Generative AI Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Generative Artificial Intelligence (Gen AI)
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring Generative AI skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 109 101 111
Rank change year-on-year -8 +10 -
Contract jobs citing Generative AI 9 3 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 0.59% 0.20% 0.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.65% 0.24% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 0 4
10th Percentile £392 - £581
25th Percentile £420 - £581
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 - £591
75th Percentile £518 - £603
90th Percentile £539 - £608
England median daily rate £550 £593 £600
% change year-on-year -7.17% -1.25% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Yorkshire

Generative 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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,392 1,270 1,870
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 90.68% 83.83% 89.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 885 766 1,209
10th Percentile £252 £313 £300
25th Percentile £375 £406 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £584 £623
90th Percentile £638 £659 £700
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 46 35
10th Percentile £15.90 £12.15 £12.00
25th Percentile £18.23 £12.55 £16.13
Median hourly rate £22.14 £17.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.51% -12.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £25.15 £28.75 £25.27
90th Percentile £81.25 £43.75 £44.30
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.75
% change year-on-year -41.51% +0.58% +47.41%

Generative AI
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Job postings citing Generative AI as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Generative AI in Yorkshire

Generative AI
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

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

Generative AI
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Generative AI in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 13 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Generative AI in Yorkshire

Generative AI
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 Generative AI within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 13 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
South Yorkshire - 8 £489 - 6
North Yorkshire - 1 £488 - 2
Generative AI
England

Generative AI
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (66.67%) Azure
1 6 (66.67%) Azure AKS
1 6 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (22.22%) AWS
3 1 (11.11%) Amazon Bedrock
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (22.22%) Metadata
3 1 (11.11%) MongoDB
3 1 (11.11%) MySQL
General
1 5 (55.56%) Finance
2 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Banking
3 1 (11.11%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Developer
2 4 (44.44%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 3 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Cloud Consultant
4 1 (11.11%) Consultant
4 1 (11.11%) Cybersecurity Consultant
4 1 (11.11%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Java Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Machine Learning Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Project Manager
4 1 (11.11%) Security Consultant
4 1 (11.11%) Senior
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Consultant
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Cybersecurity Consultant
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (66.67%) Hugging Face
1 6 (66.67%) OpenCV
1 6 (66.67%) PyTorch
1 6 (66.67%) Regular Expression
1 6 (66.67%) SpaCy
1 6 (66.67%) TensorFlow
2 1 (11.11%) .NET
2 1 (11.11%) AngularJS
2 1 (11.11%) CSS
2 1 (11.11%) HTML
2 1 (11.11%) React
Miscellaneous
1 5 (55.56%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) Artificial Intelligence
2 7 (77.78%) DevOps
2 7 (77.78%) Machine Learning
3 6 (66.67%) Deep Learning
3 6 (66.67%) Image Processing
3 6 (66.67%) Natural Language Processing
3 6 (66.67%) OCR
3 6 (66.67%) Open Source
4 5 (55.56%) Agile
4 5 (55.56%) Cybersecurity
4 5 (55.56%) KYC
5 4 (44.44%) Storage Management
6 3 (33.33%) Client Onboarding
6 3 (33.33%) LLM
7 2 (22.22%) Code Quality
7 2 (22.22%) Data Science
7 2 (22.22%) Intelligent Automation
7 2 (22.22%) Performance Optimisation
7 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (22.22%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 7 (77.78%) Python
2 1 (11.11%) Java
2 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
2 1 (11.11%) PHP
2 1 (11.11%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) AWS Certification
1 1 (11.11%) CISSP
1 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (11.11%) Degree
System Software
1 4 (44.44%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (66.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle