Reinforcement Learning Contracts in London

Reinforcement Learning
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Reinforcement Learning skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Reinforcement Learning over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 349 387 487
Rank change year-on-year +38 +100 +101
Contract jobs citing Reinforcement Learning 4 4 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.032% 0.022% 0.022%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.035% 0.025% 0.024%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 4
10th Percentile £546 - £618
25th Percentile £597 £860 £663
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £688 £869 £725
Median % change year-on-year -20.89% +19.86% +20.83%
75th Percentile £772 £879 £797
90th Percentile £819 - £859
England median daily rate £650 £869 £700
% change year-on-year -25.20% +24.14% +16.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Reinforcement Learning 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 11,564 15,790 24,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.16% 88.55% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,847 11,316 17,711
10th Percentile £350 £338 £375
25th Percentile £440 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £813 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 324 278
10th Percentile £16.17 £16.00 £18.59
25th Percentile £22.68 £20.00 £22.53
Median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
Median % change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%
75th Percentile £50.75 £47.56 £62.64
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.93 £76.78
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Reinforcement Learning
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Reinforcement Learning in London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Reinforcement Learning in London

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Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Reinforcement Learning in London

Reinforcement Learning
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Reinforcement Learning in London

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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 2 (50.00%) Apache
1 2 (50.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) AWS
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon SageMaker
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Machine Learning
3 1 (25.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Hadoop
2 1 (25.00%) Big Data
General
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Investment Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Data Scientist
2 1 (25.00%) Machine Learning Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) PyTorch
1 2 (50.00%) scikit-learn
1 2 (50.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (25.00%) IoT
1 1 (25.00%) Life Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 3 (75.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 3 (75.00%) Data Science
3 2 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
3 2 (50.00%) Deep Learning
3 2 (50.00%) Feature Engineering
3 2 (50.00%) Mathematics
3 2 (50.00%) Neural Network
4 1 (25.00%) Cheminformatics
4 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
4 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
4 1 (25.00%) DevOps
4 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 1 (25.00%) Gradient Boosting
4 1 (25.00%) LLM
4 1 (25.00%) Microservices
4 1 (25.00%) MLOps
4 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (25.00%) Time Series Analysis
4 1 (25.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) C
2 1 (25.00%) C++
2 1 (25.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Degree
1 3 (75.00%) Master's Degree
2 2 (50.00%) PhD
3 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Databricks
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft