Machine Learning Contracts in Scotland

Machine Learning (ML)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 91 89 134
Rank change year-on-year -2 +45 +9
Contract jobs citing Machine Learning 25 40 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.54% 1.80% 1.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.65% 2.04% 1.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 27 22
10th Percentile £327 £384 £431
25th Percentile £406 £426 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £467 £463 £479
Median % change year-on-year +0.97% -3.44% -18.81%
75th Percentile £505 £542 £508
90th Percentile £606 £679 £658
UK median daily rate £575 £575 £600
% change year-on-year - -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £35.00
UK median hourly rate £61.50 £52.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year +17.14% +50.00% -6.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,518 1,963 2,651
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 93.42% 88.54% 92.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 920 1,196 1,908
10th Percentile £263 £229 £263
25th Percentile £375 £400 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £556
90th Percentile £606 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 94 54
10th Percentile £16.19 £12.36 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.00 £11.51
Median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%
75th Percentile £24.66 £40.94 £53.75
90th Percentile £51.48 £60.75 £66.09
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Machine Learning
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Machine Learning in Scotland

Machine Learning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Machine Learning in Scotland

Machine Learning
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Daily rate histogram for Machine Learning in Scotland

Machine 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 Machine Learning within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Glasgow 0 19 £467 +7.36% 38
Edinburgh -4 5 £469 -7.73% 66
Perthshire - 1 - -
Machine Learning
UK

Machine 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 1 (4.00%) Apache Spark
1 1 (4.00%) Jupyter
Business Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 11 (44.00%) Cloud Computing
2 3 (12.00%) AWS
2 3 (12.00%) Azure
2 3 (12.00%) BlazeMeter
3 2 (8.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (4.00%) Amazon Bedrock
4 1 (4.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 1 (4.00%) Amazon S3
4 1 (4.00%) Amazon SageMaker
4 1 (4.00%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (4.00%) Azure Machine Learning
4 1 (4.00%) Collibra
4 1 (4.00%) GCP
4 1 (4.00%) GitHub
4 1 (4.00%) GitHub Copilot
4 1 (4.00%) Power Automate
4 1 (4.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (16.00%) MongoDB
1 4 (16.00%) NoSQL
2 3 (12.00%) Apache Cassandra
3 2 (8.00%) Neo4j
4 1 (4.00%) Data Lake
4 1 (4.00%) Data Mining
4 1 (4.00%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (4.00%) DynamoDB
4 1 (4.00%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (4.00%) Metadata
4 1 (4.00%) OLTP
4 1 (4.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (12.00%) Git
1 3 (12.00%) JUnit
2 1 (4.00%) ER Studio
2 1 (4.00%) GitLab
2 1 (4.00%) JIRA
2 1 (4.00%) PyCharm
2 1 (4.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 14 (56.00%) Finance
2 9 (36.00%) Banking
2 9 (36.00%) Social Skills
3 8 (32.00%) Investment Banking
4 4 (16.00%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (12.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (4.00%) Legal
6 1 (4.00%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (4.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 10 (40.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 8 (32.00%) JavaScript Engineer
2 8 (32.00%) Python Engineer
3 7 (28.00%) Developer
4 3 (12.00%) Java Developer
5 2 (8.00%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
5 2 (8.00%) Data Scientist
5 2 (8.00%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (8.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 2 (8.00%) Software Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Analyst
6 1 (4.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Core Java Developer
6 1 (4.00%) Data Analyst
6 1 (4.00%) Data Modeller
6 1 (4.00%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Senior
6 1 (4.00%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (16.00%) CSS
1 4 (16.00%) React
2 3 (12.00%) Spring
3 2 (8.00%) .NET
3 2 (8.00%) AngularJS
3 2 (8.00%) NumPy
3 2 (8.00%) Pandas
3 2 (8.00%) scikit-learn
4 1 (4.00%) HTML
4 1 (4.00%) PySpark
4 1 (4.00%) PyTorch
4 1 (4.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 11 (44.00%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (32.00%) Management Information System
3 3 (12.00%) Algorithms
4 2 (8.00%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (8.00%) Reference Data
5 1 (4.00%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (4.00%) Cyberattack
5 1 (4.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (92.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 16 (64.00%) Data Science
3 13 (52.00%) Decision-Making
4 12 (48.00%) Community of Practice
4 12 (48.00%) Natural Language Processing
4 12 (48.00%) Problem-Solving
4 12 (48.00%) Statistical Analysis
5 11 (44.00%) Critical Thinking
5 11 (44.00%) Data Security
5 11 (44.00%) Experimental Design
5 11 (44.00%) Risk Management
6 9 (36.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
6 9 (36.00%) Task Automation
7 7 (28.00%) Software Engineering
8 6 (24.00%) CI/CD
9 5 (20.00%) Agile
9 5 (20.00%) SDLC
10 4 (16.00%) Analytics
10 4 (16.00%) Data Engineering
10 4 (16.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 18 (72.00%) Python
2 16 (64.00%) JavaScript
3 15 (60.00%) Java
3 15 (60.00%) TypeScript
4 6 (24.00%) SQL
5 1 (4.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (4.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (4.00%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 1 (4.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (12.00%) Grafana
2 2 (8.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (4.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (12.00%) Dynatrace
1 3 (12.00%) Splunk
2 2 (8.00%) OpenAI
3 1 (4.00%) Alteryx
3 1 (4.00%) Sparx