Reinforcement Learning Contract Job Trends in Central London

Reinforcement Learning
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Reinforcement Learning skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 127 127 143
Rank change year-on-year 0 +16 +43
Contract jobs citing Reinforcement Learning 5 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.24% 0.047% 0.078%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% 0.051% 0.087%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £1,050 £613 £860
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £1,100 £625 £869
Median % change year-on-year +76.00% -28.08% -
75th Percentile £1,150 £638 £879
90th Percentile - - -
London median daily rate £863 £525 £710
% change year-on-year +64.29% -26.00% -21.17%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Central London

Reinforcement 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 1,841 1,950 2,304
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 88.94% 92.16% 89.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,267 1,207 1,644
10th Percentile £354 £363 £350
25th Percentile £432 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £563
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% +2.22% -3.02%
75th Percentile £664 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 20 27
10th Percentile £19.90 £21.93 £18.16
25th Percentile £24.31 £29.79 £21.36
Median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year -25.40% +25.85% -14.43%
75th Percentile £41.80 £40.63 £40.00
90th Percentile £46.05 £55.08 £65.00
London median hourly rate £34.14 £36.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year -5.18% +20.00% -15.49%

Reinforcement Learning
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Reinforcement Learning relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Reinforcement Learning job vacancy trend in Central London

Reinforcement Learning
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Reinforcement Learning.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Reinforcement Learning

Reinforcement 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 Reinforcement Learning within the Central London region over the 6 months to 5 February 2026. 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 -3 5 £1,100 +76.00% 4
Reinforcement Learning
London

Reinforcement Learning
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (80.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (20.00%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) AWS
1 4 (80.00%) Azure
1 4 (80.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Big Data
1 3 (60.00%) NoSQL
General
1 4 (80.00%) Finance
2 3 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Machine Learning Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) PyTorch
1 4 (80.00%) TensorFlow
2 3 (60.00%) Dask
2 3 (60.00%) Google JAX
2 3 (60.00%) JAX
2 3 (60.00%) LightGBM
2 3 (60.00%) scikit-learn
2 3 (60.00%) XGBoost
3 1 (20.00%) LangChain
3 1 (20.00%) Model Context Protocol
3 1 (20.00%) PySpark
3 1 (20.00%) Ray
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Algorithms
1 3 (60.00%) Analytical Mindset
1 3 (60.00%) Derivative
2 1 (20.00%) AI Agents
2 1 (20.00%) Autonomous Agent
2 1 (20.00%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Data Engineering
1 4 (80.00%) Decision-Making
1 4 (80.00%) Machine Learning
2 3 (60.00%) Analytics
2 3 (60.00%) Anomaly Detection
2 3 (60.00%) Business Strategy
2 3 (60.00%) Deep Learning
2 3 (60.00%) Pattern Recognition
2 3 (60.00%) Risk Analytics
2 3 (60.00%) Risk Management
3 2 (40.00%) AI
4 1 (20.00%) Actionable Insight
4 1 (20.00%) Data Protection
4 1 (20.00%) LLM
4 1 (20.00%) Multi-Agent System
4 1 (20.00%) Open Source
4 1 (20.00%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Python
2 3 (60.00%) SQL
3 1 (20.00%) Scala
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) GDPR
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Google