AI Agents Contracts in Scotland

AI Agents (Agentic AI)
UK > Scotland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term AI Agents in contract job vacancies in Scotland. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited AI Agents over the 6 months leading up to 11 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 110 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing AI Agents 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.12% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.30% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 - -
UK median daily rate £550 - £550
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%

All Generic Skills
Scotland

AI Agents falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 665 676 966
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 40.67% 31.69% 36.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 306 417 653
10th Percentile £205 £205 £200
25th Percentile £383 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £453 £488
Median % change year-on-year +2.15% -7.08% -
75th Percentile £538 £558 £550
90th Percentile £600 £653 £638
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 35 28
10th Percentile - £12.68 -
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.74 £10.63
Median hourly rate £22.00 £18.13 £13.83
Median % change year-on-year +21.35% +31.09% -67.44%
75th Percentile £27.99 £29.59 £21.91
90th Percentile £61.00 £59.45 £49.54
UK median hourly rate £32.85 £35.00 £22.26
% change year-on-year -6.14% +57.27% -18.33%

AI Agents
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AI Agents within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 11 June 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Edinburgh - 1 £300 - 6
Glasgow - 1 - - 9
AI Agents
UK

AI Agents
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 1 (50.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Big Data
1 1 (50.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (50.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Artifactory
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) FastAPI
1 1 (50.00%) Flask
1 1 (50.00%) Hugging Face
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
1 1 (50.00%) LangChain
1 1 (50.00%) Loki
1 1 (50.00%) OAuth
1 1 (50.00%) OAuth2
1 1 (50.00%) OpenTelemetry
1 1 (50.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (50.00%) RESTful
1 1 (50.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (50.00%) Private Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Workflow
2 1 (50.00%) BDD
2 1 (50.00%) Blue-Green Deployment
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (50.00%) Data Privacy
2 1 (50.00%) Deep Learning
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Multithreading
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Secure Coding
2 1 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Task Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Unit Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Master's Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Grafana
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Kustomize
1 1 (50.00%) Prometheus