LightGBM Contract Job Trends in London

LightGBM
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring LightGBM skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 381 - 398
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing LightGBM 3 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.021% - 0.005%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.079% - 0.021%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £1,050 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £1,100 - £700
75th Percentile £1,150 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £1,100 - £699

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
London

LightGBM falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,809 3,860 4,730
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.45% 25.73% 25.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,574 2,519 3,570
10th Percentile £361 £380 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £526 £575 £588
Median % change year-on-year -8.48% -2.13% -2.08%
75th Percentile £667 £700 £700
90th Percentile £775 £825 £800
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 19 31
10th Percentile £33.43 £34.65 £29.72
25th Percentile £43.77 £38.38 £35.94
Median hourly rate £55.00 £52.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -19.68%
75th Percentile £63.56 £63.75 £71.00
90th Percentile £71.00 £72.80 £77.50
England median hourly rate £57.75 £62.50 £51.89
% change year-on-year -7.60% +20.45% -20.17%

LightGBM
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

LightGBM job vacancy trend in London

LightGBM
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing LightGBM.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing LightGBM

LightGBM
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing LightGBM within the London region over the 6 months to 24 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
Central London - 3 £1,100 - 2
LightGBM
England

LightGBM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 3 (100.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Big Data
1 3 (100.00%) NoSQL
General
1 3 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Machine Learning Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) Dask
1 3 (100.00%) Google JAX
1 3 (100.00%) JAX
1 3 (100.00%) PyTorch
1 3 (100.00%) scikit-learn
1 3 (100.00%) TensorFlow
1 3 (100.00%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Algorithms
1 3 (100.00%) Analytical Mindset
1 3 (100.00%) Derivative
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Analytics
1 3 (100.00%) Anomaly Detection
1 3 (100.00%) Business Strategy
1 3 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 3 (100.00%) Deep Learning
1 3 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 3 (100.00%) Pattern Recognition
1 3 (100.00%) Reinforcement Learning
1 3 (100.00%) Risk Analytics
1 3 (100.00%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
1 3 (100.00%) SQL