Machine Learning Contracts in London

Machine Learning (ML)
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 93 176 149
Rank change year-on-year +83 -27 -18
Contract jobs citing Machine Learning 443 401 755
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 2.52% 1.53% 1.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.84% 1.68% 2.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 357 284 527
10th Percentile £425 £466 £450
25th Percentile £500 £525 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £620 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -0.80% +4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £750 £788 £719
90th Percentile £788 £908 £825
England median daily rate £588 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -2.08% - +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 5 14
10th Percentile £41.19 - £18.50
25th Percentile £41.25 £35.00 £31.56
Median hourly rate £45.00 £72.50 £41.25
Median % change year-on-year -37.93% +75.76% +37.04%
75th Percentile £51.38 £82.50 £64.00
90th Percentile £63.00 £87.00 £76.88
England median hourly rate £52.50 £35.00 £41.25
% change year-on-year +50.00% -15.15% -2.94%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,587 23,906 35,666
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.68% 90.95% 92.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,195 17,189 26,035
10th Percentile £340 £375 £389
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £680 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 314 270 421
10th Percentile £15.96 £18.45 £17.25
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.50 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.00 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.21% +6.85% +11.11%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.19 £51.00
90th Percentile £65.93 £80.23 £68.75
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.34 £24.30
% change year-on-year -2.25% +53.69% +3.38%

Machine Learning
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Machine Learning in London

Machine Learning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Machine Learning in London

Machine Learning
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Machine Learning in London over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Machine Learning in London

Machine Learning
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Machine Learning in London

Machine Learning
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Machine Learning in London over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Machine Learning in London

Machine Learning
Contract Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 7 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
Central London +5 32 £663 +3.92% 43
West London +35 19 £550 - 11
Machine Learning
England

Machine Learning
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 69 (15.58%) Apache Airflow
2 62 (14.00%) Apache
3 18 (4.06%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.13%) Jupyter
4 5 (1.13%) SharePoint
5 3 (0.68%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.45%) SAS
7 1 (0.23%) CMS
7 1 (0.23%) Confluence
Applications
1 9 (2.03%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.68%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.68%) Simulink
3 1 (0.23%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 13 (2.93%) Aladdin
2 12 (2.71%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.45%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 183 (41.31%) AWS
2 160 (36.12%) GCP
3 126 (28.44%) Azure
4 25 (5.64%) Power Platform
4 25 (5.64%) Vertex AI
5 17 (3.84%) Snowflake
6 14 (3.16%) Serverless
7 13 (2.93%) Azure Machine Learning
8 11 (2.48%) Cloud Computing
9 10 (2.26%) AWS Lambda
9 10 (2.26%) Google Compute Engine
10 9 (2.03%) OCI
11 8 (1.81%) Amazon S3
11 8 (1.81%) GitHub
12 7 (1.58%) Amazon SageMaker
12 7 (1.58%) SaaS
13 6 (1.35%) Amazon Kinesis
13 6 (1.35%) Azure DevOps
14 5 (1.13%) Adobe Analytics
14 5 (1.13%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 22 (4.97%) HTTP
2 2 (0.45%) Firewall
3 1 (0.23%) LAN
3 1 (0.23%) SSL
3 1 (0.23%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (14.67%) PostgreSQL
2 58 (13.09%) Apache Ignite
3 45 (10.16%) Big Data
4 31 (7.00%) Tableau
5 30 (6.77%) BigQuery
6 29 (6.55%) Data Warehouse
7 24 (5.42%) Data Lake
8 22 (4.97%) Apache Cassandra
8 22 (4.97%) Power BI
9 16 (3.61%) Data Mining
9 16 (3.61%) Hadoop
10 7 (1.58%) Amazon Athena
11 5 (1.13%) Apache Hive
11 5 (1.13%) DynamoDB
11 5 (1.13%) HBase
11 5 (1.13%) Looker
12 4 (0.90%) Amazon Redshift
12 4 (0.90%) MongoDB
12 4 (0.90%) NoSQL
12 4 (0.90%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 39 (8.80%) Cypress.io
2 28 (6.32%) Git
3 17 (3.84%) JIRA
4 12 (2.71%) ER Studio
4 12 (2.71%) ERwin
5 10 (2.26%) Jenkins
6 7 (1.58%) GitLab
6 7 (1.58%) MLflow
7 6 (1.35%) TeamCity
8 5 (1.13%) Maven
8 5 (1.13%) Postman
8 5 (1.13%) Subversion
9 2 (0.45%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.45%) Poetry
9 2 (0.45%) Selenium
10 1 (0.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.23%) GoCD
10 1 (0.23%) Mercurial
10 1 (0.23%) RStudio
General
1 137 (30.93%) Finance
2 98 (22.12%) Front Office
3 90 (20.32%) Banking
4 77 (17.38%) Social Skills
5 49 (11.06%) Analytical Skills
6 17 (3.84%) Public Sector
7 15 (3.39%) Investment Banking
7 15 (3.39%) Retail
8 11 (2.48%) Marketing
8 11 (2.48%) Pharmaceutical
9 8 (1.81%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (1.35%) Advertising
11 5 (1.13%) Financial Institution
11 5 (1.13%) Legal
12 4 (0.90%) Czech Language
13 3 (0.68%) Health Technology
13 3 (0.68%) Local Government
13 3 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.68%) Telecoms
14 2 (0.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 113 (25.51%) Developer
2 71 (16.03%) Software Engineer
3 68 (15.35%) Python Developer
4 64 (14.45%) Architect
4 64 (14.45%) Python Engineer
5 61 (13.77%) Python Software Engineer
6 57 (12.87%) Developer/Software Engineer
7 56 (12.64%) React Developer
8 50 (11.29%) Data Scientist
9 37 (8.35%) Analyst
10 34 (7.67%) Machine Learning Engineer
11 32 (7.22%) Business Analyst
12 31 (7.00%) Full Stack Developer
13 30 (6.77%) Full Stack Engineer
14 29 (6.55%) Full Stack Python Developer
14 29 (6.55%) Full Stack Software Engineer
15 28 (6.32%) Lead
15 28 (6.32%) Senior
16 25 (5.64%) Finance Business Analyst
16 25 (5.64%) Financial Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (17.16%) React
2 57 (12.87%) gRPC
2 57 (12.87%) Material-UI
2 57 (12.87%) Protocol Buffers
2 57 (12.87%) Redux
3 45 (10.16%) TensorFlow
4 35 (7.90%) scikit-learn
5 34 (7.67%) Kafka
6 30 (6.77%) PyTorch
7 27 (6.09%) Pandas
8 26 (5.87%) RESTful
9 22 (4.97%) Akka
10 21 (4.74%) CSS
11 17 (3.84%) HTML
12 15 (3.39%) NumPy
13 12 (2.71%) .NET
14 11 (2.48%) Node.js
15 7 (1.58%) PySpark
16 6 (1.35%) .NET Core
16 6 (1.35%) Matplotlib
Miscellaneous
1 86 (19.41%) Fixed Income
1 86 (19.41%) Hedge funds
2 75 (16.93%) Algorithms
3 58 (13.09%) Equities
4 35 (7.90%) Product Ownership
5 31 (7.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 29 (6.55%) Derivative
7 13 (2.93%) Data Structures
7 13 (2.93%) Greenfield Project
8 11 (2.48%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 10 (2.26%) Management Information System
10 8 (1.81%) Analytical Mindset
10 8 (1.81%) Public Cloud
11 6 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
12 5 (1.13%) Genomics
12 5 (1.13%) Life Science
12 5 (1.13%) Marketing Technology
12 5 (1.13%) Social Media
13 4 (0.90%) Distributed Systems
13 4 (0.90%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 17 (3.84%) Linux
2 5 (1.13%) Unix
3 4 (0.90%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.23%) Android
4 1 (0.23%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 275 (62.08%) Artificial Intelligence
2 179 (40.41%) Agile
3 148 (33.41%) Data Science
4 92 (20.77%) Software Engineering
5 89 (20.09%) Analytics
6 87 (19.64%) Asset Management
6 87 (19.64%) Investment Management
7 78 (17.61%) Computer Science
8 70 (15.80%) DevOps
9 62 (14.00%) Full Stack Development
10 60 (13.54%) Automated Trading
11 58 (13.09%) CI/CD
12 56 (12.64%) Problem-Solving
13 49 (11.06%) Natural Language Processing
14 47 (10.61%) Data Modelling
15 43 (9.71%) Data Governance
16 39 (8.80%) Data Pipeline
16 39 (8.80%) LLM
17 37 (8.35%) Deep Learning
18 34 (7.67%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 272 (61.40%) Python
2 133 (30.02%) SQL
3 75 (16.93%) TypeScript
4 46 (10.38%) Java
5 34 (7.67%) JavaScript
6 32 (7.22%) Scala
7 22 (4.97%) C#
8 18 (4.06%) R
9 13 (2.93%) Shell Script
10 12 (2.71%) Bash
10 12 (2.71%) PowerShell
11 11 (2.48%) C++
12 6 (1.35%) Clojure
12 6 (1.35%) Haskell
12 6 (1.35%) Rust
12 6 (1.35%) T-SQL
13 5 (1.13%) C
14 4 (0.90%) Go
15 3 (0.68%) MATLAB
16 1 (0.23%) PHP
Qualifications
1 80 (18.06%) Degree
2 42 (9.48%) Computer Science Degree
3 40 (9.03%) Security Cleared
4 37 (8.35%) SC Cleared
5 35 (7.90%) Master's Degree
6 23 (5.19%) PhD
7 15 (3.39%) DV Cleared
8 12 (2.71%) AWS Certification
9 6 (1.35%) CISSP
10 4 (0.90%) PMI Certification
10 4 (0.90%) PMP
11 3 (0.68%) Numerate Degree
12 2 (0.45%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 2 (0.45%) Azure Certification
12 2 (0.45%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.45%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.45%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (3.84%) Data Quality
1 17 (3.84%) QA
2 4 (0.90%) Dodd-Frank
2 4 (0.90%) MiFID
3 3 (0.68%) PMO
4 2 (0.45%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.45%) Basel III
5 1 (0.23%) GRC
5 1 (0.23%) SLA
5 1 (0.23%) WCAG
System Software
1 28 (6.32%) Docker
2 5 (1.13%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 46 (10.38%) Kubernetes
2 41 (9.26%) Terraform
3 15 (3.39%) Ansible
4 12 (2.71%) Puppet
5 7 (1.58%) Kubeflow
6 5 (1.13%) Hadoop YARN
7 2 (0.45%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 84 (18.96%) Google
2 21 (4.74%) Databricks
3 17 (3.84%) Typelevel
4 14 (3.16%) Oracle
5 13 (2.93%) Bloomberg
5 13 (2.93%) Microsoft
6 12 (2.71%) BISAM
6 12 (2.71%) Sparx
7 7 (1.58%) OpenAI
8 6 (1.35%) Adobe
8 6 (1.35%) Foundry
8 6 (1.35%) Optimizely
8 6 (1.35%) Palantir
9 5 (1.13%) Ensighten
9 5 (1.13%) Monetate
9 5 (1.13%) Omniture
9 5 (1.13%) Tealium
10 4 (0.90%) ESRI
11 3 (0.68%) Genesys
12 2 (0.45%) Ariba