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

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 23 96
Rank change year-on-year +9 +73 +12
Permanent jobs citing AI 142 53 18
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 6.86% 8.75% 0.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.60% 9.40% 1.10%
Number of salaries quoted 71 11 17
10th Percentile £33,750 £24,570 £35,092
25th Percentile £50,000 £27,410 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% +9.47% -13.64%
75th Percentile £70,000 £61,250 £67,968
90th Percentile £76,250 £72,777 £85,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 1,479 564 1,629
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 71.45% 93.07% 86.56%
Number of salaries quoted 1,040 328 1,325
10th Percentile £29,000 £26,025 £27,924
25th Percentile £37,500 £33,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -0.36%
75th Percentile £69,543 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £81,625 £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 18 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 18 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 -7 103 £65,000 +25.00% 109
Durham +16 38 £50,000 - 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 5 (3.52%) Jupyter
2 2 (1.41%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.41%) Confluence
3 1 (0.70%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.70%) WildFly
Applications
1 43 (30.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (3.52%) Chatbot
3 4 (2.82%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (2.11%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 74 (52.11%) Azure
2 58 (40.85%) Azure AI
3 44 (30.99%) Power Platform
4 13 (9.15%) AWS
5 8 (5.63%) Cloud Computing
6 6 (4.23%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (3.52%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (2.82%) GCP
8 4 (2.82%) GitHub
9 3 (2.11%) Azure Stack
10 2 (1.41%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 2 (1.41%) Dagster
10 2 (1.41%) dbt
10 2 (1.41%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (1.41%) Snowflake
11 1 (0.70%) Azure Data Factory
11 1 (0.70%) GitHub Copilot
11 1 (0.70%) IaaS
11 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Copilot
11 1 (0.70%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.70%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (30.28%) Power BI
2 42 (29.58%) Tableau
3 5 (3.52%) Big Data
4 3 (2.11%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (2.11%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.41%) Data Vault
5 2 (1.41%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.41%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.70%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.70%) Data Hub
6 1 (0.70%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.70%) Looker
6 1 (0.70%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 5 (3.52%) Visual Studio Code
2 3 (2.11%) Git
3 2 (1.41%) Cypress.io
3 2 (1.41%) GitLab
3 2 (1.41%) JIRA
3 2 (1.41%) Selenium
3 2 (1.41%) SpecFlow
4 1 (0.70%) Eclipse
4 1 (0.70%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.70%) Maven
4 1 (0.70%) MLflow
General
1 61 (42.96%) Social Skills
2 23 (16.20%) Finance
3 11 (7.75%) Public Sector
4 9 (6.34%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (4.93%) Manufacturing
6 5 (3.52%) Retail
7 3 (2.11%) Aerospace
8 2 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.41%) Marketing
9 1 (0.70%) Back Office
9 1 (0.70%) Electronics
9 1 (0.70%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.70%) Law
9 1 (0.70%) Legal
9 1 (0.70%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 45 (31.69%) Analyst
2 42 (29.58%) Data Analyst
3 40 (28.17%) Junior
3 40 (28.17%) Junior Analyst
3 40 (28.17%) Junior Data Analyst
4 15 (10.56%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 14 (9.86%) Architect
6 13 (9.15%) Developer
7 11 (7.75%) Software Developer
8 8 (5.63%) Lead
9 7 (4.93%) Data Architect
9 7 (4.93%) Solutions Architect
10 6 (4.23%) Development Engineer
10 6 (4.23%) Python Developer
10 6 (4.23%) Research Engineer
11 5 (3.52%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
11 5 (3.52%) Programmer
11 5 (3.52%) Software Engineer
11 5 (3.52%) Trainee
11 5 (3.52%) Trainee Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (7.04%) .NET
2 5 (3.52%) ARM Templates
2 5 (3.52%) Hugging Face
2 5 (3.52%) LangChain
2 5 (3.52%) Matplotlib
2 5 (3.52%) NumPy
2 5 (3.52%) Pandas
2 5 (3.52%) scikit-learn
2 5 (3.52%) Streamlit
2 5 (3.52%) YAML
3 4 (2.82%) React
4 3 (2.11%) LlamaIndex
4 3 (2.11%) Node.js
4 3 (2.11%) REST
5 2 (1.41%) CSS
5 2 (1.41%) HTML
5 2 (1.41%) Playwright
5 2 (1.41%) Puppeteer
5 2 (1.41%) Tailwind CSS
6 1 (0.70%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 5 (3.52%) Algorithms
1 5 (3.52%) Life Science
1 5 (3.52%) Virtual Team
2 3 (2.11%) AI Agents
2 3 (2.11%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (2.11%) Social Network
3 1 (0.70%) Cloud Native
3 1 (0.70%) Data Structures
3 1 (0.70%) Educational Technology
3 1 (0.70%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (0.70%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (0.70%) Mobile App
3 1 (0.70%) Raspberry Pi
3 1 (0.70%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.70%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (30.99%) Business Intelligence
2 20 (14.08%) Machine Learning
3 18 (12.68%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
4 13 (9.15%) Agile
5 12 (8.45%) Problem-Solving
5 12 (8.45%) Roadmaps
6 11 (7.75%) Analytics
6 11 (7.75%) DevOps
7 10 (7.04%) LLM
8 9 (6.34%) Infrastructure as Code
8 9 (6.34%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
9 8 (5.63%) CI/CD
9 8 (5.63%) Decision-Making
9 8 (5.63%) Prompt Engineering
9 8 (5.63%) Software Engineering
9 8 (5.63%) Workflow
10 7 (4.93%) Customer Service
10 7 (4.93%) Scrum
11 6 (4.23%) Data Privacy
11 6 (4.23%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 79 (55.63%) Python
2 46 (32.39%) SQL
3 7 (4.93%) C#
4 5 (3.52%) Bash
4 5 (3.52%) Bicep
4 5 (3.52%) PowerShell
5 3 (2.11%) Java
6 2 (1.41%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.41%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.70%) C++
7 1 (0.70%) Rust
Qualifications
1 54 (38.03%) Azure Certification
2 7 (4.93%) Degree
3 5 (3.52%) AWS Certification
3 5 (3.52%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 3 (2.11%) ACCA
5 2 (1.41%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.41%) Security Cleared
6 1 (0.70%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.52%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.11%) GAAP
2 3 (2.11%) IFRS
2 3 (2.11%) QA
System Software
1 3 (2.11%) Docker
2 1 (0.70%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 7 (4.93%) Terraform
2 5 (3.52%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 57 (40.14%) Microsoft
2 3 (2.11%) Databricks
2 3 (2.11%) Sage
2 3 (2.11%) Xero
3 1 (0.70%) Alteryx
3 1 (0.70%) Dataiku