AI Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

AI
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring AI skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 63 78
Rank change year-on-year +37 +15 +51
Contract jobs citing AI 41 7 10
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 6.86% 1.06% 1.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.43% 1.18% 1.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 3 7
10th Percentile £463 £486 £489
25th Percentile £489 £530 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £608 £538
Median % change year-on-year -16.12% +13.12% -3.97%
75th Percentile £541 £656 £597
90th Percentile £554 £682 £640
Scotland median daily rate £500 £414 £525
% change year-on-year +20.70% -21.10% +11.82%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

AI falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 552 591 862
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 92.31% 89.68% 91.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 280 307 528
10th Percentile £225 £205 £212
25th Percentile £411 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £550 £538 £550
90th Percentile £625 £638 £625
Scotland median daily rate £464 £450 £493
% change year-on-year +3.06% -8.63% +3.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 26 9
10th Percentile £16.68 £16.59 £12.95
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.47 £17.72
Median hourly rate £19.19 £23.59 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.67% -32.60% +64.63%
75th Percentile £55.00 £24.18 £53.70
90th Percentile £71.75 - £61.70
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £22.94 £19.18
% change year-on-year -12.81% +19.59% +3.68%

AI
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing AI relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

AI job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

AI
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing AI.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing AI

AI
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AI in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 7 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AI in Edinburgh

AI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 4 (9.76%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (4.88%) Apache
3 1 (2.44%) Cloud Foundry
3 1 (2.44%) CMS
3 1 (2.44%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (7.32%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 19 (46.34%) AWS
2 14 (34.15%) Serverless
3 13 (31.71%) AWS Lambda
4 12 (29.27%) Amazon S3
5 7 (17.07%) Amazon ECS
5 7 (17.07%) Amazon EKS
6 6 (14.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 6 (14.63%) Amazon SQS
7 5 (12.20%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (9.76%) OpenShift
9 3 (7.32%) Azure
9 3 (7.32%) Textract
10 2 (4.88%) Dagster
10 2 (4.88%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (4.88%) IaaS
10 2 (4.88%) PaaS
10 2 (4.88%) SaaS
11 1 (2.44%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 1 (2.44%) AWS CodePipeline
11 1 (2.44%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.32%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (9.76%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (4.88%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (4.88%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (2.44%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.44%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (2.44%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (4.88%) MLflow
2 1 (2.44%) Cypress.io
2 1 (2.44%) GitLab
2 1 (2.44%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.44%) JIRA
General
1 13 (31.71%) Finance
2 11 (26.83%) Banking
3 10 (24.39%) Social Skills
4 8 (19.51%) Public Sector
5 4 (9.76%) Retail Banking
6 3 (7.32%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (7.32%) Investment Banking
6 3 (7.32%) Retail
7 2 (4.88%) Corporate Banking
7 2 (4.88%) Financial Institution
8 1 (2.44%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (2.44%) Legal
Job Titles
1 9 (21.95%) Python Engineer
2 8 (19.51%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 6 (14.63%) Developer
4 4 (9.76%) Software Engineer
5 3 (7.32%) Analyst
5 3 (7.32%) Architect
5 3 (7.32%) Business Analyst
5 3 (7.32%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (4.88%) Audio Visual Engineer
6 2 (4.88%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (4.88%) Systems Engineer
7 1 (2.44%) Consultant
7 1 (2.44%) Delivery Manager
7 1 (2.44%) Development Engineer
7 1 (2.44%) Operations Analyst
7 1 (2.44%) Operations Business Analyst
7 1 (2.44%) Platform Engineer
7 1 (2.44%) Project Manager
7 1 (2.44%) Telephony Project Manager
7 1 (2.44%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (34.15%) FastAPI
1 14 (34.15%) PyTorch
2 11 (26.83%) AWS CDK
2 11 (26.83%) Pandas
3 10 (24.39%) NumPy
3 10 (24.39%) SQLAlchemy
4 9 (21.95%) Hugging Face
4 9 (21.95%) OpenCV
5 7 (17.07%) boto
5 7 (17.07%) REST
6 5 (12.20%) OAuth
7 4 (9.76%) JWT
8 3 (7.32%) React
8 3 (7.32%) SpaCy
9 2 (4.88%) LangGraph
10 1 (2.44%) Flask
10 1 (2.44%) LangChain
10 1 (2.44%) Next.js
10 1 (2.44%) Playwright
10 1 (2.44%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.20%) Algorithms
1 5 (12.20%) Cloud Native
1 5 (12.20%) Data Structures
2 4 (9.76%) Data Protection Act
2 4 (9.76%) Product Ownership
3 2 (4.88%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (4.88%) Low-Code
4 1 (2.44%) AI Agents
4 1 (2.44%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (2.44%) Derivative
4 1 (2.44%) Digital Signage
4 1 (2.44%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.44%) Graphic Design
4 1 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.44%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.44%) Linux
1 1 (2.44%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (60.98%) Agile
2 22 (53.66%) Machine Learning
3 16 (39.02%) LLM
4 14 (34.15%) OCR
5 12 (29.27%) Scrum
6 10 (24.39%) Infrastructure as Code
6 10 (24.39%) Software Engineering
7 9 (21.95%) CI/CD
7 9 (21.95%) Kanban
7 9 (21.95%) OOP
8 8 (19.51%) Async-Await
8 8 (19.51%) Stakeholder Management
8 8 (19.51%) TDD
9 7 (17.07%) Computer Vision
9 7 (17.07%) Containerisation
9 7 (17.07%) Mentoring
10 6 (14.63%) Deep Learning
10 6 (14.63%) OO
10 6 (14.63%) Pair Programming
10 6 (14.63%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 27 (65.85%) Python
2 12 (29.27%) TypeScript
3 3 (7.32%) SQL
4 2 (4.88%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.44%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (9.76%) Degree
2 3 (7.32%) MCP
3 1 (2.44%) AAT
3 1 (2.44%) ACCA
3 1 (2.44%) CIMA
3 1 (2.44%) CISA
3 1 (2.44%) CISM
3 1 (2.44%) CISSP
3 1 (2.44%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (14.63%) Disclosure Scotland
2 5 (12.20%) Accessibility
3 2 (4.88%) QA
4 1 (2.44%) COBIT
4 1 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 1 (2.44%) NIST
4 1 (2.44%) NIST 800
System Software
1 3 (7.32%) Docker
2 1 (2.44%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 10 (24.39%) Grafana
2 7 (17.07%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.44%) Kustomize
3 1 (2.44%) Prometheus
3 1 (2.44%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (9.76%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.44%) Rapid7
2 1 (2.44%) Sage
2 1 (2.44%) Xero