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

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 54 68
Rank change year-on-year -14 +14 +30
Contract jobs citing Machine Learning 17 6 4
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 1.57% 1.15% 0.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.81% 1.26% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 0 4
10th Percentile £475 - £304
25th Percentile £523 - £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - £425
Median % change year-on-year - - -32.00%
75th Percentile £735 - £494
90th Percentile £780 - £573
Yorkshire median daily rate £550 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -18.37%

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 938 478 884
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 86.37% 91.57% 87.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 608 310 515
10th Percentile £306 £263 £286
25th Percentile £413 £352 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £469 £495
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -5.30% -5.71%
75th Percentile £565 £550 £585
90th Percentile £625 £638 £668
Yorkshire median daily rate £487 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +2.63% -0.11% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 17 36
10th Percentile £13.24 £20.11 £11.95
25th Percentile £14.25 £22.14 £12.15
Median hourly rate £16.25 £27.50 £12.53
Median % change year-on-year -40.91% +119.47% -53.59%
75th Percentile £23.71 £41.50 £15.24
90th Percentile £74.00 £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 16 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 16 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 -15 16 £575 - 23
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 (17.65%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 7 (41.18%) GCP
2 3 (17.65%) AWS
2 3 (17.65%) Azure
3 2 (11.76%) Google Gemini
3 2 (11.76%) LangSmith
3 2 (11.76%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (29.41%) BigQuery
2 3 (17.65%) Metadata
2 3 (17.65%) NoSQL
3 2 (11.76%) Data Warehouse
General
1 4 (23.53%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (23.53%) Finance
2 3 (17.65%) Banking
2 3 (17.65%) Marketing
3 2 (11.76%) Legal
4 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (29.41%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) Analyst
2 3 (17.65%) Data Scientist
2 3 (17.65%) Insight Analyst
2 3 (17.65%) Lead
3 2 (11.76%) Architect
3 2 (11.76%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
3 2 (11.76%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
3 2 (11.76%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Data Analyst
3 2 (11.76%) Data Insight Analyst
3 2 (11.76%) Insight Data Analyst
3 2 (11.76%) Lead Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.76%) Flash
1 2 (11.76%) Hugging Face
1 2 (11.76%) LangGraph
1 2 (11.76%) Model Context Protocol
1 2 (11.76%) PyTorch
1 2 (11.76%) Smart Contracts
1 2 (11.76%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) AI Agents
2 3 (17.65%) Credit Risk
3 2 (11.76%) Blockchain
3 2 (11.76%) Management Information System
3 2 (11.76%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (5.88%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (82.35%) AI
2 12 (70.59%) LLM
3 7 (41.18%) Observability
4 5 (29.41%) Generative AI
4 5 (29.41%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
5 4 (23.53%) CI/CD
5 4 (23.53%) Data Pipeline
5 4 (23.53%) Microservices
5 4 (23.53%) MLOps
5 4 (23.53%) Zero Trust
6 3 (17.65%) Analytics
6 3 (17.65%) Data Science
6 3 (17.65%) Multi-Agent System
6 3 (17.65%) Natural Language Processing
6 3 (17.65%) Pricing Analytics
6 3 (17.65%) Risk Analytics
6 3 (17.65%) Stress Testing
6 3 (17.65%) Validation
7 2 (11.76%) DevSecOps
7 2 (11.76%) Federated Learning
Programming Languages
1 8 (47.06%) Python
2 3 (17.65%) SQL
3 2 (11.76%) Rust
3 2 (11.76%) Solidity
4 1 (5.88%) VBA
Qualifications
1 2 (11.76%) CCSK
1 2 (11.76%) CEH
1 2 (11.76%) CISA
1 2 (11.76%) CISM
1 2 (11.76%) CISSP
1 2 (11.76%) OSCP
2 1 (5.88%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) GDPR
1 2 (11.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (11.76%) NIST
1 2 (11.76%) PCI DSS
1 2 (11.76%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (11.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (11.76%) Kubernetes
1 2 (11.76%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (17.65%) Teradata
2 2 (11.76%) Dynatrace
3 1 (5.88%) Foundry