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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 138 214 199
Rank change year-on-year +76 -15 -36
Contract jobs citing Machine Learning 721 694 1,301
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.69% 1.21% 1.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.97% 1.35% 1.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 527 486 877
10th Percentile £413 £435 £425
25th Percentile £500 £513 £501
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 £588 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.28% -2.08% +9.09%
75th Percentile £738 £741 £700
90th Percentile £788 £913 £813
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -2.22% +2.27% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 19 21
10th Percentile £41.25 £21.73 £18.50
25th Percentile £46.22 £28.58 £31.25
Median hourly rate £52.50 £35.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -6.67% +1.56%
75th Percentile £66.25 £53.75 £61.75
90th Percentile £75.75 £77.50 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £56.25 £35.00 £46.75
% change year-on-year +60.71% -25.13% +10.00%

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 36,622 51,397 80,021
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.09% 89.76% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,613 35,611 56,174
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £439 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £480
% change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,439 1,690 1,913
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.77 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.54%

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 20 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 20 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 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 +67 622 £600 - 1,187
London +91 457 £620 -0.80% 706
Work from Home +82 233 £600 +3.45% 619
UK excluding London +7 175 £550 -2.22% 642
Scotland +62 46 £475 -0.84% 33
North of England +30 45 £550 -6.38% 101
Midlands +32 27 £580 +0.87% 51
South East -20 24 £600 +4.35% 267
North West +10 23 £525 -10.64% 64
West Midlands +33 22 £580 +7.91% 38
East of England +13 19 £388 -35.42% 97
Yorkshire +21 16 £554 -3.65% 27
South West -37 16 £563 +2.27% 75
North East +19 8 - - 10
East Midlands +19 5 £675 - 13

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 81 (11.23%) Apache Airflow
2 73 (10.12%) Apache
3 33 (4.58%) Apache Spark
4 8 (1.11%) Confluence
4 8 (1.11%) Jupyter
5 5 (0.69%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.42%) ArcGIS
6 3 (0.42%) CMS
7 1 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.14%) GeoServer
7 1 (0.14%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.14%) SAS
Applications
1 12 (1.66%) Chatbot
2 8 (1.11%) MS Visio
3 5 (0.69%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.42%) Simulink
5 2 (0.28%) Trello
6 1 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 14 (1.94%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 12 (1.66%) Aladdin
3 3 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.14%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 287 (39.81%) AWS
2 236 (32.73%) Azure
3 212 (29.40%) GCP
4 52 (7.21%) Power Platform
5 43 (5.96%) Serverless
6 35 (4.85%) AWS Lambda
7 30 (4.16%) Cloud Computing
7 30 (4.16%) Vertex AI
8 29 (4.02%) Amazon S3
8 29 (4.02%) Azure DevOps
8 29 (4.02%) Azure Machine Learning
9 25 (3.47%) Amazon SageMaker
10 21 (2.91%) Snowflake
11 20 (2.77%) AWS CloudFormation
12 19 (2.64%) GitHub
13 15 (2.08%) Azure Data Factory
14 14 (1.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 12 (1.66%) OCI
15 12 (1.66%) OpenShift
16 10 (1.39%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 27 (3.74%) HTTP
2 7 (0.97%) LAN
2 7 (0.97%) WAN
3 4 (0.55%) Network Security
4 3 (0.42%) SSL
4 3 (0.42%) VPN
5 2 (0.28%) Firewall
5 2 (0.28%) Wireless
6 1 (0.14%) 5G
6 1 (0.14%) DHCP
6 1 (0.14%) DNS
6 1 (0.14%) DVB
6 1 (0.14%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.14%) LTE
6 1 (0.14%) Radio Access Network
6 1 (0.14%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.14%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (12.21%) PostgreSQL
2 75 (10.40%) Big Data
3 66 (9.15%) Apache Ignite
4 65 (9.02%) Data Warehouse
5 49 (6.80%) Tableau
6 46 (6.38%) Power BI
7 41 (5.69%) Data Lake
8 34 (4.72%) BigQuery
9 27 (3.74%) Apache Cassandra
10 25 (3.47%) Hadoop
11 23 (3.19%) Data Mining
12 20 (2.77%) NoSQL
13 12 (1.66%) Amazon Athena
13 12 (1.66%) Relational Database
14 11 (1.53%) Amazon Aurora
15 10 (1.39%) Azure SQL Database
15 10 (1.39%) SQL Server
16 8 (1.11%) Apache Hive
16 8 (1.11%) Metadata
17 6 (0.83%) Looker
Development Applications
1 56 (7.77%) Git
2 50 (6.93%) Cypress.io
3 31 (4.30%) JIRA
4 23 (3.19%) Jenkins
5 12 (1.66%) GitLab
6 11 (1.53%) ER Studio
6 11 (1.53%) ERwin
7 9 (1.25%) MLflow
8 7 (0.97%) TeamCity
9 6 (0.83%) Mercurial
10 5 (0.69%) Bitbucket
10 5 (0.69%) Maven
10 5 (0.69%) Postman
10 5 (0.69%) Subversion
11 4 (0.55%) Visual Studio
12 3 (0.42%) RStudio
13 2 (0.28%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 2 (0.28%) Cucumber
13 2 (0.28%) Selenium
14 1 (0.14%) CMake
General
1 188 (26.07%) Finance
2 130 (18.03%) Social Skills
3 107 (14.84%) Banking
3 107 (14.84%) Front Office
4 80 (11.10%) Analytical Skills
5 49 (6.80%) Public Sector
6 29 (4.02%) Marketing
7 25 (3.47%) Pharmaceutical
8 18 (2.50%) Retail
9 16 (2.22%) Electronics
10 14 (1.94%) Influencing Skills
10 14 (1.94%) Investment Banking
11 13 (1.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 13 (1.80%) Manufacturing
11 13 (1.80%) Telecoms
12 8 (1.11%) Legal
13 6 (0.83%) Advertising
13 6 (0.83%) Multimedia
13 6 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (0.69%) Police
Job Titles
1 170 (23.58%) Developer
2 107 (14.84%) Architect
3 92 (12.76%) Software Engineer
4 79 (10.96%) Python Developer
5 77 (10.68%) Python Engineer
6 74 (10.26%) Data Scientist
7 70 (9.71%) Python Software Engineer
8 67 (9.29%) React Developer
9 65 (9.02%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 55 (7.63%) Machine Learning Engineer
11 51 (7.07%) Analyst
12 48 (6.66%) Data Engineer
13 45 (6.24%) Senior
14 44 (6.10%) Lead
15 43 (5.96%) Full Stack Developer
16 42 (5.83%) Full Stack Engineer
17 36 (4.99%) Business Analyst
18 34 (4.72%) Full Stack Software Engineer
19 33 (4.58%) Full Stack Python Developer
20 31 (4.30%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 102 (14.15%) React
2 72 (9.99%) TensorFlow
3 65 (9.02%) gRPC
3 65 (9.02%) Material-UI
3 65 (9.02%) Protocol Buffers
3 65 (9.02%) Redux
4 62 (8.60%) PyTorch
5 48 (6.66%) Kafka
6 43 (5.96%) scikit-learn
7 40 (5.55%) RESTful
8 36 (4.99%) Pandas
9 35 (4.85%) CSS
10 32 (4.44%) HTML
11 27 (3.74%) Akka
12 22 (3.05%) .NET
12 22 (3.05%) NumPy
13 19 (2.64%) AWS CDK
14 18 (2.50%) AngularJS
14 18 (2.50%) REST
15 16 (2.22%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 111 (15.40%) Algorithms
2 95 (13.18%) Fixed Income
2 95 (13.18%) Hedge funds
3 68 (9.43%) Equities
4 47 (6.52%) Product Ownership
5 31 (4.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 30 (4.16%) Derivative
7 29 (4.02%) Public Cloud
8 24 (3.33%) Data Structures
9 19 (2.64%) Greenfield Project
10 18 (2.50%) Management Information System
11 14 (1.94%) Team-Oriented Environment
12 10 (1.39%) Analytical Mindset
12 10 (1.39%) Onboarding
12 10 (1.39%) Social Media
13 9 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
13 9 (1.25%) Distributed Systems
14 7 (0.97%) Cloud Native
14 7 (0.97%) Distributed Computing
15 6 (0.83%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 31 (4.30%) Linux
2 12 (1.66%) Windows
3 8 (1.11%) Android
4 7 (0.97%) Unix
5 4 (0.55%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.14%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 422 (58.53%) Artificial Intelligence
2 268 (37.17%) Agile
3 223 (30.93%) Data Science
4 159 (22.05%) Analytics
5 154 (21.36%) Software Engineering
6 148 (20.53%) DevOps
7 120 (16.64%) Computer Science
8 111 (15.40%) CI/CD
9 100 (13.87%) Asset Management
10 98 (13.59%) Full Stack Development
11 95 (13.18%) Investment Management
12 89 (12.34%) Data Modelling
13 88 (12.21%) Problem-Solving
14 72 (9.99%) Visualisation
15 70 (9.71%) Natural Language Processing
16 67 (9.29%) Automated Trading
17 66 (9.15%) Business Intelligence
17 66 (9.15%) Data Analysis
18 65 (9.02%) Decision-Making
19 62 (8.60%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 408 (56.59%) Python
2 206 (28.57%) SQL
3 113 (15.67%) TypeScript
4 89 (12.34%) Java
5 47 (6.52%) JavaScript
5 47 (6.52%) Scala
6 40 (5.55%) C#
7 36 (4.99%) R
8 24 (3.33%) C++
8 24 (3.33%) Shell Script
9 21 (2.91%) PowerShell
10 14 (1.94%) Bash
11 7 (0.97%) Kusto Query Language
11 7 (0.97%) Rust
11 7 (0.97%) Search Processing Language
11 7 (0.97%) T-SQL
12 6 (0.83%) C
12 6 (0.83%) Clojure
12 6 (0.83%) Go
12 6 (0.83%) Haskell
Qualifications
1 130 (18.03%) Degree
2 71 (9.85%) Security Cleared
3 69 (9.57%) Computer Science Degree
4 65 (9.02%) SC Cleared
5 51 (7.07%) Master's Degree
6 26 (3.61%) PhD
7 21 (2.91%) DV Cleared
8 17 (2.36%) AWS Certification
9 10 (1.39%) Azure Certification
10 9 (1.25%) BPSS Clearance
11 7 (0.97%) CISSP
11 7 (0.97%) Numerate Degree
12 4 (0.55%) PMI Certification
12 4 (0.55%) PMP
13 3 (0.42%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 3 (0.42%) AWS Certified Developer
13 3 (0.42%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 3 (0.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 3 (0.42%) Cisco Certification
14 2 (0.28%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (3.74%) QA
2 23 (3.19%) Data Quality
3 12 (1.66%) Accessibility
4 8 (1.11%) GDPR
5 4 (0.55%) Dodd-Frank
5 4 (0.55%) MiFID
6 3 (0.42%) NCSC
6 3 (0.42%) PCI DSS
6 3 (0.42%) PMO
6 3 (0.42%) WCAG
7 2 (0.28%) Basel III
7 2 (0.28%) Disclosure Scotland
7 2 (0.28%) GxP
7 2 (0.28%) PSD2
8 1 (0.14%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.14%) GRC
8 1 (0.14%) ISO 26262
8 1 (0.14%) NIST
8 1 (0.14%) SLA
8 1 (0.14%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 61 (8.46%) Docker
2 7 (0.97%) HDFS
3 3 (0.42%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.28%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.14%) KVM
5 1 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 92 (12.76%) Kubernetes
2 55 (7.63%) Terraform
3 19 (2.64%) Ansible
4 15 (2.08%) Grafana
5 12 (1.66%) Puppet
6 7 (0.97%) Kubeflow
7 5 (0.69%) Hadoop YARN
8 4 (0.55%) Prometheus
9 3 (0.42%) Kibana
10 2 (0.28%) OPNET
10 2 (0.28%) PowerCLI
11 1 (0.14%) Argo
11 1 (0.14%) Functional Safety
11 1 (0.14%) Nagios
11 1 (0.14%) vCenter Server
11 1 (0.14%) vRealize
Vendors
1 112 (15.53%) Google
2 51 (7.07%) Microsoft
3 41 (5.69%) Databricks
4 23 (3.19%) Oracle
5 20 (2.77%) Typelevel
6 14 (1.94%) Sparx
7 13 (1.80%) Bloomberg
8 12 (1.66%) BISAM
9 10 (1.39%) Splunk
10 9 (1.25%) SAP
11 8 (1.11%) OpenAI
12 7 (0.97%) Adobe
12 7 (0.97%) Sage
13 6 (0.83%) Foundry
13 6 (0.83%) Optimizely
13 6 (0.83%) Palantir
13 6 (0.83%) ServiceNow
14 5 (0.69%) Ensighten
14 5 (0.69%) Monetate
14 5 (0.69%) Tealium