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

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 135 216 197
Rank change year-on-year +81 -19 -37
Contract jobs citing Machine Learning 722 690 1,297
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.70% 1.21% 1.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.97% 1.35% 1.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 529 482 872
10th Percentile £413 £438 £425
25th Percentile £500 £513 £507
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 £588 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.28% -2.08% +9.09%
75th Percentile £738 £748 £700
90th Percentile £788 £913 £813
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +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 36,673 51,121 79,325
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.13% 89.77% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,631 35,432 55,673
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £438 £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 2,440 1,683 1,892
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.99 £16.01 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.54
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -4.99%

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 18 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 18 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 18 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 +74 619 £588 -2.08% 1,110
London +94 455 £620 -0.80% 653
Work from Home +82 238 £593 +2.16% 567
UK excluding London +21 177 £525 -8.70% 609
Scotland +64 49 £469 -2.14% 31
North of England +33 45 £550 -6.38% 97
Midlands +37 27 £580 +0.87% 53
South East -5 26 £600 +4.35% 252
North West +15 23 £525 -10.64% 58
West Midlands +35 22 £580 +7.91% 39
East of England +6 19 £388 -35.42% 84
Yorkshire +17 16 £554 -3.65% 27
South West -40 13 £563 +2.27% 73
North East +19 8 - - 12
East Midlands +16 5 £675 - 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 77 (10.66%) Apache Airflow
2 69 (9.56%) Apache
3 33 (4.57%) 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 4 (0.55%) Simulink
5 2 (0.28%) Trello
6 1 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.14%) Stateflow
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
1 288 (39.89%) AWS
2 229 (31.72%) Azure
3 209 (28.95%) GCP
4 53 (7.34%) Power Platform
5 46 (6.37%) Serverless
6 38 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
7 32 (4.43%) Amazon S3
8 31 (4.29%) Cloud Computing
9 30 (4.16%) Vertex AI
10 29 (4.02%) Azure DevOps
11 28 (3.88%) Azure Machine Learning
12 26 (3.60%) Amazon SageMaker
13 23 (3.19%) AWS CloudFormation
14 21 (2.91%) Snowflake
15 19 (2.63%) GitHub
16 15 (2.08%) Azure Data Factory
17 13 (1.80%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 13 (1.80%) OpenShift
18 12 (1.66%) OCI
19 10 (1.39%) Google Compute Engine
Communications & Networking
1 27 (3.74%) HTTP
2 5 (0.69%) LAN
2 5 (0.69%) 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 87 (12.05%) PostgreSQL
2 76 (10.53%) Big Data
3 65 (9.00%) Data Warehouse
4 62 (8.59%) Apache Ignite
5 49 (6.79%) Tableau
6 47 (6.51%) Power BI
7 42 (5.82%) Data Lake
8 34 (4.71%) BigQuery
9 27 (3.74%) Apache Cassandra
10 25 (3.46%) Hadoop
11 23 (3.19%) Data Mining
12 20 (2.77%) NoSQL
13 14 (1.94%) Amazon Aurora
14 12 (1.66%) Amazon Athena
14 12 (1.66%) Relational Database
15 10 (1.39%) Azure SQL Database
15 10 (1.39%) SQL Server
16 9 (1.25%) Metadata
17 8 (1.11%) Apache Hive
18 6 (0.83%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 55 (7.62%) Git
2 46 (6.37%) Cypress.io
3 31 (4.29%) JIRA
4 23 (3.19%) Jenkins
5 12 (1.66%) GitLab
6 11 (1.52%) ER Studio
6 11 (1.52%) 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
1 183 (25.35%) Finance
2 127 (17.59%) Social Skills
3 103 (14.27%) Banking
3 103 (14.27%) Front Office
4 79 (10.94%) Analytical Skills
5 48 (6.65%) Public Sector
6 30 (4.16%) Marketing
7 25 (3.46%) Pharmaceutical
8 19 (2.63%) Retail
9 17 (2.35%) Electronics
10 14 (1.94%) Investment Banking
10 14 (1.94%) Manufacturing
11 13 (1.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 13 (1.80%) Telecoms
12 12 (1.66%) Influencing Skills
13 8 (1.11%) Legal
14 6 (0.83%) Advertising
14 6 (0.83%) Multimedia
14 6 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
15 5 (0.69%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 171 (23.68%) Developer
2 107 (14.82%) Architect
3 88 (12.19%) Software Engineer
4 76 (10.53%) Python Developer
5 74 (10.25%) Data Scientist
6 73 (10.11%) Python Engineer
7 66 (9.14%) Python Software Engineer
8 63 (8.73%) React Developer
9 61 (8.45%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 55 (7.62%) Analyst
10 55 (7.62%) Machine Learning Engineer
11 48 (6.65%) Data Engineer
12 45 (6.23%) Senior
13 44 (6.09%) Lead
14 41 (5.68%) Full Stack Developer
15 40 (5.54%) Full Stack Engineer
16 36 (4.99%) Business Analyst
17 32 (4.43%) Full Stack Software Engineer
17 32 (4.43%) Solutions Architect
18 31 (4.29%) Full Stack Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 98 (13.57%) React
2 74 (10.25%) TensorFlow
3 64 (8.86%) PyTorch
4 61 (8.45%) gRPC
4 61 (8.45%) Material-UI
4 61 (8.45%) Protocol Buffers
4 61 (8.45%) Redux
5 48 (6.65%) Kafka
6 43 (5.96%) scikit-learn
7 41 (5.68%) RESTful
8 36 (4.99%) Pandas
9 35 (4.85%) CSS
10 32 (4.43%) HTML
11 27 (3.74%) Akka
12 22 (3.05%) .NET
12 22 (3.05%) AWS CDK
12 22 (3.05%) NumPy
13 18 (2.49%) AngularJS
13 18 (2.49%) REST
14 16 (2.22%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 112 (15.51%) Algorithms
2 91 (12.60%) Fixed Income
2 91 (12.60%) Hedge funds
3 64 (8.86%) Equities
4 47 (6.51%) Product Ownership
5 31 (4.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 30 (4.16%) Derivative
7 27 (3.74%) Public Cloud
8 24 (3.32%) Data Structures
9 19 (2.63%) Greenfield Project
10 18 (2.49%) 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%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 27 (3.74%) Linux
2 10 (1.39%) 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 (58.45%) Artificial Intelligence
2 266 (36.84%) Agile
3 219 (30.33%) Data Science
4 156 (21.61%) Analytics
5 150 (20.78%) Software Engineering
6 145 (20.08%) DevOps
7 120 (16.62%) Computer Science
8 112 (15.51%) CI/CD
9 96 (13.30%) Asset Management
10 94 (13.02%) Full Stack Development
11 91 (12.60%) Investment Management
12 90 (12.47%) Data Modelling
13 89 (12.33%) Problem-Solving
14 74 (10.25%) Visualisation
15 73 (10.11%) Natural Language Processing
16 68 (9.42%) Business Intelligence
17 66 (9.14%) Data Analysis
18 65 (9.00%) Decision-Making
19 63 (8.73%) Automated Trading
19 63 (8.73%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 409 (56.65%) Python
2 207 (28.67%) SQL
3 112 (15.51%) TypeScript
4 90 (12.47%) Java
5 47 (6.51%) JavaScript
5 47 (6.51%) Scala
6 39 (5.40%) C#
7 36 (4.99%) R
8 24 (3.32%) C++
8 24 (3.32%) 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 (18.01%) Degree
2 70 (9.70%) Security Cleared
3 69 (9.56%) Computer Science Degree
4 65 (9.00%) SC Cleared
5 51 (7.06%) Master's Degree
6 26 (3.60%) PhD
7 20 (2.77%) DV Cleared
8 17 (2.35%) 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 26 (3.60%) Data Quality
2 25 (3.46%) QA
3 13 (1.80%) Accessibility
4 8 (1.11%) GDPR
5 4 (0.55%) Dodd-Frank
5 4 (0.55%) MiFID
6 3 (0.42%) Disclosure Scotland
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%) 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 60 (8.31%) 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 93 (12.88%) Kubernetes
2 55 (7.62%) Terraform
3 19 (2.63%) Ansible
4 18 (2.49%) Grafana
5 12 (1.66%) Puppet
6 7 (0.97%) Kubeflow
7 5 (0.69%) Hadoop YARN
8 4 (0.55%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.28%) Kibana
9 2 (0.28%) OPNET
9 2 (0.28%) PowerCLI
10 1 (0.14%) Argo
10 1 (0.14%) Functional Safety
10 1 (0.14%) Nagios
10 1 (0.14%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.14%) vRealize
Vendors
1 109 (15.10%) Google
2 51 (7.06%) Microsoft
3 42 (5.82%) 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%) SAP
9 10 (1.39%) Splunk
10 9 (1.25%) OpenAI
11 7 (0.97%) Adobe
11 7 (0.97%) Sage
12 6 (0.83%) Foundry
12 6 (0.83%) Optimizely
12 6 (0.83%) Palantir
12 6 (0.83%) ServiceNow
13 5 (0.69%) Monetate
13 5 (0.69%) Omniture
13 5 (0.69%) Tealium