Reinforcement Learning Contracts

Reinforcement Learning
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Reinforcement Learning skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Reinforcement Learning over the 6 months to 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 598 687 827
Rank change year-on-year +89 +140 -109
Contract jobs citing Reinforcement Learning 4 8 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.009% 0.014% 0.033%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.011% 0.016% 0.037%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 12
10th Percentile £652 £613 £525
25th Percentile £730 £650 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £869 £675 £600
Median % change year-on-year +28.74% +12.50% +14.29%
75th Percentile £939 £763 £625
90th Percentile £976 - £670
UK excluding London median daily rate - £663 -

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 contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,914 49,809 79,437
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.21% 89.64% 90.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,592 34,469 55,846
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £649
90th Percentile £750 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,564 1,687 1,868
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.70 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.75
Median hourly rate £36.50 £35.80 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.96% +39.41% +11.65%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.51
% change year-on-year +8.91% +70.69% -2.36%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Reinforcement Learning in the UK

Reinforcement Learning
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Reinforcement Learning in the UK

Reinforcement Learning
Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Reinforcement Learning within the UK over the 6 months to 9 June 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
England +91 4 £869 +28.74% 17
London +84 4 £869 +19.86% 10
Work from Home - 1 - - 4

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 (50.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (25.00%) Anthropic Claude
2 1 (25.00%) ChatGPT
2 1 (25.00%) Google Gemini
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) KDB
2 1 (25.00%) Big Data
2 1 (25.00%) Flink
2 1 (25.00%) Hadoop
2 1 (25.00%) NoSQL
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
1 1 (25.00%) Consultant
1 1 (25.00%) Junior
1 1 (25.00%) Junior Consultant
1 1 (25.00%) Machine Learning Consultant
1 1 (25.00%) Machine Learning Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Kafka
1 2 (50.00%) TensorFlow
2 1 (25.00%) Apache Beam
2 1 (25.00%) Google JAX
2 1 (25.00%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Algorithms
1 2 (50.00%) Fixed Income
2 1 (25.00%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Generative AI
1 2 (50.00%) LLM
1 2 (50.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (50.00%) Natural Language Processing
1 2 (50.00%) OO
1 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (50.00%) Statistical Modelling
2 1 (25.00%) Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (25.00%) Business Case
2 1 (25.00%) Coaching
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Vision
2 1 (25.00%) Data Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Deep Learning
2 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (25.00%) Model Validation
2 1 (25.00%) Prototyping
2 1 (25.00%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
2 3 (75.00%) SQL
3 2 (50.00%) C#
3 2 (50.00%) Java
3 2 (50.00%) R
4 1 (25.00%) Julia
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Numerate Degree
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes