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

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 12 82
Rank change year-on-year +1 +70 +3
Permanent jobs citing AI 230 81 14
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 8.41% 9.34% 0.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.54% 11.28% 1.04%
Number of salaries quoted 153 15 12
10th Percentile £38,397 - £35,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £24,570 £35,069
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £31,500 £57,311
Median % change year-on-year +106.35% -45.04% +23.92%
75th Percentile £77,500 £50,875 £72,226
90th Percentile £99,727 £61,250 £85,000
England median annual salary £70,150 £70,000 £71,991
% change year-on-year +0.21% -2.77% -4.01%

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 1,993 718 1,350
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 72.84% 82.81% 80.94%
Number of salaries quoted 1,498 464 1,019
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £28,188 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £70,188 £62,500 £62,200
90th Percentile £90,000 £79,475 £74,800
England median annual salary £60,000 £56,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +6.19% +2.73% -11.29%

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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 28 July 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 28 July 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 -8 179 £66,750 +111.90% 58
Durham +29 50 £52,500 - 10
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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 9 (3.91%) Confluence
2 8 (3.48%) Jupyter
3 4 (1.74%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.74%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.30%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.30%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.87%) Apache
6 1 (0.43%) WildFly
Applications
1 36 (15.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (3.48%) Chatbot
3 5 (2.17%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (2.17%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.43%) LaTeX
Business Applications
1 4 (1.74%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 94 (40.87%) Azure
2 50 (21.74%) Azure AI
3 40 (17.39%) Power Platform
4 32 (13.91%) AWS
5 15 (6.52%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (4.35%) GCP
6 10 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
7 6 (2.61%) Cloud Computing
7 6 (2.61%) GitHub
8 5 (2.17%) Serverless
9 4 (1.74%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 4 (1.74%) Microsoft Copilot
10 3 (1.30%) Amazon S3
10 3 (1.30%) Azure Data Factory
10 3 (1.30%) Azure Service Bus
10 3 (1.30%) Azure Stack
10 3 (1.30%) Entra ID
10 3 (1.30%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (1.30%) OneDrive
10 3 (1.30%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.30%) CTI
1 3 (1.30%) VoIP
2 2 (0.87%) MQTT
3 1 (0.43%) HTTP
3 1 (0.43%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (16.96%) Power BI
2 32 (13.91%) Tableau
3 8 (3.48%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (2.61%) Big Data
4 6 (2.61%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (2.61%) NoSQL
5 5 (2.17%) SQL Server
6 4 (1.74%) MySQL
6 4 (1.74%) Relational Database
7 3 (1.30%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (1.30%) Data Lake
7 3 (1.30%) MongoDB
7 3 (1.30%) Redis
8 2 (0.87%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (0.87%) Data Vault
9 1 (0.43%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.43%) Data Hub
9 1 (0.43%) Flink
9 1 (0.43%) Looker
Development Applications
1 9 (3.91%) JIRA
2 6 (2.61%) GitLab
3 5 (2.17%) Visual Studio Code
4 4 (1.74%) Git
5 2 (0.87%) Claude Code
5 2 (0.87%) Cypress.io
5 2 (0.87%) MLflow
5 2 (0.87%) Selenium
5 2 (0.87%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.43%) Eclipse
6 1 (0.43%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.43%) Maven
General
1 58 (25.22%) Social Skills
2 37 (16.09%) Finance
3 29 (12.61%) Public Sector
4 23 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (4.35%) Manufacturing
6 9 (3.91%) Aerospace
7 7 (3.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (2.17%) Retail
9 4 (1.74%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.30%) Banking
10 3 (1.30%) Law
10 3 (1.30%) Legal
11 2 (0.87%) Advertising
11 2 (0.87%) Electronics
11 2 (0.87%) Marketing
11 2 (0.87%) Wearables
12 1 (0.43%) Back Office
12 1 (0.43%) Legal Technology
Job Titles
1 40 (17.39%) Analyst
2 32 (13.91%) Data Analyst
3 31 (13.48%) Junior
4 30 (13.04%) Junior Analyst
4 30 (13.04%) Junior Data Analyst
5 29 (12.61%) Developer
6 28 (12.17%) Architect
7 27 (11.74%) Software Engineer
8 26 (11.30%) Software Developer
9 19 (8.26%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 14 (6.09%) Lead
11 13 (5.65%) Senior
12 12 (5.22%) Data Architect
13 11 (4.78%) C++ Software Engineer
13 11 (4.78%) Rust Engineer
13 11 (4.78%) Rust Software Engineer
14 10 (4.35%) DevOps Engineer
15 9 (3.91%) C++ Developer
15 9 (3.91%) C++ Software Developer
15 9 (3.91%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (10.00%) .NET
2 13 (5.65%) React
3 11 (4.78%) YAML
4 9 (3.91%) ARM Templates
4 9 (3.91%) LangChain
5 8 (3.48%) Node.js
6 6 (2.61%) LlamaIndex
7 5 (2.17%) Entity Framework
7 5 (2.17%) Hugging Face
7 5 (2.17%) Matplotlib
7 5 (2.17%) NumPy
7 5 (2.17%) Pandas
7 5 (2.17%) REST
7 5 (2.17%) scikit-learn
7 5 (2.17%) Streamlit
8 4 (1.74%) .NET Framework
9 3 (1.30%) CSS
9 3 (1.30%) Express.js
9 3 (1.30%) SignalR
9 3 (1.30%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 13 (5.65%) Cloud Native
2 8 (3.48%) Legacy Systems
2 8 (3.48%) Onboarding
3 7 (3.04%) AI Agents
4 5 (2.17%) Algorithms
4 5 (2.17%) Virtual Team
5 4 (1.74%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (1.74%) Embedded Systems
5 4 (1.74%) Life Science
6 3 (1.30%) Data Structures
6 3 (1.30%) Distributed Architecture
6 3 (1.30%) IVR
6 3 (1.30%) Robotics
6 3 (1.30%) Web Conferencing
7 2 (0.87%) IoT
7 2 (0.87%) Low-Code
7 2 (0.87%) Mobile App
7 2 (0.87%) Raspberry Pi
8 1 (0.43%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.43%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 23 (10.00%) Linux
2 3 (1.30%) Windows
3 1 (0.43%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (19.13%) Software Engineering
2 39 (16.96%) Business Intelligence
3 34 (14.78%) Machine Learning
4 33 (14.35%) Agile
5 26 (11.30%) CI/CD
5 26 (11.30%) Computer Science
5 26 (11.30%) Problem-Solving
6 25 (10.87%) Workflow
7 24 (10.43%) DevOps
8 23 (10.00%) Analytics
8 23 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
8 23 (10.00%) LLM
8 23 (10.00%) Mathematics
9 22 (9.57%) Roadmaps
10 21 (9.13%) Physics
11 20 (8.70%) Requirements Management
12 19 (8.26%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
13 17 (7.39%) Decision-Making
14 16 (6.96%) Data Pipeline
14 16 (6.96%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 91 (39.57%) Python
2 53 (23.04%) SQL
3 23 (10.00%) C#
4 20 (8.70%) C++
4 20 (8.70%) Rust
5 15 (6.52%) TypeScript
6 14 (6.09%) PowerShell
7 11 (4.78%) Bash
7 11 (4.78%) Bicep
8 9 (3.91%) JavaScript
9 5 (2.17%) Java
10 3 (1.30%) Go
11 1 (0.43%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 50 (21.74%) Azure Certification
2 36 (15.65%) Degree
3 22 (9.57%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (3.91%) AWS Certification
4 9 (3.91%) Security Cleared
5 7 (3.04%) SC Cleared
6 5 (2.17%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 5 (2.17%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.43%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.22%) Data Quality
2 3 (1.30%) Accessibility
2 3 (1.30%) QA
3 1 (0.43%) NCSC
System Software
1 10 (4.35%) Docker
2 3 (1.30%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.30%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (0.87%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 16 (6.96%) Terraform
2 13 (5.65%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.30%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (1.30%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 58 (25.22%) Microsoft
2 6 (2.61%) Cisco
3 5 (2.17%) Sage
4 4 (1.74%) Xero
5 3 (1.30%) Avaya
5 3 (1.30%) Databricks
5 3 (1.30%) Foundry
5 3 (1.30%) Genesys
6 2 (0.87%) Salesforce
6 2 (0.87%) UiPath
7 1 (0.43%) Alteryx
7 1 (0.43%) Dataiku
7 1 (0.43%) Freshdesk
7 1 (0.43%) Spotify