AI Job Trends in Edinburgh

AI
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring AI skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 12 65
Rank change year-on-year +7 +53 -15
Permanent jobs citing AI 138 122 31
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 11.66% 15.91% 2.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 18.13% 17.16% 2.80%
Number of salaries quoted 55 13 14
10th Percentile £55,000 £52,750 £55,163
25th Percentile £66,107 £58,750 £56,997
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £75,084 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +33.19% +7.26% -12.10%
75th Percentile - £87,500 £73,539
90th Percentile £112,500 £94,000 £73,886
Scotland median annual salary £85,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +25.93% +3.85% -17.27%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 761 711 1,109
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 64.27% 92.70% 87.67%
Number of salaries quoted 463 285 509
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,684 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £32,000 £46,713
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £42,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +52.94% -29.17% +0.80%
75th Percentile £76,787 £65,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £85,750 £90,300
Scotland median annual salary £55,000 £38,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +44.74% -30.91% +4.76%

AI
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing AI relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

AI job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

AI
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing AI.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing AI

AI
Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

Salary distribution for jobs citing AI in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 8 October 2026.

Salary histogram for AI in Edinburgh

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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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (2.17%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.45%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.72%) Ethereum
Applications
1 3 (2.17%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.72%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 23 (16.67%) Azure
2 10 (7.25%) AWS
3 9 (6.52%) Azure AI
4 6 (4.35%) Power Platform
4 6 (4.35%) SaaS
5 4 (2.90%) Anthropic Claude
5 4 (2.90%) GCP
6 3 (2.17%) Alation
6 3 (2.17%) Amazon Bedrock
6 3 (2.17%) Amazon SageMaker
6 3 (2.17%) Azure Machine Learning
6 3 (2.17%) Collibra
6 3 (2.17%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (2.17%) Snowflake
6 3 (2.17%) Zapier
7 2 (1.45%) dbt
7 2 (1.45%) Entra ID
7 2 (1.45%) OneDrive
8 1 (0.72%) AWS IoT
8 1 (0.72%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.17%) DNS
1 3 (2.17%) TCP/IP
2 2 (1.45%) VPN
3 1 (0.72%) AMQP
3 1 (0.72%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.72%) MQTT
3 1 (0.72%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.62%) Power BI
2 4 (2.90%) Metadata
3 3 (2.17%) DuckDB
3 3 (2.17%) Parquet
3 3 (2.17%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (2.17%) Tableau
4 2 (1.45%) Electronic Patient Records
4 2 (1.45%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.72%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.72%) Data Mining
5 1 (0.72%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (0.72%) SonarQube
General
1 50 (36.23%) Finance
2 25 (18.12%) Social Skills
3 11 (7.97%) Banking
4 8 (5.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 7 (5.07%) Games
5 7 (5.07%) Influencing Skills
5 7 (5.07%) Legal
6 3 (2.17%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (2.17%) Marketing
7 2 (1.45%) Digital Health
8 1 (0.72%) Advertising
8 1 (0.72%) Brand Awareness
8 1 (0.72%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.72%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.72%) Military
8 1 (0.72%) Public Sector
8 1 (0.72%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 46 (33.33%) Senior
2 36 (26.09%) Senior Manager
3 34 (24.64%) Architect
4 27 (19.57%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
5 26 (18.84%) Associate Director
5 26 (18.84%) Senior Associate Director
5 26 (18.84%) Solutions Architect
6 16 (11.59%) Delivery Manager
6 16 (11.59%) Lead
7 15 (10.87%) Data Manager
8 14 (10.14%) Senior Architect
8 14 (10.14%) Senior Delivery Manager
8 14 (10.14%) Senior Solutions Architect
9 12 (8.70%) Delivery Director
10 8 (5.80%) Developer
11 7 (5.07%) Analyst
11 7 (5.07%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
11 7 (5.07%) Engineering Manager
11 7 (5.07%) Middleware Developer
11 7 (5.07%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (5.07%) Middleware
1 7 (5.07%) React
2 3 (2.17%) Next.js
2 3 (2.17%) Svelte
2 3 (2.17%) SvelteKit
2 3 (2.17%) Terraform
3 2 (1.45%) FHIR
3 2 (1.45%) Node.js
4 1 (0.72%) .NET
4 1 (0.72%) .NET Framework
4 1 (0.72%) Django
4 1 (0.72%) EDI
4 1 (0.72%) REST
4 1 (0.72%) RESTful
4 1 (0.72%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 12 (8.70%) AI Agents
2 7 (5.07%) Data Centre
3 6 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (3.62%) Management Information System
5 4 (2.90%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.90%) Public Cloud
6 3 (2.17%) Cloud Native
6 3 (2.17%) Cyber Threat
6 3 (2.17%) Low-Code
7 2 (1.45%) Cyber Defence
7 2 (1.45%) Data Fabric
7 2 (1.45%) Hackathon
7 2 (1.45%) PACS
8 1 (0.72%) Clustering
8 1 (0.72%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.72%) Educational Technology
8 1 (0.72%) Podcast
8 1 (0.72%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.72%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.72%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.90%) Windows
2 3 (2.17%) Linux
2 3 (2.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (2.17%) Ubuntu
2 3 (2.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (15.22%) Software Engineering
2 20 (14.49%) Decision-Making
3 17 (12.32%) LLM
4 16 (11.59%) Cybersecurity
5 15 (10.87%) Analytics
5 15 (10.87%) Data Transformation
5 15 (10.87%) Machine Learning
6 14 (10.14%) Continuous Improvement
6 14 (10.14%) Stakeholder Management
7 13 (9.42%) Collaborative Culture
7 13 (9.42%) Generative AI
7 13 (9.42%) Mentoring
8 12 (8.70%) Agile
9 11 (7.97%) Data Science
9 11 (7.97%) Information Security
9 11 (7.97%) Risk Management
10 9 (6.52%) Coaching
10 9 (6.52%) Roadmaps
10 9 (6.52%) Security Operations
11 8 (5.80%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 22 (15.94%) Python
2 5 (3.62%) JavaScript
3 4 (2.90%) SQL
4 3 (2.17%) Java
4 3 (2.17%) Shell Script
4 3 (2.17%) TypeScript
5 1 (0.72%) C#
5 1 (0.72%) Go
5 1 (0.72%) Kotlin
5 1 (0.72%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (0.72%) Rust
Qualifications
1 13 (9.42%) Degree
2 7 (5.07%) Azure Certification
2 7 (5.07%) CISSP
3 6 (4.35%) CISM
3 6 (4.35%) Master's Degree
3 6 (4.35%) PhD
4 4 (2.90%) Security Cleared
5 3 (2.17%) CISA
5 3 (2.17%) SC Cleared
6 2 (1.45%) CRISC
6 2 (1.45%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
7 1 (0.72%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.72%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.72%) GCIA
7 1 (0.72%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
7 1 (0.72%) PgMP
7 1 (0.72%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.72%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (3.62%) NIST
2 4 (2.90%) GDPR
2 4 (2.90%) GRC
3 3 (2.17%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (1.45%) DICOM
4 2 (1.45%) HL7
5 1 (0.72%) ECSS
5 1 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 42001
5 1 (0.72%) QA
System Software
1 3 (2.17%) Docker
2 2 (1.45%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.45%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (2.90%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.72%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 14 (10.14%) Microsoft
2 8 (5.80%) YouTube
3 5 (3.62%) Meraki
3 5 (3.62%) OpenAI
4 4 (2.90%) Google
5 3 (2.17%) Databricks
5 3 (2.17%) Foundry
5 3 (2.17%) Informatica
5 3 (2.17%) Red Hat
6 2 (1.45%) Apple
6 2 (1.45%) Cisco
6 2 (1.45%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.45%) VMware
7 1 (0.72%) HubSpot
7 1 (0.72%) IBM
7 1 (0.72%) OneTrust