AI Job Trends in Scotland

AI
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring AI skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 18 14
Rank change year-on-year 0 -4 +89
Permanent jobs citing AI 207 279 1,320
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 6.48% 12.62% 20.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.20% 13.56% 22.90%
Number of salaries quoted 65 51 64
10th Percentile £33,750 £25,000 £55,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £25,313 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £50,445 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +38.76% -22.39% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £74,039
90th Percentile £114,000 £90,000 £97,212
UK median annual salary £70,000 £66,296 £70,000
% change year-on-year +5.59% -5.29% -6.67%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Scotland

AI 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 2,250 2,057 5,765
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 70.49% 93.08% 88.91%
Number of salaries quoted 1,267 842 2,547
10th Percentile £28,250 £26,929 £28,000
25th Percentile £32,250 £32,851 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,000 £51,573 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.81% -1.77% -8.70%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,938 £65,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £93,778 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.69%

AI
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing AI relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

AI job vacancy trend in Scotland

AI
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing AI.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing AI

AI
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing AI in Scotland over the 6 months to 12 June 2026.

Salary histogram for AI in Scotland

AI
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing AI within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 12 June 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
Edinburgh +11 72 £70,000 +173.17% 37
Glasgow -5 58 £62,500 +25.00% 14
Aberdeen -5 23 - - 2
Dundee 0 22 - - 2
Midlothian +9 12 £70,000 -6.67% 24
West Lothian - 7 - -
Renfrewshire -5 3 - - 1
Stirling -8 2 - -
North Lanarkshire -11 1 - -
Falkirk - 1 - -
Clackmannanshire - 1 - -
East Lothian - 1 - -
Moray - 1 £62,500 - 1
AI
UK

AI
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 5 (2.42%) Jupyter
2 2 (0.97%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (0.97%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.48%) Apache
3 1 (0.48%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.48%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.48%) Confluence
Applications
1 66 (31.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.42%) Chatbot
3 3 (1.45%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.48%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.97%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.48%) FIS Private Capital Suite
Cloud Services
1 123 (59.42%) Azure
2 96 (46.38%) Azure AI
3 73 (35.27%) Power Platform
4 19 (9.18%) AWS
5 14 (6.76%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (4.83%) GitHub
7 9 (4.35%) Serverless
8 8 (3.86%) GitHub Copilot
9 6 (2.90%) Cloud Computing
10 5 (2.42%) GCP
10 5 (2.42%) Microsoft 365
11 4 (1.93%) Anthropic Claude
11 4 (1.93%) Azure Machine Learning
11 4 (1.93%) Microsoft Copilot
11 4 (1.93%) Microsoft Purview
11 4 (1.93%) SaaS
12 3 (1.45%) Amazon S3
12 3 (1.45%) Azure AKS
12 3 (1.45%) Copilot Studio
12 3 (1.45%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 15 (7.25%) Broadband
2 4 (1.93%) MQTT
3 2 (0.97%) DNS
3 2 (0.97%) Firewall
3 2 (0.97%) Network Security
4 1 (0.48%) AMQP
4 1 (0.48%) BGP
4 1 (0.48%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.48%) Internet
4 1 (0.48%) IPFIX
4 1 (0.48%) OSPF
4 1 (0.48%) SNMP
4 1 (0.48%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.48%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (33.82%) Power BI
2 68 (32.85%) Tableau
3 5 (2.42%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (1.93%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (1.93%) Data Lake
4 4 (1.93%) MongoDB
4 4 (1.93%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (1.45%) Metadata
6 2 (0.97%) Neo4j
6 2 (0.97%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.97%) Pinecone
7 1 (0.48%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.48%) Big Data
7 1 (0.48%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.48%) Data Vault
7 1 (0.48%) Delta Lake
7 1 (0.48%) InfluxDB
7 1 (0.48%) Semantic Layer
7 1 (0.48%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 6 (2.90%) Visual Studio Code
2 4 (1.93%) Jenkins
2 4 (1.93%) JIRA
3 3 (1.45%) Git
4 2 (0.97%) GitLab
4 2 (0.97%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (0.48%) Burp Suite
5 1 (0.48%) JMeter
5 1 (0.48%) MLflow
5 1 (0.48%) SonarQube
General
1 123 (59.42%) Social Skills
2 29 (14.01%) Finance
3 17 (8.21%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (5.31%) Games
5 9 (4.35%) Marketing
6 7 (3.38%) Legal
7 6 (2.90%) Aerospace
7 6 (2.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (2.42%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (2.42%) Manufacturing
8 5 (2.42%) Public Sector
8 5 (2.42%) Retail
9 3 (1.45%) Automotive
9 3 (1.45%) Banking
9 3 (1.45%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.97%) Health Technology
10 2 (0.97%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.48%) Advertising
11 1 (0.48%) Law
11 1 (0.48%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 78 (37.68%) Analyst
2 65 (31.40%) Junior
3 64 (30.92%) Data Analyst
3 64 (30.92%) Junior Analyst
3 64 (30.92%) Junior Data Analyst
4 31 (14.98%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 23 (11.11%) Architect
6 20 (9.66%) Senior
7 14 (6.76%) Developer
8 9 (4.35%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
8 9 (4.35%) Lead
9 7 (3.38%) Data Architect
9 7 (3.38%) iOS Developer
10 6 (2.90%) Solutions Architect
11 5 (2.42%) Infrastructure Architect
11 5 (2.42%) Programmer
11 5 (2.42%) Sales Executive
11 5 (2.42%) Senior Analyst
11 5 (2.42%) Trainee
11 5 (2.42%) Trainee Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (3.86%) RESTful
2 7 (3.38%) NumPy
3 6 (2.90%) Hugging Face
3 6 (2.90%) Pandas
3 6 (2.90%) React
3 6 (2.90%) REST
3 6 (2.90%) scikit-learn
4 5 (2.42%) .NET
4 5 (2.42%) Matplotlib
4 5 (2.42%) Streamlit
5 4 (1.93%) .NET Core
5 4 (1.93%) ASP.NET
5 4 (1.93%) ASP.NET Core
5 4 (1.93%) Blazor
5 4 (1.93%) LangChain
5 4 (1.93%) Lightning Web Components
5 4 (1.93%) ML.NET
5 4 (1.93%) SOAP
6 3 (1.45%) OAuth
6 3 (1.45%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 14 (6.76%) AI Agents
1 14 (6.76%) Cloud Native
2 11 (5.31%) Cyber Threat
2 11 (5.31%) Cyberattack
3 10 (4.83%) Social Media
4 7 (3.38%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (3.38%) Lidar
4 7 (3.38%) Product Ownership
5 6 (2.90%) Algorithms
5 6 (2.90%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (1.93%) BBC
7 3 (1.45%) Enterprise Cloud
7 3 (1.45%) IoT
7 3 (1.45%) Life Science
7 3 (1.45%) Robotics
8 2 (0.97%) Data Fabric
8 2 (0.97%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (0.97%) Low-Code
8 2 (0.97%) Mobile App
8 2 (0.97%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.38%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.48%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (33.82%) Business Intelligence
2 33 (15.94%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
2 33 (15.94%) LLM
3 28 (13.53%) Machine Learning
4 25 (12.08%) Decision-Making
5 24 (11.59%) Agile
6 21 (10.14%) DevOps
7 19 (9.18%) CI/CD
7 19 (9.18%) Problem-Solving
8 17 (8.21%) Analytics
9 16 (7.73%) Cybersecurity
10 15 (7.25%) Line Management
10 15 (7.25%) Roadmaps
11 14 (6.76%) Continuous Improvement
11 14 (6.76%) Information Security
11 14 (6.76%) Observability
12 13 (6.28%) Data Loss Prevention
12 13 (6.28%) Test Automation
13 12 (5.80%) Data Modelling
13 12 (5.80%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 119 (57.49%) Python
2 78 (37.68%) SQL
3 7 (3.38%) Swift
4 6 (2.90%) Java
4 6 (2.90%) JavaScript
5 4 (1.93%) Apex Code
5 4 (1.93%) C#
6 3 (1.45%) C++
7 2 (0.97%) C
7 2 (0.97%) PL/SQL
7 2 (0.97%) Shell Script
7 2 (0.97%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.48%) Bash
8 1 (0.48%) Embedded C
8 1 (0.48%) Embedded C++
8 1 (0.48%) Rust
8 1 (0.48%) Scala
Qualifications
1 88 (42.51%) Azure Certification
2 5 (2.42%) AWS Certification
2 5 (2.42%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 3 (1.45%) Degree
4 2 (0.97%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (0.97%) PMI Certification
4 2 (0.97%) PMP
5 1 (0.48%) CSPO
5 1 (0.48%) ISEB
5 1 (0.48%) ISTQB
5 1 (0.48%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.80%) GDPR
2 4 (1.93%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.45%) NIST
3 3 (1.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (0.97%) QA
5 1 (0.48%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.48%) PMO
5 1 (0.48%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (2.42%) Docker
2 1 (0.48%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (2.42%) Kubernetes
1 5 (2.42%) Terraform
2 3 (1.45%) Grafana
3 2 (0.97%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (0.97%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.48%) Nagios
4 1 (0.48%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.48%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 94 (45.41%) Microsoft
2 9 (4.35%) Google
3 8 (3.86%) OpenAI
4 7 (3.38%) Databricks
5 5 (2.42%) Cisco
6 4 (1.93%) Apple
6 4 (1.93%) Facebook
6 4 (1.93%) Foundry
6 4 (1.93%) Meraki
6 4 (1.93%) Salesforce
6 4 (1.93%) Sony
6 4 (1.93%) Yahoo!
7 3 (1.45%) Dell
8 2 (0.97%) Oracle
9 1 (0.48%) Citrix
9 1 (0.48%) FIS
9 1 (0.48%) HubSpot
9 1 (0.48%) iManage
9 1 (0.48%) Intapp
9 1 (0.48%) SolarWinds