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 3 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 60 81
Rank change year-on-year +14 +21 +35
Contract jobs citing Machine Learning 104 58 44
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 4.25% 3.23% 2.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.95% 3.44% 2.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 40 27
10th Percentile £425 £400 £474
25th Percentile £470 £522 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £595 £565 £600
Median % change year-on-year +5.22% -5.83% -13.82%
75th Percentile £638 £693 £788
90th Percentile £754 £763 £838
Central London median daily rate £575 £565 £614
% change year-on-year +1.77% -7.94% -11.85%
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 2,099 1,687 1,944
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 85.85% 93.88% 91.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,422 1,080 1,349
10th Percentile £365 £350 £363
25th Percentile £451 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £560 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.77% -2.62% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £560
% change year-on-year - -1.79% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 20 15
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.02 £20.04
25th Percentile £18.18 £24.43 £20.36
Median hourly rate £19.50 £29.75 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.45% +10.19% -22.86%
75th Percentile £42.13 £50.75 £40.92
90th Percentile £59.72 £66.25 £67.35
Central London median hourly rate £24.47 £31.00 £27.81
% change year-on-year -21.08% +11.47% -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 3 July 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 3 July 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 (2.88%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.92%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.96%) Apache
3 1 (0.96%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.96%) Jupyter
Applications
1 3 (2.88%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 42 (40.38%) AWS
2 40 (38.46%) Azure
3 21 (20.19%) GCP
4 16 (15.38%) Power Platform
5 11 (10.58%) Amazon SageMaker
6 7 (6.73%) Amazon S3
6 7 (6.73%) GitHub
6 7 (6.73%) Serverless
7 6 (5.77%) Amazon Bedrock
7 6 (5.77%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (5.77%) Azure AI
7 6 (5.77%) Azure Machine Learning
7 6 (5.77%) SaaS
8 5 (4.81%) Snowflake
9 4 (3.85%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (3.85%) Azure Data Factory
9 4 (3.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 4 (3.85%) iPaaS
9 4 (3.85%) Vertex AI
10 3 (2.88%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.88%) DHCP
1 3 (2.88%) DNS
1 3 (2.88%) Firewall
1 3 (2.88%) Network Security
1 3 (2.88%) SMTP
1 3 (2.88%) VPN
2 1 (0.96%) 3G
2 1 (0.96%) 3GPP
2 1 (0.96%) 4G
2 1 (0.96%) 5G
2 1 (0.96%) LTE
2 1 (0.96%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (0.96%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (11.54%) Power BI
2 8 (7.69%) NoSQL
3 7 (6.73%) Data Lake
3 7 (6.73%) Tableau
4 6 (5.77%) Data Mining
4 6 (5.77%) Metadata
5 5 (4.81%) Big Data
5 5 (4.81%) MongoDB
6 4 (3.85%) Amazon Redshift
6 4 (3.85%) Looker
6 4 (3.85%) Mixpanel
6 4 (3.85%) Pinecone
6 4 (3.85%) Relational Database
7 3 (2.88%) Amazon Athena
7 3 (2.88%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (2.88%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (2.88%) Db2
7 3 (2.88%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (2.88%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (2.88%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 4 (3.85%) Git
2 1 (0.96%) Claude Code
2 1 (0.96%) Cypress.io
2 1 (0.96%) ER Studio
2 1 (0.96%) JIRA
2 1 (0.96%) MLflow
2 1 (0.96%) Vite
General
1 33 (31.73%) Finance
2 27 (25.96%) Social Skills
3 15 (14.42%) Public Sector
4 12 (11.54%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (8.65%) Banking
6 6 (5.77%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (4.81%) Marketing
8 4 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (3.85%) Retail
9 3 (2.88%) Financial Institution
9 3 (2.88%) Manufacturing
9 3 (2.88%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.92%) Corporate Banking
10 2 (1.92%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.92%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.92%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.96%) Advertising
11 1 (0.96%) Law
11 1 (0.96%) Legal
11 1 (0.96%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 24 (23.08%) Architect
2 17 (16.35%) Data Scientist
3 9 (8.65%) Lead
4 8 (7.69%) Data Architect
5 6 (5.77%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 6 (5.77%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 6 (5.77%) Senior
5 6 (5.77%) Software Engineer
6 5 (4.81%) Analyst
6 5 (4.81%) Enterprise Architect
6 5 (4.81%) Platform Architect
7 4 (3.85%) Data Engineer
7 4 (3.85%) Product Manager
7 4 (3.85%) Solutions Architect
7 4 (3.85%) Technical Leader
8 3 (2.88%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 3 (2.88%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (2.88%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
8 3 (2.88%) Infrastructure Support
8 3 (2.88%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (12.50%) PyTorch
2 11 (10.58%) React
2 11 (10.58%) TensorFlow
3 8 (7.69%) scikit-learn
4 6 (5.77%) PySpark
5 5 (4.81%) AngularJS
5 5 (4.81%) Hugging Face
5 5 (4.81%) LangChain
6 4 (3.85%) Kafka
6 4 (3.85%) LangGraph
6 4 (3.85%) Pandas
7 3 (2.88%) Backbone.js
7 3 (2.88%) Bootstrap
7 3 (2.88%) Ember.js
7 3 (2.88%) jQuery
7 3 (2.88%) Keras
7 3 (2.88%) NumPy
8 2 (1.92%) OpenTelemetry
8 2 (1.92%) REST
8 2 (1.92%) Vert.x
Miscellaneous
1 24 (23.08%) Cloud Native
2 10 (9.62%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (6.73%) AI Agents
4 6 (5.77%) Product Ownership
5 4 (3.85%) Algorithms
6 3 (2.88%) Clustering
6 3 (2.88%) Data Centre
6 3 (2.88%) Life Science
6 3 (2.88%) Marketing Technology
6 3 (2.88%) PKI
6 3 (2.88%) Security Posture
7 2 (1.92%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.92%) Equities
7 2 (1.92%) Fixed Income
7 2 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.92%) Synthetic Data
8 1 (0.96%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.96%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.96%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.96%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 7 (6.73%) Linux
2 6 (5.77%) Windows
3 3 (2.88%) Android
3 3 (2.88%) Apple iOS
3 3 (2.88%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.96%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (87.50%) AI
2 46 (44.23%) Analytics
3 38 (36.54%) Generative AI
4 36 (34.62%) Data Science
5 33 (31.73%) LLM
6 28 (26.92%) CI/CD
7 27 (25.96%) Agile
8 22 (21.15%) Data Engineering
9 21 (20.19%) MLOps
10 20 (19.23%) Roadmaps
11 19 (18.27%) Decision-Making
12 17 (16.35%) Data Pipeline
12 17 (16.35%) DevOps
12 17 (16.35%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
13 15 (14.42%) Data Governance
13 15 (14.42%) Problem-Solving
14 14 (13.46%) Business Intelligence
14 14 (13.46%) Data Modelling
14 14 (13.46%) Infrastructure as Code
15 12 (11.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 52 (50.00%) Python
2 32 (30.77%) SQL
3 8 (7.69%) Java
4 6 (5.77%) R
5 5 (4.81%) TypeScript
6 4 (3.85%) Bicep
6 4 (3.85%) JavaScript
6 4 (3.85%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.96%) C#
7 1 (0.96%) Cypher
7 1 (0.96%) Go
7 1 (0.96%) Google Apps Script
7 1 (0.96%) Gremlin
7 1 (0.96%) Scala
Qualifications
1 13 (12.50%) Degree
1 13 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 9 (8.65%) SC Cleared
3 6 (5.77%) PhD
4 4 (3.85%) Master's Degree
5 3 (2.88%) DBS Check
5 3 (2.88%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.92%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.92%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.92%) CSPO
7 1 (0.96%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.96%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (0.96%) CISM
7 1 (0.96%) CISSP
7 1 (0.96%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (0.96%) MPhil
7 1 (0.96%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (8.65%) Data Quality
2 6 (5.77%) GDPR
3 5 (4.81%) QA
4 3 (2.88%) NIST
5 2 (1.92%) 21 CFR Part 11
5 2 (1.92%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.92%) GxP
5 2 (1.92%) ISO/IEC 42001
5 2 (1.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.96%) GRC
6 1 (0.96%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.96%) NCSC
6 1 (0.96%) WCAG
System Software
1 16 (15.38%) Docker
2 4 (3.85%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.88%) BitLocker
3 3 (2.88%) Hyper-V
3 3 (2.88%) Microsoft App-V
3 3 (2.88%) Terminal Services
3 3 (2.88%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (2.88%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 17 (16.35%) Kubernetes
2 8 (7.69%) Terraform
3 3 (2.88%) Ansible
3 3 (2.88%) Nagios
3 3 (2.88%) Puppet
3 3 (2.88%) vCenter Server
3 3 (2.88%) vMotion
4 1 (0.96%) Istio
4 1 (0.96%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 16 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 10 (9.62%) Google
3 6 (5.77%) Databricks
4 5 (4.81%) OpenAI
5 4 (3.85%) Amplitude
5 4 (3.85%) Foundry
6 3 (2.88%) Citrix
6 3 (2.88%) HP
6 3 (2.88%) MuleSoft
6 3 (2.88%) Salesforce
6 3 (2.88%) Sitecore
6 3 (2.88%) Symantec
6 3 (2.88%) VMware
7 2 (1.92%) IBM
7 2 (1.92%) SAP
7 2 (1.92%) SimCorp
7 2 (1.92%) Vermilion
8 1 (0.96%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.96%) Cognos
8 1 (0.96%) ServiceNow