Machine Learning Jobs in Edinburgh

Machine Learning (ML)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh requiring Machine Learning skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Machine Learning over the 6 months leading up to 21 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 56 62 70
Rank change year-on-year +6 +8 +37
Permanent jobs citing Machine Learning 31 51 79
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 3.46% 3.44% 3.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.55% 3.84% 4.09%
Number of salaries quoted 14 46 35
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,306 £43,750
25th Percentile £53,750 £51,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +10.77% +4.00%
75th Percentile £81,554 £96,539 £73,857
90th Percentile £83,738 £100,000 £98,347
Scotland median annual salary £70,000 £69,750 £65,000
% change year-on-year +0.36% +7.31% +8.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

Machine Learning falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Edinburgh.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 873 1,327 1,933
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 97.32% 89.54% 95.74%
Number of salaries quoted 391 930 1,121
10th Percentile £26,929 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £40,625 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £77,500 £72,433 £77,715
90th Percentile £98,474 £97,597 £90,000
Scotland median annual salary £52,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -0.95% -8.70% +4.55%

Machine Learning
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Machine Learning in Edinburgh

Machine Learning
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Machine Learning in Edinburgh.

Salary trend for Machine Learning in Edinburgh

Machine Learning
Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

Salary distribution for jobs citing Machine Learning in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 21 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Machine Learning in Edinburgh

Machine Learning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 4 (12.90%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 10 (32.26%) AWS
2 6 (19.35%) Azure
3 5 (16.13%) Amazon SageMaker
3 5 (16.13%) Power Platform
4 3 (9.68%) Azure Machine Learning
5 2 (6.45%) Amazon EMR
5 2 (6.45%) dbt
5 2 (6.45%) GCP
5 2 (6.45%) GitHub
5 2 (6.45%) SaaS
5 2 (6.45%) Sentry
5 2 (6.45%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.45%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (25.81%) Big Data
2 7 (22.58%) Tableau
3 5 (16.13%) Power BI
4 3 (9.68%) Geospatial Data
5 2 (6.45%) Data Mining
5 2 (6.45%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (6.45%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (6.45%) Hadoop
5 2 (6.45%) Looker
5 2 (6.45%) NoSQL
5 2 (6.45%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (12.90%) Git
2 2 (6.45%) GitLab
General
1 14 (45.16%) Social Skills
2 13 (41.94%) Finance
3 8 (25.81%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (22.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (16.13%) Banking
5 5 (16.13%) Legal
6 4 (12.90%) Marketing
7 2 (6.45%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (3.23%) Manufacturing
8 1 (3.23%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 14 (45.16%) Senior
2 12 (38.71%) Data Scientist
3 6 (19.35%) Senior Data Scientist
4 5 (16.13%) Lead
5 3 (9.68%) Data Engineer
5 3 (9.68%) Data Science Graduate
5 3 (9.68%) Graduate
5 3 (9.68%) Senior Data Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Administrator
6 2 (6.45%) Architect
6 2 (6.45%) Data Science Leader
6 2 (6.45%) Developer
6 2 (6.45%) Enterprise Architect
6 2 (6.45%) Lead Architect
6 2 (6.45%) Lead Enterprise Architect
6 2 (6.45%) Senior Software Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Senior Systems Administrator
6 2 (6.45%) Software Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Systems Administrator
7 1 (3.23%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (9.68%) Google JAX
1 3 (9.68%) Kafka
1 3 (9.68%) scikit-learn
2 2 (6.45%) JAX
2 2 (6.45%) NumPy
2 2 (6.45%) PyTorch
2 2 (6.45%) React Native
2 2 (6.45%) TensorFlow
3 1 (3.23%) LangChain
3 1 (3.23%) Pandas
3 1 (3.23%) React
3 1 (3.23%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 9 (29.03%) Algorithms
2 3 (9.68%) Credit Risk
2 3 (9.68%) Learning Management System
3 2 (6.45%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (6.45%) Management Information System
3 2 (6.45%) Mobile App
3 2 (6.45%) Mobile Banking
3 2 (6.45%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (9.68%) Linux
2 2 (6.45%) VMS
3 1 (3.23%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (67.74%) Artificial Intelligence
2 20 (64.52%) Data Science
3 16 (51.61%) Analytics
3 16 (51.61%) Visualisation
4 10 (32.26%) Data Visualisation
5 9 (29.03%) Agile
6 8 (25.81%) Business Intelligence
6 8 (25.81%) Business Strategy
6 8 (25.81%) Decision-Making
6 8 (25.81%) Software Engineering
7 6 (19.35%) Data Analysis
7 6 (19.35%) Data Pipeline
7 6 (19.35%) LLM
7 6 (19.35%) Statistical Analysis
7 6 (19.35%) Statistical Modelling
8 5 (16.13%) Actionable Insight
8 5 (16.13%) Data Engineering
8 5 (16.13%) Mathematics
8 5 (16.13%) Strategic Thinking
9 4 (12.90%) Personalization
Programming Languages
1 18 (58.06%) Python
2 10 (32.26%) SQL
3 3 (9.68%) TypeScript
4 2 (6.45%) C#
4 2 (6.45%) R
5 1 (3.23%) Java
Qualifications
1 9 (29.03%) Degree
2 7 (22.58%) Master's Degree
3 5 (16.13%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.68%) Actionable Recommendations
2 2 (6.45%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 2 (6.45%) GDPR
2 2 (6.45%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 3 (9.68%) Terraform
2 2 (6.45%) Grafana
2 2 (6.45%) Kubernetes
2 2 (6.45%) Prometheus
2 2 (6.45%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (9.68%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.45%) New Relic