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

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 13 81
Rank change year-on-year +2 +68 0
Permanent jobs citing AI 241 82 16
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 8.55% 9.37% 1.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.70% 11.36% 1.29%
Number of salaries quoted 162 16 12
10th Percentile £38,323 - £35,000
25th Percentile £47,697 £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 £49,813 £85,000
90th Percentile £93,634 £61,250 £100,750
England median annual salary £71,121 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +1.60% -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 2,059 722 1,243
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 73.01% 82.51% 81.03%
Number of salaries quoted 1,549 467 913
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £28,188 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £45,000 £46,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -2.17% -8.00%
75th Percentile £71,250 £61,250 £61,250
90th Percentile £90,275 £78,950 £72,398
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 4 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 4 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 -6 191 £66,000 +130.23% 67
Durham +25 49 £52,500 - 9
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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 11 (4.56%) Confluence
2 7 (2.90%) Jupyter
3 4 (1.66%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.66%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.24%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.24%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.83%) Apache
6 1 (0.41%) WildFly
Applications
1 36 (14.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.90%) Chatbot
2 7 (2.90%) MS Visio
3 5 (2.07%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.41%) LaTeX
Business Applications
1 4 (1.66%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 98 (40.66%) Azure
2 49 (20.33%) Azure AI
3 39 (16.18%) Power Platform
4 36 (14.94%) AWS
5 15 (6.22%) Azure DevOps
6 14 (5.81%) GCP
7 10 (4.15%) Microsoft 365
8 7 (2.90%) GitHub
9 5 (2.07%) Cloud Computing
9 5 (2.07%) Microsoft Copilot
9 5 (2.07%) Serverless
10 4 (1.66%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 4 (1.66%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (1.24%) Amazon S3
11 3 (1.24%) Azure Data Factory
11 3 (1.24%) Azure Service Bus
11 3 (1.24%) Azure Stack
11 3 (1.24%) Entra ID
11 3 (1.24%) OneDrive
11 3 (1.24%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.24%) CTI
1 3 (1.24%) VoIP
2 2 (0.83%) MQTT
2 2 (0.83%) Network Security
3 1 (0.41%) HTTP
3 1 (0.41%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (15.35%) Power BI
2 30 (12.45%) Tableau
3 9 (3.73%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (2.49%) Big Data
4 6 (2.49%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (2.49%) NoSQL
5 5 (2.07%) Relational Database
5 5 (2.07%) SQL Server
6 4 (1.66%) MySQL
7 3 (1.24%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (1.24%) Data Lake
7 3 (1.24%) MongoDB
7 3 (1.24%) Redis
8 2 (0.83%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (0.83%) Data Vault
9 1 (0.41%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.41%) Data Hub
9 1 (0.41%) Flink
9 1 (0.41%) Looker
Development Applications
1 11 (4.56%) JIRA
2 6 (2.49%) GitLab
3 5 (2.07%) Git
4 4 (1.66%) Visual Studio Code
5 2 (0.83%) Claude Code
5 2 (0.83%) Cypress.io
5 2 (0.83%) MLflow
5 2 (0.83%) Selenium
5 2 (0.83%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.41%) Eclipse
6 1 (0.41%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.41%) Maven
General
1 59 (24.48%) Social Skills
2 37 (15.35%) Finance
3 34 (14.11%) Public Sector
4 25 (10.37%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (5.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (4.15%) Aerospace
6 10 (4.15%) Manufacturing
7 4 (1.66%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (1.66%) Retail
8 3 (1.24%) Banking
8 3 (1.24%) Law
8 3 (1.24%) Legal
9 2 (0.83%) Advertising
9 2 (0.83%) Electronics
9 2 (0.83%) Marketing
9 2 (0.83%) Wearables
10 1 (0.41%) Back Office
10 1 (0.41%) Legal Technology
Job Titles
1 40 (16.60%) Analyst
2 30 (12.45%) Data Analyst
3 29 (12.03%) Architect
3 29 (12.03%) Developer
3 29 (12.03%) Junior
4 28 (11.62%) Junior Analyst
4 28 (11.62%) Junior Data Analyst
4 28 (11.62%) Software Engineer
5 26 (10.79%) Software Developer
6 21 (8.71%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 16 (6.64%) Lead
7 16 (6.64%) Senior
8 12 (4.98%) Data Architect
9 11 (4.56%) C++ Software Engineer
9 11 (4.56%) Rust Engineer
9 11 (4.56%) Rust Software Engineer
10 10 (4.15%) DevOps Engineer
10 10 (4.15%) Technical Architect
10 10 (4.15%) Technologist
11 9 (3.73%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (9.54%) .NET
2 14 (5.81%) React
3 11 (4.56%) LangChain
3 11 (4.56%) YAML
4 9 (3.73%) ARM Templates
4 9 (3.73%) Node.js
5 8 (3.32%) LlamaIndex
6 6 (2.49%) REST
7 5 (2.07%) Entity Framework
8 4 (1.66%) .NET Framework
8 4 (1.66%) CSS
8 4 (1.66%) Hugging Face
8 4 (1.66%) Matplotlib
8 4 (1.66%) NumPy
8 4 (1.66%) Pandas
8 4 (1.66%) scikit-learn
8 4 (1.66%) Streamlit
8 4 (1.66%) Tailwind CSS
9 3 (1.24%) Next.js
9 3 (1.24%) SignalR
Miscellaneous
1 14 (5.81%) Cloud Native
2 12 (4.98%) Onboarding
3 8 (3.32%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (2.90%) AI Agents
5 5 (2.07%) Virtual Team
6 4 (1.66%) Algorithms
6 4 (1.66%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (1.66%) Embedded Systems
6 4 (1.66%) Life Science
7 3 (1.24%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.24%) Distributed Architecture
7 3 (1.24%) IVR
7 3 (1.24%) Low-Code
7 3 (1.24%) Robotics
7 3 (1.24%) Web Conferencing
8 2 (0.83%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (0.83%) Data Centre
8 2 (0.83%) IoT
8 2 (0.83%) Raspberry Pi
8 2 (0.83%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 23 (9.54%) Linux
2 3 (1.24%) Windows
3 1 (0.41%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (18.67%) Software Engineering
2 38 (15.77%) Agile
2 38 (15.77%) Machine Learning
3 37 (15.35%) Business Intelligence
4 30 (12.45%) CI/CD
5 28 (11.62%) Problem-Solving
6 27 (11.20%) Computer Science
6 27 (11.20%) Infrastructure as Code
7 26 (10.79%) DevOps
8 25 (10.37%) LLM
9 24 (9.96%) Mathematics
9 24 (9.96%) Workflow
10 23 (9.54%) Analytics
10 23 (9.54%) Roadmaps
11 21 (8.71%) Physics
12 20 (8.30%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
12 20 (8.30%) Requirements Management
13 19 (7.88%) Decision-Making
14 18 (7.47%) Observability
15 17 (7.05%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 90 (37.34%) Python
2 51 (21.16%) SQL
3 23 (9.54%) C#
4 20 (8.30%) C++
4 20 (8.30%) Rust
5 16 (6.64%) TypeScript
6 14 (5.81%) PowerShell
7 11 (4.56%) Bash
7 11 (4.56%) Bicep
8 9 (3.73%) JavaScript
9 5 (2.07%) Java
10 3 (1.24%) Go
11 1 (0.41%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 51 (21.16%) Azure Certification
2 37 (15.35%) Degree
3 22 (9.13%) Computer Science Degree
4 11 (4.56%) AWS Certification
4 11 (4.56%) Security Cleared
5 9 (3.73%) BPSS Clearance
6 7 (2.90%) SC Cleared
7 4 (1.66%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 1 (0.41%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.98%) Data Quality
2 3 (1.24%) Accessibility
2 3 (1.24%) QA
3 2 (0.83%) NCSC
System Software
1 11 (4.56%) Docker
2 3 (1.24%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.24%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (0.83%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 16 (6.64%) Terraform
2 13 (5.39%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.24%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (1.24%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 56 (23.24%) Microsoft
2 6 (2.49%) Cisco
2 6 (2.49%) Sage
3 4 (1.66%) Xero
4 3 (1.24%) Avaya
4 3 (1.24%) Databricks
4 3 (1.24%) Foundry
4 3 (1.24%) Genesys
5 2 (0.83%) Salesforce
5 2 (0.83%) Spotify
5 2 (0.83%) UiPath
6 1 (0.41%) Alteryx
6 1 (0.41%) Dataiku
6 1 (0.41%) Freshdesk