LSTM Contract Job Trends in London

Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring LSTM skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 373 359 392
Rank change year-on-year -14 +33 +155
Contract jobs citing LSTM 8 7 4
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.055% 0.048% 0.022%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.061% 0.053% 0.025%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 7 4
10th Percentile £624 £690 -
25th Percentile £713 £725 £725
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £750 £750
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - -
75th Percentile £738 £775 £775
90th Percentile - £790 -
England median daily rate £725 £750 £750
% change year-on-year -3.33% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
London

LSTM 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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,193 13,182 16,214
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.50% 90.18% 89.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,713 8,439 11,605
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -4.66%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £756 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 225 163 243
10th Percentile £18.25 £18.13 £17.15
25th Percentile £24.61 £23.80 £20.00
Median hourly rate £31.50 £35.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +7.69% -13.33%
75th Percentile £53.13 £54.50 £58.38
90th Percentile £69.12 £80.75 £73.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% -22.22% +26.76%

LSTM
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

LSTM job vacancy trend in London

LSTM
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing LSTM

LSTM
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing LSTM in London over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for LSTM in London

LSTM
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 6 (75.00%) Jupyter
2 2 (25.00%) Apache Spark
3 1 (12.50%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 6 (75.00%) Vertex AI
2 2 (25.00%) Amazon Bedrock
2 2 (25.00%) Amazon EMR
2 2 (25.00%) Amazon Kinesis
2 2 (25.00%) AWS
2 2 (25.00%) GCP
3 1 (12.50%) dbt
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 2 (25.00%) Big Data
1 2 (25.00%) Data Lake
1 2 (25.00%) Data Mining
1 2 (25.00%) Hadoop
General
1 5 (62.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Machine Learning Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Data Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Data Scientist
3 1 (12.50%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (100.00%) Matplotlib
1 8 (100.00%) scikit-learn
1 8 (100.00%) XGBoost
2 4 (50.00%) Pandas
3 2 (25.00%) CrewAI
3 2 (25.00%) HTML
3 2 (25.00%) Keras
3 2 (25.00%) LangChain
3 2 (25.00%) LangGraph
3 2 (25.00%) NLTK
3 2 (25.00%) Node.js
3 2 (25.00%) NumPy
3 2 (25.00%) Plotly
3 2 (25.00%) PySpark
3 2 (25.00%) PyTorch
3 2 (25.00%) SciPy
3 2 (25.00%) Seaborn
3 2 (25.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 6 (75.00%) Algorithms
2 5 (62.50%) Data Structures
3 2 (25.00%) AI Agents
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Deep Learning
1 8 (100.00%) Logistic Regression
1 8 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 8 (100.00%) Natural Language Processing
1 8 (100.00%) Random Forest
2 6 (75.00%) Computer Science
2 6 (75.00%) Data Analysis
2 6 (75.00%) Data Science
2 6 (75.00%) Time Series Forecasting
2 6 (75.00%) Transfer Learning
3 5 (62.50%) Data Modelling
3 5 (62.50%) Software Architecture
4 4 (50.00%) AI
5 2 (25.00%) Convolutional Neural Network
5 2 (25.00%) Exploratory Data Analysis
5 2 (25.00%) Linear Regression
5 2 (25.00%) MapReduce
5 2 (25.00%) Multivariate Analysis
5 2 (25.00%) Predictive Modelling
5 2 (25.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) Python
1 4 (50.00%) SQL
2 2 (25.00%) Ada
2 2 (25.00%) C#
2 2 (25.00%) C++
2 2 (25.00%) Java
2 2 (25.00%) R
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) MCP
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Databricks
1 2 (25.00%) OpenAI
2 1 (12.50%) Google