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

6 months to
1 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 21 98
Rank change year-on-year +8 +77 +5
Permanent jobs citing AI 165 55 20
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 7.33% 8.77% 0.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.20% 9.65% 1.17%
Number of salaries quoted 96 12 19
10th Percentile £33,875 - £35,000
25th Percentile £46,500 £24,570 £39,421
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £39,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +64.56% -16.84% +2.70%
75th Percentile £70,938 £61,250 £63,357
90th Percentile £83,125 - £85,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +3.70% -3.57% -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 1,617 570 1,707
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 71.80% 90.91% 84.76%
Number of salaries quoted 1,168 328 1,386
10th Percentile £29,250 £25,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £38,750 £32,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £48,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +1.05% -1.30%
75th Percentile £69,390 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £78,775 £75,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £58,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.56% +6.36% -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 1 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 1 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 -6 125 £65,000 +64.56% 66
Durham +16 39 £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 (4.24%) Jupyter
2 4 (2.42%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.82%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.21%) Apache
4 2 (1.21%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.21%) Confluence
4 2 (1.21%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.61%) WildFly
Applications
1 37 (22.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (3.03%) Chatbot
2 5 (3.03%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (2.42%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 77 (46.67%) Azure
2 54 (32.73%) Azure AI
3 43 (26.06%) Power Platform
4 19 (11.52%) AWS
5 7 (4.24%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (4.24%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (3.03%) Cloud Computing
6 5 (3.03%) GCP
6 5 (3.03%) GitHub
7 3 (1.82%) Amazon S3
7 3 (1.82%) Azure Stack
7 3 (1.82%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (1.82%) Microsoft Copilot
8 2 (1.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (1.21%) Amazon ECR
8 2 (1.21%) Amazon EMR
8 2 (1.21%) Anthropic Claude
8 2 (1.21%) Dagster
8 2 (1.21%) OneDrive
8 2 (1.21%) Textract
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.61%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (25.45%) Power BI
2 38 (23.03%) Tableau
3 5 (3.03%) Big Data
3 5 (3.03%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (2.42%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (2.42%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.21%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (1.21%) Data Vault
5 2 (1.21%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.61%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.61%) Data Hub
6 1 (0.61%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.61%) Looker
6 1 (0.61%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 5 (3.03%) Visual Studio Code
2 4 (2.42%) Git
2 4 (2.42%) GitLab
3 2 (1.21%) Claude Code
3 2 (1.21%) Cypress.io
3 2 (1.21%) JIRA
3 2 (1.21%) MLflow
3 2 (1.21%) Selenium
3 2 (1.21%) SpecFlow
4 1 (0.61%) Eclipse
4 1 (0.61%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.61%) Maven
General
1 61 (36.97%) Social Skills
2 23 (13.94%) Finance
3 17 (10.30%) Public Sector
4 15 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (4.85%) Manufacturing
6 5 (3.03%) Aerospace
6 5 (3.03%) Retail
7 3 (1.82%) Legal
8 2 (1.21%) Advertising
8 2 (1.21%) Electronics
8 2 (1.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.21%) Marketing
8 2 (1.21%) Wearables
9 1 (0.61%) Back Office
9 1 (0.61%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.61%) Law
Job Titles
1 41 (24.85%) Analyst
2 38 (23.03%) Data Analyst
3 36 (21.82%) Junior
3 36 (21.82%) Junior Analyst
3 36 (21.82%) Junior Data Analyst
4 18 (10.91%) Developer
5 17 (10.30%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 16 (9.70%) Architect
7 15 (9.09%) Software Developer
8 11 (6.67%) Software Engineer
9 9 (5.45%) Data Architect
10 8 (4.85%) Data Engineer
10 8 (4.85%) Lead
11 7 (4.24%) Senior
11 7 (4.24%) Solutions Architect
12 6 (3.64%) Development Engineer
12 6 (3.64%) Python Developer
12 6 (3.64%) Research Engineer
13 5 (3.03%) Trainee
13 5 (3.03%) Trainee Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (7.88%) .NET
2 8 (4.85%) React
3 7 (4.24%) LangChain
4 6 (3.64%) ARM Templates
4 6 (3.64%) Node.js
4 6 (3.64%) YAML
5 5 (3.03%) Hugging Face
5 5 (3.03%) Matplotlib
5 5 (3.03%) NumPy
5 5 (3.03%) Pandas
5 5 (3.03%) scikit-learn
5 5 (3.03%) Streamlit
6 4 (2.42%) LlamaIndex
6 4 (2.42%) REST
7 3 (1.82%) CSS
7 3 (1.82%) PySpark
7 3 (1.82%) Tailwind CSS
8 2 (1.21%) Blazor
8 2 (1.21%) Playwright
8 2 (1.21%) Puppeteer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (3.64%) Life Science
2 5 (3.03%) Algorithms
2 5 (3.03%) Virtual Team
3 4 (2.42%) AI Agents
3 4 (2.42%) Cloud Native
3 4 (2.42%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (1.82%) Data Structures
4 3 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (1.82%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.21%) Embedded Systems
5 2 (1.21%) Low-Code
5 2 (1.21%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.21%) Raspberry Pi
5 2 (1.21%) Web Conferencing
6 1 (0.61%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.61%) Educational Technology
6 1 (0.61%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.61%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.61%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.85%) Linux
2 2 (1.21%) Windows
3 1 (0.61%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (26.06%) Business Intelligence
2 28 (16.97%) Machine Learning
3 20 (12.12%) Agile
4 19 (11.52%) Software Engineering
5 18 (10.91%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
5 18 (10.91%) Problem-Solving
6 17 (10.30%) Analytics
7 15 (9.09%) LLM
8 14 (8.48%) DevOps
8 14 (8.48%) Roadmaps
8 14 (8.48%) Workflow
9 13 (7.88%) Decision-Making
9 13 (7.88%) Infrastructure as Code
10 12 (7.27%) CI/CD
10 12 (7.27%) Data Pipeline
11 11 (6.67%) Data Modelling
11 11 (6.67%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
12 10 (6.06%) Prompt Engineering
12 10 (6.06%) Scrum
13 9 (5.45%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 83 (50.30%) Python
2 48 (29.09%) SQL
3 10 (6.06%) C#
4 8 (4.85%) PowerShell
5 7 (4.24%) C++
5 7 (4.24%) Rust
6 6 (3.64%) Bash
6 6 (3.64%) Bicep
7 4 (2.42%) JavaScript
7 4 (2.42%) TypeScript
8 3 (1.82%) Java
9 1 (0.61%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 50 (30.30%) Azure Certification
2 14 (8.48%) Degree
3 8 (4.85%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (3.64%) Security Cleared
5 5 (3.03%) AWS Certification
5 5 (3.03%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 5 (3.03%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.67%) Data Quality
2 3 (1.82%) QA
System Software
1 6 (3.64%) Docker
2 2 (1.21%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.21%) Firmware
2 2 (1.21%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 10 (6.06%) Terraform
2 7 (4.24%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.21%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (1.21%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 57 (34.55%) Microsoft
2 4 (2.42%) Sage
2 4 (2.42%) Xero
3 3 (1.82%) Databricks
4 2 (1.21%) Cisco
5 1 (0.61%) Alteryx
5 1 (0.61%) Dataiku
5 1 (0.61%) Freshdesk