Machine Learning Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Machine Learning (ML)
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring Machine Learning skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 69 63 88
Rank change year-on-year -6 +25 +29
Contract jobs citing Machine Learning 10 7 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 1.32% 0.82% 0.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.50% 0.96% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 4
10th Percentile £539 £415 £370
25th Percentile £559 £438 £376
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £475 £415
Median % change year-on-year +28.95% +14.46% -33.60%
75th Percentile £659 £550 £481
90th Percentile £676 £595 £493
Yorkshire median daily rate £514 £560 £495
% change year-on-year -8.21% +13.13% -21.27%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West 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 West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 665 726 1,242
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 88.08% 85.31% 90.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 428 467 820
10th Percentile £281 £354 £350
25th Percentile £400 £413 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.50% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £625
90th Percentile £651 £650 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 24 21
10th Percentile £18.87 £12.15 £12.00
25th Percentile - £13.87 £13.17
Median hourly rate £22.14 £20.75 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.70% +15.28% -12.20%
75th Percentile £74.06 £33.75 £21.31
90th Percentile £81.25 £38.75 £26.78
Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.14 £17.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year +26.51% -12.50% +5.26%

Machine Learning
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Machine Learning in West Yorkshire

Machine Learning
Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Machine Learning.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Machine Learning

Machine Learning
Contract Job Locations in West 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 West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 18 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
Leeds -6 5 £675 +42.11% 19
Bradford - 4 - - 2
Huddersfield - 1 £550 - 2
Machine Learning
Yorkshire

Machine Learning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West 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 8 (80.00%) AWS
1 8 (80.00%) Azure
2 7 (70.00%) GCP
3 3 (30.00%) PaaS
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon EMR
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon S3
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon SageMaker
4 1 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (10.00%) Serverless
4 1 (10.00%) Workato
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (60.00%) NoSQL
2 5 (50.00%) MongoDB
3 4 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (40.00%) Git
1 4 (40.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (10.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 5 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Architect
2 4 (40.00%) Technical Architect
3 2 (20.00%) Data Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Administrator
4 1 (10.00%) AWS Administrator
4 1 (10.00%) AWS DevOps
4 1 (10.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Data Architect
4 1 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) GCP Administrator
4 1 (10.00%) Integration Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Lead
4 1 (10.00%) Lead DevOps
4 1 (10.00%) Lead DevOps Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Workday Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (40.00%) Celery
1 4 (40.00%) Django
1 4 (40.00%) FastAPI
1 4 (40.00%) Flask
1 4 (40.00%) GraphQL
1 4 (40.00%) gRPC
1 4 (40.00%) Kafka
1 4 (40.00%) RabbitMQ
1 4 (40.00%) RESTful
1 4 (40.00%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 4 (40.00%) Agile
2 4 (40.00%) Analytics
2 4 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (40.00%) Clean Code
2 4 (40.00%) Design Patterns
2 4 (40.00%) Mentoring
2 4 (40.00%) Microservices
2 4 (40.00%) OOP
2 4 (40.00%) TOGAF
3 3 (30.00%) Asynchronous Programming
3 3 (30.00%) Containerisation
3 3 (30.00%) Data Analytics
3 3 (30.00%) Data Engineering
3 3 (30.00%) Data Science
3 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (30.00%) Risk Management
3 3 (30.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (30.00%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (20.00%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) Python
1 5 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (10.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (10.00%) Degree
2 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 5 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) Kubernetes
1 4 (40.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Databricks
1 3 (30.00%) Google
2 1 (10.00%) Okta
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle
2 1 (10.00%) Workday