Machine Learning Contracts in the City of London

Machine Learning (ML)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring Machine Learning skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Machine Learning over the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 60 81 116
Rank change year-on-year +21 +35 +20
Contract jobs citing Machine Learning 58 44 53
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 3.23% 2.06% 1.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.44% 2.26% 1.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 27 34
10th Percentile £400 £474 £513
25th Percentile £522 £509 £539
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £600 £696
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% -13.82% +18.51%
75th Percentile £693 £788 £838
90th Percentile £763 £838 £928
Central London median daily rate £565 £614 £696
% change year-on-year -7.94% -11.85% +18.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61.25 £46.75 -
Median hourly rate £62.50 £48.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.87% +38.57% +84.21%
75th Percentile £63.75 £50.25 -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £56.97 £48.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year +17.46% +38.57% +84.21%

All Process and 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 1,687 1,944 3,153
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.88% 91.05% 91.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,080 1,349 2,115
10th Percentile £350 £363 £350
25th Percentile £450 £463 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.62% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £560 £600
% change year-on-year -1.79% -6.67% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 15 24
10th Percentile £17.02 £20.04 £14.25
25th Percentile £24.43 £20.36 £16.33
Median hourly rate £29.75 £27.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.19% -22.86% -18.83%
75th Percentile £50.75 £40.92 £57.50
90th Percentile £66.25 £67.35 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £31.00 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +11.47% -20.54% -18.13%

Machine Learning
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Machine Learning as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Machine Learning in the City of London

Machine Learning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Machine Learning in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Machine Learning in the City of London

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 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Machine Learning in the City of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Machine Learning in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Machine Learning in the City of London

Machine Learning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 10 (17.24%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.72%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.72%) Luigi
2 1 (1.72%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (6.90%) Chatbot
2 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 19 (32.76%) Azure
2 14 (24.14%) AWS
3 11 (18.97%) GCP
4 8 (13.79%) Power Platform
5 5 (8.62%) Azure Machine Learning
6 4 (6.90%) Azure Data Factory
7 3 (5.17%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (3.45%) Amazon SageMaker
8 2 (3.45%) dbt
8 2 (3.45%) GitHub
9 1 (1.72%) Azure AI
9 1 (1.72%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 1 (1.72%) Boomi
9 1 (1.72%) Cloud Composer
9 1 (1.72%) Cloud Functions
9 1 (1.72%) Dagster
9 1 (1.72%) Figma
9 1 (1.72%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (1.72%) IBM Watson
9 1 (1.72%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.72%) LAN
1 1 (1.72%) Network Security
1 1 (1.72%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (13.79%) Hadoop
2 7 (12.07%) Power BI
2 7 (12.07%) Tableau
3 6 (10.34%) Apache Hive
4 5 (8.62%) Big Data
4 5 (8.62%) NoSQL
5 3 (5.17%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (3.45%) BigQuery
6 2 (3.45%) MySQL
7 1 (1.72%) Data Lake
7 1 (1.72%) Data Mining
7 1 (1.72%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.72%) Pentaho
7 1 (1.72%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (1.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (5.17%) Jenkins
1 3 (5.17%) MLflow
2 1 (1.72%) Git
2 1 (1.72%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 31 (53.45%) Finance
2 17 (29.31%) Social Skills
3 14 (24.14%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (20.69%) Banking
5 4 (6.90%) Financial Institution
5 4 (6.90%) Police
5 4 (6.90%) Presentation Skills
5 4 (6.90%) Public Sector
6 3 (5.17%) Investment Banking
7 2 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (3.45%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (3.45%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.72%) Legal
8 1 (1.72%) Marketing
8 1 (1.72%) Retail
Job Titles
1 13 (22.41%) Data Scientist
2 11 (18.97%) Architect
3 9 (15.52%) Senior
4 8 (13.79%) Developer
5 5 (8.62%) Analyst
5 5 (8.62%) Data Engineer
5 5 (8.62%) Senior Data Scientist
5 5 (8.62%) Solutions Architect
6 4 (6.90%) Gen AI Specialist
6 4 (6.90%) Lead
6 4 (6.90%) Python Developer
6 4 (6.90%) Security Architect
7 3 (5.17%) Applications Engineer
7 3 (5.17%) Data Analyst
7 3 (5.17%) Lead Data Scientist
8 2 (3.45%) Angular Developer
8 2 (3.45%) AWS Architect
8 2 (3.45%) Cloud Architect
8 2 (3.45%) Data Business Analyst
8 2 (3.45%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (20.69%) TensorFlow
2 9 (15.52%) Pandas
3 7 (12.07%) PySpark
4 6 (10.34%) scikit-learn
5 3 (5.17%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (5.17%) FIX Protocol
5 3 (5.17%) NumPy
6 2 (3.45%) .NET
6 2 (3.45%) AngularJS
6 2 (3.45%) Django
6 2 (3.45%) Flask
6 2 (3.45%) PyTorch
6 2 (3.45%) Spring
6 2 (3.45%) Spring Boot
7 1 (1.72%) FastAPI
7 1 (1.72%) ONNX
7 1 (1.72%) OpenTelemetry
7 1 (1.72%) React
7 1 (1.72%) RxJS
7 1 (1.72%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 13 (22.41%) Algorithms
2 7 (12.07%) Credit Risk
3 6 (10.34%) Cloud Native
4 4 (6.90%) Distributed Computing
5 3 (5.17%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (5.17%) Fixed Income
5 3 (5.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (3.45%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (3.45%) Product Ownership
6 2 (3.45%) Reinsurance
7 1 (1.72%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.72%) Educational Technology
7 1 (1.72%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.72%) Market Risk
7 1 (1.72%) Multi-touch
7 1 (1.72%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.72%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.72%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.90%) Linux
2 1 (1.72%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.72%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (56.90%) Artificial Intelligence
2 27 (46.55%) Data Science
3 13 (22.41%) Analytics
3 13 (22.41%) Computer Science
3 13 (22.41%) Mathematics
4 12 (20.69%) LLM
5 11 (18.97%) Data Pipeline
5 11 (18.97%) Risk Management
5 11 (18.97%) Statistics
5 11 (18.97%) Visualisation
6 10 (17.24%) Agile
6 10 (17.24%) Data Visualisation
6 10 (17.24%) Decision-Making
7 9 (15.52%) Problem-Solving
8 8 (13.79%) Business Intelligence
8 8 (13.79%) DevOps
9 7 (12.07%) Actionable Insight
9 7 (12.07%) Credit Risk Management
9 7 (12.07%) Natural Language Processing
9 7 (12.07%) Predictive Modelling
Programming Languages
1 36 (62.07%) Python
2 26 (44.83%) SQL
3 6 (10.34%) R
4 4 (6.90%) Java
5 3 (5.17%) PowerShell
6 2 (3.45%) C#
6 2 (3.45%) JavaScript
6 2 (3.45%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.72%) Bicep
7 1 (1.72%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 17 (29.31%) Degree
2 10 (17.24%) Master's Degree
3 8 (13.79%) PhD
4 7 (12.07%) Security Cleared
5 3 (5.17%) CISM
5 3 (5.17%) CISSP
5 3 (5.17%) SC Cleared
6 2 (3.45%) AWS Certification
6 2 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.72%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.34%) NIST
2 4 (6.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (5.17%) QA
4 2 (3.45%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 2 (3.45%) Data Quality
4 2 (3.45%) GDPR
5 1 (1.72%) EU AI Act
5 1 (1.72%) HIPAA
5 1 (1.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 7 (12.07%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (8.62%) Kubernetes
2 3 (5.17%) ITRS Geneos
2 3 (5.17%) Kibana
2 3 (5.17%) logstash
3 1 (1.72%) Kubeflow
3 1 (1.72%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (12.07%) Databricks
2 3 (5.17%) Google
2 3 (5.17%) Solace
3 2 (3.45%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.72%) Alteryx
4 1 (1.72%) Dataiku
4 1 (1.72%) Genesys
4 1 (1.72%) IBM
4 1 (1.72%) MuleSoft
4 1 (1.72%) Oracle
4 1 (1.72%) UiPath