AI Transformation Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

AI Transformation
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring AI Transformation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 146 90 -
Rank change year-on-year -56 - -
Contract jobs citing AI Transformation 4 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.15% 0.085% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% 0.091% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £663 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £550 -
Median % change year-on-year +22.73% - -
75th Percentile £688 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £650 £625 £625
% change year-on-year +4.00% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Yorkshire

AI Transformation 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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,359 1,099 1,468
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 86.44% 93.29% 84.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,450 667 870
10th Percentile £325 £264 £274
25th Percentile £413 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £582
90th Percentile £675 £625 £650
England median daily rate £520 £518 £525
% change year-on-year +0.48% -1.43% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 78 48 76
10th Percentile £14.78 £15.88 £11.53
25th Percentile £17.01 £18.10 £12.15
Median hourly rate £22.81 £21.24 £13.37
Median % change year-on-year +7.39% +58.92% +25.73%
75th Percentile £35.00 £22.57 £21.63
90th Percentile £68.75 £29.21 £53.75
England median hourly rate £47.00 £27.13 £37.63
% change year-on-year +73.27% -27.91% +5.54%

AI Transformation
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

AI Transformation job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

AI Transformation
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AI Transformation within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 19 June 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
West Yorkshire -23 2 £675 +22.73% 1
South Yorkshire - 2 - - 4
AI Transformation
England

AI Transformation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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:

Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Copilot Studio
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Copilot
2 2 (50.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (25.00%) AWS
3 1 (25.00%) GCP
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Banking Project Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Project Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Senior
1 1 (25.00%) Senior Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Senior Project Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Service Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) AI Agents
1 2 (50.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) AI
2 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (50.00%) Agile
3 2 (50.00%) Analytics
3 2 (50.00%) Conversational UI
3 2 (50.00%) Generative AI
3 2 (50.00%) ITSM
3 2 (50.00%) Knowledge Discovery
3 2 (50.00%) Service Management
3 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (50.00%) Task Automation
3 2 (50.00%) User Experience
3 2 (50.00%) Workflow
4 1 (25.00%) Data Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
4 1 (25.00%) PRINCE2
4 1 (25.00%) Programme Management
4 1 (25.00%) Resource Allocation
4 1 (25.00%) Risk Management
4 1 (25.00%) Use Case
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) PMI Certification
1 1 (25.00%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) GRC
1 1 (25.00%) PMO
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (50.00%) OpenAI
1 2 (50.00%) ServiceNow