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

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 70 90
Rank change year-on-year +16 +20 +26
Contract jobs citing Machine Learning 89 46 37
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.82% 2.75% 1.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.49% 2.94% 1.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 30 22
10th Percentile £425 £400 £466
25th Percentile £473 £447 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £595 £550 £639
Median % change year-on-year +8.09% -13.89% +0.20%
75th Percentile £641 £703 £792
90th Percentile £775 £765 £837
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £650
% change year-on-year +4.55% -15.38% +1.96%
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 1,983 1,566 1,961
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 85.03% 93.49% 90.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,357 987 1,374
10th Percentile £356 £355 £350
25th Percentile £450 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year - -2.22% -6.25%
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 25 15 12
10th Percentile £17.84 £18.70 £19.95
25th Percentile £18.75 £22.88 £20.22
Median hourly rate £27.50 £28.15 £25.63
Median % change year-on-year -2.31% +9.85% -26.79%
75th Percentile £52.49 £39.21 £40.00
90th Percentile £62.89 £57.75 £41.65
Central London median hourly rate £26.56 £28.15 £27.81
% change year-on-year -5.67% +1.22% -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 29 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 29 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 (3.37%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.25%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.12%) Apache
3 1 (1.12%) Jupyter
Applications
1 2 (2.25%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 37 (41.57%) AWS
2 33 (37.08%) Azure
3 19 (21.35%) GCP
4 12 (13.48%) Amazon SageMaker
4 12 (13.48%) Power Platform
5 8 (8.99%) GitHub
6 6 (6.74%) SaaS
6 6 (6.74%) Vertex AI
7 5 (5.62%) Amazon S3
7 5 (5.62%) Azure AI
7 5 (5.62%) Azure Machine Learning
8 4 (4.49%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (4.49%) Azure Data Factory
8 4 (4.49%) GitHub Copilot
8 4 (4.49%) Google Gemini
8 4 (4.49%) iPaaS
8 4 (4.49%) Serverless
9 3 (3.37%) Amazon Bedrock
9 3 (3.37%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (3.37%) LangSmith
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.37%) Network Security
2 1 (1.12%) 3G
2 1 (1.12%) 3GPP
2 1 (1.12%) 4G
2 1 (1.12%) 5G
2 1 (1.12%) LTE
2 1 (1.12%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (1.12%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (10.11%) NoSQL
2 8 (8.99%) Power BI
2 8 (8.99%) Tableau
3 6 (6.74%) Data Mining
4 5 (5.62%) Data Lake
5 4 (4.49%) BigQuery
5 4 (4.49%) Looker
5 4 (4.49%) Metadata
5 4 (4.49%) Mixpanel
6 3 (3.37%) DB2
6 3 (3.37%) MongoDB
6 3 (3.37%) Pinecone
6 3 (3.37%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (3.37%) Redis
6 3 (3.37%) Relational Database
6 3 (3.37%) Weaviate
7 2 (2.25%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (2.25%) Big Data
7 2 (2.25%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (2.25%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 5 (5.62%) Git
2 2 (2.25%) MLflow
3 1 (1.12%) Cypress.io
3 1 (1.12%) GitLab
3 1 (1.12%) JIRA
3 1 (1.12%) SonarQube
General
1 31 (34.83%) Finance
2 24 (26.97%) Social Skills
3 12 (13.48%) Banking
3 12 (13.48%) Public Sector
4 9 (10.11%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (5.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (5.62%) Influencing Skills
5 5 (5.62%) Marketing
6 3 (3.37%) Investment Banking
6 3 (3.37%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (2.25%) Financial Institution
7 2 (2.25%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.25%) Retail
8 1 (1.12%) Advertising
8 1 (1.12%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (1.12%) Law
8 1 (1.12%) Local Government
8 1 (1.12%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.12%) Retail Banking
8 1 (1.12%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 20 (22.47%) Architect
2 15 (16.85%) Data Scientist
3 7 (7.87%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 6 (6.74%) Data Architect
4 6 (6.74%) Lead
4 6 (6.74%) Software Engineer
5 5 (5.62%) Enterprise Architect
5 5 (5.62%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 5 (5.62%) Platform Architect
6 4 (4.49%) Developer
6 4 (4.49%) Machine Learning Engineer
6 4 (4.49%) Senior
7 3 (3.37%) Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 3 (3.37%) Analyst
7 3 (3.37%) Data Engineer
7 3 (3.37%) Java Engineer
7 3 (3.37%) Product Manager
7 3 (3.37%) Solutions Architect
8 2 (2.25%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
8 2 (2.25%) Gen AI Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (17.98%) PyTorch
2 13 (14.61%) TensorFlow
3 9 (10.11%) React
3 9 (10.11%) scikit-learn
4 5 (5.62%) AngularJS
4 5 (5.62%) Hugging Face
4 5 (5.62%) LangChain
4 5 (5.62%) Pandas
5 4 (4.49%) NumPy
5 4 (4.49%) PySpark
6 3 (3.37%) Backbone.js
6 3 (3.37%) Bootstrap
6 3 (3.37%) Ember.js
6 3 (3.37%) Google JAX
6 3 (3.37%) JAX
6 3 (3.37%) jQuery
6 3 (3.37%) Kafka
6 3 (3.37%) Keras
6 3 (3.37%) LangGraph
6 3 (3.37%) Model Context Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 22 (24.72%) Cloud Native
2 10 (11.24%) AI Agents
3 9 (10.11%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (5.62%) Algorithms
5 3 (3.37%) Life Science
5 3 (3.37%) Marketing Technology
5 3 (3.37%) Security Posture
6 2 (2.25%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (2.25%) Equities
6 2 (2.25%) Fixed Income
6 2 (2.25%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.25%) Synthetic Data
7 1 (1.12%) Blog
7 1 (1.12%) Derivative
7 1 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.12%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.12%) NHS
7 1 (1.12%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.12%) Tandem
7 1 (1.12%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.37%) Android
1 3 (3.37%) Apple iOS
1 3 (3.37%) Linux
1 3 (3.37%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (88.76%) AI
2 41 (46.07%) Analytics
3 35 (39.33%) Data Science
3 35 (39.33%) Generative AI
4 33 (37.08%) LLM
5 27 (30.34%) CI/CD
6 22 (24.72%) Agile
7 20 (22.47%) MLOps
8 19 (21.35%) Data Engineering
9 18 (20.22%) Roadmaps
10 16 (17.98%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
11 15 (16.85%) Data Pipeline
12 14 (15.73%) Containerisation
12 14 (15.73%) DevOps
12 14 (15.73%) Infrastructure as Code
13 13 (14.61%) Data Governance
13 13 (14.61%) Decision-Making
14 12 (13.48%) Problem-Solving
14 12 (13.48%) Software Engineering
15 11 (12.36%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 52 (58.43%) Python
2 31 (34.83%) SQL
3 9 (10.11%) Java
4 5 (5.62%) R
5 4 (4.49%) Bicep
5 4 (4.49%) TypeScript
6 3 (3.37%) JavaScript
7 2 (2.25%) C#
7 2 (2.25%) C++
8 1 (1.12%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.12%) Scala
Qualifications
1 10 (11.24%) Degree
2 8 (8.99%) Security Cleared
3 7 (7.87%) SC Cleared
4 6 (6.74%) PhD
5 4 (4.49%) Master's Degree
6 3 (3.37%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (2.25%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.12%) Azure Certification
8 1 (1.12%) CISM
8 1 (1.12%) CISSP
8 1 (1.12%) CSPO
8 1 (1.12%) DBS Check
8 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (1.12%) MPhil
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (10.11%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.37%) GDPR
2 3 (3.37%) NIST
2 3 (3.37%) QA
3 2 (2.25%) ISO/IEC 42001
4 1 (1.12%) 21 CFR Part 11
4 1 (1.12%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.12%) GRC
4 1 (1.12%) GxP
4 1 (1.12%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.12%) NCSC
4 1 (1.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.12%) WCAG
System Software
1 16 (17.98%) Docker
2 1 (1.12%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 15 (16.85%) Kubernetes
2 7 (7.87%) Terraform
3 3 (3.37%) Istio
3 3 (3.37%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 11 (12.36%) Microsoft
2 8 (8.99%) Google
3 5 (5.62%) OpenAI
4 4 (4.49%) Amplitude
5 3 (3.37%) Databricks
5 3 (3.37%) Dynatrace
5 3 (3.37%) Foundry
5 3 (3.37%) IBM
5 3 (3.37%) MuleSoft
6 2 (2.25%) Cognos
6 2 (2.25%) Sage
6 2 (2.25%) Salesforce
6 2 (2.25%) SimCorp
6 2 (2.25%) Sitecore
6 2 (2.25%) Vermilion
7 1 (1.12%) Apple
7 1 (1.12%) SAP
7 1 (1.12%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.12%) Workday