Machine Learning Contracts in the Thames Valley

Machine Learning (ML)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 134 121
Rank change year-on-year +67 -13 +19
Contract jobs citing Machine Learning 35 11 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 2.32% 0.41% 1.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.49% 0.47% 1.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 8 23
10th Percentile £377 £328 £356
25th Percentile £438 £409 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £485 £550
Median % change year-on-year +6.96% -11.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £589 £547 £613
90th Percentile £600 £706 £667
South East median daily rate £575 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,403 2,340 2,682
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 92.85% 87.12% 91.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 851 1,306 1,860
10th Percentile £300 £213 £320
25th Percentile £413 £369 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.26%
75th Percentile £605 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 170 62
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.30 £18.60
25th Percentile £14.54 £19.48 £24.86
Median hourly rate £32.05 £45.00 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year -28.78% -12.20% +192.86%
75th Percentile £62.44 £64.57 £66.21
90th Percentile £78.03 £85.65 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

Machine Learning
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Machine Learning in the Thames Valley

Machine Learning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Machine Learning in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Machine Learning in the Thames Valley

Machine Learning
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Machine Learning in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Machine Learning in the Thames Valley

Machine Learning
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Machine Learning in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Machine Learning in the Thames Valley

Machine Learning
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 1 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
Berkshire +50 27 £563 +21.62% 65
Buckinghamshire +22 8 £506 -27.68% 144
Machine Learning
South East

Machine Learning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 10 (28.57%) Apache Spark
2 5 (14.29%) Apache
3 1 (2.86%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (2.86%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 18 (51.43%) Azure
2 7 (20.00%) Azure Machine Learning
3 6 (17.14%) AWS
4 4 (11.43%) GCP
4 4 (11.43%) Microsoft Copilot
5 3 (8.57%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (8.57%) Power Platform
6 2 (5.71%) Azure AKS
6 2 (5.71%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (5.71%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (5.71%) Power Automate
7 1 (2.86%) Azure AI
7 1 (2.86%) Azure Cognitive Services
7 1 (2.86%) Azure Functions
7 1 (2.86%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (2.86%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (2.86%) Azure Storage
7 1 (2.86%) Figma
7 1 (2.86%) Serverless
7 1 (2.86%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (20.00%) Big Data
2 5 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (11.43%) Hadoop
4 3 (8.57%) Power BI
5 2 (5.71%) Data Lake
5 2 (5.71%) Relational Database
6 1 (2.86%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (2.86%) Apache Hive
6 1 (2.86%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (2.86%) HBase
6 1 (2.86%) HDInsight
6 1 (2.86%) Impala
6 1 (2.86%) Metadata
6 1 (2.86%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (11.43%) Git
2 1 (2.86%) CMake
2 1 (2.86%) ERwin
2 1 (2.86%) GitLab
2 1 (2.86%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.86%) JIRA
General
1 14 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (14.29%) Telecoms
3 3 (8.57%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.71%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.86%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (31.43%) Architect
2 6 (17.14%) Consultant
3 5 (14.29%) Data Architect
3 5 (14.29%) Data Engineer
4 4 (11.43%) Data Scientist
4 4 (11.43%) Developer
5 3 (8.57%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) Telecoms Architect
6 2 (5.71%) Azure Architect
6 2 (5.71%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Data Consultant
6 2 (5.71%) ITSM Consultant
6 2 (5.71%) Senior
7 1 (2.86%) C# Developer
7 1 (2.86%) Enterprise Architect
7 1 (2.86%) JavaScript Developer
7 1 (2.86%) Python Developer
7 1 (2.86%) SAP Architect
7 1 (2.86%) Solutions Architect
7 1 (2.86%) Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (11.43%) PySpark
1 4 (11.43%) scikit-learn
1 4 (11.43%) TensorFlow
2 3 (8.57%) PyTorch
3 2 (5.71%) .NET
3 2 (5.71%) CSS
3 2 (5.71%) HTML
3 2 (5.71%) Kafka
3 2 (5.71%) NumPy
3 2 (5.71%) Pandas
4 1 (2.86%) ARM Templates
4 1 (2.86%) CNTK
4 1 (2.86%) FHIR
4 1 (2.86%) Hugging Face
4 1 (2.86%) Middleware
4 1 (2.86%) OpenVINO
4 1 (2.86%) Prophet
4 1 (2.86%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.43%) Algorithms
1 4 (11.43%) Data Structures
2 2 (5.71%) Distributed Computing
2 2 (5.71%) IoT
2 2 (5.71%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.86%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (2.86%) Cyberattack
3 1 (2.86%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.86%) NHS
3 1 (2.86%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.86%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.86%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (2.86%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.71%) Linux
1 2 (5.71%) Windows
2 1 (2.86%) Android
2 1 (2.86%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (68.57%) Artificial Intelligence
2 11 (31.43%) Data Engineering
3 10 (28.57%) LLM
4 9 (25.71%) Data Governance
5 8 (22.86%) Data Science
6 7 (20.00%) Analytics
7 6 (17.14%) Agile
7 6 (17.14%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (17.14%) Roadmaps
8 5 (14.29%) ETL
9 4 (11.43%) Architectural Patterns
9 4 (11.43%) Business Intelligence
9 4 (11.43%) Continuous Improvement
9 4 (11.43%) Decision-Making
9 4 (11.43%) Generative AI
9 4 (11.43%) MLOps
9 4 (11.43%) Visualisation
10 3 (8.57%) Actionable Insight
10 3 (8.57%) CI/CD
10 3 (8.57%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 14 (40.00%) Python
2 7 (20.00%) SQL
3 6 (17.14%) JavaScript
4 4 (11.43%) TypeScript
5 3 (8.57%) C#
6 2 (5.71%) R
7 1 (2.86%) C++
7 1 (2.86%) Perl
Qualifications
1 3 (8.57%) Degree
1 3 (8.57%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.71%) Azure Certification
2 2 (5.71%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.86%) CISA
3 1 (2.86%) CISM
3 1 (2.86%) CISSP
3 1 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.86%) DV Cleared
3 1 (2.86%) GCIA
3 1 (2.86%) GCIH
3 1 (2.86%) GIAC
3 1 (2.86%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
3 1 (2.86%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (2.86%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (14.29%) Data Quality
2 2 (5.71%) GDPR
2 2 (5.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.86%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (2.86%) NIST
3 1 (2.86%) NIST 800
3 1 (2.86%) PCI DSS
3 1 (2.86%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 2 (5.71%) Docker
2 1 (2.86%) Apache Flume
2 1 (2.86%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (5.71%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.86%) QRadar
Vendors
1 7 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (11.43%) Foundry
2 4 (11.43%) Google
2 4 (11.43%) Palantir
3 3 (8.57%) OpenAI
4 2 (5.71%) Databricks
5 1 (2.86%) Alteryx
5 1 (2.86%) BMC
5 1 (2.86%) SAP
5 1 (2.86%) Splunk
5 1 (2.86%) StreamSets
5 1 (2.86%) Virgin Media