Machine Learning Engineer Contract Job Trends in South London

Machine Learning Engineer
London > South London

The median Machine Learning Engineer daily rate in South London is £625, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 10 June 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Machine Learning Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in South London 0.33% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.35% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £613 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - -
75th Percentile £638 - -
90th Percentile - - -
London median daily rate £548 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -8.67% +4.35% -

All Contract IT Job Roles
South London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in South 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 South London with a recognized job title 289 158 212
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.38% 92.94% 97.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 176 106 150
10th Percentile £331 £213 £358
25th Percentile £456 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.01% -1.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £552 £637 £567
90th Percentile £681 £738 £630
London median daily rate £530 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 2 14
10th Percentile £17.13 £22.49 £17.08
25th Percentile £54.37 £24.41 £21.38
Median hourly rate £58.74 £27.61 £33.67
Median % change year-on-year +112.77% -18.01% -33.22%
75th Percentile £67.08 £30.80 £81.56
90th Percentile £75.69 £32.72 £83.75
London median hourly rate £39.00 £32.25 £27.81
% change year-on-year +20.93% +15.97% -22.75%

Machine Learning Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Machine Learning Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in South London.

Machine Learning Engineer job vacancy trend in South London

Machine Learning Engineer
Contract Job Locations in South 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 South London region over the 6 months to 10 June 2026. 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
Wandsworth - 1 £625 -
Machine Learning Engineer
London

Machine Learning Engineer Skill Set
Top 13 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South London

For the 6 months to 10 June 2026, Machine Learning Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the South London region featuring Machine Learning Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) AI Transformation
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 1 (100.00%) Intelligent Automation
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) MLOps
1 1 (100.00%) Python

Machine Learning Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) AI Agents
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) AI Transformation
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 1 (100.00%) Intelligent Automation
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) MLOps
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python