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 3 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 77 123
Rank change year-on-year +29 +46 +12
Contract jobs citing Machine Learning 80 54 26
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 4.46% 2.53% 0.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.84% 2.76% 1.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 35 20
10th Percentile £462 £463 £331
25th Percentile £513 £513 £477
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £600 £588
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +2.13% -6.00%
75th Percentile £738 £750 £791
90th Percentile £871 £825 £830
Central London median daily rate £645 £600 £588
% change year-on-year +7.50% +2.13% -6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61.25 - -
Median hourly rate £62.50 - -
75th Percentile £63.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £56.97 - -

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 1,653 1,958 2,349
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 92.09% 91.62% 89.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,158 1,207 1,661
10th Percentile £336 £363 £363
25th Percentile £419 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £694
90th Percentile £752 £788 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 17 12
10th Percentile £20.06 £16.70 -
25th Percentile £25.88 £22.00 £17.00
Median hourly rate £34.00 £38.50 £23.75
Median % change year-on-year -11.69% +62.11% -53.88%
75th Percentile £52.19 £92.50 £40.19
90th Percentile £63.75 £122.20 £71.05
Central London median hourly rate £31.00 £35.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -11.43% +40.00% -50.50%

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 3 December 2025.

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
Contract Job Locations in the City of London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Machine Learning within the City of London region over the 6 months to 3 December 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London Bridge - 1 £800 -
Machine Learning
Central 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 (12.50%) Apache Spark
2 5 (6.25%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (2.50%) Apache
4 1 (1.25%) Confluence
4 1 (1.25%) Jupyter
4 1 (1.25%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (1.25%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (1.25%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 39 (48.75%) Azure
2 28 (35.00%) AWS
3 19 (23.75%) GCP
4 17 (21.25%) Power Platform
5 13 (16.25%) Azure Machine Learning
6 7 (8.75%) Snowflake
7 6 (7.50%) Amazon SageMaker
7 6 (7.50%) Azure AI
7 6 (7.50%) GitHub
8 5 (6.25%) Copilot Studio
8 5 (6.25%) dbt
8 5 (6.25%) Microsoft Copilot
9 4 (5.00%) Azure Data Factory
9 4 (5.00%) Cloud Run
9 4 (5.00%) Power Automate
9 4 (5.00%) PowerApps
10 3 (3.75%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (3.75%) Cloud Computing
10 3 (3.75%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 3 (3.75%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.50%) DNS
2 1 (1.25%) Firewall
2 1 (1.25%) Hyperconnected
2 1 (1.25%) LAN
2 1 (1.25%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (16.25%) Power BI
2 6 (7.50%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (6.25%) Big Data
3 5 (6.25%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (6.25%) Tableau
4 3 (3.75%) Data Lake
4 3 (3.75%) Metadata
4 3 (3.75%) NoSQL
4 3 (3.75%) Pinecone
4 3 (3.75%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (2.50%) BigQuery
5 2 (2.50%) Data Vault
5 2 (2.50%) Geospatial Data
5 2 (2.50%) Hadoop
5 2 (2.50%) Spatial Data
6 1 (1.25%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (1.25%) Apache Hive
6 1 (1.25%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.25%) Data Mining
6 1 (1.25%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 10 (12.50%) Git
2 8 (10.00%) Jenkins
3 3 (3.75%) MLflow
4 1 (1.25%) Cypress.io
4 1 (1.25%) JIRA
4 1 (1.25%) SonarQube
General
1 34 (42.50%) Finance
2 24 (30.00%) Social Skills
3 16 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (15.00%) Banking
5 10 (12.50%) Public Sector
6 6 (7.50%) Legal
7 5 (6.25%) Pharmaceutical
7 5 (6.25%) Retail
8 4 (5.00%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (5.00%) Investment Banking
9 3 (3.75%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (2.50%) Law
10 2 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (1.25%) Financial Institution
11 1 (1.25%) Front Office
11 1 (1.25%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 16 (20.00%) Senior
2 15 (18.75%) Data Scientist
3 13 (16.25%) Architect
3 13 (16.25%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 9 (11.25%) Developer
5 8 (10.00%) Lead
6 7 (8.75%) Data Engineer
7 5 (6.25%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
7 5 (6.25%) Senior Data Scientist
8 4 (5.00%) Data Architect
8 4 (5.00%) Machine Learning Engineer
8 4 (5.00%) Python Developer
8 4 (5.00%) Senior Developer
9 3 (3.75%) .NET Developer
9 3 (3.75%) Angular Developer
9 3 (3.75%) Applications Engineer
9 3 (3.75%) Enterprise Architect
9 3 (3.75%) Lead Data Engineer
9 3 (3.75%) Security Engineer
9 3 (3.75%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (17.50%) scikit-learn
2 11 (13.75%) TensorFlow
3 10 (12.50%) NumPy
3 10 (12.50%) Pandas
3 10 (12.50%) PyTorch
4 7 (8.75%) LangGraph
5 6 (7.50%) LangChain
6 5 (6.25%) Elastic Stack
6 5 (6.25%) FastAPI
6 5 (6.25%) FIX Protocol
6 5 (6.25%) Kafka
7 4 (5.00%) PySpark
8 3 (3.75%) .NET
8 3 (3.75%) AngularJS
8 3 (3.75%) Faiss
8 3 (3.75%) Hugging Face
8 3 (3.75%) Matplotlib
8 3 (3.75%) Middleware
8 3 (3.75%) Seaborn
8 3 (3.75%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 17 (21.25%) Cloud Native
2 12 (15.00%) Algorithms
3 9 (11.25%) AI Agents
4 7 (8.75%) Product Ownership
5 5 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (6.25%) Onboarding
6 4 (5.00%) Fixed Income
6 4 (5.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (3.75%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (3.75%) Derivative
7 3 (3.75%) Distributed Computing
7 3 (3.75%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (3.75%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (3.75%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (3.75%) Life Science
7 3 (3.75%) Taxonomies
8 2 (2.50%) Replication
8 2 (2.50%) Security Posture
9 1 (1.25%) Clustering
9 1 (1.25%) Credit Derivative
Operating Systems
1 6 (7.50%) Linux
2 1 (1.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (72.50%) AI
2 40 (50.00%) Data Science
3 29 (36.25%) Analytics
4 26 (32.50%) Generative AI
4 26 (32.50%) LLM
5 18 (22.50%) Visualisation
6 17 (21.25%) Data Pipeline
6 17 (21.25%) DevOps
7 16 (20.00%) CI/CD
8 15 (18.75%) Data Engineering
9 14 (17.50%) Natural Language Processing
10 13 (16.25%) Business Intelligence
10 13 (16.25%) Data Governance
10 13 (16.25%) Roadmaps
11 12 (15.00%) Agile
11 12 (15.00%) MLOps
11 12 (15.00%) Observability
12 11 (13.75%) Data Analysis
12 11 (13.75%) Data Modelling
12 11 (13.75%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 53 (66.25%) Python
2 23 (28.75%) SQL
3 5 (6.25%) C#
3 5 (6.25%) PowerShell
4 4 (5.00%) R
5 3 (3.75%) C++
6 2 (2.50%) Go
6 2 (2.50%) JavaScript
6 2 (2.50%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.25%) Java
7 1 (1.25%) MATLAB
7 1 (1.25%) Rust
7 1 (1.25%) Scala
Qualifications
1 12 (15.00%) Degree
2 11 (13.75%) Security Cleared
3 6 (7.50%) Master's Degree
3 6 (7.50%) SC Cleared
4 3 (3.75%) PhD
5 2 (2.50%) CISSP
5 2 (2.50%) MCP
5 2 (2.50%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (1.25%) MBA
6 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.50%) Data Quality
2 5 (6.25%) GDPR
3 4 (5.00%) EU AI Act
3 4 (5.00%) NIST
4 2 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.25%) EMIR
5 1 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 42001
5 1 (1.25%) MiFID
5 1 (1.25%) QA
5 1 (1.25%) SOC 2
System Software
1 10 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (11.25%) Kubernetes
2 7 (8.75%) Terraform
3 5 (6.25%) ITRS Geneos
3 5 (6.25%) Kibana
3 5 (6.25%) logstash
4 2 (2.50%) Argo
4 2 (2.50%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.25%) Grafana
5 1 (1.25%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.25%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 18 (22.50%) Microsoft
2 16 (20.00%) Databricks
3 10 (12.50%) Google
4 6 (7.50%) OpenAI
5 5 (6.25%) Solace
6 4 (5.00%) Foundry
7 2 (2.50%) Cognos
7 2 (2.50%) Guidewire
7 2 (2.50%) IBM
7 2 (2.50%) MicroStrategy
7 2 (2.50%) Sage
7 2 (2.50%) Salesforce
7 2 (2.50%) SAP
8 1 (1.25%) Blue Prism
8 1 (1.25%) Informatica
8 1 (1.25%) TIBCO
8 1 (1.25%) UiPath
8 1 (1.25%) Workday