Machine Learning Contracts

Machine Learning (ML)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 153 222 195
Rank change year-on-year +69 -27 -36
Contract jobs citing Machine Learning 682 739 1,329
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.57% 1.24% 1.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.82% 1.38% 1.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 501 510 907
10th Percentile £413 £431 £419
25th Percentile £488 £511 £507
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £725 £725 £700
90th Percentile £775 £875 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 18 17
10th Percentile £41.24 £21.51 £18.95
25th Percentile £45.26 £25.37 £32.50
Median hourly rate £52.50 £35.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -6.67% -15.06%
75th Percentile £66.38 £53.75 £61.50
90th Percentile £75.38 £78.13 £70.35
UK excluding London median hourly rate £61.25 £35.00 £59.00
% change year-on-year +75.00% -40.68% +17.16%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,383 53,667 80,409
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.31% 89.90% 90.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,097 37,244 56,431
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,426 1,746 1,925
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.30 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.17% +49.20% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +0.13% +80.00% -8.51%

Machine Learning
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Machine Learning as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Machine Learning in the UK

Machine Learning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Machine Learning in the UK

Machine Learning
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Machine Learning over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Machine Learning in the UK

Machine Learning
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Machine Learning in the UK

Machine Learning
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Machine Learning over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Machine Learning in the UK

Machine Learning
Top 15 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 within the UK over the 6 months to 28 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 +58 588 £580 -3.33% 998
London +82 423 £618 -1.20% 518
Work from Home +74 225 £600 +4.35% 535
UK excluding London +6 167 £525 -8.70% 490
North of England +28 46 £550 -6.38% 83
Scotland +45 40 £463 -3.44% 32
South East -21 25 £600 +4.35% 149
Midlands +39 24 £580 +16.00% 50
North West +14 24 £525 -10.64% 52
East of England +14 23 £450 -25.00% 112
West Midlands +40 20 £580 +16.00% 31
Yorkshire +23 16 £554 -9.55% 26
South West -37 11 £550 - 57
North East +28 8 - - 5
East Midlands +22 4 £675 +58.82% 19

Machine Learning
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 60 (8.80%) Apache Airflow
2 53 (7.77%) Apache
3 34 (4.99%) Apache Spark
4 7 (1.03%) SharePoint
5 5 (0.73%) Confluence
6 4 (0.59%) Jupyter
7 3 (0.44%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.29%) SAS
9 1 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.15%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.15%) CMS
9 1 (0.15%) GeoServer
Applications
1 12 (1.76%) Chatbot
2 8 (1.17%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.59%) Simulink
4 3 (0.44%) Microsoft Excel
5 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.15%) Stateflow
6 1 (0.15%) Trello
Business Applications
1 17 (2.49%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 12 (1.76%) Aladdin
3 3 (0.44%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.29%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.15%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 243 (35.63%) AWS
2 202 (29.62%) Azure
3 180 (26.39%) GCP
4 53 (7.77%) Power Platform
5 37 (5.43%) Serverless
6 30 (4.40%) Vertex AI
7 29 (4.25%) AWS Lambda
8 28 (4.11%) Cloud Computing
9 25 (3.67%) Amazon S3
9 25 (3.67%) Azure DevOps
10 24 (3.52%) Amazon SageMaker
11 23 (3.37%) Snowflake
12 22 (3.23%) Azure Machine Learning
13 19 (2.79%) GitHub
14 15 (2.20%) Azure Data Factory
14 15 (2.20%) OCI
15 14 (2.05%) AWS CloudFormation
15 14 (2.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 10 (1.47%) ChatGPT
16 10 (1.47%) Google Compute Engine
Communications & Networking
1 25 (3.67%) HTTP
2 5 (0.73%) LAN
2 5 (0.73%) WAN
3 4 (0.59%) Network Security
4 3 (0.44%) SSL
5 2 (0.29%) Firewall
5 2 (0.29%) Wireless
6 1 (0.15%) DVB
6 1 (0.15%) Internet
6 1 (0.15%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (11.44%) Big Data
2 68 (9.97%) Data Warehouse
3 64 (9.38%) PostgreSQL
4 52 (7.62%) Tableau
5 47 (6.89%) Power BI
6 42 (6.16%) Apache Ignite
6 42 (6.16%) Data Lake
7 34 (4.99%) BigQuery
8 27 (3.96%) Hadoop
9 25 (3.67%) Apache Cassandra
9 25 (3.67%) Data Mining
10 19 (2.79%) NoSQL
11 13 (1.91%) Relational Database
12 11 (1.61%) Amazon Athena
13 10 (1.47%) Apache Hive
13 10 (1.47%) Metadata
14 9 (1.32%) SQL Server
15 8 (1.17%) Amazon Redshift
15 8 (1.17%) Azure SQL Database
15 8 (1.17%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 52 (7.62%) Git
2 29 (4.25%) Cypress.io
2 29 (4.25%) JIRA
3 22 (3.23%) Jenkins
4 14 (2.05%) ER Studio
4 14 (2.05%) ERwin
5 10 (1.47%) GitLab
5 10 (1.47%) MLflow
6 8 (1.17%) Mercurial
7 6 (0.88%) TeamCity
8 5 (0.73%) Maven
8 5 (0.73%) Postman
8 5 (0.73%) Subversion
9 4 (0.59%) Bitbucket
10 3 (0.44%) Poetry
10 3 (0.44%) Visual Studio
11 2 (0.29%) Cucumber
11 2 (0.29%) RStudio
11 2 (0.29%) Selenium
12 1 (0.15%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 154 (22.58%) Finance
2 117 (17.16%) Social Skills
3 82 (12.02%) Banking
4 80 (11.73%) Front Office
5 77 (11.29%) Analytical Skills
6 39 (5.72%) Public Sector
7 28 (4.11%) Marketing
8 26 (3.81%) Pharmaceutical
9 15 (2.20%) Electronics
9 15 (2.20%) Retail
10 14 (2.05%) Investment Banking
11 13 (1.91%) Manufacturing
12 12 (1.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 12 (1.76%) Influencing Skills
13 9 (1.32%) Multimedia
13 9 (1.32%) Telecoms
14 7 (1.03%) Police
14 7 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
15 6 (0.88%) Advertising
15 6 (0.88%) Legal
Job Titles
1 140 (20.53%) Developer
2 106 (15.54%) Architect
3 78 (11.44%) Data Scientist
4 69 (10.12%) Software Engineer
5 58 (8.50%) Python Developer
6 56 (8.21%) Machine Learning Engineer
7 55 (8.06%) Python Engineer
8 48 (7.04%) Analyst
9 47 (6.89%) Python Software Engineer
10 44 (6.45%) Data Engineer
11 42 (6.16%) Senior
12 41 (6.01%) Developer/Software Engineer
12 41 (6.01%) Lead
13 40 (5.87%) React Developer
14 35 (5.13%) Business Analyst
15 34 (4.99%) Data Architect
16 33 (4.84%) Solutions Architect
17 30 (4.40%) Full Stack Engineer
18 27 (3.96%) Full Stack Developer
18 27 (3.96%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (10.70%) TensorFlow
2 69 (10.12%) React
3 60 (8.80%) PyTorch
4 46 (6.74%) Kafka
4 46 (6.74%) Pandas
5 41 (6.01%) gRPC
5 41 (6.01%) Material-UI
5 41 (6.01%) Protocol Buffers
5 41 (6.01%) Redux
5 41 (6.01%) RESTful
5 41 (6.01%) scikit-learn
6 29 (4.25%) CSS
7 28 (4.11%) HTML
8 27 (3.96%) NumPy
9 25 (3.67%) Akka
10 19 (2.79%) REST
11 18 (2.64%) Node.js
12 16 (2.35%) PySpark
12 16 (2.35%) Spring
13 15 (2.20%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 116 (17.01%) Algorithms
2 68 (9.97%) Fixed Income
2 68 (9.97%) Hedge funds
3 44 (6.45%) Equities
4 41 (6.01%) Product Ownership
5 29 (4.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 27 (3.96%) Derivative
7 25 (3.67%) Public Cloud
8 24 (3.52%) Data Structures
9 20 (2.93%) Greenfield Project
9 20 (2.93%) Management Information System
10 14 (2.05%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 13 (1.91%) Data Protection Act
12 11 (1.61%) Social Media
13 10 (1.47%) Cloud Native
13 10 (1.47%) Distributed Systems
14 9 (1.32%) Analytical Mindset
14 9 (1.32%) Onboarding
15 8 (1.17%) Distributed Computing
16 7 (1.03%) Multi-touch
Operating Systems
1 27 (3.96%) Linux
2 13 (1.91%) Windows
3 8 (1.17%) Android
4 7 (1.03%) Unix
5 4 (0.59%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.15%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 382 (56.01%) Artificial Intelligence
2 238 (34.90%) Agile
3 220 (32.26%) Data Science
4 151 (22.14%) Analytics
5 134 (19.65%) DevOps
6 126 (18.48%) Software Engineering
7 121 (17.74%) Computer Science
8 98 (14.37%) CI/CD
9 92 (13.49%) Data Modelling
10 84 (12.32%) Problem-Solving
11 77 (11.29%) Visualisation
12 73 (10.70%) Asset Management
13 70 (10.26%) Full Stack Development
14 69 (10.12%) Investment Management
15 67 (9.82%) Natural Language Processing
16 66 (9.68%) Business Intelligence
17 65 (9.53%) Data Governance
18 64 (9.38%) Data Analysis
18 64 (9.38%) Data Pipeline
19 61 (8.94%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 383 (56.16%) Python
2 206 (30.21%) SQL
3 85 (12.46%) Java
4 78 (11.44%) TypeScript
5 47 (6.89%) Scala
6 43 (6.30%) JavaScript
7 42 (6.16%) R
8 35 (5.13%) C#
9 24 (3.52%) C++
10 23 (3.37%) Shell Script
11 22 (3.23%) PowerShell
12 13 (1.91%) Bash
13 9 (1.32%) Kusto Query Language
14 7 (1.03%) Search Processing Language
15 6 (0.88%) C
15 6 (0.88%) Clojure
15 6 (0.88%) Haskell
15 6 (0.88%) Rust
16 4 (0.59%) MATLAB
16 4 (0.59%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 135 (19.79%) Degree
2 69 (10.12%) Security Cleared
3 68 (9.97%) Computer Science Degree
4 65 (9.53%) SC Cleared
5 56 (8.21%) Master's Degree
6 30 (4.40%) PhD
7 19 (2.79%) DV Cleared
8 16 (2.35%) AWS Certification
9 10 (1.47%) Azure Certification
10 7 (1.03%) Numerate Degree
11 6 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
11 6 (0.88%) CISSP
12 4 (0.59%) PMI Certification
12 4 (0.59%) PMP
13 3 (0.44%) AWS Certified Developer
13 3 (0.44%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 3 (0.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 2 (0.29%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 2 (0.29%) Cisco Certification
14 2 (0.29%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (4.25%) Data Quality
2 24 (3.52%) QA
3 8 (1.17%) Accessibility
4 4 (0.59%) Dodd-Frank
4 4 (0.59%) MiFID
5 3 (0.44%) GDPR
5 3 (0.44%) NCSC
5 3 (0.44%) PCI DSS
5 3 (0.44%) PMO
6 2 (0.29%) Basel III
6 2 (0.29%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (0.29%) GxP
6 2 (0.29%) PSD2
7 1 (0.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.15%) ISO 26262
7 1 (0.15%) SLA
7 1 (0.15%) Software Quality Assurance
7 1 (0.15%) WCAG
System Software
1 52 (7.62%) Docker
2 7 (1.03%) HDFS
3 2 (0.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.15%) KVM
4 1 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.15%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 80 (11.73%) Kubernetes
2 49 (7.18%) Terraform
3 18 (2.64%) Ansible
4 13 (1.91%) Puppet
5 11 (1.61%) Grafana
6 8 (1.17%) Kubeflow
7 5 (0.73%) Hadoop YARN
7 5 (0.73%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.15%) Functional Safety
8 1 (0.15%) Nagios
8 1 (0.15%) OPNET
8 1 (0.15%) PowerCLI
8 1 (0.15%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.15%) vRealize
Vendors
1 87 (12.76%) Google
2 48 (7.04%) Microsoft
3 38 (5.57%) Databricks
4 27 (3.96%) Oracle
5 18 (2.64%) Typelevel
6 17 (2.49%) Sparx
7 12 (1.76%) Bloomberg
8 11 (1.61%) BISAM
8 11 (1.61%) SAP
9 8 (1.17%) OpenAI
9 8 (1.17%) Splunk
10 7 (1.03%) Adobe
11 6 (0.88%) Foundry
11 6 (0.88%) Optimizely
11 6 (0.88%) Palantir
11 6 (0.88%) Sage
11 6 (0.88%) ServiceNow
12 5 (0.73%) Ensighten
12 5 (0.73%) Monetate
12 5 (0.73%) Tealium