Reinforcement Learning Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Reinforcement Learning
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 297 344 476
Rank change year-on-year +47 +132 +139
Contract jobs citing Reinforcement Learning 7 1 1
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.071% 0.007% 0.004%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.078% 0.007% 0.004%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile £460 - -
25th Percentile £494 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £688 - £900
Median % change year-on-year - - +50.00%
75th Percentile £859 - -
90th Percentile £876 - -
UK median daily rate £650 £869 £700
% change year-on-year -25.20% +24.14% +16.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Reinforcement Learning
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Reinforcement Learning as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Reinforcement Learning trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Reinforcement Learning
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Reinforcement Learning.

Reinforcement Learning daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Reinforcement Learning
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Reinforcement Learning daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Reinforcement Learning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 2 (28.57%) Apache Spark
2 1 (14.29%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) AWS
2 3 (42.86%) Azure
3 2 (28.57%) Amazon SageMaker
4 1 (14.29%) Anthropic Claude
4 1 (14.29%) Azure AI
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Machine Learning
4 1 (14.29%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) MQTT
1 1 (14.29%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Big Data
1 2 (28.57%) Hadoop
2 1 (14.29%) Data Mining
2 1 (14.29%) Pinecone
2 1 (14.29%) Redis
2 1 (14.29%) Tableau
2 1 (14.29%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Git
General
1 2 (28.57%) Finance
1 2 (28.57%) Manufacturing
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Banking
2 1 (14.29%) Games
2 1 (14.29%) Investment Banking
2 1 (14.29%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Data Scientist
2 2 (28.57%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Machine Learning Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Data Science Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (57.14%) PyTorch
1 4 (57.14%) scikit-learn
1 4 (57.14%) TensorFlow
2 3 (42.86%) Matplotlib
2 3 (42.86%) NumPy
2 3 (42.86%) Pandas
3 2 (28.57%) Plotly
4 1 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (14.29%) Google JAX
4 1 (14.29%) Hugging Face
4 1 (14.29%) JAX
4 1 (14.29%) Kafka
4 1 (14.29%) LangChain
4 1 (14.29%) OpenCV
4 1 (14.29%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (14.29%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (14.29%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Algorithms
2 1 (14.29%) AI Agents
2 1 (14.29%) Autonomous Agent
2 1 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (14.29%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Machine Learning
2 5 (71.43%) Data Science
3 4 (57.14%) Artificial Intelligence
3 4 (57.14%) Computer Science
3 4 (57.14%) LLM
3 4 (57.14%) Mathematics
4 3 (42.86%) Data Analysis
4 3 (42.86%) Data Engineering
4 3 (42.86%) Feature Engineering
4 3 (42.86%) Statistics
5 2 (28.57%) Computer Vision
5 2 (28.57%) Decision-Making
5 2 (28.57%) Neural Network
5 2 (28.57%) Statistical Modelling
5 2 (28.57%) Visualisation
6 1 (14.29%) Economics
6 1 (14.29%) Open Source
6 1 (14.29%) Predictive Analytics
6 1 (14.29%) Predictive Modelling
6 1 (14.29%) Regression Analysis
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) Go
2 1 (14.29%) Java
2 1 (14.29%) R
2 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (71.43%) Degree
2 3 (42.86%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (42.86%) Master's Degree
3 2 (28.57%) PhD
4 1 (14.29%) DV Cleared
4 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
4 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
1 1 (14.29%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Databricks
1 1 (14.29%) Google
1 1 (14.29%) OpenAI