Machine Learning Jobs in Scotland

Machine Learning (ML)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Machine Learning skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Machine Learning over the 6 months leading up to 19 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 15 85 124
Rank change year-on-year +70 +39 -26
Permanent jobs citing Machine Learning 1,292 148 150
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 18.89% 3.46% 2.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 21.13% 3.65% 2.59%
Number of salaries quoted 59 49 53
10th Percentile £45,044 £42,500 £39,400
25th Percentile £48,750 £43,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +8.33% +20.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,782 £88,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year - -6.67% +15.38%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Machine Learning falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,115 4,054 5,784
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 89.41% 94.68% 91.27%
Number of salaries quoted 2,571 2,031 2,895
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +12.24%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £83,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,899 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.69% +1.50% +9.09%

Machine Learning
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Machine Learning in Scotland

Machine Learning
Salary Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Machine Learning in Scotland.

Salary trend for Machine Learning in Scotland

Machine Learning
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Machine Learning in Scotland over the 6 months to 19 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Machine Learning in Scotland

Machine Learning
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Machine Learning within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 19 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow +77 1,230 £70,000 +49.73% 7
Edinburgh -7 42 £72,000 +11.63% 7
Dundee -8 7 £50,000 -31.03%
Aberdeen - 5 £40,500 - 1
West Lothian - 4 £30,000 -
Midlothian - 3 - - 1
Lanarkshire - 1 £70,000 - 4
Machine Learning
UK

Machine Learning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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
1 220 (17.03%) Apache Spark
2 98 (7.59%) FileNet
3 16 (1.24%) Apache
3 16 (1.24%) Apache Airflow
4 11 (0.85%) CICS
5 3 (0.23%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.15%) SAS
7 1 (0.077%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 3 (0.23%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 626 (48.45%) AWS
2 99 (7.66%) Amazon S3
3 79 (6.11%) Azure
4 72 (5.57%) Datadog
5 61 (4.72%) GCP
6 52 (4.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 52 (4.02%) Cloud Computing
7 46 (3.56%) GitHub
8 30 (2.32%) BlazeMeter
9 25 (1.93%) Google Play
10 17 (1.32%) Power Platform
11 10 (0.77%) Amazon EKS
11 10 (0.77%) Microsoft 365
12 7 (0.54%) Amazon Bedrock
12 7 (0.54%) Amazon SageMaker
13 6 (0.46%) Entra ID
14 4 (0.31%) IaaS
14 4 (0.31%) PaaS
14 4 (0.31%) Serverless
15 3 (0.23%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (0.77%) DSL
2 6 (0.46%) HTTP
2 6 (0.46%) MQTT
3 4 (0.31%) Firewall
3 4 (0.31%) SD-WAN
4 2 (0.15%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 319 (24.69%) NoSQL
2 137 (10.60%) Big Data
3 128 (9.91%) Apache Cassandra
4 98 (7.59%) Elasticsearch
5 94 (7.28%) Hadoop
6 91 (7.04%) Apache Hive
7 86 (6.66%) HBase
8 49 (3.79%) Data Lake
9 47 (3.64%) MongoDB
10 39 (3.02%) Qlik Sense
11 21 (1.63%) DB2
12 19 (1.47%) Relational Database
13 18 (1.39%) Tableau
14 14 (1.08%) MySQL
14 14 (1.08%) Power BI
15 4 (0.31%) Amazon RDS
15 4 (0.31%) Flink
15 4 (0.31%) PostgreSQL
16 3 (0.23%) Data Warehouse
16 3 (0.23%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 196 (15.17%) JUnit
2 133 (10.29%) Jenkins
3 105 (8.13%) Jasmine
4 98 (7.59%) Git
5 79 (6.11%) Bitbucket Server
6 60 (4.64%) Cypress.io
6 60 (4.64%) Karma Test Runner
6 60 (4.64%) Protractor
6 60 (4.64%) Selenium
6 60 (4.64%) WebDriver
7 45 (3.48%) Mockito
8 25 (1.93%) Android Studio
9 18 (1.39%) JMeter
10 11 (0.85%) ChangeMan
11 7 (0.54%) Maven
12 3 (0.23%) GitLab
13 2 (0.15%) Visual Studio
14 1 (0.077%) Artifactory
General
1 1,233 (95.43%) Finance
2 1,212 (93.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1,206 (93.34%) Law
4 539 (41.72%) Marketing
5 416 (32.20%) Legal
6 244 (18.89%) Banking
7 214 (16.56%) Investment Banking
8 133 (10.29%) Social Skills
9 53 (4.10%) Financial Institution
10 52 (4.02%) Influencing Skills
11 43 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
12 33 (2.55%) Games
13 22 (1.70%) Prime Brokerage
14 19 (1.47%) Private Banking
15 16 (1.24%) Analytical Skills
16 9 (0.70%) Manufacturing
17 7 (0.54%) Telecoms
18 6 (0.46%) Electronics
18 6 (0.46%) Public Sector
19 4 (0.31%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 1,144 (88.54%) Software Engineer
2 509 (39.40%) Java Engineer
3 508 (39.32%) Java Software Engineer
4 342 (26.47%) Lead
5 325 (25.15%) Lead Software Engineer
6 208 (16.10%) Full Stack Engineer
7 207 (16.02%) Full Stack Software Engineer
8 171 (13.24%) AWS Engineer
8 171 (13.24%) AWS Software Engineer
9 167 (12.93%) Python Engineer
9 167 (12.93%) Python Software Engineer
10 133 (10.29%) Lead Java Engineer
11 126 (9.75%) Senior
12 116 (8.98%) Data Engineer
13 107 (8.28%) Big Data Engineer
13 107 (8.28%) Big Data Software Engineer
14 105 (8.13%) Senior Software Engineer
15 82 (6.35%) Developer
16 68 (5.26%) Cloud Engineer
17 67 (5.19%) Cloud Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 347 (26.86%) Spring
2 294 (22.76%) React
3 264 (20.43%) AngularJS
4 213 (16.49%) J2EE
5 202 (15.63%) Kafka
6 180 (13.93%) Hibernate
7 176 (13.62%) HTML
8 165 (12.77%) Twitter Bootstrap
9 163 (12.62%) JMS
9 163 (12.62%) Node.js
10 145 (11.22%) CSS
11 137 (10.60%) JSON
12 134 (10.37%) jQuery
13 106 (8.20%) GraphQL
14 98 (7.59%) Spring Integration
15 85 (6.58%) Spring Boot
16 74 (5.73%) PySpark
17 72 (5.57%) OpenTelemetry
18 60 (4.64%) Jest
19 36 (2.79%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 557 (43.11%) Algorithms
2 402 (31.11%) Cloud Native
3 138 (10.68%) Onboarding
4 121 (9.37%) Public Cloud
5 92 (7.12%) Data Structures
6 47 (3.64%) Management Information System
7 36 (2.79%) Reference Data
8 34 (2.63%) Legacy Code
9 24 (1.86%) Product Ownership
10 23 (1.78%) Distributed Systems
11 18 (1.39%) Market Risk
12 16 (1.24%) Credit Risk
13 12 (0.93%) Taxonomies
14 11 (0.85%) Mainframe
14 11 (0.85%) VSAM
15 9 (0.70%) IoT
16 8 (0.62%) Distributed Computing
17 6 (0.46%) Arduino
17 6 (0.46%) Private Cloud
17 6 (0.46%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 109 (8.44%) Unix
2 51 (3.95%) Linux
3 25 (1.93%) Android
4 6 (0.46%) Windows
5 1 (0.077%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,234 (95.51%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1,229 (95.12%) Software Engineering
3 1,167 (90.33%) Agile
4 1,086 (84.06%) SDLC
5 1,052 (81.42%) Operational Stability
6 1,034 (80.03%) CI/CD
7 781 (60.45%) Community of Practice
8 604 (46.75%) Visualisation
9 575 (44.50%) Continuous Improvement
10 437 (33.82%) Risk Management
11 312 (24.15%) Decision-Making
12 261 (20.20%) Microservices
13 238 (18.42%) Architectural Design
14 237 (18.34%) Full Stack Development
15 220 (17.03%) Information Architecture
16 172 (13.31%) Continuous Delivery
17 170 (13.16%) TDD
18 165 (12.77%) Problem-Solving
19 164 (12.69%) Computer Science
20 135 (10.45%) Client Onboarding
Programming Languages
1 895 (69.27%) Java
2 532 (41.18%) Python
3 523 (40.48%) SQL
4 184 (14.24%) JavaScript
5 157 (12.15%) TypeScript
6 91 (7.04%) PL/SQL
7 72 (5.57%) Scala
8 25 (1.93%) Kotlin
9 16 (1.24%) C#
10 15 (1.16%) C++
11 11 (0.85%) COBOL
11 11 (0.85%) JCL
12 10 (0.77%) Go
13 8 (0.62%) C
14 6 (0.46%) Haskell
14 6 (0.46%) Rust
15 4 (0.31%) Bash
16 3 (0.23%) MATLAB
17 2 (0.15%) R
18 1 (0.077%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 63 (4.88%) Degree
2 47 (3.64%) Computer Science Degree
3 42 (3.25%) Master's Degree
4 15 (1.16%) PhD
5 14 (1.08%) AWS Certification
6 8 (0.62%) CISSP
7 6 (0.46%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 6 (0.46%) CISM
8 4 (0.31%) Azure Certification
8 4 (0.31%) CCNA
8 4 (0.31%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (0.31%) Network+ Certification
9 3 (0.23%) Security Cleared
10 2 (0.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.15%) PMI Certification
10 2 (0.15%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (2.01%) Data Quality
2 22 (1.70%) Accessibility
3 10 (0.77%) SLA
4 6 (0.46%) NIST
5 1 (0.077%) GDPR
System Software
1 86 (6.66%) HDFS
2 11 (0.85%) Time Sharing Option
3 6 (0.46%) Docker
3 6 (0.46%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 178 (13.78%) Terraform
2 172 (13.31%) Kubernetes
3 91 (7.04%) Grafana
4 20 (1.55%) Prometheus
5 7 (0.54%) Graphite
6 4 (0.31%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.077%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 241 (18.65%) Oracle
2 200 (15.48%) Databricks
3 94 (7.28%) Splunk
4 87 (6.73%) Dynatrace
5 79 (6.11%) Informatica
6 56 (4.33%) Cloudera
7 49 (3.79%) Alteryx
8 42 (3.25%) Google
9 18 (1.39%) SaltStack
10 15 (1.16%) Microsoft
11 10 (0.77%) Cognos
11 10 (0.77%) Sybase
12 6 (0.46%) NVIDIA
12 6 (0.46%) SAP
13 4 (0.31%) Cisco
14 1 (0.077%) OpenAI
14 1 (0.077%) VMware