Artificial Intelligence Consultant Job Trends in Edinburgh

AI Consultant
Scotland > Edinburgh

The median AI Consultant salary in Edinburgh is £110,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 9 June 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring an Artificial Intelligence Consultant 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 0.095% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.097% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £105,000 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 - -
75th Percentile £115,000 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median annual salary £110,000 - -

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Edinburgh

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Edinburgh. 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 permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Edinburgh with a recognized job title 1,030 758 1,334
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 97.35% 87.83% 95.97%
Number of salaries quoted 628 329 1,060
10th Percentile £28,250 £26,929 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - -
75th Percentile £70,000 £83,738 £71,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £98,529 £90,864
Scotland median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £51,500
% change year-on-year -18.18% +6.80% -6.36%

Artificial Intelligence Consultant Skill Set
Top 24 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh

For the 6 months to 9 June 2026, Artificial Intelligence Consultant job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Edinburgh region featuring Artificial Intelligence Consultant in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Bedrock
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon SageMaker
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure AI
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Culture
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) Foundry
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) MLOps
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) Workshop Facilitation

Artificial Intelligence Consultant Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh 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%) Amazon Bedrock
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon SageMaker
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure AI
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Machine Learning
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) AI Agents
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Culture
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) MLOps
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks
1 1 (100.00%) Foundry