Artificial Intelligence Job Trends in the North East

Artificial Intelligence (AI)
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North East requiring Artificial Intelligence skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 73 68
Rank change year-on-year +62 -5 +7
Permanent jobs citing Artificial Intelligence 102 21 3
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 10.81% 1.48% 0.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.47% 1.88% 0.48%
Number of salaries quoted 18 13 2
10th Percentile £24,399 £35,000 £35,875
25th Percentile £24,570 £35,092 £39,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £34,168 £57,311 £46,250
Median % change year-on-year -40.38% +23.92% +11.92%
75th Percentile £59,188 £85,000 £51,563
90th Percentile £65,000 £89,000 £53,625
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £75,100
% change year-on-year -6.67% -0.13% +7.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North East

Artificial Intelligence falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the North East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 757 1,120 621
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 80.19% 79.04% 96.88%
Number of salaries quoted 481 664 466
10th Percentile £25,087 £26,250 £30,750
25th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,250 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.89% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £61,250 £61,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £62,400
% change year-on-year -4.35% -7.85% +4.00%

Artificial Intelligence
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Job postings citing Artificial Intelligence as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Job vacancy trend for Artificial Intelligence in the North East

Artificial Intelligence
Salary Trend in the North East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Artificial Intelligence.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence
Salary Histogram in the North East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Artificial Intelligence in the North East over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Artificial Intelligence in the North East

Artificial Intelligence
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 within the North East region over the 6 months to 18 September 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Tyne and Wear +51 98 £34,168 -40.38% 22
Durham - 4 - - 3
Artificial Intelligence
England

Artificial Intelligence
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (3.92%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.94%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (2.94%) SAS
Applications
1 67 (65.69%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (1.96%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 8 (7.84%) Azure
1 8 (7.84%) Power Platform
2 4 (3.92%) AWS
3 3 (2.94%) GCP
3 3 (2.94%) GitHub
4 2 (1.96%) IaaS
4 2 (1.96%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (1.96%) SaaS
5 1 (0.98%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (0.98%) Amazon ELB
5 1 (0.98%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.94%) PuTTY
2 2 (1.96%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.88%) Power BI
1 6 (5.88%) SQL Server
2 4 (3.92%) Metadata
2 4 (3.92%) Spark SQL
3 3 (2.94%) Amazon Athena
3 3 (2.94%) Apache Hive
3 3 (2.94%) BigQuery
3 3 (2.94%) BusinessObjects
3 3 (2.94%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (2.94%) Hadoop
3 3 (2.94%) HBase
3 3 (2.94%) Impala
3 3 (2.94%) Metadata Repository
3 3 (2.94%) MySQL
3 3 (2.94%) NoSQL
3 3 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (2.94%) Qlik Sense
3 3 (2.94%) QlikView
3 3 (2.94%) SQLite
3 3 (2.94%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (2.94%) Git
2 1 (0.98%) MLflow
General
1 35 (34.31%) Analytical Skills
2 15 (14.71%) Manufacturing
2 15 (14.71%) Retail
3 9 (8.82%) Social Skills
4 8 (7.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 8 (7.84%) Marketing
5 4 (3.92%) Dutch Language
5 4 (3.92%) Finnish Language
5 4 (3.92%) Norwegian Language
5 4 (3.92%) Public Sector
6 3 (2.94%) Agriculture
7 2 (1.96%) Finance
8 1 (0.98%) Catalan Language
8 1 (0.98%) Local Government
8 1 (0.98%) Police
Job Titles
1 81 (79.41%) Trainer
2 8 (7.84%) Sales Executive
3 7 (6.86%) Corporate Sales Executive
4 5 (4.90%) Instructor
5 4 (3.92%) Research Scientist
5 4 (3.92%) Statistician
6 3 (2.94%) Content Editor
6 3 (2.94%) Data Engineer
6 3 (2.94%) Database Developer
6 3 (2.94%) Developer
6 3 (2.94%) SQL Database Developer
6 3 (2.94%) SQL Developer
7 2 (1.96%) Architect
7 2 (1.96%) Azure Architect
7 2 (1.96%) Social Media Manager
8 1 (0.98%) Analyst
8 1 (0.98%) Artificial Intelligence Analyst
8 1 (0.98%) Customer Support Specialist
8 1 (0.98%) Machine Learning Engineer
8 1 (0.98%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.92%) PySpark
2 3 (2.94%) Apache NiFi
2 3 (2.94%) Kafka
2 3 (2.94%) Plotly
2 3 (2.94%) Regular Expression
2 3 (2.94%) Shiny
3 1 (0.98%) HTML
3 1 (0.98%) Keras
3 1 (0.98%) Lambda Expressions
3 1 (0.98%) Metaflow
3 1 (0.98%) NumPy
3 1 (0.98%) Pandas
3 1 (0.98%) PyTorch
3 1 (0.98%) scikit-learn
3 1 (0.98%) TensorFlow
3 1 (0.98%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (14.71%) Robotics
2 2 (1.96%) Cloud Native
2 2 (1.96%) Data Centre
2 2 (1.96%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (1.96%) Social Media
3 1 (0.98%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (0.98%) Molecular Biology
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.92%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (65.69%) Conversational UI
2 38 (37.25%) Chemistry
3 21 (20.59%) Machine Learning
4 18 (17.65%) Mathematics
4 18 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
5 15 (14.71%) Generative AI
5 15 (14.71%) LLM
5 15 (14.71%) Red Team
6 12 (11.76%) Data Privacy
7 11 (10.78%) Physics
8 10 (9.80%) Computer Science
9 9 (8.82%) Statistics
10 8 (7.84%) Customer Experience
10 8 (7.84%) Email Marketing
10 8 (7.84%) IT Strategy
10 8 (7.84%) Technology Strategy
11 6 (5.88%) Analytics
11 6 (5.88%) Business Intelligence
12 5 (4.90%) Mentoring
12 5 (4.90%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 10 (9.80%) SQL
2 5 (4.90%) Python
3 4 (3.92%) Java
3 4 (3.92%) R
4 3 (2.94%) Bash
4 3 (2.94%) PROC SQL
4 3 (2.94%) T-SQL
5 2 (1.96%) Bicep
6 1 (0.98%) C
6 1 (0.98%) C#
6 1 (0.98%) C++
6 1 (0.98%) Dart
6 1 (0.98%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.98%) MATLAB
6 1 (0.98%) PHP
6 1 (0.98%) Ruby
6 1 (0.98%) Rust
6 1 (0.98%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 83 (81.37%) Degree
2 55 (53.92%) Master's Degree
2 55 (53.92%) PhD
3 3 (2.94%) AWS Certification
3 3 (2.94%) Azure Certification
3 3 (2.94%) DBS Check
4 1 (0.98%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.92%) QA
2 3 (2.94%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (2.94%) Apache Flume
1 3 (2.94%) HDFS
2 1 (0.98%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (2.94%) Kibana
1 3 (2.94%) logstash
1 3 (2.94%) Oozie
2 1 (0.98%) Kubeflow
2 1 (0.98%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.98%) Terraform
Vendors
1 67 (65.69%) PayPal
2 19 (18.63%) Databricks
3 15 (14.71%) Adobe
3 15 (14.71%) Google
4 10 (9.80%) Microsoft
5 7 (6.86%) Cisco
5 7 (6.86%) Dell
6 3 (2.94%) Informatica
6 3 (2.94%) MicroStrategy
6 3 (2.94%) SAP