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 12 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 32 98
Rank change year-on-year +17 +66 +13
Permanent jobs citing AI 140 38 20
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 6.99% 6.46% 1.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.74% 6.96% 1.24%
Number of salaries quoted 65 11 16
10th Percentile £36,250 £24,570 £39,421
25th Percentile £50,000 £40,625 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £57,500 £51,250
Median % change year-on-year +2.61% +12.20% -6.82%
75th Percentile £70,000 £74,889 £67,968
90th Percentile £75,000 £83,750 £85,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% +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 1,437 546 1,615
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 71.78% 92.86% 86.83%
Number of salaries quoted 994 325 1,315
10th Percentile £28,250 £26,600 £27,924
25th Percentile £36,250 £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 £67,500 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,175 £82,500 £75,772
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £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 12 May 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 12 May 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 +1 100 £65,000 +13.04% 69
Durham +13 39 £50,000 -43.50% 12
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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 (3.57%) Jupyter
2 2 (1.43%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.43%) Confluence
3 1 (0.71%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.71%) WildFly
Applications
1 47 (33.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (5.71%) Chatbot
3 3 (2.14%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.43%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 74 (52.86%) Azure
2 60 (42.86%) Azure AI
3 47 (33.57%) Power Platform
4 12 (8.57%) AWS
5 9 (6.43%) Cloud Computing
6 5 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (2.86%) GitHub
8 3 (2.14%) Azure Stack
8 3 (2.14%) GCP
9 2 (1.43%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 2 (1.43%) Dagster
9 2 (1.43%) dbt
9 2 (1.43%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (1.43%) Snowflake
10 1 (0.71%) Azure Data Factory
10 1 (0.71%) IaaS
10 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Copilot
10 1 (0.71%) PaaS
10 1 (0.71%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.71%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (32.86%) Power BI
2 44 (31.43%) Tableau
3 6 (4.29%) Big Data
4 3 (2.14%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (2.14%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.43%) Data Vault
5 2 (1.43%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.43%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.71%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.71%) Data Hub
6 1 (0.71%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.71%) Looker
6 1 (0.71%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.71%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 5 (3.57%) Visual Studio Code
2 3 (2.14%) Git
3 2 (1.43%) Cypress.io
3 2 (1.43%) GitLab
3 2 (1.43%) JIRA
3 2 (1.43%) Selenium
3 2 (1.43%) SpecFlow
4 1 (0.71%) Eclipse
4 1 (0.71%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.71%) Maven
4 1 (0.71%) MLflow
General
1 63 (45.00%) Social Skills
2 23 (16.43%) Finance
3 12 (8.57%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (7.14%) Public Sector
5 7 (5.00%) Manufacturing
6 5 (3.57%) Retail
7 2 (1.43%) Aerospace
7 2 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.43%) Marketing
8 1 (0.71%) Back Office
8 1 (0.71%) Electronics
8 1 (0.71%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.71%) Law
8 1 (0.71%) Legal
8 1 (0.71%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 48 (34.29%) Analyst
2 45 (32.14%) Data Analyst
3 42 (30.00%) Junior
3 42 (30.00%) Junior Analyst
3 42 (30.00%) Junior Data Analyst
4 14 (10.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 13 (9.29%) Architect
6 11 (7.86%) Developer
7 9 (6.43%) Software Developer
8 8 (5.71%) Lead
9 7 (5.00%) Solutions Architect
10 6 (4.29%) Data Architect
10 6 (4.29%) Development Engineer
10 6 (4.29%) Research Engineer
11 5 (3.57%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
11 5 (3.57%) Programmer
11 5 (3.57%) Python Developer
11 5 (3.57%) Trainee
11 5 (3.57%) Trainee Programmer
12 4 (2.86%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (5.71%) .NET
2 5 (3.57%) Hugging Face
2 5 (3.57%) Matplotlib
2 5 (3.57%) NumPy
2 5 (3.57%) Pandas
2 5 (3.57%) scikit-learn
2 5 (3.57%) Streamlit
3 4 (2.86%) ARM Templates
3 4 (2.86%) LangChain
3 4 (2.86%) React
3 4 (2.86%) YAML
4 3 (2.14%) Node.js
4 3 (2.14%) REST
5 2 (1.43%) CSS
5 2 (1.43%) HTML
5 2 (1.43%) LlamaIndex
5 2 (1.43%) Playwright
5 2 (1.43%) Puppeteer
5 2 (1.43%) Tailwind CSS
6 1 (0.71%) JDBC
Miscellaneous
1 5 (3.57%) Algorithms
1 5 (3.57%) Virtual Team
2 4 (2.86%) Life Science
2 4 (2.86%) Social Network
3 2 (1.43%) AI Agents
3 2 (1.43%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (0.71%) Cloud Native
4 1 (0.71%) Data Structures
4 1 (0.71%) Educational Technology
4 1 (0.71%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (0.71%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (0.71%) Mobile App
4 1 (0.71%) Raspberry Pi
4 1 (0.71%) Reinsurance
4 1 (0.71%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (33.57%) Business Intelligence
2 19 (13.57%) Machine Learning
3 18 (12.86%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
4 12 (8.57%) Agile
4 12 (8.57%) Analytics
5 11 (7.86%) Problem-Solving
5 11 (7.86%) Roadmaps
6 10 (7.14%) DevOps
7 9 (6.43%) LLM
8 8 (5.71%) CI/CD
8 8 (5.71%) Conversational UI
8 8 (5.71%) Decision-Making
8 8 (5.71%) Infrastructure as Code
8 8 (5.71%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
9 7 (5.00%) Prompt Engineering
9 7 (5.00%) Workflow
10 6 (4.29%) Data Modelling
10 6 (4.29%) Data Privacy
10 6 (4.29%) Scrum
10 6 (4.29%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 78 (55.71%) Python
2 49 (35.00%) SQL
3 6 (4.29%) C#
4 4 (2.86%) Bash
4 4 (2.86%) Bicep
4 4 (2.86%) PowerShell
5 3 (2.14%) Java
6 2 (1.43%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.43%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 56 (40.00%) Azure Certification
2 8 (5.71%) Degree
3 5 (3.57%) AWS Certification
3 5 (3.57%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 4 (2.86%) ACCA
5 3 (2.14%) Master's Degree
5 3 (2.14%) PhD
6 2 (1.43%) Security Cleared
7 1 (0.71%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.71%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.86%) Data Quality
1 4 (2.86%) GAAP
1 4 (2.86%) IFRS
2 3 (2.14%) QA
System Software
1 3 (2.14%) Docker
2 1 (0.71%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 6 (4.29%) Terraform
2 4 (2.86%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 58 (41.43%) Microsoft
2 3 (2.14%) Databricks
2 3 (2.14%) PayPal
3 2 (1.43%) Sage
3 2 (1.43%) Xero
4 1 (0.71%) Alteryx
4 1 (0.71%) Dataiku