Machine Learning Jobs in the City of London

Machine Learning (ML)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring Machine Learning skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Machine Learning over the 6 months leading up to 11 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 60 126
Rank change year-on-year +6 +66 -42
Permanent jobs citing Machine Learning 94 117 91
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 5.01% 4.00% 2.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.24% 4.31% 2.33%
Number of salaries quoted 73 70 76
10th Percentile £33,550 £56,250 £48,750
25th Percentile £56,250 £57,500 £59,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £68,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +24.09% -8.67% -14.29%
75th Percentile £132,500 £90,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £175,000 £106,000 £114,375
Central London median annual salary £85,000 £68,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +24.09% -8.67% -14.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

Machine Learning falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the City of London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,793 2,717 3,908
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 95.58% 92.92% 95.48%
Number of salaries quoted 1,362 1,990 3,202
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £55,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £73,875 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.86% -1.50% +3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £112,500 £117,500
Central London median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% +3.45%

Machine Learning
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Machine Learning as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Machine Learning in the City of London

Machine Learning
Salary Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Machine Learning in the City of London.

Salary trend for Machine Learning in the City of London

Machine Learning
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Machine Learning in the City of London over the 6 months to 11 August 2025.

Salary histogram for Machine Learning in the City of London

Machine Learning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 16 (17.02%) Apache Spark
2 7 (7.45%) Apache
2 7 (7.45%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.06%) Oracle Workflow
Business Applications
1 6 (6.38%) Adaptiv
2 1 (1.06%) Elite 3E
2 1 (1.06%) SAP LE
2 1 (1.06%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 22 (23.40%) AWS
1 22 (23.40%) Azure
2 10 (10.64%) GCP
3 9 (9.57%) SaaS
4 6 (6.38%) Azure AI
4 6 (6.38%) Microsoft Copilot
5 5 (5.32%) Serverless
6 4 (4.26%) Azure Machine Learning
6 4 (4.26%) PaaS
6 4 (4.26%) Power Platform
7 3 (3.19%) Snowflake
8 2 (2.13%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (2.13%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (1.06%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (1.06%) Amazon ELB
9 1 (1.06%) Amazon S3
9 1 (1.06%) Amazon SageMaker
9 1 (1.06%) Asana
9 1 (1.06%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (1.06%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.38%) HTTP
2 2 (2.13%) Broadband
3 1 (1.06%) Firewall
3 1 (1.06%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.38%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (4.26%) Metadata
2 4 (4.26%) Power BI
2 4 (4.26%) Relational Database
2 4 (4.26%) Tableau
3 2 (2.13%) Big Data
3 2 (2.13%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (2.13%) Power Query
3 2 (2.13%) Redis
3 2 (2.13%) Semantic Layer
4 1 (1.06%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (1.06%) BigQuery
4 1 (1.06%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.06%) Delta Lake
4 1 (1.06%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.06%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.06%) Spark SQL
4 1 (1.06%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (4.26%) Git
2 1 (1.06%) JIRA
2 1 (1.06%) MLflow
General
1 46 (48.94%) Social Skills
2 32 (34.04%) Finance
3 17 (18.09%) Banking
4 13 (13.83%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (10.64%) Games
6 9 (9.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (9.57%) Publishing
7 8 (8.51%) Advertising
7 8 (8.51%) Law
7 8 (8.51%) Retail
8 4 (4.26%) Public Sector
9 2 (2.13%) Investment Banking
9 2 (2.13%) Marketing
10 1 (1.06%) Automotive
10 1 (1.06%) Financial Institution
10 1 (1.06%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.06%) Manufacturing
10 1 (1.06%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.06%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 28 (29.79%) Senior
2 21 (22.34%) Lead
3 14 (14.89%) Data Scientist
4 13 (13.83%) Analyst
5 12 (12.77%) Senior Data Scientist
6 9 (9.57%) Technical Engineer
7 8 (8.51%) Graduate
7 8 (8.51%) Graduate Technical Engineer
8 7 (7.45%) Software Engineer
9 6 (6.38%) Architect
9 6 (6.38%) Business Analyst
9 6 (6.38%) Head of IT
9 6 (6.38%) Lead Business Analyst
9 6 (6.38%) Risk Analyst
9 6 (6.38%) Risk Business Analyst
9 6 (6.38%) Senior Software Engineer
9 6 (6.38%) Solutions Architect
9 6 (6.38%) Support Engineer
9 6 (6.38%) Technical Support
9 6 (6.38%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (9.57%) TensorFlow
2 8 (8.51%) Kafka
2 8 (8.51%) scikit-learn
3 7 (7.45%) PyTorch
4 6 (6.38%) Pandas
5 5 (5.32%) PySpark
6 3 (3.19%) .NET
6 3 (3.19%) Node.js
7 2 (2.13%) gRPC
7 2 (2.13%) NumPy
7 2 (2.13%) WebSockets
8 1 (1.06%) Hugging Face
8 1 (1.06%) Keras
8 1 (1.06%) Lambda Expressions
8 1 (1.06%) Metaflow
8 1 (1.06%) OpenCV
8 1 (1.06%) pydantic
8 1 (1.06%) SAP Fiori
8 1 (1.06%) Spring
8 1 (1.06%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (10.64%) Algorithms
2 9 (9.57%) Credit Risk
2 9 (9.57%) Market Risk
2 9 (9.57%) Robotics
3 7 (7.45%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (7.45%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (4.26%) Reinsurance
5 3 (3.19%) Product Ownership
5 3 (3.19%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (2.13%) Sports Betting
7 1 (1.06%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.06%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.06%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.06%) FMCG
7 1 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.06%) Hedge funds
7 1 (1.06%) Life Science
7 1 (1.06%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.06%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.06%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.06%) Unix
1 1 (1.06%) Windows
1 1 (1.06%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (53.19%) Artificial Intelligence
2 39 (41.49%) Data Science
3 31 (32.98%) Analytics
4 24 (25.53%) Computer Science
5 21 (22.34%) LLM
6 20 (21.28%) Problem-Solving
7 19 (20.21%) MLOps
8 17 (18.09%) Generative AI
8 17 (18.09%) Natural Language Processing
9 16 (17.02%) Continuous Improvement
9 16 (17.02%) Data Management
10 15 (15.96%) Agile
11 14 (14.89%) ITIL
11 14 (14.89%) Project Management
11 14 (14.89%) Risk Management
12 13 (13.83%) Risk Assessment
13 12 (12.77%) Decision-Making
13 12 (12.77%) Mentoring
13 12 (12.77%) Regulatory Change
13 12 (12.77%) Strategic Planning
Programming Languages
1 65 (69.15%) Python
2 22 (23.40%) SQL
3 15 (15.96%) C++
3 15 (15.96%) Java
4 9 (9.57%) MATLAB
5 8 (8.51%) Scala
6 6 (6.38%) Bash
7 3 (3.19%) C#
7 3 (3.19%) JavaScript
8 2 (2.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (2.13%) Rust
8 2 (2.13%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.06%) Go
Qualifications
1 40 (42.55%) Degree
2 14 (14.89%) PhD
3 13 (13.83%) PMI Certification
3 13 (13.83%) PMP
4 12 (12.77%) CFA
5 10 (10.64%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (8.51%) Azure Certification
6 8 (8.51%) Master's Degree
7 6 (6.38%) ITIL Certification
8 5 (5.32%) Security Cleared
9 3 (3.19%) DBS Check
9 3 (3.19%) DV Cleared
10 2 (2.13%) SC Cleared
11 1 (1.06%) AWS Certification
11 1 (1.06%) CEH
11 1 (1.06%) CISM
11 1 (1.06%) CISSP
11 1 (1.06%) MCSE
11 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 6 (6.38%) GDPR
2 5 (5.32%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.06%) NIST
3 1 (1.06%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.06%) QA
System Software
1 6 (6.38%) Docker
2 1 (1.06%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.06%) Hyper-V
2 1 (1.06%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (5.32%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.13%) Terraform
3 1 (1.06%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 13 (13.83%) Google
1 13 (13.83%) Microsoft
2 12 (12.77%) Databricks
2 12 (12.77%) Murex
3 8 (8.51%) SAP
4 6 (6.38%) Apple
4 6 (6.38%) FIS
4 6 (6.38%) OpenAI
4 6 (6.38%) ServiceNow
4 6 (6.38%) Workday
5 1 (1.06%) Alteryx
5 1 (1.06%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (1.06%) Dell
5 1 (1.06%) Intapp
5 1 (1.06%) Oracle
5 1 (1.06%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.06%) VMware