Generative AI Job Trends in the North of England

Generative Artificial Intelligence (Gen AI)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Generative AI skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 257 140 322
Rank change year-on-year -117 +182 +55
Permanent jobs citing Generative AI 88 219 63
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.42% 2.33% 0.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.60% 2.57% 0.43%
Number of salaries quoted 73 17 7
10th Percentile £43,750 £53,071 -
25th Percentile £46,500 £62,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,418 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.26% +12.00% +47.06%
75th Percentile £75,000 £110,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £102,700 - £73,750
England median annual salary £80,000 £90,000 £79,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% +13.92% -7.06%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North of England

Generative 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 14,626 8,513 14,488
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 70.23% 90.38% 79.45%
Number of salaries quoted 10,946 4,212 10,706
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,750 £27,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,851 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £71,203 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £81,950 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -12.00%

Generative AI
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Generative AI job vacancy trend in the North of England

Generative AI
Salary Trend in the North of England

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

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

Generative AI
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Generative AI in the North of England over the 6 months to 16 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Generative AI in the North of England

Generative AI
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 Generative AI within the North of England region over the 6 months to 16 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
North West -21 64 £63,750 -8.93% 26
Yorkshire -117 16 £52,786 -42.93% 14
North East -61 8 £61,500 -
Generative AI
England

Generative AI
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 5 (5.68%) CMS
1 5 (5.68%) WordPress
2 1 (1.14%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.14%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.14%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (5.68%) Spreadsheet
2 3 (3.41%) Camtasia
3 2 (2.27%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 23 (26.14%) Azure
2 13 (14.77%) AWS
3 7 (7.95%) Microsoft Copilot
3 7 (7.95%) Power Platform
4 6 (6.82%) GCP
5 5 (5.68%) Google Analytics
5 5 (5.68%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (4.55%) Copilot Studio
6 4 (4.55%) GitHub
6 4 (4.55%) Power Automate
6 4 (4.55%) PowerApps
7 3 (3.41%) Anthropic Claude
7 3 (3.41%) Azure Stack
8 2 (2.27%) LangSmith
8 2 (2.27%) Snowflake
8 2 (2.27%) Vercel
9 1 (1.14%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 1 (1.14%) Azure Service Bus
9 1 (1.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 1 (1.14%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.27%) Firewall
2 1 (1.14%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (1.14%) DNS
2 1 (1.14%) SD-WAN
2 1 (1.14%) SNMP
2 1 (1.14%) WAN
2 1 (1.14%) Wireless
2 1 (1.14%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (14.77%) Data Warehouse
2 12 (13.64%) Big Data
3 4 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (3.41%) NoSQL
4 3 (3.41%) Pinecone
5 2 (2.27%) MongoDB
5 2 (2.27%) Power BI
6 1 (1.14%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (1.14%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.14%) BigQuery
6 1 (1.14%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.14%) Data Vault
6 1 (1.14%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.14%) InfluxDB
6 1 (1.14%) Looker
6 1 (1.14%) Redis
6 1 (1.14%) Semantic Layer
6 1 (1.14%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (1.14%) Tableau
6 1 (1.14%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 7 (7.95%) Git
2 4 (4.55%) GitLab
2 4 (4.55%) Jenkins
2 4 (4.55%) Vite
3 2 (2.27%) MLflow
4 1 (1.14%) Claude Code
4 1 (1.14%) Gemini Tracker
4 1 (1.14%) JIRA
General
1 19 (21.59%) Analytical Skills
2 14 (15.91%) Social Skills
3 13 (14.77%) Finance
4 7 (7.95%) Organisational Skills
5 6 (6.82%) Public Sector
6 5 (5.68%) Legal
6 5 (5.68%) Marketing
7 4 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (4.55%) Retail
8 3 (3.41%) Law
9 2 (2.27%) Financial Institution
9 2 (2.27%) Legal Technology
10 1 (1.14%) Banking
10 1 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.14%) Manufacturing
10 1 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (15.91%) Data Engineer
2 13 (14.77%) Data Scientist
3 9 (10.23%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 8 (9.09%) Senior
5 7 (7.95%) Architect
6 6 (6.82%) Developer
7 5 (5.68%) Coordinator
7 5 (5.68%) Head of Engineering
8 4 (4.55%) Full-Stack Developer
8 4 (4.55%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 4 (4.55%) Senior Data Scientist
8 4 (4.55%) Software Engineer
8 4 (4.55%) Solutions Architect
9 3 (3.41%) Lead
9 3 (3.41%) Principal Data Scientist
9 3 (3.41%) Product Manager
9 3 (3.41%) Trainer
10 2 (2.27%) Customer Engineer
10 2 (2.27%) Enterprise Architect
10 2 (2.27%) Technical Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (9.09%) LangChain
2 7 (7.95%) CSS
2 7 (7.95%) React
3 6 (6.82%) HTML
4 5 (5.68%) CrewAI
4 5 (5.68%) LangGraph
4 5 (5.68%) Next.js
5 4 (4.55%) FastAPI
6 3 (3.41%) .NET
6 3 (3.41%) AngularJS
6 3 (3.41%) EDI
6 3 (3.41%) Langfuse
6 3 (3.41%) pgvector
6 3 (3.41%) PyTorch
6 3 (3.41%) scikit-learn
6 3 (3.41%) TensorFlow
7 2 (2.27%) Express.js
7 2 (2.27%) LlamaIndex
7 2 (2.27%) Node.js
7 2 (2.27%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.82%) Onboarding
1 6 (6.82%) Product Ownership
2 5 (5.68%) Cloud Native
3 4 (4.55%) AI Agents
3 4 (4.55%) e-Learning
4 2 (2.27%) Low-Code
4 2 (2.27%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.27%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.14%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.14%) Clustering
5 1 (1.14%) Data Fabric
5 1 (1.14%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.14%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.14%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.14%) IoT
5 1 (1.14%) Learning Management System
5 1 (1.14%) Life Science
5 1 (1.14%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (87.50%) AI
2 34 (38.64%) Analytics
3 33 (37.50%) Machine Learning
4 31 (35.23%) LLM
5 23 (26.14%) Use Case
6 21 (23.86%) Problem-Solving
7 20 (22.73%) Data Science
8 14 (15.91%) Data Modelling
8 14 (15.91%) Data Pipeline
8 14 (15.91%) Decision-Making
8 14 (15.91%) Roadmaps
9 13 (14.77%) Data Engineering
10 12 (13.64%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
10 12 (13.64%) User Experience
11 11 (12.50%) MLOps
12 10 (11.36%) CI/CD
13 9 (10.23%) Data Governance
13 9 (10.23%) Full-Stack Development
13 9 (10.23%) Prompt Engineering
14 8 (9.09%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 30 (34.09%) Python
2 21 (23.86%) SQL
3 6 (6.82%) TypeScript
4 5 (5.68%) JavaScript
5 2 (2.27%) Java
6 1 (1.14%) Bash
6 1 (1.14%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 16 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 11 (12.50%) Degree
3 9 (10.23%) SC Cleared
4 3 (3.41%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.14%) CISM
5 1 (1.14%) CISSP
5 1 (1.14%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (15.91%) Data Quality
2 5 (5.68%) QA
3 2 (2.27%) GDPR
3 2 (2.27%) GRC
4 1 (1.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 42001
4 1 (1.14%) NIST
4 1 (1.14%) Solvency II
System Software
1 7 (7.95%) Docker
2 1 (1.14%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (9.09%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.41%) Terraform
3 1 (1.14%) Grafana
Vendors
1 12 (13.64%) Microsoft
2 8 (9.09%) OpenAI
3 7 (7.95%) Google
4 1 (1.14%) Arista
4 1 (1.14%) Cisco
4 1 (1.14%) Cloudera
4 1 (1.14%) Databricks
4 1 (1.14%) Dell
4 1 (1.14%) Foundry
4 1 (1.14%) HighQ
4 1 (1.14%) IBM
4 1 (1.14%) iManage
4 1 (1.14%) Legora
4 1 (1.14%) NetScout
4 1 (1.14%) SAP
4 1 (1.14%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.14%) SevOne
4 1 (1.14%) Splunk
4 1 (1.14%) VMware