Machine Learning Contracts in London

Machine Learning (ML)
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Machine Learning skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Machine Learning over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 100 174 151
Rank change year-on-year +74 -23 -18
Contract jobs citing Machine Learning 423 414 754
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 2.39% 1.53% 1.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.70% 1.68% 2.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 336 293 529
10th Percentile £425 £466 £450
25th Percentile £500 £525 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £618 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.20% +4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £750 £775 £713
90th Percentile £788 £897 £825
England median daily rate £580 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -3.33% - +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 5 12
10th Percentile £41.19 - £19.90
25th Percentile £41.25 £35.00 £33.81
Median hourly rate £45.00 £72.50 £41.25
Median % change year-on-year -37.93% +75.76% +37.04%
75th Percentile £51.38 £82.50 £62.50
90th Percentile £63.00 £87.00 £77.35
England median hourly rate £52.50 £35.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year +50.00% -22.22% +1.93%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Machine Learning is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,674 24,676 35,915
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.50% 91.13% 92.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,226 17,739 26,174
10th Percentile £338 £375 £390
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 325 281 423
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.63 £17.25
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.63 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.50 £39.00 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +8.33% +10.77%
75th Percentile £46.86 £63.75 £50.68
90th Percentile £66.30 £78.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
% change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%

Machine Learning
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Machine Learning as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Machine Learning in London

Machine Learning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Machine Learning in London

Machine Learning
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Machine Learning in London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Machine Learning in London

Machine Learning
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Machine Learning in London.

Hourly rate trend for Machine Learning in London

Machine Learning
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Machine Learning in London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Machine Learning in London

Machine Learning
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 within the London region over the 6 months to 27 April 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 +2 32 £650 +1.96% 33
West London +33 16 £525 - 10
Machine Learning
England

Machine Learning
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 55 (13.00%) Apache Airflow
2 48 (11.35%) Apache
3 17 (4.02%) Apache Spark
4 6 (1.42%) SharePoint
5 4 (0.95%) Jupyter
6 3 (0.71%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.47%) SAS
8 1 (0.24%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.24%) CMS
8 1 (0.24%) Confluence
Applications
1 9 (2.13%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.71%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.71%) Simulink
3 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.24%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 14 (3.31%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 12 (2.84%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.24%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 164 (38.77%) AWS
2 145 (34.28%) GCP
3 111 (26.24%) Azure
4 27 (6.38%) Power Platform
5 25 (5.91%) Vertex AI
6 19 (4.49%) Snowflake
7 14 (3.31%) Serverless
8 12 (2.84%) Azure Machine Learning
8 12 (2.84%) Cloud Computing
9 11 (2.60%) OCI
10 10 (2.36%) AWS Lambda
10 10 (2.36%) Google Compute Engine
11 9 (2.13%) Amazon S3
11 9 (2.13%) GitHub
12 7 (1.65%) Amazon SageMaker
13 6 (1.42%) Amazon Kinesis
13 6 (1.42%) Azure DevOps
13 6 (1.42%) SaaS
14 5 (1.18%) Adobe Analytics
14 5 (1.18%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 22 (5.20%) HTTP
2 2 (0.47%) Firewall
3 1 (0.24%) Internet
3 1 (0.24%) LAN
3 1 (0.24%) SSL
3 1 (0.24%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (11.82%) PostgreSQL
2 46 (10.87%) Big Data
3 42 (9.93%) Apache Ignite
4 33 (7.80%) Tableau
5 32 (7.57%) Data Warehouse
6 30 (7.09%) BigQuery
7 24 (5.67%) Power BI
8 23 (5.44%) Data Lake
9 22 (5.20%) Apache Cassandra
10 16 (3.78%) Data Mining
10 16 (3.78%) Hadoop
11 7 (1.65%) Amazon Athena
12 6 (1.42%) DynamoDB
13 5 (1.18%) Amazon Redshift
13 5 (1.18%) Apache Hive
13 5 (1.18%) HBase
13 5 (1.18%) Looker
13 5 (1.18%) Relational Database
14 4 (0.95%) MongoDB
14 4 (0.95%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 30 (7.09%) Git
2 27 (6.38%) Cypress.io
3 17 (4.02%) JIRA
4 14 (3.31%) ER Studio
4 14 (3.31%) ERwin
5 10 (2.36%) Jenkins
6 8 (1.89%) MLflow
7 7 (1.65%) GitLab
8 6 (1.42%) TeamCity
9 5 (1.18%) Maven
9 5 (1.18%) Postman
9 5 (1.18%) Subversion
10 3 (0.71%) Poetry
11 2 (0.47%) Cucumber
11 2 (0.47%) Selenium
12 1 (0.24%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 1 (0.24%) GoCD
12 1 (0.24%) Mercurial
12 1 (0.24%) RStudio
General
1 119 (28.13%) Finance
2 80 (18.91%) Front Office
3 75 (17.73%) Social Skills
4 72 (17.02%) Banking
5 47 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (3.78%) Public Sector
7 14 (3.31%) Investment Banking
8 13 (3.07%) Retail
9 12 (2.84%) Pharmaceutical
10 11 (2.60%) Marketing
11 8 (1.89%) Influencing Skills
12 6 (1.42%) Advertising
13 5 (1.18%) Financial Institution
14 4 (0.95%) Legal
14 4 (0.95%) Presentation Skills
15 3 (0.71%) Health Technology
15 3 (0.71%) Local Government
15 3 (0.71%) Telecoms
16 2 (0.47%) Czech Language
16 2 (0.47%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 97 (22.93%) Developer
2 63 (14.89%) Architect
3 54 (12.77%) Software Engineer
4 51 (12.06%) Python Developer
5 49 (11.58%) Data Scientist
6 48 (11.35%) Python Engineer
7 45 (10.64%) Python Software Engineer
8 41 (9.69%) Developer/Software Engineer
9 40 (9.46%) React Developer
10 37 (8.75%) Machine Learning Engineer
11 31 (7.33%) Analyst
12 29 (6.86%) Business Analyst
13 27 (6.38%) Senior
14 24 (5.67%) Lead
15 23 (5.44%) Finance Business Analyst
15 23 (5.44%) Financial Analyst
15 23 (5.44%) Full Stack Developer
16 22 (5.20%) Data Architect
16 22 (5.20%) Full Stack Engineer
16 22 (5.20%) Scala Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (13.48%) React
2 45 (10.64%) TensorFlow
3 41 (9.69%) gRPC
3 41 (9.69%) Material-UI
3 41 (9.69%) Protocol Buffers
3 41 (9.69%) Redux
4 35 (8.27%) scikit-learn
5 34 (8.04%) Kafka
6 31 (7.33%) PyTorch
7 29 (6.86%) Pandas
8 27 (6.38%) RESTful
9 22 (5.20%) Akka
10 18 (4.26%) CSS
11 17 (4.02%) HTML
12 16 (3.78%) NumPy
13 12 (2.84%) Node.js
14 10 (2.36%) .NET
15 7 (1.65%) Matplotlib
16 6 (1.42%) Django
17 5 (1.18%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 76 (17.97%) Algorithms
2 68 (16.08%) Fixed Income
2 68 (16.08%) Hedge funds
3 44 (10.40%) Equities
4 33 (7.80%) Product Ownership
5 29 (6.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 27 (6.38%) Derivative
7 13 (3.07%) Greenfield Project
8 12 (2.84%) Data Structures
9 11 (2.60%) Management Information System
9 11 (2.60%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 8 (1.89%) Analytical Mindset
11 7 (1.65%) Data Protection Act
11 7 (1.65%) Public Cloud
12 5 (1.18%) Distributed Systems
12 5 (1.18%) Genomics
12 5 (1.18%) Marketing Technology
12 5 (1.18%) Social Media
13 4 (0.95%) Cloud Native
13 4 (0.95%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 18 (4.26%) Linux
2 5 (1.18%) Unix
3 4 (0.95%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.24%) Android
4 1 (0.24%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 253 (59.81%) Artificial Intelligence
2 164 (38.77%) Agile
3 151 (35.70%) Data Science
4 85 (20.09%) Analytics
5 80 (18.91%) Computer Science
6 76 (17.97%) Software Engineering
7 70 (16.55%) DevOps
8 69 (16.31%) Asset Management
8 69 (16.31%) Investment Management
9 59 (13.95%) CI/CD
10 55 (13.00%) Problem-Solving
11 49 (11.58%) Natural Language Processing
12 48 (11.35%) Data Modelling
13 46 (10.87%) Full Stack Development
14 44 (10.40%) Automated Trading
15 43 (10.17%) Data Governance
16 41 (9.69%) Data Pipeline
17 36 (8.51%) LLM
17 36 (8.51%) Statistics
18 35 (8.27%) Deep Learning
Programming Languages
1 252 (59.57%) Python
2 127 (30.02%) SQL
3 57 (13.48%) TypeScript
4 44 (10.40%) Java
5 32 (7.57%) Scala
6 31 (7.33%) JavaScript
7 19 (4.49%) C#
8 18 (4.26%) R
9 13 (3.07%) PowerShell
9 13 (3.07%) Shell Script
10 12 (2.84%) Bash
11 11 (2.60%) C++
12 6 (1.42%) Clojure
12 6 (1.42%) Haskell
12 6 (1.42%) Rust
13 5 (1.18%) C
14 4 (0.95%) Go
15 3 (0.71%) MATLAB
15 3 (0.71%) T-SQL
16 1 (0.24%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 85 (20.09%) Degree
2 42 (9.93%) Computer Science Degree
3 39 (9.22%) Security Cleared
4 37 (8.75%) Master's Degree
5 36 (8.51%) SC Cleared
6 24 (5.67%) PhD
7 15 (3.55%) DV Cleared
8 12 (2.84%) AWS Certification
9 6 (1.42%) CISSP
10 4 (0.95%) Numerate Degree
10 4 (0.95%) PMI Certification
10 4 (0.95%) PMP
11 2 (0.47%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 2 (0.47%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.47%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.47%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.47%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (4.49%) Data Quality
2 17 (4.02%) QA
3 4 (0.95%) Dodd-Frank
3 4 (0.95%) MiFID
4 3 (0.71%) PMO
5 2 (0.47%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.47%) Basel III
6 1 (0.24%) SLA
6 1 (0.24%) WCAG
System Software
1 30 (7.09%) Docker
2 5 (1.18%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 48 (11.35%) Kubernetes
2 41 (9.69%) Terraform
3 15 (3.55%) Ansible
4 12 (2.84%) Puppet
5 7 (1.65%) Kubeflow
6 5 (1.18%) Hadoop YARN
7 2 (0.47%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 68 (16.08%) Google
2 19 (4.49%) Databricks
3 17 (4.02%) Oracle
3 17 (4.02%) Typelevel
4 14 (3.31%) Microsoft
4 14 (3.31%) Sparx
5 12 (2.84%) Bloomberg
6 11 (2.60%) BISAM
7 7 (1.65%) Adobe
8 6 (1.42%) Foundry
8 6 (1.42%) OpenAI
8 6 (1.42%) Optimizely
8 6 (1.42%) Palantir
9 5 (1.18%) Ensighten
9 5 (1.18%) Monetate
9 5 (1.18%) Omniture
9 5 (1.18%) Tealium
10 4 (0.95%) ESRI
11 3 (0.71%) Genesys
11 3 (0.71%) UiPath