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

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 12 99
Rank change year-on-year -3 +87 -7
Permanent jobs citing AI 210 78 16
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 7.89% 9.41% 0.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.89% 11.37% 0.98%
Number of salaries quoted 137 15 14
10th Percentile £35,000 - £35,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £24,570 £35,092
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £31,500 £52,406
Median % change year-on-year +106.35% -39.89% -4.72%
75th Percentile £76,250 £50,875 £67,968
90th Percentile £96,680 £61,250 £85,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £66,340 £70,000
% change year-on-year +5.52% -5.23% -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 1,929 686 1,641
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 72.52% 82.75% 82.13%
Number of salaries quoted 1,451 443 1,284
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 £61,250 £63,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £79,650 £75,766
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 13 July 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 July 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 -9 161 £67,500 +114.29% 58
Durham +20 48 £51,250 - 7
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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 (3.33%) Confluence
1 7 (3.33%) Jupyter
2 4 (1.90%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (1.90%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.43%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.95%) Apache
4 2 (0.95%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.48%) WildFly
Applications
1 37 (17.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (3.81%) Chatbot
3 5 (2.38%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (1.90%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.90%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 88 (41.90%) Azure
2 51 (24.29%) Azure AI
3 41 (19.52%) Power Platform
4 25 (11.90%) AWS
5 14 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (4.29%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (2.38%) Cloud Computing
7 5 (2.38%) GCP
7 5 (2.38%) GitHub
8 4 (1.90%) Microsoft Copilot
8 4 (1.90%) Serverless
9 3 (1.43%) Amazon S3
9 3 (1.43%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 3 (1.43%) Azure Service Bus
9 3 (1.43%) Azure Stack
9 3 (1.43%) Entra ID
9 3 (1.43%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (1.43%) OneDrive
10 2 (0.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (0.95%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.43%) CTI
1 3 (1.43%) VoIP
2 2 (0.95%) MQTT
3 1 (0.48%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (19.05%) Power BI
2 34 (16.19%) Tableau
3 7 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (2.86%) Big Data
4 6 (2.86%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (2.38%) NoSQL
5 5 (2.38%) SQL Server
6 4 (1.90%) Relational Database
7 3 (1.43%) MySQL
7 3 (1.43%) Redis
8 2 (0.95%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (0.95%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (0.95%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.95%) Data Vault
8 2 (0.95%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.48%) Data Hub
9 1 (0.48%) Looker
Development Applications
1 7 (3.33%) JIRA
2 5 (2.38%) GitLab
2 5 (2.38%) Visual Studio Code
3 4 (1.90%) Git
4 2 (0.95%) Claude Code
4 2 (0.95%) Cypress.io
4 2 (0.95%) MLflow
4 2 (0.95%) Selenium
4 2 (0.95%) SpecFlow
5 1 (0.48%) Eclipse
5 1 (0.48%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.48%) Maven
General
1 57 (27.14%) Social Skills
2 33 (15.71%) Finance
3 23 (10.95%) Public Sector
4 22 (10.48%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (4.76%) Manufacturing
6 6 (2.86%) Aerospace
7 5 (2.38%) Retail
8 4 (1.90%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.43%) Law
9 3 (1.43%) Legal
10 2 (0.95%) Advertising
10 2 (0.95%) Banking
10 2 (0.95%) Electronics
10 2 (0.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.95%) Marketing
10 2 (0.95%) Wearables
11 1 (0.48%) Back Office
11 1 (0.48%) Legal Technology
Job Titles
1 41 (19.52%) Analyst
2 34 (16.19%) Data Analyst
3 32 (15.24%) Junior
3 32 (15.24%) Junior Analyst
3 32 (15.24%) Junior Data Analyst
4 27 (12.86%) Developer
5 25 (11.90%) Architect
5 25 (11.90%) Software Engineer
6 24 (11.43%) Software Developer
7 17 (8.10%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 12 (5.71%) Lead
9 11 (5.24%) Data Architect
9 11 (5.24%) Senior
10 10 (4.76%) C++ Software Engineer
10 10 (4.76%) Rust Engineer
10 10 (4.76%) Rust Software Engineer
11 9 (4.29%) DevOps Engineer
12 8 (3.81%) C++ Developer
12 8 (3.81%) C++ Software Developer
12 8 (3.81%) Rust Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (10.48%) .NET
2 11 (5.24%) React
3 10 (4.76%) YAML
4 8 (3.81%) ARM Templates
5 7 (3.33%) LangChain
5 7 (3.33%) Node.js
6 5 (2.38%) Entity Framework
6 5 (2.38%) Hugging Face
6 5 (2.38%) Matplotlib
6 5 (2.38%) NumPy
6 5 (2.38%) Pandas
6 5 (2.38%) REST
6 5 (2.38%) scikit-learn
6 5 (2.38%) Streamlit
7 4 (1.90%) .NET Framework
7 4 (1.90%) LlamaIndex
8 3 (1.43%) CSS
8 3 (1.43%) PySpark
8 3 (1.43%) SignalR
8 3 (1.43%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 11 (5.24%) Cloud Native
2 7 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (2.38%) AI Agents
3 5 (2.38%) Algorithms
3 5 (2.38%) Virtual Team
4 4 (1.90%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (1.90%) Embedded Systems
4 4 (1.90%) Life Science
4 4 (1.90%) Onboarding
5 3 (1.43%) Data Structures
5 3 (1.43%) Distributed Architecture
5 3 (1.43%) IVR
5 3 (1.43%) Robotics
5 3 (1.43%) Web Conferencing
6 2 (0.95%) IoT
6 2 (0.95%) Low-Code
6 2 (0.95%) Mobile App
6 2 (0.95%) Raspberry Pi
7 1 (0.48%) Educational Technology
7 1 (0.48%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 21 (10.00%) Linux
2 3 (1.43%) Windows
3 1 (0.48%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (19.52%) Business Intelligence
2 40 (19.05%) Software Engineering
3 31 (14.76%) Machine Learning
4 26 (12.38%) Agile
5 24 (11.43%) Problem-Solving
6 23 (10.95%) Analytics
6 23 (10.95%) Workflow
7 22 (10.48%) Computer Science
8 20 (9.52%) CI/CD
8 20 (9.52%) DevOps
8 20 (9.52%) LLM
8 20 (9.52%) Mathematics
8 20 (9.52%) Roadmaps
9 18 (8.57%) Physics
9 18 (8.57%) Requirements Management
10 17 (8.10%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
10 17 (8.10%) Infrastructure as Code
11 16 (7.62%) Data Pipeline
11 16 (7.62%) Decision-Making
12 15 (7.14%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 89 (42.38%) Python
2 54 (25.71%) SQL
3 22 (10.48%) C#
4 18 (8.57%) C++
4 18 (8.57%) Rust
5 13 (6.19%) PowerShell
5 13 (6.19%) TypeScript
6 10 (4.76%) Bash
6 10 (4.76%) Bicep
7 8 (3.81%) JavaScript
8 4 (1.90%) Java
9 3 (1.43%) Go
10 1 (0.48%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 47 (22.38%) Azure Certification
2 30 (14.29%) Degree
3 19 (9.05%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (3.33%) Security Cleared
5 6 (2.86%) SC Cleared
6 5 (2.38%) AWS Certification
6 5 (2.38%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.19%) Data Quality
2 3 (1.43%) Accessibility
2 3 (1.43%) QA
System Software
1 9 (4.29%) Docker
2 3 (1.43%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.43%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (0.95%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 14 (6.67%) Terraform
2 11 (5.24%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.43%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (1.43%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 58 (27.62%) Microsoft
2 6 (2.86%) Cisco
3 4 (1.90%) Sage
3 4 (1.90%) Xero
4 3 (1.43%) Avaya
4 3 (1.43%) Databricks
4 3 (1.43%) Genesys
5 2 (0.95%) Foundry
5 2 (0.95%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.48%) Alteryx
6 1 (0.48%) Dataiku
6 1 (0.48%) Freshdesk
6 1 (0.48%) UiPath