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

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 15 103
Rank change year-on-year 0 +88 -4
Permanent jobs citing AI 179 65 20
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 7.46% 9.63% 0.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.48% 10.83% 1.10%
Number of salaries quoted 112 15 19
10th Percentile £34,100 - £35,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £24,570 £39,421
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £42,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +52.94% -10.53% -13.64%
75th Percentile £75,000 £57,125 £63,357
90th Percentile £85,000 £61,250 £85,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £66,350 £70,000
% change year-on-year +5.50% -5.21% -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 1,708 600 1,818
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 71.20% 88.89% 82.79%
Number of salaries quoted 1,272 355 1,429
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,000 £26,450
25th Percentile £40,000 £28,188 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £74,055 £75,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -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 15 June 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 15 June 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 -7 138 £67,500 +58.82% 46
Durham +19 40 £50,000 - 13
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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 7 (3.91%) Jupyter
2 4 (2.23%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (2.23%) Confluence
3 3 (1.68%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.12%) Apache
4 2 (1.12%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.12%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.56%) WildFly
Applications
1 35 (19.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.79%) Chatbot
2 5 (2.79%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.12%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (2.23%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 78 (43.58%) Azure
2 50 (27.93%) Azure AI
3 39 (21.79%) Power Platform
4 21 (11.73%) AWS
5 10 (5.59%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (3.91%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (2.79%) Cloud Computing
7 5 (2.79%) GCP
7 5 (2.79%) GitHub
8 3 (1.68%) Amazon S3
8 3 (1.68%) Azure Stack
8 3 (1.68%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (1.68%) Microsoft Copilot
9 2 (1.12%) Amazon ECR
9 2 (1.12%) Anthropic Claude
9 2 (1.12%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 2 (1.12%) Dagster
9 2 (1.12%) dbt
9 2 (1.12%) Snowflake
9 2 (1.12%) Textract
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.12%) MQTT
2 1 (0.56%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (21.23%) Power BI
2 34 (18.99%) Tableau
3 5 (2.79%) Big Data
3 5 (2.79%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (2.79%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (2.23%) Relational Database
5 3 (1.68%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.12%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (1.12%) Data Vault
6 2 (1.12%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.56%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.56%) Data Hub
7 1 (0.56%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.56%) Looker
7 1 (0.56%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.56%) MySQL
7 1 (0.56%) Redis
Development Applications
1 5 (2.79%) Visual Studio Code
2 4 (2.23%) Git
2 4 (2.23%) GitLab
2 4 (2.23%) JIRA
3 2 (1.12%) Claude Code
3 2 (1.12%) Cypress.io
3 2 (1.12%) MLflow
3 2 (1.12%) Selenium
3 2 (1.12%) SpecFlow
4 1 (0.56%) Eclipse
4 1 (0.56%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.56%) Maven
General
1 57 (31.84%) Social Skills
2 24 (13.41%) Finance
3 18 (10.06%) Public Sector
4 17 (9.50%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (5.59%) Manufacturing
6 5 (2.79%) Retail
7 4 (2.23%) Aerospace
8 3 (1.68%) Legal
9 2 (1.12%) Advertising
9 2 (1.12%) Electronics
9 2 (1.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.12%) Law
9 2 (1.12%) Marketing
9 2 (1.12%) Wearables
10 1 (0.56%) Back Office
10 1 (0.56%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.56%) Legal Technology
Job Titles
1 39 (21.79%) Analyst
2 34 (18.99%) Data Analyst
3 32 (17.88%) Junior
3 32 (17.88%) Junior Analyst
3 32 (17.88%) Junior Data Analyst
4 23 (12.85%) Developer
5 20 (11.17%) Software Developer
6 19 (10.61%) Software Engineer
7 17 (9.50%) Architect
7 17 (9.50%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 12 (6.70%) Senior
9 10 (5.59%) Data Architect
10 9 (5.03%) Lead
11 8 (4.47%) C++ Software Engineer
11 8 (4.47%) Data Engineer
11 8 (4.47%) Rust Engineer
11 8 (4.47%) Rust Software Engineer
12 7 (3.91%) C++ Developer
12 7 (3.91%) C++ Software Developer
12 7 (3.91%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (9.50%) .NET
2 8 (4.47%) React
2 8 (4.47%) YAML
3 7 (3.91%) ARM Templates
3 7 (3.91%) LangChain
4 6 (3.35%) Node.js
4 6 (3.35%) REST
5 5 (2.79%) Hugging Face
5 5 (2.79%) Matplotlib
5 5 (2.79%) NumPy
5 5 (2.79%) Pandas
5 5 (2.79%) scikit-learn
5 5 (2.79%) Streamlit
6 4 (2.23%) LlamaIndex
7 3 (1.68%) CSS
7 3 (1.68%) Entity Framework
7 3 (1.68%) PySpark
7 3 (1.68%) Tailwind CSS
8 2 (1.12%) .NET Framework
8 2 (1.12%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (3.35%) Cloud Native
2 5 (2.79%) Algorithms
2 5 (2.79%) Virtual Team
3 4 (2.23%) AI Agents
3 4 (2.23%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (2.23%) Embedded Systems
3 4 (2.23%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (2.23%) Life Science
4 3 (1.68%) Data Structures
4 3 (1.68%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.12%) IoT
5 2 (1.12%) Low-Code
5 2 (1.12%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.12%) Raspberry Pi
5 2 (1.12%) Web Conferencing
6 1 (0.56%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (0.56%) Educational Technology
6 1 (0.56%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.56%) Robotics
6 1 (0.56%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 17 (9.50%) Linux
2 2 (1.12%) Windows
3 1 (0.56%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (21.79%) Business Intelligence
2 31 (17.32%) Software Engineering
3 28 (15.64%) Machine Learning
4 21 (11.73%) Agile
5 19 (10.61%) Problem-Solving
6 18 (10.06%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
6 18 (10.06%) Workflow
7 17 (9.50%) Analytics
7 17 (9.50%) DevOps
8 16 (8.94%) Computer Science
8 16 (8.94%) LLM
9 15 (8.38%) Infrastructure as Code
9 15 (8.38%) Mathematics
9 15 (8.38%) Physics
9 15 (8.38%) Requirements Management
9 15 (8.38%) Roadmaps
10 14 (7.82%) CI/CD
11 13 (7.26%) Data Pipeline
11 13 (7.26%) Decision-Making
12 11 (6.15%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 84 (46.93%) Python
2 47 (26.26%) SQL
3 16 (8.94%) C#
4 15 (8.38%) C++
4 15 (8.38%) Rust
5 10 (5.59%) PowerShell
6 8 (4.47%) Bash
6 8 (4.47%) Bicep
7 6 (3.35%) TypeScript
8 5 (2.79%) Java
8 5 (2.79%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.56%) Go
9 1 (0.56%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 46 (25.70%) Azure Certification
2 22 (12.29%) Degree
3 16 (8.94%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (3.35%) Security Cleared
5 5 (2.79%) AWS Certification
5 5 (2.79%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 5 (2.79%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.15%) Data Quality
2 3 (1.68%) QA
System Software
1 7 (3.91%) Docker
2 2 (1.12%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.12%) Firmware
2 2 (1.12%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 12 (6.70%) Terraform
2 9 (5.03%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.12%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (1.12%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 54 (30.17%) Microsoft
2 4 (2.23%) Sage
2 4 (2.23%) Xero
3 3 (1.68%) Databricks
4 2 (1.12%) Cisco
4 2 (1.12%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.56%) Alteryx
5 1 (0.56%) Dataiku
5 1 (0.56%) Freshdesk