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

6 months to
30 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 76 92
Rank change year-on-year +32 +16 +26
Contract jobs citing Machine Learning 96 45 36
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 4.48% 2.58% 1.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.11% 2.80% 1.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 26 24
10th Percentile £408 £400 £463
25th Percentile £513 £425 £504
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £613 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% +2.08% -7.69%
75th Percentile £750 £763 £763
90th Percentile £893 £797 £829
Central London median daily rate £600 £600 £600
% change year-on-year - - -7.69%
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 1,878 1,605 2,067
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 87.55% 92.19% 89.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,292 1,035 1,465
10th Percentile £363 £364 £350
25th Percentile £450 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £570
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +0.88% -5.00%
75th Percentile £669 £679 £688
90th Percentile £775 £771 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £570 £550
% change year-on-year -3.51% +3.64% -7.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 9 11
10th Percentile £18.75 £22.00 £18.93
25th Percentile £19.46 £24.66 £20.07
Median hourly rate £28.00 £31.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% +24.00% -45.65%
75th Percentile £45.08 £34.68 £40.92
90th Percentile £58.53 £51.75 £50.25
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £29.07 £27.81
% change year-on-year -10.18% +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

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 30 March 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 30 March 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 10 (10.42%) Apache Spark
2 7 (7.29%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (3.13%) Apache
Business Applications
1 1 (1.04%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 45 (46.88%) Azure
2 42 (43.75%) AWS
3 27 (28.13%) GCP
4 23 (23.96%) Power Platform
5 10 (10.42%) GitHub
6 9 (9.38%) Amazon SageMaker
6 9 (9.38%) Azure Machine Learning
6 9 (9.38%) Snowflake
7 6 (6.25%) Azure AI
7 6 (6.25%) SaaS
7 6 (6.25%) Vertex AI
8 5 (5.21%) Copilot Studio
8 5 (5.21%) dbt
8 5 (5.21%) Microsoft Copilot
9 4 (4.17%) Azure Data Factory
9 4 (4.17%) GitHub Copilot
9 4 (4.17%) Google Gemini
9 4 (4.17%) iPaaS
10 3 (3.13%) Power Automate
10 3 (3.13%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.08%) Network Security
2 1 (1.04%) 3G
2 1 (1.04%) 3GPP
2 1 (1.04%) 4G
2 1 (1.04%) 5G
2 1 (1.04%) Hyperconnected
2 1 (1.04%) LTE
2 1 (1.04%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (1.04%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (17.71%) Power BI
2 10 (10.42%) Tableau
3 8 (8.33%) NoSQL
4 6 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (5.21%) Big Data
6 4 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (3.13%) BigQuery
7 3 (3.13%) Data Lake
7 3 (3.13%) DB2
7 3 (3.13%) Looker
7 3 (3.13%) Metadata
7 3 (3.13%) Mixpanel
7 3 (3.13%) MongoDB
7 3 (3.13%) Relational Database
8 2 (2.08%) Data Vault
8 2 (2.08%) Redis
9 1 (1.04%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (1.04%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (1.04%) Hadoop
9 1 (1.04%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 11 (11.46%) Git
2 3 (3.13%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.08%) MLflow
4 1 (1.04%) Cypress.io
4 1 (1.04%) GitLab
4 1 (1.04%) JIRA
4 1 (1.04%) SonarQube
General
1 33 (34.38%) Finance
2 26 (27.08%) Social Skills
3 15 (15.63%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (14.58%) Banking
5 13 (13.54%) Public Sector
6 6 (6.25%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (5.21%) Marketing
7 5 (5.21%) Pharmaceutical
8 4 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (4.17%) Retail
9 3 (3.13%) Investment Banking
9 3 (3.13%) Legal
9 3 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.04%) Advertising
10 1 (1.04%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (1.04%) Financial Institution
10 1 (1.04%) Law
10 1 (1.04%) Local Government
10 1 (1.04%) Retail Banking
10 1 (1.04%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 18 (18.75%) Architect
2 15 (15.63%) Data Scientist
2 15 (15.63%) Senior
3 11 (11.46%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 11 (11.46%) Lead
4 9 (9.38%) Developer
5 8 (8.33%) Enterprise Architect
6 6 (6.25%) Data Engineer
7 5 (5.21%) Machine Learning Engineer
7 5 (5.21%) Software Engineer
8 4 (4.17%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
8 4 (4.17%) Data Architect
8 4 (4.17%) Python Developer
8 4 (4.17%) Security Architect
8 4 (4.17%) Senior Data Scientist
8 4 (4.17%) Technical Leader
9 3 (3.13%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
9 3 (3.13%) Backend Developer
9 3 (3.13%) Python Engineer
9 3 (3.13%) Senior Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (18.75%) PyTorch
2 17 (17.71%) scikit-learn
3 16 (16.67%) TensorFlow
4 9 (9.38%) NumPy
4 9 (9.38%) Pandas
5 7 (7.29%) LangGraph
6 6 (6.25%) AngularJS
6 6 (6.25%) LangChain
6 6 (6.25%) React
7 5 (5.21%) Kafka
7 5 (5.21%) PySpark
8 4 (4.17%) FastAPI
8 4 (4.17%) Google JAX
8 4 (4.17%) Hugging Face
8 4 (4.17%) JAX
8 4 (4.17%) Matplotlib
8 4 (4.17%) Seaborn
9 3 (3.13%) Backbone.js
9 3 (3.13%) Bootstrap
9 3 (3.13%) Ember.js
Miscellaneous
1 22 (22.92%) Cloud Native
2 10 (10.42%) AI Agents
2 10 (10.42%) Algorithms
3 8 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (5.21%) Product Ownership
4 5 (5.21%) Security Posture
5 4 (4.17%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (4.17%) Life Science
6 3 (3.13%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (3.13%) Derivative
6 3 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (3.13%) Marketing Technology
7 2 (2.08%) Distributed Computing
7 2 (2.08%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (2.08%) Equities
7 2 (2.08%) Fixed Income
7 2 (2.08%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (2.08%) Onboarding
7 2 (2.08%) Synthetic Data
7 2 (2.08%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.13%) Android
1 3 (3.13%) Apple iOS
1 3 (3.13%) Linux
1 3 (3.13%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (83.33%) AI
2 42 (43.75%) Analytics
3 38 (39.58%) Data Science
4 37 (38.54%) Generative AI
5 30 (31.25%) LLM
6 23 (23.96%) Data Engineering
7 22 (22.92%) CI/CD
7 22 (22.92%) Data Pipeline
8 20 (20.83%) Agile
9 18 (18.75%) Roadmaps
10 17 (17.71%) Business Intelligence
11 16 (16.67%) MLOps
11 16 (16.67%) Visualisation
12 15 (15.63%) DevOps
13 14 (14.58%) Data Governance
13 14 (14.58%) Data Modelling
13 14 (14.58%) Decision-Making
13 14 (14.58%) Natural Language Processing
14 13 (13.54%) Business Strategy
14 13 (13.54%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 61 (63.54%) Python
2 36 (37.50%) SQL
3 7 (7.29%) Java
4 5 (5.21%) R
5 4 (4.17%) C#
5 4 (4.17%) C++
5 4 (4.17%) TypeScript
6 3 (3.13%) JavaScript
7 2 (2.08%) Scala
8 1 (1.04%) Bicep
8 1 (1.04%) Rust
Qualifications
1 12 (12.50%) Degree
2 11 (11.46%) Security Cleared
3 7 (7.29%) SC Cleared
4 6 (6.25%) PhD
5 4 (4.17%) Master's Degree
6 3 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (2.08%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (2.08%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (1.04%) DBS Check
8 1 (1.04%) MPhil
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (9.38%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.13%) GDPR
2 3 (3.13%) NIST
3 2 (2.08%) EU AI Act
3 2 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 42001
4 1 (1.04%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.04%) GRC
4 1 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.04%) MiFID
4 1 (1.04%) NCSC
4 1 (1.04%) QA
4 1 (1.04%) WCAG
System Software
1 12 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (10.42%) Kubernetes
2 7 (7.29%) Terraform
3 2 (2.08%) Istio
3 2 (2.08%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.04%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 18 (18.75%) Microsoft
2 12 (12.50%) Databricks
2 12 (12.50%) Google
3 5 (5.21%) Foundry
4 4 (4.17%) IBM
4 4 (4.17%) OpenAI
5 3 (3.13%) Amplitude
5 3 (3.13%) Cognos
5 3 (3.13%) MuleSoft
5 3 (3.13%) Sage
5 3 (3.13%) Salesforce
6 2 (2.08%) Dynatrace
6 2 (2.08%) Guidewire
6 2 (2.08%) MicroStrategy
6 2 (2.08%) SimCorp
6 2 (2.08%) Sitecore
6 2 (2.08%) Vermilion
7 1 (1.04%) Apple
7 1 (1.04%) Informatica
7 1 (1.04%) SAP