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 18 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 78 120
Rank change year-on-year +26 +42 +17
Contract jobs citing Machine Learning 71 46 29
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 4.16% 2.17% 1.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.40% 2.37% 1.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 32 21
10th Percentile £513 £463 £331
25th Percentile £525 £509 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £645 £596 £725
Median % change year-on-year +8.18% -17.76% +22.11%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £875
90th Percentile £833 £823 £950
Central London median daily rate £625 £596 £713
% change year-on-year +4.82% -16.32% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61.25 - -
Median hourly rate £62.50 - -
75th Percentile £63.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £56.97 - -

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 1,614 1,943 2,593
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 94.55% 91.87% 89.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,105 1,201 1,796
10th Percentile £325 £363 £370
25th Percentile £420 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £774 £788 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £588
% change year-on-year -4.35% -2.13% +2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 17 17
10th Percentile £16.85 £16.70 £14.25
25th Percentile £20.18 £23.13 £17.00
Median hourly rate £26.57 £42.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.48% +54.55% -36.22%
75th Percentile £36.00 £112.00 £46.75
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £59.30
Central London median hourly rate £27.04 £35.00 £26.75
% change year-on-year -22.76% +30.84% -37.43%

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 18 October 2025.

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
Contract Job Locations in the City of London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Machine Learning within the City of London region over the 6 months to 18 October 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London Bridge - 1 £800 -
Machine Learning
Central 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 7 (9.86%) Apache Spark
2 5 (7.04%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.41%) Confluence
3 1 (1.41%) Jupyter
3 1 (1.41%) Luigi
3 1 (1.41%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (2.82%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 29 (40.85%) Azure
2 23 (32.39%) AWS
3 19 (26.76%) GCP
4 9 (12.68%) Power Platform
5 8 (11.27%) Azure Machine Learning
6 5 (7.04%) GitHub
7 4 (5.63%) Amazon SageMaker
7 4 (5.63%) Azure Data Factory
7 4 (5.63%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (5.63%) dbt
7 4 (5.63%) Snowflake
8 3 (4.23%) Azure AI
8 3 (4.23%) Cloud Run
8 3 (4.23%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 3 (4.23%) SaaS
9 2 (2.82%) Anthropic Claude
9 2 (2.82%) Azure Key Vault
9 2 (2.82%) Entra ID
9 2 (2.82%) Google Gemini
9 2 (2.82%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.82%) DNS
2 1 (1.41%) Firewall
2 1 (1.41%) LAN
2 1 (1.41%) Network Security
2 1 (1.41%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (9.86%) Power BI
2 6 (8.45%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (7.04%) Big Data
3 5 (7.04%) NoSQL
4 4 (5.63%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (4.23%) BigQuery
5 3 (4.23%) Hadoop
5 3 (4.23%) Pinecone
5 3 (4.23%) Tableau
6 2 (2.82%) Apache Hive
6 2 (2.82%) Data Vault
6 2 (2.82%) Geospatial Data
6 2 (2.82%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (2.82%) Spatial Data
7 1 (1.41%) Data Lake
7 1 (1.41%) Data Mining
7 1 (1.41%) DynamoDB
7 1 (1.41%) Pentaho
7 1 (1.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (1.41%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 8 (11.27%) Jenkins
2 7 (9.86%) Git
3 4 (5.63%) MLflow
4 1 (1.41%) Cypress.io
4 1 (1.41%) JIRA
4 1 (1.41%) SonarQube
General
1 34 (47.89%) Finance
2 23 (32.39%) Social Skills
3 13 (18.31%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (16.90%) Banking
5 6 (8.45%) Legal
5 6 (8.45%) Retail
6 5 (7.04%) Investment Banking
6 5 (7.04%) Public Sector
7 4 (5.63%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (4.23%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (4.23%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (2.82%) Financial Institution
9 2 (2.82%) Law
9 2 (2.82%) Police
9 2 (2.82%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.41%) Front Office
10 1 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.41%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 14 (19.72%) Architect
2 11 (15.49%) Data Scientist
3 9 (12.68%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 9 (12.68%) Senior
4 7 (9.86%) Data Engineer
4 7 (9.86%) Lead
5 6 (8.45%) Developer
6 5 (7.04%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
6 5 (7.04%) Data Architect
7 4 (5.63%) Applications Engineer
7 4 (5.63%) Machine Learning Engineer
7 4 (5.63%) Solutions Architect
8 3 (4.23%) .NET Developer
8 3 (4.23%) Angular Developer
8 3 (4.23%) GCP Engineer
8 3 (4.23%) Security Architect
8 3 (4.23%) Security Engineer
8 3 (4.23%) Senior Data Scientist
8 3 (4.23%) Technical Architect
9 2 (2.82%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (14.08%) TensorFlow
2 9 (12.68%) Pandas
3 8 (11.27%) scikit-learn
4 6 (8.45%) Elastic Stack
4 6 (8.45%) FIX Protocol
4 6 (8.45%) PyTorch
5 5 (7.04%) LangGraph
5 5 (7.04%) NumPy
6 4 (5.63%) Kafka
6 4 (5.63%) LangChain
6 4 (5.63%) PySpark
7 3 (4.23%) .NET
7 3 (4.23%) AngularJS
7 3 (4.23%) Faiss
7 3 (4.23%) FastAPI
7 3 (4.23%) Hugging Face
8 2 (2.82%) Flask
8 2 (2.82%) Middleware
8 2 (2.82%) Spring
8 2 (2.82%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 15 (21.13%) Cloud Native
2 12 (16.90%) Algorithms
3 6 (8.45%) Onboarding
3 6 (8.45%) Product Ownership
4 5 (7.04%) AI Agents
4 5 (7.04%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (7.04%) Fixed Income
4 5 (7.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (4.23%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (4.23%) Taxonomies
6 2 (2.82%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (2.82%) Credit Risk
6 2 (2.82%) Derivative
6 2 (2.82%) Distributed Computing
6 2 (2.82%) Replication
6 2 (2.82%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.41%) Credit Derivative
7 1 (1.41%) Genomics
7 1 (1.41%) Life Science
7 1 (1.41%) Multi-touch
Operating Systems
1 7 (9.86%) Linux
2 1 (1.41%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (64.79%) AI
2 31 (43.66%) Data Science
3 20 (28.17%) LLM
4 18 (25.35%) Analytics
4 18 (25.35%) Generative AI
5 17 (23.94%) DevOps
6 15 (21.13%) Data Pipeline
7 13 (18.31%) CI/CD
8 12 (16.90%) Agile
8 12 (16.90%) Computer Science
8 12 (16.90%) Natural Language Processing
8 12 (16.90%) Visualisation
9 10 (14.08%) Mathematics
9 10 (14.08%) Roadmaps
10 9 (12.68%) Data Engineering
10 9 (12.68%) Event-Driven
10 9 (12.68%) MLOps
10 9 (12.68%) Problem-Solving
10 9 (12.68%) Statistics
11 8 (11.27%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 46 (64.79%) Python
2 23 (32.39%) SQL
3 6 (8.45%) PowerShell
4 4 (5.63%) C#
4 4 (5.63%) JavaScript
4 4 (5.63%) R
5 3 (4.23%) Java
6 2 (2.82%) Go
6 2 (2.82%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.41%) Bicep
7 1 (1.41%) C++
7 1 (1.41%) MATLAB
7 1 (1.41%) Rust
Qualifications
1 14 (19.72%) Degree
2 8 (11.27%) Master's Degree
3 7 (9.86%) Security Cleared
4 5 (7.04%) PhD
5 4 (5.63%) SC Cleared
6 3 (4.23%) CISSP
7 2 (2.82%) AWS Certification
8 1 (1.41%) Azure Certification
8 1 (1.41%) CISM
8 1 (1.41%) MBA
8 1 (1.41%) MCP
8 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.04%) NIST
2 4 (5.63%) EU AI Act
2 4 (5.63%) GDPR
3 3 (4.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.82%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.41%) EMIR
5 1 (1.41%) HIPAA
5 1 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 42001
5 1 (1.41%) MiFID
5 1 (1.41%) QA
5 1 (1.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (1.41%) SOC 2
System Software
1 11 (15.49%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (14.08%) Kubernetes
2 6 (8.45%) ITRS Geneos
2 6 (8.45%) Kibana
2 6 (8.45%) logstash
2 6 (8.45%) Terraform
3 2 (2.82%) Argo
3 2 (2.82%) Progress Chef
4 1 (1.41%) Grafana
4 1 (1.41%) Kubeflow
4 1 (1.41%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.41%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 10 (14.08%) Databricks
2 7 (9.86%) Google
2 7 (9.86%) Microsoft
3 6 (8.45%) Solace
4 3 (4.23%) OpenAI
5 2 (2.82%) MicroStrategy
5 2 (2.82%) UiPath
6 1 (1.41%) Blue Prism
6 1 (1.41%) Genesys
6 1 (1.41%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.41%) SAP
6 1 (1.41%) TIBCO
6 1 (1.41%) Workday