Generative AI Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Generative Artificial Intelligence (Gen AI)
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring Generative AI skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 80 44 47
Rank change year-on-year -36 +3 -
Contract jobs citing Generative AI 12 1 7
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 1.57% 0.30% 1.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.64% 0.32% 1.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 0 4
10th Percentile £420 - £581
25th Percentile £449 - £581
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 - £591
75th Percentile £538 - £603
90th Percentile £544 - £608
Yorkshire median daily rate £488 - £591

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Yorkshire

Generative 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 733 308 423
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 95.69% 91.94% 95.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 489 178 260
10th Percentile £316 £213 £375
25th Percentile £400 £400 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £515 £539
Median % change year-on-year -6.80% -4.41% +2.62%
75th Percentile £538 £595 £625
90th Percentile £638 £675 £720
Yorkshire median daily rate £482 £477 £500
% change year-on-year +1.05% -4.60% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 6
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.79 £19.25
25th Percentile £14.71 £14.35 £20.31
Median hourly rate £20.08 £18.10 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.94% -19.58% +52.54%
75th Percentile £25.15 £20.38 £29.38
90th Percentile - £21.05 £40.63
Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.15 £22.50 £21.31
% change year-on-year +11.78% +5.58% +1.48%

Generative AI
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Generative AI job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Generative AI
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

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

Generative AI
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Generative AI in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 18 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Generative AI in South Yorkshire

Generative 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 Generative AI within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 18 December 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 -36 12 £492 - 11
Generative AI
Yorkshire

Generative 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:

Cloud Services
1 9 (75.00%) Azure
2 7 (58.33%) Azure AKS
2 7 (58.33%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (16.67%) ChatGPT
4 1 (8.33%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (58.33%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (25.00%) Metadata
General
1 7 (58.33%) Finance
2 3 (25.00%) Banking
3 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Private Banking
3 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (58.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 6 (50.00%) Developer
3 4 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Cloud Consultant
4 1 (8.33%) Consultant
4 1 (8.33%) Cybersecurity Consultant
4 1 (8.33%) Lead
4 1 (8.33%) Machine Learning Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Security Consultant
4 1 (8.33%) Senior
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Consultant
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Cybersecurity Consultant
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Security Consultant
4 1 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (58.33%) Hugging Face
1 7 (58.33%) OpenCV
1 7 (58.33%) PyTorch
1 7 (58.33%) Regular Expression
1 7 (58.33%) SpaCy
1 7 (58.33%) TensorFlow
2 2 (16.67%) REST
2 2 (16.67%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 7 (58.33%) Onboarding
2 1 (8.33%) AI Agents
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) AI
2 10 (83.33%) DevOps
2 10 (83.33%) Machine Learning
3 7 (58.33%) Deep Learning
3 7 (58.33%) Image Processing
3 7 (58.33%) KYC
3 7 (58.33%) Natural Language Processing
3 7 (58.33%) OCR
3 7 (58.33%) Open Source
4 6 (50.00%) Agile
5 5 (41.67%) Cybersecurity
6 4 (33.33%) Client Onboarding
6 4 (33.33%) LLM
6 4 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
6 4 (33.33%) Storage Management
7 3 (25.00%) Code Quality
7 3 (25.00%) Data Science
7 3 (25.00%) Intelligent Automation
7 3 (25.00%) Roadmaps
7 3 (25.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 7 (58.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) AWS Certification
1 1 (8.33%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) GDPR
1 1 (8.33%) GRC
System Software
1 4 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (58.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (16.67%) OpenAI