Reinforcement Learning Contracts

Reinforcement Learning
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 495 578 708
Rank change year-on-year +83 +130 +127
Contract jobs citing Reinforcement Learning 25 4 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.085% 0.009% 0.017%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.094% 0.011% 0.019%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 2 6
10th Percentile £563 - £619
25th Percentile £581 £860 £653
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £869 £700
Median % change year-on-year -25.20% +24.14% +16.67%
75th Percentile £675 £879 £763
90th Percentile £710 - £831
UK excluding London median daily rate £650 - £663

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

Reinforcement Learning
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Reinforcement Learning as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Reinforcement Learning in the UK

Reinforcement Learning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Reinforcement Learning.

Daily rate trend for Reinforcement Learning in the UK

Reinforcement Learning
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Reinforcement Learning over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Reinforcement Learning in the UK

Reinforcement Learning
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Reinforcement Learning.

Hourly rate trend for Reinforcement Learning in the UK

Reinforcement Learning
Top 6 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 1 May 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 +75 22 £650 -25.20% 83
UK excluding London - 18 £650 - 29
East of England - 17 £650 - 9
Work from Home +47 7 £688 - 37
London +38 4 £688 -20.89% 63
South West - 1 £875 - 2

Reinforcement Learning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 16 (64.00%) Apache Spark
2 2 (8.00%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 19 (76.00%) AWS
2 18 (72.00%) Azure
3 3 (12.00%) GCP
4 2 (8.00%) Amazon SageMaker
5 1 (4.00%) Anthropic Claude
5 1 (4.00%) Azure AI
5 1 (4.00%) Azure Machine Learning
5 1 (4.00%) GitHub
5 1 (4.00%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.00%) MQTT
1 1 (4.00%) NAS
1 1 (4.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (64.00%) Hadoop
2 15 (60.00%) Big Data
3 14 (56.00%) Tableau
4 1 (4.00%) Data Mining
4 1 (4.00%) Pinecone
4 1 (4.00%) Redis
4 1 (4.00%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 2 (8.00%) Git
General
1 12 (48.00%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (20.00%) Telecoms
3 3 (12.00%) Finance
4 2 (8.00%) Manufacturing
4 2 (8.00%) Social Skills
5 1 (4.00%) Banking
5 1 (4.00%) Games
5 1 (4.00%) Investment Banking
5 1 (4.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 18 (72.00%) Developer
2 12 (48.00%) Data Science Developer
3 11 (44.00%) Senior
4 10 (40.00%) Senior Developer
5 8 (32.00%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
6 4 (16.00%) Data Scientist
7 2 (8.00%) Gen AI Developer
7 2 (8.00%) Machine Learning Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (72.00%) PyTorch
1 18 (72.00%) scikit-learn
1 18 (72.00%) TensorFlow
2 16 (64.00%) Matplotlib
2 16 (64.00%) NumPy
2 16 (64.00%) Pandas
3 14 (56.00%) Seaborn
4 2 (8.00%) Plotly
5 1 (4.00%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (4.00%) Google JAX
5 1 (4.00%) Hugging Face
5 1 (4.00%) JAX
5 1 (4.00%) Kafka
5 1 (4.00%) LangChain
5 1 (4.00%) OpenCV
5 1 (4.00%) OpenTelemetry
5 1 (4.00%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 18 (72.00%) Algorithms
2 2 (8.00%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (4.00%) AI Agents
3 1 (4.00%) Autonomous Agent
3 1 (4.00%) IoT
3 1 (4.00%) Life Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (96.00%) Machine Learning
2 22 (88.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 22 (88.00%) Data Science
3 20 (80.00%) LLM
4 17 (68.00%) Feature Engineering
4 17 (68.00%) Generative AI
5 16 (64.00%) Data Analysis
6 15 (60.00%) Computer Science
6 15 (60.00%) Visualisation
7 14 (56.00%) Data Munging
7 14 (56.00%) Decision-Making
8 13 (52.00%) Statistical Modelling
9 12 (48.00%) Analytics
9 12 (48.00%) Data Analytics
9 12 (48.00%) Predictive Analytics
9 12 (48.00%) Time Series Forecasting
10 4 (16.00%) Mathematics
11 3 (12.00%) Data Engineering
11 3 (12.00%) Neural Network
11 3 (12.00%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 22 (88.00%) Python
2 14 (56.00%) R
3 2 (8.00%) Java
4 1 (4.00%) C
4 1 (4.00%) C++
4 1 (4.00%) Go
4 1 (4.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (68.00%) Degree
2 15 (60.00%) Master's Degree
3 14 (56.00%) PhD
4 3 (12.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (4.00%) DV Cleared
5 1 (4.00%) SC Cleared
5 1 (4.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (68.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (4.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (8.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (8.00%) OpenAI
2 1 (4.00%) Databricks
2 1 (4.00%) Google
2 1 (4.00%) Microsoft