Reinforcement Learning Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Reinforcement Learning
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Reinforcement Learning skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 119 - 142
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Reinforcement Learning 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.063% - 0.041%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.069% - 0.044%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
UK median daily rate £588 £700 £650
% change year-on-year -16.07% +7.69% +8.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Reinforcement 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 1,456 1,620 2,249
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 91.29% 86.49% 91.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 801 982 1,463
10th Percentile £263 £213 £250
25th Percentile £388 £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 £606 £675 £638
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 48 58
10th Percentile £16.84 £12.30 £12.13
25th Percentile £17.87 £14.88 £13.43
Median hourly rate £20.00 £20.94 £19.59
Median % change year-on-year -4.48% +6.88% -8.88%
75th Percentile £25.15 £24.43 £58.96
90th Percentile £37.00 £50.10 £75.03
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.79
% change year-on-year -41.51% -1.81% +51.53%

Reinforcement Learning
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Reinforcement Learning in Scotland

Reinforcement Learning
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

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

Reinforcement 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 Reinforcement Learning within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 19 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 - 1 £550 -
Reinforcement Learning
UK

Reinforcement 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 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon SQS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) Dagster
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) HTTP
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) MLflow
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CDK
1 1 (100.00%) boto
1 1 (100.00%) FastAPI
1 1 (100.00%) Hugging Face
1 1 (100.00%) JWT
1 1 (100.00%) NumPy
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth
1 1 (100.00%) OpenCV
1 1 (100.00%) Pandas
1 1 (100.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (100.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (100.00%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) A/B Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) API Development
1 1 (100.00%) API Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Vision
1 1 (100.00%) Data Cleansing
1 1 (100.00%) Deep Learning
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Kanban
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) OCR
1 1 (100.00%) OO
1 1 (100.00%) OOP
1 1 (100.00%) Pair Programming
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Software Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (100.00%) Disclosure Scotland
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes