Machine Learning Contracts in Scotland

Machine Learning (ML)
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Machine Learning skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Machine Learning over the 6 months to 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 74 142 147
Rank change year-on-year +68 +5 0
Contract jobs citing Machine Learning 49 25 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 2.29% 0.93% 0.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.60% 1.00% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 19 20
10th Percentile £413 £425 £425
25th Percentile £435 £438 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £479 £590
Median % change year-on-year -2.14% -18.81% +31.11%
75th Percentile £507 £508 £738
90th Percentile £641 £541 £750
UK median daily rate £580 £590 £600
% change year-on-year -1.69% -1.67% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £35.00 -
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £35.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year +50.00% -6.67% +1.56%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Machine Learning is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,887 2,493 3,174
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.10% 92.54% 93.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,158 1,767 2,243
10th Percentile £219 £260 £250
25th Percentile £369 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £470
Median % change year-on-year - +1.06% +10.59%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £550
90th Percentile £650 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 55 46
10th Percentile £12.30 £10.63 £15.04
25th Percentile £15.92 £11.25 £18.29
Median hourly rate £19.50 £16.00 £37.43
Median % change year-on-year +21.88% -57.25% -6.43%
75th Percentile £42.71 £50.74 £48.75
90th Percentile £60.75 £67.13 £56.00
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £35.65 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.11% +38.82% +5.90%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Machine Learning in Scotland

Machine Learning
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Machine Learning in Scotland over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Machine Learning in Scotland

Machine Learning
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 Machine Learning within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 17 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow +32 23 £435 - 8
Edinburgh +34 20 £494 +3.13% 17
Lanarkshire - 1 £460 - 6
Renfrewshire - 1 £600 -
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 2 (4.08%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.04%) Apache
2 1 (2.04%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 35 (71.43%) AWS
2 19 (38.78%) AWS CloudFormation
2 19 (38.78%) AWS Lambda
2 19 (38.78%) Serverless
3 17 (34.69%) Amazon S3
4 11 (22.45%) OpenShift
5 9 (18.37%) Amazon SageMaker
6 8 (16.33%) Textract
7 4 (8.16%) Azure
7 4 (8.16%) Rekognition
8 3 (6.12%) AWS CodePipeline
8 3 (6.12%) GCP
8 3 (6.12%) npm
9 2 (4.08%) Amazon EMR
9 2 (4.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 1 (2.04%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (2.04%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (2.04%) IaaS
10 1 (2.04%) PaaS
10 1 (2.04%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.08%) LAN
1 2 (4.08%) SSL
1 2 (4.08%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (34.69%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (28.57%) Amazon Aurora
3 6 (12.24%) Big Data
4 4 (8.16%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (4.08%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (4.08%) BigQuery
6 1 (2.04%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (2.04%) Flink
6 1 (2.04%) GIS
6 1 (2.04%) Hadoop
6 1 (2.04%) Power BI
6 1 (2.04%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (6.12%) Cypress.io
1 3 (6.12%) Git
1 3 (6.12%) GitLab
2 1 (2.04%) Jenkins
General
1 14 (28.57%) Finance
2 11 (22.45%) Public Sector
3 9 (18.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (6.12%) Social Skills
5 2 (4.08%) Banking
5 2 (4.08%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.04%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.04%) Legal
6 1 (2.04%) Publishing
6 1 (2.04%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 25 (51.02%) Developer
2 12 (24.49%) Automation Developer
3 8 (16.33%) Full Stack Engineer
4 7 (14.29%) Java Developer
5 6 (12.24%) AWS Engineer
5 6 (12.24%) Java Engineer
6 5 (10.20%) Architect
7 4 (8.16%) Full Stack Developer
7 4 (8.16%) Full Stack Java Developer
7 4 (8.16%) Product Owner
8 3 (6.12%) Cloud Architect
8 3 (6.12%) Data Engineer
8 3 (6.12%) Python Developer
8 3 (6.12%) Software Developer
8 3 (6.12%) Technical Architect
9 2 (4.08%) AWS Developer
9 2 (4.08%) Azure Architect
9 2 (4.08%) Cloud Developer
9 2 (4.08%) Cloud Engineer
10 1 (2.04%) AWS Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (34.69%) AWS CDK
2 15 (30.61%) Spring
3 13 (26.53%) AngularJS
3 13 (26.53%) REST
4 10 (20.41%) CSS
4 10 (20.41%) HTML
4 10 (20.41%) JPA
4 10 (20.41%) Spring Boot
5 8 (16.33%) SpaCy
6 4 (8.16%) PyTorch
7 3 (6.12%) PostGIS
7 3 (6.12%) React
8 2 (4.08%) Lambda Expressions
8 2 (4.08%) Middleware
9 1 (2.04%) RESTful
9 1 (2.04%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 14 (28.57%) Public Cloud
2 4 (8.16%) Product Ownership
3 3 (6.12%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (4.08%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.04%) Algorithms
5 1 (2.04%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.04%) Clustering
5 1 (2.04%) IoT
5 1 (2.04%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.12%) Linux
2 2 (4.08%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (69.39%) Agile
2 32 (65.31%) Artificial Intelligence
3 17 (34.69%) Natural Language Processing
4 16 (32.65%) CI/CD
4 16 (32.65%) Infrastructure as Code
4 16 (32.65%) Software Engineering
5 14 (28.57%) Kanban
5 14 (28.57%) Scrum
6 13 (26.53%) Full Stack Development
6 13 (26.53%) Operational Stability
6 13 (26.53%) SDLC
7 12 (24.49%) Decision-Making
8 10 (20.41%) Product Management
8 10 (20.41%) Service Design
9 9 (18.37%) Code Quality
9 9 (18.37%) Microservices
10 8 (16.33%) Community of Practice
10 8 (16.33%) DevOps
10 8 (16.33%) OCR
10 8 (16.33%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 24 (48.98%) Python
1 24 (48.98%) TypeScript
2 19 (38.78%) Java
3 18 (36.73%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (2.04%) SC Cleared
1 1 (2.04%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (16.33%) Accessibility
2 3 (6.12%) Disclosure Scotland
2 3 (6.12%) QA
3 1 (2.04%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 14 (28.57%) Docker
2 1 (2.04%) KVM
2 1 (2.04%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (2.04%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 15 (30.61%) Grafana
2 11 (22.45%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.04%) Ansible
3 1 (2.04%) Nagios
3 1 (2.04%) Puppet
3 1 (2.04%) Terraform
3 1 (2.04%) vCenter Server
3 1 (2.04%) vRealize
Vendors
1 3 (6.12%) Google
2 2 (4.08%) Databricks
2 2 (4.08%) Sage
3 1 (2.04%) VMware