AI Contract Job Trends in North Yorkshire

AI
Yorkshire > North Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in North Yorkshire requiring AI skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 17 -
Rank change year-on-year -6 - -
Contract jobs citing AI 5 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in North Yorkshire 2.92% 2.67% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.50% 2.94% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £525 £469 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £488 -
Median % change year-on-year +12.82% - -
75th Percentile £575 £506 -
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £550 £500 £600
% change year-on-year +10.00% -16.67% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £30.29 -
Yorkshire median hourly rate - £30.29 -

All Process & Methodology Skills
North Yorkshire

AI 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 North Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 143 68 121
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in North Yorkshire 83.63% 90.67% 78.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 23 74
10th Percentile £187 £182 £140
25th Percentile £239 £233 £193
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £450 £470
Median % change year-on-year +3.44% -4.26% +20.51%
75th Percentile £594 £575 £647
90th Percentile £725 £630 £816
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 17 11
10th Percentile £15.00 £16.40 £11.30
25th Percentile £19.75 £17.33 £12.40
Median hourly rate £22.81 £18.80 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year +21.36% +39.22% -35.54%
75th Percentile £24.51 £25.15 £18.75
90th Percentile £27.59 - £20.74
Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.81 £21.24 £13.37
% change year-on-year +7.39% +58.92% +25.73%

AI
Job Vacancy Trend in North Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing AI relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in North Yorkshire.

AI job vacancy trend in North Yorkshire

AI
Daily Rate Trend in North Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in North Yorkshire citing AI.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in North Yorkshire citing AI

AI
Contract Job Locations in North Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AI within the North Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 21 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
York -7 3 £550 +12.82% 9
Selby - 1 - -
AI
Yorkshire

AI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in North Yorkshire 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Dynamics 365
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 3 (60.00%) Lead
1 3 (60.00%) QA Engineer
1 3 (60.00%) QA Leader
2 1 (20.00%) Head of Digital
2 1 (20.00%) Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) AI Agents
2 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (20.00%) Operational Technology
2 1 (20.00%) PMI
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) LLM
1 3 (60.00%) Red Team
1 3 (60.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
1 3 (60.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (20.00%) Asset Management
3 1 (20.00%) CRM
3 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (20.00%) Data Governance
3 1 (20.00%) Data Management
3 1 (20.00%) Digital Innovation
3 1 (20.00%) Digital Strategy
3 1 (20.00%) Generative AI
3 1 (20.00%) Matrix Organization
3 1 (20.00%) PRINCE2
3 1 (20.00%) Project Management
3 1 (20.00%) Regulatory Compliance
3 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (20.00%) User Experience
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) QA
2 1 (20.00%) GDPR