Artificial Intelligence Jobs in Scotland

Artificial Intelligence (AI)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Artificial Intelligence skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Artificial Intelligence over the 6 months leading up to 25 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 14 125
Rank change year-on-year -37 +111 +11
Permanent jobs citing Artificial Intelligence 161 1,480 104
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 5.32% 22.07% 2.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.79% 23.74% 2.31%
Number of salaries quoted 58 76 48
10th Percentile £25,000 £50,086 £42,500
25th Percentile £25,313 £57,500 £50,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £65,000 £69,447
Median % change year-on-year -30.77% -6.40% +15.75%
75th Percentile £68,875 £91,934 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,657 £95,000
UK median annual salary £71,991 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +2.84% - +3.70%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Artificial Intelligence 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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,782 6,233 4,504
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 92.00% 92.95% 94.17%
Number of salaries quoted 1,358 2,427 2,263
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £44,000 £40,000 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -9.48% +10.48%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £83,742 £80,000 £86,600
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,900
% change year-on-year +4.55% -11.15% +3.17%

Artificial Intelligence
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Artificial Intelligence as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Artificial Intelligence in Scotland

Artificial Intelligence
Salary Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Artificial Intelligence in Scotland.

Salary trend for Artificial Intelligence in Scotland

Artificial Intelligence
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Artificial Intelligence in Scotland over the 6 months to 25 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Artificial Intelligence in Scotland

Artificial Intelligence
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 within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 25 April 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Edinburgh +32 95 £45,000 -35.98% 113
Glasgow -14 29 £77,000 +18.46% 92
North Lanarkshire - 8 - -
Renfrewshire - 6 - - 26
South Lanarkshire - 4 - -
Aberdeen - 3 £65,726 - 2
Highlands +6 2 - -
North Ayrshire - 2 - - 1
East Ayrshire - 2 - -
West Dunbartonshire - 2 - -
Stirling - 2 - -
Ayrshire - 2 - -
Lanarkshire - 2 - - 2
Dundee +11 1 - - 4
Artificial Intelligence
UK

Artificial Intelligence
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (1.86%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.24%) Confluence
3 1 (0.62%) Apache
3 1 (0.62%) CMS
Applications
1 19 (11.80%) Chatbot
2 4 (2.48%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 23 (14.29%) AWS
2 10 (6.21%) Azure
3 7 (4.35%) Amazon SageMaker
3 7 (4.35%) Power Platform
4 6 (3.73%) Azure Machine Learning
5 5 (3.11%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (3.11%) Serverless
6 4 (2.48%) GCP
6 4 (2.48%) Microsoft Copilot
6 4 (2.48%) Power Automate
6 4 (2.48%) Snowflake
7 3 (1.86%) Amazon S3
7 3 (1.86%) BlazeMeter
8 2 (1.24%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (1.24%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (1.24%) Amazon EMR
8 2 (1.24%) Amazon MSK
8 2 (1.24%) dbt
8 2 (1.24%) GitHub
8 2 (1.24%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.11%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (4.97%) Tableau
2 7 (4.35%) Power BI
3 5 (3.11%) Geospatial Data
3 5 (3.11%) MongoDB
4 4 (2.48%) Big Data
5 3 (1.86%) Apache Cassandra
5 3 (1.86%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.24%) DB2
6 2 (1.24%) DynamoDB
6 2 (1.24%) Looker
6 2 (1.24%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.62%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.62%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.62%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.62%) Metadata
7 1 (0.62%) MySQL
7 1 (0.62%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.62%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 1 (0.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.62%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 6 (3.73%) Git
2 3 (1.86%) JUnit
3 2 (1.24%) Cypress.io
3 2 (1.24%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.24%) JIRA
3 2 (1.24%) Postman
3 2 (1.24%) SoapUI
4 1 (0.62%) GitLab
4 1 (0.62%) MLflow
General
1 62 (38.51%) Analytical Skills
2 61 (37.89%) Social Skills
3 57 (35.40%) Finance
4 48 (29.81%) Banking
5 15 (9.32%) Legal
6 10 (6.21%) Marketing
7 8 (4.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (4.35%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (3.11%) Tech for Good
10 4 (2.48%) Retail Banking
11 3 (1.86%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (1.24%) Automotive
13 1 (0.62%) Electronics
13 1 (0.62%) Games
13 1 (0.62%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.62%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.62%) Public Sector
13 1 (0.62%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 32 (19.88%) Innovation Manager
2 18 (11.18%) Trainer
3 16 (9.94%) Analyst
4 14 (8.70%) Senior
5 12 (7.45%) Developer
5 12 (7.45%) Graduate
6 10 (6.21%) Lead
7 7 (4.35%) Architect
7 7 (4.35%) Data Science Graduate
7 7 (4.35%) Data Scientist
7 7 (4.35%) Governance Analyst
7 7 (4.35%) Risk Analyst
8 6 (3.73%) Java Developer
8 6 (3.73%) Software Engineer
9 5 (3.11%) Technologist
10 4 (2.48%) Business Analyst
10 4 (2.48%) Digital Executive
10 4 (2.48%) Digital Transformation
10 4 (2.48%) Robotic Process Automation Developer
10 4 (2.48%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (7.45%) Software Packaging
2 6 (3.73%) Spring
3 5 (3.11%) Kafka
3 5 (3.11%) React
4 4 (2.48%) HTML
4 4 (2.48%) PyTorch
4 4 (2.48%) scikit-learn
4 4 (2.48%) TensorFlow
5 3 (1.86%) CSS
5 3 (1.86%) Spring Boot
6 2 (1.24%) AngularJS
6 2 (1.24%) Google JAX
6 2 (1.24%) Hibernate
6 2 (1.24%) JAX
6 2 (1.24%) NumPy
6 2 (1.24%) Playwright
6 2 (1.24%) React Native
7 1 (0.62%) LangChain
7 1 (0.62%) OpenVINO
7 1 (0.62%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 17 (10.56%) Algorithms
2 12 (7.45%) Learning Management System
3 9 (5.59%) Mobile App
4 7 (4.35%) Credit Risk
5 6 (3.73%) Operational Technology
6 5 (3.11%) Analytical Mindset
6 5 (3.11%) Hackathon
6 5 (3.11%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.86%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.24%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.24%) IVR
8 2 (1.24%) Mobile Banking
8 2 (1.24%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.62%) Cloud Native
9 1 (0.62%) Distributed Computing
9 1 (0.62%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (0.62%) Online Banking
9 1 (0.62%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.62%) Reference Data
9 1 (0.62%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.48%) Linux
2 3 (1.86%) Unix
3 1 (0.62%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (45.96%) Decision-Making
2 56 (34.78%) Analytics
3 54 (33.54%) Continuous Improvement
4 47 (29.19%) Customer Experience
5 43 (26.71%) Agile
6 39 (24.22%) Machine Learning
7 38 (23.60%) Stakeholder Management
8 34 (21.12%) Software Engineering
9 32 (19.88%) Data-Driven Decision Making
10 31 (19.25%) Mathematics
11 24 (14.91%) Fintech
12 22 (13.66%) Cybersecurity
12 22 (13.66%) Data Science
13 21 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
14 20 (12.42%) Business Intelligence
14 20 (12.42%) Risk Management
15 19 (11.80%) Conversational UI
16 18 (11.18%) Generative AI
16 18 (11.18%) Visualisation
17 17 (10.56%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 40 (24.84%) Python
2 20 (12.42%) Java
3 19 (11.80%) SQL
4 11 (6.83%) JavaScript
5 6 (3.73%) TypeScript
6 5 (3.11%) C#
6 5 (3.11%) Kotlin
7 4 (2.48%) VBA
8 2 (1.24%) R
9 1 (0.62%) Bash
9 1 (0.62%) C++
Qualifications
1 55 (34.16%) Degree
2 33 (20.50%) Master's Degree
3 32 (19.88%) PhD
4 4 (2.48%) CBAP
5 3 (1.86%) Security Cleared
6 2 (1.24%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.62%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.62%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.62%) CRISC
7 1 (0.62%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.11%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.48%) QA
3 2 (1.24%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (1.24%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 2 (1.24%) GDPR
3 2 (1.24%) ITGC
3 2 (1.24%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.62%) COBIT
4 1 (0.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 5 (3.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (4.35%) Kubernetes
2 6 (3.73%) Terraform
3 3 (1.86%) Grafana
4 1 (0.62%) Kubeflow
4 1 (0.62%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 19 (11.80%) PayPal
2 12 (7.45%) Microsoft
3 10 (6.21%) Google
4 5 (3.11%) IBM
5 4 (2.48%) Blue Prism
5 4 (2.48%) Dynatrace
5 4 (2.48%) Splunk
5 4 (2.48%) UiPath
6 3 (1.86%) Adobe
7 2 (1.24%) HubSpot
7 2 (1.24%) Oracle
7 2 (1.24%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.24%) Sybase
8 1 (0.62%) Databricks
8 1 (0.62%) Hitachi
8 1 (0.62%) SAP