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 29 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 11 98
Rank change year-on-year -1 +87 0
Permanent jobs citing AI 196 73 20
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 7.66% 10.30% 0.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.63% 12.03% 1.15%
Number of salaries quoted 123 15 18
10th Percentile £35,000 - £35,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £24,570 £37,257
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £31,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +106.35% -33.68% -13.64%
75th Percentile £75,625 £50,875 £65,663
90th Percentile £116,250 £61,250 £85,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £66,296 £70,000
% change year-on-year +5.59% -5.29% -6.67%

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 1,843 607 1,744
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 72.05% 85.61% 82.50%
Number of salaries quoted 1,384 377 1,374
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £28,188 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £88,148 £74,258 £75,525
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -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 29 June 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 29 June 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 -9 152 £67,500 +114.29% 36
Durham +17 43 £50,000 - 12
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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 7 (3.57%) Jupyter
2 6 (3.06%) Confluence
3 4 (2.04%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.53%) SharePoint
5 2 (1.02%) Apache
5 2 (1.02%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.02%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.51%) WildFly
Applications
1 37 (18.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (3.57%) Chatbot
3 5 (2.55%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (2.04%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (2.04%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 84 (42.86%) Azure
2 51 (26.02%) Azure AI
3 40 (20.41%) Power Platform
4 23 (11.73%) AWS
5 13 (6.63%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (2.55%) Cloud Computing
7 5 (2.55%) GCP
7 5 (2.55%) GitHub
8 4 (2.04%) Serverless
9 3 (1.53%) Amazon S3
9 3 (1.53%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 3 (1.53%) Azure Service Bus
9 3 (1.53%) Azure Stack
9 3 (1.53%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (1.53%) Microsoft Copilot
10 2 (1.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (1.02%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (1.02%) Entra ID
10 2 (1.02%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.02%) CTI
1 2 (1.02%) MQTT
1 2 (1.02%) VoIP
2 1 (0.51%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (19.90%) Power BI
2 34 (17.35%) Tableau
3 6 (3.06%) Big Data
3 6 (3.06%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (2.55%) NoSQL
4 5 (2.55%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (2.04%) Relational Database
5 4 (2.04%) SQL Server
6 3 (1.53%) Redis
7 2 (1.02%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (1.02%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (1.02%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.02%) Data Vault
8 1 (0.51%) Data Hub
8 1 (0.51%) Looker
8 1 (0.51%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.51%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 6 (3.06%) JIRA
2 5 (2.55%) Visual Studio Code
3 4 (2.04%) Git
3 4 (2.04%) GitLab
4 2 (1.02%) Claude Code
4 2 (1.02%) Cypress.io
4 2 (1.02%) MLflow
4 2 (1.02%) Selenium
4 2 (1.02%) SpecFlow
5 1 (0.51%) Eclipse
5 1 (0.51%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.51%) Maven
General
1 58 (29.59%) Social Skills
2 31 (15.82%) Finance
3 21 (10.71%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (10.71%) Public Sector
4 10 (5.10%) Manufacturing
5 5 (2.55%) Aerospace
5 5 (2.55%) Retail
6 3 (1.53%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (1.53%) Legal
7 2 (1.02%) Advertising
7 2 (1.02%) Electronics
7 2 (1.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.02%) Law
7 2 (1.02%) Marketing
7 2 (1.02%) Wearables
8 1 (0.51%) Back Office
8 1 (0.51%) Banking
8 1 (0.51%) Legal Technology
Job Titles
1 41 (20.92%) Analyst
2 34 (17.35%) Data Analyst
3 32 (16.33%) Junior
3 32 (16.33%) Junior Analyst
3 32 (16.33%) Junior Data Analyst
4 26 (13.27%) Developer
5 25 (12.76%) Software Engineer
6 23 (11.73%) Software Developer
7 20 (10.20%) Architect
8 17 (8.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 12 (6.12%) Lead
9 12 (6.12%) Senior
10 11 (5.61%) Data Architect
11 10 (5.10%) C++ Software Engineer
11 10 (5.10%) Rust Engineer
11 10 (5.10%) Rust Software Engineer
12 8 (4.08%) C++ Developer
12 8 (4.08%) C++ Software Developer
12 8 (4.08%) Data Engineer
12 8 (4.08%) Rust Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (10.71%) .NET
2 9 (4.59%) React
2 9 (4.59%) YAML
3 7 (3.57%) ARM Templates
3 7 (3.57%) LangChain
4 6 (3.06%) Node.js
4 6 (3.06%) REST
5 5 (2.55%) Entity Framework
5 5 (2.55%) Hugging Face
5 5 (2.55%) Matplotlib
5 5 (2.55%) NumPy
5 5 (2.55%) Pandas
5 5 (2.55%) scikit-learn
5 5 (2.55%) Streamlit
6 4 (2.04%) .NET Framework
6 4 (2.04%) LlamaIndex
7 3 (1.53%) CSS
7 3 (1.53%) PySpark
7 3 (1.53%) SignalR
7 3 (1.53%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 10 (5.10%) Cloud Native
2 6 (3.06%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (2.55%) Algorithms
3 5 (2.55%) Virtual Team
4 4 (2.04%) AI Agents
4 4 (2.04%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (2.04%) Embedded Systems
4 4 (2.04%) Life Science
5 3 (1.53%) Data Structures
5 3 (1.53%) Distributed Architecture
5 3 (1.53%) Onboarding
5 3 (1.53%) Robotics
6 2 (1.02%) IoT
6 2 (1.02%) IVR
6 2 (1.02%) Low-Code
6 2 (1.02%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.02%) Raspberry Pi
6 2 (1.02%) Web Conferencing
7 1 (0.51%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.51%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 20 (10.20%) Linux
2 2 (1.02%) Windows
3 1 (0.51%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (20.41%) Business Intelligence
2 39 (19.90%) Software Engineering
3 30 (15.31%) Machine Learning
4 23 (11.73%) Agile
4 23 (11.73%) Problem-Solving
4 23 (11.73%) Workflow
5 21 (10.71%) Analytics
6 20 (10.20%) Computer Science
6 20 (10.20%) DevOps
7 19 (9.69%) LLM
7 19 (9.69%) Mathematics
7 19 (9.69%) Roadmaps
8 18 (9.18%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
8 18 (9.18%) CI/CD
8 18 (9.18%) Physics
8 18 (9.18%) Requirements Management
9 16 (8.16%) Data Pipeline
9 16 (8.16%) Infrastructure as Code
10 15 (7.65%) Decision-Making
10 15 (7.65%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 88 (44.90%) Python
2 53 (27.04%) SQL
3 21 (10.71%) C#
4 18 (9.18%) C++
4 18 (9.18%) Rust
5 11 (5.61%) PowerShell
5 11 (5.61%) TypeScript
6 9 (4.59%) Bash
6 9 (4.59%) Bicep
7 7 (3.57%) JavaScript
8 5 (2.55%) Java
9 3 (1.53%) Go
10 1 (0.51%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 47 (23.98%) Azure Certification
2 28 (14.29%) Degree
3 19 (9.69%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (3.57%) Security Cleared
5 6 (3.06%) SC Cleared
6 5 (2.55%) AWS Certification
6 5 (2.55%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.63%) Data Quality
2 3 (1.53%) QA
3 2 (1.02%) Accessibility
System Software
1 9 (4.59%) Docker
2 2 (1.02%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.02%) Firmware
2 2 (1.02%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 13 (6.63%) Terraform
2 10 (5.10%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.02%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 54 (27.55%) Microsoft
2 4 (2.04%) Cisco
2 4 (2.04%) Sage
2 4 (2.04%) Xero
3 3 (1.53%) Databricks
4 2 (1.02%) Avaya
4 2 (1.02%) Genesys
4 2 (1.02%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.51%) Alteryx
5 1 (0.51%) Dataiku
5 1 (0.51%) Foundry
5 1 (0.51%) Freshdesk