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 21 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 64 66
Rank change year-on-year +3 +2 +20
Contract jobs citing Machine Learning 37 10 7
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 2.69% 1.32% 0.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.23% 1.50% 0.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 2 4
10th Percentile £475 £539 £415
25th Percentile £500 £559 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £613 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.20% +28.95% +14.46%
75th Percentile £600 £659 £550
90th Percentile £830 £676 £595
Yorkshire median daily rate £550 £514 £560
% change year-on-year +7.00% -8.21% +12.00%

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 1,146 665 723
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 83.35% 87.73% 85.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 643 429 465
10th Percentile £317 £276 £353
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £575
90th Percentile £650 £675 £650
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 18 24
10th Percentile £15.46 £18.87 £12.15
25th Percentile £16.62 - £13.87
Median hourly rate £24.00 £22.14 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year +8.40% +6.70% +15.28%
75th Percentile £35.00 £74.06 £33.75
90th Percentile £43.96 £81.25 £38.75
Yorkshire median hourly rate £19.69 £22.14 £17.50
% change year-on-year -11.07% +26.51% -12.50%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Machine Learning in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 21 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Machine Learning in West Yorkshire

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 21 September 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 +4 30 £600 -11.11% 51
Bradford -12 3 £550 - 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (8.11%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 11 (29.73%) GCP
2 8 (21.62%) Vertex AI
3 4 (10.81%) Azure
3 4 (10.81%) Google Gemini
3 4 (10.81%) LangSmith
4 2 (5.41%) AWS
5 1 (2.70%) Azure AKS
5 1 (2.70%) Azure Databricks
5 1 (2.70%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (2.70%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (2.70%) Azure Storage
5 1 (2.70%) Cloud Run
5 1 (2.70%) Entra ID
5 1 (2.70%) Google Compute Engine
5 1 (2.70%) OpenShift
5 1 (2.70%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.70%) DNS
1 1 (2.70%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (24.32%) BigQuery
2 4 (10.81%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (8.11%) Metadata
3 3 (8.11%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.70%) Data Lake
4 1 (2.70%) Data Vault
4 1 (2.70%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (8.11%) Pylint
2 1 (2.70%) MLflow
General
1 8 (21.62%) Banking
1 8 (21.62%) Finance
2 7 (18.92%) Social Skills
3 6 (16.22%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (8.11%) Marketing
5 1 (2.70%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.70%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (24.32%) Senior
2 8 (21.62%) Architect
2 8 (21.62%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 6 (16.22%) Lead
3 6 (16.22%) Machine Learning Engineer
4 5 (13.51%) Cloud Engineer
5 4 (10.81%) Data Scientist
5 4 (10.81%) Enterprise Architect
5 4 (10.81%) Senior Architect
5 4 (10.81%) Senior Enterprise Architect
6 3 (8.11%) Analyst
6 3 (8.11%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
6 3 (8.11%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
6 3 (8.11%) Data Analyst
6 3 (8.11%) Data Insight Analyst
6 3 (8.11%) Insight Analyst
6 3 (8.11%) Insight Data Analyst
6 3 (8.11%) Lead Data Analyst
7 2 (5.41%) Cloud Architect
7 2 (5.41%) Senior Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (10.81%) Hugging Face
1 4 (10.81%) pytest
1 4 (10.81%) PyTorch
1 4 (10.81%) TensorFlow
2 3 (8.11%) TFX
3 2 (5.41%) LangGraph
3 2 (5.41%) Model Context Protocol
4 1 (2.70%) JSON
4 1 (2.70%) Kafka
4 1 (2.70%) REST
4 1 (2.70%) Terraform
4 1 (2.70%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (27.03%) AI Agents
2 5 (13.51%) Cloud Native
3 4 (10.81%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (8.11%) Credit Risk
4 3 (8.11%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (5.41%) Algorithms
5 2 (5.41%) Blockchain
5 2 (5.41%) Public Cloud
6 1 (2.70%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (2.70%) Onboarding
6 1 (2.70%) Reference Data
6 1 (2.70%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.70%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (91.89%) AI
2 21 (56.76%) LLM
3 16 (43.24%) CI/CD
3 16 (43.24%) Generative AI
4 13 (35.14%) MLOps
5 11 (29.73%) Microservices
5 11 (29.73%) Observability
6 8 (21.62%) Data Science
7 7 (18.92%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
7 7 (18.92%) Roadmaps
8 6 (16.22%) Data Pipeline
8 6 (16.22%) Event-Driven
8 6 (16.22%) Stakeholder Management
9 5 (13.51%) Analytics
9 5 (13.51%) Containerisation
9 5 (13.51%) DevSecOps
9 5 (13.51%) Validation
10 4 (10.81%) Architectural Patterns
10 4 (10.81%) Clean Code
10 4 (10.81%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 19 (51.35%) Python
2 4 (10.81%) SQL
3 1 (2.70%) JavaScript
3 1 (2.70%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (2.70%) CISM
1 1 (2.70%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.41%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.70%) GDPR
2 1 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.70%) NIST
2 1 (2.70%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 9 (24.32%) Docker
2 1 (2.70%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (24.32%) Kubernetes
2 4 (10.81%) Prometheus
3 3 (8.11%) Kubeflow
4 1 (2.70%) Podman
Vendors
1 4 (10.81%) Dynatrace
2 3 (8.11%) Google
2 3 (8.11%) Teradata
3 1 (2.70%) Databricks
3 1 (2.70%) Foundry
3 1 (2.70%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.70%) Red Hat
3 1 (2.70%) ServiceNow