Machine Learning Contracts with Work from Home Options

Machine Learning (ML)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Machine Learning skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Machine Learning over the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 141 222 191
Rank change year-on-year +81 -31 -40
Contract jobs citing Machine Learning 235 258 656
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.59% 1.08% 1.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.83% 1.21% 1.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 156 189 471
10th Percentile £398 £413 £425
25th Percentile £475 £493 £501
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% +14.29%
75th Percentile £725 £700 £692
90th Percentile £788 £915 £800
UK median daily rate £575 £588 £600
% change year-on-year -2.13% -2.08% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 7 7
10th Percentile £55.23 £21.30 £34.70
25th Percentile £67.94 £22.16 £50.75
Median hourly rate £76.25 £52.50 £59.00
Median % change year-on-year +45.24% -11.02% +12.92%
75th Percentile £79.06 £68.13 £72.50
90th Percentile £79.63 £85.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £35.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year +50.00% -22.22% +5.88%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Machine Learning falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,871 21,399 39,942
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.23% 89.63% 91.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,673 15,206 29,099
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +5.42%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 572 495 518
10th Percentile £15.02 £18.49 £14.96
25th Percentile £24.00 £25.75 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.13 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.51% +30.33% +66.67%
75th Percentile £60.00 £67.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £74.95 £78.45 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
% change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%

Machine Learning
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Machine Learning as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Machine Learning trend for jobs with a WFH option

Machine Learning
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Machine Learning.

Machine Learning daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Machine Learning
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Machine Learning over the 6 months to 13 June 2024.

Machine Learning daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Machine Learning
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Machine Learning.

Machine Learning hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Machine Learning
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Machine Learning over the 6 months to 13 June 2024.

Machine Learning hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Machine Learning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 16 (6.81%) Apache Spark
2 4 (1.70%) Jupyter
3 3 (1.28%) Apache
3 3 (1.28%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.85%) SAS
5 1 (0.43%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.43%) Confluence
5 1 (0.43%) GeoServer
5 1 (0.43%) OpenStack
Applications
1 7 (2.98%) Chatbot
2 5 (2.13%) MS Visio
3 3 (1.28%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.43%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (1.28%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (0.85%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.43%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 76 (32.34%) AWS
2 71 (30.21%) Azure
3 37 (15.74%) GCP
4 21 (8.94%) Power Platform
5 19 (8.09%) Serverless
6 14 (5.96%) Azure DevOps
7 13 (5.53%) Amazon S3
7 13 (5.53%) AWS Lambda
8 11 (4.68%) Cloud Computing
9 10 (4.26%) GitHub
10 9 (3.83%) Azure AI
11 8 (3.40%) Amazon SageMaker
12 7 (2.98%) AWS CloudFormation
13 6 (2.55%) Azure Data Factory
13 6 (2.55%) Azure Machine Learning
13 6 (2.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 5 (2.13%) Google Analytics
14 5 (2.13%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 5 (2.13%) SaaS
15 4 (1.70%) ChatGPT
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.40%) LAN
1 8 (3.40%) WAN
2 4 (1.70%) HTTP
3 3 (1.28%) Network Security
4 2 (0.85%) Firewall
5 1 (0.43%) 5G
5 1 (0.43%) DHCP
5 1 (0.43%) DNS
5 1 (0.43%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.43%) LTE
5 1 (0.43%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (0.43%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.43%) VPN
5 1 (0.43%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.43%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (8.94%) Big Data
2 20 (8.51%) Data Warehouse
3 16 (6.81%) Power BI
4 12 (5.11%) Tableau
5 11 (4.68%) Data Lake
6 10 (4.26%) PostgreSQL
7 9 (3.83%) Hadoop
8 7 (2.98%) BigQuery
8 7 (2.98%) Data Mining
9 6 (2.55%) Amazon Aurora
10 5 (2.13%) Amazon Redshift
11 4 (1.70%) Amazon Athena
11 4 (1.70%) Apache Cassandra
11 4 (1.70%) Looker
11 4 (1.70%) SQL Server
12 3 (1.28%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (1.28%) DynamoDB
12 3 (1.28%) MySQL
13 2 (0.85%) Amazon RDS
13 2 (0.85%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 17 (7.23%) Git
2 10 (4.26%) JIRA
3 7 (2.98%) GitLab
3 7 (2.98%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.70%) Cypress.io
4 4 (1.70%) Postman
5 2 (0.85%) MLflow
6 1 (0.43%) CMake
General
1 63 (26.81%) Social Skills
2 60 (25.53%) Finance
3 25 (10.64%) Front Office
4 23 (9.79%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (9.36%) Public Sector
6 14 (5.96%) Marketing
7 13 (5.53%) Pharmaceutical
8 12 (5.11%) Banking
8 12 (5.11%) Retail
9 8 (3.40%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (2.55%) Advertising
10 6 (2.55%) Manufacturing
10 6 (2.55%) Telecoms
11 5 (2.13%) Czech Language
11 5 (2.13%) Electronics
12 4 (1.70%) Legal
13 3 (1.28%) Health Technology
13 3 (1.28%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.85%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 50 (21.28%) Developer
2 34 (14.47%) Architect
3 30 (12.77%) Data Scientist
4 27 (11.49%) Senior
5 24 (10.21%) Analyst
6 20 (8.51%) Business Analyst
7 18 (7.66%) Product Owner
8 17 (7.23%) Product Manager
9 16 (6.81%) Lead
10 15 (6.38%) Business Manager
10 15 (6.38%) Data Engineer
10 15 (6.38%) Finance Business Analyst
10 15 (6.38%) Finance Manager
10 15 (6.38%) Financial Analyst
10 15 (6.38%) Product Analyst
10 15 (6.38%) Product Business Analyst
11 13 (5.53%) Java Developer
12 11 (4.68%) Azure Architect
13 10 (4.26%) Machine Learning Engineer
14 9 (3.83%) Automation Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (8.94%) PyTorch
2 19 (8.09%) TensorFlow
3 15 (6.38%) React
4 12 (5.11%) HTML
4 12 (5.11%) scikit-learn
5 11 (4.68%) CSS
5 11 (4.68%) Kafka
6 10 (4.26%) AWS CDK
6 10 (4.26%) RESTful
7 9 (3.83%) Middleware
7 9 (3.83%) Pandas
8 8 (3.40%) Django
8 8 (3.40%) PySpark
8 8 (3.40%) SpaCy
9 7 (2.98%) Node.js
9 7 (2.98%) Spring
10 6 (2.55%) Hugging Face
11 5 (2.13%) AngularJS
11 5 (2.13%) LangChain
11 5 (2.13%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 46 (19.57%) Algorithms
2 20 (8.51%) Product Ownership
3 19 (8.09%) Equities
4 15 (6.38%) Derivative
4 15 (6.38%) Fixed Income
4 15 (6.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 15 (6.38%) Hedge funds
5 12 (5.11%) Data Structures
5 12 (5.11%) Greenfield Project
6 10 (4.26%) Public Cloud
7 7 (2.98%) Management Information System
8 6 (2.55%) Marketing Technology
9 3 (1.28%) Cloud Native
9 3 (1.28%) Genomics
9 3 (1.28%) IVR
9 3 (1.28%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 2 (0.85%) Data Fabric
10 2 (0.85%) Digital Wallet
10 2 (0.85%) FMCG
10 2 (0.85%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 11 (4.68%) Linux
2 9 (3.83%) Windows
3 3 (1.28%) Android
4 1 (0.43%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 143 (60.85%) Artificial Intelligence
2 92 (39.15%) Agile
3 85 (36.17%) Data Science
4 75 (31.91%) Analytics
5 46 (19.57%) Computer Science
6 40 (17.02%) DevOps
7 38 (16.17%) Problem-Solving
8 37 (15.74%) Natural Language Processing
9 36 (15.32%) CI/CD
10 28 (11.91%) Decision-Making
10 28 (11.91%) Visualisation
11 26 (11.06%) Data Analysis
11 26 (11.06%) Mathematics
12 24 (10.21%) Business Intelligence
12 24 (10.21%) Data Modelling
12 24 (10.21%) Data Visualisation
13 22 (9.36%) Data Pipeline
14 21 (8.94%) Data Governance
14 21 (8.94%) Product Management
15 20 (8.51%) Deep Learning
Programming Languages
1 123 (52.34%) Python
2 75 (31.91%) SQL
3 31 (13.19%) Java
4 18 (7.66%) JavaScript
5 14 (5.96%) Scala
6 13 (5.53%) R
7 11 (4.68%) TypeScript
8 10 (4.26%) C#
9 6 (2.55%) C++
10 4 (1.70%) Kusto Query Language
10 4 (1.70%) PowerShell
11 3 (1.28%) Rust
11 3 (1.28%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.85%) Bash
12 2 (0.85%) Bicep
12 2 (0.85%) C
13 1 (0.43%) Clojure
13 1 (0.43%) Go
13 1 (0.43%) Haskell
13 1 (0.43%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 41 (17.45%) Degree
2 21 (8.94%) Master's Degree
3 19 (8.09%) Security Cleared
4 18 (7.66%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (6.81%) SC Cleared
6 14 (5.96%) PhD
7 5 (2.13%) Numerate Degree
8 3 (1.28%) AWS Certification
8 3 (1.28%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.28%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.43%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.43%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.43%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.43%) CISSP
9 1 (0.43%) CSSLP
9 1 (0.43%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (7.66%) QA
2 9 (3.83%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.13%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.13%) GDPR
4 4 (1.70%) Dodd-Frank
4 4 (1.70%) MiFID
5 3 (1.28%) NCSC
5 3 (1.28%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.85%) GxP
6 2 (0.85%) PSD2
7 1 (0.43%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.43%) NIST
System Software
1 21 (8.94%) Docker
2 2 (0.85%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 27 (11.49%) Kubernetes
2 13 (5.53%) Terraform
3 7 (2.98%) Grafana
4 1 (0.43%) Argo
4 1 (0.43%) Podman
Vendors
1 25 (10.64%) Databricks
2 20 (8.51%) Microsoft
3 16 (6.81%) Google
4 6 (2.55%) OpenAI
5 5 (2.13%) Adobe
5 5 (2.13%) Oracle
5 5 (2.13%) SAP
6 4 (1.70%) Ensighten
6 4 (1.70%) Monetate
6 4 (1.70%) Omniture
6 4 (1.70%) Optimizely
6 4 (1.70%) Tealium
7 3 (1.28%) Alteryx
7 3 (1.28%) Foundry
7 3 (1.28%) IBM
7 3 (1.28%) Palantir
7 3 (1.28%) Salesforce
7 3 (1.28%) ServiceNow
7 3 (1.28%) Sparx
8 2 (0.85%) PayPal