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 26 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 66 78
Rank change year-on-year +14 +12 +39
Contract jobs citing Machine Learning 98 62 49
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 4.39% 3.56% 2.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.92% 3.77% 2.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 45 34
10th Percentile £425 £513 £463
25th Percentile £463 £528 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £645 £606
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +6.39% -17.80%
75th Percentile £659 £688 £760
90th Percentile £751 £758 £834
Central London median daily rate £568 £625 £613
% change year-on-year -9.20% +2.04% -15.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £31.03 £61.25 -
Median hourly rate £32.07 £62.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -48.70% - -
75th Percentile £33.10 £63.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £32.07 £56.97 -
% change year-on-year -43.72% - -

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 1,993 1,643 1,947
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 89.33% 94.21% 91.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,373 1,101 1,216
10th Percentile £368 £325 £371
25th Percentile £456 £423 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £690
90th Percentile £775 £773 £792
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -3.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 19 19
10th Percentile £16.98 £16.96 £15.60
25th Percentile £17.60 £22.88 £21.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £28.15 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.40% -26.88% +40.00%
75th Percentile £32.05 £50.25 £102.25
90th Percentile £50.59 £68.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £25.57 £28.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -10.30% -18.57% +30.84%

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 26 September 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
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 (3.06%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (3.06%) Apache Spark
1 3 (3.06%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.04%) Jupyter
3 1 (1.02%) Apache
3 1 (1.02%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (3.06%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 35 (35.71%) Azure
2 31 (31.63%) AWS
3 15 (15.31%) GCP
4 9 (9.18%) Power Platform
5 8 (8.16%) Amazon SageMaker
6 6 (6.12%) Amazon Bedrock
6 6 (6.12%) Amazon S3
6 6 (6.12%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (6.12%) Serverless
7 5 (5.10%) Azure Data Factory
7 5 (5.10%) Snowflake
8 4 (4.08%) Azure AI
8 4 (4.08%) Azure Machine Learning
8 4 (4.08%) GitHub
9 3 (3.06%) Amazon EMR
9 3 (3.06%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (3.06%) Bloomreach
9 3 (3.06%) IaaS
9 3 (3.06%) OpenShift
9 3 (3.06%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.06%) DHCP
1 3 (3.06%) DNS
1 3 (3.06%) Firewall
1 3 (3.06%) SMS
1 3 (3.06%) SMTP
1 3 (3.06%) VPN
2 1 (1.02%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (9.18%) Metadata
2 8 (8.16%) Power BI
3 7 (7.14%) Data Lake
3 7 (7.14%) Data Mining
4 5 (5.10%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (5.10%) NoSQL
5 4 (4.08%) Amazon Redshift
5 4 (4.08%) Big Data
5 4 (4.08%) MongoDB
6 3 (3.06%) Amazon Athena
6 3 (3.06%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (3.06%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (3.06%) Pinecone
6 3 (3.06%) Relational Database
7 2 (2.04%) Delta Lake
7 2 (2.04%) Electronic Patient Records
7 2 (2.04%) Milvus
7 2 (2.04%) Tableau
7 2 (2.04%) Weaviate
8 1 (1.02%) Redis
Development Applications
1 8 (8.16%) Git
2 1 (1.02%) Claude Code
2 1 (1.02%) Cypress.io
2 1 (1.02%) ER Studio
2 1 (1.02%) JIRA
2 1 (1.02%) MLflow
2 1 (1.02%) Vite
General
1 29 (29.59%) Finance
2 20 (20.41%) Social Skills
3 10 (10.20%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (10.20%) Public Sector
4 9 (9.18%) Banking
5 6 (6.12%) Retail
6 4 (4.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (4.08%) Legal
6 4 (4.08%) Marketing
6 4 (4.08%) Pharmaceutical
7 3 (3.06%) Corporate Banking
7 3 (3.06%) Investment Banking
7 3 (3.06%) Manufacturing
7 3 (3.06%) Retail Banking
8 2 (2.04%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.02%) Aviation
9 1 (1.02%) Front Office
9 1 (1.02%) Games
9 1 (1.02%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.02%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 23 (23.47%) Architect
2 9 (9.18%) Data Scientist
2 9 (9.18%) Senior
3 8 (8.16%) Data Architect
3 8 (8.16%) Lead
4 7 (7.14%) Analyst
5 6 (6.12%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
5 6 (6.12%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 6 (6.12%) Data Analyst
5 6 (6.12%) Data Engineer
6 5 (5.10%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 5 (5.10%) Platform Architect
6 5 (5.10%) Solutions Architect
7 4 (4.08%) Enterprise Architect
7 4 (4.08%) Platform Engineer
8 3 (3.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (3.06%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
8 3 (3.06%) Product Manager
8 3 (3.06%) Python Developer
8 3 (3.06%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (13.27%) Terraform
2 8 (8.16%) React
3 7 (7.14%) PyTorch
4 5 (5.10%) Kafka
4 5 (5.10%) TensorFlow
5 4 (4.08%) LangChain
5 4 (4.08%) PySpark
5 4 (4.08%) scikit-learn
6 3 (3.06%) FastAPI
6 3 (3.06%) LlamaIndex
6 3 (3.06%) OAuth
7 2 (2.04%) CrewAI
7 2 (2.04%) JSON
7 2 (2.04%) LangGraph
7 2 (2.04%) Qwen
7 2 (2.04%) REST
7 2 (2.04%) RESTful
7 2 (2.04%) Web Services
8 1 (1.02%) JAX
8 1 (1.02%) vLLM
Miscellaneous
1 22 (22.45%) Cloud Native
2 9 (9.18%) AI Agents
3 8 (8.16%) Product Ownership
4 7 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (4.08%) Life Science
6 3 (3.06%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (3.06%) Clustering
6 3 (3.06%) Data Centre
6 3 (3.06%) Distributed Computing
6 3 (3.06%) Marketing Technology
6 3 (3.06%) Onboarding
6 3 (3.06%) PKI
7 2 (2.04%) Algorithms
7 2 (2.04%) Genomics
7 2 (2.04%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.02%) Data Structures
8 1 (1.02%) Fixed Income
8 1 (1.02%) Low-Code
8 1 (1.02%) Replication
8 1 (1.02%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.08%) Linux
2 3 (3.06%) Windows
2 3 (3.06%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.02%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (87.76%) AI
2 33 (33.67%) Analytics
3 32 (32.65%) Generative AI
3 32 (32.65%) LLM
4 31 (31.63%) CI/CD
5 29 (29.59%) Data Science
6 22 (22.45%) Agile
6 22 (22.45%) Decision-Making
6 22 (22.45%) DevOps
6 22 (22.45%) MLOps
7 21 (21.43%) Software Engineering
8 18 (18.37%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
8 18 (18.37%) Roadmaps
9 17 (17.35%) Data Engineering
10 16 (16.33%) Infrastructure as Code
11 15 (15.31%) Data Governance
12 14 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
12 14 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
13 12 (12.24%) Containerisation
13 12 (12.24%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 43 (43.88%) Python
2 27 (27.55%) SQL
3 8 (8.16%) Java
4 6 (6.12%) PowerShell
5 5 (5.10%) JavaScript
5 5 (5.10%) TypeScript
6 4 (4.08%) Bicep
6 4 (4.08%) R
7 2 (2.04%) C#
7 2 (2.04%) Scala
8 1 (1.02%) Cypher
8 1 (1.02%) Go
8 1 (1.02%) Google Apps Script
8 1 (1.02%) Gremlin
8 1 (1.02%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 13 (13.27%) Security Cleared
2 10 (10.20%) Degree
3 9 (9.18%) SC Cleared
4 4 (4.08%) DV Cleared
5 3 (3.06%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (3.06%) DBS Check
6 2 (2.04%) Azure Certification
6 2 (2.04%) CSPO
6 2 (2.04%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.02%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.02%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (1.02%) CISM
7 1 (1.02%) CISSP
7 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (1.02%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (1.02%) PhD
7 1 (1.02%) PMI Certification
7 1 (1.02%) PMP
7 1 (1.02%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (16.33%) Data Quality
2 6 (6.12%) QA
3 4 (4.08%) GDPR
4 2 (2.04%) 21 CFR Part 11
4 2 (2.04%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.04%) GxP
4 2 (2.04%) NIST
4 2 (2.04%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (1.02%) EU AI Act
5 1 (1.02%) HIPAA
5 1 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 15 (15.31%) Docker
2 4 (4.08%) Active Directory
3 3 (3.06%) BitLocker
3 3 (3.06%) Hyper-V
3 3 (3.06%) Microsoft App-V
3 3 (3.06%) Terminal Services
3 3 (3.06%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (3.06%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 15 (15.31%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.06%) Ansible
2 3 (3.06%) Nagios
2 3 (3.06%) Prometheus
2 3 (3.06%) Puppet
2 3 (3.06%) vCenter Server
2 3 (3.06%) vMotion
3 2 (2.04%) Grafana
4 1 (1.02%) Istio
4 1 (1.02%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 18 (18.37%) Microsoft
2 10 (10.20%) Databricks
3 8 (8.16%) Google
4 5 (5.10%) OpenAI
5 3 (3.06%) Citrix
5 3 (3.06%) Foundry
5 3 (3.06%) HP
5 3 (3.06%) Symantec
5 3 (3.06%) VMware
6 2 (2.04%) SAP
7 1 (1.02%) Alteryx
7 1 (1.02%) Amplitude
7 1 (1.02%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.02%) Informatica
7 1 (1.02%) Oracle
7 1 (1.02%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.02%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.02%) Sitecore
7 1 (1.02%) Splunk
7 1 (1.02%) Workday