Machine Learning Jobs in Scotland

Machine Learning (ML)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 14 81 102
Rank change year-on-year +67 +21 +14
Permanent jobs citing Machine Learning 1,002 144 172
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 17.59% 3.80% 2.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 20.02% 3.96% 3.06%
Number of salaries quoted 39 59 47
10th Percentile £46,850 £43,750 £38,158
25th Percentile £62,500 £50,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £61,750
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +5.26% +23.50%
75th Percentile £76,250 £84,056 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,539 £81,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% +15.38%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 5,004 3,640 5,626
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 87.82% 95.94% 92.38%
Number of salaries quoted 2,133 1,969 3,041
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,555 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% - +15.79%
75th Percentile £67,500 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,548 £83,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%

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
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Machine Learning in Scotland

Machine Learning
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Machine Learning in Scotland over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Machine Learning in Scotland

Machine Learning
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Machine Learning within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 26 July 2024. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow +80 956 £70,000 +40.00% 6
Edinburgh -18 31 £73,000 +12.31% 1
West Lothian - 5 £30,000 -
Lanarkshire - 3 £70,000 - 3
Midlothian - 3 - -
Dundee -3 2 - -
Aberdeen - 2 £46,500 -
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
1 133 (13.27%) Apache Spark
2 98 (9.78%) FileNet
3 11 (1.10%) CICS
4 9 (0.90%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.30%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.20%) SAS
7 1 (0.100%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 3 (0.30%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 475 (47.41%) AWS
2 101 (10.08%) Amazon S3
3 72 (7.19%) Datadog
4 69 (6.89%) Azure
5 53 (5.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 50 (4.99%) GCP
7 47 (4.69%) GitHub
8 39 (3.89%) Cloud Computing
9 25 (2.50%) Google Play
10 24 (2.40%) BlazeMeter
11 15 (1.50%) Power Platform
12 9 (0.90%) Microsoft 365
12 9 (0.90%) Serverless
13 6 (0.60%) Entra ID
14 3 (0.30%) Amazon ECS
14 3 (0.30%) Amazon EKS
14 3 (0.30%) AWS Lambda
14 3 (0.30%) Figma
14 3 (0.30%) IaaS
14 3 (0.30%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.30%) Firewall
1 3 (0.30%) SD-WAN
2 1 (0.100%) Ethernet
2 1 (0.100%) HTTP
2 1 (0.100%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 273 (27.25%) NoSQL
2 114 (11.38%) Apache Cassandra
3 98 (9.78%) Elasticsearch
4 93 (9.28%) Big Data
5 60 (5.99%) Apache Hive
5 60 (5.99%) HBase
6 55 (5.49%) Hadoop
7 36 (3.59%) Data Lake
8 35 (3.49%) Qlik Sense
9 20 (2.00%) MongoDB
10 19 (1.90%) Relational Database
11 12 (1.20%) Power BI
12 11 (1.10%) DB2
13 9 (0.90%) Tableau
14 5 (0.50%) Amazon RDS
15 4 (0.40%) PostgreSQL
16 3 (0.30%) MySQL
16 3 (0.30%) Oracle Database
17 1 (0.100%) Data Warehouse
17 1 (0.100%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 190 (18.96%) JUnit
2 109 (10.88%) Jenkins
3 105 (10.48%) Jasmine
4 71 (7.09%) Git
5 60 (5.99%) Bitbucket Server
5 60 (5.99%) Cypress.io
5 60 (5.99%) Karma Test Runner
5 60 (5.99%) Protractor
5 60 (5.99%) Selenium
5 60 (5.99%) WebDriver
6 45 (4.49%) Mockito
7 25 (2.50%) Android Studio
8 18 (1.80%) JMeter
9 11 (1.10%) ChangeMan
10 7 (0.70%) Maven
11 2 (0.20%) GitLab
12 1 (0.100%) Visual Studio
General
1 947 (94.51%) Finance
2 935 (93.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 930 (92.81%) Law
4 358 (35.73%) Marketing
5 342 (34.13%) Legal
6 195 (19.46%) Banking
7 187 (18.66%) Investment Banking
8 113 (11.28%) Social Skills
9 32 (3.19%) Influencing Skills
10 31 (3.09%) Games
11 27 (2.69%) Financial Institution
12 24 (2.40%) Presentation Skills
13 22 (2.20%) Prime Brokerage
14 7 (0.70%) Analytical Skills
14 7 (0.70%) Private Banking
15 4 (0.40%) Advertising
15 4 (0.40%) Manufacturing
16 3 (0.30%) Publishing
17 2 (0.20%) Telecoms
18 1 (0.100%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 892 (89.02%) Software Engineer
2 408 (40.72%) Java Engineer
3 407 (40.62%) Java Software Engineer
4 251 (25.05%) Lead
5 237 (23.65%) Lead Software Engineer
6 169 (16.87%) Full Stack Engineer
7 168 (16.77%) Full Stack Software Engineer
8 134 (13.37%) AWS Engineer
8 134 (13.37%) AWS Software Engineer
9 122 (12.18%) Python Engineer
9 122 (12.18%) Python Software Engineer
10 107 (10.68%) Lead Java Engineer
11 90 (8.98%) Senior
12 88 (8.78%) Data Engineer
13 80 (7.98%) Big Data Engineer
13 80 (7.98%) Big Data Software Engineer
14 72 (7.19%) Senior Software Engineer
15 55 (5.49%) Cloud Engineer
16 54 (5.39%) Cloud Software Engineer
17 51 (5.09%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 285 (28.44%) Spring
2 250 (24.95%) React
3 220 (21.96%) AngularJS
4 209 (20.86%) J2EE
5 180 (17.96%) Hibernate
6 173 (17.27%) Kafka
7 162 (16.17%) JMS
8 157 (15.67%) HTML
8 157 (15.67%) Twitter Bootstrap
9 155 (15.47%) Node.js
10 134 (13.37%) CSS
10 134 (13.37%) jQuery
10 134 (13.37%) JSON
11 98 (9.78%) GraphQL
11 98 (9.78%) Spring Integration
12 72 (7.19%) OpenTelemetry
13 60 (5.99%) Jest
14 55 (5.49%) PySpark
15 54 (5.39%) Spring Boot
16 32 (3.19%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 435 (43.41%) Algorithms
2 324 (32.34%) Cloud Native
3 118 (11.78%) Onboarding
4 79 (7.88%) Data Structures
5 74 (7.39%) Public Cloud
6 35 (3.49%) Management Information System
7 25 (2.50%) Reference Data
8 23 (2.30%) Distributed Systems
9 21 (2.10%) Legacy Code
10 18 (1.80%) Market Risk
11 15 (1.50%) Credit Risk
12 11 (1.10%) Mainframe
12 11 (1.10%) VSAM
13 6 (0.60%) Video\Live Streaming
14 3 (0.30%) FMCG
14 3 (0.30%) IoT
14 3 (0.30%) Legacy Systems
14 3 (0.30%) Low-Code
14 3 (0.30%) Self-Motivation
15 2 (0.20%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 83 (8.28%) Unix
2 34 (3.39%) Linux
3 25 (2.50%) Android
4 6 (0.60%) Windows
5 1 (0.100%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 962 (96.01%) Artificial Intelligence
2 947 (94.51%) Software Engineering
3 910 (90.82%) Agile
4 862 (86.03%) SDLC
5 811 (80.94%) Operational Stability
6 809 (80.74%) CI/CD
7 599 (59.78%) Community of Practice
8 470 (46.91%) Visualisation
9 445 (44.41%) Continuous Improvement
10 367 (36.63%) Risk Management
11 239 (23.85%) Decision-Making
12 183 (18.26%) Microservices
13 182 (18.16%) Architectural Design
13 182 (18.16%) Full Stack Development
14 171 (17.07%) Information Architecture
15 140 (13.97%) Computer Science
16 139 (13.87%) TDD
17 138 (13.77%) Continuous Delivery
18 115 (11.48%) Client Onboarding
18 115 (11.48%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 678 (67.66%) Java
2 397 (39.62%) SQL
3 344 (34.33%) Python
4 152 (15.17%) JavaScript
5 138 (13.77%) TypeScript
6 62 (6.19%) PL/SQL
7 50 (4.99%) Scala
8 25 (2.50%) Kotlin
9 14 (1.40%) C#
10 13 (1.30%) C++
11 11 (1.10%) COBOL
11 11 (1.10%) JCL
12 5 (0.50%) Go
13 4 (0.40%) C
14 3 (0.30%) Bash
14 3 (0.30%) Haskell
14 3 (0.30%) R
14 3 (0.30%) Rust
15 1 (0.100%) MATLAB
15 1 (0.100%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 50 (4.99%) Degree
2 40 (3.99%) Master's Degree
3 38 (3.79%) Computer Science Degree
4 11 (1.10%) PhD
5 7 (0.70%) CISSP
6 6 (0.60%) AWS Certification
6 6 (0.60%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 6 (0.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 6 (0.60%) CISM
7 3 (0.30%) Azure Certification
7 3 (0.30%) CCNA
7 3 (0.30%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (0.30%) Network+ Certification
7 3 (0.30%) Security Cleared
8 1 (0.100%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (0.100%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.100%) PMP
8 1 (0.100%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (1.10%) Data Quality
2 6 (0.60%) Accessibility
2 6 (0.60%) NIST
3 1 (0.100%) GDPR
System Software
1 60 (5.99%) HDFS
2 11 (1.10%) Time Sharing Option
3 6 (0.60%) Docker
4 1 (0.100%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 143 (14.27%) Kubernetes
2 135 (13.47%) Terraform
3 85 (8.48%) Grafana
4 20 (2.00%) Prometheus
5 7 (0.70%) Graphite
6 3 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.100%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 196 (19.56%) Oracle
2 136 (13.57%) Databricks
3 88 (8.78%) Splunk
4 81 (8.08%) Dynatrace
5 61 (6.09%) Informatica
6 37 (3.69%) Google
7 35 (3.49%) Alteryx
8 30 (2.99%) Cloudera
9 14 (1.40%) Microsoft
10 10 (1.00%) SaltStack
11 3 (0.30%) Cisco
12 1 (0.100%) NVIDIA
12 1 (0.100%) OpenAI
12 1 (0.100%) SAP
12 1 (0.100%) VMware