Artificial Intelligence Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring Artificial Intelligence skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 61 69 88
Rank change year-on-year +8 +19 +29
Contract jobs citing Artificial Intelligence 16 3 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 2.05% 0.36% 0.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.34% 0.42% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 0 3
10th Percentile £406 - £368
25th Percentile £461 - £373
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £380
Median % change year-on-year - - -21.24%
75th Percentile £538 - £428
90th Percentile £598 - £456
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £700 £581
% change year-on-year -28.57% +20.42% +6.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £10.42
Yorkshire median hourly rate £30.29 - £10.42

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Yorkshire

Artificial Intelligence 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 683 719 1,248
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 87.68% 85.70% 90.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 442 458 817
10th Percentile £275 £350 £350
25th Percentile £400 £413 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £625
90th Percentile £675 £650 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 23 20
10th Percentile £18.87 £12.15 £12.00
25th Percentile - £14.19 £14.78
Median hourly rate £22.14 £22.50 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% +21.62% -7.50%
75th Percentile £74.06 £33.75 £21.92
90th Percentile £81.25 £38.75 £27.10
Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.36 £17.50 £20.25
% change year-on-year +27.76% -13.58% +6.58%

Artificial Intelligence
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

Job postings citing Artificial Intelligence as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Artificial Intelligence in West Yorkshire

Artificial Intelligence
Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Artificial Intelligence in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 26 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Artificial Intelligence in West Yorkshire

Artificial Intelligence
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 within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 26 September 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
Leeds +1 9 £500 - 46
Bradford - 4 - - 11
Halifax - 2 £413 -
Huddersfield - 1 £550 - 2
Artificial Intelligence
Yorkshire

Artificial Intelligence
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (6.25%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 7 (43.75%) GCP
2 6 (37.50%) AWS
3 5 (31.25%) Azure
4 2 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (12.50%) GitHub
4 2 (12.50%) Serverless
5 1 (6.25%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (6.25%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (6.25%) Amazon EMR
5 1 (6.25%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 1 (6.25%) Amazon Macie
5 1 (6.25%) Amazon SageMaker
5 1 (6.25%) AWS Direct Connect
5 1 (6.25%) AWS Fargate
5 1 (6.25%) AWS KMS
5 1 (6.25%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (6.25%) Figma
5 1 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (6.25%) Power Platform
5 1 (6.25%) Workato
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) DNS
1 1 (6.25%) Firewall
1 1 (6.25%) Network Security
1 1 (6.25%) SSL
1 1 (6.25%) TCP/IP
1 1 (6.25%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (37.50%) NoSQL
2 5 (31.25%) MongoDB
3 4 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (6.25%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (6.25%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (6.25%) Data Lake
5 1 (6.25%) DataStage
5 1 (6.25%) Delta Lake
5 1 (6.25%) DynamoDB
5 1 (6.25%) Power BI
5 1 (6.25%) Power Query
5 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
5 1 (6.25%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 7 (43.75%) Git
2 6 (37.50%) Jenkins
3 1 (6.25%) GitLab
3 1 (6.25%) JIRA
3 1 (6.25%) Visual Studio
General
1 11 (68.75%) Social Skills
2 5 (31.25%) Public Sector
3 3 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (12.50%) Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (43.75%) Architect
2 4 (25.00%) Lead
2 4 (25.00%) Technical Architect
3 2 (12.50%) Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) AWS DevOps
3 2 (12.50%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Data Architect
3 2 (12.50%) Data Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) GCP Architect
3 2 (12.50%) GCP Data Architect
3 2 (12.50%) Lead DevOps
3 2 (12.50%) Lead DevOps Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Lead Product Manager
3 2 (12.50%) Product Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) HR Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Workday Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (37.50%) Kafka
2 4 (25.00%) Celery
2 4 (25.00%) Django
2 4 (25.00%) FastAPI
2 4 (25.00%) Flask
2 4 (25.00%) GraphQL
2 4 (25.00%) gRPC
2 4 (25.00%) RabbitMQ
2 4 (25.00%) RESTful
2 4 (25.00%) WebSockets
3 1 (6.25%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (6.25%) JSON
3 1 (6.25%) PySpark
3 1 (6.25%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) Product Ownership
2 3 (18.75%) Cloud Native
3 1 (6.25%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (6.25%) Data Structures
3 1 (6.25%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (6.25%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (6.25%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (56.25%) CI/CD
2 7 (43.75%) Machine Learning
3 6 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (37.50%) Stakeholder Management
4 5 (31.25%) Analytics
4 5 (31.25%) DevOps
5 4 (25.00%) Agile
5 4 (25.00%) Clean Code
5 4 (25.00%) Containerisation
5 4 (25.00%) Design Patterns
5 4 (25.00%) Mentoring
5 4 (25.00%) Microservices
5 4 (25.00%) OOP
5 4 (25.00%) TOGAF
6 3 (18.75%) API Integration
6 3 (18.75%) Asynchronous Programming
6 3 (18.75%) Data Modelling
6 3 (18.75%) Risk Management
6 3 (18.75%) Roadmaps
6 3 (18.75%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 7 (43.75%) Python
2 3 (18.75%) SQL
3 1 (6.25%) Bash
3 1 (6.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (6.25%) PowerShell
3 1 (6.25%) Scala
3 1 (6.25%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (18.75%) Degree
3 2 (12.50%) AWS Certification
3 2 (12.50%) SC Cleared
4 1 (6.25%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Certification
4 1 (6.25%) CISSP
4 1 (6.25%) CompTIA CySA+
4 1 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (6.25%) GCIH
4 1 (6.25%) Master's Degree
4 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) GDPR
2 1 (6.25%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (6.25%) NIST
2 1 (6.25%) SOC 2
System Software
1 6 (37.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (31.25%) Kubernetes
2 2 (12.50%) Terraform
3 1 (6.25%) Ansible
3 1 (6.25%) Grafana
3 1 (6.25%) Kustomize
3 1 (6.25%) Prometheus
3 1 (6.25%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) Google
2 2 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 2 (12.50%) Splunk
2 2 (12.50%) Workday
3 1 (6.25%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (6.25%) Darktrace
3 1 (6.25%) Databricks
3 1 (6.25%) IBM
3 1 (6.25%) Informatica
3 1 (6.25%) Okta
3 1 (6.25%) Oracle
3 1 (6.25%) ServiceNow
3 1 (6.25%) Talend