Machine Learning Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Machine Learning (ML)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Machine Learning skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 66 89
Rank change year-on-year +19 +23 +25
Contract jobs citing Machine Learning 100 55 40
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 4.13% 3.18% 1.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.82% 3.39% 2.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 37 23
10th Percentile £425 £400 £470
25th Percentile £463 £525 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £555 £593
Median % change year-on-year +5.41% -6.33% -12.22%
75th Percentile £638 £700 £753
90th Percentile £715 £763 £835
Central London median daily rate £575 £565 £596
% change year-on-year +1.77% -5.24% -11.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £33.51 - -
25th Percentile £37.23 £61.25 £46.75
Median hourly rate £44.92 £62.50 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% +28.87% +38.57%
75th Percentile £53.07 £63.75 £50.25
90th Percentile £57.06 - -
Central London median hourly rate £44.92 £56.97 £48.50
% change year-on-year -21.16% +17.46% +38.57%

All Process & Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,076 1,622 1,986
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 85.68% 93.70% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,393 1,032 1,378
10th Percentile £363 £351 £363
25th Percentile £450 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 16 14
10th Percentile £17.60 £19.25 £20.01
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.43 £20.29
Median hourly rate £23.16 £29.75 £26.63
Median % change year-on-year -22.15% +11.74% -23.93%
75th Percentile £42.83 £52.50 £40.00
90th Percentile £59.72 £76.25 £47.73
Central London median hourly rate £27.25 £29.07 £27.81
% change year-on-year -6.26% +4.53% -20.54%

Machine Learning
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Machine Learning job vacancy trend in the City of London

Machine Learning
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

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

Machine Learning
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Machine Learning in the City of London over the 6 months to 19 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Machine Learning in the City of London

Machine Learning
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Machine Learning.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Machine Learning

Machine Learning
Hourly Rate Histogram in the City of London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Machine Learning in the City of London over the 6 months to 19 June 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Machine Learning in the City of London

Machine Learning
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 3 (3.00%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (3.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.00%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.00%) Apache
3 1 (1.00%) Jupyter
Applications
1 3 (3.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 43 (43.00%) AWS
2 39 (39.00%) Azure
3 21 (21.00%) GCP
4 16 (16.00%) Power Platform
5 11 (11.00%) Amazon SageMaker
6 7 (7.00%) Amazon S3
6 7 (7.00%) GitHub
6 7 (7.00%) Serverless
7 6 (6.00%) Amazon Bedrock
7 6 (6.00%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (6.00%) Azure AI
7 6 (6.00%) Azure Machine Learning
7 6 (6.00%) SaaS
7 6 (6.00%) Vertex AI
8 5 (5.00%) Snowflake
9 4 (4.00%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (4.00%) Azure Data Factory
9 4 (4.00%) Google Gemini
9 4 (4.00%) iPaaS
10 3 (3.00%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.00%) DHCP
1 3 (3.00%) DNS
1 3 (3.00%) Firewall
1 3 (3.00%) Network Security
1 3 (3.00%) SMTP
1 3 (3.00%) VPN
2 1 (1.00%) 3G
2 1 (1.00%) 3GPP
2 1 (1.00%) 4G
2 1 (1.00%) 5G
2 1 (1.00%) LTE
2 1 (1.00%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (1.00%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (12.00%) Power BI
2 10 (10.00%) NoSQL
3 7 (7.00%) Tableau
4 6 (6.00%) Data Lake
4 6 (6.00%) Data Mining
5 5 (5.00%) Big Data
5 5 (5.00%) Metadata
6 4 (4.00%) Amazon Redshift
6 4 (4.00%) BigQuery
6 4 (4.00%) Looker
6 4 (4.00%) Mixpanel
6 4 (4.00%) MongoDB
6 4 (4.00%) Pinecone
6 4 (4.00%) Relational Database
7 3 (3.00%) Amazon Athena
7 3 (3.00%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (3.00%) Db2
7 3 (3.00%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (3.00%) Redis
7 3 (3.00%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 5 (5.00%) Git
2 2 (2.00%) MLflow
3 1 (1.00%) Claude Code
3 1 (1.00%) Cypress.io
3 1 (1.00%) ER Studio
3 1 (1.00%) JIRA
General
1 29 (29.00%) Finance
2 25 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 15 (15.00%) Public Sector
4 9 (9.00%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (9.00%) Banking
5 5 (5.00%) Influencing Skills
5 5 (5.00%) Marketing
6 4 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (3.00%) Retail
8 2 (2.00%) Financial Institution
8 2 (2.00%) Manufacturing
8 2 (2.00%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (2.00%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.00%) Advertising
9 1 (1.00%) Aviation
9 1 (1.00%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.00%) Law
9 1 (1.00%) Legal
9 1 (1.00%) Retail Banking
9 1 (1.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 23 (23.00%) Architect
2 16 (16.00%) Data Scientist
3 8 (8.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 8 (8.00%) Lead
4 7 (7.00%) Data Architect
5 6 (6.00%) Software Engineer
6 5 (5.00%) Enterprise Architect
6 5 (5.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 5 (5.00%) Platform Architect
6 5 (5.00%) Senior
7 4 (4.00%) Analyst
7 4 (4.00%) Data Engineer
7 4 (4.00%) Solutions Architect
7 4 (4.00%) Technical Leader
8 3 (3.00%) 3rd Line Support
8 3 (3.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
8 3 (3.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (3.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
8 3 (3.00%) Product Manager
8 3 (3.00%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (14.00%) PyTorch
2 11 (11.00%) TensorFlow
3 9 (9.00%) React
4 8 (8.00%) scikit-learn
5 6 (6.00%) PySpark
6 5 (5.00%) AngularJS
6 5 (5.00%) Hugging Face
6 5 (5.00%) LangChain
7 4 (4.00%) LangGraph
7 4 (4.00%) Pandas
8 3 (3.00%) Backbone.js
8 3 (3.00%) Bootstrap
8 3 (3.00%) Ember.js
8 3 (3.00%) jQuery
8 3 (3.00%) Kafka
8 3 (3.00%) Keras
8 3 (3.00%) Model Context Protocol
8 3 (3.00%) NumPy
9 2 (2.00%) CrewAI
9 2 (2.00%) LlamaIndex
Miscellaneous
1 25 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 9 (9.00%) AI Agents
2 9 (9.00%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (4.00%) Product Ownership
4 3 (3.00%) Algorithms
4 3 (3.00%) Clustering
4 3 (3.00%) Data Centre
4 3 (3.00%) Marketing Technology
4 3 (3.00%) PKI
4 3 (3.00%) Security Posture
5 2 (2.00%) Equities
5 2 (2.00%) Fixed Income
5 2 (2.00%) Life Science
5 2 (2.00%) Synthetic Data
6 1 (1.00%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.00%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.00%) NHS
6 1 (1.00%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.00%) Replication
6 1 (1.00%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 7 (7.00%) Linux
2 6 (6.00%) Windows
3 3 (3.00%) Android
3 3 (3.00%) Apple iOS
3 3 (3.00%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.00%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (89.00%) AI
2 44 (44.00%) Analytics
3 39 (39.00%) Generative AI
4 35 (35.00%) Data Science
5 34 (34.00%) LLM
6 30 (30.00%) CI/CD
7 24 (24.00%) Agile
7 24 (24.00%) MLOps
8 21 (21.00%) Data Engineering
9 18 (18.00%) Data Pipeline
9 18 (18.00%) Roadmaps
10 17 (17.00%) DevOps
10 17 (17.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
11 16 (16.00%) Decision-Making
11 16 (16.00%) Infrastructure as Code
12 15 (15.00%) Data Governance
13 14 (14.00%) Business Intelligence
14 13 (13.00%) Data Modelling
14 13 (13.00%) Problem-Solving
15 12 (12.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 51 (51.00%) Python
2 30 (30.00%) SQL
3 7 (7.00%) Java
4 5 (5.00%) R
5 4 (4.00%) Bicep
5 4 (4.00%) PowerShell
6 3 (3.00%) TypeScript
7 2 (2.00%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.00%) C#
8 1 (1.00%) Google Apps Script
8 1 (1.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 12 (12.00%) Degree
1 12 (12.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (8.00%) SC Cleared
3 6 (6.00%) PhD
4 3 (3.00%) DBS Check
4 3 (3.00%) DV Cleared
4 3 (3.00%) Master's Degree
5 2 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.00%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 1 (1.00%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.00%) CISM
6 1 (1.00%) CISSP
6 1 (1.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.00%) CSPO
6 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 1 (1.00%) MPhil
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (10.00%) Data Quality
2 5 (5.00%) GDPR
3 3 (3.00%) NIST
3 3 (3.00%) QA
4 2 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 42001
4 2 (2.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (1.00%) 21 CFR Part 11
5 1 (1.00%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.00%) GRC
5 1 (1.00%) GxP
5 1 (1.00%) HIPAA
5 1 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.00%) NCSC
5 1 (1.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 17 (17.00%) Docker
2 4 (4.00%) Active Directory
3 3 (3.00%) BitLocker
3 3 (3.00%) Hyper-V
3 3 (3.00%) Microsoft App-V
3 3 (3.00%) Terminal Services
3 3 (3.00%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (3.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 18 (18.00%) Kubernetes
2 8 (8.00%) Terraform
3 3 (3.00%) Ansible
3 3 (3.00%) Istio
3 3 (3.00%) Nagios
3 3 (3.00%) Prometheus
3 3 (3.00%) Puppet
3 3 (3.00%) vCenter Server
3 3 (3.00%) vMotion
Vendors
1 15 (15.00%) Microsoft
2 10 (10.00%) Google
3 5 (5.00%) Databricks
3 5 (5.00%) OpenAI
4 4 (4.00%) Amplitude
4 4 (4.00%) Foundry
5 3 (3.00%) Citrix
5 3 (3.00%) Dynatrace
5 3 (3.00%) HP
5 3 (3.00%) MuleSoft
5 3 (3.00%) Salesforce
5 3 (3.00%) Symantec
5 3 (3.00%) VMware
6 2 (2.00%) IBM
6 2 (2.00%) SAP
6 2 (2.00%) SimCorp
6 2 (2.00%) Sitecore
6 2 (2.00%) Vermilion
7 1 (1.00%) Alteryx
7 1 (1.00%) ServiceNow