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 30 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 57 72
Rank change year-on-year -9 +15 +24
Contract jobs citing Machine Learning 18 6 4
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 1.61% 1.10% 0.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.88% 1.19% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 0 4
10th Percentile £475 - £304
25th Percentile £550 - £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - £425
Median % change year-on-year - - -32.00%
75th Percentile £780 - £494
90th Percentile - - £573
Yorkshire median daily rate £550 £500 £554
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.75% -9.55%

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 959 503 879
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 85.55% 91.96% 87.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 609 324 516
10th Percentile £304 £263 £300
25th Percentile £413 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £579
90th Percentile £630 £643 £668
Yorkshire median daily rate £487 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +2.53% - -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 17 36
10th Percentile £13.58 £20.11 £11.95
25th Percentile £14.25 £22.14 £12.15
Median hourly rate £20.15 £27.50 £12.53
Median % change year-on-year -26.73% +119.47% -50.38%
75th Percentile £24.22 £41.50 £15.24
90th Percentile £69.40 £99.93 £38.25
Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.81 £21.24 £13.50
% change year-on-year +7.39% +57.33% +27.00%

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 30 April 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 30 April 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 -7 17 £600 - 14
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 (16.67%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 5 (27.78%) GCP
2 2 (11.11%) Google Gemini
2 2 (11.11%) LangSmith
2 2 (11.11%) Vertex AI
3 1 (5.56%) AWS
3 1 (5.56%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (33.33%) BigQuery
2 3 (16.67%) Metadata
2 3 (16.67%) NoSQL
3 2 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
General
1 4 (22.22%) Finance
2 3 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (16.67%) Banking
2 3 (16.67%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 6 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 4 (22.22%) Data Scientist
3 3 (16.67%) Analyst
3 3 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
3 3 (16.67%) Insight Analyst
3 3 (16.67%) Lead
4 2 (11.11%) Architect
4 2 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
4 2 (11.11%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Data Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) Data Insight Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) Insight Data Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) Lead Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.11%) Hugging Face
1 2 (11.11%) LangGraph
1 2 (11.11%) Model Context Protocol
1 2 (11.11%) PyTorch
1 2 (11.11%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 5 (27.78%) AI Agents
2 3 (16.67%) Credit Risk
3 2 (11.11%) Algorithms
3 2 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (83.33%) AI
1 15 (83.33%) LLM
2 8 (44.44%) Observability
3 6 (33.33%) Generative AI
4 5 (27.78%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
5 4 (22.22%) CI/CD
5 4 (22.22%) Data Pipeline
5 4 (22.22%) Data Science
5 4 (22.22%) Microservices
5 4 (22.22%) MLOps
5 4 (22.22%) Multi-Agent System
5 4 (22.22%) Natural Language Processing
6 3 (16.67%) Analytics
6 3 (16.67%) Pricing Analytics
6 3 (16.67%) Risk Analytics
6 3 (16.67%) Stress Testing
6 3 (16.67%) Validation
7 2 (11.11%) Containerisation
7 2 (11.11%) Prompt Engineering
7 2 (11.11%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 9 (50.00%) Python
2 3 (16.67%) SQL
3 1 (5.56%) VBA
System Software
1 2 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (11.11%) Kubernetes
1 2 (11.11%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (16.67%) Teradata
2 2 (11.11%) Dynatrace
3 1 (5.56%) Foundry