Reinforcement Learning Contract Job Trends

Reinforcement Learning
UK

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

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 551 554 647
Rank change year-on-year +3 +93 +183
Contract jobs citing Reinforcement Learning 17 5 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.052% 0.013% 0.008%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.057% 0.015% 0.009%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 2 2
10th Percentile £518 - £595
25th Percentile £525 £600 £606
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £700 £650
Median % change year-on-year -16.07% +7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £675 £900 £681
90th Percentile £694 £960 £685
UK excluding London median daily rate £588 - £675

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 29,826 33,000 43,850
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.52% 85.68% 89.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,546 20,284 29,794
10th Percentile £300 £308 £313
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,802 1,460 1,537
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.84 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.00 £18.70
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% - +48.28%
75th Percentile £44.78 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.56 £43.00 £41.90
% change year-on-year -47.53% +2.63% +80.76%

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
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Reinforcement Learning
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Reinforcement Learning over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Reinforcement Learning in the UK

Reinforcement Learning
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

Reinforcement Learning
Top 8 Contract Job 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 18 September 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 +26 14 £625 -10.71% 39
UK excluding London - 10 £588 - 18
East of England - 8 £638 - 8
Work from Home +34 6 - - 25
London +23 5 £638 -8.93% 28
North West - 1 £550 - 1
Scotland - 1 £550 - 3
North of England - 1 £550 - 1

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 9 (52.94%) Apache Spark
2 2 (11.76%) Apache
2 2 (11.76%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 11 (64.71%) AWS
1 11 (64.71%) Azure
2 2 (11.76%) Amazon SageMaker
2 2 (11.76%) Anthropic Claude
2 2 (11.76%) Azure AI
2 2 (11.76%) Figma
2 2 (11.76%) GCP
2 2 (11.76%) Vertex AI
3 1 (5.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (5.88%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (5.88%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (5.88%) Amazon S3
3 1 (5.88%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (5.88%) Dagster
3 1 (5.88%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.76%) MQTT
2 1 (5.88%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (47.06%) Big Data
1 8 (47.06%) Hadoop
1 8 (47.06%) Tableau
2 2 (11.76%) Pinecone
2 2 (11.76%) Redis
2 2 (11.76%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) MLflow
General
1 8 (47.06%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (17.65%) Finance
3 2 (11.76%) Games
3 2 (11.76%) Legal
3 2 (11.76%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (58.82%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
1 10 (58.82%) Developer
2 6 (35.29%) Data Science Developer
3 2 (11.76%) Designer
3 2 (11.76%) Gen AI Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Data Scientist
4 1 (5.88%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (70.59%) PyTorch
2 11 (64.71%) TensorFlow
3 8 (47.06%) Matplotlib
3 8 (47.06%) NumPy
3 8 (47.06%) Pandas
3 8 (47.06%) scikit-learn
3 8 (47.06%) Seaborn
4 3 (17.65%) Hugging Face
4 3 (17.65%) LangChain
5 2 (11.76%) CrewAI
5 2 (11.76%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (11.76%) Faiss
5 2 (11.76%) Google JAX
5 2 (11.76%) JAX
5 2 (11.76%) Kafka
5 2 (11.76%) OpenTelemetry
5 2 (11.76%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (5.88%) FastAPI
6 1 (5.88%) JWT
6 1 (5.88%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 12 (70.59%) Algorithms
2 4 (23.53%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (17.65%) AI Agents
3 3 (17.65%) Autonomous Agent
4 1 (5.88%) Data Structures
4 1 (5.88%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (5.88%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (5.88%) Life Science
4 1 (5.88%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 17 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 15 (88.24%) LLM
3 11 (64.71%) Data Science
4 9 (52.94%) Decision-Making
4 9 (52.94%) Generative AI
5 8 (47.06%) Data Analysis
5 8 (47.06%) Data Munging
5 8 (47.06%) Visualisation
6 7 (41.18%) Feature Engineering
7 6 (35.29%) Computer Science
7 6 (35.29%) Statistical Modelling
8 5 (29.41%) Analytics
8 5 (29.41%) Data Analytics
8 5 (29.41%) Predictive Analytics
8 5 (29.41%) Time Series Forecasting
9 3 (17.65%) Agile
9 3 (17.65%) Deep Learning
9 3 (17.65%) Natural Language Processing
9 3 (17.65%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 13 (76.47%) Python
2 8 (47.06%) R
3 2 (11.76%) Go
3 2 (11.76%) Java
4 1 (5.88%) Scala
Qualifications
1 7 (41.18%) Degree
1 7 (41.18%) Master's Degree
1 7 (41.18%) PhD
2 1 (5.88%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (47.06%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.88%) Accessibility
2 1 (5.88%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 1 (5.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (17.65%) Kubernetes
2 2 (11.76%) Prometheus
3 1 (5.88%) Grafana
3 1 (5.88%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 2 (11.76%) Genesys
1 2 (11.76%) Google
1 2 (11.76%) OpenAI
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft