Machine Learning Job Trends in Scotland

Machine Learning (ML)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Machine Learning skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 93 44 15
Rank change year-on-year -49 -29 +57
Permanent jobs citing Machine Learning 36 135 1,291
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 1.12% 6.11% 19.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.59% 6.56% 22.41%
Number of salaries quoted 27 13 59
10th Percentile £33,750 £36,000 £45,044
25th Percentile £50,000 £53,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% - +7.69%
75th Percentile £111,250 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £117,500 £83,738 £100,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £79,250 £70,000
% change year-on-year -5.36% +13.21% -

All Process & 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 2,258 2,057 5,762
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 70.39% 93.12% 88.76%
Number of salaries quoted 1,284 838 2,564
10th Percentile £28,250 £26,929 £28,075
25th Percentile £31,500 £32,851 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,500 £50,668 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.20% -3.49% -8.70%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £93,778 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.69%

Machine Learning
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Machine Learning relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Machine Learning job vacancy trend in Scotland

Machine Learning
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Machine Learning.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Machine Learning

Machine Learning
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Machine Learning in Scotland over the 6 months to 14 June 2026.

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 14 June 2026. 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
Edinburgh +15 16 £92,500 +32.14% 15
Glasgow -37 14 £62,500 +78.57% 6
West Lothian - 2 - -
Stirling - 1 - -
Machine Learning
UK

Machine Learning
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 5 (13.89%) Jupyter
2 3 (8.33%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (8.33%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.78%) Apache
Applications
1 5 (13.89%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 16 (44.44%) AWS
1 16 (44.44%) Azure
2 8 (22.22%) Azure AI
3 5 (13.89%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (13.89%) Cloud Computing
4 4 (11.11%) Azure Machine Learning
5 3 (8.33%) GCP
5 3 (8.33%) GitHub
5 3 (8.33%) Microsoft Purview
5 3 (8.33%) Power Platform
5 3 (8.33%) Vertex AI
6 2 (5.56%) Azure AKS
6 2 (5.56%) Azure Sentinel
6 2 (5.56%) dbt
6 2 (5.56%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (5.56%) GitHub Copilot
6 2 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (5.56%) SaaS
6 2 (5.56%) Snowflake
7 1 (2.78%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.33%) Broadband
1 3 (8.33%) MQTT
2 2 (5.56%) DNS
2 2 (5.56%) Firewall
2 2 (5.56%) Network Security
3 1 (2.78%) AMQP
3 1 (2.78%) BGP
3 1 (2.78%) HTTPS
3 1 (2.78%) IPFIX
3 1 (2.78%) OSPF
3 1 (2.78%) SNMP
3 1 (2.78%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.78%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (11.11%) Azure SQL Database
1 4 (11.11%) MongoDB
2 3 (8.33%) Power BI
3 2 (5.56%) Data Lake
3 2 (5.56%) MySQL
3 2 (5.56%) Neo4j
3 2 (5.56%) NoSQL
3 2 (5.56%) Pinecone
3 2 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (5.56%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.78%) Big Data
4 1 (2.78%) Data Vault
4 1 (2.78%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.78%) Delta Lake
4 1 (2.78%) Electronic Patient Records
4 1 (2.78%) InfluxDB
4 1 (2.78%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (13.89%) Visual Studio Code
2 2 (5.56%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.78%) Git
3 1 (2.78%) MLflow
General
1 7 (19.44%) Finance
1 7 (19.44%) Social Skills
2 5 (13.89%) Manufacturing
2 5 (13.89%) Retail
3 3 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (8.33%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (5.56%) Aerospace
4 2 (5.56%) Automotive
4 2 (5.56%) Health Technology
4 2 (5.56%) Pharmaceutical
4 2 (5.56%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.78%) Banking
5 1 (2.78%) Corporate Banking
5 1 (2.78%) Digital Health
5 1 (2.78%) Law
5 1 (2.78%) Marketing
5 1 (2.78%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (19.44%) Developer
2 5 (13.89%) Architect
2 5 (13.89%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
2 5 (13.89%) Lead
2 5 (13.89%) Programmer
2 5 (13.89%) Trainee
2 5 (13.89%) Trainee Programmer
3 4 (11.11%) .NET Developer
3 4 (11.11%) Data Architect
3 4 (11.11%) Senior
4 3 (8.33%) Data Engineer
5 2 (5.56%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 2 (5.56%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
5 2 (5.56%) Data Scientist
5 2 (5.56%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (5.56%) Junior
5 2 (5.56%) Junior Data Scientist
5 2 (5.56%) Principal Data Architect
5 2 (5.56%) Product Owner
5 2 (5.56%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (19.44%) NumPy
2 6 (16.67%) Hugging Face
2 6 (16.67%) Pandas
2 6 (16.67%) scikit-learn
3 5 (13.89%) Matplotlib
3 5 (13.89%) React
3 5 (13.89%) RESTful
3 5 (13.89%) Streamlit
4 4 (11.11%) .NET
4 4 (11.11%) .NET Core
4 4 (11.11%) ASP.NET
4 4 (11.11%) ASP.NET Core
4 4 (11.11%) Blazor
4 4 (11.11%) Kafka
4 4 (11.11%) ML.NET
5 3 (8.33%) LangChain
5 3 (8.33%) Semantic Kernel
6 2 (5.56%) pgvector
6 2 (5.56%) PyTorch
6 2 (5.56%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 9 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 6 (16.67%) Algorithms
3 4 (11.11%) BBC
3 4 (11.11%) Social Media
4 3 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (8.33%) Enterprise Cloud
4 3 (8.33%) IoT
5 2 (5.56%) AI Agents
5 2 (5.56%) Data Fabric
5 2 (5.56%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (5.56%) Product Ownership
5 2 (5.56%) Robotics
6 1 (2.78%) Autonomous Agent
6 1 (2.78%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (2.78%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (2.78%) Onboarding
6 1 (2.78%) PACS
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.78%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (80.56%) AI
2 14 (38.89%) LLM
3 11 (30.56%) Agile
3 11 (30.56%) Analytics
4 10 (27.78%) OO
5 9 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
5 9 (25.00%) DevOps
6 8 (22.22%) Data Science
6 8 (22.22%) Full-Stack Development
6 8 (22.22%) Mentoring
7 7 (19.44%) CI/CD
7 7 (19.44%) Data Strategy
7 7 (19.44%) Microservices
7 7 (19.44%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (19.44%) Prompt Engineering
7 7 (19.44%) Workflow
8 6 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
8 6 (16.67%) OOP
8 6 (16.67%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
8 6 (16.67%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 24 (66.67%) Python
2 8 (22.22%) SQL
3 6 (16.67%) Java
4 5 (13.89%) C#
5 4 (11.11%) JavaScript
6 2 (5.56%) C
6 2 (5.56%) C++
6 2 (5.56%) Scala
7 1 (2.78%) Bash
7 1 (2.78%) R
Qualifications
1 5 (13.89%) AWS Certification
1 5 (13.89%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 3 (8.33%) Degree
3 1 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.78%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.56%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.78%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.78%) DICOM
2 1 (2.78%) HL7
2 1 (2.78%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 2 (5.56%) Grafana
2 2 (5.56%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (2.78%) Nagios
3 1 (2.78%) Prometheus
3 1 (2.78%) Terraform
3 1 (2.78%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 13 (36.11%) Microsoft
2 8 (22.22%) Google
3 4 (11.11%) Apple
3 4 (11.11%) Databricks
3 4 (11.11%) Facebook
3 4 (11.11%) Foundry
3 4 (11.11%) Meraki
3 4 (11.11%) Sony
3 4 (11.11%) Yahoo!
4 2 (5.56%) Cisco
4 2 (5.56%) OpenAI
5 1 (2.78%) SolarWinds