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 4 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 14 115
Rank change year-on-year -31 +101 +21
Permanent jobs citing Artificial Intelligence 159 1,503 107
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 5.55% 22.32% 2.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.01% 24.04% 2.40%
Number of salaries quoted 57 77 49
10th Percentile £25,000 £50,103 £42,500
25th Percentile £25,313 £57,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -30.77% - +8.33%
75th Percentile £69,750 £90,822 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,064 £95,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year - -3.45% +7.41%

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 2,644 6,252 4,467
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 92.25% 92.83% 94.32%
Number of salaries quoted 1,349 2,420 2,252
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £44,000 £40,500 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £57,732
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -9.06% +9.97%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £73,853
90th Percentile £83,148 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%

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 4 May 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 4 May 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 +23 90 £45,000 -35.98% 76
Glasgow -8 32 £77,000 +18.46% 57
North Lanarkshire - 8 - -
Renfrewshire - 6 - - 42
South Lanarkshire - 4 - -
Aberdeen - 3 £65,726 - 5
Highlands +6 2 - -
North Ayrshire - 2 - -
East Ayrshire - 2 - -
West Dunbartonshire - 2 - -
Stirling - 2 - - 1
Ayrshire - 2 - -
Lanarkshire - 2 - - 3
Dundee +9 1 - - 6
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 (1.89%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.26%) Confluence
3 1 (0.63%) Apache
3 1 (0.63%) CMS
Applications
1 23 (14.47%) Chatbot
2 4 (2.52%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 23 (14.47%) AWS
2 9 (5.66%) Azure
3 7 (4.40%) Amazon SageMaker
3 7 (4.40%) Power Platform
4 5 (3.14%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (3.14%) Azure Machine Learning
4 5 (3.14%) Serverless
5 4 (2.52%) GCP
5 4 (2.52%) Microsoft Copilot
5 4 (2.52%) Power Automate
5 4 (2.52%) Snowflake
6 3 (1.89%) Amazon S3
6 3 (1.89%) BlazeMeter
7 2 (1.26%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (1.26%) Amazon EMR
7 2 (1.26%) Amazon MSK
7 2 (1.26%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (1.26%) dbt
7 2 (1.26%) GitHub
7 2 (1.26%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.14%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (5.03%) Tableau
2 7 (4.40%) Power BI
3 5 (3.14%) MongoDB
4 4 (2.52%) Big Data
4 4 (2.52%) Geospatial Data
5 3 (1.89%) Apache Cassandra
5 3 (1.89%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.26%) DB2
6 2 (1.26%) DynamoDB
6 2 (1.26%) Looker
6 2 (1.26%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.63%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.63%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.63%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.63%) Metadata
7 1 (0.63%) MySQL
7 1 (0.63%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.63%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 1 (0.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 6 (3.77%) Git
2 3 (1.89%) JUnit
3 2 (1.26%) Cypress.io
3 2 (1.26%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.26%) JIRA
3 2 (1.26%) Postman
3 2 (1.26%) SoapUI
4 1 (0.63%) GitLab
4 1 (0.63%) MLflow
General
1 64 (40.25%) Analytical Skills
2 59 (37.11%) Social Skills
3 53 (33.33%) Finance
4 44 (27.67%) Banking
5 14 (8.81%) Legal
6 10 (6.29%) Marketing
7 7 (4.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.52%) Retail Banking
8 4 (2.52%) Tech for Good
9 3 (1.89%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.89%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.26%) Automotive
11 1 (0.63%) Electronics
11 1 (0.63%) Games
11 1 (0.63%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.63%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.63%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.63%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 32 (20.13%) Innovation Manager
2 22 (13.84%) Trainer
3 14 (8.81%) Analyst
4 13 (8.18%) Senior
5 12 (7.55%) Developer
5 12 (7.55%) Graduate
6 10 (6.29%) Lead
7 7 (4.40%) Architect
7 7 (4.40%) Data Science Graduate
7 7 (4.40%) Data Scientist
7 7 (4.40%) Governance Analyst
7 7 (4.40%) Risk Analyst
8 6 (3.77%) Java Developer
8 6 (3.77%) Software Engineer
9 5 (3.14%) Technologist
10 4 (2.52%) Digital Executive
10 4 (2.52%) Digital Transformation
10 4 (2.52%) Machine Learning Engineer
10 4 (2.52%) Robotic Process Automation Developer
10 4 (2.52%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (7.55%) Software Packaging
2 6 (3.77%) Spring
3 5 (3.14%) Kafka
3 5 (3.14%) React
4 4 (2.52%) HTML
4 4 (2.52%) PyTorch
4 4 (2.52%) scikit-learn
4 4 (2.52%) TensorFlow
5 3 (1.89%) CSS
5 3 (1.89%) Spring Boot
6 2 (1.26%) AngularJS
6 2 (1.26%) Google JAX
6 2 (1.26%) Hibernate
6 2 (1.26%) JAX
6 2 (1.26%) NumPy
6 2 (1.26%) Playwright
6 2 (1.26%) React Native
7 1 (0.63%) LangChain
7 1 (0.63%) OpenVINO
7 1 (0.63%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 17 (10.69%) Algorithms
2 12 (7.55%) Learning Management System
3 9 (5.66%) Mobile App
4 7 (4.40%) Credit Risk
5 5 (3.14%) Hackathon
5 5 (3.14%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.89%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (1.89%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.26%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.26%) IVR
7 2 (1.26%) Mobile Banking
7 2 (1.26%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.26%) Operational Technology
8 1 (0.63%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.63%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.63%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.63%) Online Banking
8 1 (0.63%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.63%) Reference Data
8 1 (0.63%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.89%) Linux
2 2 (1.26%) Unix
3 1 (0.63%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (43.40%) Decision-Making
2 56 (35.22%) Analytics
3 53 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 47 (29.56%) Customer Experience
5 39 (24.53%) Agile
6 38 (23.90%) Machine Learning
6 38 (23.90%) Stakeholder Management
7 34 (21.38%) Software Engineering
8 32 (20.13%) Data-Driven Decision Making
9 31 (19.50%) Mathematics
10 24 (15.09%) Fintech
11 23 (14.47%) Conversational UI
12 22 (13.84%) Cybersecurity
12 22 (13.84%) Data Science
13 20 (12.58%) Business Intelligence
13 20 (12.58%) Risk Management
14 18 (11.32%) Generative AI
14 18 (11.32%) Visualisation
15 17 (10.69%) Line Management
16 16 (10.06%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 39 (24.53%) Python
2 20 (12.58%) Java
3 19 (11.95%) SQL
4 11 (6.92%) JavaScript
5 6 (3.77%) TypeScript
6 5 (3.14%) C#
6 5 (3.14%) Kotlin
7 4 (2.52%) VBA
8 2 (1.26%) R
9 1 (0.63%) Bash
9 1 (0.63%) C++
Qualifications
1 59 (37.11%) Degree
2 37 (23.27%) Master's Degree
3 36 (22.64%) PhD
4 3 (1.89%) Security Cleared
5 2 (1.26%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.26%) CBAP
6 1 (0.63%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.63%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.63%) CRISC
6 1 (0.63%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.14%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.26%) Actionable Recommendations
2 2 (1.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 2 (1.26%) GDPR
2 2 (1.26%) ITGC
2 2 (1.26%) PCI DSS
2 2 (1.26%) QA
3 1 (0.63%) COBIT
3 1 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 5 (3.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (4.40%) Kubernetes
2 5 (3.14%) Terraform
3 3 (1.89%) Grafana
4 1 (0.63%) Kubeflow
4 1 (0.63%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 23 (14.47%) PayPal
2 12 (7.55%) Microsoft
3 10 (6.29%) Google
4 5 (3.14%) IBM
5 4 (2.52%) Blue Prism
5 4 (2.52%) Dynatrace
5 4 (2.52%) Splunk
5 4 (2.52%) UiPath
6 3 (1.89%) Adobe
7 2 (1.26%) HubSpot
7 2 (1.26%) Oracle
7 2 (1.26%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.26%) Sybase
8 1 (0.63%) Databricks
8 1 (0.63%) Hitachi
8 1 (0.63%) SAP