XGBoost Contracts

XGBoost
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 510 595 -
Rank change year-on-year +85 - -
Contract jobs citing XGBoost 9 5 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.031% 0.011% -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.14% 0.056% -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 4 0
10th Percentile £450 £541 -
25th Percentile £464 £659 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £750 -
Median % change year-on-year -19.33% - -
75th Percentile £775 £775 -
90th Percentile £788 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 6,629 8,962 13,891
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.67% 20.56% 23.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,551 6,219 10,140
10th Percentile £363 £338 £400
25th Percentile £425 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £780 £769 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 231 153
10th Percentile £27.14 £21.25 £31.60
25th Percentile £48.25 £40.00 £48.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.87 £75.00 £80.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £64.00
% change year-on-year +36.84% -25.78% +30.61%

XGBoost
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for XGBoost in the UK

XGBoost
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for XGBoost in the UK

XGBoost
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing XGBoost over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for XGBoost in the UK

XGBoost
Top 8 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 30 April 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
England +67 9 £605 -19.33% 10
London +36 6 £700 -6.67% 10
Work from Home +51 4 £725 -3.33% 6
UK excluding London - 3 £450 - 3
North of England - 2 £450 -
Yorkshire - 1 - -
North West - 1 £450 -
South East - 1 - -

XGBoost
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 3 (33.33%) Jupyter
2 1 (11.11%) Apache
2 1 (11.11%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 6 (66.67%) Azure
2 4 (44.44%) AWS
2 4 (44.44%) GCP
3 2 (22.22%) Vertex AI
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Machine Learning
4 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
4 1 (11.11%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Big Data
1 1 (11.11%) Hadoop
1 1 (11.11%) MongoDB
1 1 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (11.11%) Power BI
1 1 (11.11%) Relational Database
1 1 (11.11%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Git
1 2 (22.22%) MLflow
General
1 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Retail
3 1 (11.11%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Machine Learning Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Data Scientist
3 1 (11.11%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (44.44%) PyTorch
1 4 (44.44%) scikit-learn
2 3 (33.33%) TensorFlow
3 2 (22.22%) Matplotlib
3 2 (22.22%) ONNX
4 1 (11.11%) Keras
4 1 (11.11%) Node.js
4 1 (11.11%) NumPy
4 1 (11.11%) Pandas
4 1 (11.11%) Plotly
4 1 (11.11%) Prophet
4 1 (11.11%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Algorithms
2 2 (22.22%) Data Structures
3 1 (11.11%) Distributed Computing
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 6 (66.67%) Data Science
3 4 (44.44%) Data Engineering
4 3 (33.33%) Deep Learning
4 3 (33.33%) LSTM
4 3 (33.33%) MLOps
4 3 (33.33%) Natural Language Processing
4 3 (33.33%) Random Forest
4 3 (33.33%) Time Series Forecasting
5 2 (22.22%) Artificial Intelligence
5 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
5 2 (22.22%) Data Analysis
5 2 (22.22%) Data Modelling
5 2 (22.22%) Data Visualisation
5 2 (22.22%) ETL
5 2 (22.22%) Logistic Regression
5 2 (22.22%) Predictive Modelling
5 2 (22.22%) Software Architecture
5 2 (22.22%) Transfer Learning
5 2 (22.22%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 7 (77.78%) Python
2 2 (22.22%) SQL
3 1 (11.11%) R
3 1 (11.11%) Scala
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Databricks
1 2 (22.22%) Google