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

6 months to
6 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 75 90
Rank change year-on-year +30 +15 +22
Contract jobs citing Machine Learning 99 46 36
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 4.52% 2.64% 1.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.19% 2.86% 1.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 27 24
10th Percentile £410 £400 £463
25th Percentile £513 £425 £504
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year - - -7.69%
75th Percentile £738 £763 £763
90th Percentile £885 £796 £829
Central London median daily rate £600 £600 £625
% change year-on-year - -4.00% -3.85%
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 1,908 1,606 2,038
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 87.04% 92.30% 89.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,317 1,035 1,437
10th Percentile £363 £363 £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 £670 £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 24 9 11
10th Percentile - £22.00 £18.93
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.66 £20.07
Median hourly rate £30.03 £31.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.12% +24.00% -38.27%
75th Percentile £48.67 £48.75 £40.92
90th Percentile £57.93 £71.00 £50.25
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £31.00 £27.81
% change year-on-year -15.77% +11.47% -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 6 April 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 6 April 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 (10.10%) Apache Spark
2 7 (7.07%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (3.03%) Apache
4 1 (1.01%) Jupyter
Business Applications
1 1 (1.01%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 46 (46.46%) Azure
2 45 (45.45%) AWS
3 26 (26.26%) GCP
4 23 (23.23%) Power Platform
5 11 (11.11%) Amazon SageMaker
6 10 (10.10%) Azure Machine Learning
7 9 (9.09%) GitHub
7 9 (9.09%) Snowflake
8 6 (6.06%) Azure AI
8 6 (6.06%) SaaS
8 6 (6.06%) Vertex AI
9 5 (5.05%) Azure Data Factory
9 5 (5.05%) Copilot Studio
9 5 (5.05%) dbt
9 5 (5.05%) Microsoft Copilot
10 4 (4.04%) Amazon S3
10 4 (4.04%) GitHub Copilot
10 4 (4.04%) Google Gemini
10 4 (4.04%) iPaaS
11 3 (3.03%) Boomi
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.02%) Network Security
2 1 (1.01%) 3G
2 1 (1.01%) 3GPP
2 1 (1.01%) 4G
2 1 (1.01%) 5G
2 1 (1.01%) Hyperconnected
2 1 (1.01%) LTE
2 1 (1.01%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (1.01%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (17.17%) Power BI
2 10 (10.10%) Tableau
3 8 (8.08%) NoSQL
4 7 (7.07%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (5.05%) Big Data
5 5 (5.05%) Data Lake
6 4 (4.04%) Metadata
6 4 (4.04%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (3.03%) BigQuery
7 3 (3.03%) Data Mining
7 3 (3.03%) DB2
7 3 (3.03%) Looker
7 3 (3.03%) Mixpanel
7 3 (3.03%) MongoDB
7 3 (3.03%) Relational Database
8 2 (2.02%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (2.02%) Data Vault
8 2 (2.02%) Redis
9 1 (1.01%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (1.01%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 10 (10.10%) Git
2 3 (3.03%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.02%) MLflow
4 1 (1.01%) GitLab
4 1 (1.01%) JIRA
4 1 (1.01%) SonarQube
General
1 34 (34.34%) Finance
2 27 (27.27%) Social Skills
3 15 (15.15%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (14.14%) Banking
4 14 (14.14%) Public Sector
5 6 (6.06%) Influencing Skills
6 5 (5.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (5.05%) Marketing
7 4 (4.04%) Pharmaceutical
7 4 (4.04%) Retail
8 3 (3.03%) Investment Banking
8 3 (3.03%) Legal
8 3 (3.03%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.01%) Advertising
9 1 (1.01%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (1.01%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.01%) Law
9 1 (1.01%) Local Government
9 1 (1.01%) Retail Banking
9 1 (1.01%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 21 (21.21%) Architect
2 15 (15.15%) Data Scientist
2 15 (15.15%) Senior
3 11 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 11 (11.11%) Lead
4 10 (10.10%) Developer
5 8 (8.08%) Enterprise Architect
6 6 (6.06%) Data Architect
6 6 (6.06%) Data Engineer
7 5 (5.05%) Machine Learning Engineer
7 5 (5.05%) Python Developer
7 5 (5.05%) Software Engineer
8 4 (4.04%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
8 4 (4.04%) Security Architect
8 4 (4.04%) Senior Data Scientist
8 4 (4.04%) Solutions Architect
8 4 (4.04%) Technical Leader
9 3 (3.03%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
9 3 (3.03%) Backend Developer
9 3 (3.03%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (18.18%) PyTorch
2 17 (17.17%) scikit-learn
3 16 (16.16%) TensorFlow
4 9 (9.09%) NumPy
4 9 (9.09%) Pandas
5 6 (6.06%) AngularJS
5 6 (6.06%) LangChain
5 6 (6.06%) LangGraph
6 5 (5.05%) Kafka
6 5 (5.05%) PySpark
6 5 (5.05%) React
7 4 (4.04%) Google JAX
7 4 (4.04%) Hugging Face
7 4 (4.04%) JAX
7 4 (4.04%) Matplotlib
7 4 (4.04%) Seaborn
8 3 (3.03%) Dask
8 3 (3.03%) FastAPI
8 3 (3.03%) LightGBM
8 3 (3.03%) Model Context Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 26 (26.26%) Cloud Native
2 10 (10.10%) AI Agents
2 10 (10.10%) Algorithms
3 9 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (5.05%) Product Ownership
4 5 (5.05%) Security Posture
5 4 (4.04%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (3.03%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (3.03%) Derivative
6 3 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (3.03%) Life Science
6 3 (3.03%) Marketing Technology
7 2 (2.02%) Distributed Computing
7 2 (2.02%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (2.02%) Equities
7 2 (2.02%) Fixed Income
7 2 (2.02%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (2.02%) Onboarding
7 2 (2.02%) Synthetic Data
7 2 (2.02%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.03%) Android
1 3 (3.03%) Apple iOS
1 3 (3.03%) Linux
1 3 (3.03%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (83.84%) AI
2 45 (45.45%) Analytics
3 39 (39.39%) Data Science
3 39 (39.39%) Generative AI
4 32 (32.32%) LLM
5 25 (25.25%) CI/CD
5 25 (25.25%) Data Engineering
6 22 (22.22%) Data Pipeline
7 20 (20.20%) Agile
8 19 (19.19%) Roadmaps
9 17 (17.17%) Business Intelligence
9 17 (17.17%) MLOps
10 16 (16.16%) Data Modelling
11 15 (15.15%) Data Governance
11 15 (15.15%) Decision-Making
11 15 (15.15%) DevOps
11 15 (15.15%) Visualisation
12 14 (14.14%) Natural Language Processing
12 14 (14.14%) Software Engineering
13 13 (13.13%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 61 (61.62%) Python
2 36 (36.36%) SQL
3 7 (7.07%) Java
4 5 (5.05%) R
5 4 (4.04%) C#
5 4 (4.04%) C++
6 3 (3.03%) TypeScript
7 2 (2.02%) Bicep
7 2 (2.02%) JavaScript
7 2 (2.02%) Scala
8 1 (1.01%) Rust
Qualifications
1 11 (11.11%) Degree
1 11 (11.11%) Security Cleared
2 7 (7.07%) SC Cleared
3 6 (6.06%) PhD
4 4 (4.04%) Master's Degree
5 3 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.02%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (2.02%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (1.01%) DBS Check
7 1 (1.01%) MPhil
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (10.10%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.03%) GDPR
2 3 (3.03%) NIST
3 2 (2.02%) EU AI Act
3 2 (2.02%) ISO/IEC 42001
4 1 (1.01%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.01%) GRC
4 1 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.01%) NCSC
4 1 (1.01%) QA
4 1 (1.01%) WCAG
System Software
1 11 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (10.10%) Kubernetes
2 8 (8.08%) Terraform
3 2 (2.02%) Istio
3 2 (2.02%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.01%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 18 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 13 (13.13%) Databricks
3 11 (11.11%) Google
4 5 (5.05%) Foundry
4 5 (5.05%) OpenAI
5 4 (4.04%) IBM
6 3 (3.03%) Amplitude
6 3 (3.03%) Cognos
6 3 (3.03%) MuleSoft
6 3 (3.03%) Sage
6 3 (3.03%) Salesforce
7 2 (2.02%) Dynatrace
7 2 (2.02%) Guidewire
7 2 (2.02%) MicroStrategy
7 2 (2.02%) SimCorp
7 2 (2.02%) Sitecore
7 2 (2.02%) Vermilion
8 1 (1.01%) Apple
8 1 (1.01%) Informatica
8 1 (1.01%) SAP