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 25 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 72 51
Rank change year-on-year +65 -21 +32
Permanent jobs citing AI 119 24 7
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 11.46% 1.89% 1.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.08% 2.34% 1.41%
Number of salaries quoted 19 8 3
10th Percentile £24,570 £38,500 £38,000
25th Percentile £24,886 £55,938 £44,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £76,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -30.92% +38.18% +46.07%
75th Percentile £57,500 £92,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £67,750 £100,750 £63,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £77,000 £76,383
% change year-on-year -9.09% +0.81% +9.12%

All Process and 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 845 1,027 498
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 81.41% 80.74% 94.68%
Number of salaries quoted 579 507 418
10th Percentile £25,087 £25,650 £28,175
25th Percentile £28,500 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £60,125 £65,302 £62,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £74,125
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -2.44%

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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 25 November 2025.

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 25 November 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 +57 107 £52,500 -28.81% 26
Durham +12 12 - - 4
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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 3 (2.52%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.68%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.68%) SAS
Applications
1 87 (73.11%) Chatbot
2 14 (11.76%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.68%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.68%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 14 (11.76%) Power Platform
2 12 (10.08%) Azure
3 6 (5.04%) Azure AI
4 4 (3.36%) Cloud Computing
4 4 (3.36%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (2.52%) AWS
6 2 (1.68%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (1.68%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (1.68%) GCP
6 2 (1.68%) GitHub
6 2 (1.68%) IaaS
6 2 (1.68%) Microsoft Copilot
6 2 (1.68%) SaaS
7 1 (0.84%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (0.84%) Amazon ELB
7 1 (0.84%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.68%) PuTTY
1 2 (1.68%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (8.40%) Power BI
2 6 (5.04%) Big Data
2 6 (5.04%) Tableau
3 4 (3.36%) SQL Server
4 3 (2.52%) Metadata
4 3 (2.52%) Spark SQL
5 2 (1.68%) Apache Hive
5 2 (1.68%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (1.68%) BusinessObjects
5 2 (1.68%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.68%) Hadoop
5 2 (1.68%) HBase
5 2 (1.68%) Metadata Repository
5 2 (1.68%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.68%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.68%) Power Query
5 2 (1.68%) Qlik Sense
5 2 (1.68%) QlikView
5 2 (1.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (1.68%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 2 (1.68%) Git
2 1 (0.84%) MLflow
General
1 53 (44.54%) Analytical Skills
2 23 (19.33%) Social Skills
3 13 (10.92%) Finance
4 8 (6.72%) Public Sector
5 6 (5.04%) Presentation Skills
6 5 (4.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (4.20%) Marketing
7 3 (2.52%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.68%) Agriculture
9 1 (0.84%) Banking
9 1 (0.84%) Local Government
9 1 (0.84%) Police
Job Titles
1 88 (73.95%) Trainer
2 7 (5.88%) Analyst
2 7 (5.88%) Content Editor
2 7 (5.88%) Customer Support Specialist
2 7 (5.88%) Data Analyst
2 7 (5.88%) Support Specialist
3 6 (5.04%) Architect
4 5 (4.20%) Research Scientist
4 5 (4.20%) Sales Executive
5 4 (3.36%) Accountant
5 4 (3.36%) Corporate Sales Executive
5 4 (3.36%) Financial Accountant
5 4 (3.36%) Junior
5 4 (3.36%) Junior Analyst
5 4 (3.36%) Junior Data Analyst
5 4 (3.36%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (1.68%) Data Engineer
6 2 (1.68%) Instructor
6 2 (1.68%) Senior Analyst
6 2 (1.68%) Statistician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.52%) PySpark
2 2 (1.68%) Apache NiFi
2 2 (1.68%) Kafka
2 2 (1.68%) Plotly
2 2 (1.68%) Regular Expression
2 2 (1.68%) Shiny
3 1 (0.84%) Keras
3 1 (0.84%) Lambda Expressions
3 1 (0.84%) Metaflow
3 1 (0.84%) NumPy
3 1 (0.84%) Pandas
3 1 (0.84%) PyTorch
3 1 (0.84%) scikit-learn
3 1 (0.84%) TensorFlow
3 1 (0.84%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (3.36%) Self-Motivation
1 4 (3.36%) Social Network
1 4 (3.36%) Virtual Team
2 3 (2.52%) Molecular Biology
3 2 (1.68%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (1.68%) Cloud Native
3 2 (1.68%) Data Centre
3 2 (1.68%) Driving Licence
3 2 (1.68%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (1.68%) Reinsurance
4 1 (0.84%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (0.84%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.52%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (73.11%) Conversational UI
2 47 (39.50%) Chemistry
3 15 (12.61%) Mathematics
4 12 (10.08%) Physics
5 10 (8.40%) Analytics
5 10 (8.40%) Business Intelligence
5 10 (8.40%) Content Writing
5 10 (8.40%) Decision-Making
6 9 (7.56%) Customer Experience
7 8 (6.72%) Continuous Improvement
7 8 (6.72%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (5.88%) Data Science
8 7 (5.88%) Machine Learning
8 7 (5.88%) Visualisation
9 6 (5.04%) Customer Insight
9 6 (5.04%) Data Modelling
9 6 (5.04%) Strategic Thinking
10 5 (4.20%) Data Analysis
10 5 (4.20%) Email Marketing
10 5 (4.20%) IT Strategy
Programming Languages
1 15 (12.61%) SQL
2 9 (7.56%) Python
3 2 (1.68%) Bash
3 2 (1.68%) Bicep
3 2 (1.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 2 (1.68%) Java
3 2 (1.68%) PROC SQL
3 2 (1.68%) R
Qualifications
1 87 (73.11%) Degree
2 64 (53.78%) Master's Degree
2 64 (53.78%) PhD
3 6 (5.04%) Azure Certification
4 4 (3.36%) ACCA
5 2 (1.68%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.68%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.36%) GAAP
1 4 (3.36%) IFRS
2 3 (2.52%) QA
3 2 (1.68%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (1.68%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.68%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 2 (1.68%) Apache Flume
1 2 (1.68%) HDFS
2 1 (0.84%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (1.68%) Kibana
1 2 (1.68%) logstash
1 2 (1.68%) Oozie
2 1 (0.84%) Kubeflow
2 1 (0.84%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.84%) Terraform
Vendors
1 87 (73.11%) PayPal
2 10 (8.40%) Microsoft
3 4 (3.36%) Cisco
3 4 (3.36%) Dell
4 3 (2.52%) Databricks
5 2 (1.68%) Informatica
5 2 (1.68%) MicroStrategy
5 2 (1.68%) SAP
6 1 (0.84%) Xero