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 24 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 63 62
Rank change year-on-year -5 -1 +26
Contract jobs citing Machine Learning 29 10 8
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 2.14% 1.33% 0.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.54% 1.50% 1.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 2 5
10th Percentile - £539 £318
25th Percentile £475 £559 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £613 £450
Median % change year-on-year -10.20% +36.11% +8.43%
75th Percentile £609 £659 £525
90th Percentile £810 £676 £585
Yorkshire median daily rate £550 £488 £557
% change year-on-year +12.82% -12.48% +5.99%

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 1,142 667 733
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 84.22% 88.93% 84.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 669 430 469
10th Percentile £324 £285 £350
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £494 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.22% -1.30% -5.21%
75th Percentile £575 £572 £575
90th Percentile £641 £649 £657
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 20 27
10th Percentile £16.62 - -
25th Percentile £17.45 £22.14 £12.15
Median hourly rate £24.50 £23.57 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.95% +57.13% -15.82%
75th Percentile £35.00 £81.25 £31.25
90th Percentile £43.96 - £38.75
Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.80 £22.14 £13.87
% change year-on-year +2.98% +59.63% -30.65%

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 24 August 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 24 August 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 -1 26 £550 -18.52% 21
Bradford -14 2 £550 - 4
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 (10.34%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 9 (31.03%) GCP
2 7 (24.14%) Vertex AI
3 4 (13.79%) Google Gemini
3 4 (13.79%) LangSmith
4 1 (3.45%) Azure
4 1 (3.45%) Azure AKS
4 1 (3.45%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 1 (3.45%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (3.45%) Azure Storage
4 1 (3.45%) Cloud Run
4 1 (3.45%) Entra ID
4 1 (3.45%) Google Compute Engine
4 1 (3.45%) OpenShift
4 1 (3.45%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.45%) DNS
1 1 (3.45%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (31.03%) BigQuery
2 4 (13.79%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (10.34%) Metadata
3 3 (10.34%) NoSQL
4 1 (3.45%) Data Lake
4 1 (3.45%) Data Vault
4 1 (3.45%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (6.90%) Pylint
General
1 6 (20.69%) Banking
1 6 (20.69%) Finance
2 5 (17.24%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (13.79%) Social Skills
4 3 (10.34%) Marketing
5 1 (3.45%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.45%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (27.59%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 6 (20.69%) Architect
3 5 (17.24%) Cloud Engineer
3 5 (17.24%) Lead
4 4 (13.79%) Data Scientist
4 4 (13.79%) Senior
5 3 (10.34%) Analyst
5 3 (10.34%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
5 3 (10.34%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
5 3 (10.34%) Data Analyst
5 3 (10.34%) Data Insight Analyst
5 3 (10.34%) Insight Analyst
5 3 (10.34%) Insight Data Analyst
5 3 (10.34%) Lead Data Analyst
6 2 (6.90%) Enterprise Architect
6 2 (6.90%) Machine Learning Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Senior Architect
6 2 (6.90%) Senior Enterprise Architect
6 2 (6.90%) Solutions Architect
7 1 (3.45%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (13.79%) Hugging Face
1 4 (13.79%) PyTorch
1 4 (13.79%) TensorFlow
2 2 (6.90%) LangGraph
2 2 (6.90%) Model Context Protocol
2 2 (6.90%) TFX
3 1 (3.45%) JSON
3 1 (3.45%) Kafka
3 1 (3.45%) pytest
3 1 (3.45%) REST
3 1 (3.45%) Terraform
3 1 (3.45%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (24.14%) AI Agents
2 3 (10.34%) Credit Risk
2 3 (10.34%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (6.90%) Algorithms
3 2 (6.90%) Blockchain
3 2 (6.90%) Cloud Native
3 2 (6.90%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (3.45%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (3.45%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.45%) Reference Data
4 1 (3.45%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.45%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (89.66%) AI
2 18 (62.07%) LLM
3 11 (37.93%) CI/CD
3 11 (37.93%) Generative AI
4 10 (34.48%) MLOps
4 10 (34.48%) Observability
5 9 (31.03%) Microservices
6 7 (24.14%) Data Science
6 7 (24.14%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
7 6 (20.69%) Data Pipeline
8 5 (17.24%) Analytics
8 5 (17.24%) Containerisation
8 5 (17.24%) Roadmaps
8 5 (17.24%) Validation
9 4 (13.79%) Event-Driven
9 4 (13.79%) Multi-Agent System
9 4 (13.79%) Natural Language Processing
9 4 (13.79%) Open Source
9 4 (13.79%) Performance Optimisation
9 4 (13.79%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (51.72%) Python
2 4 (13.79%) SQL
3 1 (3.45%) JavaScript
3 1 (3.45%) Scala
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.45%) Data Quality
System Software
1 6 (20.69%) Docker
2 1 (3.45%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (20.69%) Kubernetes
2 4 (13.79%) Prometheus
3 2 (6.90%) Kubeflow
4 1 (3.45%) Podman
Vendors
1 4 (13.79%) Dynatrace
2 3 (10.34%) Google
2 3 (10.34%) Teradata
3 1 (3.45%) Foundry
3 1 (3.45%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.45%) Red Hat
3 1 (3.45%) ServiceNow