Artificial Intelligence Engineer Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

AI Engineer
Scotland > Edinburgh

The median AI Engineer daily rate in Edinburgh is £514, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

 6 months to
19 Sep 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring an Artificial Intelligence Engineer 8 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 1.26% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 1.39% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 0
10th Percentile £432 - -
25th Percentile £490 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 - -
75th Percentile £539 - -
90th Percentile £548 - -
Scotland median daily rate £525 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Edinburgh

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Edinburgh. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Edinburgh with a recognized job title 576 783 1,001
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.71% 94.68% 95.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 295 408 627
10th Percentile £273 £200 £230
25th Percentile £413 £340 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £543 £538 £538
90th Percentile £615 £621 £600
Scotland median daily rate £463 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +2.78% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 37 13
10th Percentile - £13.58 £13.16
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.37 £17.70
Median hourly rate £42.51 £18.27 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +132.66% +3.10% -5.87%
75th Percentile £64.06 £23.89 £43.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £36.51 £53.74
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £18.27 £17.72
% change year-on-year +9.47% +3.10% -5.87%

Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings that featured Artificial Intelligence Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Artificial Intelligence Engineer in Edinburgh

Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Artificial Intelligence Engineer job vacancies in Edinburgh.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Artificial Intelligence Engineer job vacancies in Edinburgh

Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Artificial Intelligence Engineer in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 19 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Artificial Intelligence Engineer in Edinburgh

Artificial Intelligence Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh

For the 6 months to 19 September 2025, Artificial Intelligence Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Edinburgh region featuring Artificial Intelligence Engineer in the job title.

1 8 (100.00%) Python
1 8 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 7 (87.50%) Machine Learning
2 7 (87.50%) LLM
3 6 (75.00%) PyTorch
3 6 (75.00%) AWS
4 5 (62.50%) SQLAlchemy
4 5 (62.50%) Agile
4 5 (62.50%) OOP
4 5 (62.50%) Pandas
4 5 (62.50%) boto
4 5 (62.50%) OCR
5 4 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (50.00%) Computer Vision
5 4 (50.00%) Serverless
5 4 (50.00%) Deep Learning
5 4 (50.00%) OpenCV
5 4 (50.00%) OO
5 4 (50.00%) NumPy
5 4 (50.00%) Amazon S3
5 4 (50.00%) FastAPI
5 4 (50.00%) AWS CDK
5 4 (50.00%) Hugging Face
6 3 (37.50%) Containerisation
6 3 (37.50%) Async-Await
6 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (37.50%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (37.50%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (37.50%) Data Cleansing
6 3 (37.50%) OAuth

Artificial Intelligence Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 (25.00%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (12.50%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 6 (75.00%) AWS
2 4 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 4 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 4 (50.00%) Serverless
3 3 (37.50%) Amazon ECS
3 3 (37.50%) Amazon EKS
3 3 (37.50%) Amazon SQS
4 2 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (12.50%) Anthropic Claude
5 1 (12.50%) Dagster
5 1 (12.50%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (75.00%) PyTorch
2 5 (62.50%) boto
2 5 (62.50%) Pandas
2 5 (62.50%) SQLAlchemy
3 4 (50.00%) AWS CDK
3 4 (50.00%) FastAPI
3 4 (50.00%) Hugging Face
3 4 (50.00%) NumPy
3 4 (50.00%) OpenCV
4 3 (37.50%) OAuth
4 3 (37.50%) REST
5 2 (25.00%) JWT
6 1 (12.50%) Flask
6 1 (12.50%) Kafka
6 1 (12.50%) LangChain
6 1 (12.50%) LangGraph
6 1 (12.50%) OAuth2
6 1 (12.50%) RESTful
6 1 (12.50%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Algorithms
1 3 (37.50%) Cloud Native
1 3 (37.50%) Data Structures
2 2 (25.00%) AI Agents
3 1 (12.50%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 7 (87.50%) LLM
2 7 (87.50%) Machine Learning
3 5 (62.50%) Agile
3 5 (62.50%) OCR
3 5 (62.50%) OOP
4 4 (50.00%) Computer Vision
4 4 (50.00%) Deep Learning
4 4 (50.00%) OO
5 3 (37.50%) API Development
5 3 (37.50%) Async-Await
5 3 (37.50%) Containerisation
5 3 (37.50%) Data Cleansing
5 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (37.50%) Mentoring
5 3 (37.50%) Scrum
6 2 (25.00%) Code Quality
6 2 (25.00%) Community of Practice
6 2 (25.00%) Requirements Analysis
6 2 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (12.50%) SQL
2 1 (12.50%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (12.50%) Disclosure Scotland
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Grafana
1 3 (37.50%) Kubernetes
2 1 (12.50%) Kustomize
2 1 (12.50%) Prometheus
4 Artificial Intelligence Engineer jobs in Edinburgh