Machine Learning Contracts in the South West

Machine Learning (ML)
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 130 104 141
Rank change year-on-year -26 +37 -30
Contract jobs citing Machine Learning 18 56 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.55% 1.65% 0.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.67% 1.86% 1.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 49 25
10th Percentile £456 £424 £328
25th Percentile £478 £475 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% +1.85% -10.00%
75th Percentile £634 £625 £625
90th Percentile £700 £730 £645
England median daily rate £588 £588 £600
% change year-on-year - -2.08% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £55.00 -
England median hourly rate £52.50 £40.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year +29.63% -10.00% +55.98%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 South West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,686 3,015 3,245
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 82.07% 89.10% 88.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,682 2,172 2,330
10th Percentile £238 £313 £300
25th Percentile £401 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £600
90th Percentile £700 £725 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £548
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.46% +9.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 366 317 205
10th Percentile £13.85 £9.80 £15.90
25th Percentile £28.44 £15.40 £23.75
Median hourly rate £55.00 £57.50 £48.74
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +17.97% +8.31%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £64.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £83.31 £69.36
England median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year +4.17% +41.18% +13.33%

Machine Learning
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing Machine Learning as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Machine Learning in the South West

Machine Learning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Machine Learning in the South West

Machine Learning
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Machine Learning in the South West over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Machine Learning in the South West

Machine Learning
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Machine Learning in the South West

Machine Learning
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 South West region over the 6 months to 9 June 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
Bristol +11 7 £513 -6.82% 29
Wiltshire -23 5 - - 2
Devon 0 3 £475 - 6
Dorset +7 2 £625 -10.71% 8
Somerset -7 1 £600 +33.33%
Machine Learning
England

Machine Learning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 4 (22.22%) Confluence
2 1 (5.56%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 9 (50.00%) Azure
1 9 (50.00%) GCP
2 8 (44.44%) AWS
3 4 (22.22%) OCI
3 4 (22.22%) OpenShift
3 4 (22.22%) PaaS
4 1 (5.56%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 5 (27.78%) VPN
2 1 (5.56%) 5G
2 1 (5.56%) DHCP
2 1 (5.56%) DNS
2 1 (5.56%) LAN
2 1 (5.56%) LTE
2 1 (5.56%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (5.56%) TCP/IP
2 1 (5.56%) WAN
2 1 (5.56%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (22.22%) Data Lake
1 4 (22.22%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (22.22%) NoSQL
2 1 (5.56%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 4 (22.22%) Bitbucket
1 4 (22.22%) JIRA
2 1 (5.56%) Git
General
1 2 (11.11%) Public Sector
1 2 (11.11%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.56%) Finance
2 1 (5.56%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (5.56%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 5 (27.78%) Architect
2 4 (22.22%) Automation Architect
2 4 (22.22%) Data Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Office Automation Architect
4 2 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
4 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Analytics Manager
5 1 (5.56%) Azure Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Cloud Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Computer Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Computer Vision Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Data Scientist
5 1 (5.56%) Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Software Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Software Design Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Software Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (22.22%) .NET
1 4 (22.22%) .NET Framework
1 4 (22.22%) ModSecurity
1 4 (22.22%) OpenID
1 4 (22.22%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (5.56%) AngularJS
2 1 (5.56%) Django
2 1 (5.56%) Flask
2 1 (5.56%) Middleware
2 1 (5.56%) React
Miscellaneous
1 5 (27.78%) Public Cloud
2 4 (22.22%) Algorithms
2 4 (22.22%) Blockchain
2 4 (22.22%) PKI
2 4 (22.22%) Product Ownership
2 4 (22.22%) Security Posture
3 3 (16.67%) Hackathon
4 1 (5.56%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (5.56%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (44.44%) Linux
2 1 (5.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (66.67%) Artificial Intelligence
2 7 (38.89%) Data Science
2 7 (38.89%) Infrastructure as Code
3 6 (33.33%) Agile
3 6 (33.33%) Computer Science
4 5 (27.78%) Architectural Patterns
4 5 (27.78%) Business Strategy
4 5 (27.78%) CI/CD
4 5 (27.78%) IT Strategy
4 5 (27.78%) Technology Strategy
4 5 (27.78%) Waterfall
5 4 (22.22%) ArchiMate
5 4 (22.22%) DevSecOps
5 4 (22.22%) Event-Driven
5 4 (22.22%) GitOps
5 4 (22.22%) Infrastructure Automation
5 4 (22.22%) LLM
5 4 (22.22%) NsoIT
5 4 (22.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 4 (22.22%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 6 (33.33%) Python
2 4 (22.22%) PowerShell
3 1 (5.56%) C
3 1 (5.56%) C++
3 1 (5.56%) R
3 1 (5.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (38.89%) Security Cleared
2 6 (33.33%) Degree
2 6 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 4 (22.22%) Master's Degree
4 1 (5.56%) DV Cleared
4 1 (5.56%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) QA
System Software
1 8 (44.44%) Docker
2 4 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (22.22%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 5 (27.78%) Kubernetes
2 4 (22.22%) Ansible
2 4 (22.22%) OPNET
2 4 (22.22%) PowerCLI
2 4 (22.22%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (27.78%) Google
2 4 (22.22%) Atlassian
2 4 (22.22%) Cisco
2 4 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 4 (22.22%) Oracle
2 4 (22.22%) VMware
3 1 (5.56%) Databricks