Azure AI Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Azure AI Platform
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Azure AI skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 108 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Azure AI 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.066% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.17% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £725 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 - -
75th Percentile £775 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £608 £475 £275
% change year-on-year +27.95% +72.73% -59.26%

All Cloud Skills
Scotland

Azure AI falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 576 582 728
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 37.87% 34.87% 30.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 363 367 492
10th Percentile £313 £300 £313
25th Percentile £413 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £488
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -7.69% +2.63%
75th Percentile £575 £525 £575
90th Percentile £634 £603 £686
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 14 3
10th Percentile £11.84 £18.84 -
25th Percentile £12.71 £20.47 -
Median hourly rate £31.95 £23.50 £15.42
Median % change year-on-year +35.97% +52.40% -12.98%
75th Percentile £52.50 £24.18 £16.57
90th Percentile £57.00 £26.68 £17.26
UK median hourly rate £26.50 £27.50 £26.75
% change year-on-year -3.64% +2.80% +18.89%

Azure AI
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Azure AI relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Azure AI job vacancy trend in Scotland

Azure AI
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Azure AI.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Azure AI

Azure AI
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 Azure AI within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 25 December 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 - 1 £750 - 3
Azure AI
UK

Azure AI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Machine Learning
General
1 1 (100.00%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) AI Agents
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Natural Language Processing
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Foundry
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft