Reinforcement Learning Contracts in the UK excluding London

Reinforcement Learning
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 24 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 343 - 439
Rank change year-on-year - - +62
Contract jobs citing Reinforcement Learning 14 0 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.10% - 0.018%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% - 0.020%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 0 2
10th Percentile £525 - £651
25th Percentile £625 - £653
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 - £663
75th Percentile £675 - £678
90th Percentile - - £684
UK median daily rate £650 £835 £675
% change year-on-year -22.11% +23.63% +12.50%

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 12,263 17,517 20,340
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.50% 82.49% 89.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,515 10,272 13,899
10th Percentile £235 £250 £263
25th Percentile £367 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +1.01%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £694
UK median daily rate £502 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.33% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,008 2,194 1,271
10th Percentile £13.84 £12.50 £11.80
25th Percentile £16.84 £15.50 £15.25
Median hourly rate £25.04 £38.12 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.32% +17.29% +54.76%
75th Percentile £55.00 £61.60 £63.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £73.60 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -32.93% +7.14% +34.62%

Reinforcement Learning
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Reinforcement Learning in the UK excluding London

Reinforcement Learning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Reinforcement Learning in the UK excluding London

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 24 June 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 24 June 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
East of England - 12 £650 - 45
North of England - 1 £550 - 38
North West - 1 £550 - 23
South West - 1 £875 - 19
Reinforcement Learning
UK

Reinforcement Learning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 12 (85.71%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 12 (85.71%) AWS
1 12 (85.71%) Azure
2 2 (14.29%) GCP
3 1 (7.14%) Figma
3 1 (7.14%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) NAS
1 1 (7.14%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (85.71%) Big Data
1 12 (85.71%) Hadoop
1 12 (85.71%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Git
General
1 11 (78.57%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Telecoms
3 1 (7.14%) Finance
3 1 (7.14%) Legal
Job Titles
1 12 (85.71%) Developer
2 10 (71.43%) Data Science Developer
3 7 (50.00%) Senior
4 6 (42.86%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
4 6 (42.86%) Senior Developer
5 2 (14.29%) Gen AI Developer
6 1 (7.14%) Designer
6 1 (7.14%) Machine Learning Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (92.86%) PyTorch
1 13 (92.86%) TensorFlow
2 12 (85.71%) Matplotlib
2 12 (85.71%) scikit-learn
2 12 (85.71%) Seaborn
3 11 (78.57%) NumPy
3 11 (78.57%) Pandas
4 1 (7.14%) OpenCV
Miscellaneous
1 12 (85.71%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 14 (100.00%) LLM
1 14 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 12 (85.71%) Data Analysis
2 12 (85.71%) Data Munging
2 12 (85.71%) Data Science
2 12 (85.71%) Generative AI
2 12 (85.71%) Visualisation
3 10 (71.43%) Computer Science
3 10 (71.43%) Feature Engineering
3 10 (71.43%) Statistical Modelling
4 9 (64.29%) Analytics
4 9 (64.29%) Data Analytics
4 9 (64.29%) Decision-Making
4 9 (64.29%) Predictive Analytics
4 9 (64.29%) Time Series Forecasting
5 1 (7.14%) Conversational UI
5 1 (7.14%) Strategic Thinking
5 1 (7.14%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 1 (7.14%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 13 (92.86%) Python
2 12 (85.71%) R
Qualifications
1 10 (71.43%) Degree
1 10 (71.43%) Master's Degree
1 10 (71.43%) PhD
2 1 (7.14%) DV Cleared
2 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
2 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (78.57%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (7.14%) Genesys
1 1 (7.14%) OpenAI