Artificial Intelligence Engineer Job Trends in the North East

AI Engineer
England > North East

The median AI Engineer salary in the North East is £67,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 May 2026.

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

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 88 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring an Artificial Intelligence Engineer 14 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 0.70% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.73% - -
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £58,750 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 - -
75th Percentile £76,250 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £85,250 £85,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year +0.29% -5.56% +10.77%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
North East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the North East. 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 the North East with a recognized job title 1,912 555 1,778
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.50% 94.39% 95.59%
Number of salaries quoted 1,331 333 1,432
10th Percentile £29,000 £26,550 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £35,000 £35,920
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -0.36%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £75,675
England median annual salary £55,000 £59,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -6.78% +9.26% -11.18%

Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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 the North East.

Artificial Intelligence Engineer job vacancy trend in the North East

Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Artificial Intelligence Engineer within the North East region over the 6 months to 12 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Tyne and Wear - 8 £67,500 - 7
Durham - 6 - - 2
Artificial Intelligence Engineer
England

Artificial Intelligence Engineer Skill Set
Top 20 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East

For the 6 months to 12 May 2026, 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 North East region featuring Artificial Intelligence Engineer in the job title.

1 14 (100.00%) AI
1 14 (100.00%) Azure
1 14 (100.00%) Python
2 12 (85.71%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
2 12 (85.71%) Azure AI
2 12 (85.71%) Azure Certification
3 2 (14.29%) AWS
3 2 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
3 2 (14.29%) Decision-Making
3 2 (14.29%) Event-Driven
3 2 (14.29%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 2 (14.29%) GCP
3 2 (14.29%) LangChain
3 2 (14.29%) LlamaIndex
3 2 (14.29%) LLM
3 2 (14.29%) Machine Learning
3 2 (14.29%) Prompt Engineering
3 2 (14.29%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
3 2 (14.29%) Software Engineering
3 2 (14.29%) Software Testing

Artificial Intelligence Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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 14 (100.00%) Azure
2 12 (85.71%) Azure AI
3 2 (14.29%) AWS
3 2 (14.29%) GCP
General
1 12 (85.71%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) LangChain
1 2 (14.29%) LlamaIndex
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) AI Agents
1 2 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (14.29%) Life Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (100.00%) AI
2 12 (85.71%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
3 2 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
3 2 (14.29%) Decision-Making
3 2 (14.29%) Event-Driven
3 2 (14.29%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 2 (14.29%) LLM
3 2 (14.29%) Machine Learning
3 2 (14.29%) Prompt Engineering
3 2 (14.29%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
3 2 (14.29%) Software Engineering
3 2 (14.29%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 14 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 12 (85.71%) Azure Certification