AI Job Trends in the North East

AI
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North East requiring AI skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 55 98
Rank change year-on-year +31 +43 +6
Permanent jobs citing AI 98 11 15
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 5.89% 1.94% 0.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.94% 2.08% 0.99%
Number of salaries quoted 39 6 11
10th Percentile £33,750 £42,000 -
25th Percentile £48,125 £55,625 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £69,769 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -21.17% +46.88% -15.56%
75th Percentile £68,750 £82,063 £66,484
90th Percentile £75,000 £91,875 £67,968
England median annual salary £71,028 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -5.30% +7.14% -3.45%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North East

AI 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 1,234 528 1,521
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 74.11% 93.12% 86.72%
Number of salaries quoted 853 327 1,251
10th Percentile £28,250 £26,972 £28,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £35,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,945 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.11% +5.26% -2.81%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £75,772
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -12.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing AI relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North East.

AI job vacancy trend in the North East

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Salary Trend in the North East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing AI.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing AI

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Salary Histogram in the North East

Salary distribution for jobs citing AI in the North East over the 6 months to 6 April 2026.

Salary histogram for AI in the North East

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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 AI within the North East region over the 6 months to 6 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Tyne and Wear +24 72 £55,000 -11.67% 37
Durham +9 25 £50,000 -43.50% 15
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England

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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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (5.10%) Jupyter
2 2 (2.04%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.04%) Confluence
3 1 (1.02%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.02%) WildFly
Applications
1 45 (45.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (8.16%) Chatbot
3 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 51 (52.04%) Azure
2 44 (44.90%) Azure AI
3 43 (43.88%) Power Platform
4 10 (10.20%) Cloud Computing
5 6 (6.12%) AWS
6 3 (3.06%) Azure Stack
7 2 (2.04%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (2.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 2 (2.04%) Dagster
7 2 (2.04%) dbt
7 2 (2.04%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (2.04%) Snowflake
8 1 (1.02%) GCP
8 1 (1.02%) GitHub
8 1 (1.02%) GitHub Copilot
8 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.02%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (42.86%) Power BI
2 38 (38.78%) Tableau
3 6 (6.12%) Big Data
4 2 (2.04%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (2.04%) Data Vault
4 2 (2.04%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (2.04%) Power Query
4 2 (2.04%) SQL Server
4 2 (2.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (1.02%) Data Hub
5 1 (1.02%) Looker
5 1 (1.02%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.02%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (5.10%) Visual Studio Code
2 2 (2.04%) Cypress.io
2 2 (2.04%) JIRA
2 2 (2.04%) Selenium
2 2 (2.04%) SpecFlow
3 1 (1.02%) Eclipse
3 1 (1.02%) Maven
General
1 58 (59.18%) Social Skills
2 21 (21.43%) Finance
3 15 (15.31%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (7.14%) Public Sector
5 6 (6.12%) Presentation Skills
6 5 (5.10%) Manufacturing
6 5 (5.10%) Retail
7 2 (2.04%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.02%) Back Office
8 1 (1.02%) Banking
8 1 (1.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.02%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.02%) Law
8 1 (1.02%) Legal
8 1 (1.02%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 42 (42.86%) Analyst
2 40 (40.82%) Data Analyst
3 36 (36.73%) Junior
3 36 (36.73%) Junior Analyst
3 36 (36.73%) Junior Data Analyst
4 7 (7.14%) Architect
4 7 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
5 6 (6.12%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 5 (5.10%) Accountant
6 5 (5.10%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
6 5 (5.10%) Financial Accountant
6 5 (5.10%) Lead
6 5 (5.10%) Programmer
6 5 (5.10%) Trainee
6 5 (5.10%) Trainee Programmer
7 4 (4.08%) Developer
7 4 (4.08%) Senior
8 3 (3.06%) Data Engineer
8 3 (3.06%) Head of AI
8 3 (3.06%) Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.10%) Hugging Face
1 5 (5.10%) Matplotlib
1 5 (5.10%) NumPy
1 5 (5.10%) Pandas
1 5 (5.10%) scikit-learn
1 5 (5.10%) Streamlit
2 3 (3.06%) .NET
3 2 (2.04%) HTML
3 2 (2.04%) Playwright
3 2 (2.04%) Puppeteer
4 1 (1.02%) EJB
4 1 (1.02%) GWT
4 1 (1.02%) JDBC
4 1 (1.02%) JPA
4 1 (1.02%) PostGIS
4 1 (1.02%) PySpark
4 1 (1.02%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.10%) Algorithms
1 5 (5.10%) Social Network
1 5 (5.10%) Virtual Team
2 4 (4.08%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (2.04%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (2.04%) Life Science
3 2 (2.04%) Reinsurance
4 1 (1.02%) Educational Technology
4 1 (1.02%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (43.88%) Business Intelligence
2 12 (12.24%) Analytics
2 12 (12.24%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
2 12 (12.24%) Decision-Making
3 11 (11.22%) Machine Learning
3 11 (11.22%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (10.20%) Continuous Improvement
5 9 (9.18%) Visualisation
6 8 (8.16%) Conversational UI
6 8 (8.16%) LLM
7 7 (7.14%) Workflow
8 6 (6.12%) Customer Insight
8 6 (6.12%) Data Modelling
8 6 (6.12%) Data Privacy
8 6 (6.12%) Roadmaps
9 5 (5.10%) Actionable Insight
9 5 (5.10%) Customer Service
9 5 (5.10%) Prompt Engineering
9 5 (5.10%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
9 5 (5.10%) Sentiment Analysis
Programming Languages
1 57 (58.16%) Python
2 47 (47.96%) SQL
3 2 (2.04%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 2 (2.04%) Java
4 1 (1.02%) C#
4 1 (1.02%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 43 (43.88%) Azure Certification
2 5 (5.10%) ACCA
2 5 (5.10%) AWS Certification
2 5 (5.10%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 5 (5.10%) Degree
3 3 (3.06%) Master's Degree
3 3 (3.06%) PhD
4 2 (2.04%) Six Sigma Green Belt
5 1 (1.02%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.10%) GAAP
1 5 (5.10%) IFRS
2 2 (2.04%) Actionable Recommendations
2 2 (2.04%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.04%) QA
Vendors
1 45 (45.92%) Microsoft
2 3 (3.06%) Databricks
2 3 (3.06%) PayPal
3 1 (1.02%) Alteryx
3 1 (1.02%) Dataiku
3 1 (1.02%) Xero