Machine Learning Jobs in Scotland

Machine Learning (ML)
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Machine Learning skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Machine Learning over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 15 83 127
Rank change year-on-year +68 +44 -45
Permanent jobs citing Machine Learning 1,430 149 138
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 20.91% 3.42% 2.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 23.05% 3.63% 2.49%
Number of salaries quoted 64 49 54
10th Percentile £46,306 £42,500 £39,475
25th Percentile £48,438 £43,750 £52,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,500 £65,000 £61,750
Median % change year-on-year +6.92% +5.26% +23.50%
75th Percentile £75,625 £78,750 £74,688
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,782 £87,750
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year - -6.67% +15.38%

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 permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,205 4,105 5,541
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 90.74% 94.35% 91.10%
Number of salaries quoted 2,476 2,058 2,852
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,563 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +15.79%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £83,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +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 1 June 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 1 June 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 +72 1,364 £70,000 +49.73% 10
Edinburgh -1 46 £71,288 +9.67% 15
Dundee -8 8 £50,000 -31.03% 1
Aberdeen - 5 £40,500 -
Midlothian - 3 - - 3
West Lothian - 3 £30,000 - 1
Lanarkshire - 1 £70,000 - 4
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
1 270 (18.88%) Apache Spark
2 98 (6.85%) FileNet
3 29 (2.03%) Apache
4 23 (1.61%) Apache Airflow
5 11 (0.77%) CICS
6 3 (0.21%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.14%) SAS
8 1 (0.070%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 3 (0.21%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 717 (50.14%) AWS
2 99 (6.92%) Amazon S3
2 99 (6.92%) Azure
3 84 (5.87%) GCP
4 72 (5.03%) Datadog
5 59 (4.13%) Cloud Computing
6 52 (3.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 46 (3.22%) GitHub
8 33 (2.31%) BlazeMeter
9 25 (1.75%) Google Play
10 19 (1.33%) Power Platform
11 17 (1.19%) Amazon EKS
12 10 (0.70%) Microsoft 365
13 7 (0.49%) Amazon SageMaker
14 6 (0.42%) Entra ID
15 5 (0.35%) IaaS
15 5 (0.35%) PaaS
16 4 (0.28%) SaaS
16 4 (0.28%) Serverless
17 3 (0.21%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (1.12%) DSL
2 7 (0.49%) HTTP
2 7 (0.49%) MQTT
3 4 (0.28%) Firewall
3 4 (0.28%) SD-WAN
4 2 (0.14%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 349 (24.41%) NoSQL
2 181 (12.66%) Big Data
3 131 (9.16%) Apache Cassandra
4 113 (7.90%) Hadoop
5 109 (7.62%) Apache Hive
6 98 (6.85%) Elasticsearch
6 98 (6.85%) HBase
7 63 (4.41%) MongoDB
8 56 (3.92%) Data Lake
9 39 (2.73%) Qlik Sense
10 27 (1.89%) DB2
11 24 (1.68%) Tableau
12 19 (1.33%) Relational Database
13 16 (1.12%) Power BI
14 14 (0.98%) MySQL
15 10 (0.70%) Flink
16 6 (0.42%) Data Warehouse
17 4 (0.28%) Amazon RDS
17 4 (0.28%) PostgreSQL
18 3 (0.21%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 199 (13.92%) JUnit
2 145 (10.14%) Jenkins
3 105 (7.34%) Jasmine
4 104 (7.27%) Git
5 84 (5.87%) Bitbucket Server
6 60 (4.20%) Cypress.io
6 60 (4.20%) Karma Test Runner
6 60 (4.20%) Protractor
6 60 (4.20%) Selenium
6 60 (4.20%) WebDriver
7 45 (3.15%) Mockito
8 25 (1.75%) Android Studio
9 18 (1.26%) JMeter
10 11 (0.77%) ChangeMan
11 7 (0.49%) Maven
12 3 (0.21%) GitLab
13 2 (0.14%) Visual Studio
14 1 (0.070%) Artifactory
General
1 1,372 (95.94%) Finance
2 1,347 (94.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1,340 (93.71%) Law
4 626 (43.78%) Marketing
5 447 (31.26%) Legal
6 281 (19.65%) Banking
7 238 (16.64%) Investment Banking
8 141 (9.86%) Social Skills
9 70 (4.90%) Financial Institution
10 66 (4.62%) Influencing Skills
11 57 (3.99%) Presentation Skills
12 33 (2.31%) Games
13 29 (2.03%) Private Banking
14 23 (1.61%) Analytical Skills
15 22 (1.54%) Prime Brokerage
16 9 (0.63%) Manufacturing
17 8 (0.56%) Telecoms
18 7 (0.49%) Electronics
18 7 (0.49%) Public Sector
19 4 (0.28%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 1,259 (88.04%) Software Engineer
2 568 (39.72%) Java Engineer
3 567 (39.65%) Java Software Engineer
4 392 (27.41%) Lead
5 374 (26.15%) Lead Software Engineer
6 235 (16.43%) Full Stack Engineer
7 234 (16.36%) Full Stack Software Engineer
8 185 (12.94%) AWS Engineer
8 185 (12.94%) AWS Software Engineer
9 180 (12.59%) Python Engineer
9 180 (12.59%) Python Software Engineer
10 149 (10.42%) Lead Java Engineer
11 146 (10.21%) Senior
12 135 (9.44%) Data Engineer
13 127 (8.88%) Big Data Engineer
13 127 (8.88%) Big Data Software Engineer
14 124 (8.67%) Senior Software Engineer
15 94 (6.57%) Developer
16 80 (5.59%) Cloud Engineer
17 79 (5.52%) Cloud Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 390 (27.27%) Spring
2 315 (22.03%) React
3 289 (20.21%) AngularJS
4 223 (15.59%) Kafka
5 220 (15.38%) J2EE
6 183 (12.80%) HTML
7 180 (12.59%) Hibernate
8 170 (11.89%) JMS
9 165 (11.54%) Twitter Bootstrap
10 163 (11.40%) Node.js
11 152 (10.63%) CSS
12 137 (9.58%) JSON
13 134 (9.37%) jQuery
14 112 (7.83%) Spring Boot
15 106 (7.41%) GraphQL
16 98 (6.85%) Spring Integration
17 80 (5.59%) PySpark
18 72 (5.03%) OpenTelemetry
19 60 (4.20%) Jest
20 43 (3.01%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 599 (41.89%) Algorithms
2 441 (30.84%) Cloud Native
3 157 (10.98%) Public Cloud
4 155 (10.84%) Onboarding
5 98 (6.85%) Data Structures
6 58 (4.06%) Management Information System
7 43 (3.01%) Reference Data
8 41 (2.87%) Legacy Code
9 37 (2.59%) Product Ownership
10 23 (1.61%) Distributed Systems
11 19 (1.33%) Taxonomies
12 18 (1.26%) Market Risk
13 17 (1.19%) Credit Risk
14 13 (0.91%) Private Cloud
15 12 (0.84%) Mainframe
16 11 (0.77%) VSAM
17 10 (0.70%) Enterprise Software
17 10 (0.70%) IoT
18 8 (0.56%) Distributed Computing
19 7 (0.49%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 122 (8.53%) Unix
2 57 (3.99%) Linux
3 25 (1.75%) Android
4 6 (0.42%) Windows
5 1 (0.070%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,365 (95.45%) Software Engineering
2 1,364 (95.38%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1,291 (90.28%) Agile
4 1,192 (83.36%) SDLC
5 1,172 (81.96%) Operational Stability
6 1,135 (79.37%) CI/CD
7 860 (60.14%) Community of Practice
8 657 (45.94%) Visualisation
9 625 (43.71%) Continuous Improvement
10 472 (33.01%) Risk Management
11 357 (24.97%) Decision-Making
12 297 (20.77%) Microservices
13 267 (18.67%) Architectural Design
14 265 (18.53%) Full Stack Development
15 249 (17.41%) Information Architecture
16 197 (13.78%) Problem-Solving
17 192 (13.43%) Continuous Delivery
18 182 (12.73%) TDD
19 171 (11.96%) Computer Science
20 152 (10.63%) Client Onboarding
Programming Languages
1 1,012 (70.77%) Java
2 620 (43.36%) Python
3 591 (41.33%) SQL
4 192 (13.43%) JavaScript
5 171 (11.96%) TypeScript
6 102 (7.13%) PL/SQL
7 85 (5.94%) Scala
8 25 (1.75%) Kotlin
9 17 (1.19%) C#
10 16 (1.12%) C++
10 16 (1.12%) Go
11 11 (0.77%) COBOL
11 11 (0.77%) JCL
12 8 (0.56%) C
13 6 (0.42%) Haskell
13 6 (0.42%) Rust
14 4 (0.28%) Bash
15 3 (0.21%) MATLAB
16 2 (0.14%) R
17 1 (0.070%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 71 (4.97%) Degree
2 49 (3.43%) Computer Science Degree
3 42 (2.94%) Master's Degree
4 18 (1.26%) AWS Certification
5 15 (1.05%) PhD
6 8 (0.56%) CISSP
7 6 (0.42%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 6 (0.42%) CISM
8 4 (0.28%) Azure Certification
8 4 (0.28%) CCNA
8 4 (0.28%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (0.28%) Network+ Certification
9 3 (0.21%) Security Cleared
10 2 (0.14%) PMI Certification
10 2 (0.14%) PMP
11 1 (0.070%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (2.31%) Accessibility
2 32 (2.24%) Data Quality
3 16 (1.12%) SLA
4 6 (0.42%) NIST
5 1 (0.070%) GDPR
System Software
1 98 (6.85%) HDFS
2 11 (0.77%) Time Sharing Option
3 7 (0.49%) Firmware
4 6 (0.42%) Docker
Systems Management
1 201 (14.06%) Terraform
2 184 (12.87%) Kubernetes
3 94 (6.57%) Grafana
4 20 (1.40%) Prometheus
5 7 (0.49%) Graphite
6 4 (0.28%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.070%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 260 (18.18%) Oracle
2 237 (16.57%) Databricks
3 97 (6.78%) Splunk
4 90 (6.29%) Dynatrace
5 84 (5.87%) Informatica
6 68 (4.76%) Cloudera
7 55 (3.85%) Alteryx
8 45 (3.15%) Google
9 18 (1.26%) SaltStack
10 16 (1.12%) Cognos
10 16 (1.12%) Sybase
11 15 (1.05%) Microsoft
12 7 (0.49%) NVIDIA
12 7 (0.49%) SAP
13 4 (0.28%) Cisco
14 2 (0.14%) OpenAI
15 1 (0.070%) VMware