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 19 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 61 98
Rank change year-on-year -1 +37 +17
Contract jobs citing Machine Learning 6 14 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.93% 1.62% 1.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.98% 1.90% 1.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 8 11
10th Percentile £349 £431 £433
25th Percentile £423 £466 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £494 £479
Median % change year-on-year +10.32% +3.13% -20.17%
75th Percentile £666 £619 £498
90th Percentile £739 £750 £508
Scotland median daily rate £479 £455 £479
% change year-on-year +5.16% -5.01% -20.17%

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 611 737 1,104
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 95.02% 85.20% 92.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 319 413 760
10th Percentile £224 £214 £213
25th Percentile £400 £363 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% -5.26% -2.56%
75th Percentile £531 £550 £538
90th Percentile £600 £650 £600
Scotland median daily rate £463 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +2.78% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 26 6
10th Percentile £16.93 £13.23 £17.21
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.38 £21.36
Median hourly rate £17.59 £18.19 £32.09
Median % change year-on-year -3.31% -43.31% +69.76%
75th Percentile £32.73 £38.00 £51.25
90th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £58.13
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £19.59 £17.72
% change year-on-year +2.09% +10.55% -52.66%

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 19 July 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) Azure
1 4 (66.67%) Azure AI
1 4 (66.67%) Azure Cognitive Search
1 4 (66.67%) Azure Cognitive Services
2 3 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) Metadata
2 1 (16.67%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (50.00%) Legal
1 3 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Architect
1 4 (66.67%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
1 4 (66.67%) Technical Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Development Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (83.33%) RESTful
2 4 (66.67%) .NET
2 4 (66.67%) React
3 1 (16.67%) FastAPI
3 1 (16.67%) Flask
3 1 (16.67%) Kafka
3 1 (16.67%) LangChain
3 1 (16.67%) LangGraph
3 1 (16.67%) OAuth
3 1 (16.67%) OAuth2
3 1 (16.67%) PyTorch
3 1 (16.67%) REST
3 1 (16.67%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (16.67%) AI Agents
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 4 (66.67%) API Design
2 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 4 (66.67%) DevOps
2 4 (66.67%) OCR
3 3 (50.00%) Agile
3 3 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
3 3 (50.00%) Data Governance
3 3 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (33.33%) LLM
4 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
5 1 (16.67%) Generative AI
5 1 (16.67%) GitOps
5 1 (16.67%) ModelOps
5 1 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
5 1 (16.67%) Secure Coding
5 1 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 1 (16.67%) Workload Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) Python
2 4 (66.67%) C#
3 1 (16.67%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (16.67%) Disclosure Scotland
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Grafana
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 1 (16.67%) Kustomize
1 1 (16.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (50.00%) OpenAI