AI Model Optimisation Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

AI Model Optimisation
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring AI Model Optimisation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 67 -
Rank change year-on-year -4 - -
Contract jobs citing AI Model Optimisation 2 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 0.26% 0.16% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 0.17% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £553 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £556 £500 -
Median % change year-on-year +11.10% - -
75th Percentile £558 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median daily rate £556 £500 -
% change year-on-year +11.10% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

AI Model Optimisation falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 641 586 672
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 84.68% 93.91% 84.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 350 283 361
10th Percentile £263 £309 £213
25th Percentile £400 £413 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £458 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -3.68% +5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £538
90th Percentile £600 £600 £638
Scotland median daily rate £460 £463 £450
% change year-on-year -0.54% +2.78% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 21 20
10th Percentile £15.81 - £13.09
25th Percentile £16.01 £17.30 £14.66
Median hourly rate £19.33 £17.87 £18.19
Median % change year-on-year +8.17% -1.75% -61.71%
75th Percentile £57.50 £45.80 £24.18
90th Percentile £75.00 £61.25 £55.25
Scotland median hourly rate £17.36 £20.00 £18.69
% change year-on-year -13.20% +7.02% +5.46%

AI Model Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing AI Model Optimisation relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

AI Model Optimisation job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

AI Model Optimisation
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing AI Model Optimisation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing AI Model Optimisation

AI Model Optimisation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) Apache
1 2 (100.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon SQS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (100.00%) Dagster
1 2 (100.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) HTTP
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) MLflow
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Automation Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) AWS CDK
1 2 (100.00%) boto
1 2 (100.00%) FastAPI
1 2 (100.00%) Hugging Face
1 2 (100.00%) JWT
1 2 (100.00%) NumPy
1 2 (100.00%) OAuth
1 2 (100.00%) OpenCV
1 2 (100.00%) Pandas
1 2 (100.00%) PyTorch
1 2 (100.00%) REST
1 2 (100.00%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Algorithms
1 2 (100.00%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) A/B Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) API Development
1 2 (100.00%) API Integration
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Vision
1 2 (100.00%) Data Cleansing
1 2 (100.00%) Deep Learning
1 2 (100.00%) ETL
1 2 (100.00%) Kanban
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (100.00%) OCR
1 2 (100.00%) OO
1 2 (100.00%) OOP
1 2 (100.00%) Pair Programming
1 2 (100.00%) Reinforcement Learning
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) Software Delivery
1 2 (100.00%) TDD
1 2 (100.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Disclosure Scotland
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Grafana
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes