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 1 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 10 76
Rank change year-on-year -2 +66 -5
Permanent jobs citing AI 258 95 21
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 8.09% 10.13% 1.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.27% 12.62% 1.79%
Number of salaries quoted 182 18 13
10th Percentile £40,000 £24,399 £35,000
25th Percentile £49,063 £24,570 £35,092
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £34,168 £57,311
Median % change year-on-year +90.24% -40.38% +23.92%
75th Percentile £77,500 £59,188 £85,000
90th Percentile £93,085 £65,000 £99,000
England median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.57% -6.67% -0.13%

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 2,289 753 1,173
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 71.80% 80.28% 79.53%
Number of salaries quoted 1,706 478 775
10th Percentile £31,250 £25,000 £25,850
25th Percentile £40,000 £28,188 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £44,250 £47,148
Median % change year-on-year +24.29% -6.15% -5.71%
75th Percentile £74,987 £61,250 £62,200
90th Percentile £93,634 £74,481 £75,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -8.00%

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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 1 September 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 1 September 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 -8 212 £66,000 +93.17% 126
Durham +21 44 £52,500 - 10
Northumberland - 1 £55,000 - 3
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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 13 (5.04%) Confluence
2 6 (2.33%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.55%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.16%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.16%) Jupyter
4 3 (1.16%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.78%) Apache
6 1 (0.39%) WildFly
Applications
1 27 (10.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (3.10%) MS Visio
3 5 (1.94%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (1.16%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.39%) CATIA
5 1 (0.39%) LaTeX
5 1 (0.39%) Siemens NX
5 1 (0.39%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 4 (1.55%) Sage 50
2 1 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 101 (39.15%) Azure
2 45 (17.44%) AWS
3 40 (15.50%) Azure AI
4 30 (11.63%) Power Platform
5 24 (9.30%) GCP
6 15 (5.81%) Azure DevOps
6 15 (5.81%) Microsoft 365
7 10 (3.88%) GitHub
8 8 (3.10%) Microsoft Copilot
9 6 (2.33%) GitHub Actions
9 6 (2.33%) Serverless
10 5 (1.94%) OneDrive
11 4 (1.55%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 3 (1.16%) Amazon S3
12 3 (1.16%) Azure Data Factory
12 3 (1.16%) Azure Service Bus
12 3 (1.16%) Entra ID
12 3 (1.16%) GitHub Copilot
12 3 (1.16%) IaaS
12 3 (1.16%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.16%) CTI
1 3 (1.16%) Network Security
1 3 (1.16%) VoIP
2 2 (0.78%) MQTT
3 1 (0.39%) HTTP
3 1 (0.39%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (10.47%) Power BI
2 20 (7.75%) Tableau
3 11 (4.26%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (2.71%) Relational Database
5 6 (2.33%) Big Data
5 6 (2.33%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (2.33%) NoSQL
6 5 (1.94%) SQL Server
7 4 (1.55%) MySQL
8 3 (1.16%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (1.16%) Data Lake
8 3 (1.16%) MongoDB
8 3 (1.16%) Redis
9 2 (0.78%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (0.78%) Data Vault
10 1 (0.39%) BigQuery
10 1 (0.39%) Data Hub
10 1 (0.39%) Flink
10 1 (0.39%) Looker
Development Applications
1 13 (5.04%) JIRA
2 7 (2.71%) Git
3 6 (2.33%) GitLab
4 2 (0.78%) Claude Code
4 2 (0.78%) Cypress.io
4 2 (0.78%) MLflow
4 2 (0.78%) Selenium
4 2 (0.78%) SpecFlow
5 1 (0.39%) Eclipse
5 1 (0.39%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.39%) Maven
General
1 58 (22.48%) Social Skills
2 45 (17.44%) Public Sector
3 37 (14.34%) Finance
4 29 (11.24%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (10.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (3.88%) Aerospace
7 9 (3.49%) Manufacturing
8 6 (2.33%) Marketing
9 4 (1.55%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.55%) Legal
10 3 (1.16%) Banking
10 3 (1.16%) Law
11 2 (0.78%) Advertising
11 2 (0.78%) Electronics
11 2 (0.78%) Wearables
12 1 (0.39%) Back Office
12 1 (0.39%) Legal Technology
12 1 (0.39%) Local Government
12 1 (0.39%) Police
12 1 (0.39%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 31 (12.02%) Analyst
1 31 (12.02%) Architect
2 30 (11.63%) Software Engineer
3 29 (11.24%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 29 (11.24%) Developer
4 26 (10.08%) Software Developer
5 21 (8.14%) Senior
6 20 (7.75%) Data Analyst
6 20 (7.75%) Lead
7 19 (7.36%) Junior
8 18 (6.98%) Junior Analyst
8 18 (6.98%) Junior Data Analyst
9 14 (5.43%) Data Engineer
10 13 (5.04%) Technical Architect
11 12 (4.65%) Data Architect
12 11 (4.26%) C++ Software Engineer
12 11 (4.26%) Rust Engineer
12 11 (4.26%) Rust Software Engineer
13 10 (3.88%) DevOps Engineer
13 10 (3.88%) Technologist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (9.30%) .NET
2 16 (6.20%) React
2 16 (6.20%) Terraform
3 15 (5.81%) LangChain
4 12 (4.65%) LlamaIndex
5 11 (4.26%) Node.js
5 11 (4.26%) YAML
6 9 (3.49%) ARM Templates
7 8 (3.10%) REST
8 6 (2.33%) CSS
8 6 (2.33%) Tailwind CSS
9 5 (1.94%) Entity Framework
9 5 (1.94%) Web Services
10 4 (1.55%) .NET Framework
11 3 (1.16%) Express.js
11 3 (1.16%) Next.js
11 3 (1.16%) SignalR
12 2 (0.78%) MERN Stack
12 2 (0.78%) React Native
12 2 (0.78%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 19 (7.36%) Onboarding
2 17 (6.59%) Cloud Native
3 8 (3.10%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (2.71%) AI Agents
5 5 (1.94%) Virtual Team
6 4 (1.55%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (1.55%) Embedded Systems
6 4 (1.55%) Life Science
6 4 (1.55%) Low-Code
7 3 (1.16%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (1.16%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.16%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.16%) Distributed Architecture
7 3 (1.16%) IoT
7 3 (1.16%) IVR
7 3 (1.16%) Robotics
7 3 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.16%) Web Conferencing
8 2 (0.78%) Product Ownership
8 2 (0.78%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 23 (8.91%) Linux
2 3 (1.16%) Windows
3 1 (0.39%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (19.38%) Software Engineering
2 47 (18.22%) Agile
3 45 (17.44%) Machine Learning
4 36 (13.95%) CI/CD
5 34 (13.18%) Infrastructure as Code
5 34 (13.18%) Problem-Solving
6 30 (11.63%) Computer Science
6 30 (11.63%) DevOps
7 28 (10.85%) LLM
8 27 (10.47%) Analytics
8 27 (10.47%) Business Intelligence
9 25 (9.69%) Mathematics
9 25 (9.69%) Mentoring
9 25 (9.69%) Roadmaps
10 22 (8.53%) Decision-Making
10 22 (8.53%) Observability
11 21 (8.14%) Data Engineering
11 21 (8.14%) Physics
12 20 (7.75%) Requirements Management
12 20 (7.75%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 82 (31.78%) Python
2 41 (15.89%) SQL
3 25 (9.69%) C#
4 20 (7.75%) C++
4 20 (7.75%) Rust
5 18 (6.98%) TypeScript
6 14 (5.43%) PowerShell
7 11 (4.26%) Bash
7 11 (4.26%) Bicep
8 9 (3.49%) JavaScript
9 5 (1.94%) Java
10 3 (1.16%) Go
11 1 (0.39%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 45 (17.44%) Azure Certification
2 41 (15.89%) Degree
3 24 (9.30%) Computer Science Degree
4 15 (5.81%) BPSS Clearance
5 13 (5.04%) Security Cleared
6 11 (4.26%) AWS Certification
7 7 (2.71%) SC Cleared
8 1 (0.39%) CSPO
8 1 (0.39%) IIBA
8 1 (0.39%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.39%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.65%) Data Quality
2 5 (1.94%) NCSC
3 4 (1.55%) QA
4 3 (1.16%) Accessibility
System Software
1 13 (5.04%) Docker
2 3 (1.16%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.16%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (0.78%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 13 (5.04%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.16%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (1.16%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 50 (19.38%) Microsoft
2 9 (3.49%) Sage
3 8 (3.10%) Cisco
4 4 (1.55%) Xero
5 3 (1.16%) Avaya
5 3 (1.16%) Databricks
5 3 (1.16%) Foundry
5 3 (1.16%) Genesys
5 3 (1.16%) Google
6 2 (0.78%) Adobe
6 2 (0.78%) Dell
6 2 (0.78%) Salesforce
6 2 (0.78%) Spotify
6 2 (0.78%) UiPath
7 1 (0.39%) Alteryx
7 1 (0.39%) Dataiku
7 1 (0.39%) Freshdesk
7 1 (0.39%) Siemens