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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 13 109 148
Rank change year-on-year +96 +39 -21
Permanent jobs citing Artificial Intelligence 1,027 108 106
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 18.02% 2.85% 1.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 20.52% 2.97% 1.88%
Number of salaries quoted 43 43 57
10th Percentile £55,381 £45,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £50,917 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +36.84%
75th Percentile £75,693 £84,056 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £93,750 £82,820
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% +7.69%

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 5,004 3,640 5,626
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 87.82% 95.94% 92.38%
Number of salaries quoted 2,133 1,969 3,041
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,555 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% - +15.79%
75th Percentile £67,500 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,548 £83,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%

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 26 July 2024.

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 26 July 2024. 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
Glasgow +75 989 £65,000 +30.00% 9
Edinburgh +7 34 £65,000 -0.10% 2
Midlothian - 3 - - 1
Dundee -4 1 - -
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
1 133 (12.95%) Apache Spark
2 98 (9.54%) FileNet
3 11 (1.07%) CICS
4 9 (0.88%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.097%) Apache
5 1 (0.097%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.097%) Tuxedo
Business Applications
1 4 (0.39%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.097%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 479 (46.64%) AWS
2 100 (9.74%) Amazon S3
3 91 (8.86%) Datadog
4 76 (7.40%) Azure
5 52 (5.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 46 (4.48%) GitHub
7 43 (4.19%) GCP
8 34 (3.31%) Cloud Computing
9 25 (2.43%) Google Play
10 24 (2.34%) BlazeMeter
11 9 (0.88%) Entra ID
11 9 (0.88%) Microsoft 365
12 5 (0.49%) Power Platform
12 5 (0.49%) Serverless
13 4 (0.39%) AWS Lambda
14 3 (0.29%) Amazon ECS
14 3 (0.29%) Amazon EKS
14 3 (0.29%) Figma
14 3 (0.29%) IaaS
14 3 (0.29%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.29%) Firewall
1 3 (0.29%) SD-WAN
2 1 (0.097%) HTTP
2 1 (0.097%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 273 (26.58%) NoSQL
2 114 (11.10%) Apache Cassandra
3 98 (9.54%) Elasticsearch
4 94 (9.15%) Big Data
5 60 (5.84%) Apache Hive
5 60 (5.84%) HBase
6 55 (5.36%) Hadoop
7 44 (4.28%) Data Lake
8 35 (3.41%) Qlik Sense
9 21 (2.04%) MongoDB
9 21 (2.04%) Relational Database
10 11 (1.07%) DB2
11 9 (0.88%) Data Warehouse
12 8 (0.78%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 8 (0.78%) PostgreSQL
13 7 (0.68%) Oracle Database
14 6 (0.58%) MySQL
15 4 (0.39%) Amazon RDS
15 4 (0.39%) Oracle Database 11g
16 3 (0.29%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 190 (18.50%) JUnit
2 109 (10.61%) Jenkins
3 105 (10.22%) Jasmine
4 72 (7.01%) Git
5 60 (5.84%) Bitbucket Server
5 60 (5.84%) Cypress.io
5 60 (5.84%) Karma Test Runner
5 60 (5.84%) Protractor
5 60 (5.84%) Selenium
5 60 (5.84%) WebDriver
6 45 (4.38%) Mockito
7 25 (2.43%) Android Studio
8 18 (1.75%) JMeter
9 11 (1.07%) ChangeMan
10 7 (0.68%) Maven
11 2 (0.19%) GitLab
12 1 (0.097%) Rational DOORS
12 1 (0.097%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 967 (94.16%) Finance
2 953 (92.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 949 (92.41%) Law
4 377 (36.71%) Marketing
5 342 (33.30%) Legal
6 199 (19.38%) Banking
7 187 (18.21%) Investment Banking
8 114 (11.10%) Social Skills
9 34 (3.31%) Presentation Skills
10 33 (3.21%) Influencing Skills
11 30 (2.92%) Games
12 27 (2.63%) Financial Institution
13 22 (2.14%) Prime Brokerage
14 10 (0.97%) Analytical Skills
15 7 (0.68%) Private Banking
16 5 (0.49%) Advertising
17 4 (0.39%) Tech for Good
18 3 (0.29%) Telecoms
19 2 (0.19%) Manufacturing
19 2 (0.19%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 910 (88.61%) Software Engineer
2 410 (39.92%) Java Engineer
3 407 (39.63%) Java Software Engineer
4 252 (24.54%) Lead
5 237 (23.08%) Lead Software Engineer
6 169 (16.46%) Full Stack Engineer
7 168 (16.36%) Full Stack Software Engineer
8 134 (13.05%) AWS Engineer
8 134 (13.05%) AWS Software Engineer
9 122 (11.88%) Python Engineer
9 122 (11.88%) Python Software Engineer
10 107 (10.42%) Lead Java Engineer
11 105 (10.22%) Senior
12 88 (8.57%) Data Engineer
13 80 (7.79%) Big Data Engineer
13 80 (7.79%) Big Data Software Engineer
14 77 (7.50%) Senior Software Engineer
15 56 (5.45%) Developer
16 54 (5.26%) Cloud Engineer
16 54 (5.26%) Cloud Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 288 (28.04%) Spring
2 247 (24.05%) React
3 220 (21.42%) AngularJS
4 209 (20.35%) J2EE
5 180 (17.53%) Hibernate
6 175 (17.04%) Kafka
7 162 (15.77%) JMS
8 156 (15.19%) HTML
9 155 (15.09%) Node.js
9 155 (15.09%) Twitter Bootstrap
10 134 (13.05%) JSON
11 133 (12.95%) CSS
12 132 (12.85%) jQuery
13 100 (9.74%) GraphQL
13 100 (9.74%) Spring Integration
14 72 (7.01%) OpenTelemetry
15 60 (5.84%) Jest
16 57 (5.55%) Spring Boot
17 55 (5.36%) PySpark
18 32 (3.12%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 449 (43.72%) Algorithms
2 326 (31.74%) Cloud Native
3 118 (11.49%) Onboarding
4 80 (7.79%) Data Structures
5 74 (7.21%) Public Cloud
6 36 (3.51%) Management Information System
7 25 (2.43%) Reference Data
8 23 (2.24%) Distributed Systems
9 21 (2.04%) Legacy Code
10 18 (1.75%) Market Risk
11 15 (1.46%) Credit Risk
12 11 (1.07%) Mainframe
12 11 (1.07%) VSAM
13 10 (0.97%) IoT
14 6 (0.58%) Video\Live Streaming
15 5 (0.49%) Augmented Reality
15 5 (0.49%) Virtual Reality
16 3 (0.29%) Distributed Computing
16 3 (0.29%) Low-Code
17 2 (0.19%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 85 (8.28%) Unix
2 34 (3.31%) Linux
3 25 (2.43%) Android
4 10 (0.97%) Windows
5 3 (0.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 962 (93.67%) Machine Learning
2 958 (93.28%) Software Engineering
3 944 (91.92%) Agile
4 879 (85.59%) SDLC
5 830 (80.82%) Operational Stability
6 829 (80.72%) CI/CD
7 618 (60.18%) Community of Practice
8 484 (47.13%) Visualisation
9 467 (45.47%) Continuous Improvement
10 362 (35.25%) Risk Management
11 240 (23.37%) Decision-Making
12 186 (18.11%) Microservices
13 181 (17.62%) Architectural Design
14 180 (17.53%) Full Stack Development
15 171 (16.65%) Information Architecture
16 145 (14.12%) TDD
17 140 (13.63%) Continuous Delivery
18 135 (13.15%) Computer Science
19 118 (11.49%) Problem-Solving
20 115 (11.20%) Client Onboarding
Programming Languages
1 686 (66.80%) Java
2 389 (37.88%) SQL
3 319 (31.06%) Python
4 154 (15.00%) JavaScript
5 137 (13.34%) TypeScript
6 66 (6.43%) PL/SQL
7 50 (4.87%) Scala
8 25 (2.43%) Kotlin
9 18 (1.75%) C#
10 11 (1.07%) C++
10 11 (1.07%) COBOL
10 11 (1.07%) JCL
11 6 (0.58%) Go
12 3 (0.29%) Bash
13 2 (0.19%) C
14 1 (0.097%) Fortran
14 1 (0.097%) R
14 1 (0.097%) Rust
14 1 (0.097%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 52 (5.06%) Degree
2 35 (3.41%) Master's Degree
3 34 (3.31%) Computer Science Degree
4 11 (1.07%) Azure Certification
5 9 (0.88%) PhD
6 8 (0.78%) AWS Certification
6 8 (0.78%) CISSP
7 7 (0.68%) CISM
7 7 (0.68%) Security Cleared
8 6 (0.58%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 3 (0.29%) CCNA
9 3 (0.29%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (0.29%) Network+ Certification
9 3 (0.29%) SC Cleared
10 2 (0.19%) PMP
11 1 (0.097%) CESG Certified Professional
11 1 (0.097%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.097%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.097%) Numerate Degree
11 1 (0.097%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (1.07%) Data Quality
2 7 (0.68%) Accessibility
2 7 (0.68%) NIST
3 4 (0.39%) DICOM
3 4 (0.39%) HL7
3 4 (0.39%) ISO 13485
4 1 (0.097%) GDPR
4 1 (0.097%) IEC 61508
4 1 (0.097%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.097%) ISO/IEC 27005
4 1 (0.097%) NCSC
System Software
1 60 (5.84%) HDFS
2 11 (1.07%) Time Sharing Option
3 6 (0.58%) Docker
4 1 (0.097%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 145 (14.12%) Kubernetes
2 135 (13.15%) Terraform
3 104 (10.13%) Grafana
4 39 (3.80%) Prometheus
5 7 (0.68%) Graphite
6 3 (0.29%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.19%) Ansible
Vendors
1 206 (20.06%) Oracle
2 136 (13.24%) Databricks
3 107 (10.42%) Splunk
4 100 (9.74%) Dynatrace
5 61 (5.94%) Informatica
6 35 (3.41%) Alteryx
7 30 (2.92%) Cloudera
8 29 (2.82%) Google
9 14 (1.36%) Microsoft
10 10 (0.97%) SaltStack
11 5 (0.49%) SAP
12 3 (0.29%) Cisco
12 3 (0.29%) Citrix
13 2 (0.19%) Confluent
13 2 (0.19%) OpenAI
13 2 (0.19%) VMware
14 1 (0.097%) IBM
14 1 (0.097%) Klocwork
14 1 (0.097%) NVIDIA
14 1 (0.097%) Thales