Machine Learning Contract Job Trends in South London

Machine Learning (ML)
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South London requiring Machine Learning skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 38 43
Rank change year-on-year +4 +5 +15
Contract jobs citing Machine Learning 9 3 1
As % of all contract jobs in South London 4.31% 1.29% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.97% 1.46% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 3 1
10th Percentile £490 £453 -
25th Percentile - £494 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £400
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +43.75% -47.88%
75th Percentile £538 £594 -
90th Percentile £550 £598 -
London median daily rate £613 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -5.77% +8.33% -4.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South London

Machine 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 South London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 181 205 229
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 86.60% 88.36% 87.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 143 157
10th Percentile £337 £245 £187
25th Percentile £453 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £565 £600 £600
90th Percentile £649 £788 £675
London median daily rate £525 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 3 19
10th Percentile £54.42 - £15.99
25th Percentile £54.55 £68.80 £20.25
Median hourly rate £61.22 £73.60 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.82% +213.19% -42.67%
75th Percentile £66.50 £80.80 £48.37
90th Percentile £67.70 £82.24 £83.35
London median hourly rate £32.50 £35.00 £32.00
% change year-on-year -7.14% +9.38% -14.35%

Machine Learning
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

Machine Learning job vacancy trend in South London

Machine Learning
Daily Rate Trend in South London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Machine Learning

Machine Learning
Daily Rate Histogram in South London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Machine Learning in South London over the 6 months to 18 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Machine Learning in South London

Machine Learning
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 within the South London region over the 6 months to 18 January 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
Croydon - 4 £500 -
Machine Learning
London

Machine Learning
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 9 (100.00%) Azure
2 8 (88.89%) GitHub
2 8 (88.89%) GitHub Actions
3 7 (77.78%) Azure AKS
3 7 (77.78%) Azure Cognitive Services
3 7 (77.78%) Azure Data Factory
3 7 (77.78%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (77.78%) Azure Event Grid
3 7 (77.78%) Azure Key Vault
3 7 (77.78%) Azure Logic Apps
3 7 (77.78%) Azure Machine Learning
3 7 (77.78%) Azure Monitor
3 7 (77.78%) Azure Service Bus
3 7 (77.78%) Entra ID
4 5 (55.56%) Azure App Service
4 5 (55.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 5 (55.56%) Azure Functions
4 5 (55.56%) Serverless
5 3 (33.33%) Azure API Management
6 2 (22.22%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (55.56%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (11.11%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Git
1 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 1 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (77.78%) Developer
2 4 (44.44%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
2 4 (44.44%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 4 (44.44%) Azure Developer
3 3 (33.33%) Backend Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Data Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Lead
4 1 (11.11%) QA Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) QA Leader
4 1 (11.11%) QA Tester
4 1 (11.11%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (88.89%) PyTorch
1 8 (88.89%) TensorFlow
2 7 (77.78%) .NET
2 7 (77.78%) .NET Core
2 7 (77.78%) AngularJS
2 7 (77.78%) Node.js
2 7 (77.78%) React
3 1 (11.11%) .NET Framework
3 1 (11.11%) Great Expectations
3 1 (11.11%) Hugging Face
3 1 (11.11%) pytest
3 1 (11.11%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 7 (77.78%) AI Agents
2 4 (44.44%) Cloud Native
3 1 (11.11%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) AI
2 8 (88.89%) Agile
2 8 (88.89%) CI/CD
3 7 (77.78%) DevOps
3 7 (77.78%) Microservices
3 7 (77.78%) RBAC
3 7 (77.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 6 (66.67%) Data Science
4 6 (66.67%) Deep Learning
5 5 (55.56%) Analytics
5 5 (55.56%) API Management
5 5 (55.56%) Compliance Management
5 5 (55.56%) Containerisation
5 5 (55.56%) Data Encryption
5 5 (55.56%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (44.44%) Data Pipeline
7 2 (22.22%) Data Ingestion
7 2 (22.22%) Secrets Management
8 1 (11.11%) API Testing
8 1 (11.11%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) Python
2 7 (77.78%) Bicep
2 7 (77.78%) C#
2 7 (77.78%) JavaScript
3 6 (66.67%) SQL
4 1 (11.11%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) Data Quality
1 2 (22.22%) QA
System Software
1 7 (77.78%) Docker
2 5 (55.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (77.78%) Kubernetes
1 7 (77.78%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (77.78%) Databricks
1 7 (77.78%) Microsoft
1 7 (77.78%) OpenAI