Artificial Intelligence Contracts in Scotland

Artificial Intelligence (AI)
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Artificial Intelligence skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Artificial Intelligence over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 72 151 150
Rank change year-on-year +79 -1 0
Contract jobs citing Artificial Intelligence 60 21 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 2.76% 0.76% 0.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.12% 0.82% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 19 4
10th Percentile £363 £439 £423
25th Percentile £413 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £533
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% -10.80% +18.33%
75th Percentile £500 £498 £610
90th Percentile £555 £508 -
UK median daily rate £590 £575 £595
% change year-on-year +2.61% -3.36% +10.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £35.00 -
UK median hourly rate £44.24 £48.75 £39.75
% change year-on-year -9.25% +22.64% +26.79%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Artificial Intelligence is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,922 2,555 3,203
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.29% 92.54% 93.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,169 1,831 2,264
10th Percentile £225 £260 £250
25th Percentile £375 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £471
Median % change year-on-year - +0.96% +10.71%
75th Percentile £575 £560 £550
90th Percentile £655 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 57 48
10th Percentile £12.30 £10.63 £15.04
25th Percentile £15.75 £12.30 £19.45
Median hourly rate £19.34 £16.50 £38.71
Median % change year-on-year +17.18% -57.38% -3.23%
75th Percentile £46.24 £47.73 £48.75
90th Percentile £60.93 £65.63 £55.75
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.18
% change year-on-year +1.39% +42.97% +2.78%

Artificial Intelligence
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Artificial Intelligence in Scotland

Artificial Intelligence
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Artificial Intelligence in Scotland

Artificial Intelligence
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Artificial Intelligence in Scotland over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Artificial Intelligence in Scotland

Artificial Intelligence
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 within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 9 May 2024. 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 +45 39 £435 -8.08% 7
Edinburgh +37 15 £455 -5.01% 17
Renfrewshire - 2 £533 -
Stirling - 1 £525 - 2
Artificial Intelligence
UK

Artificial Intelligence
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (3.33%) Apache
1 2 (3.33%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.67%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 23 (38.33%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 24 (40.00%) AWS
2 9 (15.00%) Amazon S3
2 9 (15.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 9 (15.00%) AWS Lambda
2 9 (15.00%) Serverless
3 8 (13.33%) Azure
4 7 (11.67%) OpenShift
5 6 (10.00%) Amazon SageMaker
6 5 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (6.67%) Rekognition
7 4 (6.67%) Textract
8 3 (5.00%) AWS CodePipeline
9 2 (3.33%) GCP
9 2 (3.33%) npm
10 1 (1.67%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (1.67%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (1.67%) IaaS
10 1 (1.67%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (15.00%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (10.00%) Amazon Aurora
3 5 (8.33%) Big Data
3 5 (8.33%) SQL Server
4 3 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (3.33%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.67%) BigQuery
6 1 (1.67%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.67%) Flink
6 1 (1.67%) GIS
6 1 (1.67%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 5 (8.33%) Selenium
1 5 (8.33%) WebDriver
2 3 (5.00%) GitLab
3 2 (3.33%) Cypress.io
4 1 (1.67%) Git
4 1 (1.67%) Gradle
4 1 (1.67%) Jenkins
General
1 13 (21.67%) Finance
2 9 (15.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 9 (15.00%) Public Sector
3 5 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (6.67%) Social Skills
5 3 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.67%) Legal
7 1 (1.67%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 36 (60.00%) Developer
2 25 (41.67%) Software Developer
3 8 (13.33%) Full Stack Engineer
4 6 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
4 6 (10.00%) Java Developer
4 6 (10.00%) Java Engineer
5 5 (8.33%) Automation Tester
5 5 (8.33%) Tester
6 4 (6.67%) Data Engineer
7 3 (5.00%) Automation Developer
7 3 (5.00%) Full Stack Developer
7 3 (5.00%) Full Stack Java Developer
7 3 (5.00%) Programme Manager
8 2 (3.33%) Cloud Engineer
9 1 (1.67%) Angular Developer
9 1 (1.67%) AWS Software Engineer
9 1 (1.67%) Cybersecurity Consultant
9 1 (1.67%) DevOps Engineer
9 1 (1.67%) QA Leader
9 1 (1.67%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (35.00%) HTML
2 14 (23.33%) Spring
3 13 (21.67%) REST
4 12 (20.00%) AngularJS
5 10 (16.67%) CSS
5 10 (16.67%) JPA
5 10 (16.67%) Spring Boot
6 9 (15.00%) AWS CDK
7 3 (5.00%) PostGIS
8 2 (3.33%) React
9 1 (1.67%) .NET
9 1 (1.67%) Kafka
9 1 (1.67%) RESTful
9 1 (1.67%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 10 (16.67%) Public Cloud
2 2 (3.33%) e-Health
2 2 (3.33%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (1.67%) Algorithms
3 1 (1.67%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.67%) Clustering
3 1 (1.67%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (1.67%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (48.33%) Code Quality
2 27 (45.00%) Machine Learning
3 24 (40.00%) Agile
4 23 (38.33%) Conversational UI
4 23 (38.33%) Software Engineering
5 16 (26.67%) CI/CD
6 14 (23.33%) DevOps
7 13 (21.67%) SDLC
8 12 (20.00%) Full Stack Development
8 12 (20.00%) Operational Stability
9 11 (18.33%) Decision-Making
10 9 (15.00%) Microservices
11 8 (13.33%) Kanban
11 8 (13.33%) Natural Language Processing
11 8 (13.33%) Scrum
12 7 (11.67%) Infrastructure as Code
12 7 (11.67%) Test Automation
13 6 (10.00%) Product Management
13 6 (10.00%) Service Design
14 5 (8.33%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 32 (53.33%) SQL
2 25 (41.67%) Python
3 19 (31.67%) Java
4 16 (26.67%) C#
4 16 (26.67%) TypeScript
5 11 (18.33%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.67%) Scala
Qualifications
1 25 (41.67%) Degree
2 2 (3.33%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.67%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (1.67%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.33%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.67%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (1.67%) QA
2 1 (1.67%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 9 (15.00%) Docker
2 1 (1.67%) KVM
2 1 (1.67%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (1.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (13.33%) Grafana
2 7 (11.67%) Kubernetes
3 2 (3.33%) Terraform
4 1 (1.67%) Ansible
4 1 (1.67%) Nagios
4 1 (1.67%) Puppet
4 1 (1.67%) vCenter Server
4 1 (1.67%) vRealize
Vendors
1 23 (38.33%) PayPal
2 1 (1.67%) Google
2 1 (1.67%) VMware