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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 225 227 289
Rank change year-on-year +2 +62 -66
Contract jobs citing Machine Learning 179 227 252
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.86% 1.00% 0.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.03% 1.12% 0.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 165 156
10th Percentile £362 £422 £400
25th Percentile £435 £475 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £553
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -0.61% +10.68%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £651
90th Percentile £736 £758 £763
UK median daily rate £580 £588 £600
% change year-on-year -1.28% -2.08% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 13 4
10th Percentile £46.69 - £24.73
25th Percentile £51.25 £22.16 £29.56
Median hourly rate £56.25 £35.00 £46.75
Median % change year-on-year +60.71% -25.13% +38.52%
75th Percentile £66.25 £46.18 £61.50
90th Percentile £70.75 £53.75 -
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £35.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year +50.00% -6.67% +5.12%

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 17,348 20,314 27,218
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.29% 89.18% 89.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,293 13,939 19,042
10th Percentile £250 £260 £240
25th Percentile £375 £400 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +9.18%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £694 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,136 1,244 1,338
10th Percentile £12.45 £10.63 £12.47
25th Percentile £15.39 £15.21 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.72 £47.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £74.70 £62.80
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +9.74%

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 1 June 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 1 June 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 1 June 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 47 £550 -6.38% 89
Scotland +52 44 £463 -3.44% 33
South East -23 28 £600 +4.35% 112
Midlands +34 27 £580 +16.00% 51
North West +16 24 £525 -10.64% 59
West Midlands +25 22 £580 +16.00% 35
East of England +8 18 £375 -37.50% 68
South West -34 17 £563 +2.27% 65
Yorkshire +19 16 £554 -11.36% 23
North East +17 9 - - 9
East Midlands +12 5 £675 +42.11% 16
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 (5.03%) Apache Spark
2 4 (2.23%) Apache
2 4 (2.23%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (2.23%) Confluence
3 1 (0.56%) GeoServer
3 1 (0.56%) OpenStack
Applications
1 4 (2.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.68%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.56%) Simulink
3 1 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 60 (33.52%) Azure
2 59 (32.96%) AWS
3 22 (12.29%) GCP
4 19 (10.61%) Serverless
5 16 (8.94%) AWS Lambda
6 15 (8.38%) AWS CloudFormation
7 13 (7.26%) Amazon S3
7 13 (7.26%) OpenShift
8 10 (5.59%) Power Platform
9 8 (4.47%) Amazon SageMaker
9 8 (4.47%) Cloud Computing
10 6 (3.35%) Textract
11 5 (2.79%) Azure Data Factory
11 5 (2.79%) PaaS
12 4 (2.23%) Azure DevOps
12 4 (2.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 4 (2.23%) OCI
13 3 (1.68%) AWS CodePipeline
13 3 (1.68%) npm
13 3 (1.68%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.91%) LAN
1 7 (3.91%) WAN
2 5 (2.79%) VPN
3 2 (1.12%) SSL
3 2 (1.12%) Wireless
4 1 (0.56%) 5G
4 1 (0.56%) DHCP
4 1 (0.56%) DNS
4 1 (0.56%) DVB
4 1 (0.56%) HTTP
4 1 (0.56%) LTE
4 1 (0.56%) Network Security
4 1 (0.56%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (0.56%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.56%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (10.61%) Data Warehouse
2 16 (8.94%) Big Data
3 15 (8.38%) PostgreSQL
4 14 (7.82%) NoSQL
5 13 (7.26%) Data Lake
6 10 (5.59%) Amazon Aurora
6 10 (5.59%) Power BI
6 10 (5.59%) Tableau
7 7 (3.91%) Data Mining
7 7 (3.91%) Relational Database
8 6 (3.35%) Hadoop
9 3 (1.68%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (1.68%) Apache Hive
9 3 (1.68%) BigQuery
9 3 (1.68%) Bigtable
9 3 (1.68%) Cloud Spanner
10 2 (1.12%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (1.12%) Qlik Sense
10 2 (1.12%) RDBMS
10 2 (1.12%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 20 (11.17%) Git
2 7 (3.91%) JIRA
3 6 (3.35%) Jenkins
4 4 (2.23%) Bitbucket
4 4 (2.23%) Mercurial
5 3 (1.68%) Cypress.io
5 3 (1.68%) GitLab
6 2 (1.12%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.56%) CMake
7 1 (0.56%) MLflow
General
1 34 (18.99%) Social Skills
2 30 (16.76%) Finance
3 19 (10.61%) Public Sector
4 14 (7.82%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (5.59%) Electronics
5 10 (5.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (3.91%) Influencing Skills
7 6 (3.35%) Multimedia
8 5 (2.79%) Banking
9 4 (2.23%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.68%) Legal
10 3 (1.68%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (1.68%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.68%) Retail
11 2 (1.12%) Marketing
11 2 (1.12%) Publishing
12 1 (0.56%) Back Office
12 1 (0.56%) Military
12 1 (0.56%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 40 (22.35%) Developer
2 35 (19.55%) Architect
3 15 (8.38%) Data Engineer
4 14 (7.82%) Machine Learning Engineer
5 13 (7.26%) Azure Architect
6 11 (6.15%) Automation Developer
7 10 (5.59%) Data Architect
7 10 (5.59%) Data Scientist
7 10 (5.59%) Lead
7 10 (5.59%) Software Engineer
8 8 (4.47%) Analyst
8 8 (4.47%) Azure Developer
8 8 (4.47%) Full Stack Engineer
8 8 (4.47%) Senior
8 8 (4.47%) Technical Architect
9 7 (3.91%) Cloud Architect
9 7 (3.91%) Java Developer
10 6 (3.35%) AWS Engineer
10 6 (3.35%) Java Engineer
10 6 (3.35%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (11.73%) PyTorch
2 16 (8.94%) Spring
2 16 (8.94%) TensorFlow
3 15 (8.38%) REST
4 14 (7.82%) AngularJS
5 13 (7.26%) AWS CDK
6 11 (6.15%) CSS
6 11 (6.15%) HTML
7 10 (5.59%) JPA
7 10 (5.59%) React
7 10 (5.59%) Spring Boot
8 9 (5.03%) SpaCy
9 7 (3.91%) Middleware
10 6 (3.35%) .NET
10 6 (3.35%) Kafka
10 6 (3.35%) NumPy
10 6 (3.35%) Pandas
11 4 (2.23%) OpenGL ES
11 4 (2.23%) PostGIS
11 4 (2.23%) Vulkan
Miscellaneous
1 23 (12.85%) Public Cloud
2 21 (11.73%) Algorithms
3 8 (4.47%) Product Ownership
4 6 (3.35%) Onboarding
5 5 (2.79%) Blockchain
5 5 (2.79%) Data Structures
5 5 (2.79%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (2.79%) Greenfield Project
5 5 (2.79%) Security Posture
6 4 (2.23%) Distributed Computing
6 4 (2.23%) Industry 4.0
6 4 (2.23%) PKI
6 4 (2.23%) Social Media
6 4 (2.23%) Taxonomies
7 3 (1.68%) Cloud Native
7 3 (1.68%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.68%) Photography
8 2 (1.12%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.12%) Animation
8 2 (1.12%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 17 (9.50%) Linux
2 12 (6.70%) Windows
3 7 (3.91%) Android
4 1 (0.56%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (0.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (52.51%) Artificial Intelligence
2 52 (29.05%) Agile
3 48 (26.82%) Analytics
4 46 (25.70%) Software Engineering
5 42 (23.46%) Data Science
6 40 (22.35%) DevOps
7 32 (17.88%) CI/CD
7 32 (17.88%) Decision-Making
8 26 (14.53%) Computer Science
8 26 (14.53%) Visualisation
9 25 (13.97%) Data Modelling
9 25 (13.97%) Full Stack Development
10 23 (12.85%) ETL
11 21 (11.73%) Data Analysis
12 19 (10.61%) Infrastructure as Code
12 19 (10.61%) Natural Language Processing
13 18 (10.06%) Problem-Solving
13 18 (10.06%) Use Case
14 17 (9.50%) Microservices
15 16 (8.94%) Data Strategy
Programming Languages
1 84 (46.93%) Python
2 43 (24.02%) SQL
3 35 (19.55%) Java
4 23 (12.85%) TypeScript
5 14 (7.82%) C++
6 12 (6.70%) C#
7 9 (5.03%) R
8 8 (4.47%) JavaScript
9 7 (3.91%) Shell Script
10 6 (3.35%) Scala
10 6 (3.35%) Search Processing Language
11 5 (2.79%) PowerShell
12 3 (1.68%) C
12 3 (1.68%) Kotlin
13 2 (1.12%) GLSL
13 2 (1.12%) HLSL
14 1 (0.56%) Bash
14 1 (0.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.56%) Kusto Query Language
14 1 (0.56%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 28 (15.64%) Degree
2 21 (11.73%) Security Cleared
3 18 (10.06%) Computer Science Degree
3 18 (10.06%) SC Cleared
4 12 (6.70%) Master's Degree
5 3 (1.68%) PhD
6 1 (0.56%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.56%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.56%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.56%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.56%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (0.56%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.47%) QA
2 6 (3.35%) Accessibility
2 6 (3.35%) GDPR
3 2 (1.12%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.12%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (0.56%) ISO 26262
4 1 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.56%) NIST
4 1 (0.56%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 22 (12.29%) Docker
2 5 (2.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (2.23%) VMware NSX
4 2 (1.12%) HDFS
5 1 (0.56%) KVM
5 1 (0.56%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 29 (16.20%) Kubernetes
2 11 (6.15%) Grafana
3 7 (3.91%) Terraform
4 6 (3.35%) Ansible
5 4 (2.23%) OPNET
5 4 (2.23%) PowerCLI
6 1 (0.56%) Functional Safety
6 1 (0.56%) Nagios
6 1 (0.56%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.56%) Puppet
6 1 (0.56%) vCenter Server
6 1 (0.56%) vRealize
Vendors
1 25 (13.97%) Microsoft
2 14 (7.82%) Google
3 12 (6.70%) Databricks
4 6 (3.35%) Splunk
5 5 (2.79%) ServiceNow
5 5 (2.79%) VMware
6 4 (2.23%) Atlassian
6 4 (2.23%) Cisco
6 4 (2.23%) Oracle
7 3 (1.68%) OpenAI
7 3 (1.68%) Sage
8 1 (0.56%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.56%) Anaplan
8 1 (0.56%) Typelevel