Federated Learning Contract Job Trends

Federated Learning
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Federated Learning skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 592 - 601
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Federated Learning 3 0 4
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.008% - 0.009%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.009% - 0.010%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 4
10th Percentile £433 - -
25th Percentile £464 - £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £527 - £525
75th Percentile £570 - £588
90th Percentile £588 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £564 - £525

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Federated 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 32,337 30,122 39,072
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 88.38% 88.11% 88.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,351 18,405 26,081
10th Percentile £300 £306 £308
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £650
90th Percentile £723 £738 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £477 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,080 985 1,517
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.62 £14.36
25th Percentile £17.50 £20.50 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.33
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -24.99% +23.80%
75th Percentile £49.75 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.50 £32.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -27.69% -26.97% +39.06%

Federated Learning
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Federated Learning relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Federated Learning job vacancy trend in the UK

Federated Learning
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Federated Learning.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Federated Learning

Federated Learning
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Federated Learning over the 6 months to 18 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Federated Learning in the UK

Federated Learning
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Federated Learning.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Federated Learning

Federated Learning
Top 5 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Federated Learning within the UK over the 6 months to 18 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
England - 3 £527 - 5
UK excluding London - 2 £564 - 3
North of England - 2 £564 -
Yorkshire - 2 £564 -
London - 1 £425 - 3

Federated Learning
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 3 (100.00%) GCP
2 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) Azure
General
1 3 (100.00%) Legal
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Flash
1 2 (66.67%) Smart Contracts
2 1 (33.33%) Google JAX
2 1 (33.33%) JAX
2 1 (33.33%) PyTorch
2 1 (33.33%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Blockchain
1 2 (66.67%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) AI
1 3 (100.00%) Data Security
1 3 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 3 (100.00%) Regulatory Compliance
2 2 (66.67%) Anti-Money Laundering
2 2 (66.67%) Application Security
2 2 (66.67%) Cloud Security
2 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (66.67%) Data Collection
2 2 (66.67%) DevSecOps
2 2 (66.67%) Incident Management
2 2 (66.67%) Incident Response
2 2 (66.67%) KYC
2 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
2 2 (66.67%) Risk Assessment
2 2 (66.67%) Risk Management
2 2 (66.67%) SDLC
2 2 (66.67%) Software Delivery
2 2 (66.67%) Threat Modelling
2 2 (66.67%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Rust
1 2 (66.67%) Solidity
2 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) CCSK
1 2 (66.67%) CEH
1 2 (66.67%) CISA
1 2 (66.67%) CISM
1 2 (66.67%) CISSP
1 2 (66.67%) OSCP
2 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) GDPR
2 2 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (66.67%) NIST
2 2 (66.67%) PCI DSS
2 2 (66.67%) SOC 2
3 1 (33.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act