Machine Learning Contracts in London

Machine Learning (ML)
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Machine Learning skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Machine Learning over the 6 months to 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 88 171 151
Rank change year-on-year +83 -20 -21
Contract jobs citing Machine Learning 455 389 748
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 2.60% 1.51% 1.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.94% 1.66% 2.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 367 280 520
10th Percentile £425 £467 £450
25th Percentile £505 £525 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £620 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -0.80% +4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £750 £800 £725
90th Percentile £788 £925 £825
England median daily rate £588 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -2.08% - +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 5 15
10th Percentile £41.25 - £18.50
25th Percentile £41.56 £35.00 £31.88
Median hourly rate £46.25 £72.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -36.21% +61.11% +49.50%
75th Percentile £49.88 £82.50 £68.63
90th Percentile £64.50 £87.00 £76.25
England median hourly rate £52.50 £35.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year +50.00% -22.22% +21.87%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,495 23,478 35,602
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.66% 90.88% 92.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,110 16,936 26,017
10th Percentile £343 £375 £388
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £593 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.17% +3.04% +9.52%
75th Percentile £681 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 307 270 417
10th Percentile £15.77 £18.50 £17.25
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.50 £23.91
Median hourly rate £27.84 £38.25 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.22% +2.00% +15.38%
75th Percentile £48.75 £63.94 £51.48
90th Percentile £66.85 £82.28 £68.75
England median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.69% +45.00% +7.94%

Machine Learning
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Machine Learning in London

Machine Learning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Machine Learning in London.

Daily rate trend for Machine Learning in London

Machine Learning
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Machine Learning in London over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Machine Learning in London

Machine Learning
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Machine Learning in London.

Hourly rate trend for Machine Learning in London

Machine Learning
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Machine Learning in London over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Machine Learning in London

Machine Learning
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Machine Learning within the London region over the 6 months to 17 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London +26 35 £663 +1.92% 36
West London +40 20 £575 - 12
Machine Learning
England

Machine Learning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 73 (16.04%) Apache Airflow
2 65 (14.29%) Apache
3 20 (4.40%) Apache Spark
4 8 (1.76%) Jupyter
5 5 (1.10%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.66%) ArcGIS
6 3 (0.66%) CMS
7 2 (0.44%) Confluence
8 1 (0.22%) SAS
Applications
1 10 (2.20%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.66%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.66%) Simulink
3 1 (0.22%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 12 (2.64%) Aladdin
2 11 (2.42%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.44%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.22%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 196 (43.08%) AWS
2 169 (37.14%) GCP
3 138 (30.33%) Azure
4 26 (5.71%) Power Platform
5 25 (5.49%) Vertex AI
6 19 (4.18%) Snowflake
7 17 (3.74%) Azure Machine Learning
8 14 (3.08%) Cloud Computing
9 13 (2.86%) Serverless
10 10 (2.20%) Google Compute Engine
11 9 (1.98%) AWS Lambda
11 9 (1.98%) Azure DevOps
11 9 (1.98%) GitHub
12 8 (1.76%) Amazon S3
12 8 (1.76%) OCI
13 7 (1.54%) Amazon SageMaker
14 6 (1.32%) SaaS
15 5 (1.10%) Adobe Analytics
15 5 (1.10%) Amazon EC2
15 5 (1.10%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 24 (5.27%) HTTP
2 2 (0.44%) Firewall
3 1 (0.22%) LAN
3 1 (0.22%) SSL
3 1 (0.22%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (14.73%) PostgreSQL
2 62 (13.63%) Apache Ignite
3 43 (9.45%) Big Data
4 31 (6.81%) Data Warehouse
4 31 (6.81%) Tableau
5 30 (6.59%) BigQuery
6 25 (5.49%) Data Lake
7 24 (5.27%) Apache Cassandra
8 23 (5.05%) Power BI
9 16 (3.52%) Hadoop
10 15 (3.30%) Data Mining
11 6 (1.32%) Amazon Athena
11 6 (1.32%) NoSQL
12 5 (1.10%) Apache Hive
12 5 (1.10%) HBase
12 5 (1.10%) Looker
13 4 (0.88%) DynamoDB
13 4 (0.88%) Geospatial Data
13 4 (0.88%) MySQL
14 3 (0.66%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 43 (9.45%) Cypress.io
2 32 (7.03%) Git
3 17 (3.74%) JIRA
4 11 (2.42%) ER Studio
4 11 (2.42%) ERwin
4 11 (2.42%) Jenkins
5 9 (1.98%) GitLab
6 7 (1.54%) MLflow
6 7 (1.54%) TeamCity
7 5 (1.10%) Maven
7 5 (1.10%) Postman
7 5 (1.10%) Subversion
8 2 (0.44%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (0.44%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.44%) Mercurial
8 2 (0.44%) RStudio
8 2 (0.44%) Selenium
9 1 (0.22%) GoCD
9 1 (0.22%) Poetry
General
1 146 (32.09%) Finance
2 103 (22.64%) Front Office
3 93 (20.44%) Banking
4 77 (16.92%) Social Skills
5 47 (10.33%) Analytical Skills
6 17 (3.74%) Public Sector
7 16 (3.52%) Retail
8 14 (3.08%) Investment Banking
9 13 (2.86%) Marketing
10 11 (2.42%) Pharmaceutical
11 8 (1.76%) Influencing Skills
12 6 (1.32%) Advertising
13 5 (1.10%) Financial Institution
13 5 (1.10%) Legal
14 4 (0.88%) Czech Language
14 4 (0.88%) Telecoms
15 3 (0.66%) Health Technology
15 3 (0.66%) Local Government
15 3 (0.66%) Presentation Skills
15 3 (0.66%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 121 (26.59%) Developer
2 77 (16.92%) Software Engineer
3 72 (15.82%) Python Developer
4 67 (14.73%) Python Engineer
5 65 (14.29%) Python Software Engineer
6 64 (14.07%) Architect
7 61 (13.41%) Developer/Software Engineer
8 60 (13.19%) React Developer
9 50 (10.99%) Data Scientist
10 38 (8.35%) Analyst
11 35 (7.69%) Machine Learning Engineer
12 33 (7.25%) Business Analyst
12 33 (7.25%) Full Stack Developer
13 32 (7.03%) Full Stack Engineer
14 31 (6.81%) Full Stack Python Developer
14 31 (6.81%) Full Stack Software Engineer
15 30 (6.59%) Senior
16 28 (6.15%) Lead
17 26 (5.71%) Finance Business Analyst
17 26 (5.71%) Financial Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (18.24%) React
2 61 (13.41%) gRPC
2 61 (13.41%) Material-UI
2 61 (13.41%) Protocol Buffers
2 61 (13.41%) Redux
3 47 (10.33%) TensorFlow
4 38 (8.35%) Kafka
5 37 (8.13%) scikit-learn
6 32 (7.03%) PyTorch
7 28 (6.15%) RESTful
8 25 (5.49%) Pandas
9 24 (5.27%) Akka
9 24 (5.27%) CSS
10 21 (4.62%) HTML
11 15 (3.30%) .NET
12 14 (3.08%) NumPy
13 9 (1.98%) Node.js
14 7 (1.54%) .NET Core
14 7 (1.54%) Matplotlib
14 7 (1.54%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 91 (20.00%) Fixed Income
1 91 (20.00%) Hedge funds
2 72 (15.82%) Algorithms
3 64 (14.07%) Equities
4 36 (7.91%) Product Ownership
5 31 (6.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 30 (6.59%) Derivative
7 13 (2.86%) Data Structures
7 13 (2.86%) Greenfield Project
8 11 (2.42%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 10 (2.20%) Management Information System
10 8 (1.76%) Public Cloud
11 7 (1.54%) Analytical Mindset
12 6 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
13 5 (1.10%) Genomics
13 5 (1.10%) Life Science
13 5 (1.10%) Marketing Technology
14 4 (0.88%) Distributed Systems
14 4 (0.88%) Security Posture
14 4 (0.88%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 15 (3.30%) Linux
2 5 (1.10%) Unix
3 4 (0.88%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.22%) Android
4 1 (0.22%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 282 (61.98%) Artificial Intelligence
2 185 (40.66%) Agile
3 151 (33.19%) Data Science
4 101 (22.20%) Software Engineering
5 92 (20.22%) Asset Management
6 91 (20.00%) Investment Management
7 90 (19.78%) Analytics
8 80 (17.58%) Computer Science
9 73 (16.04%) DevOps
10 67 (14.73%) CI/CD
11 65 (14.29%) Full Stack Development
12 63 (13.85%) Automated Trading
13 53 (11.65%) Problem-Solving
14 48 (10.55%) Natural Language Processing
15 46 (10.11%) Data Modelling
16 43 (9.45%) LLM
17 41 (9.01%) Data Governance
18 40 (8.79%) Data Pipeline
19 36 (7.91%) Generative AI
20 35 (7.69%) MLOps
Programming Languages
1 277 (60.88%) Python
2 132 (29.01%) SQL
3 81 (17.80%) TypeScript
4 50 (10.99%) Java
5 38 (8.35%) JavaScript
6 34 (7.47%) Scala
7 23 (5.05%) C#
8 17 (3.74%) R
9 13 (2.86%) Bash
10 12 (2.64%) Shell Script
11 11 (2.42%) C++
11 11 (2.42%) PowerShell
12 7 (1.54%) T-SQL
13 6 (1.32%) Clojure
13 6 (1.32%) Go
13 6 (1.32%) Haskell
13 6 (1.32%) Rust
14 5 (1.10%) C
15 3 (0.66%) MATLAB
16 1 (0.22%) PHP
Qualifications
1 82 (18.02%) Degree
2 43 (9.45%) Computer Science Degree
3 41 (9.01%) Security Cleared
4 37 (8.13%) SC Cleared
5 32 (7.03%) Master's Degree
6 21 (4.62%) PhD
7 16 (3.52%) DV Cleared
8 12 (2.64%) AWS Certification
9 7 (1.54%) CISSP
10 4 (0.88%) Numerate Degree
10 4 (0.88%) PMI Certification
10 4 (0.88%) PMP
11 3 (0.66%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 3 (0.66%) Azure Certification
11 3 (0.66%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.44%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.44%) CISM
13 1 (0.22%) CSSLP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (3.74%) Data Quality
2 15 (3.30%) QA
3 4 (0.88%) Accessibility
3 4 (0.88%) Dodd-Frank
3 4 (0.88%) MiFID
4 3 (0.66%) PMO
4 3 (0.66%) WCAG
5 2 (0.44%) Basel III
6 1 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.22%) GDPR
6 1 (0.22%) GRC
6 1 (0.22%) NIST
6 1 (0.22%) SLA
System Software
1 33 (7.25%) Docker
2 5 (1.10%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 54 (11.87%) Kubernetes
2 41 (9.01%) Terraform
3 15 (3.30%) Ansible
4 11 (2.42%) Puppet
5 7 (1.54%) Kubeflow
6 5 (1.10%) Hadoop YARN
7 2 (0.44%) Grafana
7 2 (0.44%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 88 (19.34%) Google
2 25 (5.49%) Databricks
3 19 (4.18%) Typelevel
4 16 (3.52%) Microsoft
5 13 (2.86%) Bloomberg
5 13 (2.86%) Oracle
6 12 (2.64%) BISAM
7 11 (2.42%) Sparx
8 7 (1.54%) Adobe
8 7 (1.54%) OpenAI
9 6 (1.32%) Foundry
9 6 (1.32%) Optimizely
9 6 (1.32%) Palantir
10 5 (1.10%) Ensighten
10 5 (1.10%) Monetate
10 5 (1.10%) Omniture
10 5 (1.10%) Tealium
11 4 (0.88%) ESRI
11 4 (0.88%) Splunk
12 3 (0.66%) Genesys