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

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 59 81
Rank change year-on-year +8 +22 +45
Contract jobs citing Machine Learning 100 62 46
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 4.54% 3.56% 2.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.03% 3.78% 2.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 45 33
10th Percentile £425 £513 £463
25th Percentile £463 £528 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £645 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +7.50% -17.24%
75th Percentile £700 £688 £738
90th Percentile £753 £758 £825
Central London median daily rate £568 £625 £606
% change year-on-year -9.20% +3.09% -16.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £62.50 -
Central London median hourly rate - £56.97 -

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 1,987 1,642 1,946
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.11% 94.37% 91.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,373 1,103 1,211
10th Percentile £368 £325 £363
25th Percentile £455 £420 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £763 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -3.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 20 19
10th Percentile £16.98 £17.02 £15.60
25th Percentile £17.60 £21.54 £21.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £27.83 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year -24.53% -27.73% +40.00%
75th Percentile £36.13 £47.00 £102.25
90th Percentile £59.70 £66.25 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £25.00 £28.33 £35.00
% change year-on-year -11.74% -19.07% +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 3 October 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 (3.00%) Apache Spark
1 3 (3.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.00%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.00%) Jupyter
3 1 (1.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (3.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 37 (37.00%) Azure
2 30 (30.00%) AWS
3 14 (14.00%) GCP
4 9 (9.00%) Power Platform
5 8 (8.00%) Amazon SageMaker
6 6 (6.00%) Amazon Bedrock
6 6 (6.00%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (6.00%) Serverless
7 5 (5.00%) Amazon S3
7 5 (5.00%) Azure AI
7 5 (5.00%) Azure Data Factory
7 5 (5.00%) Azure Machine Learning
8 4 (4.00%) GitHub
8 4 (4.00%) Snowflake
9 3 (3.00%) Amazon EMR
9 3 (3.00%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (3.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 3 (3.00%) Bloomreach
9 3 (3.00%) IaaS
9 3 (3.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.00%) DHCP
1 3 (3.00%) DNS
1 3 (3.00%) Firewall
1 3 (3.00%) SMS
1 3 (3.00%) SMTP
1 3 (3.00%) VPN
2 1 (1.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (9.00%) Metadata
2 8 (8.00%) Power BI
3 7 (7.00%) Data Lake
4 6 (6.00%) Data Mining
5 5 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (5.00%) NoSQL
6 4 (4.00%) Amazon Redshift
6 4 (4.00%) Big Data
6 4 (4.00%) MongoDB
7 3 (3.00%) Amazon Athena
7 3 (3.00%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (3.00%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (3.00%) Pinecone
8 2 (2.00%) Delta Lake
8 2 (2.00%) Electronic Patient Records
8 2 (2.00%) Milvus
8 2 (2.00%) Relational Database
8 2 (2.00%) Tableau
8 2 (2.00%) Weaviate
9 1 (1.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 8 (8.00%) Git
2 1 (1.00%) Claude Code
2 1 (1.00%) Cypress.io
2 1 (1.00%) ER Studio
2 1 (1.00%) JIRA
2 1 (1.00%) MLflow
2 1 (1.00%) Vite
General
1 31 (31.00%) Finance
2 20 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 10 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (10.00%) Public Sector
4 9 (9.00%) Banking
5 6 (6.00%) Retail
6 4 (4.00%) Legal
6 4 (4.00%) Marketing
6 4 (4.00%) Pharmaceutical
7 3 (3.00%) Corporate Banking
7 3 (3.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (3.00%) Investment Banking
7 3 (3.00%) Manufacturing
7 3 (3.00%) Retail Banking
8 2 (2.00%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.00%) Aviation
9 1 (1.00%) Front Office
9 1 (1.00%) Games
9 1 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.00%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 26 (26.00%) Architect
2 11 (11.00%) Senior
3 9 (9.00%) Data Architect
3 9 (9.00%) Data Scientist
4 8 (8.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
4 8 (8.00%) Lead
5 7 (7.00%) Analyst
5 7 (7.00%) Solutions Architect
6 6 (6.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 6 (6.00%) Data Analyst
7 5 (5.00%) Data Engineer
7 5 (5.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 5 (5.00%) Platform Architect
7 5 (5.00%) Platform Engineer
8 4 (4.00%) Enterprise Architect
9 3 (3.00%) 3rd Line Support
9 3 (3.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 3 (3.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
9 3 (3.00%) Product Manager
9 3 (3.00%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (13.00%) Terraform
2 8 (8.00%) React
3 6 (6.00%) PyTorch
4 5 (5.00%) Kafka
4 5 (5.00%) TensorFlow
5 4 (4.00%) LangChain
5 4 (4.00%) PySpark
5 4 (4.00%) scikit-learn
6 3 (3.00%) FastAPI
6 3 (3.00%) LlamaIndex
6 3 (3.00%) OAuth
6 3 (3.00%) Web Services
7 2 (2.00%) CrewAI
7 2 (2.00%) JSON
7 2 (2.00%) LangGraph
7 2 (2.00%) Qwen
7 2 (2.00%) REST
7 2 (2.00%) RESTful
8 1 (1.00%) JAX
8 1 (1.00%) vLLM
Miscellaneous
1 22 (22.00%) Cloud Native
2 10 (10.00%) AI Agents
3 8 (8.00%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (8.00%) Product Ownership
4 4 (4.00%) Life Science
5 3 (3.00%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (3.00%) Clustering
5 3 (3.00%) Data Centre
5 3 (3.00%) Distributed Computing
5 3 (3.00%) Marketing Technology
5 3 (3.00%) Onboarding
5 3 (3.00%) PKI
6 2 (2.00%) Algorithms
6 2 (2.00%) Genomics
6 2 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.00%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.00%) Fixed Income
7 1 (1.00%) Low-Code
7 1 (1.00%) Replication
7 1 (1.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.00%) Linux
2 3 (3.00%) Windows
2 3 (3.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.00%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (88.00%) AI
2 33 (33.00%) LLM
3 32 (32.00%) Analytics
4 31 (31.00%) Generative AI
5 29 (29.00%) CI/CD
5 29 (29.00%) Data Science
6 26 (26.00%) MLOps
7 21 (21.00%) Agile
7 21 (21.00%) Decision-Making
7 21 (21.00%) DevOps
7 21 (21.00%) Software Engineering
8 19 (19.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
9 18 (18.00%) Roadmaps
10 16 (16.00%) Data Engineering
10 16 (16.00%) Infrastructure as Code
11 15 (15.00%) Data Governance
12 14 (14.00%) Problem-Solving
12 14 (14.00%) Stakeholder Management
13 13 (13.00%) Observability
13 13 (13.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 41 (41.00%) Python
2 25 (25.00%) SQL
3 8 (8.00%) Java
4 6 (6.00%) PowerShell
5 5 (5.00%) JavaScript
5 5 (5.00%) TypeScript
6 4 (4.00%) Bicep
6 4 (4.00%) R
7 2 (2.00%) Scala
8 1 (1.00%) C#
8 1 (1.00%) Cypher
8 1 (1.00%) Go
8 1 (1.00%) Google Apps Script
8 1 (1.00%) Gremlin
8 1 (1.00%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 13 (13.00%) Security Cleared
2 9 (9.00%) Degree
2 9 (9.00%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.00%) DV Cleared
4 3 (3.00%) DBS Check
5 2 (2.00%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.00%) CSPO
6 1 (1.00%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 1 (1.00%) CISM
6 1 (1.00%) CISSP
6 1 (1.00%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 1 (1.00%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (1.00%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.00%) PMP
6 1 (1.00%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (15.00%) Data Quality
2 6 (6.00%) QA
3 4 (4.00%) GDPR
4 2 (2.00%) 21 CFR Part 11
4 2 (2.00%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.00%) GxP
4 2 (2.00%) NIST
4 2 (2.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (1.00%) EU AI Act
5 1 (1.00%) HIPAA
5 1 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 14 (14.00%) Docker
2 4 (4.00%) Active Directory
3 3 (3.00%) BitLocker
3 3 (3.00%) Hyper-V
3 3 (3.00%) Microsoft App-V
3 3 (3.00%) Terminal Services
3 3 (3.00%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (3.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 15 (15.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.00%) Ansible
2 3 (3.00%) Nagios
2 3 (3.00%) Prometheus
2 3 (3.00%) Puppet
2 3 (3.00%) vCenter Server
2 3 (3.00%) vMotion
3 2 (2.00%) Grafana
4 1 (1.00%) Istio
4 1 (1.00%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 20 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 11 (11.00%) Databricks
3 8 (8.00%) Google
4 5 (5.00%) OpenAI
5 4 (4.00%) Foundry
6 3 (3.00%) Citrix
6 3 (3.00%) HP
6 3 (3.00%) Symantec
6 3 (3.00%) VMware
7 2 (2.00%) SAP
8 1 (1.00%) Alteryx
8 1 (1.00%) Amplitude
8 1 (1.00%) Dynatrace
8 1 (1.00%) Informatica
8 1 (1.00%) Oracle
8 1 (1.00%) Salesforce
8 1 (1.00%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.00%) Sitecore
8 1 (1.00%) Splunk
8 1 (1.00%) Workday