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 5 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 67 88
Rank change year-on-year +17 +21 +18
Contract jobs citing Machine Learning 97 50 36
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 4.12% 2.96% 1.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.81% 3.16% 1.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 33 21
10th Percentile £425 £400 £463
25th Percentile £466 £513 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £595 £555 £628
Median % change year-on-year +7.12% -11.55% -7.04%
75th Percentile £644 £704 £768
90th Percentile £770 £763 £838
Central London median daily rate £575 £555 £639
% change year-on-year +3.60% -13.11% -5.37%
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 2,015 1,582 1,948
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 85.56% 93.66% 90.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,371 998 1,364
10th Percentile £358 £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 14 13
10th Percentile £17.38 £18.15 £19.98
25th Percentile £18.75 £23.98 £20.22
Median hourly rate £25.77 £28.33 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -9.02% +7.90% -25.00%
75th Percentile £52.16 £41.48 £40.00
90th Percentile £62.89 £59.25 £48.57
Central London median hourly rate £26.56 £28.33 £27.81
% change year-on-year -6.25% +1.85% -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 5 June 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 5 June 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 (3.09%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.06%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.06%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.03%) Apache
3 1 (1.03%) Jupyter
Applications
1 2 (2.06%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 40 (41.24%) AWS
2 36 (37.11%) Azure
3 21 (21.65%) GCP
4 15 (15.46%) Power Platform
5 12 (12.37%) Amazon SageMaker
6 8 (8.25%) GitHub
7 6 (6.19%) Amazon S3
7 6 (6.19%) SaaS
7 6 (6.19%) Serverless
7 6 (6.19%) Vertex AI
8 5 (5.15%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (5.15%) Azure AI
8 5 (5.15%) Azure Machine Learning
9 4 (4.12%) Amazon Bedrock
9 4 (4.12%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (4.12%) Azure Data Factory
9 4 (4.12%) GitHub Copilot
9 4 (4.12%) Google Gemini
9 4 (4.12%) iPaaS
10 3 (3.09%) Boomi
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.09%) Network Security
2 2 (2.06%) DHCP
2 2 (2.06%) DNS
2 2 (2.06%) Firewall
2 2 (2.06%) SMTP
2 2 (2.06%) VPN
3 1 (1.03%) 3G
3 1 (1.03%) 3GPP
3 1 (1.03%) 4G
3 1 (1.03%) 5G
3 1 (1.03%) LTE
3 1 (1.03%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (1.03%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (11.34%) Power BI
2 9 (9.28%) NoSQL
3 7 (7.22%) Tableau
4 6 (6.19%) Data Mining
5 5 (5.15%) Data Lake
6 4 (4.12%) Big Data
6 4 (4.12%) BigQuery
6 4 (4.12%) Looker
6 4 (4.12%) Metadata
6 4 (4.12%) Mixpanel
6 4 (4.12%) Pinecone
7 3 (3.09%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (3.09%) Db2
7 3 (3.09%) MongoDB
7 3 (3.09%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (3.09%) Redis
7 3 (3.09%) Relational Database
7 3 (3.09%) Weaviate
8 2 (2.06%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (2.06%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 5 (5.15%) Git
2 2 (2.06%) MLflow
3 1 (1.03%) Cypress.io
3 1 (1.03%) GitLab
3 1 (1.03%) JIRA
3 1 (1.03%) SonarQube
General
1 31 (31.96%) Finance
2 26 (26.80%) Social Skills
3 14 (14.43%) Public Sector
4 11 (11.34%) Banking
5 9 (9.28%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (5.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (5.15%) Influencing Skills
6 5 (5.15%) Marketing
7 3 (3.09%) Investment Banking
7 3 (3.09%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (2.06%) Financial Institution
8 2 (2.06%) Manufacturing
8 2 (2.06%) Retail
9 1 (1.03%) Advertising
9 1 (1.03%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (1.03%) Law
9 1 (1.03%) Legal
9 1 (1.03%) Local Government
9 1 (1.03%) Retail Banking
9 1 (1.03%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 20 (20.62%) Architect
2 15 (15.46%) Data Scientist
3 8 (8.25%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 8 (8.25%) Lead
4 6 (6.19%) Data Architect
4 6 (6.19%) Software Engineer
5 5 (5.15%) Enterprise Architect
5 5 (5.15%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 5 (5.15%) Platform Architect
5 5 (5.15%) Senior
6 4 (4.12%) Analyst
6 4 (4.12%) Data Engineer
6 4 (4.12%) Developer
6 4 (4.12%) Machine Learning Engineer
6 4 (4.12%) Technical Leader
7 3 (3.09%) Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 3 (3.09%) Java Engineer
7 3 (3.09%) Product Manager
7 3 (3.09%) Solutions Architect
8 2 (2.06%) Gen AI Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (16.49%) PyTorch
2 13 (13.40%) TensorFlow
3 9 (9.28%) React
4 8 (8.25%) scikit-learn
5 6 (6.19%) LangChain
6 5 (5.15%) AngularJS
6 5 (5.15%) Hugging Face
6 5 (5.15%) PySpark
7 4 (4.12%) Pandas
8 3 (3.09%) Backbone.js
8 3 (3.09%) Bootstrap
8 3 (3.09%) Ember.js
8 3 (3.09%) Google JAX
8 3 (3.09%) JAX
8 3 (3.09%) jQuery
8 3 (3.09%) Kafka
8 3 (3.09%) Keras
8 3 (3.09%) LangGraph
8 3 (3.09%) Model Context Protocol
8 3 (3.09%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 25 (25.77%) Cloud Native
2 10 (10.31%) AI Agents
3 9 (9.28%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (4.12%) Algorithms
4 4 (4.12%) Product Ownership
5 3 (3.09%) Life Science
5 3 (3.09%) Marketing Technology
5 3 (3.09%) Security Posture
6 2 (2.06%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (2.06%) Clustering
6 2 (2.06%) Data Centre
6 2 (2.06%) Equities
6 2 (2.06%) Fixed Income
6 2 (2.06%) PKI
6 2 (2.06%) Synthetic Data
7 1 (1.03%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.03%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.03%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.03%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.03%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.15%) Linux
1 5 (5.15%) Windows
2 3 (3.09%) Android
2 3 (3.09%) Apple iOS
3 2 (2.06%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.03%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (87.63%) AI
2 41 (42.27%) Analytics
3 36 (37.11%) Generative AI
4 35 (36.08%) Data Science
5 34 (35.05%) LLM
6 29 (29.90%) CI/CD
7 22 (22.68%) Agile
7 22 (22.68%) MLOps
8 20 (20.62%) Data Engineering
9 18 (18.56%) DevOps
9 18 (18.56%) Roadmaps
10 17 (17.53%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
11 16 (16.49%) Data Pipeline
11 16 (16.49%) Infrastructure as Code
12 15 (15.46%) Decision-Making
13 14 (14.43%) Containerisation
13 14 (14.43%) Data Governance
14 12 (12.37%) Data Modelling
14 12 (12.37%) Software Engineering
14 12 (12.37%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 53 (54.64%) Python
2 32 (32.99%) SQL
3 9 (9.28%) Java
4 5 (5.15%) R
5 4 (4.12%) Bicep
5 4 (4.12%) TypeScript
6 3 (3.09%) JavaScript
6 3 (3.09%) PowerShell
7 2 (2.06%) C#
7 2 (2.06%) C++
8 1 (1.03%) Scala
Qualifications
1 12 (12.37%) Degree
2 10 (10.31%) Security Cleared
3 7 (7.22%) SC Cleared
4 6 (6.19%) PhD
5 4 (4.12%) DBS Check
5 4 (4.12%) Master's Degree
6 3 (3.09%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (2.06%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (2.06%) DV Cleared
8 1 (1.03%) AWS Certification
8 1 (1.03%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 1 (1.03%) Azure Certification
8 1 (1.03%) CISM
8 1 (1.03%) CISSP
8 1 (1.03%) CSPO
8 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (1.03%) MPhil
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (10.31%) Data Quality
2 4 (4.12%) GDPR
3 3 (3.09%) NIST
3 3 (3.09%) QA
4 2 (2.06%) ISO/IEC 42001
5 1 (1.03%) 21 CFR Part 11
5 1 (1.03%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.03%) GRC
5 1 (1.03%) GxP
5 1 (1.03%) HIPAA
5 1 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.03%) NCSC
5 1 (1.03%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (1.03%) WCAG
System Software
1 18 (18.56%) Docker
2 3 (3.09%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.06%) BitLocker
3 2 (2.06%) Hyper-V
3 2 (2.06%) Microsoft App-V
3 2 (2.06%) Terminal Services
3 2 (2.06%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (2.06%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 17 (17.53%) Kubernetes
2 7 (7.22%) Terraform
3 3 (3.09%) Istio
3 3 (3.09%) Prometheus
4 2 (2.06%) Ansible
4 2 (2.06%) Nagios
4 2 (2.06%) Puppet
4 2 (2.06%) vCenter Server
4 2 (2.06%) vMotion
Vendors
1 14 (14.43%) Microsoft
2 9 (9.28%) Google
3 5 (5.15%) OpenAI
4 4 (4.12%) Amplitude
5 3 (3.09%) Databricks
5 3 (3.09%) Dynatrace
5 3 (3.09%) Foundry
5 3 (3.09%) MuleSoft
6 2 (2.06%) Citrix
6 2 (2.06%) HP
6 2 (2.06%) IBM
6 2 (2.06%) Salesforce
6 2 (2.06%) SimCorp
6 2 (2.06%) Sitecore
6 2 (2.06%) Symantec
6 2 (2.06%) Vermilion
6 2 (2.06%) VMware
7 1 (1.03%) Apple
7 1 (1.03%) Informatica
7 1 (1.03%) Sage