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 13 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 6 72
Rank change year-on-year -11 +66 -13
Permanent jobs citing AI 246 139 24
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 6.84% 14.21% 1.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.58% 17.25% 2.26%
Number of salaries quoted 188 16 11
10th Percentile £40,000 £24,285 £35,000
25th Percentile £53,250 £24,570 £35,046
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,000 £25,203 £57,311
Median % change year-on-year +161.88% -56.03% +23.92%
75th Percentile £82,750 £49,813 £85,000
90th Percentile £94,043 £67,500 £90,000
England median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year - -3.33% -

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 2,568 806 1,063
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 71.35% 82.41% 79.69%
Number of salaries quoted 1,909 497 540
10th Percentile £32,700 £25,086 £25,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £28,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £42,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +29.41% -10.53% -5.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £57,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £93,907 £75,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -1.32%

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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 13 October 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 13 October 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 -15 215 £66,750 +164.85% 147
Durham +6 29 £54,500 - 2
Northumberland - 2 £55,000 - 1
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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 11 (4.47%) Confluence
2 6 (2.44%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.63%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.63%) Jupyter
4 3 (1.22%) Apache
4 3 (1.22%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.22%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 16 (6.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (3.25%) MS Visio
3 4 (1.63%) Chatbot
3 4 (1.63%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (1.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.81%) CATIA
5 2 (0.81%) Siemens NX
5 2 (0.81%) SOLIDWORKS
6 1 (0.41%) LaTeX
6 1 (0.41%) Revit
Business Applications
1 4 (1.63%) Sage 50
2 1 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.41%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (0.41%) Oracle Cash Management
2 1 (0.41%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (0.41%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.41%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 85 (34.55%) Azure
2 59 (23.98%) AWS
3 34 (13.82%) GCP
4 17 (6.91%) Microsoft 365
4 17 (6.91%) Power Platform
5 15 (6.10%) Azure AI
5 15 (6.10%) Azure DevOps
6 11 (4.47%) Microsoft Copilot
7 10 (4.07%) GitHub
8 6 (2.44%) GitHub Actions
8 6 (2.44%) SaaS
8 6 (2.44%) Serverless
9 5 (2.03%) Amazon S3
9 5 (2.03%) Copilot Studio
9 5 (2.03%) OneDrive
10 4 (1.63%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 3 (1.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 3 (1.22%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (1.22%) Azure Data Factory
11 3 (1.22%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.03%) Network Security
2 3 (1.22%) CTI
2 3 (1.22%) VoIP
3 2 (0.81%) MQTT
3 2 (0.81%) WAN
3 2 (0.81%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.41%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (4.88%) Power BI
2 10 (4.07%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (3.25%) Relational Database
4 6 (2.44%) NoSQL
4 6 (2.44%) SQL Server
5 5 (2.03%) Big Data
5 5 (2.03%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (2.03%) MySQL
6 4 (1.63%) Redis
6 4 (1.63%) Tableau
7 3 (1.22%) Amazon Athena
7 3 (1.22%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (1.22%) Data Lake
7 3 (1.22%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.41%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.41%) Flink
8 1 (0.41%) GIS
Development Applications
1 11 (4.47%) JIRA
2 8 (3.25%) GitLab
3 7 (2.85%) Git
4 3 (1.22%) Claude Code
5 2 (0.81%) MLflow
6 1 (0.41%) Jenkins
General
1 58 (23.58%) Public Sector
2 43 (17.48%) Social Skills
3 39 (15.85%) Finance
3 39 (15.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 30 (12.20%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (4.07%) Aerospace
5 10 (4.07%) Manufacturing
6 7 (2.85%) Marketing
7 6 (2.44%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (1.22%) Banking
8 3 (1.22%) Law
8 3 (1.22%) Legal
8 3 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (0.81%) Advertising
9 2 (0.81%) Electronics
9 2 (0.81%) Wearables
10 1 (0.41%) Games
10 1 (0.41%) Local Government
10 1 (0.41%) Police
10 1 (0.41%) Polish Language
Job Titles
1 33 (13.41%) Architect
2 30 (12.20%) Software Engineer
3 28 (11.38%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 28 (11.38%) Senior
4 26 (10.57%) Developer
5 23 (9.35%) Lead
5 23 (9.35%) Software Developer
6 19 (7.72%) Data Engineer
7 17 (6.91%) Technical Architect
8 14 (5.69%) Analyst
9 12 (4.88%) Data Architect
10 11 (4.47%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
10 11 (4.47%) C++ Software Engineer
10 11 (4.47%) Rust Engineer
10 11 (4.47%) Rust Software Engineer
11 10 (4.07%) Business Analyst
11 10 (4.07%) DevOps Engineer
11 10 (4.07%) Lead Architect
11 10 (4.07%) Technical Leader
11 10 (4.07%) Technologist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (10.16%) .NET
2 22 (8.94%) LangChain
3 19 (7.72%) LlamaIndex
4 17 (6.91%) React
4 17 (6.91%) Terraform
5 11 (4.47%) Node.js
6 10 (4.07%) REST
6 10 (4.07%) YAML
7 9 (3.66%) Web Services
8 8 (3.25%) ARM Templates
9 6 (2.44%) CSS
9 6 (2.44%) Tailwind CSS
10 5 (2.03%) .NET Framework
10 5 (2.03%) Entity Framework
11 3 (1.22%) Express.js
11 3 (1.22%) Middleware
11 3 (1.22%) Next.js
11 3 (1.22%) PySpark
11 3 (1.22%) SignalR
12 2 (0.81%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 33 (13.41%) Onboarding
2 25 (10.16%) Cloud Native
3 9 (3.66%) AI Agents
3 9 (3.66%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (2.03%) Data Centre
4 5 (2.03%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (1.63%) Data Structures
5 4 (1.63%) Embedded Systems
5 4 (1.63%) IoT
5 4 (1.63%) Life Science
5 4 (1.63%) Low-Code
5 4 (1.63%) Virtual Team
6 3 (1.22%) Cyber Threat
6 3 (1.22%) Distributed Architecture
6 3 (1.22%) IVR
6 3 (1.22%) Product Ownership
6 3 (1.22%) Robotics
6 3 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (1.22%) Web Conferencing
7 2 (0.81%) Industry 4.0
Operating Systems
1 23 (9.35%) Linux
2 4 (1.63%) Windows
3 1 (0.41%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (23.17%) Agile
2 50 (20.33%) Software Engineering
3 49 (19.92%) Machine Learning
4 44 (17.89%) CI/CD
5 42 (17.07%) Infrastructure as Code
5 42 (17.07%) Problem-Solving
6 40 (16.26%) LLM
7 35 (14.23%) DevOps
8 32 (13.01%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
9 31 (12.60%) Data Engineering
10 30 (12.20%) Computer Science
10 30 (12.20%) Knowledge Transfer
10 30 (12.20%) Mentoring
10 30 (12.20%) Observability
11 29 (11.79%) Analytics
11 29 (11.79%) Decision-Making
12 27 (10.98%) Generative AI
12 27 (10.98%) Rainbow Teams
13 26 (10.57%) Docs as Code
13 26 (10.57%) MLOps
Programming Languages
1 67 (27.24%) Python
2 30 (12.20%) SQL
3 27 (10.98%) C#
4 20 (8.13%) C++
4 20 (8.13%) Rust
5 18 (7.32%) TypeScript
6 13 (5.28%) PowerShell
7 10 (4.07%) Bash
7 10 (4.07%) Bicep
8 9 (3.66%) JavaScript
9 4 (1.63%) Java
10 3 (1.22%) Go
11 1 (0.41%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 41 (16.67%) Degree
2 29 (11.79%) Azure Certification
3 24 (9.76%) Computer Science Degree
4 23 (9.35%) BPSS Clearance
5 20 (8.13%) Security Cleared
6 18 (7.32%) AWS Certification
7 15 (6.10%) SC Cleared
8 2 (0.81%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.81%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.41%) CSPO
9 1 (0.41%) IIBA
9 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.41%) PhD
9 1 (0.41%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (5.69%) Data Quality
2 9 (3.66%) NCSC
3 7 (2.85%) QA
4 5 (2.03%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.41%) GDPR
5 1 (0.41%) ISO 19650
5 1 (0.41%) WCAG
System Software
1 14 (5.69%) Docker
2 3 (1.22%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.22%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (0.81%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 12 (4.88%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.22%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (1.22%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.41%) Grafana
3 1 (0.41%) Kibana
Vendors
1 36 (14.63%) Microsoft
2 11 (4.47%) Sage
3 8 (3.25%) Cisco
4 4 (1.63%) Xero
5 3 (1.22%) Avaya
5 3 (1.22%) Databricks
5 3 (1.22%) Foundry
5 3 (1.22%) Genesys
5 3 (1.22%) Google
5 3 (1.22%) Salesforce
5 3 (1.22%) YouTube
6 2 (0.81%) Adobe
6 2 (0.81%) Dell
6 2 (0.81%) Siemens
6 2 (0.81%) Spotify
6 2 (0.81%) UiPath
7 1 (0.41%) Autodesk
7 1 (0.41%) Freshdesk
7 1 (0.41%) HubSpot
7 1 (0.41%) Oracle