Artificial Intelligence Engineer Contracts in Scotland

AI Engineer
UK > Scotland

The median AI Engineer daily rate in Scotland is £506, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 106 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring an Artificial Intelligence Engineer 10 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.62% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.65% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £431 - -
25th Percentile £448 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 - -
75th Percentile £573 - -
90th Percentile £597 - -
UK median daily rate £575 £550 £575
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -4.17%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Scotland

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Scotland. 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 Scotland with a recognized job title 1,529 2,099 2,722
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.09% 94.68% 95.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 920 1,281 1,953
10th Percentile £263 £205 £238
25th Percentile £370 £369 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - +4.40%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £553
90th Percentile £610 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 114 44
10th Percentile £15.98 £12.50 £12.86
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.25 £16.91
Median hourly rate £20.94 £33.25 £23.18
Median % change year-on-year -37.02% +43.44% -10.53%
75th Percentile £24.66 £60.00 £59.41
90th Percentile £42.58 £66.00 £67.22
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Artificial Intelligence Engineer in Scotland

Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Artificial Intelligence Engineer in Scotland over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Artificial Intelligence Engineer in Scotland

Artificial Intelligence Engineer
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 Artificial Intelligence Engineer within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Glasgow - 10 £506 - 1
Artificial Intelligence Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 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 Scotland region featuring Artificial Intelligence Engineer in the job title.

1 10 (100.00%) Python
1 10 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 10 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 10 (100.00%) Data Science
2 9 (90.00%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (90.00%) Finance
3 8 (80.00%) Data Security
3 8 (80.00%) Management Information System
3 8 (80.00%) Risk Management
3 8 (80.00%) Java
3 8 (80.00%) JavaScript
3 8 (80.00%) Investment Banking
3 8 (80.00%) Natural Language Processing
3 8 (80.00%) Statistical Analysis
3 8 (80.00%) Cloud Computing
3 8 (80.00%) Experimental Design
3 8 (80.00%) TypeScript
3 8 (80.00%) Critical Thinking
3 8 (80.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
3 8 (80.00%) Community of Practice
3 8 (80.00%) Decision-Making
3 8 (80.00%) Banking
3 8 (80.00%) Task Automation
3 8 (80.00%) Social Skills
3 8 (80.00%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (20.00%) Neo4j
5 1 (10.00%) Software Engineering
5 1 (10.00%) Git
5 1 (10.00%) Azure

Artificial Intelligence Engineer Skill Set
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 8 (80.00%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (10.00%) AWS
2 1 (10.00%) Azure
2 1 (10.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Neo4j
2 1 (10.00%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Git
General
1 9 (90.00%) Finance
2 8 (80.00%) Banking
2 8 (80.00%) Investment Banking
2 8 (80.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Legal
3 1 (10.00%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) NumPy
1 1 (10.00%) Pandas
1 1 (10.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (10.00%) scikit-learn
1 1 (10.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 8 (80.00%) Distributed Systems
1 8 (80.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 10 (100.00%) Data Science
1 10 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 9 (90.00%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (80.00%) Community of Practice
3 8 (80.00%) Critical Thinking
3 8 (80.00%) Data Security
3 8 (80.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
3 8 (80.00%) Decision-Making
3 8 (80.00%) Experimental Design
3 8 (80.00%) Natural Language Processing
3 8 (80.00%) Risk Management
3 8 (80.00%) Statistical Analysis
3 8 (80.00%) Task Automation
4 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
5 1 (10.00%) Actionable Insight
5 1 (10.00%) Containerisation
5 1 (10.00%) Generative AI
5 1 (10.00%) Graph Analytics
5 1 (10.00%) Semantic Search
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) Python
2 8 (80.00%) Java
2 8 (80.00%) JavaScript
2 8 (80.00%) TypeScript
3 1 (10.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) OpenAI