Reinforcement Learning Contracts in England

Reinforcement Learning
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Reinforcement Learning skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Reinforcement Learning over the 6 months leading up to 9 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 457 539 630
Rank change year-on-year +82 +91 +133
Contract jobs citing Reinforcement Learning 21 4 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.086% 0.011% 0.017%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.094% 0.013% 0.019%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 3 5
10th Percentile £525 £652 £613
25th Percentile £625 £730 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £869 £675
Median % change year-on-year -25.20% +28.74% +17.39%
75th Percentile £675 £939 £763
90th Percentile £805 £976 -
UK median daily rate £650 £869 £675
% change year-on-year -25.20% +28.74% +12.50%

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 22,250 31,786 42,433
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.26% 85.49% 89.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,376 20,644 29,761
10th Percentile £303 £300 £325
25th Percentile £408 £413 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +0.46%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,004 2,351 1,531
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.81 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.87 £16.00 £15.57
Median hourly rate £28.17 £37.50 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.89% +4.17% +41.18%
75th Percentile £58.75 £61.30 £64.63
90th Percentile £73.75 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £27.45 £36.50 £35.65
% change year-on-year -24.79% +2.38% +38.82%

Reinforcement Learning
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Reinforcement Learning as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Reinforcement Learning in England

Reinforcement Learning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Reinforcement Learning in England.

Daily rate trend for Reinforcement Learning in England

Reinforcement Learning
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Reinforcement Learning in England over the 6 months to 9 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Reinforcement Learning in England

Reinforcement Learning
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Reinforcement Learning in England.

Hourly rate trend for Reinforcement Learning in England

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 9 June 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
East of England - 12 £650 - 9
London +61 7 £638 -26.64% 90
North West - 1 £550 - 4
South West - 1 £875 - 2
North of England - 1 £550 - 4
Reinforcement Learning
UK

Reinforcement Learning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 14 (66.67%) Apache Spark
2 2 (9.52%) Apache
3 1 (4.76%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (9.52%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 16 (76.19%) Azure
2 14 (66.67%) AWS
3 3 (14.29%) GCP
4 2 (9.52%) Figma
5 1 (4.76%) Amazon SageMaker
5 1 (4.76%) Azure Machine Learning
5 1 (4.76%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.76%) NAS
1 1 (4.76%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (66.67%) Hadoop
2 13 (61.90%) Big Data
3 12 (57.14%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Git
1 1 (4.76%) MLflow
General
1 12 (57.14%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (28.57%) Finance
3 3 (14.29%) Telecoms
4 2 (9.52%) Legal
5 1 (4.76%) Banking
5 1 (4.76%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 12 (57.14%) Developer
2 10 (47.62%) Data Science Developer
3 8 (38.10%) Senior
4 7 (33.33%) Senior Developer
5 5 (23.81%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
6 3 (14.29%) Data Scientist
7 2 (9.52%) Designer
7 2 (9.52%) Gen AI Developer
7 2 (9.52%) Machine Learning Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (71.43%) PyTorch
1 15 (71.43%) TensorFlow
2 14 (66.67%) scikit-learn
3 12 (57.14%) Matplotlib
3 12 (57.14%) NumPy
3 12 (57.14%) Pandas
3 12 (57.14%) Seaborn
4 1 (4.76%) OpenCV
Miscellaneous
1 12 (57.14%) Algorithms
2 2 (9.52%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (9.52%) Life Science
3 1 (4.76%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 20 (95.24%) Artificial Intelligence
3 17 (80.95%) Data Science
4 16 (76.19%) LLM
5 13 (61.90%) Data Analysis
5 13 (61.90%) Feature Engineering
6 12 (57.14%) Data Munging
6 12 (57.14%) Decision-Making
6 12 (57.14%) Generative AI
6 12 (57.14%) Visualisation
7 11 (52.38%) Computer Science
8 10 (47.62%) Analytics
8 10 (47.62%) Data Analytics
8 10 (47.62%) Predictive Analytics
8 10 (47.62%) Statistical Modelling
8 10 (47.62%) Time Series Forecasting
9 4 (19.05%) Deep Learning
9 4 (19.05%) Natural Language Processing
10 3 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
10 3 (14.29%) MLOps
Programming Languages
1 18 (85.71%) Python
2 12 (57.14%) R
3 1 (4.76%) C
3 1 (4.76%) C++
3 1 (4.76%) Java
3 1 (4.76%) SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (61.90%) Degree
1 13 (61.90%) Master's Degree
2 12 (57.14%) PhD
3 1 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.76%) DV Cleared
3 1 (4.76%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.76%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (57.14%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (9.52%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (19.05%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.76%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 2 (9.52%) Genesys
1 2 (9.52%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.76%) Databricks
2 1 (4.76%) OpenAI