 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (50.00%) LLM
1 1 (50.00%) MLOps
1 1 (50.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Databricks