Artificial Intelligence Jobs in Scotland

Artificial Intelligence (AI)
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Artificial Intelligence skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Artificial Intelligence over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 13 127 136
Rank change year-on-year +114 +9 -54
Permanent jobs citing Artificial Intelligence 1,503 105 111
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 22.40% 2.27% 1.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 24.23% 2.41% 2.11%
Number of salaries quoted 74 46 63
10th Percentile £50,495 £42,500 £38,300
25th Percentile £57,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,064 £95,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £70,000 £73,073 £67,500
% change year-on-year -4.21% +8.26% +3.85%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Artificial Intelligence is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,203 4,358 5,265
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 92.46% 94.29% 90.98%
Number of salaries quoted 2,419 2,188 2,782
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,000 £30,500
25th Percentile £40,250 £41,938 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +6.48% +10.20%
75th Percentile £65,000 £73,449 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,190 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.12% +1.98% +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 10 May 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 10 May 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 +81 1,428 £65,000 +36.84% 8
Edinburgh +39 63 £70,000 +7.69% 17
Dundee -6 7 £50,000 -
Midlothian - 3 - - 2
Highlands -6 1 - - 1
Inverclyde - 1 £60,000 -
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
1 284 (18.90%) Apache Spark
2 98 (6.52%) FileNet
3 25 (1.66%) Apache Airflow
4 11 (0.73%) CICS
5 10 (0.67%) Apache
6 2 (0.13%) SAS
7 1 (0.067%) CMS
7 1 (0.067%) Confluence
7 1 (0.067%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.067%) Tuxedo
7 1 (0.067%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (0.20%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (0.27%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.067%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 752 (50.03%) AWS
2 112 (7.45%) Azure
3 98 (6.52%) Amazon S3
4 91 (6.05%) Datadog
5 88 (5.85%) GCP
6 59 (3.93%) Cloud Computing
7 52 (3.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 45 (2.99%) GitHub
9 33 (2.20%) BlazeMeter
10 25 (1.66%) Google Play
11 19 (1.26%) Amazon EKS
12 10 (0.67%) Microsoft 365
13 9 (0.60%) ChatGPT
13 9 (0.60%) Entra ID
14 8 (0.53%) IaaS
14 8 (0.53%) PaaS
15 7 (0.47%) Amazon SageMaker
15 7 (0.47%) Serverless
16 4 (0.27%) AWS Lambda
16 4 (0.27%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (1.20%) DSL
2 7 (0.47%) HTTP
2 7 (0.47%) MQTT
3 4 (0.27%) Firewall
3 4 (0.27%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 357 (23.75%) NoSQL
2 198 (13.17%) Big Data
3 131 (8.72%) Apache Cassandra
4 119 (7.92%) Hadoop
5 115 (7.65%) Apache Hive
6 102 (6.79%) HBase
7 98 (6.52%) Elasticsearch
8 68 (4.52%) MongoDB
9 67 (4.46%) Data Lake
10 39 (2.59%) Qlik Sense
11 29 (1.93%) DB2
12 21 (1.40%) Relational Database
13 20 (1.33%) Tableau
14 18 (1.20%) PostgreSQL
15 17 (1.13%) MySQL
16 16 (1.06%) Oracle Database
17 13 (0.86%) Oracle Database 11g
18 10 (0.67%) Data Warehouse
18 10 (0.67%) Flink
19 6 (0.40%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 199 (13.24%) JUnit
2 150 (9.98%) Jenkins
3 112 (7.45%) Git
4 105 (6.99%) Jasmine
5 86 (5.72%) Bitbucket Server
6 60 (3.99%) Cypress.io
6 60 (3.99%) Karma Test Runner
6 60 (3.99%) Protractor
6 60 (3.99%) Selenium
6 60 (3.99%) WebDriver
7 45 (2.99%) Mockito
8 25 (1.66%) Android Studio
9 18 (1.20%) JMeter
10 11 (0.73%) ChangeMan
11 7 (0.47%) Maven
12 3 (0.20%) GitLab
13 1 (0.067%) Artifactory
13 1 (0.067%) JIRA
13 1 (0.067%) Rational DOORS
13 1 (0.067%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 1,420 (94.48%) Finance
2 1,391 (92.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1,382 (91.95%) Law
4 658 (43.78%) Marketing
5 455 (30.27%) Legal
6 296 (19.69%) Banking
7 246 (16.37%) Investment Banking
8 149 (9.91%) Social Skills
9 76 (5.06%) Financial Institution
10 73 (4.86%) Influencing Skills
11 49 (3.26%) Presentation Skills
12 32 (2.13%) Private Banking
13 29 (1.93%) Games
14 28 (1.86%) Analytical Skills
15 22 (1.46%) Prime Brokerage
16 13 (0.86%) Telecoms
17 8 (0.53%) Electronics
17 8 (0.53%) Manufacturing
18 7 (0.47%) Public Sector
19 4 (0.27%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 1,313 (87.36%) Software Engineer
2 587 (39.06%) Java Engineer
3 582 (38.72%) Java Software Engineer
4 411 (27.35%) Lead
5 392 (26.08%) Lead Software Engineer
6 245 (16.30%) Full Stack Engineer
7 243 (16.17%) Full Stack Software Engineer
8 191 (12.71%) AWS Engineer
8 191 (12.71%) AWS Software Engineer
9 187 (12.44%) Python Engineer
9 187 (12.44%) Python Software Engineer
10 177 (11.78%) Senior
11 153 (10.18%) Lead Java Engineer
12 144 (9.58%) Data Engineer
13 136 (9.05%) Big Data Engineer
13 136 (9.05%) Big Data Software Engineer
13 136 (9.05%) Senior Software Engineer
14 111 (7.39%) Developer
15 83 (5.52%) Cloud Engineer
15 83 (5.52%) Cloud Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 402 (26.75%) Spring
2 319 (21.22%) React
3 299 (19.89%) AngularJS
4 232 (15.44%) Kafka
5 221 (14.70%) J2EE
6 184 (12.24%) HTML
7 180 (11.98%) Hibernate
8 171 (11.38%) JMS
9 164 (10.91%) Node.js
10 163 (10.84%) Twitter Bootstrap
11 153 (10.18%) CSS
12 137 (9.12%) JSON
13 132 (8.78%) jQuery
14 123 (8.18%) Spring Boot
15 112 (7.45%) GraphQL
16 102 (6.79%) Spring Integration
17 82 (5.46%) PySpark
18 72 (4.79%) OpenTelemetry
19 60 (3.99%) Jest
20 52 (3.46%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 634 (42.18%) Algorithms
2 434 (28.88%) Cloud Native
3 170 (11.31%) Public Cloud
4 158 (10.51%) Onboarding
5 105 (6.99%) Data Structures
6 63 (4.19%) Management Information System
7 45 (2.99%) Reference Data
8 43 (2.86%) Legacy Code
9 23 (1.53%) Distributed Systems
10 21 (1.40%) Product Ownership
11 19 (1.26%) Credit Risk
12 18 (1.20%) IoT
12 18 (1.20%) Market Risk
13 15 (1.00%) Mainframe
13 15 (1.00%) Private Cloud
14 13 (0.86%) Distributed Computing
15 11 (0.73%) Enterprise Software
15 11 (0.73%) VSAM
16 7 (0.47%) Arduino
16 7 (0.47%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 131 (8.72%) Unix
2 58 (3.86%) Linux
3 25 (1.66%) Android
4 10 (0.67%) Windows
5 3 (0.20%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,411 (93.88%) Machine Learning
2 1,398 (93.01%) Software Engineering
3 1,372 (91.28%) Agile
4 1,248 (83.03%) SDLC
5 1,233 (82.04%) Operational Stability
6 1,171 (77.91%) CI/CD
7 903 (60.08%) Community of Practice
8 684 (45.51%) Visualisation
9 659 (43.85%) Continuous Improvement
10 482 (32.07%) Risk Management
11 354 (23.55%) Decision-Making
12 316 (21.02%) Microservices
13 277 (18.43%) Architectural Design
14 270 (17.96%) Full Stack Development
15 259 (17.23%) Information Architecture
16 207 (13.77%) Problem-Solving
17 201 (13.37%) Continuous Delivery
18 173 (11.51%) TDD
19 166 (11.04%) Computer Science
20 155 (10.31%) Client Onboarding
Programming Languages
1 1,060 (70.53%) Java
2 608 (40.45%) SQL
3 600 (39.92%) Python
4 200 (13.31%) JavaScript
5 173 (11.51%) TypeScript
6 119 (7.92%) PL/SQL
7 92 (6.12%) Scala
8 25 (1.66%) Kotlin
9 24 (1.60%) Go
10 22 (1.46%) C#
11 13 (0.86%) C++
12 11 (0.73%) COBOL
12 11 (0.73%) JCL
13 5 (0.33%) C
13 5 (0.33%) Rust
14 3 (0.20%) Bash
15 1 (0.067%) T-SQL
15 1 (0.067%) VBA
Qualifications
1 84 (5.59%) Degree
2 43 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
3 42 (2.79%) Master's Degree
4 25 (1.66%) AWS Certification
5 14 (0.93%) PhD
6 10 (0.67%) Azure Certification
7 9 (0.60%) CISSP
8 8 (0.53%) Security Cleared
9 7 (0.47%) CISM
10 6 (0.40%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 4 (0.27%) CCNA
11 4 (0.27%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (0.27%) Network+ Certification
12 3 (0.20%) PMP
13 2 (0.13%) DBS Check
13 2 (0.13%) PMI Certification
13 2 (0.13%) SC Cleared
14 1 (0.067%) CESG Certified Professional
14 1 (0.067%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (2.79%) Accessibility
2 34 (2.26%) Data Quality
3 18 (1.20%) SLA
4 7 (0.47%) NIST
5 4 (0.27%) DICOM
5 4 (0.27%) HL7
5 4 (0.27%) ISO 13485
6 1 (0.067%) Basel III
6 1 (0.067%) CRD IV
6 1 (0.067%) GDPR
6 1 (0.067%) IEC 61508
6 1 (0.067%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.067%) ISO/IEC 27005
6 1 (0.067%) NCSC
6 1 (0.067%) QA
System Software
1 102 (6.79%) HDFS
2 11 (0.73%) Time Sharing Option
3 7 (0.47%) Firmware
4 4 (0.27%) Docker
5 1 (0.067%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 208 (13.84%) Terraform
2 190 (12.64%) Kubernetes
3 113 (7.52%) Grafana
4 39 (2.59%) Prometheus
5 7 (0.47%) Graphite
6 4 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.13%) Ansible
8 1 (0.067%) SCCM
Vendors
1 285 (18.96%) Oracle
2 229 (15.24%) Databricks
3 116 (7.72%) Splunk
4 109 (7.25%) Dynatrace
5 86 (5.72%) Informatica
6 72 (4.79%) Cloudera
7 57 (3.79%) Alteryx
8 37 (2.46%) Google
9 18 (1.20%) Cognos
9 18 (1.20%) SaltStack
9 18 (1.20%) Sybase
10 15 (1.00%) Microsoft
11 11 (0.73%) SAP
12 8 (0.53%) OpenAI
13 7 (0.47%) NVIDIA
14 4 (0.27%) Cisco
14 4 (0.27%) Confluent
15 3 (0.20%) Citrix
15 3 (0.20%) PayPal
15 3 (0.20%) VMware