Machine Learning Contracts in Berkshire

Machine Learning (ML)
South East > Berkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 112 92 118
Rank change year-on-year -20 +26 -30
Contract jobs citing Machine Learning 9 23 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.47% 1.30% 0.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.53% 1.45% 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 18 12
10th Percentile £297 £413 £410
25th Percentile £359 £488 £534
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £538 £648
Median % change year-on-year -7.91% -16.99% +43.89%
75th Percentile £700 £572 £763
90th Percentile £850 £618 -
South East median daily rate £600 £575 £575
% change year-on-year +4.35% - +15.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

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 Berkshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,694 1,590 2,136
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 87.77% 89.73% 89.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 856 993 1,350
10th Percentile £235 £349 £267
25th Percentile £375 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% +5.00% +7.41%
75th Percentile £608 £638 £588
90th Percentile £675 £702 £650
South East median daily rate £510 £504 £500
% change year-on-year +1.29% +0.70% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 53 38
10th Percentile £17.15 £18.50 £13.00
25th Percentile £41.25 £26.13 £17.00
Median hourly rate £60.80 £63.00 £21.03
Median % change year-on-year -3.49% +199.64% -0.12%
75th Percentile £71.89 £74.79 £34.97
90th Percentile £87.46 £79.19 £67.72
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £52.50 £21.99
% change year-on-year -9.52% +138.80% -20.05%

Machine Learning
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Machine Learning in Berkshire

Machine Learning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Machine Learning in Berkshire

Machine Learning
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Machine Learning in Berkshire over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Machine Learning in Berkshire

Machine Learning
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Machine Learning in Berkshire

Machine Learning
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

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 Berkshire region over the 6 months to 1 June 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
Reading -16 5 £495 -13.91% 9
Windsor - 2 £900 - 3
Wokingham -9 1 - -
Maidenhead - 1 £263 - 1
Machine Learning
South East

Machine Learning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 (11.11%) Apache
1 1 (11.11%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) Azure
1 2 (22.22%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (11.11%) Azure Cognitive Services
2 1 (11.11%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (11.11%) Azure Machine Learning
2 1 (11.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (11.11%) ChatGPT
2 1 (11.11%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) Big Data
2 1 (11.11%) Data Lake
2 1 (11.11%) Data Mining
2 1 (11.11%) Hadoop
2 1 (11.11%) HDInsight
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Git
2 1 (11.11%) CMake
2 1 (11.11%) JIRA
General
1 5 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 4 (44.44%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (22.22%) Legal
4 1 (11.11%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (11.11%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (11.11%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Security Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Data Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) C++ Software Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Compliance Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Data Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Data Architect
3 1 (11.11%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior
3 1 (11.11%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Software Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Software Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) PyTorch
1 3 (33.33%) TensorFlow
2 2 (22.22%) Kafka
3 1 (11.11%) CNTK
3 1 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (11.11%) Google JAX
3 1 (11.11%) Hugging Face
3 1 (11.11%) LangChain
3 1 (11.11%) OpenVINO
3 1 (11.11%) PySpark
3 1 (11.11%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Algorithms
1 2 (22.22%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (11.11%) Biopharmaceutical
2 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
2 1 (11.11%) Data Structures
2 1 (11.11%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (11.11%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Linux
2 1 (11.11%) Android
2 1 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) Artificial Intelligence
2 4 (44.44%) Analytics
2 4 (44.44%) Data Science
3 3 (33.33%) Agile
3 3 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 3 (33.33%) Data Protection
3 3 (33.33%) DevOps
4 2 (22.22%) Computer Science
4 2 (22.22%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (22.22%) Data Pipeline
4 2 (22.22%) Decision-Making
4 2 (22.22%) Deep Learning
4 2 (22.22%) LLM
4 2 (22.22%) Open Source
4 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (22.22%) Project Management
4 2 (22.22%) Security Architecture
4 2 (22.22%) Software Engineering
4 2 (22.22%) Visualisation
4 2 (22.22%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 6 (66.67%) Python
2 3 (33.33%) C++
3 2 (22.22%) C
4 1 (11.11%) Bash
4 1 (11.11%) Java
4 1 (11.11%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
4 1 (11.11%) R
4 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) Degree
2 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (11.11%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (33.33%) GDPR
2 1 (11.11%) Data Quality
2 1 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (11.11%) NIST
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Kubernetes
2 1 (11.11%) Ansible
2 1 (11.11%) Prometheus
2 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Databricks
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft