Artificial Intelligence Contracts in Scotland

Artificial Intelligence (AI)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Artificial Intelligence skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Artificial Intelligence over the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 79 62 149
Rank change year-on-year -17 +87 +11
Contract jobs citing Artificial Intelligence 34 60 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 2.10% 2.78% 0.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.24% 3.15% 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 31 19
10th Percentile £300 £363 £431
25th Percentile £389 £414 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £479 £463 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.46% -2.63% -10.80%
75th Percentile £550 £500 £498
90th Percentile £609 £550 £508
UK median daily rate £575 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Median hourly rate £15.46 - £35.00
UK median hourly rate £32.00 £46.18 £40.50
% change year-on-year -30.71% +14.02% -3.57%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Artificial Intelligence falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,520 1,904 2,514
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 93.71% 88.31% 92.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 873 1,167 1,792
10th Percentile £263 £225 £260
25th Percentile £375 £375 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +0.96%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £556
90th Percentile £600 £650 £650
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 90 54
10th Percentile £15.90 £12.30 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.00 £11.51
Median hourly rate £19.97 £19.50 £16.25
Median % change year-on-year +2.41% +20.00% -56.59%
75th Percentile £24.66 £46.24 £52.25
90th Percentile £51.48 £60.93 £67.22
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £36.05 £36.00
% change year-on-year -22.32% +0.13% +40.19%

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 16 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Artificial Intelligence in Scotland

Artificial Intelligence
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Artificial Intelligence in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend 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 16 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 -18 25 £467 +7.36% 83
Edinburgh -4 7 £538 +16.85% 76
Stirling -3 1 - - 1
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 1 (2.94%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 16 (47.06%) Cloud Computing
2 6 (17.65%) AWS
3 5 (14.71%) Azure
3 5 (14.71%) BlazeMeter
4 1 (2.94%) Amazon Bedrock
4 1 (2.94%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 1 (2.94%) Amazon S3
4 1 (2.94%) Amazon SageMaker
4 1 (2.94%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (2.94%) Azure AKS
4 1 (2.94%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.94%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (2.94%) GitHub
4 1 (2.94%) GitHub Copilot
4 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Copilot
4 1 (2.94%) Power Automate
4 1 (2.94%) Power Platform
4 1 (2.94%) PowerApps
4 1 (2.94%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (20.59%) MongoDB
2 6 (17.65%) NoSQL
3 5 (14.71%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (2.94%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (2.94%) Data Lake
4 1 (2.94%) DynamoDB
4 1 (2.94%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (2.94%) MariaDB
4 1 (2.94%) MySQL
4 1 (2.94%) Neo4j
4 1 (2.94%) Oracle Database
4 1 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.94%) Power Query
4 1 (2.94%) Redis
4 1 (2.94%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (14.71%) JUnit
2 2 (5.88%) JIRA
3 1 (2.94%) Git
3 1 (2.94%) GitLab
3 1 (2.94%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (2.94%) PVCS
3 1 (2.94%) Subversion
General
1 16 (47.06%) Finance
2 15 (44.12%) Social Skills
3 9 (26.47%) Banking
3 9 (26.47%) Investment Banking
4 5 (14.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (8.82%) Financial Institution
7 2 (5.88%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (32.35%) Developer
2 10 (29.41%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 9 (26.47%) JavaScript Engineer
3 9 (26.47%) Python Engineer
4 6 (17.65%) Java Developer
5 5 (14.71%) Architect
5 5 (14.71%) Senior
6 4 (11.76%) Full-Stack Developer
6 4 (11.76%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 4 (11.76%) Solutions Architect
7 3 (8.82%) Senior Architect
7 3 (8.82%) Senior Solutions Architect
8 2 (5.88%) Analyst
8 2 (5.88%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
8 2 (5.88%) Core Java Developer
8 2 (5.88%) Software Engineer
9 1 (2.94%) Azure Architect
9 1 (2.94%) Azure Data Architect
9 1 (2.94%) Integration Developer
9 1 (2.94%) Principal Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (17.65%) React
1 6 (17.65%) Spring
2 5 (14.71%) AngularJS
2 5 (14.71%) CSS
3 2 (5.88%) Spring Security
4 1 (2.94%) .NET
4 1 (2.94%) ARM Templates
4 1 (2.94%) HTML5 Canvas
4 1 (2.94%) Java EE
4 1 (2.94%) JSON
4 1 (2.94%) PyTorch
4 1 (2.94%) TensorFlow
4 1 (2.94%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (47.06%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (29.41%) Management Information System
3 5 (14.71%) Algorithms
4 4 (11.76%) Cloud Native
5 3 (8.82%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (5.88%) Product Ownership
7 1 (2.94%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (2.94%) Data Structures
7 1 (2.94%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (2.94%) Low-Code
7 1 (2.94%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (64.71%) Machine Learning
2 19 (55.88%) Community of Practice
3 16 (47.06%) Data Security
4 14 (41.18%) Data Science
5 13 (38.24%) Decision-Making
5 13 (38.24%) Natural Language Processing
5 13 (38.24%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (35.29%) Critical Thinking
6 12 (35.29%) Experimental Design
6 12 (35.29%) Risk Management
6 12 (35.29%) Statistical Analysis
7 10 (29.41%) Data-Driven Decision Making
7 10 (29.41%) Task Automation
8 8 (23.53%) CI/CD
9 7 (20.59%) Agile
9 7 (20.59%) Continuous Improvement
9 7 (20.59%) Software Engineering
10 6 (17.65%) SDLC
10 6 (17.65%) Unit Testing
11 5 (14.71%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 24 (70.59%) Java
2 19 (55.88%) Python
3 18 (52.94%) JavaScript
3 18 (52.94%) TypeScript
4 5 (14.71%) SQL
5 1 (2.94%) Bash
5 1 (2.94%) Bicep
5 1 (2.94%) C
5 1 (2.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (2.94%) PL/SQL
5 1 (2.94%) PowerShell
5 1 (2.94%) ProC
Qualifications
1 3 (8.82%) AWS Certification
1 3 (8.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 3 (8.82%) Azure Certification
2 2 (5.88%) Degree
3 1 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.94%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.94%) Accessibility
1 1 (2.94%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (2.94%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (17.65%) Grafana
2 3 (8.82%) Kubernetes
3 2 (5.88%) Terraform
4 1 (2.94%) Ansible
4 1 (2.94%) Progress Chef
4 1 (2.94%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (14.71%) Dynatrace
1 5 (14.71%) Splunk
2 1 (2.94%) Alteryx
2 1 (2.94%) Databricks
2 1 (2.94%) Hitachi
2 1 (2.94%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.94%) OpenAI
2 1 (2.94%) Oracle
2 1 (2.94%) PayPal
2 1 (2.94%) Pega
2 1 (2.94%) SAP