Machine Learning Contracts in the UK excluding London

Machine Learning (ML)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Machine Learning skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Machine Learning over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 224 230 274
Rank change year-on-year +6 +44 -59
Contract jobs citing Machine Learning 172 244 275
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.84% 1.02% 0.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.99% 1.14% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 173 173
10th Percentile £362 £425 £400
25th Percentile £435 £475 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +9.45%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £669
90th Percentile £700 £735 £763
UK median daily rate £575 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 13 4
10th Percentile £47.19 £20.43 £24.73
25th Percentile £51.25 £22.16 £29.56
Median hourly rate £60.00 £35.00 £46.75
Median % change year-on-year +71.43% -25.13% -6.50%
75th Percentile £66.25 £52.50 £61.50
90th Percentile £70.35 £53.75 -
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £35.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year +50.00% -6.67% -13.44%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Machine Learning is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,415 21,396 27,488
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.71% 89.54% 88.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,404 14,848 19,199
10th Percentile £250 £256 £233
25th Percentile £375 £400 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £689 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,049 1,314 1,359
10th Percentile £12.30 £11.00 £12.17
25th Percentile £15.23 £15.63 £14.04
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £46.21
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.74 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.95 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.14% +44.00% +2.04%

Machine Learning
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Machine Learning as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Machine Learning in the UK excluding London

Machine Learning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Machine Learning in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Machine Learning in the UK excluding London

Machine Learning
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Machine Learning in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Machine Learning in the UK excluding London

Machine Learning
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Machine Learning in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Machine Learning in the UK excluding London

Machine Learning
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Machine Learning in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Machine Learning in the UK excluding London

Machine Learning
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 4 May 2024. 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
North of England +23 46 £550 -6.38% 78
Scotland +51 40 £463 -3.44% 26
Midlands +44 27 £580 +16.00% 42
South East -17 27 £600 +4.35% 138
North West +10 24 £525 -10.64% 48
East of England +15 23 £425 -29.17% 106
West Midlands +36 22 £580 +16.00% 27
Yorkshire +22 16 £554 -9.55% 24
South West -33 11 £550 - 57
North East +26 8 - - 7
East Midlands +27 5 £675 +58.82% 15
Machine Learning
UK

Machine Learning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 9 (5.23%) Apache Spark
2 4 (2.33%) Apache
2 4 (2.33%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.74%) Confluence
4 1 (0.58%) GeoServer
4 1 (0.58%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.58%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.58%) Simulink
2 1 (0.58%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.58%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 50 (29.07%) Azure
2 46 (26.74%) AWS
3 19 (11.05%) GCP
4 17 (9.88%) Serverless
5 14 (8.14%) AWS Lambda
6 12 (6.98%) AWS CloudFormation
6 12 (6.98%) Power Platform
7 11 (6.40%) Amazon SageMaker
8 10 (5.81%) Amazon S3
9 8 (4.65%) Cloud Computing
9 8 (4.65%) OpenShift
10 6 (3.49%) Azure Data Factory
10 6 (3.49%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (2.33%) OCI
11 4 (2.33%) Rekognition
11 4 (2.33%) Textract
12 3 (1.74%) AWS CodePipeline
12 3 (1.74%) Azure Machine Learning
12 3 (1.74%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 3 (1.74%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.33%) LAN
1 4 (2.33%) WAN
2 2 (1.16%) SSL
2 2 (1.16%) Wireless
3 1 (0.58%) DVB
3 1 (0.58%) HTTP
3 1 (0.58%) Network Security
3 1 (0.58%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (12.21%) Data Warehouse
2 16 (9.30%) Big Data
3 14 (8.14%) NoSQL
4 13 (7.56%) PostgreSQL
5 12 (6.98%) Data Lake
5 12 (6.98%) Power BI
6 10 (5.81%) Tableau
7 8 (4.65%) Data Mining
8 7 (4.07%) Amazon Aurora
8 7 (4.07%) Hadoop
8 7 (4.07%) Relational Database
9 4 (2.33%) BigQuery
10 3 (1.74%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (1.74%) Apache Hive
10 3 (1.74%) Bigtable
10 3 (1.74%) Cloud Spanner
11 2 (1.16%) Amazon Athena
11 2 (1.16%) GIS
11 2 (1.16%) RDBMS
11 2 (1.16%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 21 (12.21%) Git
2 7 (4.07%) Jenkins
2 7 (4.07%) Mercurial
3 6 (3.49%) JIRA
4 3 (1.74%) GitLab
5 2 (1.16%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.16%) Cypress.io
5 2 (1.16%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.58%) CMake
6 1 (0.58%) MLflow
General
1 28 (16.28%) Social Skills
2 26 (15.12%) Finance
3 14 (8.14%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (6.40%) Public Sector
5 10 (5.81%) Electronics
5 10 (5.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (5.23%) Multimedia
7 6 (3.49%) Banking
8 4 (2.33%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (2.33%) Legal
8 4 (2.33%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.74%) Marketing
9 3 (1.74%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (1.74%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.16%) Publishing
10 2 (1.16%) Retail
11 1 (0.58%) Back Office
11 1 (0.58%) Military
11 1 (0.58%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.58%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 32 (18.60%) Developer
2 26 (15.12%) Architect
3 16 (9.30%) Machine Learning Engineer
4 15 (8.72%) Data Engineer
5 14 (8.14%) Data Scientist
6 13 (7.56%) Software Engineer
7 10 (5.81%) Lead
8 9 (5.23%) Analyst
8 9 (5.23%) Azure Architect
8 9 (5.23%) Data Architect
8 9 (5.23%) Senior
9 8 (4.65%) Azure Developer
9 8 (4.65%) Full Stack Engineer
10 7 (4.07%) Python Engineer
11 6 (3.49%) AWS Engineer
11 6 (3.49%) Data Analyst
11 6 (3.49%) Java Developer
11 6 (3.49%) Java Engineer
11 6 (3.49%) Splunk Engineer
12 5 (2.91%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (9.88%) TensorFlow
2 16 (9.30%) PyTorch
3 15 (8.72%) REST
3 15 (8.72%) Spring
4 12 (6.98%) AngularJS
5 11 (6.40%) CSS
5 11 (6.40%) HTML
5 11 (6.40%) React
6 10 (5.81%) AWS CDK
6 10 (5.81%) JPA
6 10 (5.81%) Spring Boot
7 9 (5.23%) NumPy
7 9 (5.23%) Pandas
8 7 (4.07%) SciPy
9 5 (2.91%) Kafka
9 5 (2.91%) PySpark
10 4 (2.33%) OpenGL ES
10 4 (2.33%) OpenID
10 4 (2.33%) PostGIS
10 4 (2.33%) Vulkan
Miscellaneous
1 21 (12.21%) Algorithms
2 17 (9.88%) Public Cloud
3 6 (3.49%) Onboarding
4 5 (2.91%) Cloud Native
4 5 (2.91%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (2.91%) Data Structures
4 5 (2.91%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (2.91%) Product Ownership
4 5 (2.91%) Social Media
5 4 (2.33%) Blockchain
5 4 (2.33%) Distributed Computing
5 4 (2.33%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (2.33%) Industry 4.0
5 4 (2.33%) Taxonomies
6 3 (1.74%) Photography
7 2 (1.16%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.16%) Animation
7 2 (1.16%) Augmented Reality
7 2 (1.16%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.16%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 12 (6.98%) Windows
2 9 (5.23%) Linux
3 7 (4.07%) Android
4 1 (0.58%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (0.58%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (52.91%) Artificial Intelligence
2 47 (27.33%) Analytics
3 46 (26.74%) Agile
4 43 (25.00%) Software Engineering
5 41 (23.84%) DevOps
6 39 (22.67%) Data Science
7 29 (16.86%) Decision-Making
8 27 (15.70%) Data Modelling
9 26 (15.12%) CI/CD
9 26 (15.12%) Computer Science
10 25 (14.53%) Visualisation
11 23 (13.37%) Full Stack Development
12 20 (11.63%) ETL
13 19 (11.05%) Data Analysis
14 18 (10.47%) Data Pipeline
14 18 (10.47%) Use Case
15 17 (9.88%) Microservices
16 15 (8.72%) Data Analytics
16 15 (8.72%) Scrum
16 15 (8.72%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 85 (49.42%) Python
2 48 (27.91%) SQL
3 35 (20.35%) Java
4 20 (11.63%) TypeScript
5 16 (9.30%) C#
6 12 (6.98%) C++
7 11 (6.40%) JavaScript
8 8 (4.65%) R
8 8 (4.65%) Scala
9 7 (4.07%) Shell Script
10 6 (3.49%) Search Processing Language
11 3 (1.74%) Kotlin
11 3 (1.74%) PowerShell
12 2 (1.16%) GLSL
12 2 (1.16%) HLSL
12 2 (1.16%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.58%) Bash
13 1 (0.58%) MATLAB
13 1 (0.58%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.58%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 29 (16.86%) Degree
2 20 (11.63%) Computer Science Degree
3 15 (8.72%) Security Cleared
4 14 (8.14%) SC Cleared
5 11 (6.40%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.74%) PhD
7 2 (1.16%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.58%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.58%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.58%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.58%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.58%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.58%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (0.58%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.49%) QA
2 5 (2.91%) Accessibility
2 5 (2.91%) Data Quality
2 5 (2.91%) GDPR
3 2 (1.16%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.58%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (0.58%) ISO 26262
4 1 (0.58%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.58%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 15 (8.72%) Docker
2 2 (1.16%) HDFS
2 2 (1.16%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.58%) KVM
3 1 (0.58%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.58%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 23 (13.37%) Kubernetes
2 9 (5.23%) Grafana
3 5 (2.91%) Terraform
4 3 (1.74%) Ansible
5 1 (0.58%) Functional Safety
5 1 (0.58%) Nagios
5 1 (0.58%) OPNET
5 1 (0.58%) PowerCLI
5 1 (0.58%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.58%) Puppet
5 1 (0.58%) vCenter Server
5 1 (0.58%) vRealize
Vendors
1 21 (12.21%) Microsoft
2 12 (6.98%) Databricks
3 11 (6.40%) Google
4 6 (3.49%) Splunk
5 5 (2.91%) ServiceNow
6 4 (2.33%) Oracle
6 4 (2.33%) Sage
7 2 (1.16%) VMware
8 1 (0.58%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.58%) Anaplan
8 1 (0.58%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.58%) Cisco
8 1 (0.58%) Dataiku
8 1 (0.58%) SAP
8 1 (0.58%) Typelevel
8 1 (0.58%) UiPath