Artificial Intelligence Specialist Job Trends in Scotland

AI Specialist
UK > Scotland

The median AI Specialist salary in Scotland is £58,565 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 15 March 2026.

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

6 months to
15 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 143 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring an Artificial Intelligence Specialist 2 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.065% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.069% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £53,555 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,565 - -
75th Percentile £63,576 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £50,000 £86,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -41.86% +27.41% +35.00%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Scotland

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Scotland. 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 Scotland with a recognized job title 2,886 1,909 4,881
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.04% 90.43% 96.56%
Number of salaries quoted 1,520 970 2,414
10th Percentile £28,250 £28,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +7.84% -11.30%
75th Percentile £67,500 £72,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £93,778 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.33%

Artificial Intelligence Specialist
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Artificial Intelligence Specialist within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 15 March 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Stirling - 1 - -
Artificial Intelligence Specialist
UK

Artificial Intelligence Specialist Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland

For the 6 months to 15 March 2026, Artificial Intelligence Specialist 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 Scotland region featuring Artificial Intelligence Specialist in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 2 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) LLM
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Observability
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon SQS
2 1 (50.00%) Apache
2 1 (50.00%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (50.00%) API Development
2 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Async-Await
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) AWS CDK
2 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Azure AI
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) Broadband

Artificial Intelligence Specialist Skill Set
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Apache
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon SQS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure AI
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Machine Learning
1 1 (50.00%) Dagster
1 1 (50.00%) Serverless
1 1 (50.00%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) MLflow
General
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) AWS CDK
1 1 (50.00%) FastAPI
1 1 (50.00%) Hugging Face
1 1 (50.00%) JWT
1 1 (50.00%) LangChain
1 1 (50.00%) NumPy
1 1 (50.00%) OAuth
1 1 (50.00%) OAuth2
1 1 (50.00%) OpenCV
1 1 (50.00%) Pandas
1 1 (50.00%) pytest
1 1 (50.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (50.00%) RESTful
1 1 (50.00%) Semantic Kernel
1 1 (50.00%) SQLAlchemy
1 1 (50.00%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 2 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) LLM
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Observability
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Async-Await
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Code Quality
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Customer Experience
2 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) SEO
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Grafana
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Foundry
1 1 (50.00%) Google