Machine Learning Engineer Contracts in London

Machine Learning Engineer
England > London

The median Machine Learning Engineer daily rate in London is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

 6 months to
1 May 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 311 354 469
Rank change year-on-year +43 +115 +70
Contract jobs requiring a Machine Learning Engineer 42 37 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.33% 0.21% 0.089%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.36% 0.22% 0.093%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 32 17
10th Percentile £362 £450 £544
25th Percentile £503 £488 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £538 £575
Median % change year-on-year +6.98% -6.52% -4.17%
75th Percentile £794 £638 £650
90th Percentile £845 £843 £665
England median daily rate £588 £559 £575
% change year-on-year +5.15% -2.83% -4.17%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in London with a recognized job title 11,726 16,625 25,758
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.45% 93.24% 95.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,034 12,022 18,663
10th Percentile £341 £325 £363
25th Percentile £431 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 336 290
10th Percentile £20.45 £16.01 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.90 £20.02 £22.53
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -
75th Percentile £50.75 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £64.75 £65.00 £76.03
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Machine Learning Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured Machine Learning Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Machine Learning Engineer in London

Machine Learning Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Machine Learning Engineer in London.

Daily rate trend for Machine Learning Engineer in London

Machine Learning Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Machine Learning Engineer in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Machine Learning Engineer in London

Machine Learning Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Machine Learning Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring Machine Learning Engineer in the job title.

1 42 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 35 (83.33%) Python
3 21 (50.00%) Deep Learning
4 18 (42.86%) Data Science
5 17 (40.48%) AWS
5 17 (40.48%) Artificial Intelligence
6 16 (38.10%) Java
6 16 (38.10%) Apache Spark
7 15 (35.71%) C++
7 15 (35.71%) Distributed Computing
8 14 (33.33%) Computer Science
9 13 (30.95%) Degree
9 13 (30.95%) Shell Script
9 13 (30.95%) C
9 13 (30.95%) Master's Degree
10 12 (28.57%) PhD
11 10 (23.81%) Azure
11 10 (23.81%) Big Data
11 10 (23.81%) Parallel Computing
11 10 (23.81%) LLM
11 10 (23.81%) CI/CD
12 9 (21.43%) MLOps
12 9 (21.43%) Low Latency
12 9 (21.43%) Analytics
13 8 (19.05%) Finance
13 8 (19.05%) Containerisation
14 7 (16.67%) Ray
14 7 (16.67%) Roadmaps
14 7 (16.67%) Data Mining
14 7 (16.67%) Technical Leadership

Machine Learning Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 16 (38.10%) Apache Spark
2 3 (7.14%) Jupyter
3 2 (4.76%) Apache
4 1 (2.38%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 17 (40.48%) AWS
2 10 (23.81%) Azure
3 5 (11.90%) Azure Stack
4 3 (7.14%) GCP
5 2 (4.76%) Amazon SageMaker
5 2 (4.76%) Vertex AI
6 1 (2.38%) Amazon Kinesis
6 1 (2.38%) Amazon S3
6 1 (2.38%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (2.38%) AWS Step Functions
6 1 (2.38%) Azure Machine Learning
6 1 (2.38%) GitHub
6 1 (2.38%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (2.38%) Power Platform
6 1 (2.38%) Serverless
6 1 (2.38%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (23.81%) Big Data
2 7 (16.67%) Data Mining
3 1 (2.38%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (2.38%) Hadoop
3 1 (2.38%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.38%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.38%) Power BI
3 1 (2.38%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (9.52%) MLflow
2 1 (2.38%) GitLab
2 1 (2.38%) Jenkins
General
1 8 (19.05%) Finance
2 5 (11.90%) Social Skills
3 2 (4.76%) Banking
3 2 (4.76%) Retail
4 1 (2.38%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.38%) Investment Banking
4 1 (2.38%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (16.67%) Ray
2 5 (11.90%) PyTorch
2 5 (11.90%) scikit-learn
3 4 (9.52%) TensorFlow
4 3 (7.14%) AWS CDK
4 3 (7.14%) PySpark
4 3 (7.14%) XGBoost
5 2 (4.76%) Kafka
5 2 (4.76%) Matplotlib
6 1 (2.38%) Keras
6 1 (2.38%) Loki
6 1 (2.38%) Metaflow
6 1 (2.38%) NumPy
6 1 (2.38%) Pandas
6 1 (2.38%) Plotly
6 1 (2.38%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 15 (35.71%) Distributed Computing
2 6 (14.29%) Algorithms
3 4 (9.52%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (9.52%) Product Ownership
3 4 (9.52%) Tandem
4 2 (4.76%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (4.76%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.38%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.38%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 21 (50.00%) Deep Learning
3 18 (42.86%) Data Science
4 17 (40.48%) Artificial Intelligence
5 14 (33.33%) Computer Science
6 10 (23.81%) CI/CD
6 10 (23.81%) LLM
6 10 (23.81%) Parallel Computing
7 9 (21.43%) Analytics
7 9 (21.43%) Low Latency
7 9 (21.43%) MLOps
8 8 (19.05%) Containerisation
9 7 (16.67%) Roadmaps
9 7 (16.67%) Technical Debt
9 7 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
10 6 (14.29%) Natural Language Processing
11 5 (11.90%) Agile
11 5 (11.90%) Data Governance
11 5 (11.90%) Data Pipeline
11 5 (11.90%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 35 (83.33%) Python
2 16 (38.10%) Java
3 15 (35.71%) C++
4 13 (30.95%) C
4 13 (30.95%) Shell Script
5 6 (14.29%) SQL
6 5 (11.90%) Scala
7 2 (4.76%) Rust
8 1 (2.38%) C#
8 1 (2.38%) Clojure
8 1 (2.38%) Haskell
8 1 (2.38%) JavaScript
8 1 (2.38%) R
Qualifications
1 13 (30.95%) Degree
1 13 (30.95%) Master's Degree
2 12 (28.57%) PhD
3 4 (9.52%) SC Cleared
3 4 (9.52%) Security Cleared
4 3 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
System Software
1 7 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 4 (9.52%) Terraform
3 1 (2.38%) Grafana
3 1 (2.38%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 3 (7.14%) Databricks
2 1 (2.38%) Google
2 1 (2.38%) OpenAI
149 Machine Learning Engineer jobs in England