Artificial Intelligence Engineer Contract Job Trends in Glasgow

AI Engineer
Scotland > Glasgow

The median AI Engineer daily rate in Glasgow is £543, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 26 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
26 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring an Artificial Intelligence Engineer 13 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 1.74% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 1.85% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £474 - -
25th Percentile £498 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 - -
75th Percentile £578 - -
90th Percentile £599 - -
Scotland median daily rate £525 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Glasgow

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Glasgow. 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 Glasgow with a recognized job title 704 646 776
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.24% 93.90% 95.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 420 454 523
10th Percentile £262 £213 £325
25th Percentile £362 £357 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £577
90th Percentile £614 £674 £688
Scotland median daily rate £463 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +2.78% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 17 21
10th Percentile - £11.78 £12.13
25th Percentile £16.84 £15.22 £13.16
Median hourly rate £23.75 £19.59 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year +21.24% +35.10% -61.26%
75th Percentile £32.12 £25.17 £18.93
90th Percentile £58.50 £43.12 £62.50
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £18.13 £17.72
% change year-on-year +10.31% +2.31% -2.82%

Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Job vacancy trend for Artificial Intelligence Engineer in Glasgow

Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

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

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

For the 6 months to 26 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 Glasgow region featuring Artificial Intelligence Engineer in the job title.

1 13 (100.00%) Python
1 13 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 9 (69.23%) Machine Learning
2 9 (69.23%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (69.23%) Critical Thinking
3 7 (53.85%) Social Skills
3 7 (53.85%) FastAPI
3 7 (53.85%) Generative AI
3 7 (53.85%) Data Engineering
4 6 (46.15%) Jenkins
4 6 (46.15%) Data Security
4 6 (46.15%) Platform Engineering
4 6 (46.15%) Community of Practice
4 6 (46.15%) Task Automation
4 6 (46.15%) Data Science
5 5 (38.46%) Decision-Making
5 5 (38.46%) Experimental Design
5 5 (38.46%) Data-Driven Decision Making
5 5 (38.46%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (38.46%) Management Information System
5 5 (38.46%) Risk Management
5 5 (38.46%) Java
5 5 (38.46%) JavaScript
5 5 (38.46%) Investment Banking
5 5 (38.46%) Finance
5 5 (38.46%) Statistical Analysis
5 5 (38.46%) Computer Science
5 5 (38.46%) Banking
5 5 (38.46%) Cloud Computing
5 5 (38.46%) Natural Language Processing

Artificial Intelligence Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow 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 5 (38.46%) Cloud Computing
2 4 (30.77%) Azure
3 2 (15.38%) OpenShift
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon S3
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (7.69%) AWS
4 1 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (7.69%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) NoSQL
1 2 (15.38%) Redis
2 1 (7.69%) Big Data
2 1 (7.69%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (7.69%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 6 (46.15%) Jenkins
2 1 (7.69%) Artifactory
General
1 7 (53.85%) Social Skills
2 5 (38.46%) Banking
2 5 (38.46%) Finance
2 5 (38.46%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (53.85%) FastAPI
2 3 (23.08%) OAuth
2 3 (23.08%) PyTorch
3 2 (15.38%) Flask
3 2 (15.38%) Hugging Face
3 2 (15.38%) Kafka
3 2 (15.38%) LangChain
3 2 (15.38%) LangGraph
3 2 (15.38%) Loki
3 2 (15.38%) OAuth2
3 2 (15.38%) RESTful
3 2 (15.38%) TensorFlow
4 1 (7.69%) AWS CDK
4 1 (7.69%) JWT
4 1 (7.69%) NumPy
4 1 (7.69%) OpenCV
4 1 (7.69%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (7.69%) Pandas
4 1 (7.69%) REST
4 1 (7.69%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 5 (38.46%) Distributed Systems
1 5 (38.46%) Management Information System
2 1 (7.69%) AI Agents
2 1 (7.69%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.69%) Data Structures
2 1 (7.69%) Private Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 9 (69.23%) Critical Thinking
2 9 (69.23%) Machine Learning
2 9 (69.23%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (53.85%) Data Engineering
3 7 (53.85%) Generative AI
4 6 (46.15%) Community of Practice
4 6 (46.15%) Data Science
4 6 (46.15%) Data Security
4 6 (46.15%) Platform Engineering
4 6 (46.15%) Task Automation
5 5 (38.46%) Computer Science
5 5 (38.46%) Data-Driven Decision Making
5 5 (38.46%) Decision-Making
5 5 (38.46%) Experimental Design
5 5 (38.46%) Natural Language Processing
5 5 (38.46%) Risk Management
5 5 (38.46%) Statistical Analysis
6 3 (23.08%) CI/CD
6 3 (23.08%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 13 (100.00%) Python
2 5 (38.46%) Java
2 5 (38.46%) JavaScript
2 5 (38.46%) TypeScript
3 2 (15.38%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (7.69%) Degree
1 1 (7.69%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 4 (30.77%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (23.08%) Grafana
1 3 (23.08%) Kubernetes
2 2 (15.38%) Prometheus
3 1 (7.69%) Kustomize
3 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (7.69%) OpenAI