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 23 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 51 76
Rank change year-on-year -7 +25 -3
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Machine Learning 26 11 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 3.50% 1.59% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.85% 1.76% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 5 1
10th Percentile £394 - -
25th Percentile £400 £263 £502
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £425 £503
Median % change year-on-year +9.41% -15.51% -28.65%
75th Percentile £575 £453 £505
90th Percentile £608 - -
Scotland median daily rate £525 £475 £479
% change year-on-year +10.53% -0.84% -20.17%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 676 625 776
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 90.98% 90.19% 92.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 430 442 521
10th Percentile £300 £250 £343
25th Percentile £363 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% -10.00% +6.95%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £575
90th Percentile £589 £638 £675
Scotland median daily rate £463 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +2.78% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 18 28
10th Percentile £15.73 £16.34 £11.86
25th Percentile £16.84 £19.59 £12.88
Median hourly rate £18.64 £40.94 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year -54.48% +182.34% -61.26%
75th Percentile £25.95 £43.27 £50.49
90th Percentile £35.60 £62.50 £62.50
Scotland median hourly rate £19.99 £19.38 £19.18
% change year-on-year +3.12% +1.04% -3.38%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Machine Learning.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Machine Learning

Machine Learning
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Machine Learning in Glasgow over the 6 months to 23 August 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:

Applications
1 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 9 (34.62%) BlazeMeter
2 5 (19.23%) AWS
2 5 (19.23%) Cloud Computing
2 5 (19.23%) OpenShift
3 3 (11.54%) Azure
3 3 (11.54%) GCP
4 2 (7.69%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (53.85%) NoSQL
2 9 (34.62%) Apache Cassandra
2 9 (34.62%) MongoDB
3 5 (19.23%) Redis
4 4 (15.38%) Big Data
5 2 (7.69%) Power BI
6 1 (3.85%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (3.85%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 9 (34.62%) JUnit
2 5 (19.23%) Jenkins
3 4 (15.38%) Artifactory
4 1 (3.85%) Mockito
General
1 12 (46.15%) Social Skills
2 9 (34.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 8 (30.77%) Finance
4 6 (23.08%) Banking
5 5 (19.23%) Investment Banking
6 2 (7.69%) Public Sector
7 1 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (30.77%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 8 (30.77%) Python Engineer
2 7 (26.92%) Developer
2 7 (26.92%) Java Developer
3 5 (19.23%) Full-Stack Developer
3 5 (19.23%) Full-Stack Java Developer
3 5 (19.23%) JavaScript Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) Data Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) Java Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) Python Data Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) Senior
5 2 (7.69%) Core Java Developer
5 2 (7.69%) Data Scientist
5 2 (7.69%) Platform Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Analyst
6 1 (3.85%) Cybersecurity Consultant
6 1 (3.85%) React Developer
6 1 (3.85%) Senior Consultant
6 1 (3.85%) Senior Cybersecurity Consultant
6 1 (3.85%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (34.62%) CSS
1 9 (34.62%) React
1 9 (34.62%) Spring
2 8 (30.77%) Kafka
3 7 (26.92%) AngularJS
4 6 (23.08%) OAuth
4 6 (23.08%) OAuth2
5 5 (19.23%) FastAPI
5 5 (19.23%) Flask
5 5 (19.23%) LangChain
5 5 (19.23%) LangGraph
5 5 (19.23%) Loki
5 5 (19.23%) PyTorch
5 5 (19.23%) RESTful
5 5 (19.23%) TensorFlow
6 4 (15.38%) Hugging Face
6 4 (15.38%) OpenTelemetry
7 1 (3.85%) OpenID
7 1 (3.85%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (34.62%) Algorithms
2 5 (19.23%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (19.23%) Management Information System
3 4 (15.38%) AI Agents
3 4 (15.38%) Private Cloud
4 2 (7.69%) Cloud Native
5 1 (3.85%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (3.85%) Product Ownership
5 1 (3.85%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (88.46%) Artificial Intelligence
2 15 (57.69%) CI/CD
3 14 (53.85%) Agile
3 14 (53.85%) Community of Practice
3 14 (53.85%) Microservices
3 14 (53.85%) Software Engineering
4 13 (50.00%) Performance Testing
4 13 (50.00%) Unit Testing
5 10 (38.46%) SDLC
6 9 (34.62%) Continuous Delivery
6 9 (34.62%) Data Science
6 9 (34.62%) Micro Frontends
6 9 (34.62%) Task Automation
6 9 (34.62%) Visualisation
7 8 (30.77%) Continuous Improvement
7 8 (30.77%) Front End Development
7 8 (30.77%) Generative AI
7 8 (30.77%) Operational Stability
8 6 (23.08%) Data Engineering
8 6 (23.08%) Data Privacy
Programming Languages
1 15 (57.69%) Java
2 14 (53.85%) JavaScript
2 14 (53.85%) Python
2 14 (53.85%) TypeScript
3 6 (23.08%) SQL
4 2 (7.69%) R
Qualifications
1 4 (15.38%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (15.38%) Degree
1 4 (15.38%) Master's Degree
2 2 (7.69%) AWS Certification
2 2 (7.69%) CISSP
2 2 (7.69%) SC Cleared
2 2 (7.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.69%) GRC
2 1 (3.85%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 14 (53.85%) Grafana
2 7 (26.92%) Kubernetes
3 5 (19.23%) Prometheus
4 4 (15.38%) Kustomize
5 1 (3.85%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (34.62%) Dynatrace
1 9 (34.62%) Splunk
2 3 (11.54%) Google
3 1 (3.85%) Alteryx
3 1 (3.85%) Facebook
3 1 (3.85%) OpenAI