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

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 7 74
Rank change year-on-year -8 +67 -15
Permanent jobs citing AI 253 136 22
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 7.26% 14.26% 1.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.19% 17.44% 2.00%
Number of salaries quoted 186 18 13
10th Percentile £40,000 £24,399 £35,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £24,570 £35,092
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,750 £34,168 £57,311
Median % change year-on-year +92.43% -40.38% +23.92%
75th Percentile £82,500 £59,188 £85,000
90th Percentile £93,634 £65,000 £89,000
England median annual salary £74,250 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +6.07% -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 2,484 780 1,101
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 71.32% 81.76% 79.55%
Number of salaries quoted 1,830 476 604
10th Percentile £32,500 £25,086 £25,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £28,188 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £43,375 £46,484
Median % change year-on-year +26.80% -6.69% -7.03%
75th Percentile £75,000 £60,000 £62,200
90th Percentile £93,770 £74,004 £77,850
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -2.44%

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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 29 September 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 29 September 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 -12 214 £66,000 +93.17% 150
Durham +7 37 £54,500 - 5
Northumberland - 2 £55,000 -
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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 (4.35%) Confluence
2 6 (2.37%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.19%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.19%) Jupyter
3 3 (1.19%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.79%) Apache
4 2 (0.79%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.40%) WildFly
Applications
1 21 (8.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (3.16%) MS Visio
3 5 (1.98%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (1.19%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.79%) CATIA
5 2 (0.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.79%) Siemens NX
5 2 (0.79%) SOLIDWORKS
6 1 (0.40%) LaTeX
Business Applications
1 4 (1.58%) Sage 50
2 1 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 100 (39.53%) Azure
2 56 (22.13%) AWS
3 33 (13.04%) GCP
4 29 (11.46%) Azure AI
5 21 (8.30%) Power Platform
6 17 (6.72%) Microsoft 365
7 16 (6.32%) Azure DevOps
8 11 (4.35%) GitHub
9 10 (3.95%) Microsoft Copilot
10 6 (2.37%) GitHub Actions
10 6 (2.37%) Serverless
11 5 (1.98%) OneDrive
11 5 (1.98%) SaaS
12 4 (1.58%) Amazon S3
12 4 (1.58%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 4 (1.58%) Copilot Studio
12 4 (1.58%) GitHub Copilot
13 3 (1.19%) Azure Data Factory
13 3 (1.19%) Azure Service Bus
13 3 (1.19%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.58%) Network Security
2 3 (1.19%) CTI
2 3 (1.19%) VoIP
3 2 (0.79%) MQTT
4 1 (0.40%) HTTP
4 1 (0.40%) Internet
4 1 (0.40%) WAN
4 1 (0.40%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (6.72%) Power BI
2 11 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (3.95%) Tableau
4 8 (3.16%) Relational Database
5 6 (2.37%) NoSQL
5 6 (2.37%) SQL Server
6 5 (1.98%) Big Data
6 5 (1.98%) MySQL
7 4 (1.58%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (1.58%) Redis
8 3 (1.19%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (1.19%) Data Lake
8 3 (1.19%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.79%) Amazon Athena
10 1 (0.40%) BigQuery
10 1 (0.40%) Flink
Development Applications
1 11 (4.35%) JIRA
2 7 (2.77%) Git
2 7 (2.77%) GitLab
3 3 (1.19%) Claude Code
4 2 (0.79%) MLflow
5 1 (0.40%) Eclipse
5 1 (0.40%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.40%) Maven
General
1 54 (21.34%) Public Sector
2 49 (19.37%) Social Skills
3 38 (15.02%) Finance
4 36 (14.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 27 (10.67%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (3.95%) Aerospace
6 10 (3.95%) Manufacturing
7 7 (2.77%) Marketing
8 5 (1.98%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.58%) Legal
10 3 (1.19%) Banking
10 3 (1.19%) Law
11 2 (0.79%) Advertising
11 2 (0.79%) Electronics
11 2 (0.79%) Wearables
12 1 (0.40%) Back Office
12 1 (0.40%) Polish Language
12 1 (0.40%) Russian Language
12 1 (0.40%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.40%) Ukrainian Language
Job Titles
1 34 (13.44%) Architect
1 34 (13.44%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 30 (11.86%) Software Engineer
3 29 (11.46%) Developer
4 25 (9.88%) Lead
4 25 (9.88%) Software Developer
5 24 (9.49%) Senior
6 20 (7.91%) Analyst
7 17 (6.72%) Technical Architect
8 15 (5.93%) Data Engineer
9 12 (4.74%) Data Architect
10 11 (4.35%) C++ Software Engineer
10 11 (4.35%) Junior
10 11 (4.35%) Rust Engineer
10 11 (4.35%) Rust Software Engineer
11 10 (3.95%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
11 10 (3.95%) Junior Analyst
11 10 (3.95%) Junior Data Analyst
11 10 (3.95%) Technical Leader
11 10 (3.95%) Technologist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (10.28%) .NET
2 22 (8.70%) LangChain
3 19 (7.51%) LlamaIndex
4 17 (6.72%) React
4 17 (6.72%) Terraform
5 11 (4.35%) Node.js
5 11 (4.35%) YAML
6 10 (3.95%) REST
7 9 (3.56%) ARM Templates
7 9 (3.56%) Web Services
8 6 (2.37%) CSS
8 6 (2.37%) Tailwind CSS
9 5 (1.98%) .NET Framework
9 5 (1.98%) Entity Framework
10 3 (1.19%) Express.js
10 3 (1.19%) Middleware
10 3 (1.19%) Next.js
10 3 (1.19%) SignalR
11 2 (0.79%) PySpark
11 2 (0.79%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 31 (12.25%) Onboarding
2 23 (9.09%) Cloud Native
3 8 (3.16%) AI Agents
3 8 (3.16%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (1.98%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (1.58%) Data Centre
5 4 (1.58%) Embedded Systems
5 4 (1.58%) IoT
5 4 (1.58%) Life Science
5 4 (1.58%) Low-Code
5 4 (1.58%) Virtual Team
6 3 (1.19%) Cyber Threat
6 3 (1.19%) Data Structures
6 3 (1.19%) Distributed Architecture
6 3 (1.19%) IVR
6 3 (1.19%) Product Ownership
6 3 (1.19%) Robotics
6 3 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (1.19%) Web Conferencing
7 2 (0.79%) Industry 4.0
Operating Systems
1 23 (9.09%) Linux
2 4 (1.58%) Windows
3 1 (0.40%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (21.34%) Agile
2 50 (19.76%) Software Engineering
3 49 (19.37%) Machine Learning
4 43 (17.00%) CI/CD
5 42 (16.60%) Infrastructure as Code
6 41 (16.21%) Problem-Solving
7 37 (14.62%) LLM
8 35 (13.83%) DevOps
9 30 (11.86%) Computer Science
9 30 (11.86%) Observability
10 29 (11.46%) Data Engineering
10 29 (11.46%) Mentoring
10 29 (11.46%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
11 27 (10.67%) Analytics
11 27 (10.67%) Rainbow Teams
12 26 (10.28%) Knowledge Transfer
12 26 (10.28%) MLOps
13 25 (9.88%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
13 25 (9.88%) Mathematics
14 24 (9.49%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 76 (30.04%) Python
2 33 (13.04%) SQL
3 27 (10.67%) C#
4 20 (7.91%) C++
4 20 (7.91%) Rust
5 18 (7.11%) TypeScript
6 14 (5.53%) PowerShell
7 11 (4.35%) Bash
7 11 (4.35%) Bicep
8 10 (3.95%) JavaScript
9 5 (1.98%) Java
10 3 (1.19%) Go
11 1 (0.40%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 41 (16.21%) Azure Certification
1 41 (16.21%) Degree
2 24 (9.49%) Computer Science Degree
3 22 (8.70%) BPSS Clearance
4 18 (7.11%) AWS Certification
5 14 (5.53%) Security Cleared
6 9 (3.56%) SC Cleared
7 2 (0.79%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.40%) CSPO
8 1 (0.40%) IIBA
8 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.40%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.74%) Data Quality
2 9 (3.56%) NCSC
3 5 (1.98%) QA
4 3 (1.19%) Accessibility
System Software
1 13 (5.14%) Docker
2 3 (1.19%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.19%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (0.79%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 13 (5.14%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.19%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (1.19%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.40%) Grafana
3 1 (0.40%) Kibana
Vendors
1 44 (17.39%) Microsoft
2 10 (3.95%) Sage
3 8 (3.16%) Cisco
4 4 (1.58%) Xero
5 3 (1.19%) Avaya
5 3 (1.19%) Foundry
5 3 (1.19%) Genesys
5 3 (1.19%) Google
5 3 (1.19%) Salesforce
6 2 (0.79%) Adobe
6 2 (0.79%) Dell
6 2 (0.79%) Siemens
6 2 (0.79%) Spotify
6 2 (0.79%) UiPath
7 1 (0.40%) Databricks
7 1 (0.40%) Freshdesk
7 1 (0.40%) HubSpot
7 1 (0.40%) YouTube