ChatGPT Contract Job Trends in Scotland

OpenAI ChatGPT
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring ChatGPT skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 107 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing ChatGPT 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 £413 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - -
75th Percentile £438 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £600 £550 £400
% change year-on-year +9.09% +37.50% -

All Cloud Computing Skills
Scotland

ChatGPT 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 591 598 741
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 39.24% 37.14% 30.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 357 397 499
10th Percentile £313 £279 £325
25th Percentile £412 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £480
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -6.25% +1.05%
75th Percentile £600 £525 £588
90th Percentile £675 £600 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 8 4
10th Percentile £12.03 £21.84 -
25th Percentile £13.20 £22.50 £15.42
Median hourly rate £50.00 £24.09 £16.57
Median % change year-on-year +107.56% +45.38% -6.49%
75th Percentile £60.00 £25.07 £18.70
90th Percentile £62.40 £27.94 £20.46
UK median hourly rate £33.09 £27.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year +20.31% +22.22% -6.25%

ChatGPT
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

ChatGPT job vacancy trend in Scotland

ChatGPT
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 ChatGPT within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 2 February 2026. 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 £425 - 1
ChatGPT
UK

ChatGPT
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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Backend Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) FastAPI
1 1 (100.00%) Model Context Protocol
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) AI
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python