Torch Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Torch Scientific Computing Framework
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Torch skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 119 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Torch 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.13% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.51% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £401 - -
25th Percentile £401 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 - -
75th Percentile £403 - -
90th Percentile £404 - -
UK median daily rate £402 £600 £700
% change year-on-year -32.96% -14.29% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Scotland

Torch falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 391 388 511
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 24.56% 20.82% 21.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 224 257 353
10th Percentile £365 £354 £388
25th Percentile £425 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £463 £485
Median % change year-on-year +7.68% -4.64% -0.51%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £549
90th Percentile £613 £685 £637
UK median daily rate £501 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -8.95% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 10
10th Percentile - - £26.07
25th Percentile £52.50 £52.50 £55.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £57.72
Median % change year-on-year - -4.70% -3.29%
75th Percentile £57.50 £57.50 £70.07
90th Percentile - - £78.00
UK median hourly rate £54.00 £62.50 £58.55
% change year-on-year -13.60% +6.76% -7.44%

Torch
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 Torch within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 5 October 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 - 2 £402 -
Torch
UK

Torch
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon SageMaker
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (100.00%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) MLflow
General
1 2 (100.00%) Banking
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) scikit-learn
1 2 (100.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Algorithms
1 2 (100.00%) Distributed Computing
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) Data Visualisation
1 2 (100.00%) Feature Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (100.00%) Statistical Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) Statistical Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft