Reinforcement Learning Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Reinforcement Learning
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Reinforcement Learning skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 383 347 397
Rank change year-on-year -36 +50 +101
Contract jobs citing Reinforcement Learning 10 10 4
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.055% 0.067% 0.020%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.064% 0.077% 0.023%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 10 0
10th Percentile £541 £409 -
25th Percentile £588 £556 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £600 -
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% - -
75th Percentile £700 £672 -
90th Percentile - £675 -
UK median daily rate £700 £600 £525
% change year-on-year +16.67% +14.29% -41.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,617 13,041 17,394
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 86.01% 86.97% 88.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,535 7,668 11,224
10th Percentile £220 £235 £250
25th Percentile £375 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £477 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.60% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,767 762 1,227
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.50 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.03 £17.72
Median hourly rate £23.50 £32.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.69% -26.97% +39.06%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.01 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £71.25 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.33
% change year-on-year -22.62% -24.99% +23.80%

Reinforcement Learning
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Reinforcement Learning job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Reinforcement Learning
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Reinforcement Learning
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Reinforcement Learning in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Reinforcement Learning in the UK excluding London

Reinforcement Learning
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Reinforcement Learning within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 19 December 2025. 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
South East -18 6 £688 +25.00% 25
East of England -26 3 £565 -5.83% 25
Scotland - 1 £550 - 8
Reinforcement Learning
UK

Reinforcement Learning
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (20.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (10.00%) Apache
2 1 (10.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 9 (90.00%) AWS
2 8 (80.00%) Azure
3 6 (60.00%) GCP
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon S3
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (10.00%) Dagster
4 1 (10.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Big Data
1 2 (20.00%) Hadoop
1 2 (20.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) MLflow
General
1 4 (40.00%) Finance
1 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Lead
2 2 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Data Science Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) PyTorch
2 2 (20.00%) Matplotlib
2 2 (20.00%) NumPy
2 2 (20.00%) Pandas
2 2 (20.00%) scikit-learn
2 2 (20.00%) Seaborn
2 2 (20.00%) TensorFlow
3 1 (10.00%) AWS CDK
3 1 (10.00%) boto
3 1 (10.00%) FastAPI
3 1 (10.00%) Hugging Face
3 1 (10.00%) JWT
3 1 (10.00%) OAuth
3 1 (10.00%) OpenCV
3 1 (10.00%) REST
3 1 (10.00%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Algorithms
2 1 (10.00%) Data Structures
2 1 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (10.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) AI
2 6 (60.00%) Actionable Insight
2 6 (60.00%) Data Protection
2 6 (60.00%) Regulatory Compliance
3 4 (40.00%) LLM
3 4 (40.00%) Machine Learning
3 4 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (30.00%) Data Science
4 3 (30.00%) Generative AI
5 2 (20.00%) Computer Science
5 2 (20.00%) Data Analysis
5 2 (20.00%) Data Munging
5 2 (20.00%) Feature Engineering
5 2 (20.00%) Statistical Modelling
5 2 (20.00%) Visualisation
6 1 (10.00%) Analytics
6 1 (10.00%) Computer Vision
6 1 (10.00%) Data Analytics
6 1 (10.00%) Deep Learning
6 1 (10.00%) Time Series Forecasting
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) Python
2 2 (20.00%) R
3 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) Degree
1 3 (30.00%) Master's Degree
1 3 (30.00%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (60.00%) GDPR
2 2 (20.00%) Data Quality
3 1 (10.00%) Accessibility
3 1 (10.00%) Disclosure Scotland
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Grafana
1 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) Google