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 contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 64 72
Rank change year-on-year -10 +8 +49
Contract jobs citing Machine Learning 7 6 7
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 0.77% 0.89% 0.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.90% 1.02% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 6
10th Percentile £517 £493 £373
25th Percentile £520 £500 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £444
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +18.31% -35.45%
75th Percentile £588 £556 £484
90th Percentile £595 £560 £494
Yorkshire median daily rate £514 £538 £475
% change year-on-year -4.37% +13.16% -29.68%

All Process & 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 778 590 1,031
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 85.40% 87.41% 89.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 518 362 661
10th Percentile £287 £300 £313
25th Percentile £400 £381 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% -7.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £567 £600
90th Percentile £650 £687 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £480 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +1.05% -5.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 21 13
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.22 £12.66
25th Percentile £14.63 £17.08 £14.75
Median hourly rate £21.30 £32.50 £17.64
Median % change year-on-year -34.46% +84.24% -21.60%
75th Percentile £27.63 £38.75 £26.78
90th Percentile £81.00 £96.64 £49.02
Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.15 £21.25 £21.10
% change year-on-year +18.35% +0.70% +12.55%

Machine Learning
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Machine Learning relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire.

Machine Learning job vacancy trend 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 2 January 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
Leeds -12 5 £564 +7.36% 12
Huddersfield - 1 £550 - 1
Bradford - 1 - - 9
Machine Learning
Yorkshire

Machine Learning
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West 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 6 (85.71%) Azure
2 5 (71.43%) AWS
3 4 (57.14%) GCP
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon EMR
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon S3
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon SageMaker
4 1 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (14.29%) Azure AKS
4 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (14.29%) PaaS
4 1 (14.29%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) MongoDB
1 2 (28.57%) NoSQL
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Git
2 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
2 1 (14.29%) Visual Studio
General
1 3 (42.86%) Public Sector
2 2 (28.57%) Legal
3 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Data Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Architect
2 1 (14.29%) AWS DevOps
2 1 (14.29%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Developer
2 1 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Lead
2 1 (14.29%) Lead DevOps
2 1 (14.29%) Lead DevOps Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Python Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) Django
1 2 (28.57%) FastAPI
1 2 (28.57%) Flash
1 2 (28.57%) Flask
1 2 (28.57%) RESTful
1 2 (28.57%) Smart Contracts
2 1 (14.29%) Celery
2 1 (14.29%) GraphQL
2 1 (14.29%) gRPC
2 1 (14.29%) Kafka
2 1 (14.29%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (14.29%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Blockchain
1 2 (28.57%) Management Information System
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 1 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (14.29%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (14.29%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) AI
2 3 (42.86%) Cloud Security
2 3 (42.86%) DevOps
2 3 (42.86%) Risk Management
3 2 (28.57%) Agile
3 2 (28.57%) Analytics
3 2 (28.57%) Application Security
3 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
3 2 (28.57%) Cryptography
3 2 (28.57%) Data Collection
3 2 (28.57%) DevSecOps
3 2 (28.57%) Federated Learning
3 2 (28.57%) Incident Response
3 2 (28.57%) Information Security
3 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (28.57%) Penetration Testing
3 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (28.57%) Regulatory Compliance
3 2 (28.57%) Risk Assessment
3 2 (28.57%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Python
2 2 (28.57%) Rust
2 2 (28.57%) Solidity
2 2 (28.57%) SQL
3 1 (14.29%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 2 (28.57%) CCSK
2 2 (28.57%) CEH
2 2 (28.57%) CISA
2 2 (28.57%) CISM
2 2 (28.57%) CISSP
2 2 (28.57%) OSCP
3 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) GDPR
2 2 (28.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (28.57%) NIST
2 2 (28.57%) PCI DSS
2 2 (28.57%) SOC 2
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Terraform
2 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
3 1 (14.29%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Databricks
1 1 (14.29%) Google
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft