Gen AI Developer Contract Job Trends in Glasgow

Generative AI Developer
Scotland > Glasgow

The median Generative AI Developer daily rate in Glasgow is £435, 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 79 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Gen AI Developer 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 0.27% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.29% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £415 - -
25th Percentile £421 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 - -
75th Percentile £444 - -
90th Percentile £446 - -
Scotland median daily rate £435 - -

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 683 641 781
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.82% 94.26% 95.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 407 455 525
10th Percentile £264 £219 £325
25th Percentile £363 £360 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £575
90th Percentile £613 £659 £675
Scotland median daily rate £463 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +2.78% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 19 23
10th Percentile - £11.78 £12.13
25th Percentile £16.84 £15.96 £13.71
Median hourly rate £21.86 £19.59 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +11.59% +11.94% -53.25%
75th Percentile £26.21 £38.50 £53.24
90th Percentile £57.50 £54.50 £62.50
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £18.27 £17.72
% change year-on-year +9.47% +3.10% -5.87%

Gen AI Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow

For the 6 months to 19 September 2025, Gen AI Developer 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 Gen AI Developer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Node.js
1 2 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 2 (100.00%) TypeScript
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (100.00%) React
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (100.00%) Next.js
1 2 (100.00%) Architectural Design
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 2 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 2 (100.00%) Generative AI
2 1 (50.00%) LangChain
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon Bedrock
2 1 (50.00%) Hugging Face
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) OpenAI
2 1 (50.00%) Conversational UI
2 1 (50.00%) Chatbot
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon SageMaker
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) API Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Software Architecture

Gen AI Developer 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:

Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon Bedrock
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon SageMaker
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 2 (100.00%) Next.js
1 2 (100.00%) Node.js
1 2 (100.00%) React
2 1 (50.00%) Hugging Face
2 1 (50.00%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Architectural Design
1 2 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 2 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 2 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) API Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Conversational UI
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Certification
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) OpenAI