Artificial Intelligence Programmer Job Trends in South Yorkshire

AI Programmer
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The median AI Programmer salary in South Yorkshire is £37,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 6 February 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring an Artificial Intelligence Programmer 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in South Yorkshire 0.13% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £33,750 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 - -
75th Percentile £41,250 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median annual salary £37,500 - -

All Permanent IT Job Roles
South Yorkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in South Yorkshire. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in South Yorkshire with a recognized job title 668 468 900
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.91% 94.35% 93.56%
Number of salaries quoted 480 195 758
10th Percentile £26,500 £31,925 £27,500
25th Percentile £28,938 £41,125 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £60,000 £45,249
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +32.60% +0.55%
75th Percentile £60,000 £75,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £77,432 £82,500 £75,772
Yorkshire median annual salary £46,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -11.43% +5.00% -4.76%

Artificial Intelligence Programmer
Job Locations in South Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Artificial Intelligence Programmer within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 6 February 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
Sheffield - 1 £37,500 - 1
Artificial Intelligence Programmer
Yorkshire

Artificial Intelligence Programmer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire

For the 6 months to 6 February 2026, Artificial Intelligence Programmer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the South Yorkshire region featuring Artificial Intelligence Programmer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 1 (100.00%) Chatbot
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (100.00%) Conversational UI
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Service
1 1 (100.00%) Data Privacy
1 1 (100.00%) Hugging Face
1 1 (100.00%) Jupyter
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Matplotlib
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Neural Network
1 1 (100.00%) NumPy
1 1 (100.00%) OO
1 1 (100.00%) OOP
1 1 (100.00%) Pandas
1 1 (100.00%) Prompt Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
1 1 (100.00%) scikit-learn
1 1 (100.00%) Sentiment Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Streamlit
1 1 (100.00%) Visual Studio Code
1 1 (100.00%) Visualisation
1 1 (100.00%) Workflow

Artificial Intelligence Programmer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 1 (100.00%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Computing
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (100.00%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Hugging Face
1 1 (100.00%) Matplotlib
1 1 (100.00%) NumPy
1 1 (100.00%) Pandas
1 1 (100.00%) scikit-learn
1 1 (100.00%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Conversational UI
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Service
1 1 (100.00%) Data Privacy
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Neural Network
1 1 (100.00%) OO
1 1 (100.00%) OOP
1 1 (100.00%) Prompt Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
1 1 (100.00%) Sentiment Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Visualisation
1 1 (100.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft