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

6 months to
3 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 35 100
Rank change year-on-year +18 +65 +9
Permanent jobs citing AI 125 31 20
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 6.62% 5.49% 1.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.19% 5.96% 1.25%
Number of salaries quoted 51 10 16
10th Percentile £33,750 £29,625 £39,421
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,688 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £51,250
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +12.20% -6.82%
75th Percentile £70,000 £75,944 £67,968
90th Percentile £73,750 £85,375 £85,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -3.45%

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 1,360 520 1,598
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 72.07% 92.04% 86.94%
Number of salaries quoted 932 330 1,301
10th Percentile £28,250 £26,911 £27,873
25th Percentile £35,000 £35,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -2.06%
75th Percentile £65,640 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £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 3 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 3 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 88 £56,250 -2.17% 66
Durham +8 36 £50,000 -43.50% 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 5 (4.00%) Jupyter
2 2 (1.60%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.60%) Confluence
3 1 (0.80%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.80%) WildFly
Applications
1 49 (39.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (6.40%) Chatbot
3 2 (1.60%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.80%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 67 (53.60%) Azure
2 60 (48.00%) Azure AI
3 48 (38.40%) Power Platform
4 10 (8.00%) Cloud Computing
5 7 (5.60%) AWS
6 5 (4.00%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (2.40%) Azure Stack
8 2 (1.60%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (1.60%) Dagster
8 2 (1.60%) dbt
8 2 (1.60%) Snowflake
9 1 (0.80%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 1 (0.80%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (0.80%) GCP
9 1 (0.80%) GitHub
9 1 (0.80%) GitHub Copilot
9 1 (0.80%) IaaS
9 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Copilot
9 1 (0.80%) PaaS
9 1 (0.80%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.80%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (37.60%) Power BI
2 44 (35.20%) Tableau
3 7 (5.60%) Big Data
4 2 (1.60%) Data Vault
4 2 (1.60%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.60%) Power Query
5 1 (0.80%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.80%) Data Hub
5 1 (0.80%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.80%) Looker
5 1 (0.80%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.80%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (4.00%) Visual Studio Code
2 2 (1.60%) Cypress.io
2 2 (1.60%) JIRA
2 2 (1.60%) Selenium
2 2 (1.60%) SpecFlow
3 1 (0.80%) Eclipse
3 1 (0.80%) GitLab
3 1 (0.80%) Maven
General
1 64 (51.20%) Social Skills
2 23 (18.40%) Finance
3 13 (10.40%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (7.20%) Public Sector
5 5 (4.00%) Manufacturing
5 5 (4.00%) Retail
6 2 (1.60%) Aerospace
6 2 (1.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.60%) Marketing
6 2 (1.60%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.80%) Back Office
7 1 (0.80%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.80%) Law
7 1 (0.80%) Legal
Job Titles
1 49 (39.20%) Analyst
2 46 (36.80%) Data Analyst
3 42 (33.60%) Junior
3 42 (33.60%) Junior Analyst
3 42 (33.60%) Junior Data Analyst
4 12 (9.60%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 9 (7.20%) Architect
6 8 (6.40%) Developer
6 8 (6.40%) Lead
7 7 (5.60%) Solutions Architect
8 6 (4.80%) Development Engineer
8 6 (4.80%) Research Engineer
8 6 (4.80%) Software Developer
9 5 (4.00%) Accountant
9 5 (4.00%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
9 5 (4.00%) Financial Accountant
9 5 (4.00%) Programmer
9 5 (4.00%) Senior
9 5 (4.00%) Trainee
9 5 (4.00%) Trainee Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.00%) .NET
1 5 (4.00%) Hugging Face
1 5 (4.00%) Matplotlib
1 5 (4.00%) NumPy
1 5 (4.00%) Pandas
1 5 (4.00%) scikit-learn
1 5 (4.00%) Streamlit
2 2 (1.60%) ARM Templates
2 2 (1.60%) HTML
2 2 (1.60%) Playwright
2 2 (1.60%) Puppeteer
2 2 (1.60%) YAML
3 1 (0.80%) EJB
3 1 (0.80%) GWT
3 1 (0.80%) JDBC
3 1 (0.80%) JPA
3 1 (0.80%) PostGIS
3 1 (0.80%) PySpark
3 1 (0.80%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 5 (4.00%) Algorithms
1 5 (4.00%) Social Network
1 5 (4.00%) Virtual Team
2 2 (1.60%) Life Science
2 2 (1.60%) Reinsurance
2 2 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (0.80%) Data Structures
3 1 (0.80%) Educational Technology
3 1 (0.80%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (38.40%) Business Intelligence
2 18 (14.40%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
3 14 (11.20%) Machine Learning
4 13 (10.40%) Analytics
5 10 (8.00%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (8.00%) Roadmaps
6 9 (7.20%) Agile
7 8 (6.40%) Conversational UI
7 8 (6.40%) Decision-Making
8 7 (5.60%) DevOps
8 7 (5.60%) LLM
8 7 (5.60%) Workflow
9 6 (4.80%) Continuous Improvement
9 6 (4.80%) Data Privacy
9 6 (4.80%) Visualisation
10 5 (4.00%) CI/CD
10 5 (4.00%) Customer Service
10 5 (4.00%) Data Governance
10 5 (4.00%) Prompt Engineering
10 5 (4.00%) Sentiment Analysis
Programming Languages
1 71 (56.80%) Python
2 51 (40.80%) SQL
3 3 (2.40%) C#
4 2 (1.60%) Bash
4 2 (1.60%) Bicep
4 2 (1.60%) Java
4 2 (1.60%) PowerShell
5 1 (0.80%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 56 (44.80%) Azure Certification
2 7 (5.60%) Degree
3 5 (4.00%) ACCA
3 5 (4.00%) AWS Certification
3 5 (4.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 3 (2.40%) Master's Degree
4 3 (2.40%) PhD
5 2 (1.60%) Security Cleared
6 1 (0.80%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.80%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.00%) GAAP
1 5 (4.00%) IFRS
2 3 (2.40%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.40%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (2.40%) Terraform
2 2 (1.60%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 56 (44.80%) Microsoft
2 3 (2.40%) Databricks
2 3 (2.40%) PayPal
3 1 (0.80%) Alteryx
3 1 (0.80%) Dataiku
3 1 (0.80%) Sage
3 1 (0.80%) Xero