Reinforcement Learning Job Trends in the North of England

Reinforcement Learning
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Reinforcement Learning skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 257 - 278
Rank change year-on-year - - +156
Permanent jobs citing Reinforcement Learning 2 0 2
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.019% - 0.023%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.023% - 0.026%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £68,700 - £60,250
25th Percentile £69,750 - £60,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,500 - £65,000
75th Percentile £82,250 - £69,375
90th Percentile £83,900 - £69,750
England median annual salary £71,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +18.33% -7.69% +8.33%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North of England

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 the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,582 8,228 7,565
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 80.13% 90.69% 88.35%
Number of salaries quoted 4,592 3,663 5,959
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £29,102
25th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £38,890
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -1.70%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £81,650 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Reinforcement Learning
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Reinforcement Learning job vacancy trend in the North of England

Reinforcement Learning
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Reinforcement Learning.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Reinforcement Learning

Reinforcement Learning
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Reinforcement Learning within the North of England region over the 6 months to 13 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
Yorkshire - 2 £75,500 - 5
Reinforcement Learning
England

Reinforcement Learning
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 1 (50.00%) Kinematics
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon SageMaker
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
1 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Big Data
1 1 (50.00%) DynamoDB
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Principal Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Robotics Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Dask
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
1 1 (50.00%) NumPy
1 1 (50.00%) Pandas
1 1 (50.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (50.00%) SciPy
1 1 (50.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Augmented Reality
1 1 (50.00%) Robotics
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) AI
1 1 (50.00%) Bayesian Methods
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Clean Code
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (50.00%) MLOps
1 1 (50.00%) Motion Control
1 1 (50.00%) Motion Planning
1 1 (50.00%) Open Source
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Google