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 citing AI skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 November 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 4 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	19	7	72
Rank change year-on-year	-12	+65	-17
Permanent jobs citing AI	260	129	21
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East	6.81%	12.04%	1.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category	9.43%	14.74%	2.06%
Number of salaries quoted	197	15	7
10^th Percentile	£40,750	-	-
25^th Percentile	£53,750	£24,570	£35,000
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£66,000	£25,835	£40,000
Median % change year-on-year	+155.47%	-35.41%	-27.27%
75^th Percentile	£85,000	£48,750	£85,000
90^th Percentile	£102,750	£70,750	£95,000
England median annual salary	£74,915	£72,000	£75,000
% change year-on-year	+4.05%	-4.00%	-

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 citing process or methodology skills in the North East.

	6 months to 4 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Permanent vacancies citing process or methodology skills	2,758	875	1,018
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East	72.27%	81.70%	78.98%
Number of salaries quoted	2,040	566	494
10^th Percentile	£34,250	£25,087	£24,972
25^th Percentile	£42,500	£28,250	£36,250
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£55,000	£42,875	£48,387
Median % change year-on-year	+28.28%	-11.39%	-3.23%
75^th Percentile	£75,000	£59,913	£65,000
90^th Percentile	£95,000	£76,250	£80,000
England median annual salary	£60,000	£55,000	£60,000
% change year-on-year	+9.09%	-8.33%	-

AI 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 Salary Trend in the North East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing AI.

AI Salary Histogram in the North East

Salary distribution for jobs citing AI in the North East over the 6 months to 4 November 2026.

Salary histogram for AI in the North East

AI 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 4 November 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	Job Ads Past 6 Months	Median Salary Past 6 Months	Median Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Jobs
Tyne and Wear	-12	233	£67,500	+161.27%	77
Durham	+5	24	£56,500	-	8
Northumberland	-	3	£55,000	-
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AI Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East

For the 6 months to 4 November 2026, job vacancies citing AI also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the North East region citing AI.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Azure	30.8%	80
2	AWS	28.5%	74
3	Agile	26.9%	70
3	Python	26.9%	70
5	CI/CD	21.2%	55
6	Machine Learning	19.6%	51
6	Software Engineering	19.6%	51
8	LLM	18.8%	49
9	Problem-Solving	18.1%	47
10	Infrastructure as Code	16.9%	44
11	Retrieval-Augmented Generation	16.5%	43
12	Degree	16.2%	42
13	DevOps	15.8%	41
14	Knowledge Transfer	15.4%	40
14	SQL	15.4%	40
16	GCP	15.0%	39
16	Observability	15.0%	39
18	Generative AI	14.6%	38
19	Data Engineering	14.2%	37
19	Decision-Making	14.2%	37
21	Mentoring	13.5%	35
22	Docs as Code	13.1%	34
22	Microsoft	13.1%	34
24	Coaching	12.7%	33
25	Open Source	12.3%	32
26	MLOps	11.9%	31
27	Computer Science	11.5%	30
27	Prompt Engineering	11.5%	30
29	Analytics	11.2%	29
29	Rainbow Teams	11.2%	29

AI Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Processes & Methodologies

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Agile	26.9%	70
2	CI/CD	21.2%	55
3	Machine Learning	19.6%	51
3	Software Engineering	19.6%	51
5	LLM	18.8%	49
6	Problem-Solving	18.1%	47
7	Infrastructure as Code	16.9%	44
8	Retrieval-Augmented Generation	16.5%	43
9	DevOps	15.8%	41
10	Knowledge Transfer	15.4%	40
11	Observability	15.0%	39
12	Generative AI	14.6%	38
13	Data Engineering	14.2%	37
13	Decision-Making	14.2%	37
15	Mentoring	13.5%	35
16	Docs as Code	13.1%	34
17	Coaching	12.7%	33
18	Open Source	12.3%	32
19	MLOps	11.9%	31
20	Computer Science	11.5%	30