Machine Learning Engineer Contracts with Work from Home Options

Machine Learning Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Machine Learning Engineer daily rate in Work from Home is £700 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 15 May 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
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 325 441 557
Rank change year-on-year +116 +116 -77
Contract jobs requiring a Machine Learning Engineer 14 24 60
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.094% 0.097% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.10% 0.10% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 12 42
10th Percentile £525 £469 £525
25th Percentile £579 £544 £570
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% +4.17% +20.00%
75th Percentile £769 £666 £694
90th Percentile £791 £713 £850
UK median daily rate £575 £575 £600
% change year-on-year - -4.17% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £80.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £62.50 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 13,873 23,568 42,083
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.55% 95.33% 95.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,324 16,647 30,443
10th Percentile £325 £362 £356
25th Percentile £425 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £723
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 559 539 600
10th Percentile £14.27 £17.50 £13.50
25th Percentile £22.68 £25.71 £19.33
Median hourly rate £44.00 £53.35 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.53% +52.43% +44.33%
75th Percentile £65.00 £68.13 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £68.16
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -18.89% +87.50% +6.67%

Machine Learning Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Machine Learning Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Machine Learning Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Machine Learning Engineer
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Machine Learning Engineer.

Machine Learning Engineer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Machine Learning Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Machine Learning Engineer over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Machine Learning Engineer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Machine Learning Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Machine Learning Engineer.

Machine Learning Engineer hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Machine Learning Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 15 May 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Machine Learning Engineer in the job title.

1 14 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 13 (92.86%) Python
3 9 (64.29%) Artificial Intelligence
3 9 (64.29%) AWS
4 5 (35.71%) Docker
4 5 (35.71%) Amazon SageMaker
5 4 (28.57%) CI/CD
5 4 (28.57%) Generative AI
5 4 (28.57%) Algorithms
5 4 (28.57%) Kubernetes
5 4 (28.57%) TensorFlow
5 4 (28.57%) Azure
5 4 (28.57%) Natural Language Processing
5 4 (28.57%) Deep Learning
5 4 (28.57%) DevOps
5 4 (28.57%) Degree
5 4 (28.57%) Computer Science
5 4 (28.57%) SQL
6 3 (21.43%) Finance
6 3 (21.43%) Shell Script
6 3 (21.43%) NumPy
6 3 (21.43%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (21.43%) Data Science
6 3 (21.43%) LLM
6 3 (21.43%) MLOps
6 3 (21.43%) Serverless
6 3 (21.43%) PyTorch
7 2 (14.29%) AWS Step Functions
7 2 (14.29%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 2 (14.29%) Scaled Agile Framework

Machine Learning Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 2 (14.29%) Confluence
2 1 (7.14%) Apache
2 1 (7.14%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (7.14%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 9 (64.29%) AWS
2 5 (35.71%) Amazon SageMaker
3 4 (28.57%) Azure
4 3 (21.43%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (21.43%) Serverless
5 2 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (14.29%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (14.29%) Amazon S3
5 2 (14.29%) AWS Step Functions
5 2 (14.29%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 2 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (14.29%) GCP
5 2 (14.29%) Power Platform
5 2 (14.29%) PowerApps
6 1 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) Power BI
2 1 (7.14%) Big Data
2 1 (7.14%) Data Mining
2 1 (7.14%) Hadoop
2 1 (7.14%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Jenkins
1 2 (14.29%) JIRA
2 1 (7.14%) Git
General
1 3 (21.43%) Finance
2 1 (7.14%) Electronics
2 1 (7.14%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (7.14%) Publishing
2 1 (7.14%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (28.57%) TensorFlow
2 3 (21.43%) NumPy
2 3 (21.43%) PyTorch
3 2 (14.29%) scikit-learn
3 2 (14.29%) XGBoost
4 1 (7.14%) AWS CDK
4 1 (7.14%) Google JAX
4 1 (7.14%) Hugging Face
4 1 (7.14%) Kafka
4 1 (7.14%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Algorithms
2 2 (14.29%) Data Structures
2 2 (14.29%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (7.14%) Digital Media
3 1 (7.14%) Mobile App
3 1 (7.14%) Photography
3 1 (7.14%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 9 (64.29%) Artificial Intelligence
3 4 (28.57%) CI/CD
3 4 (28.57%) Computer Science
3 4 (28.57%) Deep Learning
3 4 (28.57%) DevOps
3 4 (28.57%) Generative AI
3 4 (28.57%) Natural Language Processing
4 3 (21.43%) Data Science
4 3 (21.43%) LLM
4 3 (21.43%) MLOps
5 2 (14.29%) Analytics
5 2 (14.29%) Data Engineering
5 2 (14.29%) Event-Driven
5 2 (14.29%) Logistic Regression
5 2 (14.29%) LSTM
5 2 (14.29%) Random Forest
5 2 (14.29%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 2 (14.29%) Software Architecture
5 2 (14.29%) Transfer Learning
Programming Languages
1 13 (92.86%) Python
2 4 (28.57%) SQL
3 3 (21.43%) Shell Script
4 2 (14.29%) C++
4 2 (14.29%) R
4 2 (14.29%) Scala
5 1 (7.14%) C
5 1 (7.14%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) Degree
2 2 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (14.29%) Master's Degree
3 1 (7.14%) Numerate Degree
3 1 (7.14%) PhD
System Software
1 5 (35.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (28.57%) Kubernetes
2 2 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) Databricks