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 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 64 53
Rank change year-on-year +57 -11 +31
Permanent jobs citing AI 114 23 5
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 11.09% 2.34% 1.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.64% 2.70% 1.06%
Number of salaries quoted 15 7 1
10th Percentile £27,022 £52,750 -
25th Percentile £51,875 £65,625 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £77,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% +28.33% +45.19%
75th Percentile £66,250 £95,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £73,750 £101,000 -
England median annual salary £72,500 £77,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year -6.45% - +10.71%

All Process and 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 836 853 473
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 81.32% 86.69% 94.22%
Number of salaries quoted 546 396 404
10th Percentile £25,592 £30,750 £28,075
25th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £48,750
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +2.56% -2.50%
75th Percentile £62,500 £68,272 £61,250
90th Percentile £81,250 £85,000 £73,375
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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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 16 December 2025.

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 16 December 2025. 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 +55 99 £55,000 -26.67% 172
Durham +7 15 - - 47
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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 1 (0.88%) Apache Spark
1 1 (0.88%) SharePoint
Applications
1 78 (68.42%) Chatbot
2 21 (18.42%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.75%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.75%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 19 (16.67%) Power Platform
2 16 (14.04%) Azure
3 12 (10.53%) Azure AI
4 5 (4.39%) Cloud Computing
5 4 (3.51%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (2.63%) Microsoft Copilot
7 2 (1.75%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (1.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 2 (1.75%) IaaS
7 2 (1.75%) SaaS
8 1 (0.88%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (0.88%) Amazon ELB
8 1 (0.88%) Amazon S3
8 1 (0.88%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.75%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (12.28%) Power BI
2 10 (8.77%) Tableau
3 5 (4.39%) Big Data
4 2 (1.75%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (1.75%) Data Lake
4 2 (1.75%) Power Query
4 2 (1.75%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (0.88%) Delta Lake
5 1 (0.88%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.88%) Metadata
5 1 (0.88%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 1 (0.88%) MLflow
General
1 50 (43.86%) Analytical Skills
2 25 (21.93%) Social Skills
3 16 (14.04%) Finance
4 6 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
4 6 (5.26%) Public Sector
5 3 (2.63%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (1.75%) Aerospace
7 1 (0.88%) Agriculture
7 1 (0.88%) Banking
7 1 (0.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.88%) Local Government
7 1 (0.88%) Marketing
7 1 (0.88%) Police
Job Titles
1 79 (69.30%) Trainer
2 13 (11.40%) Analyst
2 13 (11.40%) Data Analyst
3 10 (8.77%) Junior
3 10 (8.77%) Junior Analyst
3 10 (8.77%) Junior Data Analyst
4 7 (6.14%) Content Editor
4 7 (6.14%) Customer Support Specialist
4 7 (6.14%) Support Specialist
5 6 (5.26%) Architect
6 5 (4.39%) Accountant
6 5 (4.39%) Financial Accountant
7 4 (3.51%) Research Scientist
7 4 (3.51%) Solutions Architect
8 2 (1.75%) Business Manager
8 2 (1.75%) Customer Service Representative
8 2 (1.75%) Data Scientist
8 2 (1.75%) Instructor
8 2 (1.75%) Senior Analyst
8 2 (1.75%) Technologist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.88%) Keras
1 1 (0.88%) Lambda Expressions
1 1 (0.88%) Metaflow
1 1 (0.88%) NumPy
1 1 (0.88%) Pandas
1 1 (0.88%) PySpark
1 1 (0.88%) PyTorch
1 1 (0.88%) scikit-learn
1 1 (0.88%) TensorFlow
1 1 (0.88%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (4.39%) Social Network
2 4 (3.51%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (3.51%) Virtual Team
3 3 (2.63%) Molecular Biology
4 2 (1.75%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (1.75%) Cloud Native
4 2 (1.75%) Data Centre
4 2 (1.75%) Driving Licence
4 2 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (1.75%) Life Science
4 2 (1.75%) Reinsurance
5 1 (0.88%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.88%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (68.42%) Conversational UI
2 43 (37.72%) Chemistry
3 14 (12.28%) Business Intelligence
4 12 (10.53%) Mathematics
5 10 (8.77%) Analytics
5 10 (8.77%) Content Writing
5 10 (8.77%) Decision-Making
6 9 (7.89%) Physics
7 8 (7.02%) Continuous Improvement
7 8 (7.02%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (5.26%) Customer Insight
8 6 (5.26%) Strategic Thinking
9 5 (4.39%) Customer Experience
9 5 (4.39%) Data Science
9 5 (4.39%) Machine Learning
9 5 (4.39%) Visualisation
10 4 (3.51%) Actionable Insight
10 4 (3.51%) Creative Problem-Solving
10 4 (3.51%) Data Governance
10 4 (3.51%) Due Diligence
Programming Languages
1 19 (16.67%) SQL
2 13 (11.40%) Python
3 2 (1.75%) Bicep
3 2 (1.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 78 (68.42%) Degree
2 57 (50.00%) Master's Degree
2 57 (50.00%) PhD
3 10 (8.77%) Azure Certification
4 5 (4.39%) ACCA
5 2 (1.75%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.39%) GAAP
1 5 (4.39%) IFRS
2 2 (1.75%) Actionable Recommendations
2 2 (1.75%) ISO 9001
3 1 (0.88%) QA
System Software
1 1 (0.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (0.88%) Kubeflow
1 1 (0.88%) Kubernetes
1 1 (0.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 78 (68.42%) PayPal
2 13 (11.40%) Microsoft
3 1 (0.88%) Databricks
3 1 (0.88%) Xero