Machine Learning Contracts in the Thames Valley

Machine Learning (ML)
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 120 120 144
Rank change year-on-year 0 +24 -43
Contract jobs citing Machine Learning 12 30 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.45% 1.05% 0.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.53% 1.15% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 22 16
10th Percentile £318 £221 £421
25th Percentile £427 £422 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year +28.57% -8.70% +17.95%
75th Percentile £725 £572 £727
90th Percentile £830 £613 £763
South East median daily rate £600 £575 £575
% change year-on-year +4.35% - +15.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,268 2,599 3,223
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 85.88% 90.75% 89.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,245 1,764 2,187
10th Percentile £213 £317 £235
25th Percentile £375 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £485
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% +4.12% +7.78%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £585
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £510 £504 £500
% change year-on-year +1.29% +0.70% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 70 89
10th Percentile £14.09 £16.25 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.25 £24.86 £12.25
Median hourly rate £46.25 £52.30 £17.42
Median % change year-on-year -11.57% +200.23% -17.24%
75th Percentile £64.42 £72.69 £24.42
90th Percentile £85.65 £79.19 £63.27
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 the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Machine Learning in the Thames Valley

Machine Learning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Machine Learning in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Machine Learning in the Thames Valley

Machine Learning
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate histogram for Machine Learning in the Thames Valley

Machine Learning
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Machine Learning in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Machine Learning in the Thames Valley

Machine Learning
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley 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
Berkshire -20 9 £495 -7.91% 24
Buckinghamshire +30 2 £700 +21.74% 12
Oxfordshire +2 1 £675 +237.50% 26
Machine Learning
South East

Machine Learning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (8.33%) Apache
1 1 (8.33%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (8.33%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 4 (33.33%) Azure
2 2 (16.67%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (8.33%) AWS
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Cognitive Services
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Machine Learning
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (8.33%) ChatGPT
3 1 (8.33%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) Big Data
2 1 (8.33%) Data Lake
2 1 (8.33%) Data Mining
2 1 (8.33%) Hadoop
2 1 (8.33%) HDInsight
2 1 (8.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Git
2 1 (8.33%) CMake
2 1 (8.33%) JIRA
2 1 (8.33%) MLflow
General
1 6 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (41.67%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Finance
3 2 (16.67%) Legal
4 1 (8.33%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (25.00%) Architect
2 2 (16.67%) Analytics Manager
2 2 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
2 2 (16.67%) Security Architect
2 2 (16.67%) Senior
3 1 (8.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Data Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Compliance Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Data Analytics Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Data Science Manager
3 1 (8.33%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Engineering Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Lead
3 1 (8.33%) Lead .NET Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Project Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Analytics Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (25.00%) PyTorch
1 3 (25.00%) TensorFlow
2 2 (16.67%) Kafka
2 2 (16.67%) PySpark
3 1 (8.33%) .NET
3 1 (8.33%) CNTK
3 1 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (8.33%) Google JAX
3 1 (8.33%) GraphQL
3 1 (8.33%) Hugging Face
3 1 (8.33%) LangChain
3 1 (8.33%) NumPy
3 1 (8.33%) OpenVINO
3 1 (8.33%) Pandas
3 1 (8.33%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Algorithms
1 2 (16.67%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (8.33%) Biopharmaceutical
2 1 (8.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (8.33%) Data Structures
2 1 (8.33%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (8.33%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Linux
2 1 (8.33%) Android
2 1 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (75.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 6 (50.00%) Analytics
3 5 (41.67%) Data Science
4 4 (33.33%) DevOps
5 3 (25.00%) Agile
5 3 (25.00%) CI/CD
5 3 (25.00%) Computer Science
5 3 (25.00%) Data Engineering
5 3 (25.00%) Data Protection
5 3 (25.00%) Project Management
5 3 (25.00%) Visualisation
6 2 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
6 2 (16.67%) Data Modelling
6 2 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
6 2 (16.67%) LLM
6 2 (16.67%) Open Source
6 2 (16.67%) Predictive Analytics
6 2 (16.67%) Software Engineering
6 2 (16.67%) Threat Modelling
6 2 (16.67%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 8 (66.67%) Python
2 3 (25.00%) C++
2 3 (25.00%) SQL
3 2 (16.67%) C
3 2 (16.67%) Java
3 2 (16.67%) R
4 1 (8.33%) Bash
4 1 (8.33%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (8.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) Degree
2 2 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (16.67%) Master's Degree
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (25.00%) GDPR
2 1 (8.33%) Data Quality
2 1 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (8.33%) NIST
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (8.33%) Ansible
2 1 (8.33%) Prometheus
2 1 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (8.33%) Databricks
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft