Artificial Intelligence Engineering Contract Job Trends in Leeds

AI Engineering
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring Artificial Intelligence Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 77 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Artificial Intelligence Engineering 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 0.14% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
West Yorkshire median daily rate - - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Leeds

Artificial Intelligence Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 637 579 880
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 88.97% 86.16% 90.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 428 360 607
10th Percentile £311 £300 £320
25th Percentile £400 £400 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £495 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.01% -5.71% -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £625
90th Percentile £650 £688 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £516
% change year-on-year +5.26% -7.86% -1.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 21 7
10th Percentile £17.48 £15.75 £18.50
25th Percentile £22.31 £18.50 £18.97
Median hourly rate £25.50 £32.50 £21.31
Median % change year-on-year -21.54% +52.51% +0.28%
75th Percentile £27.06 £41.50 £22.86
90th Percentile £28.08 £96.64 £39.05
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.14 £32.50 £20.71
% change year-on-year -31.88% +56.97% -1.80%

Artificial Intelligence Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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:

General
1 1 (100.00%) Advertising
1 1 (100.00%) Polish Language
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
1 1 (100.00%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Next.js
1 1 (100.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) AI Agents
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Data Visualisation
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) User Experience
1 1 (100.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Accessibility