Machine Learning Engineer Contracts

Machine Learning Engineer
UK

The median Machine Learning Engineer daily rate in the UK is £571 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 20 May 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
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 524 643 759
Rank change year-on-year +119 +116 -89
Contract jobs requiring a Machine Learning Engineer 55 51 104
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.089% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.094% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 35 69
10th Percentile £450 £525 £500
25th Percentile £505 £550 £570
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £571 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -0.65% -4.17% +15.38%
75th Percentile £675 £609 £700
90th Percentile £858 £703 £810
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £575 £590
% change year-on-year +4.35% -2.54% +36.42%
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 excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 the UK with a recognized job title 39,468 54,175 84,246
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.79% 94.61% 95.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,716 37,826 59,224
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £543 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +8.47%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £489 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.20% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,674 1,504 2,051
10th Percentile £12.83 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.82
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.90 £76.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +4.19%

Machine Learning Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Machine Learning Engineer in the UK

Machine Learning Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Machine Learning Engineer in the UK

Machine Learning Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Machine Learning Engineer over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Machine Learning Engineer in the UK

Machine Learning Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Machine Learning Engineer in the UK

Machine Learning Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Machine Learning Engineer over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Machine Learning Engineer in the UK

Machine Learning Engineer
Top 7 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 20 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
England +122 51 £559 -2.83% 116
London +113 35 £538 -6.52% 84
UK excluding London +49 16 £600 +4.35% 51
Work from Home +104 14 £700 +12.00% 54
East of England - 8 - - 8
South East +18 7 £600 +6.67% 29
Scotland +41 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 20 May 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 featuring Machine Learning Engineer in the job title.

1 55 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 46 (83.64%) Python
3 33 (60.00%) Artificial Intelligence
4 23 (41.82%) TensorFlow
5 20 (36.36%) Software Engineering
5 20 (36.36%) Data Science
6 18 (32.73%) DevOps
7 16 (29.09%) scikit-learn
7 16 (29.09%) AWS
7 16 (29.09%) MLOps
8 14 (25.45%) CI/CD
8 14 (25.45%) PyTorch
8 14 (25.45%) Deep Learning
9 13 (23.64%) Azure
9 13 (23.64%) Java
10 12 (21.82%) NumPy
10 12 (21.82%) Kubernetes
11 11 (20.00%) Algorithms
11 11 (20.00%) Docker
11 11 (20.00%) C++
12 10 (18.18%) Degree
12 10 (18.18%) Computer Science
12 10 (18.18%) Pandas
12 10 (18.18%) Generative AI
13 9 (16.36%) SQL
14 8 (14.55%) Data Mining
14 8 (14.55%) Shell Script
14 8 (14.55%) GCP
14 8 (14.55%) Azure Machine Learning
14 8 (14.55%) Natural Language Processing

Machine Learning Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 8 (14.55%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (3.64%) Apache
2 2 (3.64%) Apache Spark
2 2 (3.64%) Confluence
2 2 (3.64%) Jupyter
3 1 (1.82%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 16 (29.09%) AWS
2 13 (23.64%) Azure
3 8 (14.55%) Azure Machine Learning
3 8 (14.55%) GCP
4 6 (10.91%) Vertex AI
5 5 (9.09%) Amazon SageMaker
5 5 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (5.45%) Amazon S3
6 3 (5.45%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (5.45%) Serverless
7 2 (3.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (3.64%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (3.64%) AWS Step Functions
7 2 (3.64%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 2 (3.64%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (3.64%) ChatGPT
7 2 (3.64%) Power Platform
7 2 (3.64%) PowerApps
8 1 (1.82%) Amazon Kinesis
8 1 (1.82%) AWS CloudFormation
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (14.55%) Data Mining
2 3 (5.45%) NoSQL
3 2 (3.64%) Big Data
3 2 (3.64%) Power BI
4 1 (1.82%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (1.82%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (1.82%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.82%) Flink
4 1 (1.82%) Hadoop
4 1 (1.82%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (10.91%) MLflow
2 5 (9.09%) Git
3 3 (5.45%) Mercurial
4 2 (3.64%) Cucumber
4 2 (3.64%) GitLab
4 2 (3.64%) Jenkins
4 2 (3.64%) JIRA
4 2 (3.64%) Selenium
5 1 (1.82%) Poetry
General
1 7 (12.73%) Electronics
2 6 (10.91%) Finance
3 5 (9.09%) Social Skills
4 3 (5.45%) Multimedia
4 3 (5.45%) Retail
5 2 (3.64%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.82%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (1.82%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (41.82%) TensorFlow
2 16 (29.09%) scikit-learn
3 14 (25.45%) PyTorch
4 12 (21.82%) NumPy
5 10 (18.18%) Pandas
6 4 (7.27%) SciPy
7 3 (5.45%) LangChain
7 3 (5.45%) React
8 2 (3.64%) DirectX
8 2 (3.64%) FastAPI
8 2 (3.64%) HTML
8 2 (3.64%) OpenCV
8 2 (3.64%) OpenGL
8 2 (3.64%) OpenGL ES
8 2 (3.64%) Torch
8 2 (3.64%) Vulkan
8 2 (3.64%) XGBoost
9 1 (1.82%) Kafka
9 1 (1.82%) Lambda Expressions
9 1 (1.82%) LAPP Stack
Miscellaneous
1 11 (20.00%) Algorithms
2 5 (9.09%) Social Media
3 3 (5.45%) Life Science
3 3 (5.45%) Photography
4 2 (3.64%) Data Structures
4 2 (3.64%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (3.64%) Tandem
5 1 (1.82%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.82%) Digital Media
5 1 (1.82%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.82%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.82%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.27%) Android
2 3 (5.45%) Windows
3 1 (1.82%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 33 (60.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 20 (36.36%) Data Science
3 20 (36.36%) Software Engineering
4 18 (32.73%) DevOps
5 16 (29.09%) MLOps
6 14 (25.45%) CI/CD
6 14 (25.45%) Deep Learning
7 10 (18.18%) Computer Science
7 10 (18.18%) Generative AI
8 8 (14.55%) LLM
8 8 (14.55%) Natural Language Processing
9 7 (12.73%) Test Automation
10 6 (10.91%) Agile
10 6 (10.91%) Data Ingestion
10 6 (10.91%) Workflow
11 5 (9.09%) Parallel Computing
11 5 (9.09%) Pattern Recognition
11 5 (9.09%) Roadmaps
11 5 (9.09%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 46 (83.64%) Python
2 13 (23.64%) Java
3 11 (20.00%) C++
4 9 (16.36%) SQL
5 8 (14.55%) Shell Script
6 7 (12.73%) JavaScript
7 5 (9.09%) C
8 4 (7.27%) C#
9 2 (3.64%) Go
9 2 (3.64%) R
9 2 (3.64%) Scala
10 1 (1.82%) Kotlin
10 1 (1.82%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (18.18%) Degree
2 8 (14.55%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (9.09%) Master's Degree
4 4 (7.27%) PhD
5 2 (3.64%) SC Cleared
5 2 (3.64%) Security Cleared
6 1 (1.82%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.64%) QA
2 1 (1.82%) Data Quality
System Software
1 11 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (21.82%) Kubernetes
2 6 (10.91%) Kubeflow
3 3 (5.45%) Terraform
4 2 (3.64%) Grafana
Vendors
1 6 (10.91%) Databricks
2 2 (3.64%) Splunk
3 1 (1.82%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.82%) OpenAI