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

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 13 83
Rank change year-on-year +3 +70 -3
Permanent jobs citing AI 250 85 18
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 8.52% 9.53% 1.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.70% 11.56% 1.48%
Number of salaries quoted 169 18 12
10th Percentile £38,984 £24,399 £35,000
25th Percentile £48,289 £24,570 £35,069
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £28,668 £57,311
Median % change year-on-year +126.74% -49.98% +23.92%
75th Percentile £77,500 £51,938 £85,000
90th Percentile £93,634 £61,250 £100,750
England median annual salary £70,752 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +1.07% -3.45% -3.33%

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 2,136 735 1,220
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 72.83% 82.40% 81.01%
Number of salaries quoted 1,595 471 883
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £28,188 £35,710
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £45,000 £46,968
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -4.19% -6.07%
75th Percentile £71,250 £61,875 £61,250
90th Percentile £91,375 £78,250 £71,991
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £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 11 August 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 11 August 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 -7 201 £65,750 +129.35% 59
Durham +24 48 £52,500 - 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 12 (4.80%) Confluence
2 6 (2.40%) Jupyter
3 4 (1.60%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.60%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.20%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.20%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.80%) Apache
6 1 (0.40%) WildFly
Applications
1 34 (13.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.80%) MS Visio
3 6 (2.40%) Chatbot
4 5 (2.00%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.40%) LaTeX
Business Applications
1 4 (1.60%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 102 (40.80%) Azure
2 48 (19.20%) Azure AI
3 40 (16.00%) AWS
4 38 (15.20%) Power Platform
5 17 (6.80%) GCP
6 15 (6.00%) Azure DevOps
7 12 (4.80%) Microsoft 365
8 9 (3.60%) GitHub
9 6 (2.40%) Microsoft Copilot
9 6 (2.40%) Serverless
10 5 (2.00%) Cloud Computing
10 5 (2.00%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (1.60%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 3 (1.20%) Azure Data Factory
12 3 (1.20%) Azure Service Bus
12 3 (1.20%) Azure Stack
12 3 (1.20%) Entra ID
12 3 (1.20%) GitHub Copilot
12 3 (1.20%) OneDrive
12 3 (1.20%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.20%) CTI
1 3 (1.20%) VoIP
2 2 (0.80%) MQTT
2 2 (0.80%) Network Security
3 1 (0.40%) HTTP
3 1 (0.40%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (14.00%) Power BI
2 28 (11.20%) Tableau
3 10 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (2.40%) Big Data
4 6 (2.40%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (2.40%) NoSQL
4 6 (2.40%) Relational Database
5 5 (2.00%) SQL Server
6 4 (1.60%) MySQL
7 3 (1.20%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (1.20%) Data Lake
7 3 (1.20%) MongoDB
7 3 (1.20%) Redis
8 2 (0.80%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (0.80%) Data Vault
9 1 (0.40%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.40%) Data Hub
9 1 (0.40%) Flink
9 1 (0.40%) Looker
Development Applications
1 12 (4.80%) JIRA
2 6 (2.40%) Git
2 6 (2.40%) GitLab
3 3 (1.20%) Visual Studio Code
4 2 (0.80%) Claude Code
4 2 (0.80%) Cypress.io
4 2 (0.80%) MLflow
4 2 (0.80%) Selenium
4 2 (0.80%) SpecFlow
5 1 (0.40%) Eclipse
5 1 (0.40%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.40%) Maven
General
1 60 (24.00%) Social Skills
2 40 (16.00%) Finance
3 37 (14.80%) Public Sector
4 26 (10.40%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (6.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (4.00%) Aerospace
6 10 (4.00%) Manufacturing
7 4 (1.60%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (1.20%) Banking
8 3 (1.20%) Law
8 3 (1.20%) Legal
8 3 (1.20%) Retail
9 2 (0.80%) Advertising
9 2 (0.80%) Electronics
9 2 (0.80%) Marketing
9 2 (0.80%) Wearables
10 1 (0.40%) Back Office
10 1 (0.40%) Legal Technology
10 1 (0.40%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 38 (15.20%) Analyst
2 29 (11.60%) Architect
2 29 (11.60%) Developer
2 29 (11.60%) Software Engineer
3 28 (11.20%) Data Analyst
4 27 (10.80%) Junior
5 26 (10.40%) Junior Analyst
5 26 (10.40%) Junior Data Analyst
5 26 (10.40%) Software Developer
6 23 (9.20%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 17 (6.80%) Lead
8 16 (6.40%) Senior
9 12 (4.80%) Data Architect
10 11 (4.40%) C++ Software Engineer
10 11 (4.40%) Rust Engineer
10 11 (4.40%) Rust Software Engineer
11 10 (4.00%) DevOps Engineer
11 10 (4.00%) Technical Architect
11 10 (4.00%) Technologist
12 9 (3.60%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (9.20%) .NET
2 15 (6.00%) React
3 12 (4.80%) LangChain
4 11 (4.40%) YAML
5 10 (4.00%) Node.js
6 9 (3.60%) ARM Templates
6 9 (3.60%) LlamaIndex
7 7 (2.80%) REST
8 5 (2.00%) CSS
8 5 (2.00%) Entity Framework
8 5 (2.00%) Tailwind CSS
9 4 (1.60%) .NET Framework
10 3 (1.20%) Express.js
10 3 (1.20%) Matplotlib
10 3 (1.20%) Next.js
10 3 (1.20%) NumPy
10 3 (1.20%) Pandas
10 3 (1.20%) scikit-learn
10 3 (1.20%) SignalR
10 3 (1.20%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 15 (6.00%) Cloud Native
2 14 (5.60%) Onboarding
3 8 (3.20%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (2.80%) AI Agents
5 5 (2.00%) Virtual Team
6 4 (1.60%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (1.60%) Embedded Systems
6 4 (1.60%) Life Science
6 4 (1.60%) Low-Code
7 3 (1.20%) Algorithms
7 3 (1.20%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.20%) Distributed Architecture
7 3 (1.20%) IVR
7 3 (1.20%) Robotics
7 3 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.20%) Web Conferencing
8 2 (0.80%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (0.80%) Data Centre
8 2 (0.80%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (0.80%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 23 (9.20%) Linux
2 3 (1.20%) Windows
3 1 (0.40%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (18.80%) Software Engineering
2 41 (16.40%) Agile
3 39 (15.60%) Machine Learning
4 35 (14.00%) Business Intelligence
5 32 (12.80%) CI/CD
6 31 (12.40%) Problem-Solving
7 30 (12.00%) Computer Science
7 30 (12.00%) Infrastructure as Code
8 28 (11.20%) DevOps
9 26 (10.40%) LLM
10 25 (10.00%) Mathematics
11 24 (9.60%) Roadmaps
12 23 (9.20%) Analytics
12 23 (9.20%) Workflow
13 21 (8.40%) Mentoring
13 21 (8.40%) Physics
14 20 (8.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
14 20 (8.00%) Requirements Management
15 19 (7.60%) Decision-Making
15 19 (7.60%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 89 (35.60%) Python
2 49 (19.60%) SQL
3 23 (9.20%) C#
4 20 (8.00%) C++
4 20 (8.00%) Rust
5 17 (6.80%) TypeScript
6 14 (5.60%) PowerShell
7 11 (4.40%) Bash
7 11 (4.40%) Bicep
8 9 (3.60%) JavaScript
9 5 (2.00%) Java
10 3 (1.20%) Go
11 1 (0.40%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 50 (20.00%) Azure Certification
2 40 (16.00%) Degree
3 24 (9.60%) Computer Science Degree
4 12 (4.80%) Security Cleared
5 11 (4.40%) AWS Certification
5 11 (4.40%) BPSS Clearance
6 7 (2.80%) SC Cleared
7 3 (1.20%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 1 (0.40%) CSPO
8 1 (0.40%) IIBA
8 1 (0.40%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.80%) Data Quality
2 4 (1.60%) QA
3 3 (1.20%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.20%) NCSC
System Software
1 12 (4.80%) Docker
2 3 (1.20%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.20%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (0.80%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 16 (6.40%) Terraform
2 13 (5.20%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.20%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 56 (22.40%) Microsoft
2 9 (3.60%) Sage
3 6 (2.40%) Cisco
4 4 (1.60%) Xero
5 3 (1.20%) Avaya
5 3 (1.20%) Databricks
5 3 (1.20%) Foundry
5 3 (1.20%) Genesys
6 2 (0.80%) Salesforce
6 2 (0.80%) Spotify
6 2 (0.80%) UiPath
7 1 (0.40%) Alteryx
7 1 (0.40%) Dataiku
7 1 (0.40%) Freshdesk
7 1 (0.40%) Google