Machine Learning Engineer Contracts

Machine Learning Engineer
UK

The median Machine Learning Engineer daily rate in the UK is £568 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 525 664 763
Rank change year-on-year +139 +99 -96
Contract jobs requiring a Machine Learning Engineer 57 54 93
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.090% 0.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.096% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 35 60
10th Percentile £450 £495 £495
25th Percentile £494 £550 £568
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £568 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.30% -4.17% +17.65%
75th Percentile £638 £609 £706
90th Percentile £775 £703 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £575 £595
% change year-on-year +4.35% -3.36% +27.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51.25 - -
Median hourly rate £62.50 - -
75th Percentile £66.25 - -
90th Percentile £73.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 40,410 56,464 84,709
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.61% 95.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,305 39,470 59,485
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £735
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.70% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,664 1,570 2,099
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.29 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.50 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.42 £45.00 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.07% +91.49% +3.14%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.75 £48.88
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.75 £63.32
UK excluding London median hourly rate £39.55 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -6.94% +117.95% +2.63%

Machine Learning Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Machine Learning Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Machine Learning Engineer in the UK

Machine Learning Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Machine Learning Engineer.

Daily rate trend for Machine Learning Engineer in the UK

Machine Learning Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Machine Learning Engineer over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Machine Learning Engineer in the UK

Machine Learning Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Machine Learning Engineer.

Hourly rate trend for Machine Learning Engineer in the UK

Machine Learning Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Machine Learning Engineer over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Machine Learning Engineer in the UK

Machine Learning Engineer
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Machine Learning Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 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
England +119 53 £559 -2.83% 54
London +116 37 £538 -6.52% 30
Work from Home +123 16 £638 +2.00% 34
UK excluding London +55 16 £600 +4.35% 24
East of England - 8 - - 6
South East +12 7 £600 +6.67% 11
Scotland +33 1 - - 1

Machine Learning Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 30 April 2024, Machine Learning Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Machine Learning Engineer in the job title.

1 57 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 46 (80.70%) Python
3 33 (57.89%) Artificial Intelligence
4 22 (38.60%) Data Science
5 21 (36.84%) Software Engineering
6 19 (33.33%) TensorFlow
7 18 (31.58%) DevOps
8 17 (29.82%) AWS
9 14 (24.56%) Deep Learning
9 14 (24.56%) MLOps
10 13 (22.81%) CI/CD
10 13 (22.81%) Pandas
10 13 (22.81%) scikit-learn
11 12 (21.05%) Degree
11 12 (21.05%) SQL
11 12 (21.05%) PyTorch
12 11 (19.30%) C++
12 11 (19.30%) Java
12 11 (19.30%) Computer Science
12 11 (19.30%) Docker
12 11 (19.30%) Azure
12 11 (19.30%) NumPy
13 10 (17.54%) Kubernetes
13 10 (17.54%) Algorithms
13 10 (17.54%) Apache Airflow
14 9 (15.79%) GCP
14 9 (15.79%) Natural Language Processing
14 9 (15.79%) Test Automation
14 9 (15.79%) Shell Script
15 8 (14.04%) Statistics

Machine Learning Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 10 (17.54%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (7.02%) Apache
3 2 (3.51%) Apache Spark
3 2 (3.51%) Confluence
4 1 (1.75%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 17 (29.82%) AWS
2 11 (19.30%) Azure
3 9 (15.79%) GCP
4 6 (10.53%) Vertex AI
5 5 (8.77%) Amazon S3
6 4 (7.02%) Amazon SageMaker
6 4 (7.02%) Azure Machine Learning
7 3 (5.26%) Amazon Kinesis
7 3 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (5.26%) Dagster
7 3 (5.26%) dbt
7 3 (5.26%) GitHub
7 3 (5.26%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (5.26%) Serverless
8 2 (3.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (3.51%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (3.51%) Power Platform
8 2 (3.51%) PowerApps
8 2 (3.51%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.75%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (12.28%) Data Mining
2 5 (8.77%) Big Data
3 3 (5.26%) Amazon Athena
3 3 (5.26%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (5.26%) DynamoDB
3 3 (5.26%) Flink
3 3 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (3.51%) Power BI
5 1 (1.75%) Hadoop
5 1 (1.75%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (10.53%) Git
1 6 (10.53%) MLflow
2 3 (5.26%) Mercurial
2 3 (5.26%) Poetry
3 2 (3.51%) Cucumber
3 2 (3.51%) Jenkins
3 2 (3.51%) JIRA
3 2 (3.51%) Selenium
General
1 7 (12.28%) Electronics
2 5 (8.77%) Social Skills
3 4 (7.02%) Finance
4 3 (5.26%) Multimedia
4 3 (5.26%) Retail
5 2 (3.51%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.75%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (1.75%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (33.33%) TensorFlow
2 13 (22.81%) Pandas
2 13 (22.81%) scikit-learn
3 12 (21.05%) PyTorch
4 11 (19.30%) NumPy
5 6 (10.53%) SciPy
6 3 (5.26%) Great Expectations
6 3 (5.26%) Lambda Expressions
6 3 (5.26%) LAPP Stack
6 3 (5.26%) Plotly
6 3 (5.26%) React
6 3 (5.26%) Seaborn
7 2 (3.51%) DirectX
7 2 (3.51%) Hugging Face
7 2 (3.51%) OpenCV
7 2 (3.51%) OpenGL
7 2 (3.51%) OpenGL ES
7 2 (3.51%) Vulkan
8 1 (1.75%) Kafka
8 1 (1.75%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 10 (17.54%) Algorithms
2 5 (8.77%) Social Media
3 3 (5.26%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (5.26%) Life Science
3 3 (5.26%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (5.26%) Photography
4 2 (3.51%) Data Structures
4 2 (3.51%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (3.51%) Tandem
5 1 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.75%) Digital Media
5 1 (1.75%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.75%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.02%) Android
2 3 (5.26%) Linux
2 3 (5.26%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 33 (57.89%) Artificial Intelligence
3 22 (38.60%) Data Science
4 21 (36.84%) Software Engineering
5 18 (31.58%) DevOps
6 14 (24.56%) Deep Learning
6 14 (24.56%) MLOps
7 13 (22.81%) CI/CD
8 11 (19.30%) Computer Science
9 9 (15.79%) Natural Language Processing
9 9 (15.79%) Test Automation
10 8 (14.04%) Statistics
11 6 (10.53%) Agile
11 6 (10.53%) Data Ingestion
11 6 (10.53%) Data Pipeline
11 6 (10.53%) Workflow
12 5 (8.77%) Computer Vision
12 5 (8.77%) Generative AI
12 5 (8.77%) LLM
12 5 (8.77%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 46 (80.70%) Python
2 12 (21.05%) SQL
3 11 (19.30%) C++
3 11 (19.30%) Java
4 9 (15.79%) Shell Script
5 5 (8.77%) C
5 5 (8.77%) JavaScript
6 4 (7.02%) C#
7 3 (5.26%) Scala
8 2 (3.51%) R
9 1 (1.75%) Kotlin
9 1 (1.75%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 12 (21.05%) Degree
2 8 (14.04%) Computer Science Degree
2 8 (14.04%) Master's Degree
3 7 (12.28%) PhD
4 2 (3.51%) SC Cleared
4 2 (3.51%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.75%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.26%) Data Quality
1 3 (5.26%) QA
System Software
1 11 (19.30%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (17.54%) Kubernetes
2 6 (10.53%) Kubeflow
3 4 (7.02%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (10.53%) Databricks
2 1 (1.75%) OpenAI