Artificial Intelligence Contracts in Leeds

Artificial Intelligence (AI)
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Leeds requiring Artificial Intelligence skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Artificial Intelligence over the 6 months leading up to 16 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 61 82
Rank change year-on-year +7 +21 +22
Contract jobs citing Artificial Intelligence 9 2 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 1.70% 0.25% 0.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.84% 0.30% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 1
10th Percentile £481 - -
25th Percentile - £575 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £528 £625 £588
90th Percentile £613 - -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £600 £625
% change year-on-year -16.67% -4.00% +19.05%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Leeds

Artificial Intelligence 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 489 664 1,080
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 92.44% 84.26% 90.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 318 423 749
10th Percentile £306 £300 £400
25th Percentile £385 £400 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £477 £495 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.74% -10.00% +7.84%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £638
90th Percentile £625 £638 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £490 £495 £539
% change year-on-year -1.01% -8.16% +7.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 29 14
10th Percentile £31.53 £12.07 £12.00
25th Percentile £31.62 £12.15 £15.94
Median hourly rate £33.11 £12.30 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +169.19% -35.26% -11.63%
75th Percentile £66.51 £17.16 £21.31
90th Percentile £85.74 £33.75 £23.75
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.14 £13.69 £19.00
% change year-on-year +61.78% -27.97% -1.81%

Artificial Intelligence
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

Job postings citing Artificial Intelligence as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Leeds.

Job vacancy trend for Artificial Intelligence in Leeds

Artificial Intelligence
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Artificial Intelligence in Leeds.

Daily rate trend for Artificial Intelligence in Leeds

Artificial Intelligence
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Artificial Intelligence in Leeds over the 6 months to 16 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Artificial Intelligence in Leeds

Artificial Intelligence
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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 1 (11.11%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) GitHub
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon ElastiCache
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon Macie
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon SQS
2 1 (11.11%) AWS
2 1 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (11.11%) AWS CloudTrail
2 1 (11.11%) AWS Direct Connect
2 1 (11.11%) AWS Fargate
2 1 (11.11%) AWS KMS
2 1 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (11.11%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (11.11%) Figma
2 1 (11.11%) GCP
2 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
2 1 (11.11%) Serverless
2 1 (11.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) DNS
1 1 (11.11%) Firewall
1 1 (11.11%) Network Security
1 1 (11.11%) SSL
1 1 (11.11%) TCP/IP
1 1 (11.11%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (11.11%) Data Lake
1 1 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (11.11%) DataStage
1 1 (11.11%) Delta Lake
1 1 (11.11%) DynamoDB
1 1 (11.11%) NoSQL
1 1 (11.11%) Power BI
1 1 (11.11%) Power Query
1 1 (11.11%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Git
2 2 (22.22%) Jenkins
3 1 (11.11%) GitLab
3 1 (11.11%) JIRA
General
1 6 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Lead
2 2 (22.22%) Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) Lead Product Manager
2 2 (22.22%) Product Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Data Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Data Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Designer
3 1 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Firewall Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) HR Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) HR Data Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Integration Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Security Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Data Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (11.11%) JSON
1 1 (11.11%) Node.js
1 1 (11.11%) PySpark
1 1 (11.11%) PyTorch
1 1 (11.11%) REST
1 1 (11.11%) TensorFlow
1 1 (11.11%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Algorithms
1 1 (11.11%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
1 1 (11.11%) Data Structures
1 1 (11.11%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 1 (11.11%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) CI/CD
1 3 (33.33%) Data Modelling
1 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (22.22%) Analytics
2 2 (22.22%) Computer Science
2 2 (22.22%) Data Architecture
2 2 (22.22%) Data Engineering
2 2 (22.22%) Data Extraction
2 2 (22.22%) Data Science
2 2 (22.22%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 2 (22.22%) Incident Response
2 2 (22.22%) Machine Learning
2 2 (22.22%) Threat Detection
3 1 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (11.11%) Data Transformation
3 1 (11.11%) Database Security
3 1 (11.11%) DevOps
3 1 (11.11%) Logical Data Model
3 1 (11.11%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) Python
2 2 (22.22%) SQL
3 1 (11.11%) Bash
3 1 (11.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
3 1 (11.11%) Scala
3 1 (11.11%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (11.11%) AWS Certification
2 1 (11.11%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (11.11%) CISSP
2 1 (11.11%) CompTIA CySA+
2 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (11.11%) GCIH
2 1 (11.11%) Master's Degree
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) Actionable Recommendations
1 1 (11.11%) GDPR
1 1 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (11.11%) NIST
1 1 (11.11%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Ansible
1 1 (11.11%) Grafana
1 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
1 1 (11.11%) Kustomize
1 1 (11.11%) Prometheus
1 1 (11.11%) Puppet
1 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
1 2 (22.22%) Splunk
1 2 (22.22%) Workday
2 1 (11.11%) CrowdStrike
2 1 (11.11%) Darktrace
2 1 (11.11%) Databricks
2 1 (11.11%) Google
2 1 (11.11%) IBM
2 1 (11.11%) Informatica
2 1 (11.11%) Okta
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle
2 1 (11.11%) ServiceNow
2 1 (11.11%) Talend