Reinforcement Learning Job Trends in London

Reinforcement Learning
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring Reinforcement Learning skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 362 432 444
Rank change year-on-year +70 +12 +233
Permanent jobs citing Reinforcement Learning 11 2 5
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.080% 0.013% 0.028%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.091% 0.014% 0.030%
Number of salaries quoted 6 2 4
10th Percentile £64,625 £61,500 £46,425
25th Percentile £72,250 £67,500 £47,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £82,500 £59,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +39.83% -18.62%
75th Percentile £99,375 £100,000 £84,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £107,500 £87,900
England median annual salary £80,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +33.33% -7.69% +8.33%

All Process & Methodology Skills
London

Reinforcement 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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,131 14,714 16,580
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 88.23% 94.39% 92.94%
Number of salaries quoted 7,752 8,132 13,321
10th Percentile £36,250 £43,229 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £56,250 £56,219
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - -
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £117,500 £120,000 £116,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Reinforcement Learning
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Reinforcement Learning relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in London.

Reinforcement Learning job vacancy trend in London

Reinforcement Learning
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Reinforcement Learning.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Reinforcement Learning

Reinforcement Learning
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Reinforcement Learning in London over the 6 months to 4 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Reinforcement Learning in London

Reinforcement Learning
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Reinforcement Learning within the London region over the 6 months to 4 January 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London +38 1 £110,000 +83.33% 8
Reinforcement Learning
England

Reinforcement Learning
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (27.27%) Apache Spark
2 1 (9.09%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (9.09%) Confluence
2 1 (9.09%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (45.45%) AWS
1 5 (45.45%) Azure
1 5 (45.45%) GCP
2 2 (18.18%) Amazon SageMaker
2 2 (18.18%) Power Platform
2 2 (18.18%) Serverless
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon S3
3 1 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Cognitive Services
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Functions
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Machine Learning
3 1 (9.09%) GitHub
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (9.09%) Power Automate
3 1 (9.09%) PowerApps
3 1 (9.09%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 3 (27.27%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (54.55%) Big Data
2 2 (18.18%) NoSQL
3 1 (9.09%) Data Lake
3 1 (9.09%) DynamoDB
3 1 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (9.09%) Power BI
3 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) MLflow
2 1 (9.09%) Git
2 1 (9.09%) GitLab
2 1 (9.09%) JIRA
General
1 6 (54.55%) Finance
1 6 (54.55%) Social Skills
2 4 (36.36%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (36.36%) Marketing
3 2 (18.18%) Banking
4 1 (9.09%) Advertising
4 1 (9.09%) Electronics
4 1 (9.09%) Investment Banking
4 1 (9.09%) Legal
4 1 (9.09%) Manufacturing
4 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
4 1 (9.09%) Spanish Language
4 1 (9.09%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (27.27%) Data Scientist
1 3 (27.27%) Principal Data Scientist
1 3 (27.27%) Senior Data Scientist
2 2 (18.18%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
2 2 (18.18%) Developer
3 1 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Head of AI
3 1 (9.09%) Lead
3 1 (9.09%) Machine Learning Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (81.82%) TensorFlow
2 6 (54.55%) PyTorch
3 4 (36.36%) scikit-learn
4 2 (18.18%) Kafka
4 2 (18.18%) NumPy
4 2 (18.18%) Pandas
5 1 (9.09%) Caffe
5 1 (9.09%) Dask
5 1 (9.09%) Google JAX
5 1 (9.09%) Hugging Face
5 1 (9.09%) JAX
5 1 (9.09%) ONNX
5 1 (9.09%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 7 (63.64%) Algorithms
2 1 (9.09%) Data Structures
2 1 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (9.09%) Robotics
2 1 (9.09%) Stable Diffusion
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (81.82%) Machine Learning
2 8 (72.73%) AI
2 8 (72.73%) Data Science
2 8 (72.73%) Deep Learning
3 7 (63.64%) Natural Language Processing
4 5 (45.45%) Generative AI
4 5 (45.45%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (36.36%) Analytics
5 4 (36.36%) MLOps
5 4 (36.36%) Roadmaps
5 4 (36.36%) Validation
6 3 (27.27%) Actionable Insight
6 3 (27.27%) B2C
6 3 (27.27%) Data Analysis
6 3 (27.27%) Decision Tree
6 3 (27.27%) Decision-Making
6 3 (27.27%) DevOps
6 3 (27.27%) Predictive Modelling
6 3 (27.27%) Random Forest
6 3 (27.27%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 9 (81.82%) Python
2 7 (63.64%) SQL
3 1 (9.09%) Bash
3 1 (9.09%) C
3 1 (9.09%) MATLAB
3 1 (9.09%) PowerShell
3 1 (9.09%) R
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) Degree
1 4 (36.36%) Master's Degree
2 1 (9.09%) AWS Certification
2 1 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (9.09%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (27.27%) Kubeflow
2 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) Google
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft
1 1 (9.09%) Oracle
1 1 (9.09%) SAP
1 1 (9.09%) ServiceNow