Machine Learning Contracts in Leeds

Machine Learning (ML)
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Leeds requiring Machine Learning skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Machine Learning over the 6 months leading up to 4 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 56 74
Rank change year-on-year -2 +18 +29
Contract jobs citing Machine Learning 6 8 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 1.06% 1.11% 0.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.16% 1.33% 1.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 4
10th Percentile - £318 £370
25th Percentile £663 £400 £376
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £450 £415
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% +8.43% -33.60%
75th Percentile £688 £525 £503
90th Percentile - £585 £554
West Yorkshire median daily rate £613 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +36.11% - -28.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Leeds

Machine Learning 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 516 602 1,038
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 91.33% 83.73% 90.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 336 396 709
10th Percentile £307 £350 £363
25th Percentile £391 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £545
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% -8.26% +6.34%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £638
90th Percentile £622 £650 £714
West Yorkshire median daily rate £494 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -1.30% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 24 13
10th Percentile £25.15 - £12.00
25th Percentile £25.38 £12.15 £15.75
Median hourly rate £29.56 £12.30 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +140.28% -35.26% -10.59%
75th Percentile £50.48 £20.88 £21.31
90th Percentile £79.33 £33.75 £23.26
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.14 £12.90 £18.50
% change year-on-year +71.63% -30.27% -7.50%

Machine Learning
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

Job postings citing Machine Learning as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Leeds.

Job vacancy trend for Machine Learning in Leeds

Machine Learning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Machine Learning in Leeds.

Daily rate trend for Machine Learning in Leeds

Machine Learning
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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) AWS
1 4 (66.67%) Azure
2 3 (50.00%) GCP
2 3 (50.00%) PaaS
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon EMR
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon S3
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon SageMaker
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (16.67%) Serverless
3 1 (16.67%) Workato
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (16.67%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (16.67%) NoSQL
General
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Administrator
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Administrator
2 1 (16.67%) AWS DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Data Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Data Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) GCP Administrator
2 1 (16.67%) Integration Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Lead
2 1 (16.67%) Lead DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) Lead DevOps Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Workday Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Node.js
1 1 (16.67%) PyTorch
1 1 (16.67%) TensorFlow
1 1 (16.67%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Analytics
1 4 (66.67%) Data Engineering
2 3 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 3 (50.00%) Data Analytics
2 3 (50.00%) Data Science
3 1 (16.67%) Architecture Roadmap
3 1 (16.67%) Data Architecture
3 1 (16.67%) Data Flow Diagram
3 1 (16.67%) Data Modelling
3 1 (16.67%) Data Strategy
3 1 (16.67%) Data Transformation
3 1 (16.67%) DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (16.67%) Logical Data Model
3 1 (16.67%) Migration
3 1 (16.67%) Physical Data Model
3 1 (16.67%) Predictive Modelling
3 1 (16.67%) Random Forest
3 1 (16.67%) Roadmaps
3 1 (16.67%) Technology Transformation
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) SQL
2 2 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Databricks
1 3 (50.00%) Google
2 1 (16.67%) Okta
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle
2 1 (16.67%) Workday