AI Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

AI
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring AI skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 65 44 24
Rank change year-on-year -21 -20 +34
Contract jobs citing AI 16 16 29
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 2.38% 3.38% 6.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.49% 3.77% 7.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 8 21
10th Percentile £433 £585 -
25th Percentile £493 £600 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £700 £587
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +19.16% -4.63%
75th Percentile £558 - -
90th Percentile £614 £711 £600
Yorkshire median daily rate £513 £600 £581
% change year-on-year -14.58% +3.21% -3.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South 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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 643 424 414
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 95.68% 89.45% 94.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 427 223 258
10th Percentile £302 £232 £375
25th Percentile £384 £425 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £476 £520 £587
Median % change year-on-year -8.46% -11.48% +17.49%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £660
90th Percentile £638 £650 £745
Yorkshire median daily rate £485 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -3.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 14 5
10th Percentile £14.66 - £18.35
25th Percentile £15.00 £12.55 £18.50
Median hourly rate £18.87 £12.83 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year +47.08% -37.41% +22.39%
75th Percentile £20.44 £16.68 £31.25
90th Percentile £25.15 £21.05 £42.50
Yorkshire median hourly rate £23.79 £19.00 £21.31
% change year-on-year +25.20% -10.84% +12.16%

AI
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

AI job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

AI
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

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

AI
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AI in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 9 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AI in South Yorkshire

AI
Contract Job Locations in South 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 South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 9 October 2025. 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
Sheffield -21 15 £513 -26.79% 29
AI
Yorkshire

AI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (6.25%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 7 (43.75%) Azure
1 7 (43.75%) Azure AKS
1 7 (43.75%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (6.25%) Alation
2 1 (6.25%) AWS
2 1 (6.25%) GCP
2 1 (6.25%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (43.75%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (25.00%) Metadata
3 2 (12.50%) Delta Lake
4 1 (6.25%) Ataccama
4 1 (6.25%) Data Lake
4 1 (6.25%) DataStage
4 1 (6.25%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Git
1 1 (6.25%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
1 6 (37.50%) Finance
1 6 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 3 (18.75%) Banking
3 1 (6.25%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (37.50%) Developer
2 5 (31.25%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 4 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Architect
4 2 (12.50%) Splunk Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Cloud Consultant
5 1 (6.25%) Consultant
5 1 (6.25%) Cybersecurity Consultant
5 1 (6.25%) Data Analytics Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Data Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Data Steward
5 1 (6.25%) Lead
5 1 (6.25%) Machine Learning Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Security Consultant
5 1 (6.25%) Senior
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Consultant
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Cybersecurity Consultant
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (43.75%) Hugging Face
1 7 (43.75%) OpenCV
1 7 (43.75%) PyTorch
1 7 (43.75%) Regular Expression
1 7 (43.75%) SpaCy
1 7 (43.75%) TensorFlow
2 1 (6.25%) Great Expectations
2 1 (6.25%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 7 (43.75%) Onboarding
2 1 (6.25%) Cloud Native
2 1 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (6.25%) Mobile Banking
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (56.25%) Generative AI
2 8 (50.00%) DevOps
2 8 (50.00%) Machine Learning
3 7 (43.75%) Deep Learning
3 7 (43.75%) Image Processing
3 7 (43.75%) KYC
3 7 (43.75%) Natural Language Processing
3 7 (43.75%) OCR
3 7 (43.75%) Open Source
4 6 (37.50%) Agile
4 6 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (31.25%) Cybersecurity
6 4 (25.00%) Client Onboarding
6 4 (25.00%) Impact Analysis
6 4 (25.00%) ITIL
6 4 (25.00%) ITSM
6 4 (25.00%) Observability
6 4 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
6 4 (25.00%) Service Management
6 4 (25.00%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (68.75%) Python
2 4 (25.00%) Perl
2 4 (25.00%) Shell Script
3 1 (6.25%) Scala
3 1 (6.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (6.25%) AWS Certification
1 1 (6.25%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 1 (6.25%) Data Quality
1 1 (6.25%) GDPR
1 1 (6.25%) GRC
1 1 (6.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (43.75%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (31.25%) Microsoft
2 4 (25.00%) ServiceNow
2 4 (25.00%) Splunk
3 2 (12.50%) Databricks
4 1 (6.25%) Informatica
4 1 (6.25%) Talend