Reinforcement Learning Contract Job Trends in England

Reinforcement Learning
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Reinforcement Learning skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 516 490 558
Rank change year-on-year -26 +68 +183
Contract jobs citing Reinforcement Learning 26 14 5
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.083% 0.048% 0.013%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.094% 0.055% 0.015%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 13 2
10th Percentile £525 £428 £503
25th Percentile £656 £550 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% +14.29% -41.67%
75th Percentile £1,000 £663 £556
90th Percentile £1,150 £675 £568
UK median daily rate £700 £600 £525
% change year-on-year +16.67% +14.29% -41.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 27,756 25,643 33,123
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 88.83% 88.51% 88.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,663 15,859 22,544
10th Percentile £300 £310 £313
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £544
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -3.49% -1.09%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,804 849 1,407
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.62 £14.68
25th Percentile £17.88 £20.75 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.70%
75th Percentile £54.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.25 £74.89 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.33
% change year-on-year -22.62% -24.99% +23.80%

Reinforcement Learning
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Reinforcement Learning job vacancy trend in England

Reinforcement Learning
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Reinforcement Learning.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Reinforcement Learning

Reinforcement Learning
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Reinforcement Learning in England over the 6 months to 18 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Reinforcement Learning in England

Reinforcement Learning
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Reinforcement Learning.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Reinforcement Learning

Reinforcement Learning
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Reinforcement Learning within the England region over the 6 months to 18 December 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 +13 17 £1,000 +66.67% 21
South East -15 6 £688 +25.00% 25
East of England -26 3 £565 -5.83% 14
Reinforcement Learning
UK

Reinforcement Learning
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 14 (53.85%) Apache Spark
2 2 (7.69%) Apache
3 1 (3.85%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 14 (53.85%) AWS
1 14 (53.85%) Azure
2 10 (38.46%) GCP
3 1 (3.85%) Amazon Bedrock
3 1 (3.85%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (3.85%) Amazon S3
3 1 (3.85%) Amazon SageMaker
3 1 (3.85%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (3.85%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 1 (3.85%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (23.08%) Big Data
2 3 (11.54%) Hadoop
2 3 (11.54%) NoSQL
2 3 (11.54%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (3.85%) MLflow
General
1 16 (61.54%) Finance
2 7 (26.92%) Banking
3 6 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (23.08%) Financial Institution
3 6 (23.08%) Front Office
3 6 (23.08%) Investment Banking
4 4 (15.38%) Social Skills
5 3 (11.54%) Telecoms
6 2 (7.69%) Electronics
6 2 (7.69%) Manufacturing
6 2 (7.69%) Marketing
6 2 (7.69%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (34.62%) Machine Learning Engineer
2 4 (15.38%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
2 4 (15.38%) Developer
2 4 (15.38%) Lead
3 3 (11.54%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 3 (11.54%) Data Science Developer
4 2 (7.69%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (34.62%) Dask
2 8 (30.77%) PyTorch
2 8 (30.77%) TensorFlow
3 6 (23.08%) scikit-learn
4 3 (11.54%) Google JAX
4 3 (11.54%) JAX
4 3 (11.54%) LightGBM
4 3 (11.54%) Matplotlib
4 3 (11.54%) Seaborn
4 3 (11.54%) XGBoost
5 2 (7.69%) LangChain
5 2 (7.69%) NumPy
5 2 (7.69%) Pandas
5 2 (7.69%) PySpark
5 2 (7.69%) Ray
6 1 (3.85%) .NET
6 1 (3.85%) boto
Miscellaneous
1 9 (34.62%) Derivative
2 8 (30.77%) Distributed Computing
3 7 (26.92%) Algorithms
4 6 (23.08%) Cloud Native
4 6 (23.08%) Equities
4 6 (23.08%) Fixed Income
4 6 (23.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 6 (23.08%) Hedge funds
5 3 (11.54%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (7.69%) AI Agents
6 2 (7.69%) Autonomous Agent
6 2 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (88.46%) AI
2 18 (69.23%) Machine Learning
3 13 (50.00%) LLM
4 10 (38.46%) Deep Learning
5 9 (34.62%) Computer Science
5 9 (34.62%) Decision-Making
5 9 (34.62%) Open Source
5 9 (34.62%) Risk Management
6 8 (30.77%) Software Engineering
6 8 (30.77%) Time Series Forecasting
7 7 (26.92%) Actionable Insight
7 7 (26.92%) Analytics
7 7 (26.92%) Data Pipeline
7 7 (26.92%) Data Protection
7 7 (26.92%) Data Science
7 7 (26.92%) Regulatory Compliance
8 6 (23.08%) Feature Engineering
8 6 (23.08%) Mathematics
8 6 (23.08%) Natural Language Processing
8 6 (23.08%) Quantitative Finance
Programming Languages
1 17 (65.38%) Python
2 4 (15.38%) SQL
3 3 (11.54%) R
4 2 (7.69%) Scala
5 1 (3.85%) C#
Qualifications
1 10 (38.46%) Degree
1 10 (38.46%) Master's Degree
1 10 (38.46%) PhD
2 3 (11.54%) SC Cleared
2 3 (11.54%) Security Cleared
3 2 (7.69%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (26.92%) GDPR
2 3 (11.54%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (3.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (3.85%) Kubeflow
1 1 (3.85%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (26.92%) Google
2 2 (7.69%) SAP
3 1 (3.85%) OpenAI