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

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 11 81
Rank change year-on-year 0 +70 -5
Permanent jobs citing AI 252 93 18
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 8.40% 10.29% 1.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.54% 12.53% 1.51%
Number of salaries quoted 173 18 12
10th Percentile £40,000 £24,399 £35,000
25th Percentile £48,750 £24,570 £35,069
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £34,168 £57,311
Median % change year-on-year +90.24% -40.38% +23.92%
75th Percentile £77,500 £59,188 £85,000
90th Percentile £93,634 £65,000 £100,750
England median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +3.57% -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 2,183 742 1,193
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 72.77% 82.08% 80.50%
Number of salaries quoted 1,630 470 854
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £28,204 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £45,000 £47,324
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -4.91% -5.35%
75th Percentile £73,140 £62,500 £62,200
90th Percentile £92,613 £80,000 £74,925
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 18 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 18 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 -7 205 £66,000 +93.17% 48
Durham +23 46 £52,500 - 8
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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 13 (5.16%) Confluence
2 5 (1.98%) Jupyter
2 5 (1.98%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.59%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.19%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.19%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.79%) Apache
6 1 (0.40%) WildFly
Applications
1 31 (12.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (3.17%) MS Visio
3 5 (1.98%) Chatbot
3 5 (1.98%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.40%) LaTeX
Business Applications
1 4 (1.59%) Sage 50
2 1 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 101 (40.08%) Azure
2 44 (17.46%) Azure AI
3 42 (16.67%) AWS
4 34 (13.49%) Power Platform
5 20 (7.94%) GCP
6 15 (5.95%) Azure DevOps
7 14 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
8 9 (3.57%) GitHub
9 7 (2.78%) Microsoft Copilot
10 6 (2.38%) Serverless
11 5 (1.98%) GitHub Actions
12 4 (1.59%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 4 (1.59%) Cloud Computing
12 4 (1.59%) OneDrive
13 3 (1.19%) Amazon S3
13 3 (1.19%) Azure Data Factory
13 3 (1.19%) Azure Service Bus
13 3 (1.19%) Azure Stack
13 3 (1.19%) Entra ID
13 3 (1.19%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.19%) CTI
1 3 (1.19%) VoIP
2 2 (0.79%) MQTT
2 2 (0.79%) Network Security
3 1 (0.40%) HTTP
3 1 (0.40%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (12.30%) Power BI
2 24 (9.52%) Tableau
3 10 (3.97%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (2.38%) Big Data
4 6 (2.38%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (2.38%) NoSQL
4 6 (2.38%) Relational Database
5 5 (1.98%) SQL Server
6 4 (1.59%) MySQL
7 3 (1.19%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (1.19%) Data Lake
7 3 (1.19%) MongoDB
7 3 (1.19%) Redis
8 2 (0.79%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (0.79%) 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 13 (5.16%) JIRA
2 6 (2.38%) Git
2 6 (2.38%) GitLab
3 2 (0.79%) Claude Code
3 2 (0.79%) Cypress.io
3 2 (0.79%) MLflow
3 2 (0.79%) Selenium
3 2 (0.79%) SpecFlow
3 2 (0.79%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (0.40%) Eclipse
4 1 (0.40%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.40%) Maven
General
1 57 (22.62%) Social Skills
2 40 (15.87%) Public Sector
3 39 (15.48%) Finance
4 28 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (7.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (3.97%) Aerospace
7 9 (3.57%) Manufacturing
8 4 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (1.59%) Legal
9 3 (1.19%) Banking
9 3 (1.19%) Law
9 3 (1.19%) Marketing
10 2 (0.79%) Advertising
10 2 (0.79%) Electronics
10 2 (0.79%) Retail
10 2 (0.79%) Wearables
11 1 (0.40%) Back Office
11 1 (0.40%) Legal Technology
11 1 (0.40%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 35 (13.89%) Analyst
2 30 (11.90%) Architect
3 29 (11.51%) Developer
3 29 (11.51%) Software Engineer
4 26 (10.32%) Software Developer
5 25 (9.92%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 24 (9.52%) Data Analyst
7 23 (9.13%) Junior
8 22 (8.73%) Junior Analyst
8 22 (8.73%) Junior Data Analyst
9 18 (7.14%) Lead
9 18 (7.14%) Senior
10 12 (4.76%) Data Architect
11 11 (4.37%) C++ Software Engineer
11 11 (4.37%) Rust Engineer
11 11 (4.37%) Rust Software Engineer
11 11 (4.37%) Technical Architect
12 10 (3.97%) Business Analyst
12 10 (3.97%) Data Engineer
12 10 (3.97%) Technologist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (9.13%) .NET
2 15 (5.95%) React
3 13 (5.16%) LangChain
4 11 (4.37%) YAML
5 10 (3.97%) LlamaIndex
5 10 (3.97%) Node.js
6 9 (3.57%) ARM Templates
7 7 (2.78%) REST
8 5 (1.98%) CSS
8 5 (1.98%) Entity Framework
8 5 (1.98%) Tailwind CSS
9 4 (1.59%) .NET Framework
9 4 (1.59%) Web Services
10 3 (1.19%) Express.js
10 3 (1.19%) Next.js
10 3 (1.19%) SignalR
11 2 (0.79%) PySpark
11 2 (0.79%) React Native
11 2 (0.79%) scikit-learn
11 2 (0.79%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 16 (6.35%) Cloud Native
1 16 (6.35%) Onboarding
2 8 (3.17%) Legacy Systems
3 7 (2.78%) AI Agents
4 5 (1.98%) Virtual Team
5 4 (1.59%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (1.59%) Embedded Systems
5 4 (1.59%) Life Science
5 4 (1.59%) Low-Code
6 3 (1.19%) Data Structures
6 3 (1.19%) Distributed Architecture
6 3 (1.19%) IVR
6 3 (1.19%) Robotics
6 3 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (1.19%) Web Conferencing
7 2 (0.79%) Algorithms
7 2 (0.79%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (0.79%) Data Centre
7 2 (0.79%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (0.79%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 23 (9.13%) Linux
2 3 (1.19%) Windows
3 1 (0.40%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (18.65%) Software Engineering
2 44 (17.46%) Agile
3 41 (16.27%) Machine Learning
4 33 (13.10%) CI/CD
5 32 (12.70%) Problem-Solving
6 31 (12.30%) Business Intelligence
6 31 (12.30%) Infrastructure as Code
7 30 (11.90%) Computer Science
8 29 (11.51%) DevOps
9 27 (10.71%) LLM
10 25 (9.92%) Analytics
10 25 (9.92%) Mathematics
11 24 (9.52%) Roadmaps
12 23 (9.13%) Mentoring
13 22 (8.73%) Workflow
14 21 (8.33%) Decision-Making
14 21 (8.33%) Physics
15 20 (7.94%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
15 20 (7.94%) Observability
15 20 (7.94%) Requirements Management
Programming Languages
1 86 (34.13%) Python
2 45 (17.86%) SQL
3 23 (9.13%) C#
4 20 (7.94%) C++
4 20 (7.94%) Rust
5 17 (6.75%) TypeScript
6 14 (5.56%) PowerShell
7 11 (4.37%) Bash
7 11 (4.37%) Bicep
8 9 (3.57%) JavaScript
9 5 (1.98%) Java
10 3 (1.19%) Go
11 1 (0.40%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 47 (18.65%) Azure Certification
2 40 (15.87%) Degree
3 24 (9.52%) Computer Science Degree
4 13 (5.16%) BPSS Clearance
4 13 (5.16%) Security Cleared
5 11 (4.37%) AWS Certification
6 7 (2.78%) SC Cleared
7 2 (0.79%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 1 (0.40%) CSPO
8 1 (0.40%) IIBA
8 1 (0.40%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.76%) Data Quality
2 4 (1.59%) NCSC
2 4 (1.59%) QA
3 3 (1.19%) Accessibility
System Software
1 12 (4.76%) Docker
2 3 (1.19%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.19%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (0.79%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 16 (6.35%) Terraform
2 13 (5.16%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.19%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (1.19%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 53 (21.03%) Microsoft
2 9 (3.57%) Sage
3 6 (2.38%) Cisco
4 4 (1.59%) Xero
5 3 (1.19%) Avaya
5 3 (1.19%) Databricks
5 3 (1.19%) Foundry
5 3 (1.19%) Genesys
6 2 (0.79%) Google
6 2 (0.79%) Salesforce
6 2 (0.79%) Spotify
6 2 (0.79%) UiPath
7 1 (0.40%) Adobe
7 1 (0.40%) Alteryx
7 1 (0.40%) Dataiku
7 1 (0.40%) Freshdesk