Artificial Intelligence Developer Job Trends in Leeds

AI Developer
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The median AI Developer salary in Leeds is £97,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 29 January 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 107 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring an Artificial Intelligence Developer 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 0.069% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.074% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £91,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £97,500 - -
75th Percentile £103,750 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Yorkshire median annual salary £97,500 - -

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Leeds

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Leeds. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Leeds with a recognized job title 1,355 964 1,573
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.87% 96.02% 97.04%
Number of salaries quoted 894 532 1,207
10th Percentile £28,500 £30,668 £30,800
25th Percentile £41,074 £41,938 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,886 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £87,500
West Yorkshire median annual salary £57,500 £53,000 £54,950
% change year-on-year +8.49% -3.55% -0.09%

Artificial Intelligence Developer Skill Set
Top 11 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds

For the 6 months to 29 January 2026, Artificial Intelligence Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Leeds region featuring Artificial Intelligence Developer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) LangChain
1 1 (100.00%) LangGraph
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Neo4j
1 1 (100.00%) OpenAI
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering

Artificial Intelligence Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Neo4j
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) LangChain
1 1 (100.00%) LangGraph
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) AI Agents
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) OpenAI