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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 53 79 107
Rank change year-on-year +26 +28 +28
Contract jobs citing Machine Learning 65 49 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 3.71% 2.36% 1.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.94% 2.56% 1.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 34 30
10th Percentile £513 £463 £404
25th Percentile £528 £513 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £645 £606 £688
Median % change year-on-year +6.39% -11.82% +17.02%
75th Percentile £700 £734 £838
90th Percentile £763 £834 £883
Central London median daily rate £645 £613 £675
% change year-on-year +5.31% -9.26% +14.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61.25 - -
Median hourly rate £62.50 - -
75th Percentile £63.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £56.97 - -

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 1,649 1,913 2,773
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 94.17% 92.10% 90.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,093 1,220 1,918
10th Percentile £325 £384 £363
25th Percentile £418 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £712
90th Percentile £763 £788 £815
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 17 15
10th Percentile £17.35 £15.20 £14.25
25th Percentile £23.98 £20.22 £15.43
Median hourly rate £28.33 £27.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.91% -1.82% -36.05%
75th Percentile £53.50 £78.75 £47.41
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £62.45
Central London median hourly rate £31.25 £35.00 £26.75
% change year-on-year -10.71% +30.84% -37.06%

Machine Learning
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Machine Learning as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Machine Learning 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 15 September 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 15 September 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 and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 7 (10.77%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.54%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.54%) Confluence
2 1 (1.54%) Jupyter
2 1 (1.54%) Luigi
2 1 (1.54%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (3.08%) Chatbot
2 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 23 (35.38%) Azure
2 15 (23.08%) AWS
2 15 (23.08%) GCP
3 9 (13.85%) Power Platform
4 7 (10.77%) Azure Machine Learning
5 4 (6.15%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (4.62%) Amazon SageMaker
6 3 (4.62%) Azure AI
6 3 (4.62%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (4.62%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 3 (4.62%) SaaS
7 2 (3.08%) Anthropic Claude
7 2 (3.08%) Azure Key Vault
7 2 (3.08%) Entra ID
7 2 (3.08%) GitHub
7 2 (3.08%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (3.08%) Snowflake
8 1 (1.54%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (1.54%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (1.54%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.08%) DNS
2 1 (1.54%) Firewall
2 1 (1.54%) LAN
2 1 (1.54%) Network Security
2 1 (1.54%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (10.77%) Power BI
2 6 (9.23%) Tableau
3 5 (7.69%) Big Data
3 5 (7.69%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (7.69%) Hadoop
4 4 (6.15%) Apache Hive
4 4 (6.15%) BigQuery
4 4 (6.15%) NoSQL
5 2 (3.08%) Geospatial Data
5 2 (3.08%) MySQL
5 2 (3.08%) Pinecone
5 2 (3.08%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (3.08%) Spatial Data
6 1 (1.54%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.54%) Data Mining
6 1 (1.54%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.54%) Pentaho
6 1 (1.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 5 (7.69%) Jenkins
2 4 (6.15%) MLflow
3 1 (1.54%) Git
3 1 (1.54%) JIRA
3 1 (1.54%) SonarQube
General
1 35 (53.85%) Finance
2 23 (35.38%) Social Skills
3 16 (24.62%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (21.54%) Banking
5 7 (10.77%) Public Sector
6 5 (7.69%) Investment Banking
7 4 (6.15%) Police
7 4 (6.15%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (4.62%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (4.62%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (4.62%) Legal
9 2 (3.08%) Financial Institution
9 2 (3.08%) Retail
9 2 (3.08%) Telecoms
10 1 (1.54%) Marketing
10 1 (1.54%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 14 (21.54%) Data Scientist
2 11 (16.92%) Architect
3 8 (12.31%) Senior
4 7 (10.77%) Developer
5 6 (9.23%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 5 (7.69%) Analyst
6 5 (7.69%) Data Engineer
6 5 (7.69%) Lead
7 4 (6.15%) Applications Engineer
7 4 (6.15%) Python Developer
7 4 (6.15%) Senior Data Scientist
8 3 (4.62%) Data Analyst
8 3 (4.62%) GCP Engineer
8 3 (4.62%) Lead Data Scientist
8 3 (4.62%) Security Architect
8 3 (4.62%) Security Engineer
8 3 (4.62%) Senior Architect
8 3 (4.62%) Solutions Architect
9 2 (3.08%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
9 2 (3.08%) GCP Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (18.46%) TensorFlow
2 11 (16.92%) Pandas
3 8 (12.31%) scikit-learn
4 5 (7.69%) Elastic Stack
4 5 (7.69%) FIX Protocol
4 5 (7.69%) PySpark
5 4 (6.15%) NumPy
6 3 (4.62%) Hugging Face
6 3 (4.62%) PyTorch
7 2 (3.08%) .NET
7 2 (3.08%) AngularJS
7 2 (3.08%) Django
7 2 (3.08%) Faiss
7 2 (3.08%) FastAPI
7 2 (3.08%) Flask
7 2 (3.08%) Kafka
7 2 (3.08%) LangChain
7 2 (3.08%) Spring
7 2 (3.08%) Spring Boot
8 1 (1.54%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 16 (24.62%) Algorithms
2 11 (16.92%) Cloud Native
3 5 (7.69%) Credit Risk
3 5 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (7.69%) Fixed Income
3 5 (7.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 4 (6.15%) AI Agents
5 3 (4.62%) Onboarding
5 3 (4.62%) Product Ownership
6 2 (3.08%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (3.08%) Distributed Computing
6 2 (3.08%) Reinsurance
6 2 (3.08%) Replication
6 2 (3.08%) Taxonomies
7 1 (1.54%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.54%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.54%) Market Risk
7 1 (1.54%) Multi-touch
7 1 (1.54%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (9.23%) Linux
2 1 (1.54%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (60.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 35 (53.85%) Data Science
3 19 (29.23%) Analytics
4 16 (24.62%) LLM
5 14 (21.54%) Visualisation
6 13 (20.00%) Agile
6 13 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
6 13 (20.00%) DevOps
7 12 (18.46%) Computer Science
7 12 (18.46%) Problem-Solving
7 12 (18.46%) Statistics
8 11 (16.92%) Decision-Making
8 11 (16.92%) Generative AI
8 11 (16.92%) Mathematics
9 9 (13.85%) Actionable Insight
9 9 (13.85%) Data Visualisation
9 9 (13.85%) Event-Driven
9 9 (13.85%) Risk Management
10 8 (12.31%) Business Intelligence
10 8 (12.31%) Natural Language Processing
Programming Languages
1 40 (61.54%) Python
2 23 (35.38%) SQL
3 6 (9.23%) R
4 5 (7.69%) PowerShell
5 3 (4.62%) Java
6 2 (3.08%) C#
6 2 (3.08%) Go
6 2 (3.08%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.54%) Bicep
7 1 (1.54%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 14 (21.54%) Degree
2 11 (16.92%) Security Cleared
3 9 (13.85%) Master's Degree
4 6 (9.23%) PhD
4 6 (9.23%) SC Cleared
5 5 (7.69%) CISSP
6 3 (4.62%) CISM
7 2 (3.08%) AWS Certification
7 2 (3.08%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.54%) Azure Certification
8 1 (1.54%) MBA
8 1 (1.54%) MCP
8 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (12.31%) NIST
2 6 (9.23%) GDPR
2 6 (9.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (4.62%) EU AI Act
4 2 (3.08%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (1.54%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.54%) HIPAA
5 1 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 42001
5 1 (1.54%) QA
5 1 (1.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (1.54%) SOC 2
System Software
1 9 (13.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (13.85%) Kubernetes
2 5 (7.69%) ITRS Geneos
2 5 (7.69%) Kibana
2 5 (7.69%) logstash
3 4 (6.15%) Terraform
4 2 (3.08%) Argo
4 2 (3.08%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.54%) Grafana
5 1 (1.54%) Kubeflow
5 1 (1.54%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (10.77%) Databricks
2 6 (9.23%) Google
2 6 (9.23%) Microsoft
3 5 (7.69%) Solace
4 3 (4.62%) OpenAI
5 2 (3.08%) UiPath
6 1 (1.54%) Alteryx
6 1 (1.54%) Blue Prism
6 1 (1.54%) Genesys
6 1 (1.54%) Oracle
6 1 (1.54%) Salesforce