Machine Learning Contracts in the West Midlands

Machine Learning (ML)
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 92 132 133
Rank change year-on-year +40 +1 -33
Contract jobs citing Machine Learning 20 11 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.04% 0.46% 0.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.24% 0.52% 1.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 8 20
10th Percentile £489 £418 £404
25th Percentile £565 £443 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year +16.00% -6.98% +34.38%
75th Percentile £680 £591 £635
90th Percentile £750 £659 £714
England median daily rate £580 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -3.33% - +9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,619 2,117 3,206
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 83.97% 88.50% 90.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,067 1,453 2,361
10th Percentile £275 £263 £263
25th Percentile £375 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £488
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +4.62% +17.47%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £575
90th Percentile £750 £694 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 115 45 73
10th Percentile £11.09 £12.20 £12.00
25th Percentile £14.00 £13.31 £13.75
Median hourly rate £22.50 £17.72 £16.83
Median % change year-on-year +26.98% +5.32% -1.03%
75th Percentile £41.13 £23.75 £19.86
90th Percentile £57.75 £51.25 £22.20
England median hourly rate £35.65 £37.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year -4.93% +56.25% -

Machine Learning
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Machine Learning as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Machine Learning in the West Midlands

Machine Learning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Machine Learning in the West Midlands

Machine Learning
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Machine Learning in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Machine Learning in the West Midlands

Machine Learning
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Machine Learning in the West Midlands

Machine Learning
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 26 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
Warwickshire +13 11 £580 - 3
Coventry +16 4 £575 +15.00% 3
Birmingham +8 4 £700 +21.74% 14
Machine Learning
England

Machine Learning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 1 (5.00%) Apache Spark
1 1 (5.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Chatbot
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (5.00%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 16 (80.00%) Azure
2 3 (15.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 2 (10.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (10.00%) Azure Machine Learning
3 2 (10.00%) Power Platform
3 2 (10.00%) Serverless
4 1 (5.00%) Amazon Cognito
4 1 (5.00%) Amazon SageMaker
4 1 (5.00%) AWS
4 1 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (5.00%) Azure Functions
4 1 (5.00%) GitHub
4 1 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.00%) LAN
1 2 (10.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.00%) Data Lake
1 2 (10.00%) Power BI
1 2 (10.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.00%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (5.00%) Big Data
2 1 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Bitbucket
General
1 5 (25.00%) Finance
1 5 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (10.00%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Banking
3 1 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (5.00%) Marketing
3 1 (5.00%) Multimedia
3 1 (5.00%) Publishing
3 1 (5.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (50.00%) Developer
2 8 (40.00%) Azure Developer
3 6 (30.00%) Architect
4 4 (20.00%) Azure Architect
5 2 (10.00%) Data Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Technical Architect
6 1 (5.00%) C# Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Cloud Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Consultant
6 1 (5.00%) Data Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Enterprise Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Enterprise Solutions Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Lead Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Presales Consultant
6 1 (5.00%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Systems Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Technical Infrastructure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.00%) .NET
1 2 (10.00%) Middleware
1 2 (10.00%) PySpark
2 1 (5.00%) Dask
2 1 (5.00%) JDBC
2 1 (5.00%) Keras
2 1 (5.00%) Node.js
2 1 (5.00%) NumPy
2 1 (5.00%) ODBC
2 1 (5.00%) Pandas
2 1 (5.00%) PyTorch
2 1 (5.00%) scikit-learn
2 1 (5.00%) SOAP
2 1 (5.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) Algorithms
1 2 (10.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (5.00%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.00%) Linux
1 2 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (45.00%) Full Stack Development
1 9 (45.00%) Human-in-the-Loop
1 9 (45.00%) Use Case
1 9 (45.00%) Workflow
2 5 (25.00%) DevOps
3 4 (20.00%) Agile
3 4 (20.00%) Data Science
4 3 (15.00%) Artificial Intelligence
4 3 (15.00%) Technology Strategy
4 3 (15.00%) Waterfall
5 2 (10.00%) Analytics
5 2 (10.00%) Architectural Patterns
5 2 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (10.00%) Business Strategy
5 2 (10.00%) CI/CD
5 2 (10.00%) Data Modelling
5 2 (10.00%) Data Transformation
5 2 (10.00%) ETL
5 2 (10.00%) Scrum
5 2 (10.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (20.00%) Python
2 3 (15.00%) SQL
3 2 (10.00%) C#
4 1 (5.00%) C++
4 1 (5.00%) MATLAB
4 1 (5.00%) PL/SQL
4 1 (5.00%) Scala
4 1 (5.00%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 1 (5.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (5.00%) AWS Certified Developer
1 1 (5.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 1 (5.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (5.00%) Degree
1 1 (5.00%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) QA
2 1 (5.00%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 2 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (10.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (10.00%) Terraform
2 1 (5.00%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 4 (20.00%) Databricks
2 1 (5.00%) Sage
2 1 (5.00%) UiPath