AI Job Trends in the North of England

AI
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring AI skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 45 105
Rank change year-on-year +42 +60 +33
Permanent jobs citing AI 2,642 351 358
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 18.55% 5.10% 2.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 24.44% 5.36% 2.86%
Number of salaries quoted 384 183 263
10th Percentile £25,400 £25,313 £34,200
25th Percentile £33,750 £32,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,625 £65,000 £47,557
Median % change year-on-year -6.73% +36.68% -25.73%
75th Percentile £87,813 £92,286 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,064
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
North of England

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 of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 10,811 6,546 12,516
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 75.92% 95.19% 85.39%
Number of salaries quoted 6,309 3,578 10,066
10th Percentile £28,250 £29,250 £27,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £66,050
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing AI relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

AI job vacancy trend in the North of England

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Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing AI.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing AI

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Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing AI in the North of England over the 6 months to 14 March 2026.

Salary histogram for AI in the North of England

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Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing AI within the North of England region over the 6 months to 14 March 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
North West +35 1,973 £61,418 -16.72% 226
Yorkshire +36 560 £62,500 +36.61% 156
North East +41 109 £55,000 -24.14% 50
AI
England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 29 (1.10%) Jupyter
2 16 (0.61%) SharePoint
3 8 (0.30%) CMS
4 5 (0.19%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.15%) WordPress
6 2 (0.076%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.076%) Apache Solr
6 2 (0.076%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
6 2 (0.076%) JBoss
6 2 (0.076%) Umbraco
6 2 (0.076%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.038%) Confluence
Applications
1 312 (11.81%) Chatbot
2 225 (8.52%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (0.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.076%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.038%) Camtasia
6 1 (0.038%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (0.19%) NetSuite
2 3 (0.11%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.11%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.076%) Oracle Assets
3 2 (0.076%) Oracle General Ledger
3 2 (0.076%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (0.076%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.038%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.038%) Primavera
4 1 (0.038%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,652 (62.53%) Cloud Computing
2 296 (11.20%) Azure
3 252 (9.54%) Power Platform
4 206 (7.80%) Azure AI
5 100 (3.79%) AWS
6 40 (1.51%) SaaS
7 29 (1.10%) Microsoft 365
8 18 (0.68%) GCP
9 16 (0.61%) Microsoft Copilot
9 16 (0.61%) Microsoft Purview
10 14 (0.53%) Entra ID
11 12 (0.45%) Power Automate
12 11 (0.42%) Azure Data Factory
13 10 (0.38%) Azure Monitor
14 9 (0.34%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 9 (0.34%) GitHub
15 8 (0.30%) OneDrive
15 8 (0.30%) PowerApps
16 7 (0.26%) Dynamics 365
16 7 (0.26%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1,615 (61.13%) Internet
2 37 (1.40%) Broadband
3 15 (0.57%) VoIP
4 14 (0.53%) Telepresence
4 14 (0.53%) Unified Communications
4 14 (0.53%) WebEx
5 3 (0.11%) HTTP
6 2 (0.076%) Intranet
7 1 (0.038%) ATM
7 1 (0.038%) DNS
7 1 (0.038%) LTE
7 1 (0.038%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 226 (8.55%) Power BI
2 201 (7.61%) Tableau
3 13 (0.49%) MongoDB
4 12 (0.45%) SQL Server
5 11 (0.42%) Metadata
5 11 (0.42%) NoSQL
6 10 (0.38%) PostgreSQL
7 9 (0.34%) Azure SQL Database
8 7 (0.26%) Big Data
8 7 (0.26%) Data Lake
8 7 (0.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 6 (0.23%) Data Warehouse
10 5 (0.19%) Electronic Patient Records
10 5 (0.19%) Power Query
11 4 (0.15%) Elasticsearch
11 4 (0.15%) MySQL
12 3 (0.11%) Hadoop
12 3 (0.11%) Neo4j
12 3 (0.11%) Relational Database
13 2 (0.076%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 28 (1.06%) Visual Studio Code
2 17 (0.64%) Git
3 5 (0.19%) JIRA
4 4 (0.15%) Claude Code
4 4 (0.15%) JUnit
4 4 (0.15%) Selenium
5 2 (0.076%) JMeter
5 2 (0.076%) LoadRunner
5 2 (0.076%) MLflow
5 2 (0.076%) SonarQube
5 2 (0.076%) XCUITest
6 1 (0.038%) IntelliJ
General
1 1,931 (73.09%) Social Skills
2 1,706 (64.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1,644 (62.23%) Banking
4 173 (6.55%) Analytical Skills
5 156 (5.90%) Finance
6 47 (1.78%) Retail
7 41 (1.55%) Games
7 41 (1.55%) Public Sector
8 34 (1.29%) Manufacturing
9 33 (1.25%) Marketing
10 21 (0.79%) Legal
10 21 (0.79%) Presentation Skills
11 16 (0.61%) Law
11 16 (0.61%) Organisational Skills
11 16 (0.61%) Telecoms
12 7 (0.26%) Influencing Skills
13 6 (0.23%) Aerospace
13 6 (0.23%) Local Government
14 5 (0.19%) Billing
15 4 (0.15%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 1,229 (46.52%) Lecturer
2 283 (10.71%) Trainer
3 219 (8.29%) Analyst
4 198 (7.49%) Data Analyst
5 196 (7.42%) Junior
5 196 (7.42%) Junior Analyst
5 196 (7.42%) Junior Data Analyst
6 59 (2.23%) Developer
7 56 (2.12%) Senior
8 49 (1.85%) Lead
9 37 (1.40%) Architect
10 33 (1.25%) Customer Support Specialist
10 33 (1.25%) Support Specialist
11 29 (1.10%) Research Scientist
12 28 (1.06%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
12 28 (1.06%) Programmer
12 28 (1.06%) Trainee
12 28 (1.06%) Trainee Programmer
13 25 (0.95%) Software Engineer
14 22 (0.83%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (1.40%) .NET
2 32 (1.21%) scikit-learn
3 29 (1.10%) Hugging Face
3 29 (1.10%) Pandas
4 28 (1.06%) Matplotlib
4 28 (1.06%) NumPy
4 28 (1.06%) Streamlit
5 24 (0.91%) React
6 21 (0.79%) HTML
7 19 (0.72%) CSS
8 16 (0.61%) RESTful
9 13 (0.49%) Android SDK
9 13 (0.49%) GraphQL
10 12 (0.45%) PySpark
11 11 (0.42%) Spring
12 10 (0.38%) PyTorch
12 10 (0.38%) REST
12 10 (0.38%) TensorFlow
13 9 (0.34%) FastAPI
13 9 (0.34%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1,616 (61.17%) IoT
2 44 (1.67%) Onboarding
3 41 (1.55%) Molecular Biology
4 38 (1.44%) Mobile App
5 34 (1.29%) Cloud Native
6 33 (1.25%) Algorithms
7 31 (1.17%) Blog
8 28 (1.06%) AI Agents
8 28 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
9 23 (0.87%) Social Media
10 21 (0.79%) Product Ownership
11 12 (0.45%) Analytical Mindset
11 12 (0.45%) Distributed Systems
12 11 (0.42%) Virtual Team
13 10 (0.38%) Enterprise Software
13 10 (0.38%) Low-Code
13 10 (0.38%) Public Cloud
14 7 (0.26%) Social Network
15 6 (0.23%) Driving Licence
15 6 (0.23%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 40 (1.51%) Android
2 28 (1.06%) Apple iOS
3 10 (0.38%) Windows
4 7 (0.26%) Linux
5 1 (0.038%) Unix
5 1 (0.038%) VMS
5 1 (0.038%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,726 (65.33%) Machine Learning
2 1,658 (62.76%) Cybersecurity
3 1,654 (62.60%) User Experience
4 1,618 (61.24%) Web Development
5 312 (11.81%) Conversational UI
6 232 (8.78%) Business Intelligence
7 106 (4.01%) Agile
8 103 (3.90%) Problem-Solving
9 98 (3.71%) CI/CD
10 97 (3.67%) Chemistry
11 91 (3.44%) Decision-Making
12 88 (3.33%) Analytics
13 70 (2.65%) Roadmaps
14 69 (2.61%) Mentoring
15 66 (2.50%) Project Management
16 64 (2.42%) Continuous Improvement
17 62 (2.35%) Visualisation
18 60 (2.27%) LLM
19 59 (2.23%) Software Engineering
20 58 (2.20%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 324 (12.26%) Python
2 259 (9.80%) SQL
3 50 (1.89%) Java
4 37 (1.40%) JavaScript
5 27 (1.02%) C#
6 23 (0.87%) TypeScript
7 14 (0.53%) Kotlin
8 11 (0.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 8 (0.30%) T-SQL
10 6 (0.23%) PowerShell
10 6 (0.23%) R
11 5 (0.19%) Go
12 3 (0.11%) PHP
13 2 (0.076%) Scala
13 2 (0.076%) Swift
14 1 (0.038%) Bash
14 1 (0.038%) C++
14 1 (0.038%) Kusto Query Language
14 1 (0.038%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 1,973 (74.68%) Degree
2 1,787 (67.64%) Master's Degree
3 1,785 (67.56%) PhD
4 1,615 (61.13%) Postgraduate
5 202 (7.65%) Azure Certification
6 42 (1.59%) AWS Certification
7 28 (1.06%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 14 (0.53%) PMP
9 11 (0.42%) DBS Check
10 7 (0.26%) Computer Science Degree
11 5 (0.19%) ACCA
11 5 (0.19%) CompTIA Security+
11 5 (0.19%) Security Cleared
11 5 (0.19%) Six Sigma Green Belt
12 4 (0.15%) SC Cleared
13 2 (0.076%) CCIE
13 2 (0.076%) CCNP
13 2 (0.076%) Cisco Certification
13 2 (0.076%) DV Cleared
13 2 (0.076%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (1.21%) Accessibility
2 19 (0.72%) Data Quality
3 18 (0.68%) QA
4 14 (0.53%) GDPR
5 5 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
5 5 (0.19%) DICOM
5 5 (0.19%) GAAP
5 5 (0.19%) IFRS
6 3 (0.11%) GRC
6 3 (0.11%) WCAG
7 2 (0.076%) ISO 20022
7 2 (0.076%) ISO 9001
7 2 (0.076%) SEPA
7 2 (0.076%) TARGET2
8 1 (0.038%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.038%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.038%) FINRA
8 1 (0.038%) GxP
8 1 (0.038%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.038%) Solvency II
System Software
1 13 (0.49%) Docker
2 9 (0.34%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.038%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 15 (0.57%) Kubernetes
1 15 (0.57%) Terraform
2 14 (0.53%) Cisco CUCM
3 9 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
4 8 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.076%) Control-M
5 2 (0.076%) HP Fortify
6 1 (0.038%) Ansible
6 1 (0.038%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 308 (11.66%) Microsoft
2 281 (10.64%) PayPal
3 20 (0.76%) Oracle
4 14 (0.53%) Cisco
5 12 (0.45%) Databricks
6 10 (0.38%) Adobe
7 9 (0.34%) Apple
7 9 (0.34%) Splunk
8 8 (0.30%) Google
8 8 (0.30%) New Relic
9 7 (0.26%) OpenAI
9 7 (0.26%) Salesforce
10 5 (0.19%) ServiceNow
11 4 (0.15%) Foundry
12 3 (0.11%) HubSpot
12 3 (0.11%) SAP
13 2 (0.076%) IBM
13 2 (0.076%) OneLogin
14 1 (0.038%) Hotjar
14 1 (0.038%) Xero