Artificial Intelligence Engineer Job Trends in Leeds

AI Engineer
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The median AI Engineer salary in Leeds is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 November 2025.

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

6 months to
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 86 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring an Artificial Intelligence Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 0.094% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.100% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £75,000 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 - -
75th Percentile £85,000 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Yorkshire median annual salary £80,000 - -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 1,002 1,377 1,450
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.17% 96.09% 97.84%
Number of salaries quoted 670 837 1,052
10th Percentile £29,175 £31,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,043
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -0.08% +0.08%
75th Percentile £72,750 £70,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £87,492
West Yorkshire median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - +1.85%

Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Artificial Intelligence Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Leeds.

Artificial Intelligence Engineer job vacancy trend in Leeds

Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Salary Trend in Leeds

Salary distribution trend for Artificial Intelligence Engineer job vacancies in Leeds.

Salary distribution trend for Artificial Intelligence Engineer job vacancies in Leeds

Artificial Intelligence Engineer Skill Set
Top 27 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds

For the 6 months to 3 November 2025, Artificial Intelligence Engineer 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) API Management
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure App Service
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Community of Practice
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Ingestion
1 1 (100.00%) Data Security
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Metadata
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Purview
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) PySpark
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Regulatory Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) Target Operating Model

Artificial Intelligence Engineer 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure App Service
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Purview
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Metadata
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) API Management
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Community of Practice
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Ingestion
1 1 (100.00%) Data Security
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Regulatory Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Target Operating Model
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft