Reinforcement Learning Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Reinforcement Learning
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Reinforcement Learning skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 122 120 -
Rank change year-on-year -2 - -
Contract jobs citing Reinforcement Learning 1 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.058% 0.047% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.062% 0.051% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £1,050 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £1,100 £600 -
Median % change year-on-year +83.33% - -
75th Percentile £1,150 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median daily rate £1,100 £600 -
% change year-on-year +83.33% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

Reinforcement 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 1,625 1,948 2,567
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 94.42% 91.93% 89.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,114 1,208 1,779
10th Percentile £328 £363 £371
25th Percentile £424 £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 £770 £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 18 17 16
10th Percentile £16.90 £16.70 £14.25
25th Percentile £20.63 £23.13 £16.31
Median hourly rate £27.04 £42.50 £31.25
Median % change year-on-year -36.39% +36.00% -27.73%
75th Percentile £35.88 £112.00 £48.19
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £60.88
Central London median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -21.43% +27.27% -36.05%

Reinforcement Learning
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Reinforcement Learning relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Reinforcement Learning job vacancy trend in the City of London

Reinforcement Learning
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Reinforcement Learning.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Reinforcement Learning

Reinforcement 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 1 (100.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Big Data
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Dask
1 1 (100.00%) Google JAX
1 1 (100.00%) JAX
1 1 (100.00%) LightGBM
1 1 (100.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (100.00%) scikit-learn
1 1 (100.00%) TensorFlow
1 1 (100.00%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (100.00%) Derivative
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Anomaly Detection
1 1 (100.00%) Business Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) Deep Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Pattern Recognition
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL