Machine Learning Job Trends in West Lothian

Machine Learning (ML)
Scotland > West Lothian

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in West Lothian requiring Machine Learning skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 - 16
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Machine Learning 2 0 3
As % of all permanent jobs in West Lothian 1.44% - 4.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.17% - 4.55%
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £27,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - £30,000
75th Percentile - - £32,500
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median annual salary £59,283 £70,000 £70,576
% change year-on-year -15.31% -0.82% +8.58%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Lothian

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 West Lothian.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 92 67 66
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Lothian 66.19% 89.33% 88.00%
Number of salaries quoted 59 34 57
10th Percentile £29,000 £26,929 £25,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £42,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -15.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £71,250 £66,250 £72,500
Scotland median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -18.18% +4.76% -11.39%

Machine Learning
Job Vacancy Trend in West Lothian

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

Machine Learning job vacancy trend in West Lothian

Machine Learning
Salary Trend in West Lothian

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Lothian citing Machine Learning.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Lothian citing Machine Learning

Machine Learning
Job Locations in West Lothian

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Machine Learning within the West Lothian region over the 6 months to 15 March 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
Bathgate - 1 - -
Linlithgow - 1 - -
Machine Learning
Scotland

Machine Learning
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Lothian 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure AI
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Machine Learning
1 2 (100.00%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Broadband
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Engineering Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) LangChain
1 2 (100.00%) Semantic Kernel
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (100.00%) Enterprise Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) Customer Experience
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 2 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 2 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) LLM
1 2 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Observability
1 2 (100.00%) People Management
1 2 (100.00%) Prototyping
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 2 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Foundry
1 2 (100.00%) Google