Reinforcement Learning Contracts

Reinforcement Learning
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Reinforcement Learning skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Reinforcement Learning over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 597 708 841
Rank change year-on-year +111 +133 -151
Contract jobs citing Reinforcement Learning 3 8 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.007% 0.014% 0.025%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.008% 0.015% 0.027%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 8
10th Percentile - £613 £525
25th Percentile £860 £650 £581
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £869 £675 £600
Median % change year-on-year +28.74% +12.50% +14.29%
75th Percentile £879 £763 £679
90th Percentile - - £708
UK excluding London median daily rate - £663 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Reinforcement 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 37,268 53,074 80,383
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.35% 89.85% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,016 36,805 56,451
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,439 1,749 1,911
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.95 £35.80 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.42% +43.20% +2.04%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
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% -6.98%

Reinforcement Learning
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Reinforcement Learning as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Reinforcement Learning in the UK

Reinforcement Learning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Reinforcement Learning in the UK

Reinforcement Learning
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Reinforcement Learning in the UK

Reinforcement Learning
Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Reinforcement Learning within the UK over the 6 months to 5 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 +115 3 £869 +28.74% 13
London +112 3 £869 +19.86% 7
Work from Home - 1 - - 5

Reinforcement 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 1 (33.33%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) KDB
2 1 (33.33%) Big Data
2 1 (33.33%) Hadoop
2 1 (33.33%) NoSQL
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Machine Learning Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Kafka
1 1 (33.33%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Fixed Income
2 1 (33.33%) Algorithms
2 1 (33.33%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) OO
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (66.67%) Statistical Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (33.33%) Data Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Generative AI
2 1 (33.33%) LLM
2 1 (33.33%) Mathematics
2 1 (33.33%) Model Validation
2 1 (33.33%) Neural Network
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Physics
2 1 (33.33%) Prototyping
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Statistics
2 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Unit Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) C#
2 2 (66.67%) Java
2 2 (66.67%) R
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Numerate Degree
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes