XGBoost Contracts in the UK excluding London

XGBoost
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring XGBoost skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited XGBoost over the 6 months leading up to 24 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 355 381 -
Rank change year-on-year +26 - -
Contract jobs citing XGBoost 5 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.033% 0.005% -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.18% 0.031% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £413 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - -
75th Percentile £444 - -
90th Percentile £448 - -
UK median daily rate £450 £750 £1,100
% change year-on-year -40.00% -31.82% +151.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £28.50 -
UK median hourly rate - £28.50 -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

XGBoost falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 2,740 3,201 4,047
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 18.29% 16.32% 17.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,854 2,102 2,959
10th Percentile £313 £325 £350
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% - -2.44%
75th Percentile £550 £608 £600
90th Percentile £625 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £508 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -6.88% -0.91% -1.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 116 220 95
10th Percentile £31.25 £26.19 £24.50
25th Percentile £50.00 £43.00 £48.02
Median hourly rate £61.25 £58.30 £59.03
Median % change year-on-year +5.06% -1.24% +4.77%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £71.86
90th Percentile £80.51 £74.44 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year - -12.00% +13.64%

XGBoost
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for XGBoost in the UK excluding London

XGBoost
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for XGBoost in the UK excluding London

XGBoost
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 XGBoost within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 24 July 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
North of England - 4 £425 - 4
North West - 2 £438 - 1
Yorkshire - 2 £425 - 3
East Midlands - 1 - -
Midlands - 1 - -
XGBoost
UK

XGBoost
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Key Vault
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Machine Learning
2 1 (20.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Data Lake
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) scikit-learn
1 3 (60.00%) TensorFlow
2 2 (40.00%) Pandas
2 2 (40.00%) pytest
3 1 (20.00%) Node.js
3 1 (20.00%) Prophet
3 1 (20.00%) PySpark
3 1 (20.00%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 4 (80.00%) Data Science
3 3 (60.00%) Actionable Insight
3 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (60.00%) Data Engineering
3 3 (60.00%) DevOps
3 3 (60.00%) Statistics
4 2 (40.00%) Agile
4 2 (40.00%) Analytics
4 2 (40.00%) API Development
4 2 (40.00%) E-Commerce
4 2 (40.00%) Electronic Design Automation
4 2 (40.00%) Linear Regression
4 2 (40.00%) Mathematics
4 2 (40.00%) MLOps
4 2 (40.00%) Neural Network
4 2 (40.00%) Physics
4 2 (40.00%) Random Forest
4 2 (40.00%) Software Engineering
4 2 (40.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Degree
1 2 (40.00%) Postgraduate
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Databricks