Support Vector Machines Contracts in the UK excluding London

Support Vector Machines (SVM)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Support Vector Machines skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Support Vector Machines over the 6 months leading up to 21 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 365 375 -
Rank change year-on-year +10 - -
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Support Vector Machines 4 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.026% 0.005% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.029% 0.007% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £514 - -
25th Percentile £531 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £566 - -
75th Percentile £606 - -
90th Percentile £625 - -
UK median daily rate £566 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £28.50 -
UK median hourly rate - £28.50 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Support Vector Machines 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 UK excluding London.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,703 15,111 19,227
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 89.24% 82.81% 88.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,232 9,021 12,871
10th Percentile £238 £250 £260
25th Percentile £367 £390 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,379 1,483 1,194
10th Percentile £13.81 £13.69 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.98 £16.30 £17.47
Median hourly rate £23.50 £41.50 £36.88
Median % change year-on-year -43.37% +12.54% +69.31%
75th Percentile £45.99 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £75.80
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.50 £40.69
% change year-on-year -37.90% -0.47% +53.55%

Support Vector Machines
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Support Vector Machines as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Support Vector Machines in the UK excluding London

Support Vector Machines
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Support Vector Machines.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Support Vector Machines

Support Vector Machines
DemandTrendContract 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 Support Vector Machines within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 21 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Midlands - 3 £566 - 4
West Midlands - 3 £566 - 4
North of England - 1 - -
Yorkshire - 1 - -
Support Vector Machines
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Support Vector Machines
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 3 (75.00%) Apache Pig
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Machine Learning
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Stack
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) Power BI
2 3 (75.00%) Apache Hive
2 3 (75.00%) Data Mining
2 3 (75.00%) Hadoop
General
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Data Scientist
2 2 (50.00%) Data Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Data Science
1 4 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 4 (100.00%) Linear Algebra
1 4 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 4 (100.00%) Naive Bayes
2 3 (75.00%) Data Collection
2 3 (75.00%) Data Munging
2 3 (75.00%) Data Visualisation
2 3 (75.00%) Statistics
2 3 (75.00%) Visualisation
3 1 (25.00%) Actionable Insight
3 1 (25.00%) Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Mathematics
3 1 (25.00%) Predictive Modelling
3 1 (25.00%) Statistical Modelling
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Java
1 4 (100.00%) Python
1 4 (100.00%) Scala
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) C++
2 1 (25.00%) R
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Splunk
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (25.00%) Databricks