Machine Learning Scientist Contracts in London

Machine Learning Scientist
England > London

The median Machine Learning Scientist daily rate in London is £712 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 392 503 586
Rank change year-on-year +111 +83 -128
Contract jobs requiring a Machine Learning Scientist 3 3 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.017% 0.011% 0.025%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.018% 0.011% 0.027%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 5
10th Percentile £531 - £498
25th Percentile £597 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £712 - £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -24.14%
75th Percentile £746 - -
90th Percentile £763 - -
England median daily rate £631 - £550
% change year-on-year - - +10.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in London with a recognized job title 16,639 26,231 37,490
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.14% 95.27% 95.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,042 18,937 27,371
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £440 £463 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £675
90th Percentile £788 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 341 300 454
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.00 £16.50
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.50 £22.05
Median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.54% - +12.90%
75th Percentile £43.75 £60.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £64.53 £76.43 £67.50
England median hourly rate £35.00 £43.25 £22.28
% change year-on-year -19.08% +94.12% -0.62%

Machine Learning Scientist
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured Machine Learning Scientist in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Machine Learning Scientist in London

Machine Learning Scientist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Machine Learning Scientist in London.

Daily rate trend for Machine Learning Scientist in London

Machine Learning Scientist
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Machine Learning Scientist in London over the 6 months to 18 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Machine Learning Scientist in London

Machine Learning Scientist Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 18 April 2024, Machine Learning Scientist contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring Machine Learning Scientist in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Data Science
1 3 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 2 (66.67%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) NumPy
2 2 (66.67%) Algorithms
3 1 (33.33%) SDLC
3 1 (33.33%) Dashboard Development
3 1 (33.33%) Power BI
3 1 (33.33%) XGBoost
3 1 (33.33%) Random Forest
3 1 (33.33%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (33.33%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (33.33%) PySpark
3 1 (33.33%) Master's Degree
3 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (33.33%) Dask
3 1 (33.33%) Data Visualisation
3 1 (33.33%) Natural Language Processing
3 1 (33.33%) Tableau
3 1 (33.33%) SQL
3 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
3 1 (33.33%) SAP
3 1 (33.33%) Apache
3 1 (33.33%) E-Commerce
3 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (33.33%) Service Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) Finance
3 1 (33.33%) Scrum
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Data Analysis

Machine Learning Scientist Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 1 (33.33%) Apache
1 1 (33.33%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
1 1 (33.33%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Power BI
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
1 1 (33.33%) Tableau
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) NumPy
2 1 (33.33%) Dask
2 1 (33.33%) Pandas
2 1 (33.33%) PySpark
2 1 (33.33%) PyTorch
2 1 (33.33%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Algorithms
2 1 (33.33%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Data Science
1 3 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Dashboard Development
2 1 (33.33%) Data Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) DataOps
2 1 (33.33%) Deep Learning
2 1 (33.33%) E-Commerce
2 1 (33.33%) LLM
2 1 (33.33%) LSTM
2 1 (33.33%) MLOps
2 1 (33.33%) Random Forest
2 1 (33.33%) Scrum
2 1 (33.33%) SDLC
2 1 (33.33%) Service Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Transfer Learning
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Master's Degree
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) SAP