Machine Learning Contracts

Machine Learning (ML)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 156 220 194
Rank change year-on-year +64 -26 -33
Contract jobs citing Machine Learning 697 741 1,331
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.61% 1.25% 1.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.86% 1.39% 1.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 512 512 903
10th Percentile £413 £433 £425
25th Percentile £492 £512 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £725 £738 £700
90th Percentile £780 £886 £809
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +9.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 18 19
10th Percentile £41.25 £21.51 £19.10
25th Percentile £46.18 £25.37 £32.38
Median hourly rate £52.50 £35.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -6.67% -15.06%
75th Percentile £66.25 £53.75 £61.63
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.13 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.00 £35.00 £46.75
% change year-on-year +71.43% -25.13% -7.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,452 53,231 80,444
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.33% 89.85% 90.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,130 36,930 56,488
10th Percentile £300 £325 £341
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,454 1,752 1,920
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.95 £36.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.14% +44.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £64.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%

Machine Learning
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Machine Learning as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Machine Learning in the UK

Machine Learning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Machine Learning in the UK

Machine Learning
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Machine Learning over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Machine Learning in the UK

Machine Learning
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Machine Learning in the UK

Machine Learning
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Machine Learning over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Machine Learning in the UK

Machine Learning
Top 15 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 within the UK over the 6 months to 3 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 +68 604 £580 -3.33% 971
London +72 434 £608 -2.80% 511
Work from Home +80 231 £593 +3.04% 527
UK excluding London +1 171 £525 -8.70% 454
North of England +26 46 £550 -6.38% 79
Scotland +48 40 £463 -3.44% 25
South East -24 27 £600 +4.35% 139
Midlands +43 26 £580 +16.00% 41
North West +8 24 £525 -10.64% 48
East of England +21 23 £425 -29.17% 104
West Midlands +35 21 £580 +16.00% 27
Yorkshire +22 16 £554 -9.55% 24
South West -36 11 £550 - 58
North East +25 8 - - 8
East Midlands +25 5 £675 +58.82% 14

Machine Learning
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 67 (9.61%) Apache Airflow
2 59 (8.46%) Apache
3 33 (4.73%) Apache Spark
4 6 (0.86%) SharePoint
5 5 (0.72%) Confluence
5 5 (0.72%) Jupyter
6 3 (0.43%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.29%) SAS
8 1 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.14%) CMS
8 1 (0.14%) GeoServer
Applications
1 12 (1.72%) Chatbot
2 8 (1.15%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.57%) Simulink
4 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.14%) Stateflow
5 1 (0.14%) Trello
Business Applications
1 16 (2.30%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 13 (1.87%) Aladdin
3 3 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.29%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 253 (36.30%) AWS
2 211 (30.27%) Azure
3 186 (26.69%) GCP
4 50 (7.17%) Power Platform
5 38 (5.45%) Serverless
6 30 (4.30%) AWS Lambda
6 30 (4.30%) Vertex AI
7 28 (4.02%) Cloud Computing
8 25 (3.59%) Amazon S3
8 25 (3.59%) Amazon SageMaker
8 25 (3.59%) Azure DevOps
8 25 (3.59%) Azure Machine Learning
9 22 (3.16%) Snowflake
10 19 (2.73%) GitHub
11 14 (2.01%) AWS CloudFormation
11 14 (2.01%) Azure Data Factory
11 14 (2.01%) OCI
12 12 (1.72%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 10 (1.43%) ChatGPT
13 10 (1.43%) Google Compute Engine
Communications & Networking
1 25 (3.59%) HTTP
2 5 (0.72%) LAN
2 5 (0.72%) WAN
3 4 (0.57%) Network Security
4 3 (0.43%) SSL
5 2 (0.29%) Firewall
5 2 (0.29%) Wireless
6 1 (0.14%) DVB
6 1 (0.14%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (11.19%) Big Data
2 72 (10.33%) PostgreSQL
3 64 (9.18%) Data Warehouse
4 50 (7.17%) Apache Ignite
4 50 (7.17%) Tableau
5 44 (6.31%) Power BI
6 40 (5.74%) Data Lake
7 34 (4.88%) BigQuery
8 26 (3.73%) Hadoop
9 25 (3.59%) Apache Cassandra
9 25 (3.59%) Data Mining
10 18 (2.58%) NoSQL
11 13 (1.87%) Amazon Athena
11 13 (1.87%) Relational Database
12 12 (1.72%) SQL Server
13 9 (1.29%) Azure SQL Database
13 9 (1.29%) Metadata
14 8 (1.15%) Amazon Redshift
14 8 (1.15%) Apache Hive
14 8 (1.15%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 51 (7.32%) Git
2 35 (5.02%) Cypress.io
3 29 (4.16%) JIRA
4 22 (3.16%) Jenkins
5 13 (1.87%) ER Studio
5 13 (1.87%) ERwin
6 10 (1.43%) GitLab
7 9 (1.29%) MLflow
8 8 (1.15%) Mercurial
9 6 (0.86%) TeamCity
10 5 (0.72%) Maven
10 5 (0.72%) Postman
10 5 (0.72%) Subversion
11 4 (0.57%) Bitbucket
12 3 (0.43%) Poetry
12 3 (0.43%) Visual Studio
13 2 (0.29%) Cucumber
13 2 (0.29%) RStudio
13 2 (0.29%) Selenium
14 1 (0.14%) GoCD
General
1 164 (23.53%) Finance
2 126 (18.08%) Social Skills
3 92 (13.20%) Banking
4 90 (12.91%) Front Office
5 81 (11.62%) Analytical Skills
6 40 (5.74%) Public Sector
7 27 (3.87%) Marketing
8 26 (3.73%) Pharmaceutical
9 17 (2.44%) Retail
10 16 (2.30%) Electronics
11 15 (2.15%) Investment Banking
12 13 (1.87%) Manufacturing
13 12 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 12 (1.72%) Influencing Skills
14 9 (1.29%) Multimedia
14 9 (1.29%) Telecoms
15 8 (1.15%) Legal
16 6 (0.86%) Advertising
16 6 (0.86%) Police
16 6 (0.86%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 149 (21.38%) Developer
2 107 (15.35%) Architect
3 78 (11.19%) Data Scientist
3 78 (11.19%) Software Engineer
4 66 (9.47%) Python Developer
5 63 (9.04%) Python Engineer
6 55 (7.89%) Machine Learning Engineer
6 55 (7.89%) Python Software Engineer
7 54 (7.75%) Analyst
8 51 (7.32%) React Developer
9 49 (7.03%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 46 (6.60%) Data Engineer
11 44 (6.31%) Lead
12 42 (6.03%) Senior
13 38 (5.45%) Business Analyst
14 34 (4.88%) Full Stack Developer
14 34 (4.88%) Full Stack Engineer
15 33 (4.73%) Data Architect
16 32 (4.59%) Solutions Architect
17 28 (4.02%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (11.91%) React
2 74 (10.62%) TensorFlow
3 60 (8.61%) PyTorch
4 49 (7.03%) gRPC
4 49 (7.03%) Material-UI
4 49 (7.03%) Protocol Buffers
4 49 (7.03%) Redux
5 45 (6.46%) Pandas
6 44 (6.31%) Kafka
7 42 (6.03%) scikit-learn
8 41 (5.88%) RESTful
9 32 (4.59%) CSS
10 28 (4.02%) HTML
11 26 (3.73%) NumPy
12 25 (3.59%) Akka
13 19 (2.73%) .NET
13 19 (2.73%) PySpark
14 18 (2.58%) REST
15 17 (2.44%) Node.js
16 15 (2.15%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 114 (16.36%) Algorithms
2 78 (11.19%) Fixed Income
2 78 (11.19%) Hedge funds
3 52 (7.46%) Equities
4 46 (6.60%) Product Ownership
5 31 (4.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 29 (4.16%) Derivative
7 26 (3.73%) Public Cloud
8 24 (3.44%) Data Structures
9 20 (2.87%) Greenfield Project
10 18 (2.58%) Management Information System
11 14 (2.01%) Team-Oriented Environment
12 12 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
13 11 (1.58%) Analytical Mindset
13 11 (1.58%) Social Media
14 10 (1.43%) Cloud Native
15 9 (1.29%) Distributed Systems
15 9 (1.29%) Onboarding
16 7 (1.00%) Distributed Computing
16 7 (1.00%) Multi-touch
Operating Systems
1 27 (3.87%) Linux
2 13 (1.87%) Windows
3 8 (1.15%) Android
4 7 (1.00%) Unix
5 4 (0.57%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.14%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 401 (57.53%) Artificial Intelligence
2 246 (35.29%) Agile
3 222 (31.85%) Data Science
4 153 (21.95%) Analytics
5 138 (19.80%) DevOps
6 134 (19.23%) Software Engineering
7 119 (17.07%) Computer Science
8 102 (14.63%) CI/CD
9 92 (13.20%) Data Modelling
10 88 (12.63%) Problem-Solving
11 83 (11.91%) Asset Management
12 81 (11.62%) Full Stack Development
13 79 (11.33%) Investment Management
14 74 (10.62%) Visualisation
15 67 (9.61%) Natural Language Processing
16 66 (9.47%) Data Analysis
17 65 (9.33%) Business Intelligence
17 65 (9.33%) Data Governance
18 63 (9.04%) Data Pipeline
19 61 (8.75%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 395 (56.67%) Python
2 211 (30.27%) SQL
3 91 (13.06%) TypeScript
4 86 (12.34%) Java
5 46 (6.60%) JavaScript
5 46 (6.60%) Scala
6 40 (5.74%) C#
7 39 (5.60%) R
8 23 (3.30%) C++
8 23 (3.30%) Shell Script
9 22 (3.16%) PowerShell
10 13 (1.87%) Bash
11 9 (1.29%) Kusto Query Language
12 7 (1.00%) Search Processing Language
13 6 (0.86%) Clojure
13 6 (0.86%) Haskell
13 6 (0.86%) Rust
13 6 (0.86%) T-SQL
14 5 (0.72%) C
15 4 (0.57%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 131 (18.79%) Degree
2 69 (9.90%) Computer Science Degree
3 68 (9.76%) Security Cleared
4 64 (9.18%) SC Cleared
5 53 (7.60%) Master's Degree
6 29 (4.16%) PhD
7 19 (2.73%) DV Cleared
8 16 (2.30%) AWS Certification
9 9 (1.29%) Azure Certification
10 8 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
11 7 (1.00%) Numerate Degree
12 6 (0.86%) CISSP
13 4 (0.57%) PMI Certification
13 4 (0.57%) PMP
14 3 (0.43%) AWS Certified Developer
14 3 (0.43%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 3 (0.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 2 (0.29%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 2 (0.29%) Cisco Certification
15 2 (0.29%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (4.16%) Data Quality
2 27 (3.87%) QA
3 8 (1.15%) Accessibility
4 6 (0.86%) GDPR
5 4 (0.57%) Dodd-Frank
5 4 (0.57%) MiFID
6 3 (0.43%) NCSC
6 3 (0.43%) PCI DSS
6 3 (0.43%) PMO
7 2 (0.29%) Basel III
7 2 (0.29%) Disclosure Scotland
7 2 (0.29%) GxP
7 2 (0.29%) PSD2
8 1 (0.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.14%) ISO 26262
8 1 (0.14%) SLA
8 1 (0.14%) Software Quality Assurance
8 1 (0.14%) WCAG
System Software
1 50 (7.17%) Docker
2 7 (1.00%) HDFS
3 2 (0.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.14%) KVM
4 1 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.14%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 78 (11.19%) Kubernetes
2 53 (7.60%) Terraform
3 18 (2.58%) Ansible
4 13 (1.87%) Puppet
5 11 (1.58%) Grafana
6 8 (1.15%) Kubeflow
7 5 (0.72%) Hadoop YARN
7 5 (0.72%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.14%) Functional Safety
8 1 (0.14%) Nagios
8 1 (0.14%) OPNET
8 1 (0.14%) PowerCLI
8 1 (0.14%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.14%) vRealize
Vendors
1 94 (13.49%) Google
2 48 (6.89%) Microsoft
3 39 (5.60%) Databricks
4 26 (3.73%) Oracle
5 18 (2.58%) Typelevel
6 16 (2.30%) Sparx
7 13 (1.87%) Bloomberg
8 12 (1.72%) BISAM
9 9 (1.29%) OpenAI
9 9 (1.29%) SAP
10 8 (1.15%) Splunk
11 7 (1.00%) Sage
12 6 (0.86%) Adobe
12 6 (0.86%) Foundry
12 6 (0.86%) Optimizely
12 6 (0.86%) Palantir
12 6 (0.86%) ServiceNow
13 5 (0.72%) Monetate
13 5 (0.72%) Omniture
13 5 (0.72%) Tealium