AI Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

AI
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring AI skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 63 65
Rank change year-on-year +45 +2 +23
Contract jobs citing AI 122 16 4
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 8.85% 2.14% 0.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.54% 2.42% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 9 1
10th Percentile £420 £406 -
25th Percentile £475 £461 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -16.67% +57.89%
75th Percentile £600 £538 £625
90th Percentile £688 £598 -
Yorkshire median daily rate £550 £500 £650
% change year-on-year +10.00% -23.08% +13.04%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West 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 West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,157 661 728
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 83.90% 88.37% 85.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 673 429 467
10th Percentile £331 £281 £354
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £492 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.63% -1.60% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £575
90th Percentile £644 £651 £650
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 17 25
10th Percentile £16.06 - £12.15
25th Percentile £16.62 £22.14 £13.87
Median hourly rate £24.00 £26.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +36.84% +5.56%
75th Percentile £35.00 £81.25 £33.75
90th Percentile £43.96 - £38.75
Yorkshire median hourly rate £19.89 £22.14 £17.50
% change year-on-year -10.16% +26.51% -12.50%

AI
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

AI job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

AI
Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

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

AI
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AI in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 13 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for AI in West Yorkshire

AI
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 AI within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 13 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 +45 108 £563 +12.50% 164
Bradford -1 16 £463 - 12
Elland - 3 - -
Halifax -6 1 £550 +33.33% 2
AI
Yorkshire

AI
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:

Application Platforms
1 8 (6.56%) SharePoint
2 7 (5.74%) Confluence
3 3 (2.46%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (1.64%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 42 (34.43%) Azure
2 32 (26.23%) GCP
3 25 (20.49%) Power Platform
4 21 (17.21%) Microsoft Copilot
5 18 (14.75%) AWS
5 18 (14.75%) PowerApps
6 14 (11.48%) Copilot Studio
7 13 (10.66%) Vertex AI
8 11 (9.02%) Azure AI
9 10 (8.20%) Azure DevOps
9 10 (8.20%) Microsoft 365
10 9 (7.38%) Entra ID
11 7 (5.74%) Power Automate
12 5 (4.10%) GitHub
12 5 (4.10%) GitHub Actions
12 5 (4.10%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 4 (3.28%) Azure Logic Apps
13 4 (3.28%) Google Gemini
13 4 (3.28%) LangSmith
13 4 (3.28%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.82%) DNS
1 1 (0.82%) LAN
1 1 (0.82%) PSTN
1 1 (0.82%) Unified Communications
1 1 (0.82%) VPN
1 1 (0.82%) WAN
1 1 (0.82%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (11.48%) BigQuery
2 9 (7.38%) Metadata
3 6 (4.92%) Power BI
4 4 (3.28%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (2.46%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.64%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.82%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 9 (7.38%) JIRA
2 3 (2.46%) Pylint
3 1 (0.82%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.82%) Maven
3 1 (0.82%) MLflow
3 1 (0.82%) SonarQube
General
1 37 (30.33%) Social Skills
2 29 (23.77%) Finance
3 14 (11.48%) Banking
4 10 (8.20%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (6.56%) Law
5 8 (6.56%) Telecoms
6 7 (5.74%) Public Sector
7 6 (4.92%) Social Science
8 3 (2.46%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (2.46%) Legal
8 3 (2.46%) Retail
9 2 (1.64%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.64%) Publishing
10 1 (0.82%) Marketing
10 1 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.82%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 27 (22.13%) Architect
2 15 (12.30%) Solutions Architect
3 14 (11.48%) Senior
4 12 (9.84%) Analyst
5 10 (8.20%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 10 (8.20%) Developer
6 9 (7.38%) Business Analyst
7 6 (4.92%) Designer
7 6 (4.92%) Machine Learning Engineer
7 6 (4.92%) ServiceNow Architect
8 5 (4.10%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
8 5 (4.10%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
8 5 (4.10%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
8 5 (4.10%) Cloud Architect
8 5 (4.10%) Cloud Engineer
8 5 (4.10%) Digital Transformation
8 5 (4.10%) Lead
8 5 (4.10%) Microsoft 365 Architect
8 5 (4.10%) Project Manager
8 5 (4.10%) ServiceNow Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (9.84%) Terraform
2 8 (6.56%) React
2 8 (6.56%) STL
3 7 (5.74%) REST
3 7 (5.74%) YAML
4 5 (4.10%) Quarkus
5 4 (3.28%) Hugging Face
5 4 (3.28%) pytest
5 4 (3.28%) PyTorch
5 4 (3.28%) TensorFlow
6 3 (2.46%) Lightning Web Components
6 3 (2.46%) Microsoft Graph
6 3 (2.46%) SOAP
6 3 (2.46%) TFX
7 2 (1.64%) JSON
7 2 (1.64%) LangGraph
7 2 (1.64%) Model Context Protocol
7 2 (1.64%) Node.js
7 2 (1.64%) SPFx
8 1 (0.82%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 24 (19.67%) AI Agents
2 23 (18.85%) Product Ownership
3 11 (9.02%) Cloud Native
4 6 (4.92%) Onboarding
5 5 (4.10%) CMDB
6 4 (3.28%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (3.28%) Data Structures
6 4 (3.28%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (3.28%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (2.46%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.64%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.64%) Blockchain
8 2 (1.64%) Low-Code
8 2 (1.64%) Market Risk
8 2 (1.64%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.64%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.82%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.82%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (0.82%) Educational Technology
9 1 (0.82%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.82%) Linux
1 1 (0.82%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (35.25%) Generative AI
2 36 (29.51%) CI/CD
3 35 (28.69%) LLM
4 33 (27.05%) Machine Learning
5 32 (26.23%) Agile
5 32 (26.23%) Stakeholder Management
6 28 (22.95%) DevOps
7 24 (19.67%) Observability
8 23 (18.85%) Problem-Solving
9 18 (14.75%) Roadmaps
10 17 (13.93%) Identity Access Management
11 16 (13.11%) Data Engineering
11 16 (13.11%) Enterprise Architecture
12 15 (12.30%) Continuous Improvement
12 15 (12.30%) ITSM
12 15 (12.30%) User Experience
13 14 (11.48%) Data Modelling
13 14 (11.48%) Risk Management
14 13 (10.66%) MLOps
14 13 (10.66%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 25 (20.49%) Python
2 8 (6.56%) Java
3 7 (5.74%) PowerShell
4 4 (3.28%) SQL
5 3 (2.46%) Apex Code
6 2 (1.64%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.82%) Go
7 1 (0.82%) Groovy
7 1 (0.82%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.82%) Scala
Qualifications
1 7 (5.74%) Security Cleared
2 5 (4.10%) SC Cleared
3 3 (2.46%) Degree
4 2 (1.64%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.82%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (10.66%) Data Quality
2 7 (5.74%) ISO/IEC 42001
3 5 (4.10%) Accessibility
3 5 (4.10%) QA
4 1 (0.82%) GDPR
4 1 (0.82%) PERC
System Software
1 9 (7.38%) Docker
2 6 (4.92%) Active Directory
3 5 (4.10%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.82%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (9.02%) Kubernetes
2 6 (4.92%) Jamf Pro
2 6 (4.92%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (3.28%) Prometheus
4 3 (2.46%) Kubeflow
5 1 (0.82%) Podman
Vendors
1 28 (22.95%) Microsoft
2 17 (13.93%) ServiceNow
3 14 (11.48%) Foundry
3 14 (11.48%) Google
4 4 (3.28%) Dynatrace
4 4 (3.28%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.64%) Databricks
5 2 (1.64%) MuleSoft
5 2 (1.64%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.82%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.82%) SAP
6 1 (0.82%) Sonatype
6 1 (0.82%) Workday