Machine Learning Contracts in the South East

Machine Learning (ML)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring Machine Learning skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Machine Learning over the 6 months leading up to 11 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 172 158 208
Rank change year-on-year -14 +50 -87
Contract jobs citing Machine Learning 29 60 59
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.50% 1.06% 0.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.61% 1.19% 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 46 36
10th Percentile £359 £406 £422
25th Percentile £400 £456 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £563 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -2.17% +15.00%
75th Percentile £650 £751 £718
90th Percentile £750 £1,100 £763
England median daily rate £588 £588 £600
% change year-on-year - -2.08% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £56.50
Median hourly rate £80.00 £22.16 £59.00
Median % change year-on-year +261.01% -62.44% -
75th Percentile - - £61.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £52.50 £40.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year +29.63% -10.00% +55.98%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

Machine Learning falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,757 5,035 6,876
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 82.70% 89.04% 89.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,757 3,459 4,679
10th Percentile £263 £250 £244
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £501 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.50% +0.10% +8.11%
75th Percentile £625 £619 £600
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 471 221 274
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.25 £12.31
25th Percentile £18.32 £24.50 £15.50
Median hourly rate £47.50 £52.50 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +138.64% -12.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £76.99 £75.00 £63.60
England median hourly rate £37.50 £35.25 £25.68
% change year-on-year +6.38% +37.27% +14.13%

Machine Learning
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Machine Learning in the South East

Machine Learning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Machine Learning in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Machine Learning in the South East

Machine Learning
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Machine Learning in the South East over the 6 months to 11 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Machine Learning in the South East

Machine Learning
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Machine Learning in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Machine Learning in the South East

Machine Learning
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 11 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
Thames Valley -14 12 £598 +13.81% 49
Berkshire -18 10 £495 -5.71% 16
Surrey +15 9 £600 +20.00% 10
Hampshire -6 5 £475 -17.39% 16
East Sussex +7 3 £400 -30.43% 7
Buckinghamshire +25 2 £700 +21.74% 10
Machine Learning
England

Machine Learning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 (3.45%) Apache
1 1 (3.45%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (3.45%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (10.34%) Chatbot
2 1 (3.45%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 10 (34.48%) Azure
2 7 (24.14%) AWS
3 4 (13.79%) Azure AI
4 3 (10.34%) Amazon Bedrock
4 3 (10.34%) Anthropic Claude
5 2 (6.90%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (6.90%) GCP
6 1 (3.45%) Azure Cognitive Services
6 1 (3.45%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (3.45%) Azure Machine Learning
6 1 (3.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (3.45%) ChatGPT
6 1 (3.45%) dbt
6 1 (3.45%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.90%) LAN
1 2 (6.90%) WAN
2 1 (3.45%) Network Security
2 1 (3.45%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.90%) Big Data
1 2 (6.90%) Hadoop
1 2 (6.90%) Qlik Sense
1 2 (6.90%) Relational Database
1 2 (6.90%) Tableau
2 1 (3.45%) Data Hub
2 1 (3.45%) Data Lake
2 1 (3.45%) Data Mining
2 1 (3.45%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (3.45%) HDInsight
2 1 (3.45%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (13.79%) Git
2 1 (3.45%) CMake
2 1 (3.45%) JIRA
2 1 (3.45%) MLflow
General
1 14 (48.28%) Social Skills
2 7 (24.14%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (24.14%) Finance
3 5 (17.24%) Electronics
4 2 (6.90%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (6.90%) Legal
4 2 (6.90%) Telecoms
5 1 (3.45%) Military
5 1 (3.45%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (20.69%) Architect
2 5 (17.24%) Machine Learning Engineer
3 4 (13.79%) Developer
3 4 (13.79%) Python Engineer
4 3 (10.34%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
4 3 (10.34%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
4 3 (10.34%) Artificial Intelligence Software Developer
4 3 (10.34%) Azure Architect
4 3 (10.34%) Data Engineer
4 3 (10.34%) Security Architect
4 3 (10.34%) Software Developer
5 2 (6.90%) Analytics Manager
5 2 (6.90%) Android Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) C++ Android Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Cloud Architect
5 2 (6.90%) Computer Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Computer Vision Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Graphics Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Senior
5 2 (6.90%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (31.03%) PyTorch
1 9 (31.03%) TensorFlow
2 4 (13.79%) DirectX
2 4 (13.79%) OpenGL
2 4 (13.79%) OpenGL ES
2 4 (13.79%) Vulkan
3 3 (10.34%) scikit-learn
4 2 (6.90%) Google JAX
4 2 (6.90%) Kafka
4 2 (6.90%) Middleware
4 2 (6.90%) PySpark
4 2 (6.90%) Unity (Game Engine)
5 1 (3.45%) CNTK
5 1 (3.45%) Hugging Face
5 1 (3.45%) LangChain
5 1 (3.45%) Node.js
5 1 (3.45%) NumPy
5 1 (3.45%) OpenVINO
5 1 (3.45%) Pandas
5 1 (3.45%) Prisma
Miscellaneous
1 7 (24.14%) Algorithms
2 3 (10.34%) Photography
3 2 (6.90%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (6.90%) Animation
3 2 (6.90%) Augmented Reality
3 2 (6.90%) Mixed Reality
3 2 (6.90%) Public Cloud
3 2 (6.90%) Security Posture
4 1 (3.45%) Biopharmaceutical
4 1 (3.45%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.45%) Data Structures
4 1 (3.45%) Digital Media
4 1 (3.45%) GNSS
4 1 (3.45%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 7 (24.14%) Android
2 4 (13.79%) Linux
3 3 (10.34%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (65.52%) Artificial Intelligence
2 11 (37.93%) Data Science
2 11 (37.93%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (34.48%) Analytics
4 9 (31.03%) Computer Science
5 8 (27.59%) Deep Learning
6 6 (20.69%) Agile
7 5 (17.24%) Decision-Making
7 5 (17.24%) Natural Language Processing
7 5 (17.24%) Visualisation
8 4 (13.79%) CI/CD
8 4 (13.79%) Data Engineering
8 4 (13.79%) Data Pipeline
8 4 (13.79%) Data Protection
8 4 (13.79%) Data Visualisation
8 4 (13.79%) DevOps
9 3 (10.34%) Android Development
9 3 (10.34%) Security Architecture
9 3 (10.34%) Software Engineering
9 3 (10.34%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 16 (55.17%) Python
2 11 (37.93%) C++
3 8 (27.59%) Java
4 6 (20.69%) SQL
5 3 (10.34%) C
5 3 (10.34%) C#
5 3 (10.34%) Kotlin
5 3 (10.34%) R
6 2 (6.90%) GLSL
6 2 (6.90%) HLSL
7 1 (3.45%) Bash
7 1 (3.45%) JavaScript
7 1 (3.45%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (3.45%) PowerShell
7 1 (3.45%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (31.03%) Degree
2 8 (27.59%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (17.24%) Master's Degree
4 2 (6.90%) PhD
5 1 (3.45%) Azure Certification
5 1 (3.45%) SC Cleared
5 1 (3.45%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (13.79%) GDPR
2 2 (6.90%) Data Quality
2 2 (6.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (6.90%) NIST
2 2 (6.90%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (10.34%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.45%) Ansible
2 1 (3.45%) Prometheus
2 1 (3.45%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (10.34%) Databricks
1 3 (10.34%) OpenAI
2 1 (3.45%) Microsoft