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 26 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 62 88
Rank change year-on-year +15 +26 +32
Contract jobs citing Machine Learning 103 57 39
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 4.25% 3.25% 1.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.96% 3.47% 2.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 39 22
10th Percentile £425 £400 £500
25th Percentile £463 £519 £507
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £590 £555 £596
Median % change year-on-year +6.26% -6.92% -11.67%
75th Percentile £638 £695 £760
90th Percentile £738 £763 £836
Central London median daily rate £575 £555 £600
% change year-on-year +3.60% -7.50% -11.11%
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 2,077 1,643 1,948
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 85.76% 93.78% 90.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,401 1,050 1,354
10th Percentile £365 £350 £363
25th Percentile £450 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £551 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.18% -4.17% -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 29 18 14
10th Percentile £17.53 £16.90 £20.01
25th Percentile £18.75 £23.98 £20.29
Median hourly rate £23.16 £29.75 £26.63
Median % change year-on-year -22.15% +11.74% -23.93%
75th Percentile £43.00 £54.75 £40.00
90th Percentile £60.78 £71.25 £47.73
Central London median hourly rate £27.25 £30.04 £27.41
% change year-on-year -9.27% +9.60% -21.70%

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 26 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 26 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 (2.91%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (2.91%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.94%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.97%) Apache
3 1 (0.97%) Jupyter
Applications
1 3 (2.91%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 43 (41.75%) AWS
2 40 (38.83%) Azure
3 21 (20.39%) GCP
4 16 (15.53%) Power Platform
5 11 (10.68%) Amazon SageMaker
6 7 (6.80%) Amazon S3
6 7 (6.80%) GitHub
6 7 (6.80%) Serverless
7 6 (5.83%) Amazon Bedrock
7 6 (5.83%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (5.83%) Azure AI
7 6 (5.83%) Azure Machine Learning
7 6 (5.83%) SaaS
8 5 (4.85%) Snowflake
8 5 (4.85%) Vertex AI
9 4 (3.88%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (3.88%) Azure Data Factory
9 4 (3.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 4 (3.88%) iPaaS
10 3 (2.91%) Boomi
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.91%) DHCP
1 3 (2.91%) DNS
1 3 (2.91%) Firewall
1 3 (2.91%) Network Security
1 3 (2.91%) SMTP
1 3 (2.91%) VPN
2 1 (0.97%) 3G
2 1 (0.97%) 3GPP
2 1 (0.97%) 4G
2 1 (0.97%) 5G
2 1 (0.97%) LTE
2 1 (0.97%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (0.97%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (11.65%) Power BI
2 9 (8.74%) NoSQL
3 7 (6.80%) Data Lake
3 7 (6.80%) Tableau
4 6 (5.83%) Data Mining
4 6 (5.83%) Metadata
5 5 (4.85%) Big Data
5 5 (4.85%) MongoDB
6 4 (3.88%) Amazon Redshift
6 4 (3.88%) Looker
6 4 (3.88%) Mixpanel
6 4 (3.88%) Pinecone
6 4 (3.88%) Relational Database
7 3 (2.91%) Amazon Athena
7 3 (2.91%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (2.91%) BigQuery
7 3 (2.91%) Db2
7 3 (2.91%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (2.91%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (2.91%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 4 (3.88%) Git
2 2 (1.94%) MLflow
3 1 (0.97%) Claude Code
3 1 (0.97%) Cypress.io
3 1 (0.97%) ER Studio
3 1 (0.97%) JIRA
3 1 (0.97%) Vite
General
1 31 (30.10%) Finance
2 26 (25.24%) Social Skills
3 15 (14.56%) Public Sector
4 10 (9.71%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (9.71%) Banking
5 6 (5.83%) Influencing Skills
6 5 (4.85%) Marketing
7 4 (3.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (3.88%) Retail
8 3 (2.91%) Manufacturing
8 3 (2.91%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.94%) Corporate Banking
9 2 (1.94%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.94%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.94%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.94%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.97%) Advertising
10 1 (0.97%) Aviation
10 1 (0.97%) Local Government
10 1 (0.97%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 24 (23.30%) Architect
2 16 (15.53%) Data Scientist
3 9 (8.74%) Lead
4 8 (7.77%) Data Architect
5 7 (6.80%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 6 (5.83%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 6 (5.83%) Software Engineer
7 5 (4.85%) Analyst
7 5 (4.85%) Enterprise Architect
7 5 (4.85%) Platform Architect
7 5 (4.85%) Senior
8 4 (3.88%) Data Engineer
8 4 (3.88%) Solutions Architect
8 4 (3.88%) Technical Leader
9 3 (2.91%) 3rd Line Support
9 3 (2.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 3 (2.91%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
9 3 (2.91%) Java Engineer
9 3 (2.91%) Product Manager
9 3 (2.91%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (13.59%) PyTorch
2 11 (10.68%) TensorFlow
3 10 (9.71%) React
4 8 (7.77%) scikit-learn
5 6 (5.83%) PySpark
6 5 (4.85%) AngularJS
6 5 (4.85%) Hugging Face
6 5 (4.85%) LangChain
7 4 (3.88%) LangGraph
7 4 (3.88%) Pandas
8 3 (2.91%) Backbone.js
8 3 (2.91%) Bootstrap
8 3 (2.91%) Ember.js
8 3 (2.91%) jQuery
8 3 (2.91%) Kafka
8 3 (2.91%) Keras
8 3 (2.91%) NumPy
9 2 (1.94%) CrewAI
9 2 (1.94%) REST
9 2 (1.94%) Vert.x
Miscellaneous
1 25 (24.27%) Cloud Native
2 9 (8.74%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (7.77%) AI Agents
4 6 (5.83%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.91%) Algorithms
5 3 (2.91%) Clustering
5 3 (2.91%) Data Centre
5 3 (2.91%) Life Science
5 3 (2.91%) Marketing Technology
5 3 (2.91%) PKI
5 3 (2.91%) Security Posture
6 2 (1.94%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.94%) Equities
6 2 (1.94%) Fixed Income
6 2 (1.94%) Synthetic Data
7 1 (0.97%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (0.97%) Genomics
7 1 (0.97%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.97%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.97%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (6.80%) Linux
2 6 (5.83%) Windows
3 3 (2.91%) Android
3 3 (2.91%) Apple iOS
3 3 (2.91%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.97%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (88.35%) AI
2 45 (43.69%) Analytics
3 38 (36.89%) Generative AI
4 36 (34.95%) Data Science
5 33 (32.04%) LLM
6 30 (29.13%) CI/CD
7 26 (25.24%) Agile
8 23 (22.33%) MLOps
9 22 (21.36%) Data Engineering
10 20 (19.42%) Roadmaps
11 18 (17.48%) Data Pipeline
11 18 (17.48%) Decision-Making
12 17 (16.50%) DevOps
13 16 (15.53%) Data Governance
13 16 (15.53%) Infrastructure as Code
13 16 (15.53%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
14 14 (13.59%) Business Intelligence
14 14 (13.59%) Data Modelling
14 14 (13.59%) Problem-Solving
15 12 (11.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 50 (48.54%) Python
2 31 (30.10%) SQL
3 7 (6.80%) Java
4 5 (4.85%) R
5 4 (3.88%) Bicep
5 4 (3.88%) PowerShell
5 4 (3.88%) TypeScript
6 2 (1.94%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.97%) C#
7 1 (0.97%) Go
7 1 (0.97%) Google Apps Script
7 1 (0.97%) Scala
Qualifications
1 12 (11.65%) Degree
1 12 (11.65%) Security Cleared
2 8 (7.77%) SC Cleared
3 6 (5.83%) PhD
4 3 (2.91%) DBS Check
4 3 (2.91%) DV Cleared
4 3 (2.91%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.94%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.94%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.94%) CSPO
6 1 (0.97%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.97%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 1 (0.97%) CISM
6 1 (0.97%) CISSP
6 1 (0.97%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.97%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 1 (0.97%) MPhil
6 1 (0.97%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (9.71%) Data Quality
2 6 (5.83%) GDPR
3 4 (3.88%) QA
4 3 (2.91%) NIST
5 2 (1.94%) 21 CFR Part 11
5 2 (1.94%) GxP
5 2 (1.94%) ISO/IEC 42001
5 2 (1.94%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.97%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.97%) GRC
6 1 (0.97%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.97%) NCSC
6 1 (0.97%) WCAG
System Software
1 16 (15.53%) Docker
2 4 (3.88%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.91%) BitLocker
3 3 (2.91%) Hyper-V
3 3 (2.91%) Microsoft App-V
3 3 (2.91%) Terminal Services
3 3 (2.91%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (2.91%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 17 (16.50%) Kubernetes
2 8 (7.77%) Terraform
3 3 (2.91%) Ansible
3 3 (2.91%) Nagios
3 3 (2.91%) Puppet
3 3 (2.91%) vCenter Server
3 3 (2.91%) vMotion
4 2 (1.94%) Istio
4 2 (1.94%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 15 (14.56%) Microsoft
2 10 (9.71%) Google
3 6 (5.83%) Databricks
4 5 (4.85%) OpenAI
5 4 (3.88%) Amplitude
5 4 (3.88%) Foundry
6 3 (2.91%) Citrix
6 3 (2.91%) HP
6 3 (2.91%) MuleSoft
6 3 (2.91%) Salesforce
6 3 (2.91%) Symantec
6 3 (2.91%) VMware
7 2 (1.94%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.94%) IBM
7 2 (1.94%) SAP
7 2 (1.94%) SimCorp
7 2 (1.94%) Sitecore
7 2 (1.94%) Vermilion
8 1 (0.97%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.97%) ServiceNow