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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 141 218 200
Rank change year-on-year +77 -18 -37
Contract jobs citing Machine Learning 715 669 1,268
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.66% 1.19% 1.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.94% 1.32% 1.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 516 473 866
10th Percentile £413 £425 £425
25th Percentile £500 £503 £501
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 £588 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.28% -2.08% +9.09%
75th Percentile £738 £750 £700
90th Percentile £788 £913 £813
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 18 22
10th Percentile £41.25 £22.16 £18.58
25th Percentile £46.22 - £31.50
Median hourly rate £52.50 £35.00 £41.25
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -15.15% +15.63%
75th Percentile £66.25 £53.75 £61.69
90th Percentile £75.75 £78.13 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £56.25 £35.00 £46.75
% change year-on-year +60.71% -25.13% +38.52%

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 36,816 50,571 79,556
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.44% 89.70% 90.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,638 35,025 55,934
10th Percentile £300 £325 £348
25th Percentile £413 £438 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £644
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,533 1,671 1,865
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.57 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +9.70%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.88%

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 2 June 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 2 June 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 2 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
England +77 623 £588 -1.26% 1,018
London +100 453 £600 -4.00% 599
Work from Home +79 224 £575 - 471
UK excluding London +17 179 £525 -4.55% 444
North of England +29 47 £550 -6.38% 85
Scotland +57 44 £463 -3.44% 33
South East -24 28 £600 +4.35% 122
Midlands +35 27 £580 +16.00% 52
North West +11 24 £525 -10.64% 56
West Midlands +25 22 £580 +10.48% 35
East of England +11 18 £375 -37.50% 75
South West -30 17 £563 +2.27% 66
Yorkshire +22 16 £554 -11.36% 22
North East +17 9 - - 9
East Midlands +10 5 £675 +42.11% 17

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 79 (11.05%) Apache Airflow
2 74 (10.35%) Apache
3 35 (4.90%) Apache Spark
4 9 (1.26%) Jupyter
5 8 (1.12%) Confluence
6 5 (0.70%) SAS
6 5 (0.70%) SharePoint
7 3 (0.42%) ArcGIS
7 3 (0.42%) CMS
8 1 (0.14%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.14%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.14%) WebSphere
Applications
1 15 (2.10%) Chatbot
2 8 (1.12%) MS Visio
3 6 (0.84%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.42%) Simulink
5 2 (0.28%) Trello
6 1 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (1.68%) Aladdin
1 12 (1.68%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 3 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.14%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 297 (41.54%) AWS
2 245 (34.27%) Azure
3 217 (30.35%) GCP
4 47 (6.57%) Power Platform
5 40 (5.59%) Serverless
6 31 (4.34%) AWS Lambda
6 31 (4.34%) Azure Machine Learning
6 31 (4.34%) Cloud Computing
7 29 (4.06%) Vertex AI
8 27 (3.78%) Azure DevOps
9 26 (3.64%) Amazon S3
10 22 (3.08%) Amazon SageMaker
11 20 (2.80%) Snowflake
12 19 (2.66%) AWS CloudFormation
13 18 (2.52%) GitHub
14 15 (2.10%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 13 (1.82%) Azure Data Factory
15 13 (1.82%) OpenShift
16 11 (1.54%) PaaS
17 10 (1.40%) Google Compute Engine
Communications & Networking
1 29 (4.06%) HTTP
2 8 (1.12%) LAN
2 8 (1.12%) WAN
3 5 (0.70%) VPN
4 4 (0.56%) Network Security
5 3 (0.42%) Internet
5 3 (0.42%) SSL
6 2 (0.28%) Firewall
6 2 (0.28%) Wireless
7 1 (0.14%) 5G
7 1 (0.14%) DHCP
7 1 (0.14%) DNS
7 1 (0.14%) DVB
7 1 (0.14%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.14%) LTE
7 1 (0.14%) Radio Access Network
7 1 (0.14%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.14%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (12.03%) PostgreSQL
2 72 (10.07%) Big Data
3 66 (9.23%) Apache Ignite
4 63 (8.81%) Data Warehouse
5 47 (6.57%) Tableau
6 44 (6.15%) Data Lake
7 41 (5.73%) Power BI
8 33 (4.62%) BigQuery
9 29 (4.06%) Apache Cassandra
10 26 (3.64%) Hadoop
11 22 (3.08%) Data Mining
11 22 (3.08%) NoSQL
12 13 (1.82%) Relational Database
13 11 (1.54%) Apache Hive
13 11 (1.54%) Azure SQL Database
14 10 (1.40%) Amazon Athena
14 10 (1.40%) Amazon Aurora
15 9 (1.26%) Metadata
15 9 (1.26%) SQL Server
16 6 (0.84%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 59 (8.25%) Git
2 50 (6.99%) Cypress.io
3 31 (4.34%) JIRA
4 19 (2.66%) Jenkins
5 11 (1.54%) GitLab
6 9 (1.26%) ER Studio
6 9 (1.26%) ERwin
7 8 (1.12%) MLflow
8 7 (0.98%) TeamCity
9 6 (0.84%) Bitbucket
9 6 (0.84%) Mercurial
10 5 (0.70%) Maven
10 5 (0.70%) Postman
10 5 (0.70%) Subversion
11 4 (0.56%) 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 (26.29%) Finance
2 137 (19.16%) Social Skills
3 106 (14.83%) Banking
4 105 (14.69%) Front Office
5 76 (10.63%) Analytical Skills
6 46 (6.43%) Public Sector
7 30 (4.20%) Marketing
8 23 (3.22%) Pharmaceutical
9 19 (2.66%) Retail
10 16 (2.24%) Electronics
11 15 (2.10%) Influencing Skills
11 15 (2.10%) Telecoms
12 14 (1.96%) Manufacturing
13 13 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 13 (1.82%) Investment Banking
14 10 (1.40%) Legal
15 7 (0.98%) Presentation Skills
16 6 (0.84%) Advertising
16 6 (0.84%) Multimedia
17 5 (0.70%) Police
Job Titles
1 174 (24.34%) Developer
2 114 (15.94%) Architect
3 91 (12.73%) Software Engineer
4 77 (10.77%) Python Developer
5 76 (10.63%) Python Engineer
6 70 (9.79%) Python Software Engineer
7 69 (9.65%) Data Scientist
8 67 (9.37%) React Developer
9 65 (9.09%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 50 (6.99%) Analyst
11 49 (6.85%) Lead
12 47 (6.57%) Data Engineer
13 46 (6.43%) Machine Learning Engineer
13 46 (6.43%) Senior
14 43 (6.01%) Full Stack Developer
15 42 (5.87%) Full Stack Engineer
16 35 (4.90%) Business Analyst
17 34 (4.76%) Full Stack Software Engineer
18 33 (4.62%) Full Stack Python Developer
19 32 (4.48%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 100 (13.99%) React
2 70 (9.79%) TensorFlow
3 65 (9.09%) gRPC
3 65 (9.09%) Material-UI
3 65 (9.09%) Protocol Buffers
3 65 (9.09%) Redux
4 63 (8.81%) PyTorch
5 52 (7.27%) Kafka
6 42 (5.87%) RESTful
7 40 (5.59%) scikit-learn
8 35 (4.90%) CSS
9 32 (4.48%) Pandas
10 30 (4.20%) HTML
11 29 (4.06%) Akka
12 25 (3.50%) .NET
13 19 (2.66%) NumPy
14 18 (2.52%) AngularJS
15 17 (2.38%) AWS CDK
15 17 (2.38%) REST
16 16 (2.24%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 109 (15.24%) Algorithms
2 94 (13.15%) Fixed Income
2 94 (13.15%) Hedge funds
3 67 (9.37%) Equities
4 48 (6.71%) Product Ownership
5 31 (4.34%) Public Cloud
6 29 (4.06%) Derivative
6 29 (4.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 22 (3.08%) Data Structures
8 17 (2.38%) Greenfield Project
8 17 (2.38%) Management Information System
9 15 (2.10%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 10 (1.40%) Onboarding
11 9 (1.26%) Security Posture
11 9 (1.26%) Social Media
12 8 (1.12%) Analytical Mindset
12 8 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
12 8 (1.12%) Distributed Systems
13 7 (0.98%) Distributed Computing
14 6 (0.84%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 32 (4.48%) Linux
2 13 (1.82%) Windows
3 8 (1.12%) Android
4 7 (0.98%) Unix
5 2 (0.28%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.14%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 419 (58.60%) Artificial Intelligence
2 267 (37.34%) Agile
3 223 (31.19%) Data Science
4 167 (23.36%) Analytics
5 155 (21.68%) Software Engineering
6 147 (20.56%) DevOps
7 121 (16.92%) Computer Science
8 109 (15.24%) CI/CD
9 102 (14.27%) Full Stack Development
10 98 (13.71%) Asset Management
11 94 (13.15%) Investment Management
12 90 (12.59%) Problem-Solving
13 84 (11.75%) Data Modelling
14 76 (10.63%) Natural Language Processing
15 70 (9.79%) Visualisation
16 67 (9.37%) Decision-Making
17 66 (9.23%) Automated Trading
18 62 (8.67%) Business Intelligence
18 62 (8.67%) Data Pipeline
19 61 (8.53%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 394 (55.10%) Python
2 203 (28.39%) SQL
3 111 (15.52%) TypeScript
4 87 (12.17%) Java
5 48 (6.71%) Scala
6 46 (6.43%) JavaScript
7 38 (5.31%) C#
8 33 (4.62%) R
9 26 (3.64%) C++
10 22 (3.08%) PowerShell
11 21 (2.94%) Shell Script
12 17 (2.38%) Bash
13 8 (1.12%) C
13 8 (1.12%) T-SQL
14 7 (0.98%) Kusto Query Language
14 7 (0.98%) Search Processing Language
15 5 (0.70%) Rust
16 4 (0.56%) Clojure
16 4 (0.56%) Go
16 4 (0.56%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 134 (18.74%) Degree
2 74 (10.35%) Security Cleared
3 68 (9.51%) Computer Science Degree
4 66 (9.23%) SC Cleared
5 52 (7.27%) Master's Degree
6 25 (3.50%) PhD
7 21 (2.94%) DV Cleared
8 15 (2.10%) AWS Certification
9 11 (1.54%) Azure Certification
9 11 (1.54%) Numerate Degree
10 9 (1.26%) BPSS Clearance
11 7 (0.98%) CISSP
12 4 (0.56%) PMI Certification
12 4 (0.56%) PMP
13 3 (0.42%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 3 (0.42%) Cisco Certification
14 2 (0.28%) AWS Certified Developer
14 2 (0.28%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 2 (0.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 2 (0.28%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (3.64%) QA
2 24 (3.36%) Data Quality
3 11 (1.54%) Accessibility
4 10 (1.40%) GDPR
5 4 (0.56%) Dodd-Frank
5 4 (0.56%) MiFID
5 4 (0.56%) PCI DSS
6 3 (0.42%) NCSC
6 3 (0.42%) PMO
6 3 (0.42%) WCAG
7 2 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.28%) Basel III
7 2 (0.28%) Disclosure Scotland
7 2 (0.28%) GxP
7 2 (0.28%) NIST
7 2 (0.28%) PSD2
8 1 (0.14%) GRC
8 1 (0.14%) ISO 26262
8 1 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.14%) SLA
System Software
1 61 (8.53%) Docker
2 10 (1.40%) HDFS
3 5 (0.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.56%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.14%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.14%) KVM
5 1 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 95 (13.29%) Kubernetes
2 55 (7.69%) Terraform
3 21 (2.94%) Ansible
4 14 (1.96%) Grafana
5 11 (1.54%) Puppet
6 6 (0.84%) Kubeflow
7 5 (0.70%) Hadoop YARN
8 4 (0.56%) Kibana
8 4 (0.56%) OPNET
8 4 (0.56%) PowerCLI
8 4 (0.56%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.14%) Argo
9 1 (0.14%) Functional Safety
9 1 (0.14%) Nagios
9 1 (0.14%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.14%) vRealize
Vendors
1 113 (15.80%) Google
2 53 (7.41%) Microsoft
3 45 (6.29%) Databricks
4 21 (2.94%) Typelevel
5 20 (2.80%) Oracle
6 13 (1.82%) Bloomberg
7 12 (1.68%) BISAM
7 12 (1.68%) Sparx
8 10 (1.40%) Splunk
9 9 (1.26%) SAP
10 8 (1.12%) OpenAI
11 7 (0.98%) Adobe
12 6 (0.84%) Foundry
12 6 (0.84%) Optimizely
12 6 (0.84%) Palantir
12 6 (0.84%) Sage
12 6 (0.84%) ServiceNow
13 5 (0.70%) Ensighten
13 5 (0.70%) Monetate
13 5 (0.70%) Tealium