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

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 60 77
Rank change year-on-year +17 +17 +34
Contract jobs citing Machine Learning 105 67 52
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 4.38% 3.59% 2.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.00% 3.81% 2.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 47 35
10th Percentile £425 £400 £463
25th Percentile £475 £525 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £593
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +5.49% -18.84%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £753
90th Percentile £770 £763 £838
Central London median daily rate £575 £600 £593
% change year-on-year -4.17% +1.27% -18.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £31.03 £61.25 -
Median hourly rate £32.07 £62.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -48.70% - -
75th Percentile £33.10 £63.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £32.07 £56.97 -
% change year-on-year -43.72% - -

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 2,100 1,759 1,885
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 87.54% 94.27% 91.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,431 1,153 1,280
10th Percentile £375 £331 £375
25th Percentile £456 £425 £474
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £771 £793
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 21 17
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.08 £15.20
25th Percentile £18.18 £24.66 £20.22
Median hourly rate £19.50 £28.50 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.58% +5.56% -13.60%
75th Percentile £37.17 £56.75 £78.75
90th Percentile £61.83 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £22.83 £30.04 £27.00
% change year-on-year -23.99% +11.24% -22.86%

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 7 August 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
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 (2.86%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.90%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.95%) Apache
3 1 (0.95%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.95%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (2.86%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 37 (35.24%) Azure
2 34 (32.38%) AWS
3 20 (19.05%) GCP
4 14 (13.33%) Power Platform
5 8 (7.62%) Amazon SageMaker
6 7 (6.67%) Serverless
7 6 (5.71%) Amazon Bedrock
7 6 (5.71%) Amazon S3
7 6 (5.71%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (5.71%) Azure AI
7 6 (5.71%) GitHub
8 5 (4.76%) Azure Machine Learning
9 4 (3.81%) Azure Data Factory
9 4 (3.81%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 4 (3.81%) Vertex AI
10 3 (2.86%) Amazon EMR
10 3 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (2.86%) IaaS
10 3 (2.86%) OpenShift
10 3 (2.86%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.86%) DHCP
1 3 (2.86%) DNS
1 3 (2.86%) Firewall
1 3 (2.86%) SMTP
1 3 (2.86%) VPN
2 2 (1.90%) Network Security
3 1 (0.95%) 3G
3 1 (0.95%) 3GPP
3 1 (0.95%) 4G
3 1 (0.95%) 5G
3 1 (0.95%) LTE
3 1 (0.95%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (0.95%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (10.48%) Power BI
2 7 (6.67%) Data Lake
2 7 (6.67%) Data Mining
2 7 (6.67%) Metadata
2 7 (6.67%) NoSQL
3 6 (5.71%) MongoDB
4 5 (4.76%) Big Data
4 5 (4.76%) Relational Database
4 5 (4.76%) Tableau
5 4 (3.81%) Amazon Redshift
5 4 (3.81%) Looker
5 4 (3.81%) Mixpanel
6 3 (2.86%) Amazon Athena
6 3 (2.86%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (2.86%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (2.86%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (2.86%) Pinecone
7 2 (1.90%) Db2
7 2 (1.90%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.90%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 4 (3.81%) Git
2 1 (0.95%) Claude Code
2 1 (0.95%) Cypress.io
2 1 (0.95%) ER Studio
2 1 (0.95%) JIRA
2 1 (0.95%) MLflow
2 1 (0.95%) Vite
General
1 32 (30.48%) Finance
2 25 (23.81%) Social Skills
3 14 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (13.33%) Public Sector
4 9 (8.57%) Banking
5 7 (6.67%) Retail
6 5 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (3.81%) Corporate Banking
7 4 (3.81%) Investment Banking
7 4 (3.81%) Marketing
7 4 (3.81%) Retail Banking
8 3 (2.86%) Financial Institution
8 3 (2.86%) Manufacturing
8 3 (2.86%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.90%) Legal
9 2 (1.90%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.95%) Advertising
10 1 (0.95%) Aviation
10 1 (0.95%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.95%) Law
Job Titles
1 21 (20.00%) Architect
2 14 (13.33%) Data Scientist
3 9 (8.57%) Analyst
4 8 (7.62%) Data Architect
5 7 (6.67%) Lead
5 7 (6.67%) Senior
6 6 (5.71%) Data Analyst
6 6 (5.71%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 5 (4.76%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 5 (4.76%) Data Engineer
7 5 (4.76%) Platform Architect
7 5 (4.76%) Software Engineer
8 4 (3.81%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
8 4 (3.81%) Developer
8 4 (3.81%) Product Manager
8 4 (3.81%) Solutions Architect
9 3 (2.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 3 (2.86%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
9 3 (2.86%) Python Developer
9 3 (2.86%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (10.48%) PyTorch
1 11 (10.48%) React
2 9 (8.57%) TensorFlow
3 7 (6.67%) PySpark
3 7 (6.67%) scikit-learn
4 4 (3.81%) LangChain
5 3 (2.86%) AngularJS
5 3 (2.86%) Hugging Face
5 3 (2.86%) Kafka
5 3 (2.86%) LangGraph
5 3 (2.86%) Pandas
6 2 (1.90%) Backbone.js
6 2 (1.90%) Bootstrap
6 2 (1.90%) Ember.js
6 2 (1.90%) FastAPI
6 2 (1.90%) jQuery
6 2 (1.90%) Keras
6 2 (1.90%) NumPy
6 2 (1.90%) OAuth
6 2 (1.90%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 20 (19.05%) Cloud Native
2 8 (7.62%) AI Agents
2 8 (7.62%) Product Ownership
3 6 (5.71%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (3.81%) Life Science
5 3 (2.86%) Algorithms
5 3 (2.86%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (2.86%) Clustering
5 3 (2.86%) Data Centre
5 3 (2.86%) Marketing Technology
5 3 (2.86%) PKI
6 2 (1.90%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.95%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.95%) Fixed Income
7 1 (0.95%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.95%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.95%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.95%) Replication
7 1 (0.95%) Tandem
7 1 (0.95%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (5.71%) Linux
2 5 (4.76%) Windows
3 3 (2.86%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.90%) Android
4 2 (1.90%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.95%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (86.67%) AI
2 43 (40.95%) Analytics
3 37 (35.24%) Data Science
4 33 (31.43%) LLM
5 32 (30.48%) Generative AI
6 28 (26.67%) CI/CD
7 27 (25.71%) Agile
8 22 (20.95%) Decision-Making
9 21 (20.00%) DevOps
10 20 (19.05%) MLOps
10 20 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
11 19 (18.10%) Data Engineering
12 17 (16.19%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
13 16 (15.24%) Software Engineering
14 15 (14.29%) Data Governance
14 15 (14.29%) Roadmaps
15 14 (13.33%) Data Modelling
15 14 (13.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 13 (12.38%) Business Intelligence
16 13 (12.38%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 52 (49.52%) Python
2 32 (30.48%) SQL
3 7 (6.67%) Java
4 6 (5.71%) PowerShell
4 6 (5.71%) R
4 6 (5.71%) TypeScript
5 5 (4.76%) Bicep
6 4 (3.81%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.90%) C#
8 1 (0.95%) Cypher
8 1 (0.95%) Go
8 1 (0.95%) Google Apps Script
8 1 (0.95%) Gremlin
8 1 (0.95%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 14 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 12 (11.43%) Degree
3 10 (9.52%) SC Cleared
4 4 (3.81%) DV Cleared
5 3 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.86%) DBS Check
5 3 (2.86%) PhD
6 2 (1.90%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.90%) CSPO
6 2 (1.90%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.95%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.95%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (0.95%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.95%) CISM
7 1 (0.95%) CISSP
7 1 (0.95%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (0.95%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (0.95%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (10.48%) Data Quality
2 5 (4.76%) QA
3 4 (3.81%) GDPR
4 2 (1.90%) 21 CFR Part 11
4 2 (1.90%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.90%) GxP
4 2 (1.90%) ISO/IEC 42001
4 2 (1.90%) NIST
4 2 (1.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.95%) EU AI Act
5 1 (0.95%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.95%) WCAG
System Software
1 17 (16.19%) Docker
2 4 (3.81%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.86%) BitLocker
3 3 (2.86%) Hyper-V
3 3 (2.86%) Microsoft App-V
3 3 (2.86%) Terminal Services
3 3 (2.86%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (2.86%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 18 (17.14%) Kubernetes
2 10 (9.52%) Terraform
3 3 (2.86%) Ansible
3 3 (2.86%) Nagios
3 3 (2.86%) Puppet
3 3 (2.86%) vCenter Server
3 3 (2.86%) vMotion
4 2 (1.90%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.95%) Grafana
5 1 (0.95%) Istio
5 1 (0.95%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 15 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 11 (10.48%) Google
3 7 (6.67%) Databricks
4 6 (5.71%) OpenAI
5 4 (3.81%) Amplitude
5 4 (3.81%) Foundry
6 3 (2.86%) Citrix
6 3 (2.86%) HP
6 3 (2.86%) Symantec
6 3 (2.86%) VMware
7 2 (1.90%) SAP
8 1 (0.95%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.95%) Apple
8 1 (0.95%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.95%) Informatica
8 1 (0.95%) Oracle
8 1 (0.95%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.95%) Sitecore
8 1 (0.95%) Splunk
8 1 (0.95%) Workday