LightGBM Contract Job Trends in the City of London

LightGBM
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring LightGBM skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 125 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing LightGBM 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.058% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.24% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £1,050 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £1,100 - -
75th Percentile £1,150 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median daily rate £1,100 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
City of London

LightGBM falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 421 517 701
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 24.42% 24.30% 24.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 292 315 470
10th Percentile £400 £403 £406
25th Percentile £463 £500 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £712 £725
90th Percentile £774 £838 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £620
% change year-on-year -8.33% -3.23% +3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile £63.75 - £46.93
25th Percentile £67.50 £36.75 £47.94
Median hourly rate £75.00 £38.50 £50.25
Median % change year-on-year +94.81% -23.38% -15.90%
75th Percentile £82.50 £40.25 £51.94
90th Percentile £86.25 - £52.58
Central London median hourly rate £62.50 £38.50 £50.25
% change year-on-year +62.34% -23.38% -15.90%

LightGBM
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing LightGBM relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

LightGBM job vacancy trend in the City of London

LightGBM
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing LightGBM.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing LightGBM

LightGBM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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 1 (100.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Big Data
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Dask
1 1 (100.00%) Google JAX
1 1 (100.00%) JAX
1 1 (100.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (100.00%) scikit-learn
1 1 (100.00%) TensorFlow
1 1 (100.00%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (100.00%) Derivative
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Anomaly Detection
1 1 (100.00%) Business Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) Deep Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Pattern Recognition
1 1 (100.00%) Reinforcement Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL