Machine Learning Contracts in the City of London

Machine Learning (ML)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring Machine Learning skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Machine Learning over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 95 106
Rank change year-on-year +23 +11 +14
Contract jobs citing Machine Learning 48 31 67
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 2.73% 1.41% 1.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.93% 1.56% 2.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 20 42
10th Percentile £400 £463 £428
25th Percentile £447 £491 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £613 £663
Median % change year-on-year -4.08% -7.55% +10.42%
75th Percentile £752 £806 £775
90th Percentile £794 £838 £871
Central London median daily rate £600 £650 £650
% change year-on-year -7.69% - +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £48.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year - +38.57% +84.21%
Central London median hourly rate - £48.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year - +38.57% +84.21%

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 1,637 1,989 3,335
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.17% 90.53% 91.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,034 1,408 2,250
10th Percentile £363 £363 £356
25th Percentile £463 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £565 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% -5.83% +4.35%
75th Percentile £684 £688 £730
90th Percentile £775 £813 £825
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 24
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.92 £15.33
25th Percentile £24.00 £20.22 £18.03
Median hourly rate £29.58 £25.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.30% -28.57% -14.63%
75th Percentile £45.00 £40.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £62.25 £41.84 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Machine Learning in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Machine Learning in the City of London

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 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Machine Learning in the City of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Machine Learning in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Machine Learning in the City of London

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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 9 (18.75%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.08%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.08%) Jupyter
2 1 (2.08%) Luigi
Applications
1 2 (4.17%) Chatbot
2 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 13 (27.08%) AWS
1 13 (27.08%) Azure
2 7 (14.58%) GCP
3 6 (12.50%) Power Platform
4 3 (6.25%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (4.17%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (4.17%) GitHub
6 1 (2.08%) Amazon SageMaker
6 1 (2.08%) AWS CodeCommit
6 1 (2.08%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (2.08%) Azure Machine Learning
6 1 (2.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (2.08%) Boomi
6 1 (2.08%) Dagster
6 1 (2.08%) dbt
6 1 (2.08%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (2.08%) IBM Watson
6 1 (2.08%) Serverless
6 1 (2.08%) Snowflake
6 1 (2.08%) Textract
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.08%) Firewall
1 1 (2.08%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (14.58%) Tableau
2 6 (12.50%) Hadoop
2 6 (12.50%) Power BI
3 5 (10.42%) Apache Hive
4 3 (6.25%) Big Data
5 2 (4.17%) Data Mining
5 2 (4.17%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (4.17%) MySQL
5 2 (4.17%) NoSQL
5 2 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (2.08%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (2.08%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (2.08%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (2.08%) BigQuery
6 1 (2.08%) Data Lake
6 1 (2.08%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 4 (8.33%) Git
2 2 (4.17%) JIRA
2 2 (4.17%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (2.08%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.08%) MLflow
General
1 18 (37.50%) Finance
2 13 (27.08%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (18.75%) Social Skills
4 7 (14.58%) Banking
5 5 (10.42%) Financial Institution
5 5 (10.42%) Public Sector
6 3 (6.25%) Police
6 3 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (4.17%) Marketing
7 2 (4.17%) Telecoms
8 1 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (2.08%) Front Office
8 1 (2.08%) Investment Banking
8 1 (2.08%) Local Government
8 1 (2.08%) Military
Job Titles
1 12 (25.00%) Data Scientist
2 10 (20.83%) Architect
3 6 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
4 5 (10.42%) Developer
4 5 (10.42%) Security Architect
4 5 (10.42%) Senior
5 4 (8.33%) Analyst
5 4 (8.33%) Lead
5 4 (8.33%) Senior Data Scientist
6 3 (6.25%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 3 (6.25%) Gen AI Specialist
6 3 (6.25%) Python Developer
7 2 (4.17%) Azure Engineer
7 2 (4.17%) Data Business Analyst
7 2 (4.17%) Data Engineer
7 2 (4.17%) Lead Data Scientist
7 2 (4.17%) QA Engineer
7 2 (4.17%) Security Solutions Architect
7 2 (4.17%) Senior Architect
7 2 (4.17%) Senior Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (20.83%) TensorFlow
2 6 (12.50%) PySpark
3 5 (10.42%) Pandas
4 4 (8.33%) scikit-learn
5 3 (6.25%) React
6 2 (4.17%) FastAPI
6 2 (4.17%) PyTorch
7 1 (2.08%) Django
7 1 (2.08%) Flask
7 1 (2.08%) JSON
7 1 (2.08%) NumPy
7 1 (2.08%) ONNX
7 1 (2.08%) OpenCV
7 1 (2.08%) OpenTelemetry
7 1 (2.08%) Plotly
7 1 (2.08%) pydantic
7 1 (2.08%) RESTful
7 1 (2.08%) SciPy
7 1 (2.08%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (25.00%) Algorithms
2 6 (12.50%) Credit Risk
3 4 (8.33%) Distributed Computing
4 2 (4.17%) Cloud Native
4 2 (4.17%) Multi-touch
4 2 (4.17%) Product Ownership
4 2 (4.17%) Reinsurance
5 1 (2.08%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (2.08%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.08%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.08%) Educational Technology
5 1 (2.08%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.08%) Market Risk
5 1 (2.08%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.08%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.08%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.08%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.08%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (64.58%) Artificial Intelligence
2 23 (47.92%) Data Science
3 12 (25.00%) Visualisation
4 11 (22.92%) Analytics
4 11 (22.92%) Data Visualisation
4 11 (22.92%) LLM
5 10 (20.83%) Agile
5 10 (20.83%) Risk Management
6 9 (18.75%) Business Intelligence
6 9 (18.75%) Generative AI
6 9 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
7 8 (16.67%) Decision-Making
8 7 (14.58%) Actionable Insight
8 7 (14.58%) Predictive Modelling
8 7 (14.58%) Statistics
9 6 (12.50%) Computer Science
9 6 (12.50%) Data Analysis
9 6 (12.50%) Mathematics
9 6 (12.50%) Risk Analysis
Programming Languages
1 30 (62.50%) Python
2 21 (43.75%) SQL
3 3 (6.25%) R
3 3 (6.25%) TypeScript
4 1 (2.08%) Clojure
4 1 (2.08%) Elixir
4 1 (2.08%) Go
4 1 (2.08%) Haskell
4 1 (2.08%) Java
4 1 (2.08%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.08%) Rust
4 1 (2.08%) Scala
Qualifications
1 9 (18.75%) Degree
2 7 (14.58%) Security Cleared
3 5 (10.42%) Master's Degree
3 5 (10.42%) PhD
4 4 (8.33%) SC Cleared
5 3 (6.25%) CISM
5 3 (6.25%) CISSP
5 3 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.08%) AWS Certification
6 1 (2.08%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.42%) Data Quality
1 5 (10.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (8.33%) GDPR
2 4 (8.33%) NIST
3 2 (4.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 2 (4.17%) QA
4 1 (2.08%) EU AI Act
4 1 (2.08%) HIPAA
4 1 (2.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (6.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (10.42%) Kubernetes
2 2 (4.17%) Terraform
3 1 (2.08%) Ansible
Vendors
1 5 (10.42%) Databricks
2 3 (6.25%) Google
3 2 (4.17%) Oracle
4 1 (2.08%) Alteryx
4 1 (2.08%) Dataiku
4 1 (2.08%) IBM
4 1 (2.08%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.08%) MuleSoft