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 28 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 69 57
Rank change year-on-year +60 -12 +13
Permanent jobs citing AI 125 22 4
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 12.46% 1.68% 0.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.19% 2.12% 0.77%
Number of salaries quoted 15 8 3
10th Percentile £24,228 - £38,000
25th Percentile - £35,000 £44,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £24,570 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -57.27% +4.55% +33.09%
75th Percentile £46,250 £86,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £63,750 £93,750 £63,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% - +7.14%

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 823 1,037 520
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 82.05% 79.40% 95.24%
Number of salaries quoted 527 510 426
10th Percentile £25,050 £24,996 £29,500
25th Percentile £28,250 £35,500 £37,199
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £48,387 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.17% -3.23% -
75th Percentile £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £72,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

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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 28 October 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 28 October 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 +58 116 £24,570 -57.27% 47
Durham +9 9 - - 5
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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 4 (3.20%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.40%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (2.40%) SAS
Applications
1 91 (72.80%) Chatbot
2 2 (1.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.60%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.60%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 7 (5.60%) Azure
1 7 (5.60%) Power Platform
2 4 (3.20%) AWS
2 4 (3.20%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (2.40%) GCP
3 3 (2.40%) GitHub
4 2 (1.60%) Azure AI
4 2 (1.60%) IaaS
4 2 (1.60%) Microsoft Copilot
4 2 (1.60%) SaaS
5 1 (0.80%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (0.80%) Amazon ELB
5 1 (0.80%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.40%) PuTTY
2 2 (1.60%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.20%) Metadata
1 4 (3.20%) Spark SQL
2 3 (2.40%) Amazon Athena
2 3 (2.40%) Apache Hive
2 3 (2.40%) BigQuery
2 3 (2.40%) BusinessObjects
2 3 (2.40%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (2.40%) Hadoop
2 3 (2.40%) HBase
2 3 (2.40%) Impala
2 3 (2.40%) Metadata Repository
2 3 (2.40%) MySQL
2 3 (2.40%) NoSQL
2 3 (2.40%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (2.40%) Power BI
2 3 (2.40%) Qlik Sense
2 3 (2.40%) QlikView
2 3 (2.40%) SQL Server
2 3 (2.40%) SQLite
2 3 (2.40%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (2.40%) Git
2 1 (0.80%) MLflow
General
1 47 (37.60%) Analytical Skills
2 15 (12.00%) Manufacturing
2 15 (12.00%) Retail
3 12 (9.60%) Social Skills
4 8 (6.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 8 (6.40%) Marketing
5 5 (4.00%) Public Sector
6 4 (3.20%) Dutch Language
6 4 (3.20%) Finnish Language
6 4 (3.20%) Norwegian Language
7 3 (2.40%) Finance
7 3 (2.40%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.60%) Agriculture
9 1 (0.80%) Banking
9 1 (0.80%) Catalan Language
9 1 (0.80%) Local Government
9 1 (0.80%) Police
Job Titles
1 107 (85.60%) Trainer
2 8 (6.40%) Content Editor
2 8 (6.40%) Sales Executive
3 7 (5.60%) Corporate Sales Executive
3 7 (5.60%) Customer Support Specialist
3 7 (5.60%) Support Specialist
4 5 (4.00%) Research Scientist
5 3 (2.40%) Data Engineer
6 2 (1.60%) Architect
6 2 (1.60%) Azure Architect
6 2 (1.60%) Customer Service Representative
6 2 (1.60%) Instructor
6 2 (1.60%) Social Media Manager
6 2 (1.60%) Statistician
7 1 (0.80%) Analyst
7 1 (0.80%) Artificial Intelligence Analyst
7 1 (0.80%) Data Analyst
7 1 (0.80%) Machine Learning Engineer
7 1 (0.80%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.20%) PySpark
2 3 (2.40%) Apache NiFi
2 3 (2.40%) Kafka
2 3 (2.40%) Plotly
2 3 (2.40%) Regular Expression
2 3 (2.40%) Shiny
3 1 (0.80%) HTML
3 1 (0.80%) Keras
3 1 (0.80%) Lambda Expressions
3 1 (0.80%) Metaflow
3 1 (0.80%) NumPy
3 1 (0.80%) Pandas
3 1 (0.80%) PyTorch
3 1 (0.80%) scikit-learn
3 1 (0.80%) TensorFlow
3 1 (0.80%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (12.00%) Robotics
2 3 (2.40%) Molecular Biology
3 2 (1.60%) Cloud Native
3 2 (1.60%) Data Centre
3 2 (1.60%) Driving Licence
3 2 (1.60%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (1.60%) Social Media
4 1 (0.80%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.20%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (72.80%) Conversational UI
2 49 (39.20%) Chemistry
3 22 (17.60%) Machine Learning
4 16 (12.80%) Mathematics
5 15 (12.00%) Generative AI
5 15 (12.00%) LLM
5 15 (12.00%) Problem-Solving
5 15 (12.00%) Red Team
6 13 (10.40%) Physics
7 12 (9.60%) Data Privacy
8 11 (8.80%) Content Writing
9 8 (6.40%) Customer Experience
9 8 (6.40%) Email Marketing
9 8 (6.40%) IT Strategy
9 8 (6.40%) Technology Strategy
10 6 (4.80%) Data Science
11 5 (4.00%) Computer Science
11 5 (4.00%) Mentoring
12 4 (3.20%) Biology
12 4 (3.20%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 7 (5.60%) SQL
2 5 (4.00%) Python
3 4 (3.20%) Java
3 4 (3.20%) R
4 3 (2.40%) Bash
4 3 (2.40%) PROC SQL
5 2 (1.60%) Bicep
6 1 (0.80%) C
6 1 (0.80%) C#
6 1 (0.80%) C++
6 1 (0.80%) Dart
6 1 (0.80%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.80%) MATLAB
6 1 (0.80%) PHP
6 1 (0.80%) Ruby
6 1 (0.80%) Rust
6 1 (0.80%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 107 (85.60%) Degree
2 66 (52.80%) Master's Degree
2 66 (52.80%) PhD
3 3 (2.40%) AWS Certification
3 3 (2.40%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.80%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.20%) QA
2 3 (2.40%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.60%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 3 (2.40%) Apache Flume
1 3 (2.40%) HDFS
2 1 (0.80%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (2.40%) Kibana
1 3 (2.40%) logstash
1 3 (2.40%) Oozie
2 1 (0.80%) Kubeflow
2 1 (0.80%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.80%) Terraform
Vendors
1 91 (72.80%) PayPal
2 19 (15.20%) Databricks
3 15 (12.00%) Adobe
3 15 (12.00%) Google
4 9 (7.20%) Microsoft
5 7 (5.60%) Cisco
5 7 (5.60%) Dell
6 3 (2.40%) Informatica
6 3 (2.40%) MicroStrategy
6 3 (2.40%) SAP
7 1 (0.80%) Xero