Machine Learning Contract Job Trends in Tyne and Wear

Machine Learning (ML)
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear requiring Machine Learning skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 46 30 -
Rank change year-on-year -16 - -
Contract jobs citing Machine Learning 2 8 0
As % of all contract jobs in Tyne and Wear 0.59% 3.72% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.66% 4.04% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 0
10th Percentile £388 - -
25th Percentile £444 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £358 -
Median % change year-on-year +60.61% - -
75th Percentile £694 £374 -
90th Percentile £743 £384 -
North East median daily rate £575 £433 -
% change year-on-year +32.95% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 305 198 157
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 90.24% 92.09% 85.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 214 104 108
10th Percentile £177 £302 £210
25th Percentile £363 £350 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £444 £452 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.88% -4.84% -13.64%
75th Percentile £525 £588 £585
90th Percentile £586 £650 £720
North East median daily rate £450 £481 £450
% change year-on-year -6.49% +6.94% -18.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 14 3
10th Percentile £14.13 £13.75 £15.65
25th Percentile £16.88 £14.83 £15.88
Median hourly rate £27.63 £16.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +72.66% -8.57% -22.22%
75th Percentile £53.75 £19.25 £18.75
90th Percentile £54.38 £19.93 -
North East median hourly rate £28.91 £18.75 £17.50
% change year-on-year +54.19% +7.14% -22.22%

Machine Learning
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

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

Machine Learning job vacancy trend in Tyne and Wear

Machine Learning
Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Machine Learning.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Machine Learning

Machine Learning
Daily Rate Histogram in Tyne and Wear

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Machine Learning in Tyne and Wear over the 6 months to 17 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Machine Learning in Tyne and Wear

Machine Learning
Contract Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 17 December 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
Newcastle upon Tyne -18 2 £575 +60.61% 23
Machine Learning
North East

Machine Learning
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (100.00%) Serverless
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon SageMaker
2 1 (50.00%) AWS CodePipeline
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Fargate
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (50.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (50.00%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Lead DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Python Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Python Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) AWS CDK
1 1 (50.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (50.00%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) AIOps
2 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Data Munging
2 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) Data Science
2 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) MLOps
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Go
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) Grafana
2 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Blue Prism
1 1 (50.00%) UiPath