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 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 76 100 118
Rank change year-on-year +24 +18 +12
Contract jobs citing Machine Learning 53 37 57
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 2.77% 1.55% 1.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.97% 1.70% 1.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 22 37
10th Percentile £400 £466 £413
25th Percentile £512 £510 £535
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £553 £639 £675
Median % change year-on-year -13.50% -5.37% +14.89%
75th Percentile £701 £766 £825
90th Percentile £775 £837 £875
London median daily rate £575 £600 £625
% change year-on-year -4.17% -4.00% +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 £44.75 £46.25 £72.50
% change year-on-year -3.24% -36.21% +61.11%

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 1,787 2,175 3,368
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 93.46% 90.89% 91.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,161 1,537 2,272
10th Percentile £355 £350 £325
25th Percentile £450 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +6.57%
75th Percentile £679 £675 £725
90th Percentile £775 £799 £813
London median daily rate £550 £550 £590
% change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 22 26
10th Percentile £19.04 £20.22 £14.75
25th Percentile £22.75 £23.03 £17.08
Median hourly rate £28.33 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -20.54% -14.63%
75th Percentile £43.97 £32.09 £53.50
90th Percentile £50.75 £41.65 £88.30
London median hourly rate £32.00 £28.00 £39.21
% change year-on-year +14.29% -28.59% +11.79%

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 June 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 June 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 +17 48 £553 -11.95% 66
West End of London - 3 £550 - 27
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 8 (15.09%) Apache Spark
2 2 (3.77%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.89%) Luigi
Applications
1 3 (5.66%) 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 10 (18.87%) GCP
4 7 (13.21%) Power Platform
5 3 (5.66%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (5.66%) dbt
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%) Cloud9 IDE
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 Synapse Analytics
7 1 (1.89%) Cloud Composer
7 1 (1.89%) Cloud Functions
7 1 (1.89%) Figma
7 1 (1.89%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.89%) Firewall
1 1 (1.89%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (1.89%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (13.21%) Hadoop
1 7 (13.21%) Power BI
1 7 (13.21%) Tableau
2 5 (9.43%) Apache Hive
2 5 (9.43%) Big Data
3 4 (7.55%) NoSQL
4 3 (5.66%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (3.77%) BigQuery
5 2 (3.77%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (3.77%) MySQL
5 2 (3.77%) Oracle Database
6 1 (1.89%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.89%) Data Vault
6 1 (1.89%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.89%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (1.89%) Pentaho
6 1 (1.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (1.89%) Git
1 1 (1.89%) Jenkins
1 1 (1.89%) MLflow
1 1 (1.89%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 22 (41.51%) Finance
2 12 (22.64%) Analytical Skills
2 12 (22.64%) Social Skills
3 9 (16.98%) Banking
4 5 (9.43%) Public Sector
5 4 (7.55%) Financial Institution
5 4 (7.55%) Police
5 4 (7.55%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (3.77%) Retail
6 2 (3.77%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.89%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.89%) Legal
7 1 (1.89%) Military
Job Titles
1 12 (22.64%) Architect
2 10 (18.87%) Data Scientist
3 8 (15.09%) Senior
4 6 (11.32%) Analyst
4 6 (11.32%) Developer
4 6 (11.32%) Solutions Architect
5 5 (9.43%) Security Architect
6 4 (7.55%) Data Engineer
6 4 (7.55%) Lead
6 4 (7.55%) Senior Data Scientist
7 3 (5.66%) Business Analyst
7 3 (5.66%) Data Analyst
7 3 (5.66%) Data Architect
7 3 (5.66%) Gen AI Specialist
7 3 (5.66%) Python Developer
8 2 (3.77%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
8 2 (3.77%) Integration Architect
8 2 (3.77%) QA Engineer
8 2 (3.77%) Senior Architect
8 2 (3.77%) Senior Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (24.53%) TensorFlow
2 9 (16.98%) Pandas
3 7 (13.21%) scikit-learn
4 6 (11.32%) PySpark
5 4 (7.55%) PyTorch
6 3 (5.66%) NumPy
7 2 (3.77%) OpenCV
7 2 (3.77%) pydantic
7 2 (3.77%) SciPy
7 2 (3.77%) Spring
7 2 (3.77%) Spring Boot
8 1 (1.89%) Django
8 1 (1.89%) Elastic Stack
8 1 (1.89%) FastAPI
8 1 (1.89%) FIX Protocol
8 1 (1.89%) ONNX
8 1 (1.89%) OpenTelemetry
8 1 (1.89%) React
8 1 (1.89%) REST
8 1 (1.89%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (24.53%) Algorithms
2 6 (11.32%) Credit Risk
3 4 (7.55%) Cloud Native
4 3 (5.66%) Distributed Computing
4 3 (5.66%) Product Ownership
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%) Fixed Income
6 1 (1.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.89%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.89%) Market Risk
6 1 (1.89%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.89%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.89%) Apple iOS
1 1 (1.89%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (62.26%) Artificial Intelligence
2 22 (41.51%) Data Science
3 12 (22.64%) Problem-Solving
4 11 (20.75%) Data Visualisation
4 11 (20.75%) Decision-Making
4 11 (20.75%) LLM
4 11 (20.75%) Visualisation
5 10 (18.87%) Agile
5 10 (18.87%) Analytics
5 10 (18.87%) Risk Management
6 8 (15.09%) Business Intelligence
6 8 (15.09%) Computer Science
6 8 (15.09%) Data Pipeline
6 8 (15.09%) Natural Language Processing
7 7 (13.21%) Cybersecurity
7 7 (13.21%) Deep Learning
7 7 (13.21%) Generative AI
7 7 (13.21%) Mathematics
8 6 (11.32%) Risk Analysis
8 6 (11.32%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 31 (58.49%) Python
2 24 (45.28%) SQL
3 4 (7.55%) Java
3 4 (7.55%) R
4 2 (3.77%) JavaScript
4 2 (3.77%) TypeScript
5 1 (1.89%) Bicep
5 1 (1.89%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 12 (22.64%) Degree
2 9 (16.98%) Security Cleared
3 6 (11.32%) Master's Degree
3 6 (11.32%) PhD
4 5 (9.43%) SC Cleared
5 3 (5.66%) CISM
5 3 (5.66%) CISSP
5 3 (5.66%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (3.77%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.89%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.89%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.89%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.55%) Data Quality
1 4 (7.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (7.55%) NIST
2 2 (3.77%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 2 (3.77%) GDPR
2 2 (3.77%) QA
3 1 (1.89%) EU AI Act
3 1 (1.89%) HIPAA
3 1 (1.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 5 (9.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (7.55%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.89%) ITRS Geneos
2 1 (1.89%) Kibana
2 1 (1.89%) Kubeflow
2 1 (1.89%) logstash
2 1 (1.89%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (7.55%) Databricks
1 4 (7.55%) Google
2 3 (5.66%) Oracle
3 1 (1.89%) Alteryx
3 1 (1.89%) Dataiku
3 1 (1.89%) Genesys
3 1 (1.89%) IBM
3 1 (1.89%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.89%) MuleSoft
3 1 (1.89%) ServiceNow
3 1 (1.89%) Solace