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

6 months to
25 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 22 98
Rank change year-on-year +8 +76 +9
Permanent jobs citing AI 152 52 19
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 7.05% 8.80% 0.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.84% 9.65% 1.16%
Number of salaries quoted 82 10 18
10th Percentile £33,775 £24,513 £35,064
25th Percentile £50,000 £25,990 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £49,750 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +30.65% +4.74% -13.64%
75th Percentile £70,000 £61,250 £65,663
90th Percentile £81,000 £62,403 £85,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 1,544 539 1,643
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 71.61% 91.20% 85.89%
Number of salaries quoted 1,098 300 1,331
10th Percentile £29,000 £25,087 £28,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £32,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £48,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +1.05% -0.36%
75th Percentile £69,390 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £75,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -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 25 May 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 25 May 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 -10 113 £66,250 +33.17% 76
Durham +16 38 £50,000 - 8
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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 6 (3.95%) Jupyter
2 3 (1.97%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.32%) Confluence
3 2 (1.32%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.66%) Apache
4 1 (0.66%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.66%) WildFly
Applications
1 39 (25.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (3.29%) Chatbot
2 5 (3.29%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (2.63%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 76 (50.00%) Azure
2 56 (36.84%) Azure AI
3 43 (28.29%) Power Platform
4 18 (11.84%) AWS
5 6 (3.95%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (3.95%) Cloud Computing
5 6 (3.95%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (3.29%) GCP
6 5 (3.29%) GitHub
7 3 (1.97%) Azure Stack
7 3 (1.97%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (1.32%) Amazon S3
8 2 (1.32%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 2 (1.32%) Dagster
8 2 (1.32%) dbt
8 2 (1.32%) Microsoft Copilot
8 2 (1.32%) Snowflake
9 1 (0.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (0.66%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (0.66%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.66%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (27.63%) Power BI
2 40 (26.32%) Tableau
3 4 (2.63%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (2.63%) Relational Database
4 3 (1.97%) Big Data
5 2 (1.32%) Data Vault
5 2 (1.32%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.32%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.66%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (0.66%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.66%) Data Hub
6 1 (0.66%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.66%) Looker
6 1 (0.66%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 5 (3.29%) Visual Studio Code
2 4 (2.63%) Git
3 3 (1.97%) GitLab
4 2 (1.32%) Cypress.io
4 2 (1.32%) JIRA
4 2 (1.32%) MLflow
4 2 (1.32%) Selenium
4 2 (1.32%) SpecFlow
5 1 (0.66%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.66%) Eclipse
5 1 (0.66%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.66%) Maven
General
1 62 (40.79%) Social Skills
2 23 (15.13%) Finance
3 15 (9.87%) Public Sector
4 10 (6.58%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (5.26%) Manufacturing
6 5 (3.29%) Retail
7 4 (2.63%) Aerospace
8 2 (1.32%) Electronics
8 2 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.32%) Legal
8 2 (1.32%) Marketing
8 2 (1.32%) Wearables
9 1 (0.66%) Advertising
9 1 (0.66%) Back Office
9 1 (0.66%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.66%) Law
Job Titles
1 43 (28.29%) Analyst
2 40 (26.32%) Data Analyst
3 38 (25.00%) Junior
3 38 (25.00%) Junior Analyst
3 38 (25.00%) Junior Data Analyst
4 16 (10.53%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 15 (9.87%) Architect
6 14 (9.21%) Developer
7 12 (7.89%) Software Developer
8 9 (5.92%) Software Engineer
9 8 (5.26%) Data Architect
9 8 (5.26%) Lead
10 7 (4.61%) Solutions Architect
11 6 (3.95%) Development Engineer
11 6 (3.95%) Python Developer
11 6 (3.95%) Research Engineer
12 5 (3.29%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
12 5 (3.29%) Programmer
12 5 (3.29%) Trainee
12 5 (3.29%) Trainee Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (6.58%) .NET
2 7 (4.61%) LangChain
2 7 (4.61%) React
3 6 (3.95%) Node.js
4 5 (3.29%) ARM Templates
4 5 (3.29%) Hugging Face
4 5 (3.29%) Matplotlib
4 5 (3.29%) NumPy
4 5 (3.29%) Pandas
4 5 (3.29%) scikit-learn
4 5 (3.29%) Streamlit
4 5 (3.29%) YAML
5 4 (2.63%) LlamaIndex
5 4 (2.63%) REST
6 3 (1.97%) CSS
6 3 (1.97%) Tailwind CSS
7 2 (1.32%) HTML
7 2 (1.32%) Playwright
7 2 (1.32%) Puppeteer
7 2 (1.32%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 6 (3.95%) Life Science
2 5 (3.29%) Algorithms
2 5 (3.29%) Virtual Team
3 4 (2.63%) AI Agents
3 4 (2.63%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (1.97%) Cloud Native
4 3 (1.97%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.32%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.32%) Embedded Systems
5 2 (1.32%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.32%) Raspberry Pi
6 1 (0.66%) Educational Technology
6 1 (0.66%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.66%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.66%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.66%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.66%) Social Network
6 1 (0.66%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.97%) Linux
2 1 (0.66%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (28.29%) Business Intelligence
2 23 (15.13%) Machine Learning
3 18 (11.84%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
4 16 (10.53%) Agile
5 14 (9.21%) Problem-Solving
5 14 (9.21%) Software Engineering
6 13 (8.55%) Analytics
6 13 (8.55%) Roadmaps
7 12 (7.89%) DevOps
8 11 (7.24%) CI/CD
8 11 (7.24%) Decision-Making
8 11 (7.24%) Infrastructure as Code
8 11 (7.24%) LLM
8 11 (7.24%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
8 11 (7.24%) Workflow
9 9 (5.92%) Prompt Engineering
10 8 (5.26%) Coaching
10 8 (5.26%) Customer Service
10 8 (5.26%) Scrum
11 7 (4.61%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 80 (52.63%) Python
2 45 (29.61%) SQL
3 7 (4.61%) C#
4 6 (3.95%) PowerShell
5 5 (3.29%) Bash
5 5 (3.29%) Bicep
6 4 (2.63%) TypeScript
7 3 (1.97%) C++
7 3 (1.97%) Java
7 3 (1.97%) JavaScript
7 3 (1.97%) Rust
Qualifications
1 52 (34.21%) Azure Certification
2 10 (6.58%) Degree
3 5 (3.29%) AWS Certification
3 5 (3.29%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 4 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.97%) Security Cleared
6 2 (1.32%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.66%) ACCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.61%) Data Quality
2 3 (1.97%) QA
3 1 (0.66%) GAAP
3 1 (0.66%) IFRS
System Software
1 5 (3.29%) Docker
2 2 (1.32%) Firmware
3 1 (0.66%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.66%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 8 (5.26%) Terraform
2 5 (3.29%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 56 (36.84%) Microsoft
2 4 (2.63%) Sage
2 4 (2.63%) Xero
3 3 (1.97%) Databricks
4 1 (0.66%) Alteryx
4 1 (0.66%) Cisco
4 1 (0.66%) Dataiku