Artificial Intelligence Developer Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

AI Developer
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The median AI Developer daily rate in West Yorkshire is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 22 September 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 88 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring an Artificial Intelligence Developer 10 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 0.72% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.78% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £463 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - -
75th Percentile £488 - -
90th Percentile £540 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £505 -
% change year-on-year -5.94% - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
West Yorkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in West Yorkshire. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in West Yorkshire with a recognized job title 1,287 731 774
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.79% 96.31% 92.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 729 471 486
10th Percentile £325 £285 £331
25th Percentile £413 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £575
90th Percentile £650 £650 £648
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 21 37
10th Percentile £15.45 - £17.18
25th Percentile £16.62 £22.14 £19.50
Median hourly rate £25.77 £50.00 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year -48.46% +106.78% +27.26%
75th Percentile £28.06 £81.25 £38.75
90th Percentile £43.75 - £48.75
Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.77 £22.14 £22.00
% change year-on-year +16.40% +0.64% +3.24%

Artificial Intelligence Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Artificial Intelligence Developer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire.

Artificial Intelligence Developer job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

Artificial Intelligence Developer
Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Artificial Intelligence Developer job vacancies in West Yorkshire.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Artificial Intelligence Developer job vacancies in West Yorkshire

Artificial Intelligence Developer
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Artificial Intelligence Developer within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 22 September 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
Leeds - 10 £475 - 2
Bradford - 2 - -
Artificial Intelligence Developer
Yorkshire

Artificial Intelligence Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire

For the 6 months to 22 September 2026, Artificial Intelligence Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the West Yorkshire region featuring Artificial Intelligence Developer in the job title.

1 9 (90.00%) Foundry
2 6 (60.00%) AI
2 6 (60.00%) Observability
3 5 (50.00%) Azure
3 5 (50.00%) Azure AI
3 5 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 5 (50.00%) Copilot Studio
3 5 (50.00%) Data Engineering
3 5 (50.00%) Data Protection
3 5 (50.00%) DevOps
3 5 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (50.00%) LLM
3 5 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 5 (50.00%) Microsoft Copilot
3 5 (50.00%) Power Platform
3 5 (50.00%) PowerApps
3 5 (50.00%) Prototyping
3 5 (50.00%) Rapid Prototyping
3 5 (50.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
3 5 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 5 (50.00%) User Experience
4 4 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (30.00%) Business Case
5 3 (30.00%) Collaborative Working
5 3 (30.00%) Commercial Awareness
5 3 (30.00%) Computer Science
5 3 (30.00%) Enterprise Architecture
5 3 (30.00%) ISO/IEC 42001
5 3 (30.00%) Metadata
5 3 (30.00%) Model Validation

Artificial Intelligence Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West 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 5 (50.00%) Azure
1 5 (50.00%) Azure AI
1 5 (50.00%) Copilot Studio
1 5 (50.00%) Microsoft Copilot
1 5 (50.00%) Power Platform
1 5 (50.00%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) Metadata
General
1 8 (80.00%) Finance
2 6 (60.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (30.00%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (30.00%) Law
3 3 (30.00%) Social Science
4 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (10.00%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (10.00%) Legal
Miscellaneous
1 5 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (20.00%) AI Agents
2 2 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) AI
1 6 (60.00%) Observability
2 5 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 5 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 5 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 5 (50.00%) DevOps
2 5 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 5 (50.00%) LLM
2 5 (50.00%) Prototyping
2 5 (50.00%) Rapid Prototyping
2 5 (50.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
2 5 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 5 (50.00%) User Experience
3 4 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (30.00%) Business Case
4 3 (30.00%) Collaborative Working
4 3 (30.00%) Commercial Awareness
4 3 (30.00%) Model Validation
4 3 (30.00%) Test Harness
4 3 (30.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) ISO/IEC 42001
2 1 (10.00%) QA
Vendors
1 9 (90.00%) Foundry
2 5 (50.00%) Microsoft