Machine Learning Engineer Contracts in London

Machine Learning Engineer
England > London

The median Machine Learning Engineer daily rate in London is £538 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 367 465 541
Rank change year-on-year +98 +76 -91
Contract jobs requiring a Machine Learning Engineer 33 23 63
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.19% 0.090% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.095% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 17 40
10th Percentile £450 £544 £525
25th Percentile £505 £550 £570
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £750 £650 £791
90th Percentile £926 £665 £850
England median daily rate £559 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -2.83% -4.17% +9.09%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 16,298 24,319 36,841
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.48% 95.17% 95.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,799 17,716 27,053
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £440 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £681 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £529
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.99% +6.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 319 278 430
10th Percentile £16.02 £17.99 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.22 £22.53 £22.55
Median hourly rate £27.50 £36.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.61% +2.86% +13.45%
75th Percentile £45.62 £63.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.23 £82.50 £66.74
England median hourly rate £36.92 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -17.97% +95.65% +6.98%

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 25 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Machine Learning Engineer in London

Machine Learning Engineer
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 Machine Learning Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 25 May 2024. 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 +41 3 £510 -6.42% 1
Machine Learning Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 25 May 2024, 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 33 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 31 (93.94%) Python
3 21 (63.64%) Artificial Intelligence
4 17 (51.52%) TensorFlow
4 17 (51.52%) Data Science
5 14 (42.42%) DevOps
5 14 (42.42%) scikit-learn
6 13 (39.39%) MLOps
7 11 (33.33%) Software Engineering
8 10 (30.30%) Azure
8 10 (30.30%) AWS
8 10 (30.30%) Deep Learning
9 9 (27.27%) Kubernetes
9 9 (27.27%) Java
9 9 (27.27%) CI/CD
10 8 (24.24%) NumPy
10 8 (24.24%) Azure Machine Learning
10 8 (24.24%) GCP
10 8 (24.24%) PyTorch
10 8 (24.24%) Apache Airflow
11 7 (21.21%) Algorithms
11 7 (21.21%) Docker
11 7 (21.21%) Pandas
11 7 (21.21%) SQL
11 7 (21.21%) Data Mining
12 6 (18.18%) Workflow
12 6 (18.18%) Shell Script
12 6 (18.18%) Natural Language Processing
12 6 (18.18%) Data Ingestion
12 6 (18.18%) MLflow

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 8 (24.24%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (6.06%) Apache
2 2 (6.06%) Apache Spark
2 2 (6.06%) Jupyter
3 1 (3.03%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 10 (30.30%) AWS
1 10 (30.30%) Azure
2 8 (24.24%) Azure Machine Learning
2 8 (24.24%) GCP
3 6 (18.18%) Vertex AI
4 2 (6.06%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (6.06%) ChatGPT
5 1 (3.03%) Amazon Kinesis
5 1 (3.03%) Amazon S3
5 1 (3.03%) Amazon SageMaker
5 1 (3.03%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (3.03%) Dagster
5 1 (3.03%) dbt
5 1 (3.03%) GitHub
5 1 (3.03%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (3.03%) SaaS
5 1 (3.03%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (21.21%) Data Mining
2 3 (9.09%) NoSQL
3 2 (6.06%) Big Data
4 1 (3.03%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (3.03%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (3.03%) Data Lake
4 1 (3.03%) DynamoDB
4 1 (3.03%) Flink
4 1 (3.03%) Hadoop
4 1 (3.03%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (18.18%) MLflow
2 2 (6.06%) Cucumber
2 2 (6.06%) GitLab
2 2 (6.06%) Selenium
3 1 (3.03%) Git
3 1 (3.03%) Poetry
General
1 4 (12.12%) Finance
2 2 (6.06%) Public Sector
2 2 (6.06%) Retail
2 2 (6.06%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (51.52%) TensorFlow
2 14 (42.42%) scikit-learn
3 8 (24.24%) NumPy
3 8 (24.24%) PyTorch
4 7 (21.21%) Pandas
5 3 (9.09%) LangChain
6 2 (6.06%) FastAPI
6 2 (6.06%) HTML
6 2 (6.06%) OpenCV
6 2 (6.06%) Torch
6 2 (6.06%) XGBoost
7 1 (3.03%) Great Expectations
7 1 (3.03%) Hugging Face
7 1 (3.03%) Kafka
7 1 (3.03%) Lambda Expressions
7 1 (3.03%) LAPP Stack
7 1 (3.03%) Plotly
7 1 (3.03%) SciPy
7 1 (3.03%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 7 (21.21%) Algorithms
2 2 (6.06%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (6.06%) Life Science
2 2 (6.06%) Social Media
2 2 (6.06%) Tandem
3 1 (3.03%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (3.03%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (3.03%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.03%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 21 (63.64%) Artificial Intelligence
3 17 (51.52%) Data Science
4 14 (42.42%) DevOps
5 13 (39.39%) MLOps
6 11 (33.33%) Software Engineering
7 10 (30.30%) Deep Learning
8 9 (27.27%) CI/CD
9 6 (18.18%) Data Ingestion
9 6 (18.18%) Natural Language Processing
9 6 (18.18%) Workflow
10 5 (15.15%) Architectural Patterns
10 5 (15.15%) Generative AI
10 5 (15.15%) LLM
10 5 (15.15%) Parallel Computing
10 5 (15.15%) Pattern Recognition
10 5 (15.15%) Roadmaps
11 4 (12.12%) Fintech
11 4 (12.12%) Natural Language Understanding
11 4 (12.12%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 31 (93.94%) Python
2 9 (27.27%) Java
3 7 (21.21%) SQL
4 6 (18.18%) Shell Script
5 5 (15.15%) C
5 5 (15.15%) C++
6 4 (12.12%) JavaScript
7 2 (6.06%) Go
Qualifications
1 4 (12.12%) Degree
2 2 (6.06%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (6.06%) Master's Degree
2 2 (6.06%) PhD
2 2 (6.06%) SC Cleared
2 2 (6.06%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.03%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.06%) QA
2 1 (3.03%) Data Quality
System Software
1 7 (21.21%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (27.27%) Kubernetes
2 6 (18.18%) Kubeflow
3 2 (6.06%) Grafana
3 2 (6.06%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (15.15%) Databricks
2 2 (6.06%) Splunk
3 1 (3.03%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.03%) OpenAI