Machine Learning Contracts in Glasgow

Machine Learning (ML)
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow 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 60 60 80
Rank change year-on-year 0 +20 -1
Contract jobs citing Machine Learning 19 22 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 2.38% 2.51% 0.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.54% 2.73% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 12 1
10th Percentile £354 £270 -
25th Percentile £406 £395 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £467 £435 £479
Median % change year-on-year +7.36% -9.19% -6.35%
75th Percentile £505 £500 -
90th Percentile £569 £505 -
Scotland median daily rate £467 £463 £479
% change year-on-year +0.97% -3.44% -18.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £35.00
Scotland median hourly rate - - £35.00

All Process and Methodology Skills
Glasgow

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 Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 747 806 862
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 93.61% 91.90% 94.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 478 515 629
10th Percentile £311 £280 £325
25th Percentile £393 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £600
90th Percentile £603 £675 £701
Scotland median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 40 27
10th Percentile £16.18 £13.75 -
25th Percentile £16.75 £16.00 £10.63
Median hourly rate £19.83 £21.13 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.14% +56.50% -66.24%
75th Percentile £65.00 £44.14 £35.00
90th Percentile £76.83 £63.75 £59.47
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 Glasgow

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

Job vacancy trend for Machine Learning in Glasgow

Machine Learning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Daily rate trend for Machine Learning in Glasgow

Machine Learning
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

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

Daily rate histogram for Machine Learning in Glasgow

Machine Learning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow 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 11 (57.89%) Cloud Computing
2 3 (15.79%) AWS
2 3 (15.79%) BlazeMeter
3 2 (10.53%) Azure
4 1 (5.26%) Amazon Bedrock
4 1 (5.26%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 1 (5.26%) Amazon S3
4 1 (5.26%) Amazon SageMaker
4 1 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (5.26%) GCP
4 1 (5.26%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (21.05%) MongoDB
1 4 (21.05%) NoSQL
2 3 (15.79%) Apache Cassandra
3 2 (10.53%) Neo4j
4 1 (5.26%) Data Lake
4 1 (5.26%) Data Mining
4 1 (5.26%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (5.26%) DynamoDB
4 1 (5.26%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (5.26%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (15.79%) JUnit
2 1 (5.26%) Git
General
1 12 (63.16%) Finance
2 9 (47.37%) Social Skills
3 8 (42.11%) Banking
3 8 (42.11%) Investment Banking
4 3 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (15.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (5.26%) Legal
5 1 (5.26%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 10 (52.63%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 8 (42.11%) JavaScript Engineer
2 8 (42.11%) Python Engineer
3 6 (31.58%) Developer
4 3 (15.79%) Java Developer
5 2 (10.53%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
5 2 (10.53%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (10.53%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 1 (5.26%) Analyst
6 1 (5.26%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Core Java Developer
6 1 (5.26%) Data Analyst
6 1 (5.26%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.79%) CSS
1 3 (15.79%) React
1 3 (15.79%) Spring
2 2 (10.53%) AngularJS
3 1 (5.26%) NumPy
3 1 (5.26%) Pandas
3 1 (5.26%) PyTorch
3 1 (5.26%) scikit-learn
3 1 (5.26%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 11 (57.89%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (42.11%) Management Information System
3 3 (15.79%) Algorithms
4 1 (5.26%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (5.26%) Product Ownership
4 1 (5.26%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (94.74%) Artificial Intelligence
2 14 (73.68%) Data Science
3 12 (63.16%) Community of Practice
3 12 (63.16%) Decision-Making
4 11 (57.89%) Critical Thinking
4 11 (57.89%) Data Security
4 11 (57.89%) Experimental Design
4 11 (57.89%) Natural Language Processing
4 11 (57.89%) Problem-Solving
4 11 (57.89%) Risk Management
4 11 (57.89%) Statistical Analysis
5 9 (47.37%) Data-Driven Decision Making
5 9 (47.37%) Task Automation
6 5 (26.32%) CI/CD
6 5 (26.32%) Software Engineering
7 3 (15.79%) Agile
7 3 (15.79%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (15.79%) Performance Testing
7 3 (15.79%) Unit Testing
7 3 (15.79%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 14 (73.68%) Java
1 14 (73.68%) JavaScript
1 14 (73.68%) Python
1 14 (73.68%) TypeScript
2 2 (10.53%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.26%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (5.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (15.79%) Grafana
2 2 (10.53%) Kubernetes
3 1 (5.26%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (15.79%) Dynatrace
1 3 (15.79%) Splunk
2 1 (5.26%) Alteryx
2 1 (5.26%) OpenAI