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

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 59 73
Rank change year-on-year +13 +14 +45
Contract jobs citing Machine Learning 102 63 53
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 4.48% 3.55% 2.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.07% 3.77% 2.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 44 35
10th Percentile £425 £513 £463
25th Percentile £463 £527 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £648 £613
Median % change year-on-year -7.34% +5.71% -10.91%
75th Percentile £688 £721 £753
90th Percentile £770 £763 £838
Central London median daily rate £571 £645 £619
% change year-on-year -11.43% +4.24% -8.33%
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 2,011 1,670 1,885
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 88.28% 94.03% 91.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,387 1,101 1,227
10th Percentile £375 £325 £380
25th Percentile £456 £424 £475
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 £775 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 22 16
10th Percentile - £17.35 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.60 £23.98 £19.79
Median hourly rate £21.00 £28.33 £26.63
Median % change year-on-year -25.86% +6.38% -3.18%
75th Percentile £32.05 £53.50 £82.19
90th Percentile £50.59 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £25.07 £29.07 £27.00
% change year-on-year -13.78% +7.67% -1.82%

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 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 (2.94%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (2.94%) Apache Spark
1 3 (2.94%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.96%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.98%) Apache
Applications
1 3 (2.94%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 35 (34.31%) Azure
2 31 (30.39%) AWS
3 18 (17.65%) GCP
4 9 (8.82%) Amazon SageMaker
4 9 (8.82%) Power Platform
5 7 (6.86%) Serverless
6 6 (5.88%) Amazon Bedrock
6 6 (5.88%) Amazon S3
6 6 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (5.88%) Azure Data Factory
7 5 (4.90%) Azure AI
7 5 (4.90%) Azure Machine Learning
7 5 (4.90%) GitHub
7 5 (4.90%) Snowflake
8 4 (3.92%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 4 (3.92%) Vertex AI
9 3 (2.94%) Amazon EMR
9 3 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (2.94%) IaaS
9 3 (2.94%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.94%) DHCP
1 3 (2.94%) DNS
1 3 (2.94%) Firewall
1 3 (2.94%) SMS
1 3 (2.94%) SMTP
1 3 (2.94%) VPN
2 1 (0.98%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (8.82%) Metadata
2 8 (7.84%) Power BI
3 7 (6.86%) Data Lake
3 7 (6.86%) Data Mining
4 5 (4.90%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (4.90%) NoSQL
4 5 (4.90%) Relational Database
5 4 (3.92%) Amazon Redshift
5 4 (3.92%) Big Data
5 4 (3.92%) MongoDB
6 3 (2.94%) Amazon Athena
6 3 (2.94%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (2.94%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (2.94%) Pinecone
7 2 (1.96%) Delta Lake
7 2 (1.96%) Electronic Patient Records
7 2 (1.96%) Milvus
7 2 (1.96%) Tableau
7 2 (1.96%) Weaviate
8 1 (0.98%) Redis
Development Applications
1 8 (7.84%) Git
2 1 (0.98%) Claude Code
2 1 (0.98%) Cypress.io
2 1 (0.98%) ER Studio
2 1 (0.98%) JIRA
2 1 (0.98%) MLflow
2 1 (0.98%) Vite
General
1 29 (28.43%) Finance
2 22 (21.57%) Social Skills
3 11 (10.78%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (10.78%) Public Sector
4 8 (7.84%) Banking
5 6 (5.88%) Retail
6 5 (4.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (4.90%) Marketing
7 4 (3.92%) Legal
7 4 (3.92%) Pharmaceutical
8 3 (2.94%) Corporate Banking
8 3 (2.94%) Investment Banking
8 3 (2.94%) Manufacturing
8 3 (2.94%) Retail Banking
9 2 (1.96%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.98%) Front Office
10 1 (0.98%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.98%) Law
10 1 (0.98%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.98%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 21 (20.59%) Architect
2 9 (8.82%) Data Scientist
3 8 (7.84%) Data Architect
3 8 (7.84%) Senior
4 7 (6.86%) Analyst
4 7 (6.86%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 7 (6.86%) Lead
5 6 (5.88%) Data Analyst
5 6 (5.88%) Data Engineer
5 6 (5.88%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 5 (4.90%) Platform Architect
6 5 (4.90%) Software Engineer
7 4 (3.92%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
7 4 (3.92%) Platform Engineer
7 4 (3.92%) Solutions Architect
8 3 (2.94%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 3 (2.94%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (2.94%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
8 3 (2.94%) Infrastructure Support
8 3 (2.94%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (13.73%) Terraform
2 9 (8.82%) React
3 7 (6.86%) PyTorch
4 6 (5.88%) PySpark
5 5 (4.90%) Kafka
5 5 (4.90%) TensorFlow
6 4 (3.92%) scikit-learn
7 3 (2.94%) FastAPI
7 3 (2.94%) LangChain
7 3 (2.94%) OAuth
8 2 (1.96%) CrewAI
8 2 (1.96%) JSON
8 2 (1.96%) LangGraph
8 2 (1.96%) LlamaIndex
8 2 (1.96%) Qwen
8 2 (1.96%) REST
8 2 (1.96%) RESTful
9 1 (0.98%) Jakarta EE
9 1 (0.98%) LDAP
9 1 (0.98%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 25 (24.51%) Cloud Native
2 9 (8.82%) AI Agents
3 8 (7.84%) Product Ownership
4 6 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (3.92%) Life Science
5 4 (3.92%) Marketing Technology
6 3 (2.94%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (2.94%) Clustering
6 3 (2.94%) Data Centre
6 3 (2.94%) Distributed Computing
6 3 (2.94%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.94%) PKI
7 2 (1.96%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.96%) Genomics
7 2 (1.96%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.98%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.98%) Fixed Income
8 1 (0.98%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.98%) Replication
8 1 (0.98%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.92%) Linux
2 3 (2.94%) Windows
2 3 (2.94%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.98%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (88.24%) AI
2 39 (38.24%) Analytics
3 35 (34.31%) Generative AI
4 33 (32.35%) CI/CD
4 33 (32.35%) Data Science
5 30 (29.41%) LLM
6 25 (24.51%) Agile
7 24 (23.53%) DevOps
8 22 (21.57%) Decision-Making
9 20 (19.61%) Data Engineering
9 20 (19.61%) MLOps
9 20 (19.61%) Software Engineering
10 18 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
11 17 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
12 16 (15.69%) Data Governance
12 16 (15.69%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
13 14 (13.73%) Roadmaps
13 14 (13.73%) Stakeholder Management
14 13 (12.75%) Containerisation
15 12 (11.76%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 47 (46.08%) Python
2 30 (29.41%) SQL
3 10 (9.80%) Java
4 6 (5.88%) PowerShell
5 5 (4.90%) Bicep
5 5 (4.90%) JavaScript
5 5 (4.90%) TypeScript
6 4 (3.92%) R
7 2 (1.96%) C#
7 2 (1.96%) Scala
8 1 (0.98%) Cypher
8 1 (0.98%) Go
8 1 (0.98%) Google Apps Script
8 1 (0.98%) Gremlin
8 1 (0.98%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 13 (12.75%) Security Cleared
2 10 (9.80%) Degree
3 9 (8.82%) SC Cleared
4 4 (3.92%) DV Cleared
5 3 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.94%) DBS Check
6 2 (1.96%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.96%) CSPO
6 2 (1.96%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.98%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.98%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (0.98%) CISM
7 1 (0.98%) CISSP
7 1 (0.98%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (0.98%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (0.98%) PhD
7 1 (0.98%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (15.69%) Data Quality
2 6 (5.88%) QA
3 4 (3.92%) GDPR
4 3 (2.94%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.94%) NIST
5 2 (1.96%) 21 CFR Part 11
5 2 (1.96%) GxP
5 2 (1.96%) ISO/IEC 42001
5 2 (1.96%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.98%) EU AI Act
6 1 (0.98%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.98%) WCAG
System Software
1 17 (16.67%) Docker
2 4 (3.92%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.94%) BitLocker
3 3 (2.94%) Hyper-V
3 3 (2.94%) Microsoft App-V
3 3 (2.94%) Terminal Services
3 3 (2.94%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (2.94%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 17 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.94%) Ansible
2 3 (2.94%) Nagios
2 3 (2.94%) Prometheus
2 3 (2.94%) Puppet
2 3 (2.94%) vCenter Server
2 3 (2.94%) vMotion
3 2 (1.96%) Grafana
4 1 (0.98%) Istio
4 1 (0.98%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 16 (15.69%) Microsoft
2 12 (11.76%) Google
3 10 (9.80%) Databricks
4 5 (4.90%) OpenAI
5 3 (2.94%) Citrix
5 3 (2.94%) Foundry
5 3 (2.94%) HP
5 3 (2.94%) Symantec
5 3 (2.94%) VMware
6 2 (1.96%) SAP
7 1 (0.98%) Alteryx
7 1 (0.98%) Amplitude
7 1 (0.98%) Apple
7 1 (0.98%) Informatica
7 1 (0.98%) Oracle
7 1 (0.98%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.98%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.98%) Sitecore
7 1 (0.98%) Splunk
7 1 (0.98%) Workday