Machine Learning Contracts in Yorkshire

Machine Learning (ML)
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Yorkshire requiring Machine Learning skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Machine Learning over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 85 84 111
Rank change year-on-year -1 +27 +14
Contract jobs citing Machine Learning 7 16 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 0.69% 0.95% 0.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.74% 1.10% 0.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 11 4
10th Percentile - £400 £566
25th Percentile - £431 £572
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £554 £613
Median % change year-on-year -9.75% -9.55% +53.13%
75th Percentile - £584 £678
90th Percentile - £625 £684
England median daily rate £600 £580 £600
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Yorkshire

Machine Learning 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 940 1,459 2,094
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 92.43% 86.38% 90.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 586 875 1,388
10th Percentile £246 £265 £296
25th Percentile £363 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -9.52% +9.38%
75th Percentile £550 £577 £600
90th Percentile £638 £650 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 64 61
10th Percentile £13.00 £11.30 -
25th Percentile £17.12 £12.15 £9.80
Median hourly rate £21.24 £13.50 £10.63
Median % change year-on-year +57.33% +27.00% -39.74%
75th Percentile £27.10 £22.00 £20.19
90th Percentile £80.10 £53.75 £56.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Machine Learning
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Job postings citing Machine Learning as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Machine Learning in Yorkshire

Machine Learning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Machine Learning in Yorkshire.

Daily rate trend for Machine Learning in Yorkshire

Machine Learning
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 Machine Learning within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
West Yorkshire +17 6 - - 210
South Yorkshire -2 1 £500 -10.23% 43
Machine Learning
England

Machine Learning
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) AWS
1 3 (42.86%) Azure
1 3 (42.86%) GCP
1 3 (42.86%) PaaS
General
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Administrator
1 2 (28.57%) Applications Architect
1 2 (28.57%) Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) Node.js
1 1 (14.29%) PyTorch
1 1 (14.29%) TensorFlow
1 1 (14.29%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Blockchain
1 2 (28.57%) Data Structures
1 2 (28.57%) IoT
2 1 (14.29%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Data Engineering
1 4 (57.14%) Data Science
2 3 (42.86%) Analytics
3 2 (28.57%) Agile
3 2 (28.57%) Architectural Design
3 2 (28.57%) Cost Reduction
3 2 (28.57%) Data Analytics
3 2 (28.57%) DevOps
3 2 (28.57%) Enterprise Architecture
3 2 (28.57%) Interface Catalogue
3 2 (28.57%) Microservices
3 2 (28.57%) Migration
3 2 (28.57%) Project Planning
3 2 (28.57%) Roadmaps
3 2 (28.57%) SOA
3 2 (28.57%) Technical Leadership
3 2 (28.57%) Thought Leadership
4 1 (14.29%) Decision-Making
4 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (14.29%) Scorecard
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) SQL
2 2 (28.57%) Python
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Databricks
2 2 (28.57%) Google