Machine Learning Engineer Contracts in England

Machine Learning Engineer
UK > England

The median Machine Learning Engineer daily rate in England is £559 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 507 593 686
Rank change year-on-year +86 +93 -62
Contract jobs requiring a Machine Learning Engineer 44 44 91
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.12% 0.093% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.098% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 30 61
10th Percentile £450 £534 £450
25th Percentile £505 £554 £556
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £559 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.83% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £678 £588 £725
90th Percentile £918 £656 £850
UK median daily rate £559 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -2.83% -4.17% +12.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51.25 - -
Median hourly rate £62.50 - -
75th Percentile £66.25 - -
90th Percentile £73.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £62.50 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 34,226 44,888 67,264
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.56% 95.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,546 31,942 48,134
10th Percentile £285 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.00%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,576 1,314 1,782
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.28 £12.51
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.75
Median hourly rate £37.75 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -16.11% +88.21% +11.21%
75th Percentile £62.00 £65.57 £49.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £77.50 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.50
% change year-on-year -16.67% +83.67% +12.28%

Machine Learning Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Machine Learning Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Machine Learning Engineer in England

Machine Learning Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Machine Learning Engineer in England

Machine Learning Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Machine Learning Engineer in England

Machine Learning Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Machine Learning Engineer in England

Machine Learning Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Machine Learning Engineer in England over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Machine Learning Engineer in England

Machine Learning Engineer
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Machine Learning Engineer within the England 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
London +102 30 £550 -4.35% 56
East of England - 8 - - 7
South East +6 5 £600 +6.67% 8
Machine Learning Engineer
UK

Machine Learning Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 1 June 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 job ads across the England region featuring Machine Learning Engineer in the job title.

1 44 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 36 (81.82%) Python
3 26 (59.09%) Artificial Intelligence
4 18 (40.91%) TensorFlow
5 17 (38.64%) Software Engineering
6 15 (34.09%) Data Science
7 13 (29.55%) MLOps
7 13 (29.55%) Deep Learning
7 13 (29.55%) DevOps
7 13 (29.55%) Java
8 11 (25.00%) C++
8 11 (25.00%) Azure
8 11 (25.00%) AWS
8 11 (25.00%) scikit-learn
9 10 (22.73%) PyTorch
9 10 (22.73%) NumPy
9 10 (22.73%) Degree
9 10 (22.73%) Computer Science
10 9 (20.45%) CI/CD
11 8 (18.18%) Generative AI
11 8 (18.18%) Computer Science Degree
11 8 (18.18%) Azure Machine Learning
11 8 (18.18%) Algorithms
11 8 (18.18%) Pandas
12 7 (15.91%) GCP
12 7 (15.91%) Kubernetes
12 7 (15.91%) Natural Language Processing
12 7 (15.91%) JavaScript
12 7 (15.91%) Electronics
13 6 (13.64%) SQL

Machine Learning Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 6 (13.64%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (6.82%) Apache Spark
3 2 (4.55%) Jupyter
4 1 (2.27%) Apache
4 1 (2.27%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 11 (25.00%) AWS
1 11 (25.00%) Azure
2 8 (18.18%) Azure Machine Learning
3 7 (15.91%) GCP
4 5 (11.36%) Vertex AI
5 3 (6.82%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (4.55%) ChatGPT
7 1 (2.27%) Amazon SageMaker
7 1 (2.27%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (2.27%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (13.64%) Data Mining
2 3 (6.82%) NoSQL
3 2 (4.55%) Big Data
4 1 (2.27%) Data Lake
4 1 (2.27%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 5 (11.36%) MLflow
2 3 (6.82%) Git
2 3 (6.82%) Mercurial
3 2 (4.55%) Cucumber
3 2 (4.55%) GitLab
3 2 (4.55%) Selenium
General
1 7 (15.91%) Electronics
2 4 (9.09%) Finance
3 3 (6.82%) Multimedia
3 3 (6.82%) Social Skills
4 2 (4.55%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.27%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (2.27%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (40.91%) TensorFlow
2 11 (25.00%) scikit-learn
3 10 (22.73%) NumPy
3 10 (22.73%) PyTorch
4 8 (18.18%) Pandas
5 3 (6.82%) LangChain
5 3 (6.82%) React
5 3 (6.82%) SciPy
6 2 (4.55%) DirectX
6 2 (4.55%) FastAPI
6 2 (4.55%) HTML
6 2 (4.55%) OpenCV
6 2 (4.55%) OpenGL
6 2 (4.55%) OpenGL ES
6 2 (4.55%) Torch
6 2 (4.55%) Vulkan
6 2 (4.55%) XGBoost
7 1 (2.27%) AWS CDK
7 1 (2.27%) Hugging Face
7 1 (2.27%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 8 (18.18%) Algorithms
2 5 (11.36%) Social Media
3 3 (6.82%) Photography
4 2 (4.55%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (4.55%) Tandem
5 1 (2.27%) Digital Media
5 1 (2.27%) Life Science
5 1 (2.27%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 4 (9.09%) Android
2 3 (6.82%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 26 (59.09%) Artificial Intelligence
3 17 (38.64%) Software Engineering
4 15 (34.09%) Data Science
5 13 (29.55%) Deep Learning
5 13 (29.55%) DevOps
5 13 (29.55%) MLOps
6 10 (22.73%) Computer Science
7 9 (20.45%) CI/CD
8 8 (18.18%) Generative AI
9 7 (15.91%) Natural Language Processing
10 6 (13.64%) Test Automation
11 5 (11.36%) Architectural Patterns
11 5 (11.36%) Computer Vision
11 5 (11.36%) Data Ingestion
11 5 (11.36%) Parallel Computing
11 5 (11.36%) Pattern Recognition
11 5 (11.36%) Roadmaps
11 5 (11.36%) Workflow
12 4 (9.09%) Natural Language Understanding
Programming Languages
1 36 (81.82%) Python
2 13 (29.55%) Java
3 11 (25.00%) C++
4 7 (15.91%) JavaScript
5 6 (13.64%) SQL
6 5 (11.36%) C
6 5 (11.36%) Shell Script
7 4 (9.09%) C#
8 2 (4.55%) Go
9 1 (2.27%) Kotlin
9 1 (2.27%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (22.73%) Degree
2 8 (18.18%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (11.36%) Master's Degree
4 4 (9.09%) PhD
5 2 (4.55%) SC Cleared
5 2 (4.55%) Security Cleared
6 1 (2.27%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.55%) QA
System Software
1 5 (11.36%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (15.91%) Kubernetes
2 5 (11.36%) Kubeflow
3 2 (4.55%) Grafana
3 2 (4.55%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (11.36%) Databricks
2 2 (4.55%) Splunk
3 1 (2.27%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.27%) OpenAI