Machine Learning Contracts in the UK excluding London

Machine Learning (ML)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 215 231 268
Rank change year-on-year +16 +37 -55
Contract jobs citing Machine Learning 177 229 259
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.87% 1.00% 0.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.03% 1.11% 0.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 163 158
10th Percentile £363 £425 £400
25th Percentile £438 £475 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £619 £663 £665
90th Percentile £700 £759 £763
UK median daily rate £580 £590 £600
% change year-on-year -1.69% -1.67% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 14 4
10th Percentile £46.69 £20.65 £24.73
25th Percentile £51.25 £22.16 £29.56
Median hourly rate £56.25 £35.00 £46.75
Median % change year-on-year +60.71% -25.13% +10.00%
75th Percentile £66.25 £50.19 £61.50
90th Percentile £70.75 £53.75 -
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £35.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year +50.00% -6.67% +1.56%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,140 20,557 27,119
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.34% 89.47% 89.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,220 14,177 18,943
10th Percentile £250 £256 £238
25th Percentile £381 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £480
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.43%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £655
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,064 1,258 1,350
10th Percentile £12.35 £10.63 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.25 £15.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.54%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £47.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.72 £61.52
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £35.65 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.11% +38.82% +5.90%

Machine Learning
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Machine Learning as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Machine Learning in the UK excluding London

Machine Learning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Machine Learning in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Machine Learning in the UK excluding London

Machine Learning
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Machine Learning in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Machine Learning in the UK excluding London

Machine Learning
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Machine Learning in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Machine Learning in the UK excluding London

Machine Learning
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Machine Learning in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Machine Learning in the UK excluding London

Machine Learning
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 17 May 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
Scotland +68 49 £469 -2.14% 31
North of England +26 45 £550 -6.38% 101
Midlands +44 27 £580 +0.87% 54
South East -21 26 £600 +4.35% 241
North West +10 23 £525 -10.64% 60
West Midlands +37 22 £580 +7.91% 39
East of England +12 19 £388 -35.42% 86
Yorkshire +15 16 £554 -3.65% 29
South West -47 13 £563 +2.27% 70
North East +21 8 - - 12
East Midlands +15 5 £675 - 15
Machine Learning
UK

Machine Learning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 9 (5.08%) Apache Spark
2 4 (2.26%) Apache
2 4 (2.26%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (2.26%) Confluence
3 1 (0.56%) GeoServer
3 1 (0.56%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (1.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.56%) Simulink
2 1 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 56 (31.64%) AWS
2 49 (27.68%) Azure
3 24 (13.56%) Serverless
4 21 (11.86%) AWS Lambda
4 21 (11.86%) GCP
5 19 (10.73%) AWS CloudFormation
6 17 (9.60%) Amazon S3
7 13 (7.34%) OpenShift
8 12 (6.78%) Power Platform
9 11 (6.21%) Amazon SageMaker
10 8 (4.52%) Cloud Computing
10 8 (4.52%) Textract
11 6 (3.39%) Azure Data Factory
11 6 (3.39%) Azure DevOps
12 4 (2.26%) OCI
12 4 (2.26%) Rekognition
13 3 (1.69%) AWS CodePipeline
13 3 (1.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 3 (1.69%) npm
13 3 (1.69%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.26%) LAN
1 4 (2.26%) WAN
2 3 (1.69%) VPN
3 2 (1.13%) SSL
3 2 (1.13%) Wireless
4 1 (0.56%) 5G
4 1 (0.56%) DHCP
4 1 (0.56%) DNS
4 1 (0.56%) DVB
4 1 (0.56%) HTTP
4 1 (0.56%) LTE
4 1 (0.56%) Network Security
4 1 (0.56%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (0.56%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.56%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (11.86%) Data Warehouse
2 19 (10.73%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (9.60%) Big Data
4 14 (7.91%) Amazon Aurora
4 14 (7.91%) NoSQL
5 12 (6.78%) Data Lake
5 12 (6.78%) Power BI
6 10 (5.65%) Tableau
7 7 (3.95%) Data Mining
7 7 (3.95%) Relational Database
8 6 (3.39%) Hadoop
9 4 (2.26%) BigQuery
10 3 (1.69%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (1.69%) Apache Hive
10 3 (1.69%) Bigtable
10 3 (1.69%) Cloud Spanner
11 2 (1.13%) Amazon Athena
11 2 (1.13%) GIS
11 2 (1.13%) Metadata
11 2 (1.13%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 19 (10.73%) Git
2 7 (3.95%) Jenkins
2 7 (3.95%) JIRA
3 4 (2.26%) Mercurial
4 3 (1.69%) Bitbucket
4 3 (1.69%) Cypress.io
4 3 (1.69%) GitLab
5 2 (1.13%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.56%) CMake
6 1 (0.56%) MLflow
General
1 27 (15.25%) Social Skills
2 25 (14.12%) Finance
3 17 (9.60%) Public Sector
4 13 (7.34%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (5.65%) Electronics
5 10 (5.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (3.39%) Banking
6 6 (3.39%) Multimedia
7 4 (2.26%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (2.26%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.69%) Legal
8 3 (1.69%) Marketing
8 3 (1.69%) Pharmaceutical
8 3 (1.69%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (1.69%) Retail
9 2 (1.13%) Publishing
10 1 (0.56%) Back Office
10 1 (0.56%) Military
10 1 (0.56%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.56%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 40 (22.60%) Developer
2 27 (15.25%) Architect
3 16 (9.04%) Data Engineer
3 16 (9.04%) Machine Learning Engineer
4 13 (7.34%) Data Scientist
5 12 (6.78%) Automation Developer
6 10 (5.65%) Analyst
6 10 (5.65%) Lead
6 10 (5.65%) Software Engineer
7 9 (5.08%) Azure Architect
7 9 (5.08%) Data Architect
7 9 (5.08%) Senior
8 8 (4.52%) Azure Developer
8 8 (4.52%) Full Stack Engineer
9 7 (3.95%) Data Analyst
9 7 (3.95%) Java Developer
10 6 (3.39%) AWS Engineer
10 6 (3.39%) Java Engineer
10 6 (3.39%) Python Engineer
10 6 (3.39%) Splunk Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (10.73%) PyTorch
2 17 (9.60%) AWS CDK
3 16 (9.04%) Spring
3 16 (9.04%) TensorFlow
4 15 (8.47%) REST
5 14 (7.91%) AngularJS
6 11 (6.21%) CSS
6 11 (6.21%) HTML
7 10 (5.65%) JPA
7 10 (5.65%) React
7 10 (5.65%) Spring Boot
8 8 (4.52%) SpaCy
9 6 (3.39%) NumPy
9 6 (3.39%) Pandas
10 5 (2.82%) Kafka
11 4 (2.26%) OpenGL ES
11 4 (2.26%) PostGIS
11 4 (2.26%) PySpark
11 4 (2.26%) SciPy
11 4 (2.26%) Vulkan
Miscellaneous
1 22 (12.43%) Algorithms
2 18 (10.17%) Public Cloud
3 6 (3.39%) Onboarding
3 6 (3.39%) Product Ownership
4 5 (2.82%) Blockchain
4 5 (2.82%) Data Structures
4 5 (2.82%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (2.82%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (2.26%) Distributed Computing
5 4 (2.26%) Industry 4.0
5 4 (2.26%) Social Media
5 4 (2.26%) Taxonomies
6 3 (1.69%) Cloud Native
6 3 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (1.69%) Photography
7 2 (1.13%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.13%) Animation
7 2 (1.13%) Augmented Reality
7 2 (1.13%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.13%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 10 (5.65%) Linux
2 9 (5.08%) Windows
3 7 (3.95%) Android
4 1 (0.56%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (0.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (53.11%) Artificial Intelligence
2 55 (31.07%) Agile
3 47 (26.55%) Analytics
4 45 (25.42%) Software Engineering
5 40 (22.60%) DevOps
6 37 (20.90%) Data Science
7 31 (17.51%) Decision-Making
8 28 (15.82%) CI/CD
9 27 (15.25%) Data Modelling
10 25 (14.12%) Full Stack Development
10 25 (14.12%) Visualisation
11 24 (13.56%) Computer Science
11 24 (13.56%) ETL
12 22 (12.43%) Data Analysis
13 20 (11.30%) Natural Language Processing
13 20 (11.30%) Scrum
14 19 (10.73%) Infrastructure as Code
15 18 (10.17%) Use Case
16 17 (9.60%) Microservices
17 16 (9.04%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 89 (50.28%) Python
2 46 (25.99%) SQL
3 36 (20.34%) Java
4 27 (15.25%) TypeScript
5 12 (6.78%) C#
5 12 (6.78%) C++
6 8 (4.52%) JavaScript
6 8 (4.52%) R
6 8 (4.52%) Scala
7 7 (3.95%) Shell Script
8 6 (3.39%) Search Processing Language
9 3 (1.69%) Kotlin
9 3 (1.69%) PowerShell
10 2 (1.13%) GLSL
10 2 (1.13%) HLSL
11 1 (0.56%) Bash
11 1 (0.56%) C
11 1 (0.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.56%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.56%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 27 (15.25%) Degree
2 18 (10.17%) Computer Science Degree
3 16 (9.04%) Security Cleared
4 15 (8.47%) SC Cleared
5 11 (6.21%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.69%) PhD
7 2 (1.13%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.56%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.56%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.56%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.56%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.56%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (0.56%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.52%) Accessibility
2 6 (3.39%) QA
3 5 (2.82%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.82%) GDPR
4 3 (1.69%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.56%) ISO 26262
5 1 (0.56%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.56%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 21 (11.86%) Docker
2 3 (1.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.13%) HDFS
3 2 (1.13%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.56%) KVM
4 1 (0.56%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 28 (15.82%) Kubernetes
2 15 (8.47%) Grafana
3 6 (3.39%) Terraform
4 4 (2.26%) Ansible
5 2 (1.13%) OPNET
5 2 (1.13%) PowerCLI
6 1 (0.56%) Functional Safety
6 1 (0.56%) Nagios
6 1 (0.56%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.56%) Puppet
6 1 (0.56%) vCenter Server
6 1 (0.56%) vRealize
Vendors
1 20 (11.30%) Microsoft
2 13 (7.34%) Google
3 12 (6.78%) Databricks
4 6 (3.39%) Splunk
5 5 (2.82%) ServiceNow
6 4 (2.26%) Oracle
6 4 (2.26%) Sage
7 3 (1.69%) VMware
8 2 (1.13%) Atlassian
8 2 (1.13%) Cisco
9 1 (0.56%) Anaplan
9 1 (0.56%) Typelevel