Machine Learning Contracts in Edinburgh

Machine Learning (ML)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh requiring Machine Learning skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Machine Learning over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 58 90
Rank change year-on-year -4 +32 +19
Contract jobs citing Machine Learning 5 14 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.80% 1.72% 1.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.84% 1.94% 1.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 11 20
10th Percentile £347 £460 £431
25th Percentile £417 £468 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £508 £479
Median % change year-on-year -7.73% +6.05% -20.17%
75th Percentile £519 £688 £508
90th Percentile £575 £750 £675
Scotland median daily rate £467 £463 £479
% change year-on-year +0.97% -3.44% -18.81%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

Machine Learning 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 594 720 1,240
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 95.04% 88.34% 95.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 333 422 884
10th Percentile £214 £233 £254
25th Percentile £403 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £484 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.59% +1.79% -
75th Percentile £541 £575 £545
90th Percentile £630 £663 £625
Scotland median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 31 11
10th Percentile - £15.10 £13.16
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.44 £22.87 £21.26
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% +7.57% -46.85%
75th Percentile £25.59 £60.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £42.35 - £54.50
Scotland median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
% change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%

Machine Learning
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Machine Learning in Edinburgh

Machine Learning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for Machine Learning in Edinburgh

Machine Learning
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Machine Learning in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Machine Learning in Edinburgh

Machine Learning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 1 (20.00%) Apache Spark
1 1 (20.00%) Jupyter
Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Collibra
1 1 (20.00%) GitHub
1 1 (20.00%) GitHub Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Metadata
1 1 (20.00%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) ER Studio
1 1 (20.00%) Git
1 1 (20.00%) GitLab
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
1 1 (20.00%) PyCharm
1 1 (20.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Banking
2 1 (20.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Data Scientist
2 1 (20.00%) Data Modeller
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) .NET
1 1 (20.00%) NumPy
1 1 (20.00%) Pandas
1 1 (20.00%) PySpark
1 1 (20.00%) React
1 1 (20.00%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (20.00%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 2 (40.00%) Analytics
2 2 (40.00%) Data Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) Data Modelling
2 2 (40.00%) Data Protection
2 2 (40.00%) Data Science
3 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (20.00%) Coaching
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Deployment
3 1 (20.00%) Data Migration
3 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Modelling
3 1 (20.00%) Feature Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Fintech
3 1 (20.00%) Logical Data Model
3 1 (20.00%) Metadata Management
3 1 (20.00%) Physical Data Model
3 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Scorecard
3 1 (20.00%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Python
1 3 (60.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (20.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) ISO 20022
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Sparx