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 10 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 68 81
Rank change year-on-year +28 +13 +27
Contract jobs citing Machine Learning 109 60 47
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 4.44% 3.23% 2.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.15% 3.44% 2.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 42 29
10th Percentile £425 £400 £463
25th Percentile £473 £525 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £588 £593
Median % change year-on-year +2.13% -0.84% -15.36%
75th Percentile £650 £689 £775
90th Percentile £759 £760 £838
Central London median daily rate £575 £588 £596
% change year-on-year -2.13% -1.47% -14.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £33.51 - -
25th Percentile £37.23 £61.25 £46.75
Median hourly rate £44.92 £62.50 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% +28.87% +38.57%
75th Percentile £53.07 £63.75 £50.25
90th Percentile £57.06 - -
Central London median hourly rate £44.92 £56.97 £48.50
% change year-on-year -21.16% +17.46% +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 2,118 1,742 1,959
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 86.27% 93.86% 91.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,434 1,121 1,349
10th Percentile £363 £350 £363
25th Percentile £450 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £557 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.32% -3.07% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £560
% change year-on-year - -1.79% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 21 16
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.08 £19.21
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.66 £20.22
Median hourly rate £21.00 £31.00 £26.63
Median % change year-on-year -32.26% +16.43% -23.93%
75th Percentile £42.13 £56.75 £40.46
90th Percentile £59.72 £63.75 £64.50
Central London median hourly rate £24.47 £32.50 £27.41
% change year-on-year -24.72% +18.59% -21.70%

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 10 July 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 10 July 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 (2.75%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.83%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.83%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.92%) Apache
3 1 (0.92%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (2.75%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 42 (38.53%) AWS
1 42 (38.53%) Azure
2 23 (21.10%) GCP
3 16 (14.68%) Power Platform
4 11 (10.09%) Amazon SageMaker
5 7 (6.42%) Amazon S3
5 7 (6.42%) GitHub
5 7 (6.42%) Serverless
6 6 (5.50%) Amazon Bedrock
6 6 (5.50%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (5.50%) Azure AI
6 6 (5.50%) Azure Machine Learning
6 6 (5.50%) SaaS
7 5 (4.59%) Vertex AI
8 4 (3.67%) Azure Data Factory
8 4 (3.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 4 (3.67%) iPaaS
8 4 (3.67%) Snowflake
9 3 (2.75%) Boomi
9 3 (2.75%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.75%) DHCP
1 3 (2.75%) DNS
1 3 (2.75%) Firewall
1 3 (2.75%) Network Security
1 3 (2.75%) SMTP
1 3 (2.75%) VPN
2 1 (0.92%) 3G
2 1 (0.92%) 3GPP
2 1 (0.92%) 4G
2 1 (0.92%) 5G
2 1 (0.92%) LTE
2 1 (0.92%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (0.92%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (11.01%) Power BI
2 8 (7.34%) NoSQL
3 7 (6.42%) Data Lake
3 7 (6.42%) Tableau
4 6 (5.50%) Data Mining
4 6 (5.50%) Metadata
5 5 (4.59%) Big Data
5 5 (4.59%) MongoDB
6 4 (3.67%) Amazon Redshift
6 4 (3.67%) Looker
6 4 (3.67%) Mixpanel
6 4 (3.67%) Pinecone
6 4 (3.67%) Relational Database
7 3 (2.75%) Amazon Athena
7 3 (2.75%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (2.75%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (2.75%) Db2
7 3 (2.75%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (2.75%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (2.75%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 4 (3.67%) Git
2 1 (0.92%) Claude Code
2 1 (0.92%) Cypress.io
2 1 (0.92%) ER Studio
2 1 (0.92%) JIRA
2 1 (0.92%) MLflow
2 1 (0.92%) Vite
General
1 34 (31.19%) Finance
2 27 (24.77%) Social Skills
3 15 (13.76%) Public Sector
4 12 (11.01%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (9.17%) Banking
6 5 (4.59%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (3.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (3.67%) Marketing
7 4 (3.67%) Retail
8 3 (2.75%) Financial Institution
8 3 (2.75%) Manufacturing
8 3 (2.75%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.83%) Corporate Banking
9 2 (1.83%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.83%) Legal
9 2 (1.83%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.83%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.92%) Advertising
10 1 (0.92%) Law
10 1 (0.92%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 25 (22.94%) Architect
2 17 (15.60%) Data Scientist
3 9 (8.26%) Lead
4 8 (7.34%) Data Architect
4 8 (7.34%) Senior
5 6 (5.50%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 6 (5.50%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 6 (5.50%) Software Engineer
6 5 (4.59%) Analyst
6 5 (4.59%) Enterprise Architect
6 5 (4.59%) Platform Architect
7 4 (3.67%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
7 4 (3.67%) Data Engineer
7 4 (3.67%) Product Manager
7 4 (3.67%) Solutions Architect
7 4 (3.67%) Technical Leader
8 3 (2.75%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 3 (2.75%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (2.75%) Infrastructure Support
8 3 (2.75%) Machine Learning Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (11.93%) PyTorch
2 11 (10.09%) React
2 11 (10.09%) TensorFlow
3 8 (7.34%) scikit-learn
4 6 (5.50%) PySpark
5 5 (4.59%) AngularJS
5 5 (4.59%) Hugging Face
5 5 (4.59%) LangChain
6 4 (3.67%) Kafka
6 4 (3.67%) LangGraph
6 4 (3.67%) Pandas
7 3 (2.75%) Backbone.js
7 3 (2.75%) Bootstrap
7 3 (2.75%) Ember.js
7 3 (2.75%) jQuery
7 3 (2.75%) Keras
7 3 (2.75%) NumPy
8 2 (1.83%) OAuth
8 2 (1.83%) REST
8 2 (1.83%) Vert.x
Miscellaneous
1 24 (22.02%) Cloud Native
2 10 (9.17%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (6.42%) AI Agents
4 6 (5.50%) Product Ownership
5 4 (3.67%) Algorithms
6 3 (2.75%) Clustering
6 3 (2.75%) Data Centre
6 3 (2.75%) Life Science
6 3 (2.75%) Marketing Technology
6 3 (2.75%) PKI
6 3 (2.75%) Security Posture
7 2 (1.83%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.83%) Synthetic Data
8 1 (0.92%) Equities
8 1 (0.92%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.92%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.92%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.92%) Tandem
8 1 (0.92%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (6.42%) Linux
2 6 (5.50%) Windows
3 3 (2.75%) Android
3 3 (2.75%) Apple iOS
3 3 (2.75%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.92%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (87.16%) AI
2 45 (41.28%) Analytics
3 38 (34.86%) Data Science
3 38 (34.86%) Generative AI
4 35 (32.11%) LLM
5 28 (25.69%) CI/CD
6 26 (23.85%) Agile
7 23 (21.10%) MLOps
8 21 (19.27%) Data Engineering
9 20 (18.35%) DevOps
9 20 (18.35%) Roadmaps
10 19 (17.43%) Decision-Making
11 17 (15.60%) Data Pipeline
11 17 (15.60%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
12 15 (13.76%) Data Governance
12 15 (13.76%) Infrastructure as Code
12 15 (13.76%) Problem-Solving
13 14 (12.84%) Business Intelligence
14 13 (11.93%) Data Modelling
14 13 (11.93%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 54 (49.54%) Python
2 32 (29.36%) SQL
3 8 (7.34%) Java
4 6 (5.50%) R
5 5 (4.59%) TypeScript
6 4 (3.67%) Bicep
6 4 (3.67%) JavaScript
6 4 (3.67%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.92%) C#
7 1 (0.92%) Cypher
7 1 (0.92%) Go
7 1 (0.92%) Google Apps Script
7 1 (0.92%) Gremlin
7 1 (0.92%) Scala
Qualifications
1 13 (11.93%) Degree
1 13 (11.93%) Security Cleared
2 9 (8.26%) SC Cleared
3 6 (5.50%) PhD
4 4 (3.67%) Master's Degree
5 3 (2.75%) DBS Check
5 3 (2.75%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.83%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.83%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.83%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.83%) CSPO
7 1 (0.92%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.92%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (0.92%) CISM
7 1 (0.92%) CISSP
7 1 (0.92%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (0.92%) MPhil
7 1 (0.92%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (8.26%) Data Quality
2 5 (4.59%) GDPR
2 5 (4.59%) QA
3 4 (3.67%) NIST
4 3 (2.75%) ISO/IEC 42001
5 2 (1.83%) 21 CFR Part 11
5 2 (1.83%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.83%) GxP
5 2 (1.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.92%) EU AI Act
6 1 (0.92%) GRC
6 1 (0.92%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.92%) NCSC
6 1 (0.92%) WCAG
System Software
1 16 (14.68%) Docker
2 4 (3.67%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.75%) BitLocker
3 3 (2.75%) Hyper-V
3 3 (2.75%) Microsoft App-V
3 3 (2.75%) Terminal Services
3 3 (2.75%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (2.75%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 19 (17.43%) Kubernetes
2 9 (8.26%) Terraform
3 3 (2.75%) Ansible
3 3 (2.75%) Nagios
3 3 (2.75%) Puppet
3 3 (2.75%) vCenter Server
3 3 (2.75%) vMotion
4 2 (1.83%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.92%) Grafana
5 1 (0.92%) Istio
5 1 (0.92%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 18 (16.51%) Microsoft
2 11 (10.09%) Google
3 6 (5.50%) Databricks
3 6 (5.50%) OpenAI
4 4 (3.67%) Amplitude
4 4 (3.67%) Foundry
5 3 (2.75%) Citrix
5 3 (2.75%) HP
5 3 (2.75%) MuleSoft
5 3 (2.75%) Salesforce
5 3 (2.75%) Sitecore
5 3 (2.75%) Symantec
5 3 (2.75%) VMware
6 2 (1.83%) IBM
6 2 (1.83%) SAP
7 1 (0.92%) Apple
7 1 (0.92%) Cognos
7 1 (0.92%) Informatica
7 1 (0.92%) Oracle
7 1 (0.92%) Sage