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

6 months to
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 71 96
Rank change year-on-year +17 +25 +15
Contract jobs citing Machine Learning 88 50 31
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.84% 2.88% 1.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.54% 3.08% 1.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 31 19
10th Percentile £445 £400 £463
25th Percentile £492 £469 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £650
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -11.54% +1.96%
75th Percentile £700 £712 £813
90th Percentile £778 £790 £838
Central London median daily rate £595 £588 £663
% change year-on-year +1.19% -11.32% +3.92%
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 1,940 1,624 1,955
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 84.72% 93.44% 90.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,314 1,023 1,381
10th Percentile £360 £350 £356
25th Percentile £450 £458 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £565 £568
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% -0.44% -5.42%
75th Percentile £675 £680 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £551 £550
% change year-on-year -0.18% +0.18% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 13 11
10th Percentile £17.99 £22.00 £19.92
25th Percentile £18.75 £23.75 £20.22
Median hourly rate £29.78 £28.15 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.80% +12.60% -28.57%
75th Percentile £49.78 £43.75 £40.00
90th Percentile £59.72 £60.75 £41.84
Central London median hourly rate £26.56 £29.07 £27.81
% change year-on-year -8.65% +4.53% -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

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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 May 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 14 May 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 (3.41%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.27%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.14%) Apache
3 1 (1.14%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (1.14%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 38 (43.18%) AWS
1 38 (43.18%) Azure
2 19 (21.59%) GCP
3 15 (17.05%) Power Platform
4 12 (13.64%) Amazon SageMaker
5 8 (9.09%) Azure AI
5 8 (9.09%) Azure Machine Learning
5 8 (9.09%) GitHub
6 6 (6.82%) SaaS
6 6 (6.82%) Vertex AI
7 5 (5.68%) Amazon S3
7 5 (5.68%) Azure Data Factory
7 5 (5.68%) Copilot Studio
7 5 (5.68%) Microsoft Copilot
7 5 (5.68%) Snowflake
8 4 (4.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 4 (4.55%) GitHub Copilot
8 4 (4.55%) Google Gemini
8 4 (4.55%) iPaaS
8 4 (4.55%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.41%) Network Security
2 1 (1.14%) 3G
2 1 (1.14%) 3GPP
2 1 (1.14%) 4G
2 1 (1.14%) 5G
2 1 (1.14%) LTE
2 1 (1.14%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (1.14%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (10.23%) Power BI
2 8 (9.09%) NoSQL
2 8 (9.09%) Tableau
3 6 (6.82%) Data Mining
4 4 (4.55%) BigQuery
4 4 (4.55%) Data Lake
4 4 (4.55%) Looker
4 4 (4.55%) Mixpanel
5 3 (3.41%) DB2
5 3 (3.41%) Metadata
5 3 (3.41%) MongoDB
5 3 (3.41%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (3.41%) Redis
5 3 (3.41%) Relational Database
6 2 (2.27%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (2.27%) Big Data
6 2 (2.27%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (2.27%) Electronic Patient Records
6 2 (2.27%) Pinecone
6 2 (2.27%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 6 (6.82%) Git
2 2 (2.27%) MLflow
3 1 (1.14%) Cypress.io
3 1 (1.14%) GitLab
3 1 (1.14%) JIRA
3 1 (1.14%) SonarQube
General
1 27 (30.68%) Finance
2 23 (26.14%) Social Skills
3 16 (18.18%) Public Sector
4 11 (12.50%) Banking
5 8 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (6.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (5.68%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (5.68%) Marketing
8 3 (3.41%) Investment Banking
8 3 (3.41%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (2.27%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (1.14%) Advertising
10 1 (1.14%) Aviation
10 1 (1.14%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (1.14%) Financial Institution
10 1 (1.14%) Law
10 1 (1.14%) Local Government
10 1 (1.14%) Retail
10 1 (1.14%) Retail Banking
10 1 (1.14%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 21 (23.86%) Architect
2 14 (15.91%) Data Scientist
3 9 (10.23%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 7 (7.95%) Enterprise Architect
4 7 (7.95%) Senior
5 6 (6.82%) Developer
5 6 (6.82%) Lead
5 6 (6.82%) Software Engineer
6 5 (5.68%) Data Architect
6 5 (5.68%) Platform Architect
7 4 (4.55%) Data Engineer
7 4 (4.55%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 3 (3.41%) Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 3 (3.41%) Java Engineer
8 3 (3.41%) Machine Learning Engineer
8 3 (3.41%) Python Developer
8 3 (3.41%) Solutions Architect
9 2 (2.27%) Product Manager
9 2 (2.27%) Security Architect
9 2 (2.27%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (18.18%) PyTorch
2 13 (14.77%) TensorFlow
3 11 (12.50%) scikit-learn
4 8 (9.09%) React
5 6 (6.82%) NumPy
5 6 (6.82%) Pandas
6 5 (5.68%) AngularJS
6 5 (5.68%) Hugging Face
7 4 (4.55%) LangChain
7 4 (4.55%) PySpark
8 3 (3.41%) Backbone.js
8 3 (3.41%) Bootstrap
8 3 (3.41%) Ember.js
8 3 (3.41%) Google JAX
8 3 (3.41%) JAX
8 3 (3.41%) jQuery
8 3 (3.41%) Keras
8 3 (3.41%) LangGraph
8 3 (3.41%) Model Context Protocol
9 2 (2.27%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 24 (27.27%) Cloud Native
2 11 (12.50%) AI Agents
3 8 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (5.68%) Algorithms
5 3 (3.41%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (3.41%) Marketing Technology
5 3 (3.41%) Security Posture
6 2 (2.27%) Equities
6 2 (2.27%) Fixed Income
6 2 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.27%) Life Science
6 2 (2.27%) Synthetic Data
7 1 (1.14%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.14%) Blog
7 1 (1.14%) Derivative
7 1 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.14%) Hedge funds
7 1 (1.14%) Low-Code
7 1 (1.14%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.14%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.41%) Android
1 3 (3.41%) Apple iOS
1 3 (3.41%) Linux
1 3 (3.41%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (87.50%) AI
2 41 (46.59%) Analytics
3 37 (42.05%) Data Science
4 34 (38.64%) Generative AI
5 33 (37.50%) LLM
6 27 (30.68%) CI/CD
7 20 (22.73%) Agile
7 20 (22.73%) MLOps
8 18 (20.45%) Data Engineering
9 16 (18.18%) Data Pipeline
9 16 (18.18%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
10 15 (17.05%) Roadmaps
11 14 (15.91%) DevOps
11 14 (15.91%) Infrastructure as Code
12 13 (14.77%) Containerisation
13 12 (13.64%) Data Governance
13 12 (13.64%) Decision-Making
13 12 (13.64%) Observability
13 12 (13.64%) Prompt Engineering
13 12 (13.64%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 52 (59.09%) Python
2 29 (32.95%) SQL
3 10 (11.36%) Java
4 5 (5.68%) R
5 4 (4.55%) Bicep
6 3 (3.41%) C#
6 3 (3.41%) C++
6 3 (3.41%) TypeScript
7 2 (2.27%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.14%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.14%) Scala
Qualifications
1 12 (13.64%) Security Cleared
2 10 (11.36%) Degree
3 9 (10.23%) SC Cleared
4 6 (6.82%) PhD
5 4 (4.55%) Master's Degree
6 3 (3.41%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (2.27%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (1.14%) CISM
8 1 (1.14%) CISSP
8 1 (1.14%) DBS Check
8 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (1.14%) MPhil
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (9.09%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.41%) GDPR
2 3 (3.41%) NIST
3 2 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 42001
3 2 (2.27%) QA
4 1 (1.14%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.14%) GRC
4 1 (1.14%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.14%) NCSC
4 1 (1.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.14%) WCAG
System Software
1 15 (17.05%) Docker
2 1 (1.14%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 14 (15.91%) Kubernetes
2 7 (7.95%) Terraform
3 3 (3.41%) Istio
3 3 (3.41%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 17 (19.32%) Microsoft
2 8 (9.09%) Google
2 8 (9.09%) OpenAI
3 6 (6.82%) Databricks
3 6 (6.82%) Foundry
4 4 (4.55%) Amplitude
5 3 (3.41%) Dynatrace
5 3 (3.41%) IBM
5 3 (3.41%) MuleSoft
6 2 (2.27%) Cognos
6 2 (2.27%) Guidewire
6 2 (2.27%) Sage
6 2 (2.27%) Salesforce
6 2 (2.27%) SimCorp
6 2 (2.27%) Sitecore
6 2 (2.27%) Vermilion
7 1 (1.14%) Apple
7 1 (1.14%) SAP
7 1 (1.14%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.14%) Workday