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 27 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 61 82
Rank change year-on-year -3 +21 +38
Contract jobs citing Machine Learning 13 8 7
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 1.53% 1.02% 0.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.76% 1.19% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 6
10th Percentile £518 £479 £373
25th Percentile £522 £484 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £444
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% +18.31% -35.45%
75th Percentile £622 £553 £484
90th Percentile £661 £559 £494
Yorkshire median daily rate £525 £525 £495
% change year-on-year - +6.06% -21.74%

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 737 672 1,178
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 86.91% 85.71% 89.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 476 419 769
10th Percentile £290 £325 £317
25th Percentile £400 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £485 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.09% -7.62% +0.96%
75th Percentile £575 £573 £625
90th Percentile £675 £650 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £488 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -2.50% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 18 18
10th Percentile £18.87 £15.00 £12.82
25th Percentile - £19.19 £16.61
Median hourly rate £22.14 £27.50 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.49% +41.03% -7.14%
75th Percentile £66.88 £37.50 £23.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £44.00 £30.02
Yorkshire median hourly rate £23.79 £18.64 £21.31
% change year-on-year +27.65% -12.55% +12.16%

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 27 October 2025.

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 27 October 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 -12 8 £600 +14.29% 19
Bradford - 4 - - 5
Huddersfield - 1 £550 - 1
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 11 (84.62%) Azure
2 10 (76.92%) AWS
3 9 (69.23%) GCP
4 3 (23.08%) PaaS
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon EMR
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon S3
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon SageMaker
5 1 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (7.69%) Azure AKS
5 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (7.69%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (7.69%) Serverless
5 1 (7.69%) Workato
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (46.15%) NoSQL
2 5 (38.46%) MongoDB
3 4 (30.77%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (7.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (38.46%) Git
2 4 (30.77%) Jenkins
3 1 (7.69%) Visual Studio
General
1 5 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 4 (30.77%) Public Sector
3 2 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (15.38%) Legal
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Architect
2 4 (30.77%) Technical Architect
3 2 (15.38%) Data Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Administrator
4 1 (7.69%) AWS Administrator
4 1 (7.69%) AWS DevOps
4 1 (7.69%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Data Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Developer
4 1 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) GCP Administrator
4 1 (7.69%) Integration Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Lead
4 1 (7.69%) Lead DevOps
4 1 (7.69%) Lead DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Python Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Workday Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (38.46%) Django
1 5 (38.46%) FastAPI
1 5 (38.46%) Flask
1 5 (38.46%) RESTful
2 4 (30.77%) Celery
2 4 (30.77%) GraphQL
2 4 (30.77%) gRPC
2 4 (30.77%) Kafka
2 4 (30.77%) RabbitMQ
2 4 (30.77%) WebSockets
3 2 (15.38%) Flash
3 2 (15.38%) Smart Contracts
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Product Ownership
2 2 (15.38%) Blockchain
2 2 (15.38%) Management Information System
3 1 (7.69%) Cloud Native
3 1 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (69.23%) AI
2 5 (38.46%) Agile
2 5 (38.46%) CI/CD
2 5 (38.46%) Mentoring
2 5 (38.46%) Microservices
2 5 (38.46%) Risk Management
3 4 (30.77%) Analytics
3 4 (30.77%) Clean Code
3 4 (30.77%) Data Engineering
3 4 (30.77%) Design Patterns
3 4 (30.77%) OOP
3 4 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (30.77%) TOGAF
4 3 (23.08%) Asynchronous Programming
4 3 (23.08%) Containerisation
4 3 (23.08%) Data Analytics
4 3 (23.08%) Data Science
4 3 (23.08%) DevOps
4 3 (23.08%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (23.08%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 6 (46.15%) Python
2 5 (38.46%) SQL
3 2 (15.38%) Rust
3 2 (15.38%) Solidity
4 1 (7.69%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 4 (30.77%) Security Cleared
2 2 (15.38%) CCSK
2 2 (15.38%) CEH
2 2 (15.38%) CISA
2 2 (15.38%) CISM
2 2 (15.38%) CISSP
2 2 (15.38%) OSCP
3 1 (7.69%) AWS Certification
3 1 (7.69%) Azure Certification
3 1 (7.69%) Degree
3 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (23.08%) GDPR
2 2 (15.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (15.38%) NIST
2 2 (15.38%) PCI DSS
2 2 (15.38%) SOC 2
System Software
1 6 (46.15%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (38.46%) Kubernetes
1 5 (38.46%) Terraform
2 1 (7.69%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) Databricks
1 3 (23.08%) Google
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.69%) Okta
2 1 (7.69%) Oracle
2 1 (7.69%) Workday