Deep Learning Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Deep Learning
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Deep Learning skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 108 - 148
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Deep Learning 10 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.62% - 0.040%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.68% - 0.044%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £506 - -
25th Percentile £517 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 - -
75th Percentile £554 - -
90th Percentile £555 - -
UK median daily rate £544 £650 £550
% change year-on-year -16.30% +18.18% -11.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Deep 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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,460 1,608 2,275
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 91.19% 86.36% 92.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 807 978 1,483
10th Percentile £263 £213 £250
25th Percentile £391 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £538 £550 £550
90th Percentile £600 £675 £638
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 46 58
10th Percentile £16.84 £12.30 £12.13
25th Percentile £17.87 £14.63 £13.43
Median hourly rate £20.00 £20.94 £19.59
Median % change year-on-year -4.48% +6.88% -10.95%
75th Percentile £25.15 £24.18 £58.96
90th Percentile £29.80 £51.50 £75.03
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% +1.18% +47.01%

Deep Learning
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Deep Learning as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Deep Learning in Scotland

Deep Learning
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Deep Learning.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Deep Learning

Deep Learning
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Deep Learning within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 17 September 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Edinburgh - 6 £543 - 3
Glasgow - 4 - - 1
Deep Learning
UK

Deep Learning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 2 (20.00%) Apache
1 2 (20.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 5 (50.00%) AWS
1 5 (50.00%) OpenShift
2 3 (30.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 3 (30.00%) Amazon ECS
2 3 (30.00%) Amazon EKS
2 3 (30.00%) Amazon S3
2 3 (30.00%) Amazon SQS
2 3 (30.00%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (30.00%) Serverless
3 2 (20.00%) Dagster
Communications & Networking
1 3 (30.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (50.00%) Redis
2 4 (40.00%) Big Data
2 4 (40.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 4 (40.00%) Artifactory
3 1 (10.00%) MLflow
General
1 5 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 5 (50.00%) Python Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Data Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Python Data Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (100.00%) PyTorch
2 9 (90.00%) Hugging Face
3 8 (80.00%) FastAPI
3 8 (80.00%) OAuth
4 5 (50.00%) boto
4 5 (50.00%) Flask
4 5 (50.00%) Kafka
4 5 (50.00%) LangChain
4 5 (50.00%) LangGraph
4 5 (50.00%) NumPy
4 5 (50.00%) OAuth2
4 5 (50.00%) OpenCV
4 5 (50.00%) Pandas
4 5 (50.00%) RESTful
4 5 (50.00%) SQLAlchemy
4 5 (50.00%) TensorFlow
5 4 (40.00%) Loki
5 4 (40.00%) OpenTelemetry
5 4 (40.00%) REST
6 3 (30.00%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 5 (50.00%) AI Agents
1 5 (50.00%) Algorithms
1 5 (50.00%) Data Structures
2 4 (40.00%) Private Cloud
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (10.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Agile
1 10 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 10 (100.00%) LLM
1 10 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 8 (80.00%) Scrum
3 7 (70.00%) Containerisation
4 6 (60.00%) Software Engineering
4 6 (60.00%) Workflow
5 5 (50.00%) Async-Await
5 5 (50.00%) BDD
5 5 (50.00%) Data Cleansing
5 5 (50.00%) Data Engineering
5 5 (50.00%) DevOps
5 5 (50.00%) Microservices
5 5 (50.00%) OO
5 5 (50.00%) OOP
5 5 (50.00%) Performance Testing
5 5 (50.00%) Secure Coding
5 5 (50.00%) Unit Testing
5 5 (50.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) Python
2 5 (50.00%) SQL
3 1 (10.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (40.00%) Degree
1 4 (40.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (40.00%) Accessibility
2 2 (20.00%) Disclosure Scotland
Systems Management
1 8 (80.00%) Grafana
1 8 (80.00%) Kubernetes
2 5 (50.00%) Kustomize
2 5 (50.00%) Prometheus