Reinforcement Learning Contract Job Trends in London

Reinforcement Learning
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Reinforcement Learning skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 363 394 444
Rank change year-on-year +31 +50 +158
Contract jobs citing Reinforcement Learning 5 4 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.038% 0.025% 0.009%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.041% 0.028% 0.010%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 1
10th Percentile £544 - -
25th Percentile £572 £600 £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £700 £625
Median % change year-on-year -8.93% +12.00% +42.05%
75th Percentile £697 £900 £663
90th Percentile £721 £960 -
England median daily rate £625 £700 £650
% change year-on-year -10.71% +7.69% +47.73%

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 12,340 14,309 20,036
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.56% 89.21% 90.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,163 9,544 14,525
10th Percentile £325 £350 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% -4.35% -0.86%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £695
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 253 180 230
10th Percentile £17.02 £17.25 £18.15
25th Percentile £25.00 £23.80 £21.81
Median hourly rate £32.00 £35.00 £39.63
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% -11.67% +7.09%
75th Percentile £48.75 £55.00 £63.94
90th Percentile £63.75 £72.19 £77.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.54
% change year-on-year -41.51% -1.24% +50.14%

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

Reinforcement Learning
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Reinforcement Learning.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Reinforcement Learning

Reinforcement Learning
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Reinforcement Learning in London over the 6 months to 16 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Reinforcement Learning in London

Reinforcement Learning
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Reinforcement Learning.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Reinforcement Learning

Reinforcement 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 2 (40.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (20.00%) Apache
2 1 (20.00%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Figma
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Big Data
1 1 (20.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (20.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) MLflow
General
1 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Legal
2 1 (20.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
1 1 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Data Science Developer
1 1 (20.00%) Data Scientist
1 1 (20.00%) Designer
1 1 (20.00%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) PyTorch
1 2 (40.00%) TensorFlow
2 1 (20.00%) LangChain
2 1 (20.00%) Matplotlib
2 1 (20.00%) NumPy
2 1 (20.00%) Pandas
2 1 (20.00%) PySpark
2 1 (20.00%) Ray
2 1 (20.00%) scikit-learn
2 1 (20.00%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (20.00%) AI Agents
2 1 (20.00%) Algorithms
2 1 (20.00%) Autonomous Agent
2 1 (20.00%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (20.00%) Life Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 3 (60.00%) Data Science
2 3 (60.00%) Decision-Making
2 3 (60.00%) LLM
3 2 (40.00%) Deep Learning
3 2 (40.00%) Feature Engineering
3 2 (40.00%) MLOps
3 2 (40.00%) Natural Language Processing
4 1 (20.00%) Analytics
4 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (20.00%) Conversational AI
4 1 (20.00%) Data Analytics
4 1 (20.00%) Data Munging
4 1 (20.00%) DevOps
4 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 1 (20.00%) Generative AI
4 1 (20.00%) Natural Language Understanding
4 1 (20.00%) Statistical Modelling
4 1 (20.00%) UX Research
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) R
2 1 (20.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
1 1 (20.00%) Master's Degree
1 1 (20.00%) MCP
1 1 (20.00%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (20.00%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Genesys
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft