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 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 49 70 109
Rank change year-on-year +21 +39 +29
Contract jobs citing Machine Learning 77 52 28
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 4.28% 2.48% 1.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.71% 2.70% 1.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 34 22
10th Percentile £461 £463 £336
25th Percentile £513 £513 £492
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £606 £650
Median % change year-on-year +7.22% -6.73% +4.00%
75th Percentile £747 £763 £797
90th Percentile £925 £818 £831
Central London median daily rate £650 £606 £650
% change year-on-year +7.22% -6.73% +4.00%

All Process and 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 1,634 1,927 2,320
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.88% 91.98% 89.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,159 1,177 1,656
10th Percentile £338 £363 £363
25th Percentile £424 £469 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £761 £788 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 16 11
10th Percentile £19.98 £16.25 £17.00
25th Percentile £24.36 £22.00 £17.97
Median hourly rate £31.00 £40.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.46% +62.00% -51.46%
75th Percentile £43.33 £97.38 £42.38
90th Percentile £55.25 £124.75 £73.75
Central London median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year -21.43% +37.25% -40.70%

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 14 December 2025.

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
Contract Job Locations in the City of 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 City of London region over the 6 months to 14 December 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
London Bridge - 1 £800 -
Machine Learning
Central 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 9 (11.69%) Apache Spark
2 5 (6.49%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (2.60%) Apache
4 1 (1.30%) Confluence
4 1 (1.30%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (1.30%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (1.30%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 35 (45.45%) Azure
2 28 (36.36%) AWS
3 20 (25.97%) GCP
4 17 (22.08%) Power Platform
5 11 (14.29%) Azure Machine Learning
6 7 (9.09%) GitHub
6 7 (9.09%) Snowflake
7 6 (7.79%) Amazon SageMaker
7 6 (7.79%) Azure AI
8 5 (6.49%) Copilot Studio
8 5 (6.49%) dbt
8 5 (6.49%) Microsoft Copilot
9 4 (5.19%) Cloud Run
9 4 (5.19%) Power Automate
9 4 (5.19%) PowerApps
10 3 (3.90%) Azure Data Factory
10 3 (3.90%) Cloud Computing
10 3 (3.90%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 3 (3.90%) SaaS
11 2 (2.60%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.60%) DNS
2 1 (1.30%) Firewall
2 1 (1.30%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (16.88%) Power BI
2 6 (7.79%) Big Data
2 6 (7.79%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (6.49%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (6.49%) Tableau
4 3 (3.90%) Data Lake
4 3 (3.90%) Metadata
4 3 (3.90%) NoSQL
4 3 (3.90%) Pinecone
4 3 (3.90%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (2.60%) BigQuery
5 2 (2.60%) Data Vault
5 2 (2.60%) Geospatial Data
5 2 (2.60%) Spatial Data
6 1 (1.30%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (1.30%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.30%) Delta Lake
6 1 (1.30%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.30%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.30%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 10 (12.99%) Git
2 8 (10.39%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.60%) MLflow
3 2 (2.60%) SonarQube
4 1 (1.30%) Cypress.io
4 1 (1.30%) GitLab
4 1 (1.30%) JIRA
General
1 32 (41.56%) Finance
2 24 (31.17%) Social Skills
3 15 (19.48%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (18.18%) Banking
5 10 (12.99%) Public Sector
6 6 (7.79%) Investment Banking
6 6 (7.79%) Legal
6 6 (7.79%) Pharmaceutical
7 5 (6.49%) Retail
8 3 (3.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (2.60%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (2.60%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (2.60%) Law
9 2 (2.60%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.30%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 16 (20.78%) Senior
2 13 (16.88%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 12 (15.58%) Architect
4 11 (14.29%) Data Scientist
5 9 (11.69%) Developer
6 8 (10.39%) Lead
7 6 (7.79%) Data Engineer
8 5 (6.49%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
8 5 (6.49%) Machine Learning Engineer
9 4 (5.19%) Data Architect
9 4 (5.19%) Python Developer
9 4 (5.19%) Senior Data Scientist
9 4 (5.19%) Senior Developer
10 3 (3.90%) Applications Engineer
10 3 (3.90%) Backend Developer
10 3 (3.90%) Enterprise Architect
10 3 (3.90%) Security Engineer
10 3 (3.90%) Senior Backend Developer
10 3 (3.90%) Senior Python Developer
10 3 (3.90%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (18.18%) scikit-learn
2 13 (16.88%) PyTorch
2 13 (16.88%) TensorFlow
3 8 (10.39%) NumPy
3 8 (10.39%) Pandas
4 7 (9.09%) LangChain
4 7 (9.09%) LangGraph
5 6 (7.79%) FastAPI
6 5 (6.49%) Elastic Stack
6 5 (6.49%) FIX Protocol
6 5 (6.49%) Kafka
7 3 (3.90%) Dask
7 3 (3.90%) Faiss
7 3 (3.90%) Google JAX
7 3 (3.90%) JAX
7 3 (3.90%) LightGBM
7 3 (3.90%) Matplotlib
7 3 (3.90%) PySpark
7 3 (3.90%) Seaborn
7 3 (3.90%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 18 (23.38%) Cloud Native
2 12 (15.58%) Algorithms
3 11 (14.29%) AI Agents
4 7 (9.09%) Product Ownership
5 5 (6.49%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (6.49%) Onboarding
6 4 (5.19%) Derivative
6 4 (5.19%) Fixed Income
6 4 (5.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 4 (5.19%) Life Science
7 3 (3.90%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (3.90%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (3.90%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (3.90%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (3.90%) Taxonomies
8 2 (2.60%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (2.60%) Replication
8 2 (2.60%) Security Posture
9 1 (1.30%) Blog
9 1 (1.30%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.49%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (74.03%) AI
2 38 (49.35%) Data Science
3 27 (35.06%) Analytics
3 27 (35.06%) Generative AI
4 25 (32.47%) LLM
5 17 (22.08%) CI/CD
5 17 (22.08%) DevOps
6 16 (20.78%) Data Engineering
6 16 (20.78%) Data Pipeline
6 16 (20.78%) Visualisation
7 14 (18.18%) Natural Language Processing
8 13 (16.88%) Business Intelligence
8 13 (16.88%) Data Governance
8 13 (16.88%) Observability
9 12 (15.58%) MLOps
9 12 (15.58%) Roadmaps
10 11 (14.29%) Agile
10 11 (14.29%) Data Modelling
10 11 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
10 11 (14.29%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 52 (67.53%) Python
2 22 (28.57%) SQL
3 5 (6.49%) C#
3 5 (6.49%) C++
3 5 (6.49%) PowerShell
4 3 (3.90%) Java
4 3 (3.90%) JavaScript
4 3 (3.90%) TypeScript
5 2 (2.60%) Go
5 2 (2.60%) R
6 1 (1.30%) Rust
6 1 (1.30%) Scala
Qualifications
1 11 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 9 (11.69%) Degree
3 6 (7.79%) SC Cleared
4 4 (5.19%) Master's Degree
5 2 (2.60%) CISSP
5 2 (2.60%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.60%) MCP
5 2 (2.60%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (1.30%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.30%) MBA
6 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.30%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.79%) Data Quality
2 5 (6.49%) GDPR
3 4 (5.19%) EU AI Act
4 3 (3.90%) NIST
5 2 (2.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (1.30%) EMIR
6 1 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 42001
6 1 (1.30%) MiFID
6 1 (1.30%) SOC 2
System Software
1 12 (15.58%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (11.69%) Kubernetes
2 7 (9.09%) Terraform
3 5 (6.49%) ITRS Geneos
3 5 (6.49%) Kibana
3 5 (6.49%) logstash
4 2 (2.60%) Argo
4 2 (2.60%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.30%) Grafana
5 1 (1.30%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.30%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 18 (23.38%) Microsoft
2 14 (18.18%) Databricks
3 11 (14.29%) Google
4 6 (7.79%) OpenAI
5 5 (6.49%) Solace
6 4 (5.19%) Foundry
7 2 (2.60%) Cognos
7 2 (2.60%) Guidewire
7 2 (2.60%) IBM
7 2 (2.60%) MicroStrategy
7 2 (2.60%) Sage
7 2 (2.60%) Salesforce
7 2 (2.60%) SAP
8 1 (1.30%) Blue Prism
8 1 (1.30%) Informatica
8 1 (1.30%) TIBCO
8 1 (1.30%) UiPath
8 1 (1.30%) Workday