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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 90 192 154
Rank change year-on-year +102 -38 -27
Contract jobs citing Machine Learning 453 363 735
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 2.59% 1.43% 1.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.93% 1.57% 2.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 363 260 520
10th Percentile £425 £463 £450
25th Percentile £506 £525 £517
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £750 £825 £725
90th Percentile £800 £950 £825
England median daily rate £588 £590 £600
% change year-on-year -0.42% -1.67% +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% +81.78%
75th Percentile £49.88 £82.50 £68.63
90th Percentile £64.50 £87.00 £76.25
England median hourly rate £52.50 £37.75 £45.00
% change year-on-year +39.07% -16.11% +55.98%

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 15,465 23,124 35,641
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.32% 90.91% 92.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,089 16,746 26,132
10th Percentile £340 £375 £390
25th Percentile £449 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £545
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 320 264 402
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.00 £16.50
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.50 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.21 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.59% +10.45% +8.07%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.50 £50.00
90th Percentile £68.08 £82.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £37.50 £37.32 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.48% +49.28% +11.11%

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 1 June 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 1 June 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 1 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
Central London +17 37 £639 -5.37% 33
West London +40 21 £575 - 13
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 75 (16.56%) Apache Airflow
2 70 (15.45%) Apache
3 23 (5.08%) Apache Spark
4 9 (1.99%) Jupyter
5 5 (1.10%) SharePoint
6 4 (0.88%) SAS
7 3 (0.66%) ArcGIS
7 3 (0.66%) CMS
8 2 (0.44%) Confluence
9 1 (0.22%) WebSphere
Applications
1 10 (2.21%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.66%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.44%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 12 (2.65%) Aladdin
2 9 (1.99%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.44%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.22%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 208 (45.92%) AWS
2 177 (39.07%) GCP
3 148 (32.67%) Azure
4 25 (5.52%) Power Platform
5 24 (5.30%) Vertex AI
6 19 (4.19%) Azure Machine Learning
6 19 (4.19%) Snowflake
7 15 (3.31%) Cloud Computing
8 14 (3.09%) Serverless
9 10 (2.21%) Azure DevOps
9 10 (2.21%) Google Compute Engine
10 9 (1.99%) AWS Lambda
10 9 (1.99%) GitHub
11 8 (1.77%) Amazon S3
11 8 (1.77%) Amazon SageMaker
12 6 (1.32%) Amazon EC2
12 6 (1.32%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 6 (1.32%) OCI
13 5 (1.10%) Adobe Analytics
13 5 (1.10%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 26 (5.74%) HTTP
2 2 (0.44%) Firewall
3 1 (0.22%) Internet
3 1 (0.22%) LAN
3 1 (0.22%) SSL
3 1 (0.22%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (15.45%) PostgreSQL
2 66 (14.57%) Apache Ignite
3 43 (9.49%) Big Data
4 32 (7.06%) Data Warehouse
5 30 (6.62%) BigQuery
5 30 (6.62%) Tableau
6 27 (5.96%) Data Lake
7 26 (5.74%) Apache Cassandra
8 22 (4.86%) Power BI
9 17 (3.75%) Hadoop
10 14 (3.09%) Data Mining
11 8 (1.77%) NoSQL
12 7 (1.55%) Apache Hive
13 5 (1.10%) Amazon Athena
13 5 (1.10%) HBase
13 5 (1.10%) Looker
14 4 (0.88%) DynamoDB
14 4 (0.88%) Metadata
14 4 (0.88%) MySQL
14 4 (0.88%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 47 (10.38%) Cypress.io
2 34 (7.51%) Git
3 17 (3.75%) JIRA
4 10 (2.21%) Jenkins
5 9 (1.99%) ER Studio
5 9 (1.99%) ERwin
6 8 (1.77%) GitLab
7 7 (1.55%) TeamCity
8 6 (1.32%) MLflow
9 5 (1.10%) Maven
9 5 (1.10%) Postman
9 5 (1.10%) Subversion
10 2 (0.44%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (0.44%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.44%) Mercurial
10 2 (0.44%) RStudio
10 2 (0.44%) Selenium
11 1 (0.22%) GoCD
General
1 147 (32.45%) Finance
2 105 (23.18%) Front Office
3 97 (21.41%) Banking
4 82 (18.10%) Social Skills
5 47 (10.38%) Analytical Skills
6 17 (3.75%) Public Sector
7 16 (3.53%) Marketing
8 15 (3.31%) Retail
9 13 (2.87%) Investment Banking
10 9 (1.99%) Pharmaceutical
11 8 (1.77%) Influencing Skills
12 7 (1.55%) Legal
13 6 (1.32%) Advertising
14 4 (0.88%) Czech Language
14 4 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (0.88%) Telecoms
15 3 (0.66%) Health Technology
15 3 (0.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 3 (0.66%) Local Government
15 3 (0.66%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 123 (27.15%) Developer
2 81 (17.88%) Software Engineer
3 73 (16.11%) Python Developer
4 70 (15.45%) Python Engineer
5 69 (15.23%) Python Software Engineer
6 67 (14.79%) Architect
7 65 (14.35%) Developer/Software Engineer
8 64 (14.13%) React Developer
9 50 (11.04%) Data Scientist
10 36 (7.95%) Analyst
11 35 (7.73%) Full Stack Developer
12 34 (7.51%) Full Stack Engineer
13 33 (7.28%) Full Stack Python Developer
13 33 (7.28%) Full Stack Software Engineer
13 33 (7.28%) Lead
14 32 (7.06%) Business Analyst
15 31 (6.84%) Senior
16 30 (6.62%) Machine Learning Engineer
17 27 (5.96%) Finance Business Analyst
17 27 (5.96%) Financial Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 86 (18.98%) React
2 65 (14.35%) gRPC
2 65 (14.35%) Material-UI
2 65 (14.35%) Protocol Buffers
2 65 (14.35%) Redux
3 44 (9.71%) TensorFlow
4 41 (9.05%) Kafka
5 33 (7.28%) scikit-learn
6 30 (6.62%) PyTorch
6 30 (6.62%) RESTful
7 26 (5.74%) Akka
8 24 (5.30%) CSS
9 22 (4.86%) Pandas
10 19 (4.19%) HTML
11 16 (3.53%) .NET
12 11 (2.43%) NumPy
13 9 (1.99%) Node.js
14 8 (1.77%) .NET Core
15 7 (1.55%) Matplotlib
15 7 (1.55%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 94 (20.75%) Fixed Income
1 94 (20.75%) Hedge funds
2 70 (15.45%) Algorithms
3 67 (14.79%) Equities
4 35 (7.73%) Product Ownership
5 29 (6.40%) Derivative
5 29 (6.40%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 13 (2.87%) Data Structures
7 12 (2.65%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 11 (2.43%) Greenfield Project
9 10 (2.21%) Management Information System
10 7 (1.55%) Public Cloud
11 6 (1.32%) Analytical Mindset
12 5 (1.10%) Data Protection Act
12 5 (1.10%) Marketing Technology
13 4 (0.88%) Genomics
13 4 (0.88%) Security Posture
14 3 (0.66%) Distributed Computing
14 3 (0.66%) Distributed Systems
14 3 (0.66%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 13 (2.87%) Linux
2 5 (1.10%) Unix
3 2 (0.44%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.22%) Android
4 1 (0.22%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 280 (61.81%) Artificial Intelligence
2 191 (42.16%) Agile
3 153 (33.77%) Data Science
4 106 (23.40%) Software Engineering
5 103 (22.74%) Analytics
6 95 (20.97%) Asset Management
7 94 (20.75%) Investment Management
8 81 (17.88%) Computer Science
9 74 (16.34%) DevOps
10 70 (15.45%) Full Stack Development
11 66 (14.57%) Automated Trading
12 63 (13.91%) CI/CD
13 54 (11.92%) Problem-Solving
14 50 (11.04%) Natural Language Processing
15 47 (10.38%) Data Modelling
16 43 (9.49%) Data Pipeline
17 42 (9.27%) LLM
18 41 (9.05%) Data Governance
19 37 (8.17%) MLOps
20 34 (7.51%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 272 (60.04%) Python
2 134 (29.58%) SQL
3 85 (18.76%) TypeScript
4 45 (9.93%) Java
5 37 (8.17%) JavaScript
5 37 (8.17%) Scala
6 21 (4.64%) C#
7 16 (3.53%) R
8 14 (3.09%) Bash
9 11 (2.43%) C++
9 11 (2.43%) Shell Script
10 10 (2.21%) PowerShell
11 8 (1.77%) T-SQL
12 5 (1.10%) C
13 4 (0.88%) Clojure
13 4 (0.88%) Go
13 4 (0.88%) Haskell
13 4 (0.88%) Rust
14 3 (0.66%) MATLAB
15 2 (0.44%) Julia
Qualifications
1 87 (19.21%) Degree
2 43 (9.49%) Computer Science Degree
3 41 (9.05%) Security Cleared
4 36 (7.95%) SC Cleared
5 35 (7.73%) Master's Degree
6 20 (4.42%) PhD
7 17 (3.75%) DV Cleared
8 11 (2.43%) AWS Certification
9 7 (1.55%) CISSP
9 7 (1.55%) Numerate Degree
10 5 (1.10%) Azure Certification
11 4 (0.88%) PMI Certification
11 4 (0.88%) PMP
12 3 (0.66%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 3 (0.66%) Cisco Certification
13 2 (0.44%) BPSS Clearance
13 2 (0.44%) CISM
14 1 (0.22%) CSSLP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (4.19%) Data Quality
2 14 (3.09%) 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%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (0.44%) Basel III
5 2 (0.44%) GDPR
6 1 (0.22%) GRC
6 1 (0.22%) NIST
6 1 (0.22%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.22%) SLA
System Software
1 35 (7.73%) Docker
2 7 (1.55%) HDFS
3 1 (0.22%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 57 (12.58%) Kubernetes
2 40 (8.83%) Terraform
3 15 (3.31%) Ansible
4 10 (2.21%) Puppet
5 6 (1.32%) Kubeflow
6 5 (1.10%) Hadoop YARN
7 2 (0.44%) Grafana
7 2 (0.44%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 93 (20.53%) Google
2 29 (6.40%) Databricks
3 20 (4.42%) Typelevel
4 16 (3.53%) Microsoft
5 13 (2.87%) Bloomberg
6 12 (2.65%) BISAM
7 11 (2.43%) Oracle
8 9 (1.99%) Sparx
9 7 (1.55%) Adobe
10 6 (1.32%) Foundry
10 6 (1.32%) Optimizely
10 6 (1.32%) Palantir
11 5 (1.10%) Ensighten
11 5 (1.10%) Monetate
11 5 (1.10%) Omniture
11 5 (1.10%) Salesforce
11 5 (1.10%) Tealium
12 4 (0.88%) OpenAI
12 4 (0.88%) Splunk
13 3 (0.66%) Alteryx