Machine Learning Engineer Contracts in London

Machine Learning Engineer
England > London

The median Machine Learning Engineer daily rate in London is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 371 460 531
Rank change year-on-year +89 +71 -47
Contract jobs requiring a Machine Learning Engineer 29 22 73
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.16% 0.087% 0.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.092% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 16 50
10th Percentile £469 £543 £523
25th Percentile £513 £550 £570
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £813 £631 £725
90th Percentile £930 £650 £850
England median daily rate £568 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -1.30% -4.17% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in London with a recognized job title 16,560 23,906 36,699
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.67% 95.05% 95.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,921 17,459 27,030
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £440 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +7.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 324 281 404
10th Percentile £16.00 £17.98 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.17 £22.63 £23.75
Median hourly rate £27.81 £36.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.75% +2.86% +7.12%
75th Percentile £46.59 £63.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £66.85 £82.25 £67.50
England median hourly rate £39.50 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -12.22% +87.50% +14.01%

Machine Learning Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured Machine Learning Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Machine Learning Engineer in London

Machine Learning Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Machine Learning Engineer in London

Machine Learning Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Machine Learning Engineer in London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Machine Learning Engineer in London

Machine Learning Engineer
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 Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 12 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 +42 4 £530 -2.75% 2
Machine Learning Engineer
England

Machine Learning Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, Machine Learning Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring Machine Learning Engineer in the job title.

1 29 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 27 (93.10%) Python
3 19 (65.52%) Artificial Intelligence
4 14 (48.28%) Data Science
5 12 (41.38%) TensorFlow
6 11 (37.93%) MLOps
6 11 (37.93%) Azure
7 10 (34.48%) Java
7 10 (34.48%) DevOps
8 9 (31.03%) scikit-learn
8 9 (31.03%) Azure Machine Learning
8 9 (31.03%) AWS
9 8 (27.59%) Deep Learning
9 8 (27.59%) Software Engineering
9 8 (27.59%) CI/CD
10 7 (24.14%) Kubernetes
11 6 (20.69%) GCP
11 6 (20.69%) Generative AI
11 6 (20.69%) LLM
11 6 (20.69%) NumPy
12 5 (17.24%) Pattern Recognition
12 5 (17.24%) Natural Language Processing
12 5 (17.24%) Parallel Computing
12 5 (17.24%) Finance
12 5 (17.24%) SQL
12 5 (17.24%) C
12 5 (17.24%) C++
12 5 (17.24%) Data Mining
12 5 (17.24%) Shell Script
12 5 (17.24%) Architectural Patterns

Machine Learning Engineer Skill Set
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 5 (17.24%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (10.34%) Apache Spark
3 2 (6.90%) Jupyter
4 1 (3.45%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 11 (37.93%) Azure
2 9 (31.03%) AWS
2 9 (31.03%) Azure Machine Learning
3 6 (20.69%) GCP
4 4 (13.79%) Vertex AI
5 2 (6.90%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (6.90%) ChatGPT
6 1 (3.45%) Amazon SageMaker
6 1 (3.45%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (3.45%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (17.24%) Data Mining
2 3 (10.34%) NoSQL
3 2 (6.90%) Big Data
4 1 (3.45%) Data Lake
4 1 (3.45%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 4 (13.79%) MLflow
2 2 (6.90%) Cucumber
2 2 (6.90%) GitLab
2 2 (6.90%) Selenium
General
1 5 (17.24%) Finance
2 2 (6.90%) Public Sector
3 1 (3.45%) Banking
3 1 (3.45%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (41.38%) TensorFlow
2 9 (31.03%) scikit-learn
3 6 (20.69%) NumPy
4 5 (17.24%) PyTorch
5 4 (13.79%) Pandas
6 3 (10.34%) LangChain
7 2 (6.90%) FastAPI
7 2 (6.90%) HTML
7 2 (6.90%) Kafka
7 2 (6.90%) OpenCV
7 2 (6.90%) Torch
7 2 (6.90%) XGBoost
8 1 (3.45%) ARM Templates
8 1 (3.45%) Hugging Face
8 1 (3.45%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.24%) Algorithms
2 3 (10.34%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (6.90%) Social Media
3 2 (6.90%) Tandem
4 1 (3.45%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (3.45%) Mobile App
4 1 (3.45%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 19 (65.52%) Artificial Intelligence
3 14 (48.28%) Data Science
4 11 (37.93%) MLOps
5 10 (34.48%) DevOps
6 8 (27.59%) CI/CD
6 8 (27.59%) Deep Learning
6 8 (27.59%) Software Engineering
7 6 (20.69%) Generative AI
7 6 (20.69%) LLM
8 5 (17.24%) Architectural Patterns
8 5 (17.24%) Natural Language Processing
8 5 (17.24%) Parallel Computing
8 5 (17.24%) Pattern Recognition
8 5 (17.24%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
8 5 (17.24%) Roadmaps
9 4 (13.79%) Computer Science
9 4 (13.79%) Data Ingestion
9 4 (13.79%) Fintech
9 4 (13.79%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 27 (93.10%) Python
2 10 (34.48%) Java
3 5 (17.24%) C
3 5 (17.24%) C++
3 5 (17.24%) Shell Script
3 5 (17.24%) SQL
4 4 (13.79%) JavaScript
5 2 (6.90%) Go
6 1 (3.45%) C#
6 1 (3.45%) Clojure
6 1 (3.45%) Haskell
6 1 (3.45%) Rust
Qualifications
1 4 (13.79%) Degree
1 4 (13.79%) SC Cleared
1 4 (13.79%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.90%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (6.90%) Master's Degree
2 2 (6.90%) PhD
3 1 (3.45%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.90%) QA
System Software
1 4 (13.79%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (24.14%) Kubernetes
2 4 (13.79%) Kubeflow
3 2 (6.90%) Grafana
3 2 (6.90%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (13.79%) Databricks
2 2 (6.90%) Splunk
3 1 (3.45%) Microsoft