Machine Learning Engineer Contracts in London

Machine Learning Engineer
England > London

The median Machine Learning Engineer daily rate in London is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 27 June 2025.

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

6 months to
27 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 323 366 454
Rank change year-on-year +43 +88 +70
Contract jobs requiring a Machine Learning Engineer 33 33 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.26% 0.19% 0.096%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.28% 0.20% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 29 18
10th Percentile £383 £496 £546
25th Percentile £563 £513 £554
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £800 £850 £650
90th Percentile £860 £940 £715
England median daily rate £613 £575 £575
% change year-on-year +6.52% - -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 11,910 16,481 23,824
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.50% 93.75% 94.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,060 11,827 17,380
10th Percentile £336 £325 £363
25th Percentile £425 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £798 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 182 314 273
10th Percentile £18.87 £16.00 £18.10
25th Percentile £23.53 £20.22 £22.63
Median hourly rate £32.70 £27.50 £37.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.89% -25.68% +5.71%
75th Percentile £50.50 £44.50 £64.00
90th Percentile £63.75 £66.85 £82.45
England median hourly rate £28.50 £39.55 £43.86
% change year-on-year -27.94% -9.83% +75.44%

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 27 June 2025.

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 27 June 2025. 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 +10 1 £575 +12.75% 48
Machine Learning Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 27 June 2025, 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 33 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 28 (84.85%) Python
3 23 (69.70%) AWS
4 19 (57.58%) Deep Learning
5 18 (54.55%) Apache Spark
5 18 (54.55%) Degree
6 17 (51.52%) Master's Degree
7 16 (48.48%) Artificial Intelligence
8 15 (45.45%) Java
8 15 (45.45%) Distributed Computing
9 14 (42.42%) C++
9 14 (42.42%) PhD
10 12 (36.36%) Computer Science
10 12 (36.36%) MLOps
10 12 (36.36%) Data Science
11 11 (33.33%) C
12 10 (30.30%) Docker
13 9 (27.27%) Low Latency
13 9 (27.27%) Big Data
13 9 (27.27%) MLflow
13 9 (27.27%) CI/CD
14 8 (24.24%) Shell Script
14 8 (24.24%) Finance
15 7 (21.21%) Data Mining
15 7 (21.21%) Parallel Computing
15 7 (21.21%) Kubernetes
16 6 (18.18%) TensorFlow
16 6 (18.18%) Databricks
16 6 (18.18%) PyTorch
16 6 (18.18%) Azure

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 18 (54.55%) Apache Spark
2 2 (6.06%) Apache
2 2 (6.06%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (3.03%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 23 (69.70%) AWS
2 6 (18.18%) Azure
3 4 (12.12%) GCP
4 2 (6.06%) Amazon Kinesis
5 1 (3.03%) Amazon S3
5 1 (3.03%) Amazon SageMaker
5 1 (3.03%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (3.03%) AWS Step Functions
5 1 (3.03%) Azure Machine Learning
5 1 (3.03%) Dagster
5 1 (3.03%) GitHub
5 1 (3.03%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (3.03%) Power Platform
5 1 (3.03%) Prefect
5 1 (3.03%) Serverless
5 1 (3.03%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (27.27%) Big Data
2 7 (21.21%) Data Mining
3 2 (6.06%) Hadoop
4 1 (3.03%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (3.03%) Flink
4 1 (3.03%) MongoDB
4 1 (3.03%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (3.03%) Power BI
4 1 (3.03%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (27.27%) MLflow
2 4 (12.12%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.03%) GitLab
General
1 8 (24.24%) Finance
2 5 (15.15%) Social Skills
3 2 (6.06%) Banking
4 1 (3.03%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (18.18%) PyTorch
1 6 (18.18%) TensorFlow
2 5 (15.15%) PySpark
3 4 (12.12%) Ray
3 4 (12.12%) scikit-learn
4 2 (6.06%) AWS CDK
4 2 (6.06%) Kafka
4 2 (6.06%) Pandas
4 2 (6.06%) REST
5 1 (3.03%) Keras
5 1 (3.03%) Plotly
5 1 (3.03%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 15 (45.45%) Distributed Computing
2 4 (12.12%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (6.06%) Algorithms
3 2 (6.06%) Data Structures
3 2 (6.06%) Tandem
4 1 (3.03%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.03%) Data Fabric
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 19 (57.58%) Deep Learning
3 16 (48.48%) Artificial Intelligence
4 12 (36.36%) Computer Science
4 12 (36.36%) Data Science
4 12 (36.36%) MLOps
5 9 (27.27%) CI/CD
5 9 (27.27%) Low Latency
6 7 (21.21%) Parallel Computing
7 6 (18.18%) Natural Language Processing
8 5 (15.15%) Analytics
8 5 (15.15%) DevOps
8 5 (15.15%) LLM
8 5 (15.15%) Roadmaps
8 5 (15.15%) Test Automation
9 4 (12.12%) Containerisation
9 4 (12.12%) Data Engineering
9 4 (12.12%) Fintech
9 4 (12.12%) Generative AI
9 4 (12.12%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 28 (84.85%) Python
2 15 (45.45%) Java
3 14 (42.42%) C++
4 11 (33.33%) C
5 8 (24.24%) Shell Script
6 4 (12.12%) SQL
7 1 (3.03%) JavaScript
7 1 (3.03%) R
7 1 (3.03%) Rust
7 1 (3.03%) Scala
Qualifications
1 18 (54.55%) Degree
2 17 (51.52%) Master's Degree
3 14 (42.42%) PhD
4 5 (15.15%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (12.12%) SC Cleared
5 4 (12.12%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.03%) Accessibility
1 1 (3.03%) Data Quality
System Software
1 10 (30.30%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (21.21%) Kubernetes
2 5 (15.15%) Terraform
3 4 (12.12%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 6 (18.18%) Databricks
2 1 (3.03%) Google
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