Machine Learning Contracts

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 3 months to 24 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Machine Learning UK
Location	3 months to 24 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	315	538	571
Rank change year-on-year	+223	+33
Contract jobs citing Machine Learning	314	106	75
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK	0.68%	0.20%	0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category	0.80%	0.24%	0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted	208	72	56
Median daily rate	£505	£475	£573
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+6.31%	-17.03%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£385	£425	£398
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£675	£648	£700
UK excluding London median daily rate	£475	£425	£581
% change year-on-year	+11.76%	-26.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted	4	0	2
Median hourly rate	£23.75	-	£80.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£17.50	-	-

Machine Learning is in the process and methodology skills category. The next table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process and methodology skills.

Contract Process & Methodology Skills UK
Contract job vacancies with a requirement for process and methodology skills	39081	44816	45249
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK	84.49%	83.35%	80.65%
Number of daily rates quoted	25486	29721	28985
Median daily rate	£450	£438	£413
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+2.85%	+6.06%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£313	£300	£285
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£600	£600	£575
UK excluding London median daily rate	£415	£400	£380
% change year-on-year	+3.75%	+5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted	1041	1082	1268
Median hourly rate	£32.50	£27.50	£27.50
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+18.18%	-
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£13.00	£12.58	£12.35
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£53.00	£49.00	£50.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£34.00	£28.50	£30.00
% change year-on-year	+19.29%	-5.00%

Machine Learning
Job Vacancy Trend

The job posting trend of jobs advertised citing Machine Learning as a proportion of all contract or permanent IT jobs with a match in the Processes & Methodologies category.

Job vacancy trend for Machine Learning in the UK

Machine Learning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing Machine Learning.

Contractor daily rate trend for Machine Learning in the UK

Machine Learning
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing Machine Learning over the 3 months to 24 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for Machine Learning in the UK

Machine Learning
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing Machine Learning.

Contractor hourly rate trend for Machine Learning in the UK

Machine Learning
Contractor Hourly Rate Histogram

The hourly rate distribution of IT jobs citing Machine Learning over the 3 months to 24 June 2017.

Contractor hourly rate histogram for Machine Learning in the UK

Machine Learning
Top 30 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 3 months to 24 June 2017. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Median Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
England	+217	292	£510	+7.36%	239
London	+151	224	£550	+10.00%	145
City of London	+25	32	£600	-4.00%	31
South East	+41	24	£400	-11.11%	15
Scotland	+60	17	£500	-	11
South West	+7	17	£515	+21.17%	11
Edinburgh	-	17	£500	-	5
East of England	+2	10	£475	-	35
Oxfordshire	0	9	£500	-	9
Surrey	-	8	£315	-	1
West Midlands	+29	6	£463	+17.46%	8
East Midlands	-	5	£400	-	2
Birmingham	-	5	£463	-	1
Somerset	-	5	£425	-	2
Taunton	-	5	£425	-	1
North West	+23	4	£563	+60.71%	19
Manchester	+14	4	£563	+60.71%	13
Hampshire	-	4	£400	-	2
Staines	-	4	-	-
Wiltshire	+4	3	£613	-27.94%	1
Cambridgeshire	+3	3	-	-	29
Norfolk	-	3	£475	-	1
Southampton	-	3	£400	-	1
Norwich	-	3	£475	-	1
Croydon	-	3	£435	-
Gloucestershire	-	3	-	-
Berkshire	+14	2	£400	-11.11%
Cambridge	+6	2	-	-	29
Oxford	-2	2	£500	-	7
Nottinghamshire	-	2	£400	-	1

Machine Learning
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 June 2017, IT contractor jobs citing Machine Learning also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads with a requirement for Machine Learning.

1	292 (54.17%)	Python
2	247 (45.83%)	Big Data
3	216 (40.07%)	Analytics
4	198 (36.73%)	Apache Spark
5	195 (36.18%)	Hadoop
6	174 (32.28%)	R
7	162 (30.06%)	Java
8	146 (27.09%)	SQL
9	135 (25.05%)	Agile Software Development
10	129 (23.93%)	Finance
11	124 (23.01%)	Scala
12	123 (22.82%)	Algorithms
13	93 (17.25%)	Visualisation
14	91 (16.88%)	Mathematics
15	89 (16.51%)	Analytical Skills

16	81 (15.03%)	Degree
17	78 (14.47%)	Apache Hive
18	77 (14.29%)	Business Intelligence
19	76 (14.10%)	Statistics
20	74 (13.73%)	MongoDB
20	74 (13.73%)	NoSQL
21	71 (13.17%)	Amazon AWS
22	68 (12.62%)	Computer Science
23	66 (12.24%)	Data Visualisation
23	66 (12.24%)	JavaScript
24	64 (11.87%)	Software Engineering
25	63 (11.69%)	Data Analytics
26	62 (11.50%)	SAS
27	61 (11.32%)	Artificial Intelligence
28	60 (11.13%)	Data Analysis

Machine Learning
Co-occurring IT Skills by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	198 (36.73%)	Apache Spark
2	62 (11.50%)	SAS
3	45 (8.35%)	Apache Pig
4	36 (6.68%)	Apache
5	23 (4.27%)	Elasticsearch
6	12 (2.23%)	Apache Solr
7	10 (1.86%)	Confluence
8	8 (1.48%)	Facebook Platform
9	7 (1.30%)	Cloud Foundry
9	7 (1.30%)	Tomcat
10	6 (1.11%)	Jupyter
11	4 (0.74%)	OpenStack
12	3 (0.56%)	nginx
13	2 (0.37%)	MQSeries
13	2 (0.37%)	WebSphere
14	1 (0.19%)	Apache Airflow
14	1 (0.19%)	IIS
14	1 (0.19%)	IPython
14	1 (0.19%)	Luigi
14	1 (0.19%)	Tornado

Applications
1	22 (4.08%)	SPSS
2	8 (1.48%)	Microsoft Excel
3	6 (1.11%)	Stata
4	4 (0.74%)	Weka
5	3 (0.56%)	GNU Octave
5	3 (0.56%)	Microsoft Office
5	3 (0.56%)	Spreadsheet
6	2 (0.37%)	Chatbot
6	2 (0.37%)	EViews
6	2 (0.37%)	Photoshop
6	2 (0.37%)	S-PLUS
7	1 (0.19%)	Mathematica
7	1 (0.19%)	Microsoft PowerPoint
7	1 (0.19%)	MS Visio
7	1 (0.19%)	UXPin

Business Applications
1	6 (1.11%)	SAP Oil and Gas
2	1 (0.19%)	Oracle EBS
2	1 (0.19%)	PeopleSoft HCM
2	1 (0.19%)	SAP ERP

Cloud Services
1	71 (13.17%)	Amazon AWS
2	41 (7.61%)	Microsoft Azure
3	18 (3.34%)	Amazon EC2
4	17 (3.15%)	Amazon EMR
5	16 (2.97%)	Amazon S3
6	12 (2.23%)	Azure Machine Learning
7	11 (2.04%)	Google Cloud Platform
8	10 (1.86%)	SaaS
9	7 (1.30%)	Cloud Computing
10	5 (0.93%)	GitHub
11	4 (0.74%)	Amazon Kinesis
11	4 (0.74%)	Azure Data Factory
11	4 (0.74%)	PaaS
12	3 (0.56%)	Akamai
12	3 (0.56%)	Sumo Logic
13	2 (0.37%)	Data Lake Analytics
13	2 (0.37%)	Responsys
14	1 (0.19%)	AWS Lambda
14	1 (0.19%)	Cortana Intelligence Suite
14	1 (0.19%)	Flurry Analytics

Communications & Networking
1	5 (0.93%)	HTTP
2	3 (0.56%)	DNS
2	3 (0.56%)	Internet
2	3 (0.56%)	Network Security
3	2 (0.37%)	SNA
4	1 (0.19%)	SMS
4	1 (0.19%)	SSL
4	1 (0.19%)	TCP/IP

Database & Business Intelligence
1	247 (45.83%)	Big Data
2	195 (36.18%)	Hadoop
3	78 (14.47%)	Apache Hive
4	74 (13.73%)	MongoDB
4	74 (13.73%)	NoSQL
5	59 (10.95%)	Apache Cassandra
6	57 (10.58%)	Data Mining
7	42 (7.79%)	BusinessObjects
8	39 (7.24%)	HBase
9	37 (6.86%)	QlikView
10	33 (6.12%)	Data Warehouse
11	32 (5.94%)	MySQL
12	30 (5.57%)	Relational Database
13	26 (4.82%)	PostgreSQL
14	19 (3.53%)	Neo4j
15	18 (3.34%)	RDBMS
15	18 (3.34%)	SQL Server
15	18 (3.34%)	Sqoop
16	16 (2.97%)	Spotfire
17	11 (2.04%)	CouchDB

Development Applications
1	35 (6.49%)	JIRA
2	24 (4.45%)	Git (software)
3	11 (2.04%)	Jenkins
4	7 (1.30%)	Vagrant
5	4 (0.74%)	JUnit
5	4 (0.74%)	Selenium
5	4 (0.74%)	Subversion
6	3 (0.56%)	Maven
6	3 (0.56%)	Talend Open Studio
7	2 (0.37%)	Gradle
7	2 (0.37%)	Sonatype Nexus
7	2 (0.37%)	Team Foundation Server
8	1 (0.19%)	Ant
8	1 (0.19%)	Axure RP
8	1 (0.19%)	CMake
8	1 (0.19%)	Cucumber
8	1 (0.19%)	Mercurial
8	1 (0.19%)	Mockito
8	1 (0.19%)	SpecFlow
8	1 (0.19%)	Xcode

General
1	129 (23.93%)	Finance
2	51 (9.46%)	Banking
3	23 (4.27%)	Marketing
4	22 (4.08%)	Front Office
5	21 (3.90%)	Telecoms
6	20 (3.71%)	Retail
7	16 (2.97%)	Electronics
8	13 (2.41%)	Investment Banking
9	9 (1.67%)	Pharmaceutical
10	7 (1.30%)	Manufacturing
11	6 (1.11%)	Games
11	6 (1.11%)	Publishing
12	5 (0.93%)	Financial Institution
13	3 (0.56%)	General Ledger
14	2 (0.37%)	Advertising
14	2 (0.37%)	Retail Banking
15	1 (0.19%)	Aerospace
15	1 (0.19%)	French Language
15	1 (0.19%)	Law
15	1 (0.19%)	Legal

Job Titles
1	140 (25.97%)	Data Scientist
2	124 (23.01%)	Developer
3	56 (10.39%)	Data Engineer
4	54 (10.02%)	Analyst
5	52 (9.65%)	Architect
6	39 (7.24%)	Python Developer
7	36 (6.68%)	Big Data Engineer
8	35 (6.49%)	Java Developer
9	30 (5.57%)	Machine Learning Scientist
10	25 (4.64%)	Business Analyst
11	24 (4.45%)	Software Engineer
12	22 (4.08%)	Consultant
12	22 (4.08%)	Data Analyst
13	21 (3.90%)	Scala Developer
14	20 (3.71%)	Big Data Developer
14	20 (3.71%)	Senior Data Scientist
15	18 (3.34%)	Data Architect
16	15 (2.78%)	Delivery Manager
16	15 (2.78%)	Junior
16	15 (2.78%)	Machine Learning Developer

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	57 (10.58%)	Kafka
2	44 (8.16%)	Natural Language Processing
3	36 (6.68%)	JSON
4	32 (5.94%)	HTML
5	31 (5.75%)	D3.js
6	26 (4.82%)	CSS
7	25 (4.64%)	REST
7	25 (4.64%)	Web Services
8	24 (4.45%)	Django
9	20 (3.71%)	Flask
10	17 (3.15%)	scikit-learn
11	16 (2.97%)	AngularJS
12	15 (2.78%)	NumPy
13	14 (2.60%)	HTML5
13	14 (2.60%)	Node.js
13	14 (2.60%)	Pandas
14	13 (2.41%)	React
15	12 (2.23%)	.NET
15	12 (2.23%)	SciPy
15	12 (2.23%)	XML

Miscellaneous
1	123 (22.82%)	Algorithms
2	89 (16.51%)	Analytical Skills
3	68 (12.62%)	Computer Science
4	33 (6.12%)	Greenfield Project
5	19 (3.53%)	Market Risk
6	14 (2.60%)	Robotics
7	12 (2.23%)	Fintech
8	11 (2.04%)	User Experience
9	9 (1.67%)	Data Structures
10	8 (1.48%)	Fixed Income
10	8 (1.48%)	Reference Data
11	7 (1.30%)	Foreign Exchange (FX)
12	6 (1.11%)	Credit Risk
12	6 (1.11%)	Hedge funds
12	6 (1.11%)	Management Information System
12	6 (1.11%)	Pharmacovigilance
13	5 (0.93%)	Data Centre
13	5 (0.93%)	Tandem
14	4 (0.74%)	Clustering
14	4 (0.74%)	Public Cloud

Operating Systems
1	41 (7.61%)	Linux
2	23 (4.27%)	Unix
3	8 (1.48%)	Windows
4	4 (0.74%)	Ubuntu
5	3 (0.56%)	Android
6	2 (0.37%)	Apple iOS
7	1 (0.19%)	CentOS
7	1 (0.19%)	CoreOS
7	1 (0.19%)	Debian
7	1 (0.19%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7	1 (0.19%)	Windows Server

Processes & Methodologies
1	216 (40.07%)	Analytics
2	135 (25.05%)	Agile Software Development
3	93 (17.25%)	Visualisation
4	91 (16.88%)	Mathematics
5	77 (14.29%)	Business Intelligence
6	76 (14.10%)	Statistics
7	66 (12.24%)	Data Visualisation
8	64 (11.87%)	Software Engineering
9	63 (11.69%)	Data Analytics
10	61 (11.32%)	Artificial Intelligence
11	60 (11.13%)	Data Analysis
11	60 (11.13%)	Scrum
12	46 (8.53%)	DevOps
12	46 (8.53%)	Open Source
13	43 (7.98%)	Data Modelling
14	37 (6.86%)	Kanban
14	37 (6.86%)	Predictive Analytics
15	36 (6.68%)	ETL
15	36 (6.68%)	TDD
16	33 (6.12%)	MapReduce

Programming Languages
1	292 (54.17%)	Python
2	174 (32.28%)	R
3	162 (30.06%)	Java
4	146 (27.09%)	SQL
5	124 (23.01%)	Scala
6	66 (12.24%)	JavaScript
7	49 (9.09%)	MATLAB
8	36 (6.68%)	C#
9	33 (6.12%)	C++
10	14 (2.60%)	Shell Script
11	10 (1.86%)	SPARQL
11	10 (1.86%)	VBA
12	7 (1.30%)	C
12	7 (1.30%)	ES6
12	7 (1.30%)	Go
12	7 (1.30%)	Groovy
13	6 (1.11%)	Perl
13	6 (1.11%)	PowerShell
13	6 (1.11%)	Ruby
14	5 (0.93%)	PL/SQL

Qualifications
1	81 (15.03%)	Degree
2	43 (7.98%)	PhD
3	21 (3.90%)	Security Cleared
4	16 (2.97%)	SC Cleared
5	10 (1.86%)	Computer Science Degree
6	8 (1.48%)	BPSS Clearance
6	8 (1.48%)	Numerate Degree
7	6 (1.11%)	Master's Degree
8	4 (0.74%)	Postgraduate
9	2 (0.37%)	Microsoft Certification
10	1 (0.19%)	CISSP
10	1 (0.19%)	DBS Check
10	1 (0.19%)	PRINCE2 Certification

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	16 (2.97%)	QA
2	13 (2.41%)	Data Quality
3	7 (1.30%)	GxP
4	4 (0.74%)	IEC 62304
5	1 (0.19%)	HL7
5	1 (0.19%)	ISO 9000
5	1 (0.19%)	ISO/IEC 20000
5	1 (0.19%)	ISO/IEC 27001
5	1 (0.19%)	MiFID

System Software
1	34 (6.31%)	Docker
2	27 (5.01%)	Apache Flume
3	23 (4.27%)	HDFS
4	4 (0.74%)	Apache ZooKeeper
5	3 (0.56%)	Snort
6	1 (0.19%)	Active Directory
6	1 (0.19%)	Virtual Machines

Systems Management
1	25 (4.64%)	Ansible
2	16 (2.97%)	Hadoop YARN
3	15 (2.78%)	Opscode Chef
4	14 (2.60%)	Puppet
5	12 (2.23%)	Oozie
5	12 (2.23%)	Terraform
6	8 (1.48%)	Kubernetes
6	8 (1.48%)	Mesos
7	3 (0.56%)	Kibana
7	3 (0.56%)	Nagios
7	3 (0.56%)	OSSEC
8	1 (0.19%)	Ambari
8	1 (0.19%)	Business Desktop Deployment
8	1 (0.19%)	CFEngine
8	1 (0.19%)	logstash

Vendors
1	43 (7.98%)	Tableau
2	32 (5.94%)	Oracle
3	29 (5.38%)	Microsoft
4	24 (4.45%)	SAP
5	17 (3.15%)	IBM
6	16 (2.97%)	Cloudera
7	10 (1.86%)	Google
8	9 (1.67%)	Cognos
8	9 (1.67%)	Splunk
9	8 (1.48%)	Facebook
9	8 (1.48%)	Informatica
9	8 (1.48%)	Twitter
10	7 (1.30%)	RapidMiner
11	6 (1.11%)	Teradata
12	3 (0.56%)	Alteryx
12	3 (0.56%)	Hortonworks
12	3 (0.56%)	Imperva
12	3 (0.56%)	Incapsula
12	3 (0.56%)	SaltStack
12	3 (0.56%)	Talend