Machine Learning Contracts in the UK excluding London

Machine Learning (ML)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 213 227 282
Rank change year-on-year +14 +55 -54
Contract jobs citing Machine Learning 183 223 250
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.87% 0.98% 0.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.05% 1.10% 0.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 163 155
10th Percentile £355 £415 £400
25th Percentile £421 £469 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £606 £628 £650
90th Percentile £720 £755 £750
UK median daily rate £575 £588 £600
% change year-on-year -2.13% -2.08% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 12 4
10th Percentile £46.69 £22.16 £24.73
25th Percentile £51.25 £31.79 £29.56
Median hourly rate £56.25 £35.00 £46.75
Median % change year-on-year +60.71% -25.13% +38.52%
75th Percentile £66.25 £48.07 £61.50
90th Percentile £70.75 £53.75 -
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
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,473 20,238 27,294
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 82.84% 89.10% 89.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,285 13,877 19,070
10th Percentile £250 £260 £245
25th Percentile £375 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £585
90th Percentile £688 £694 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,170 1,255 1,342
10th Percentile £12.50 £10.68 £12.48
25th Percentile £15.40 £15.21 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.51
Median % change year-on-year +8.91% +70.69% -2.36%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.25 £47.50
90th Percentile £72.54 £74.92 £63.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £35.80 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.96% +39.41% +11.65%

Machine Learning
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Machine Learning as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Machine Learning in the UK excluding London

Machine Learning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Machine Learning in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Machine Learning in the UK excluding London

Machine Learning
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Machine Learning in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Machine Learning in the UK excluding London

Machine Learning
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Machine Learning in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Machine Learning in the UK excluding London

Machine Learning
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Machine Learning in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Machine Learning in the UK excluding London

Machine Learning
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London 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
North of England +25 48 £550 -6.38% 85
Scotland +59 44 £463 -3.44% 24
South East -17 28 £563 - 98
Midlands +32 27 £580 +16.00% 47
North West +9 25 £525 -10.64% 54
West Midlands +23 22 £580 +10.48% 32
East of England +6 19 £375 -37.50% 65
South West -26 18 £563 +2.27% 59
Yorkshire +12 16 £554 -17.93% 24
North East +19 10 - - 8
East Midlands +12 5 £675 +42.11% 15
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 8
Machine Learning
UK

Machine Learning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 9 (4.92%) Apache Spark
2 5 (2.73%) Apache
3 4 (2.19%) Confluence
4 3 (1.64%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.55%) GeoServer
5 1 (0.55%) OpenStack
Applications
1 5 (2.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.64%) Chatbot
3 2 (1.09%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.55%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 1 (0.55%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 62 (33.88%) AWS
2 60 (32.79%) Azure
3 21 (11.48%) GCP
4 19 (10.38%) Serverless
5 16 (8.74%) AWS Lambda
6 15 (8.20%) AWS CloudFormation
7 13 (7.10%) Amazon S3
7 13 (7.10%) OpenShift
8 10 (5.46%) Power Platform
9 8 (4.37%) Amazon SageMaker
9 8 (4.37%) Cloud Computing
10 6 (3.28%) Textract
11 5 (2.73%) Azure Data Factory
11 5 (2.73%) PaaS
12 4 (2.19%) Azure AI
12 4 (2.19%) Azure DevOps
12 4 (2.19%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 4 (2.19%) npm
12 4 (2.19%) OCI
13 3 (1.64%) Amazon Bedrock
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.83%) LAN
1 7 (3.83%) WAN
2 5 (2.73%) VPN
3 2 (1.09%) SSL
3 2 (1.09%) Wireless
4 1 (0.55%) 5G
4 1 (0.55%) DHCP
4 1 (0.55%) DNS
4 1 (0.55%) DVB
4 1 (0.55%) HTTP
4 1 (0.55%) LTE
4 1 (0.55%) Network Security
4 1 (0.55%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (0.55%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.55%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (10.38%) Data Warehouse
2 16 (8.74%) Big Data
3 15 (8.20%) PostgreSQL
4 14 (7.65%) NoSQL
5 13 (7.10%) Data Lake
6 10 (5.46%) Amazon Aurora
6 10 (5.46%) Power BI
7 9 (4.92%) Tableau
8 8 (4.37%) Data Mining
9 7 (3.83%) Relational Database
10 5 (2.73%) Hadoop
11 4 (2.19%) Amazon Redshift
12 3 (1.64%) Apache Hive
12 3 (1.64%) Bigtable
12 3 (1.64%) Cloud Spanner
13 2 (1.09%) Amazon RDS
13 2 (1.09%) BigQuery
13 2 (1.09%) GIS
13 2 (1.09%) Metadata
13 2 (1.09%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 23 (12.57%) Git
2 7 (3.83%) JIRA
3 6 (3.28%) Jenkins
4 4 (2.19%) Bitbucket
4 4 (2.19%) Cypress.io
4 4 (2.19%) Mercurial
5 3 (1.64%) GitLab
6 1 (0.55%) CMake
6 1 (0.55%) MLflow
6 1 (0.55%) Visual Studio
General
1 37 (20.22%) Social Skills
2 29 (15.85%) Finance
3 21 (11.48%) Public Sector
4 16 (8.74%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (5.46%) Electronics
6 9 (4.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (3.83%) Influencing Skills
7 7 (3.83%) Multimedia
8 5 (2.73%) Banking
9 4 (2.19%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.64%) Legal
10 3 (1.64%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.64%) Retail
11 2 (1.09%) Marketing
11 2 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.09%) Publishing
12 1 (0.55%) Military
12 1 (0.55%) Police
12 1 (0.55%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 42 (22.95%) Developer
2 34 (18.58%) Architect
3 15 (8.20%) Data Engineer
4 14 (7.65%) Machine Learning Engineer
5 13 (7.10%) Automation Developer
5 13 (7.10%) Azure Architect
6 10 (5.46%) Data Scientist
6 10 (5.46%) Lead
6 10 (5.46%) Software Engineer
7 9 (4.92%) Data Architect
8 8 (4.37%) Analyst
8 8 (4.37%) Azure Developer
8 8 (4.37%) Java Developer
8 8 (4.37%) Senior
8 8 (4.37%) Technical Architect
9 7 (3.83%) Full Stack Engineer
10 6 (3.28%) Cloud Architect
10 6 (3.28%) Full Stack Developer
10 6 (3.28%) Python Engineer
10 6 (3.28%) Splunk Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (12.57%) PyTorch
2 18 (9.84%) TensorFlow
3 16 (8.74%) Spring
4 14 (7.65%) AngularJS
5 13 (7.10%) AWS CDK
5 13 (7.10%) REST
6 11 (6.01%) React
6 11 (6.01%) SpaCy
7 10 (5.46%) CSS
7 10 (5.46%) HTML
8 9 (4.92%) JPA
8 9 (4.92%) Spring Boot
9 7 (3.83%) Middleware
10 6 (3.28%) Kafka
10 6 (3.28%) NumPy
10 6 (3.28%) Pandas
11 5 (2.73%) .NET
12 4 (2.19%) .NET Framework
12 4 (2.19%) DirectX
12 4 (2.19%) OpenGL
Miscellaneous
1 22 (12.02%) Algorithms
1 22 (12.02%) Public Cloud
2 8 (4.37%) Product Ownership
3 6 (3.28%) Blockchain
3 6 (3.28%) Greenfield Project
3 6 (3.28%) Onboarding
3 6 (3.28%) Security Posture
4 5 (2.73%) Data Structures
4 5 (2.73%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (2.19%) Distributed Computing
5 4 (2.19%) Industry 4.0
5 4 (2.19%) PKI
5 4 (2.19%) Social Media
5 4 (2.19%) Taxonomies
6 3 (1.64%) Cloud Native
6 3 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (1.64%) Hackathon
6 3 (1.64%) Photography
7 2 (1.09%) Insider Threat
7 2 (1.09%) Mixed Reality
Operating Systems
1 18 (9.84%) Linux
2 12 (6.56%) Windows
3 7 (3.83%) Android
4 1 (0.55%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (0.55%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (53.55%) Artificial Intelligence
2 51 (27.87%) Agile
3 49 (26.78%) Software Engineering
4 47 (25.68%) Analytics
5 44 (24.04%) Data Science
6 41 (22.40%) DevOps
7 33 (18.03%) CI/CD
8 31 (16.94%) Decision-Making
9 28 (15.30%) Visualisation
10 26 (14.21%) Computer Science
11 25 (13.66%) Full Stack Development
12 23 (12.57%) Data Modelling
13 22 (12.02%) ETL
14 20 (10.93%) Data Analysis
14 20 (10.93%) Infrastructure as Code
14 20 (10.93%) Problem-Solving
15 19 (10.38%) Natural Language Processing
16 18 (9.84%) Use Case
17 16 (8.74%) Data Strategy
17 16 (8.74%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 87 (47.54%) Python
2 44 (24.04%) SQL
3 37 (20.22%) Java
4 22 (12.02%) TypeScript
5 16 (8.74%) C++
6 12 (6.56%) C#
7 11 (6.01%) R
8 8 (4.37%) JavaScript
9 7 (3.83%) Scala
9 7 (3.83%) Shell Script
10 6 (3.28%) Search Processing Language
11 5 (2.73%) PowerShell
12 4 (2.19%) C
13 3 (1.64%) Kotlin
14 2 (1.09%) GLSL
14 2 (1.09%) HLSL
15 1 (0.55%) Bash
15 1 (0.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 1 (0.55%) Kusto Query Language
15 1 (0.55%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 28 (15.30%) Degree
2 21 (11.48%) Security Cleared
3 18 (9.84%) Computer Science Degree
3 18 (9.84%) SC Cleared
4 12 (6.56%) Master's Degree
5 3 (1.64%) PhD
6 1 (0.55%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.55%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.55%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.55%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.55%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (0.55%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.37%) QA
2 7 (3.83%) GDPR
3 6 (3.28%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.09%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.09%) Disclosure Scotland
4 2 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.09%) NIST
5 1 (0.55%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.55%) ISO 26262
5 1 (0.55%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 23 (12.57%) Docker
2 5 (2.73%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (2.19%) VMware NSX
4 2 (1.09%) HDFS
5 1 (0.55%) KVM
5 1 (0.55%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 31 (16.94%) Kubernetes
2 11 (6.01%) Grafana
3 7 (3.83%) Terraform
4 6 (3.28%) Ansible
5 4 (2.19%) OPNET
5 4 (2.19%) PowerCLI
6 1 (0.55%) Functional Safety
6 1 (0.55%) Nagios
6 1 (0.55%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.55%) Puppet
6 1 (0.55%) vCenter Server
6 1 (0.55%) vRealize
Vendors
1 26 (14.21%) Microsoft
2 13 (7.10%) Databricks
2 13 (7.10%) Google
3 6 (3.28%) Splunk
4 5 (2.73%) ServiceNow
4 5 (2.73%) VMware
5 4 (2.19%) Atlassian
5 4 (2.19%) Cisco
5 4 (2.19%) OpenAI
5 4 (2.19%) Oracle
6 3 (1.64%) Sage
7 1 (0.55%) Alteryx
7 1 (0.55%) Anaplan
7 1 (0.55%) Typelevel