Semantic Kernel Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Microsoft Semantic Kernel
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring Semantic Kernel 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 154 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Semantic Kernel 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.070% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.33% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £425 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
75th Percentile £475 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £538 £375 -
% change year-on-year +43.33% - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Yorkshire

Semantic Kernel falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 603 285 335
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 21.18% 19.43% 21.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 390 183 227
10th Percentile £366 £350 £400
25th Percentile £425 £395 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -13.64% +4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £600
90th Percentile £638 £600 £693
England median daily rate £525 £515 £550
% change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 5
10th Percentile £23.00 - -
25th Percentile £45.00 £84.83 £13.87
Median hourly rate £67.50 £91.69 £16.19
Median % change year-on-year -26.38% +466.34% -
75th Percentile £68.75 £98.56 £63.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £56.25
% change year-on-year +18.18% -2.22% -6.25%

Semantic Kernel
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 Semantic Kernel 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 - 2 £450 - 1
Semantic Kernel
England

Semantic Kernel
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 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) Google Gemini
General
1 2 (100.00%) Banking
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Java Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Python Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) LangChain
1 2 (100.00%) LangGraph
2 1 (50.00%) CrewAI
2 1 (50.00%) Kafka
2 1 (50.00%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (50.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) AI Agents
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 2 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) LLM
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Generative AI
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Product Roadmap
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) OpenAI