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

6 months to
26 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 33 97
Rank change year-on-year +15 +64 +15
Permanent jobs citing AI 122 27 19
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 6.56% 4.80% 1.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.03% 5.24% 1.20%
Number of salaries quoted 47 9 15
10th Percentile £40,483 £46,850 £38,555
25th Percentile £50,000 £53,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +21.05% -13.64%
75th Percentile £68,750 £77,000 £63,357
90th Percentile £74,250 £87,000 £78,187
England median annual salary £71,000 £73,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -2.74% +4.29% -

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 1,351 515 1,584
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 72.67% 91.47% 86.84%
Number of salaries quoted 926 330 1,293
10th Percentile £28,250 £26,993 £27,873
25th Percentile £35,000 £35,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -1.81%
75th Percentile £67,188 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £75,772
England median annual salary £59,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -1.67% +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 26 April 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 26 April 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 85 £55,000 -4.35% 50
Durham +8 36 £50,000 -43.50% 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 5 (4.10%) Jupyter
2 2 (1.64%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.64%) Confluence
3 1 (0.82%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.82%) WildFly
Applications
1 51 (41.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (6.56%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.82%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 68 (55.74%) Azure
2 59 (48.36%) Azure AI
3 50 (40.98%) Power Platform
4 10 (8.20%) Cloud Computing
5 6 (4.92%) AWS
6 4 (3.28%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (2.46%) Azure Data Factory
7 3 (2.46%) Azure Stack
8 2 (1.64%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (1.64%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 2 (1.64%) Dagster
8 2 (1.64%) dbt
8 2 (1.64%) Snowflake
9 1 (0.82%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 1 (0.82%) GCP
9 1 (0.82%) GitHub
9 1 (0.82%) GitHub Copilot
9 1 (0.82%) IaaS
9 1 (0.82%) Microsoft Copilot
9 1 (0.82%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.82%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (40.16%) Power BI
2 44 (36.07%) Tableau
3 6 (4.92%) Big Data
4 3 (2.46%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (1.64%) Data Vault
5 2 (1.64%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.64%) Power Query
5 2 (1.64%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.82%) Data Hub
6 1 (0.82%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.82%) Looker
6 1 (0.82%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.82%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (4.10%) Visual Studio Code
2 2 (1.64%) Cypress.io
2 2 (1.64%) JIRA
2 2 (1.64%) Selenium
2 2 (1.64%) SpecFlow
3 1 (0.82%) Eclipse
3 1 (0.82%) Maven
General
1 69 (56.56%) Social Skills
2 24 (19.67%) Finance
3 15 (12.30%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (4.92%) Presentation Skills
4 6 (4.92%) Public Sector
5 5 (4.10%) Manufacturing
5 5 (4.10%) Retail
6 2 (1.64%) Aerospace
6 2 (1.64%) Marketing
7 1 (0.82%) Back Office
7 1 (0.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.82%) Law
7 1 (0.82%) Legal
Job Titles
1 48 (39.34%) Analyst
2 46 (37.70%) Data Analyst
3 42 (34.43%) Junior
3 42 (34.43%) Junior Analyst
3 42 (34.43%) Junior Data Analyst
4 12 (9.84%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 8 (6.56%) Architect
6 7 (5.74%) Developer
6 7 (5.74%) Lead
6 7 (5.74%) Solutions Architect
7 6 (4.92%) Development Engineer
7 6 (4.92%) Research Engineer
8 5 (4.10%) Accountant
8 5 (4.10%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
8 5 (4.10%) Financial Accountant
8 5 (4.10%) Programmer
8 5 (4.10%) Software Developer
8 5 (4.10%) Trainee
8 5 (4.10%) Trainee Programmer
9 4 (3.28%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.10%) .NET
1 5 (4.10%) Hugging Face
1 5 (4.10%) Matplotlib
1 5 (4.10%) NumPy
1 5 (4.10%) Pandas
1 5 (4.10%) scikit-learn
1 5 (4.10%) Streamlit
2 2 (1.64%) ARM Templates
2 2 (1.64%) HTML
2 2 (1.64%) Playwright
2 2 (1.64%) Puppeteer
2 2 (1.64%) YAML
3 1 (0.82%) EJB
3 1 (0.82%) GWT
3 1 (0.82%) JDBC
3 1 (0.82%) JPA
3 1 (0.82%) PostGIS
3 1 (0.82%) PySpark
3 1 (0.82%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 5 (4.10%) Algorithms
1 5 (4.10%) Social Network
1 5 (4.10%) Virtual Team
2 4 (3.28%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (1.64%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (1.64%) Life Science
3 2 (1.64%) Reinsurance
4 1 (0.82%) Data Structures
4 1 (0.82%) Educational Technology
4 1 (0.82%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (40.98%) Business Intelligence
2 18 (14.75%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
3 14 (11.48%) Analytics
3 14 (11.48%) Machine Learning
4 12 (9.84%) Decision-Making
5 11 (9.02%) Problem-Solving
6 10 (8.20%) Continuous Improvement
6 10 (8.20%) Roadmaps
7 9 (7.38%) Visualisation
8 8 (6.56%) Conversational UI
8 8 (6.56%) LLM
9 7 (5.74%) Agile
9 7 (5.74%) Data Modelling
9 7 (5.74%) Workflow
10 6 (4.92%) Customer Experience
10 6 (4.92%) Customer Insight
10 6 (4.92%) Data Privacy
10 6 (4.92%) DevOps
11 5 (4.10%) Customer Service
11 5 (4.10%) Prompt Engineering
Programming Languages
1 71 (58.20%) Python
2 54 (44.26%) SQL
3 3 (2.46%) C#
4 2 (1.64%) Bash
4 2 (1.64%) Bicep
4 2 (1.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (1.64%) Java
4 2 (1.64%) PowerShell
5 1 (0.82%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 56 (45.90%) Azure Certification
2 6 (4.92%) Degree
3 5 (4.10%) ACCA
3 5 (4.10%) AWS Certification
3 5 (4.10%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 3 (2.46%) Master's Degree
4 3 (2.46%) PhD
5 2 (1.64%) Six Sigma Green Belt
6 1 (0.82%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.82%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.10%) GAAP
1 5 (4.10%) IFRS
2 2 (1.64%) Actionable Recommendations
2 2 (1.64%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.64%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (1.64%) Kubernetes
1 2 (1.64%) Terraform
Vendors
1 55 (45.08%) Microsoft
2 3 (2.46%) Databricks
2 3 (2.46%) PayPal
3 1 (0.82%) Alteryx
3 1 (0.82%) Dataiku