Machine Learning Contracts in Central London

Machine Learning (ML)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring Machine Learning skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Machine Learning over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 76 101 102
Rank change year-on-year +25 +1 +25
Contract jobs citing Machine Learning 53 32 70
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 2.65% 1.31% 1.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.86% 1.44% 1.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 21 44
10th Percentile £400 £463 £416
25th Percentile £511 £500 £517
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £638
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +1.96% +6.25%
75th Percentile £752 £800 £775
90th Percentile £793 £838 £864
London median daily rate £600 £618 £625
% change year-on-year -2.83% -1.20% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £48.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year - +38.57% +84.21%
London median hourly rate £57.50 £45.00 £72.50
% change year-on-year +27.78% -37.93% +75.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

Machine Learning falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,856 2,215 3,533
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 92.94% 90.56% 91.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,197 1,573 2,397
10th Percentile £363 £350 £325
25th Percentile £456 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.73% -8.33% +5.26%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £725
90th Percentile £774 £800 £825
London median daily rate £550 £550 £590
% change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 25 28
10th Percentile £22.00 £20.04 £15.43
25th Percentile £22.75 £22.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%
75th Percentile £43.97 £33.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £50.75 £46.89 £88.30
London median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
% change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%

Machine Learning
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Machine Learning in Central London

Machine Learning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Machine Learning in Central London

Machine Learning
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Machine Learning in Central London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Machine Learning in Central London

Machine Learning
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for Machine Learning in Central London

Machine Learning
Contract Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
City of London +24 47 £600 -2.04% 59
West End of London - 4 £600 - 15
Camden - 1 £550 - 5
Machine Learning
London

Machine Learning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 9 (16.98%) Apache Spark
2 2 (3.77%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.89%) Jupyter
3 1 (1.89%) Luigi
Applications
1 2 (3.77%) Chatbot
2 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 15 (28.30%) AWS
2 14 (26.42%) Azure
3 7 (13.21%) GCP
4 5 (9.43%) Power Platform
5 3 (5.66%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (3.77%) Amazon S3
6 2 (3.77%) Amazon SageMaker
6 2 (3.77%) AWS CodeCommit
6 2 (3.77%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (3.77%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (3.77%) Cloud9 IDE
6 2 (3.77%) dbt
6 2 (3.77%) GitHub
6 2 (3.77%) Serverless
6 2 (3.77%) Snowflake
6 2 (3.77%) Textract
7 1 (1.89%) Azure AI
7 1 (1.89%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (1.89%) Dagster
7 1 (1.89%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.89%) Firewall
1 1 (1.89%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (11.32%) Hadoop
1 6 (11.32%) Tableau
2 5 (9.43%) Apache Hive
2 5 (9.43%) Power BI
3 3 (5.66%) Big Data
3 3 (5.66%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (5.66%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (3.77%) Data Mining
4 2 (3.77%) MySQL
4 2 (3.77%) NoSQL
4 2 (3.77%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.89%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (1.89%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.89%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (1.89%) BigQuery
5 1 (1.89%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.89%) Data Vault
5 1 (1.89%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 4 (7.55%) Git
2 2 (3.77%) JIRA
2 2 (3.77%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (1.89%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.89%) MLflow
General
1 19 (35.85%) Finance
2 12 (22.64%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (16.98%) Social Skills
4 7 (13.21%) Banking
5 5 (9.43%) Financial Institution
6 4 (7.55%) Public Sector
7 2 (3.77%) Marketing
7 2 (3.77%) Police
7 2 (3.77%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (3.77%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.89%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.89%) Front Office
8 1 (1.89%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.89%) Local Government
8 1 (1.89%) Military
8 1 (1.89%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (22.64%) Architect
1 12 (22.64%) Data Scientist
2 7 (13.21%) Solutions Architect
3 6 (11.32%) Developer
3 6 (11.32%) Senior
4 5 (9.43%) Analyst
4 5 (9.43%) Security Architect
5 4 (7.55%) Lead
5 4 (7.55%) Senior Data Scientist
6 3 (5.66%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 3 (5.66%) Business Analyst
6 3 (5.66%) Gen AI Specialist
6 3 (5.66%) Python Developer
7 2 (3.77%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
7 2 (3.77%) Azure Engineer
7 2 (3.77%) Data Analyst
7 2 (3.77%) Integration Architect
7 2 (3.77%) QA Engineer
7 2 (3.77%) Senior Architect
7 2 (3.77%) Senior Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (18.87%) TensorFlow
2 6 (11.32%) PySpark
3 5 (9.43%) Pandas
4 4 (7.55%) scikit-learn
5 3 (5.66%) PyTorch
5 3 (5.66%) React
6 2 (3.77%) FastAPI
6 2 (3.77%) NumPy
6 2 (3.77%) OpenCV
6 2 (3.77%) pydantic
6 2 (3.77%) SciPy
7 1 (1.89%) Django
7 1 (1.89%) Flask
7 1 (1.89%) JSON
7 1 (1.89%) ONNX
7 1 (1.89%) OpenTelemetry
7 1 (1.89%) Plotly
7 1 (1.89%) RESTful
7 1 (1.89%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (22.64%) Algorithms
2 6 (11.32%) Credit Risk
3 4 (7.55%) Distributed Computing
4 3 (5.66%) Product Ownership
5 2 (3.77%) Cloud Native
5 2 (3.77%) Multi-touch
5 2 (3.77%) Reinsurance
6 1 (1.89%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.89%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.89%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.89%) Educational Technology
6 1 (1.89%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.89%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.89%) Market Risk
6 1 (1.89%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.89%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.89%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.89%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.89%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (66.04%) Artificial Intelligence
2 23 (43.40%) Data Science
3 13 (24.53%) LLM
4 12 (22.64%) Visualisation
5 11 (20.75%) Agile
5 11 (20.75%) Analytics
5 11 (20.75%) Data Visualisation
6 10 (18.87%) Generative AI
6 10 (18.87%) Problem-Solving
6 10 (18.87%) Risk Management
7 8 (15.09%) Business Intelligence
7 8 (15.09%) Cybersecurity
7 8 (15.09%) Decision-Making
8 7 (13.21%) Natural Language Processing
9 6 (11.32%) Actionable Insight
9 6 (11.32%) Credit Risk Management
9 6 (11.32%) Data Analysis
9 6 (11.32%) Deep Learning
9 6 (11.32%) ETL
9 6 (11.32%) Statistical Modelling
Programming Languages
1 30 (56.60%) Python
2 21 (39.62%) SQL
3 3 (5.66%) TypeScript
4 2 (3.77%) R
5 1 (1.89%) Clojure
5 1 (1.89%) Elixir
5 1 (1.89%) Go
5 1 (1.89%) Haskell
5 1 (1.89%) Java
5 1 (1.89%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.89%) Rust
5 1 (1.89%) Scala
Qualifications
1 9 (16.98%) Degree
2 7 (13.21%) Security Cleared
3 5 (9.43%) Master's Degree
3 5 (9.43%) PhD
3 5 (9.43%) SC Cleared
4 3 (5.66%) CISM
4 3 (5.66%) CISSP
4 3 (5.66%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.89%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.89%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.89%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.43%) Data Quality
1 5 (9.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (7.55%) GDPR
2 4 (7.55%) NIST
3 2 (3.77%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 2 (3.77%) QA
4 1 (1.89%) EU AI Act
4 1 (1.89%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (5.66%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (9.43%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.77%) Terraform
3 1 (1.89%) Ansible
Vendors
1 5 (9.43%) Databricks
2 3 (5.66%) Google
2 3 (5.66%) Oracle
3 1 (1.89%) Alteryx
3 1 (1.89%) Dataiku
3 1 (1.89%) IBM
3 1 (1.89%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.89%) MuleSoft
3 1 (1.89%) OutSystems
3 1 (1.89%) ServiceNow