Artificial Intelligence Engineering Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

AI Engineering
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring Artificial Intelligence Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 145 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Artificial Intelligence Engineering 11 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.39% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.46% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £460 - -
25th Percentile £513 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £600 £525 £913
% change year-on-year +14.29% -42.47% +58.70%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Yorkshire

Artificial Intelligence Engineering 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 2,412 1,352 1,326
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 84.72% 92.16% 83.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,470 850 812
10th Percentile £325 £265 £300
25th Percentile £413 £375 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £580
90th Percentile £675 £618 £650
England median daily rate £525 £512 £525
% change year-on-year +2.54% -2.48% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 80 61 51
10th Percentile £15.23 £16.50 -
25th Percentile £17.01 £18.35 £12.15
Median hourly rate £22.81 £22.14 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% +64.00% -32.31%
75th Percentile £29.75 £25.15 £21.75
90th Percentile £44.06 £30.29 £33.75
England median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £41.50
% change year-on-year +78.93% -39.40% -2.35%

Artificial Intelligence Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Artificial Intelligence Engineering relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Artificial Intelligence Engineering job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Artificial Intelligence Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

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

Artificial Intelligence Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Artificial Intelligence Engineering in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 30 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Artificial Intelligence Engineering in Yorkshire

Artificial Intelligence Engineering
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 Artificial Intelligence Engineering within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 30 July 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
South Yorkshire - 7 £450 - 4
West Yorkshire - 4 £600 - 2
Artificial Intelligence Engineering
England

Artificial Intelligence Engineering
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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (63.64%) Azure
2 3 (27.27%) AWS
2 3 (27.27%) Azure AI
2 3 (27.27%) GCP
3 2 (18.18%) Copilot Studio
3 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Copilot
3 2 (18.18%) Power Platform
3 2 (18.18%) PowerApps
4 1 (9.09%) Google Gemini
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) Metadata
2 2 (18.18%) NoSQL
General
1 7 (63.64%) Finance
2 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
3 2 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (9.09%) Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (18.18%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
1 2 (18.18%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 2 (18.18%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
1 2 (18.18%) Developer
1 2 (18.18%) Gen AI Engineer
1 2 (18.18%) Lead
1 2 (18.18%) Python Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Analyst
2 1 (9.09%) Business Analyst
2 1 (9.09%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Product Analyst
2 1 (9.09%) Product Business Analyst
2 1 (9.09%) Senior
2 1 (9.09%) Technical Analyst
2 1 (9.09%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) CrewAI
1 1 (9.09%) LangChain
1 1 (9.09%) LangGraph
1 1 (9.09%) REST
1 1 (9.09%) Semantic Kernel
Miscellaneous
1 6 (54.55%) AI Agents
2 3 (27.27%) Cloud Native
3 2 (18.18%) Algorithms
3 2 (18.18%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (9.09%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) AI
2 8 (72.73%) LLM
3 6 (54.55%) Machine Learning
3 6 (54.55%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
4 5 (45.45%) Observability
4 5 (45.45%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (36.36%) Data Engineering
5 4 (36.36%) Generative AI
5 4 (36.36%) Software Engineering
5 4 (36.36%) Use Case
6 3 (27.27%) DevOps
6 3 (27.27%) Enterprise Architecture
6 3 (27.27%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (27.27%) User Experience
6 3 (27.27%) Validation
7 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
7 2 (18.18%) Kalman Filter
7 2 (18.18%) OCR
7 2 (18.18%) Performance Monitoring
7 2 (18.18%) Rapid Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 3 (27.27%) Python
1 3 (27.27%) SQL
2 1 (9.09%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) GRC
1 1 (9.09%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Foundry
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.09%) OpenAI