Artificial Intelligence Contracts in Edinburgh

Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh requiring Artificial Intelligence skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Artificial Intelligence over the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 60 56 97
Rank change year-on-year -4 +41 +29
Contract jobs citing Artificial Intelligence 7 18 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 1.13% 2.20% 0.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.18% 2.52% 0.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 17 11
10th Percentile £382 - £425
25th Percentile £475 £363 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £460 £479
Median % change year-on-year +16.85% -3.97% -18.81%
75th Percentile £588 £494 £508
90th Percentile £650 £560 -
Scotland median daily rate £479 £463 £475
% change year-on-year +3.46% -2.63% -10.80%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

Artificial Intelligence 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 593 713 1,179
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 95.49% 87.06% 94.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 324 421 836
10th Percentile £240 £219 £246
25th Percentile £404 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% - -
75th Percentile £538 £575 £547
90th Percentile £625 £663 £625
Scotland median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - +0.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 30 8
10th Percentile - £13.48 £12.36
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.25 £16.58
Median hourly rate £22.00 £22.59 £21.47
Median % change year-on-year -2.59% +5.22% -27.24%
75th Percentile £24.66 £60.75 £53.94
90th Percentile £45.80 - £58.40
Scotland median hourly rate £19.97 £19.50 £16.25
% change year-on-year +2.41% +20.00% -56.59%

Artificial Intelligence
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing Artificial Intelligence as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Artificial Intelligence in Edinburgh

Artificial Intelligence
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Artificial Intelligence in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for Artificial Intelligence in Edinburgh

Artificial Intelligence
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Artificial Intelligence in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Artificial Intelligence in Edinburgh

Artificial Intelligence
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) Azure AKS
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (14.29%) GitHub
2 1 (14.29%) GitHub Copilot
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Copilot
2 1 (14.29%) Power Automate
2 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
2 1 (14.29%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (14.29%) Data Lake
1 1 (14.29%) MariaDB
1 1 (14.29%) MongoDB
1 1 (14.29%) MySQL
1 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (14.29%) Power Query
1 1 (14.29%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) GitLab
1 1 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Developer
1 2 (28.57%) Senior
2 1 (14.29%) Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Angular Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Data Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Business Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Data Architect
2 1 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Full-Stack Java Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Integration Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Java Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Principal Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Principal Data Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Business Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Software Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) Spring Security
2 1 (14.29%) .NET
2 1 (14.29%) AngularJS
2 1 (14.29%) ARM Templates
2 1 (14.29%) HTML5 Canvas
2 1 (14.29%) JSON
2 1 (14.29%) React
2 1 (14.29%) Spring
2 1 (14.29%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (14.29%) Data Structures
1 1 (14.29%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (14.29%) Low-Code
1 1 (14.29%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Generative AI
1 3 (42.86%) LLM
2 2 (28.57%) Agile
2 2 (28.57%) Business Analysis
2 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
2 2 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (28.57%) Machine Learning
3 1 (14.29%) Analytics
3 1 (14.29%) Coaching
3 1 (14.29%) Data Architecture
3 1 (14.29%) Data Privacy
3 1 (14.29%) DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) Kanban
3 1 (14.29%) Mentoring
3 1 (14.29%) Natural Language Processing
3 1 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (14.29%) Requirements Analysis
3 1 (14.29%) Software Engineering
3 1 (14.29%) User Experience
3 1 (14.29%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Java
2 2 (28.57%) Python
2 2 (28.57%) SQL
3 1 (14.29%) Bash
3 1 (14.29%) Bicep
3 1 (14.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
3 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
3 1 (14.29%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Ansible
1 1 (14.29%) Grafana
1 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
1 1 (14.29%) Progress Chef
1 1 (14.29%) Prometheus
1 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Databricks
1 1 (14.29%) Hitachi
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
1 1 (14.29%) Pega
1 1 (14.29%) SAP