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 20 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 73 97
Rank change year-on-year +26 +24 +12
Contract jobs citing Machine Learning 95 48 34
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 4.26% 2.72% 1.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.96% 2.93% 1.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 29 22
10th Percentile £396 £400 £463
25th Percentile £484 £513 £501
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £638
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -1.96% -5.56%
75th Percentile £738 £763 £792
90th Percentile £840 £795 £837
Central London median daily rate £595 £600 £650
% change year-on-year -0.92% -7.69% -1.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £33.51 - -
25th Percentile £37.23 - £46.75
Median hourly rate £44.92 - £48.50
75th Percentile £53.07 - £50.25
90th Percentile £57.06 - -
Central London median hourly rate £44.92 - £48.50
% change year-on-year - - +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 1,916 1,638 2,003
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 85.96% 92.80% 90.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,318 1,046 1,415
10th Percentile £363 £363 £354
25th Percentile £450 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £568
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +1.32% -5.42%
75th Percentile £675 £678 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £808
Central London median daily rate £550 £573 £550
% change year-on-year -3.93% +4.09% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 11 13
10th Percentile - £22.00 £19.13
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.66 £20.22
Median hourly rate £32.07 £31.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.44% +24.00% -28.57%
75th Percentile £52.16 £46.25 £40.00
90th Percentile £59.72 £63.75 £48.57
Central London median hourly rate £26.56 £30.04 £27.81
% change year-on-year -11.59% +8.00% -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 20 April 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 20 April 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 7 (7.37%) Apache Spark
2 4 (4.21%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (3.16%) Apache
4 1 (1.05%) Jupyter
Business Applications
1 1 (1.05%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 41 (43.16%) AWS
2 40 (42.11%) Azure
3 23 (24.21%) GCP
4 21 (22.11%) Power Platform
5 13 (13.68%) Amazon SageMaker
6 10 (10.53%) Azure Machine Learning
7 8 (8.42%) GitHub
8 7 (7.37%) Azure AI
9 6 (6.32%) Amazon S3
9 6 (6.32%) SaaS
9 6 (6.32%) Snowflake
9 6 (6.32%) Vertex AI
10 5 (5.26%) Azure Data Factory
10 5 (5.26%) Copilot Studio
10 5 (5.26%) Microsoft Copilot
11 4 (4.21%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 4 (4.21%) GitHub Copilot
11 4 (4.21%) Google Gemini
11 4 (4.21%) iPaaS
11 4 (4.21%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.11%) Network Security
2 1 (1.05%) 3G
2 1 (1.05%) 3GPP
2 1 (1.05%) 4G
2 1 (1.05%) 5G
2 1 (1.05%) Hyperconnected
2 1 (1.05%) LTE
2 1 (1.05%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (1.05%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (15.79%) Power BI
2 10 (10.53%) Tableau
3 8 (8.42%) NoSQL
4 6 (6.32%) Data Lake
4 6 (6.32%) Data Mining
5 5 (5.26%) Metadata
6 4 (4.21%) Big Data
6 4 (4.21%) BigQuery
6 4 (4.21%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (3.16%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (3.16%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (3.16%) DB2
7 3 (3.16%) Looker
7 3 (3.16%) Mixpanel
7 3 (3.16%) MongoDB
7 3 (3.16%) Redis
7 3 (3.16%) Relational Database
8 2 (2.11%) Electronic Patient Records
9 1 (1.05%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (1.05%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 8 (8.42%) Git
2 2 (2.11%) MLflow
3 1 (1.05%) Cypress.io
3 1 (1.05%) GitLab
3 1 (1.05%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.05%) JIRA
3 1 (1.05%) SonarQube
General
1 30 (31.58%) Finance
2 26 (27.37%) Social Skills
3 18 (18.95%) Public Sector
4 14 (14.74%) Banking
5 12 (12.63%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (6.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (5.26%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (5.26%) Marketing
8 4 (4.21%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (3.16%) Investment Banking
9 3 (3.16%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.05%) Advertising
10 1 (1.05%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (1.05%) Financial Institution
10 1 (1.05%) Law
10 1 (1.05%) Legal
10 1 (1.05%) Local Government
10 1 (1.05%) Retail
10 1 (1.05%) Retail Banking
10 1 (1.05%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 19 (20.00%) Architect
2 18 (18.95%) Data Scientist
3 13 (13.68%) Senior
4 10 (10.53%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 8 (8.42%) Developer
5 8 (8.42%) Enterprise Architect
5 8 (8.42%) Lead
6 6 (6.32%) Data Architect
6 6 (6.32%) Software Engineer
7 5 (5.26%) Data Engineer
7 5 (5.26%) Platform Architect
7 5 (5.26%) Python Developer
8 4 (4.21%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 4 (4.21%) Machine Learning Engineer
8 4 (4.21%) Senior Data Scientist
9 3 (3.16%) Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 3 (3.16%) Java Engineer
9 3 (3.16%) Senior Developer
9 3 (3.16%) Senior Python Developer
9 3 (3.16%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (20.00%) PyTorch
2 17 (17.89%) scikit-learn
3 16 (16.84%) TensorFlow
4 9 (9.47%) NumPy
4 9 (9.47%) Pandas
5 8 (8.42%) React
6 5 (5.26%) AngularJS
6 5 (5.26%) Hugging Face
6 5 (5.26%) LangChain
6 5 (5.26%) LangGraph
6 5 (5.26%) PySpark
7 4 (4.21%) FastAPI
7 4 (4.21%) Google JAX
7 4 (4.21%) JAX
7 4 (4.21%) Matplotlib
7 4 (4.21%) Model Context Protocol
7 4 (4.21%) Seaborn
8 3 (3.16%) Backbone.js
8 3 (3.16%) Ember.js
8 3 (3.16%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 28 (29.47%) Cloud Native
2 10 (10.53%) AI Agents
3 9 (9.47%) Algorithms
3 9 (9.47%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (4.21%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (4.21%) Life Science
5 3 (3.16%) Marketing Technology
5 3 (3.16%) Security Posture
6 2 (2.11%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (2.11%) Derivative
6 2 (2.11%) Distributed Computing
6 2 (2.11%) Equities
6 2 (2.11%) Fixed Income
6 2 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.11%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.11%) Synthetic Data
7 1 (1.05%) Blog
7 1 (1.05%) Clustering
7 1 (1.05%) NHS
7 1 (1.05%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.16%) Android
1 3 (3.16%) Apple iOS
1 3 (3.16%) Linux
1 3 (3.16%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (85.26%) AI
2 47 (49.47%) Analytics
3 42 (44.21%) Data Science
4 35 (36.84%) Generative AI
5 33 (34.74%) LLM
6 26 (27.37%) CI/CD
7 24 (25.26%) Data Engineering
8 22 (23.16%) Agile
9 21 (22.11%) Data Pipeline
10 19 (20.00%) MLOps
11 16 (16.84%) Data Governance
11 16 (16.84%) Decision-Making
11 16 (16.84%) Roadmaps
12 15 (15.79%) Business Intelligence
12 15 (15.79%) DevOps
12 15 (15.79%) Software Engineering
12 15 (15.79%) Visualisation
13 14 (14.74%) Observability
14 13 (13.68%) Data Modelling
14 13 (13.68%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 58 (61.05%) Python
2 31 (32.63%) SQL
3 9 (9.47%) Java
4 6 (6.32%) R
5 4 (4.21%) C++
6 3 (3.16%) Bicep
6 3 (3.16%) C#
6 3 (3.16%) TypeScript
7 2 (2.11%) JavaScript
7 2 (2.11%) Scala
Qualifications
1 13 (13.68%) Security Cleared
2 11 (11.58%) Degree
3 8 (8.42%) SC Cleared
4 6 (6.32%) PhD
5 4 (4.21%) Master's Degree
6 3 (3.16%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (2.11%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (2.11%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (1.05%) DBS Check
8 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (1.05%) MPhil
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (10.53%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.16%) GDPR
2 3 (3.16%) NIST
3 2 (2.11%) ISO/IEC 42001
4 1 (1.05%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.05%) GRC
4 1 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.05%) NCSC
4 1 (1.05%) QA
4 1 (1.05%) WCAG
System Software
1 13 (13.68%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (11.58%) Kubernetes
2 7 (7.37%) Terraform
3 3 (3.16%) Istio
3 3 (3.16%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 18 (18.95%) Microsoft
2 11 (11.58%) Google
3 10 (10.53%) Databricks
4 6 (6.32%) OpenAI
5 5 (5.26%) Foundry
6 4 (4.21%) IBM
7 3 (3.16%) Amplitude
7 3 (3.16%) Cognos
7 3 (3.16%) Dynatrace
7 3 (3.16%) MuleSoft
7 3 (3.16%) Sage
7 3 (3.16%) Salesforce
8 2 (2.11%) Guidewire
8 2 (2.11%) SimCorp
8 2 (2.11%) Sitecore
8 2 (2.11%) Vermilion
9 1 (1.05%) Apple
9 1 (1.05%) Informatica
9 1 (1.05%) SAP