Reinforcement Learning
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Reinforcement Learning skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Reinforcement Learning over the 6 months to 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 864 946 1027
Rank change year-on-year +82 +81 -193
Permanent jobs citing Reinforcement Learning 30 39 177
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.031% 0.037% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.036% 0.039% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 20 16 11
10th Percentile £50,025 £58,125 -
25th Percentile £54,688 £65,625 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,750 £80,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -20.31% +39.13% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £100,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £83,450 £110,625 £120,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £56,250
% change year-on-year -3.70% +20.00% +7.14%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Reinforcement Learning is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,343 100,922 147,129
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 86.11% 95.64% 95.57%
Number of salaries quoted 59,769 59,097 83,311
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,488
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

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
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Reinforcement Learning.

Salary trend for Reinforcement Learning in the UK

Reinforcement Learning
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Reinforcement Learning over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Reinforcement Learning in the UK

Reinforcement Learning
Top 10 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Reinforcement Learning within the UK over the 6 months to 24 April 2024. 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
UK excluding London +22 23 £65,000 -3.70% 4
England +108 21 £65,000 -21.21% 14
Work from Home +100 10 £66,250 -19.70% 11
Scotland -52 8 £57,500 -20.69% 1
London +150 6 £57,500 -37.84% 10
East of England +26 6 £70,000 -
South West -9 5 £55,000 -12.00% 1
North of England +49 2 £65,000 -29.73%
South East +19 2 - - 2
North West - 2 £65,000 -

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 2 (6.67%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (20.00%) Simulink
1 6 (20.00%) Stateflow
Cloud Services
1 7 (23.33%) Amazon SageMaker
1 7 (23.33%) AWS
2 4 (13.33%) SaaS
3 1 (3.33%) Azure
3 1 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (3.33%) Azure Machine Learning
3 1 (3.33%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (3.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.33%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.67%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (6.67%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Git
General
1 10 (33.33%) Law
2 9 (30.00%) Finance
3 7 (23.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 7 (23.33%) Marketing
3 7 (23.33%) Social Skills
4 5 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (13.33%) Automotive
5 4 (13.33%) Games
6 1 (3.33%) Banking
6 1 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (3.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (30.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 9 (30.00%) Software Engineer
2 7 (23.33%) Data Scientist
2 7 (23.33%) Python Engineer
2 7 (23.33%) Python Software Engineer
3 4 (13.33%) Developer
3 4 (13.33%) Machine Learning Developer
3 4 (13.33%) Machine Learning Engineer
3 4 (13.33%) Machine Learning Researcher
4 3 (10.00%) Senior
5 1 (3.33%) Analytics Consultant
5 1 (3.33%) Consultant
5 1 (3.33%) Data Manager
5 1 (3.33%) Data Science Manager
5 1 (3.33%) Senior Data Scientist
5 1 (3.33%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (66.67%) PyTorch
2 19 (63.33%) TensorFlow
3 8 (26.67%) Keras
3 8 (26.67%) SpaCy
4 7 (23.33%) Flask
5 5 (16.67%) NumPy
6 3 (10.00%) Hugging Face
7 2 (6.67%) OpenCV
7 2 (6.67%) Pandas
7 2 (6.67%) scikit-learn
8 1 (3.33%) Matplotlib
8 1 (3.33%) NLTK
Miscellaneous
1 15 (50.00%) Algorithms
2 7 (23.33%) Distributed Computing
3 4 (13.33%) Client/Server
3 4 (13.33%) Robotics
4 3 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (6.67%) Blockchain
6 1 (3.33%) Data Structures
6 1 (3.33%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 23 (76.67%) Artificial Intelligence
3 19 (63.33%) Natural Language Processing
4 18 (60.00%) Deep Learning
5 13 (43.33%) Computer Vision
5 13 (43.33%) Validation
6 12 (40.00%) Software Engineering
7 11 (36.67%) LLM
7 11 (36.67%) Neural Network
7 11 (36.67%) Support Vector Machines
8 10 (33.33%) Bayesian Methods
9 9 (30.00%) Data Science
9 9 (30.00%) Decision Tree
9 9 (30.00%) Mathematics
9 9 (30.00%) Statistics
10 8 (26.67%) Agile
10 8 (26.67%) CI/CD
10 8 (26.67%) Decision-Making
10 8 (26.67%) Visualisation
11 7 (23.33%) Feature Engineering
Programming Languages
1 30 (100.00%) Python
2 6 (20.00%) MATLAB
3 4 (13.33%) SQL
4 3 (10.00%) R
5 1 (3.33%) C
5 1 (3.33%) C++
Qualifications
1 17 (56.67%) Degree
2 16 (53.33%) PhD
3 6 (20.00%) Master's Degree
4 5 (16.67%) Security Cleared
5 4 (13.33%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (3.33%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.67%) SNOMED CT
2 1 (3.33%) QA
System Software
1 2 (6.67%) Docker
Vendors
1 7 (23.33%) Databricks
2 6 (20.00%) OpenAI
3 1 (3.33%) Google