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

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 19 104
Rank change year-on-year +5 +85 -1
Permanent jobs citing AI 170 57 20
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 7.27% 8.56% 0.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.19% 9.60% 1.14%
Number of salaries quoted 103 13 19
10th Percentile £34,000 - £35,000
25th Percentile £47,000 £24,570 £39,421
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £31,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +106.35% -33.68% -13.64%
75th Percentile £74,375 £61,250 £63,357
90th Percentile £84,500 - £85,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £66,350 £70,000
% change year-on-year +5.50% -5.21% -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 1,668 594 1,748
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 71.34% 89.19% 83.28%
Number of salaries quoted 1,227 348 1,399
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £28,500 £35,046
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £48,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +1.05% -5.00%
75th Percentile £69,390 £65,125 £62,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £74,258 £75,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £58,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% +5.45% -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 9 June 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 9 June 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 -7 131 £65,000 +106.35% 41
Durham +21 38 £50,000 - 11
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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 (4.12%) Jupyter
2 4 (2.35%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.76%) Confluence
4 2 (1.18%) Apache
4 2 (1.18%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.18%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.18%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.59%) WildFly
Applications
1 36 (21.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.94%) Chatbot
2 5 (2.94%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.59%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (2.35%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 77 (45.29%) Azure
2 52 (30.59%) Azure AI
3 40 (23.53%) Power Platform
4 21 (12.35%) AWS
5 7 (4.12%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (4.12%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (2.94%) Cloud Computing
6 5 (2.94%) GCP
6 5 (2.94%) GitHub
7 3 (1.76%) Amazon S3
7 3 (1.76%) Azure Stack
7 3 (1.76%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (1.18%) Amazon ECR
8 2 (1.18%) Anthropic Claude
8 2 (1.18%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 2 (1.18%) Dagster
8 2 (1.18%) dbt
8 2 (1.18%) Microsoft Copilot
8 2 (1.18%) Snowflake
8 2 (1.18%) Textract
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.59%) HTTP
1 1 (0.59%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (23.53%) Power BI
2 36 (21.18%) Tableau
3 5 (2.94%) Big Data
3 5 (2.94%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (2.35%) Relational Database
5 3 (1.76%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.18%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (1.18%) Data Vault
7 1 (0.59%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.59%) Data Hub
7 1 (0.59%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.59%) Looker
7 1 (0.59%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.59%) MySQL
7 1 (0.59%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (2.94%) Visual Studio Code
2 4 (2.35%) Git
2 4 (2.35%) GitLab
3 3 (1.76%) JIRA
4 2 (1.18%) Claude Code
4 2 (1.18%) Cypress.io
4 2 (1.18%) MLflow
4 2 (1.18%) Selenium
4 2 (1.18%) SpecFlow
5 1 (0.59%) Eclipse
5 1 (0.59%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.59%) Maven
General
1 59 (34.71%) Social Skills
2 22 (12.94%) Finance
3 18 (10.59%) Public Sector
4 16 (9.41%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (5.29%) Manufacturing
6 5 (2.94%) Retail
7 3 (1.76%) Aerospace
7 3 (1.76%) Legal
8 2 (1.18%) Advertising
8 2 (1.18%) Electronics
8 2 (1.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.18%) Law
8 2 (1.18%) Marketing
8 2 (1.18%) Wearables
9 1 (0.59%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 40 (23.53%) Analyst
2 36 (21.18%) Data Analyst
3 34 (20.00%) Junior
3 34 (20.00%) Junior Analyst
3 34 (20.00%) Junior Data Analyst
4 21 (12.35%) Developer
5 18 (10.59%) Software Developer
6 17 (10.00%) Architect
6 17 (10.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 15 (8.82%) Software Engineer
8 10 (5.88%) Data Architect
8 10 (5.88%) Senior
9 8 (4.71%) Data Engineer
9 8 (4.71%) Lead
10 7 (4.12%) Solutions Architect
11 6 (3.53%) C++ Software Engineer
11 6 (3.53%) Development Engineer
11 6 (3.53%) Python Developer
11 6 (3.53%) Research Engineer
11 6 (3.53%) Rust Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (8.24%) .NET
2 8 (4.71%) React
3 7 (4.12%) LangChain
4 6 (3.53%) ARM Templates
4 6 (3.53%) Node.js
4 6 (3.53%) YAML
5 5 (2.94%) Hugging Face
5 5 (2.94%) Matplotlib
5 5 (2.94%) NumPy
5 5 (2.94%) Pandas
5 5 (2.94%) REST
5 5 (2.94%) scikit-learn
5 5 (2.94%) Streamlit
6 4 (2.35%) LlamaIndex
7 3 (1.76%) CSS
7 3 (1.76%) PySpark
7 3 (1.76%) Tailwind CSS
8 2 (1.18%) HTML
8 2 (1.18%) React Native
8 2 (1.18%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 5 (2.94%) Algorithms
1 5 (2.94%) Cloud Native
1 5 (2.94%) Virtual Team
2 4 (2.35%) AI Agents
2 4 (2.35%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (2.35%) Life Science
3 3 (1.76%) Data Structures
3 3 (1.76%) Embedded Systems
3 3 (1.76%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (1.76%) Onboarding
4 2 (1.18%) Low-Code
4 2 (1.18%) Mobile App
4 2 (1.18%) Raspberry Pi
4 2 (1.18%) Web Conferencing
5 1 (0.59%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.59%) Educational Technology
5 1 (0.59%) IoT
5 1 (0.59%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.59%) Robotics
5 1 (0.59%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 13 (7.65%) Linux
2 2 (1.18%) Windows
3 1 (0.59%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (24.12%) Business Intelligence
2 28 (16.47%) Machine Learning
3 25 (14.71%) Software Engineering
4 20 (11.76%) Agile
5 19 (11.18%) Problem-Solving
6 18 (10.59%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
7 17 (10.00%) Analytics
8 16 (9.41%) LLM
8 16 (9.41%) Workflow
9 15 (8.82%) Roadmaps
10 14 (8.24%) DevOps
11 13 (7.65%) Data Pipeline
11 13 (7.65%) Decision-Making
11 13 (7.65%) Infrastructure as Code
12 12 (7.06%) CI/CD
12 12 (7.06%) Computer Science
13 11 (6.47%) Data Modelling
13 11 (6.47%) Mathematics
13 11 (6.47%) Physics
13 11 (6.47%) Requirements Management
Programming Languages
1 83 (48.82%) Python
2 48 (28.24%) SQL
3 12 (7.06%) C#
4 11 (6.47%) C++
4 11 (6.47%) Rust
5 8 (4.71%) PowerShell
6 6 (3.53%) Bash
6 6 (3.53%) Bicep
7 5 (2.94%) TypeScript
8 4 (2.35%) Java
8 4 (2.35%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.59%) Go
9 1 (0.59%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 48 (28.24%) Azure Certification
2 18 (10.59%) Degree
3 12 (7.06%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (3.53%) Security Cleared
5 5 (2.94%) AWS Certification
5 5 (2.94%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 5 (2.94%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.47%) Data Quality
2 3 (1.76%) QA
System Software
1 6 (3.53%) Docker
2 2 (1.18%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.18%) Firmware
2 2 (1.18%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 10 (5.88%) Terraform
2 7 (4.12%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.18%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (1.18%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 54 (31.76%) Microsoft
2 4 (2.35%) Sage
2 4 (2.35%) Xero
3 3 (1.76%) Databricks
4 2 (1.18%) Cisco
5 1 (0.59%) Alteryx
5 1 (0.59%) Dataiku
5 1 (0.59%) Freshdesk
5 1 (0.59%) Salesforce