AI Job Trends in West Yorkshire

AI
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring AI skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 59 73
Rank change year-on-year +55 +14 +29
Permanent jobs citing AI 271 53 76
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 16.59% 3.12% 3.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 18.85% 3.80% 4.00%
Number of salaries quoted 41 34 49
10th Percentile £20,000 £43,250 £48,261
25th Percentile £41,163 £45,000 £63,353
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £67,000 £79,632
Median % change year-on-year +11.94% -15.86% +22.51%
75th Percentile £90,000 £70,000 £84,056
90th Percentile £118,750 £90,822 £87,458
Yorkshire median annual salary £75,000 £67,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -12.90% +19.23%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,438 1,395 1,899
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 88.00% 82.20% 95.52%
Number of salaries quoted 873 740 1,399
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £72,433
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £87,500
Yorkshire median annual salary £49,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -6.67% - -2.33%

AI
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

AI job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

AI
Salary Trend in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing AI.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing AI

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Salary Histogram in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing AI in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 5 December 2025.

Salary histogram for AI in West Yorkshire

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Job Locations in West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing AI within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 5 December 2025. 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
Leeds +41 134 £79,000 +17.04% 87
Bradford +16 61 £63,000 -5.26% 17
Wakefield +8 24 - - 13
Huddersfield - 9 £40,000 - 2
Todmorden - 9 - -
AI
Yorkshire

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West 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 4 (1.48%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.74%) Apache Spark
2 2 (0.74%) CMS
2 2 (0.74%) JBoss
2 2 (0.74%) Umbraco
2 2 (0.74%) WebSphere
3 1 (0.37%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 155 (57.20%) Chatbot
2 11 (4.06%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (1.11%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 54 (19.93%) Cloud Computing
2 26 (9.59%) Azure
3 14 (5.17%) Power Platform
4 12 (4.43%) AWS
5 9 (3.32%) GCP
5 9 (3.32%) SaaS
6 7 (2.58%) Microsoft Purview
7 6 (2.21%) Azure AI
8 5 (1.85%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (1.11%) Azure App Service
9 3 (1.11%) GitHub
9 3 (1.11%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (1.11%) Power Automate
10 2 (0.74%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 2 (0.74%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (0.74%) IaaS
10 2 (0.74%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (0.74%) PaaS
10 2 (0.74%) PowerApps
11 1 (0.37%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 54 (19.93%) Internet
2 2 (0.74%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (4.80%) Power BI
2 11 (4.06%) Tableau
3 9 (3.32%) Metadata
3 9 (3.32%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (2.95%) MongoDB
5 5 (1.85%) NoSQL
6 4 (1.48%) MySQL
7 2 (0.74%) Data Mining
8 1 (0.37%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.37%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.37%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.37%) Data Vault
8 1 (0.37%) Delta Lake
8 1 (0.37%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.37%) Looker
8 1 (0.37%) Semantic Layer
8 1 (0.37%) Spark SQL
8 1 (0.37%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (1.48%) Jenkins
2 3 (1.11%) Git
3 2 (0.74%) JMeter
3 2 (0.74%) LoadRunner
3 2 (0.74%) Selenium
3 2 (0.74%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.37%) MLflow
General
1 78 (28.78%) Social Skills
2 66 (24.35%) Analytical Skills
3 63 (23.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 54 (19.93%) Banking
5 11 (4.06%) Public Sector
6 10 (3.69%) Finance
7 9 (3.32%) Retail
8 8 (2.95%) Legal
9 7 (2.58%) Marketing
10 5 (1.85%) Aerospace
10 5 (1.85%) Law
11 4 (1.48%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.74%) Agriculture
13 1 (0.37%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 155 (57.20%) Trainer
2 56 (20.66%) Lecturer
3 18 (6.64%) Research Scientist
4 11 (4.06%) Architect
4 11 (4.06%) Biologist
4 11 (4.06%) Biostatistician
5 10 (3.69%) Analyst
6 9 (3.32%) Developer
6 9 (3.32%) Lead
7 8 (2.95%) Content Editor
7 8 (2.95%) Data Analyst
8 7 (2.58%) Customer Support Specialist
8 7 (2.58%) Data Engineer
8 7 (2.58%) Support Specialist
9 6 (2.21%) Junior
9 6 (2.21%) Junior Analyst
9 6 (2.21%) Junior Data Analyst
10 5 (1.85%) Python Developer
10 5 (1.85%) Senior
11 4 (1.48%) Principal Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (2.95%) PySpark
1 8 (2.95%) RESTful
2 6 (2.21%) Kafka
3 5 (1.85%) FastAPI
4 4 (1.48%) .NET
4 4 (1.48%) Celery
4 4 (1.48%) Django
4 4 (1.48%) Flask
4 4 (1.48%) GraphQL
4 4 (1.48%) gRPC
4 4 (1.48%) Hibernate
4 4 (1.48%) Middleware
4 4 (1.48%) RabbitMQ
4 4 (1.48%) Spring
4 4 (1.48%) WebSockets
5 2 (0.74%) ASP.NET
5 2 (0.74%) CSS
5 2 (0.74%) HTML
5 2 (0.74%) SOAP
5 2 (0.74%) Struts
Miscellaneous
1 55 (20.30%) IoT
2 27 (9.96%) Molecular Biology
3 7 (2.58%) Blog
4 5 (1.85%) Product Ownership
5 4 (1.48%) Marketing Technology
6 3 (1.11%) AI Agents
6 3 (1.11%) Cloud Native
6 3 (1.11%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (0.74%) DataPower
7 2 (0.74%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (0.74%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (0.74%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.37%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.37%) Hackathon
8 1 (0.37%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.37%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.37%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 155 (57.20%) Conversational UI
2 74 (27.31%) Machine Learning
3 65 (23.99%) Cybersecurity
4 60 (22.14%) Chemistry
5 59 (21.77%) User Experience
6 56 (20.66%) Web Development
7 27 (9.96%) Biochemistry
7 27 (9.96%) Biology
7 27 (9.96%) Biotechnology
7 27 (9.96%) Data Interpretation
7 27 (9.96%) Experimental Design
8 21 (7.75%) Mentoring
9 20 (7.38%) Mathematics
9 20 (7.38%) Physics
10 19 (7.01%) Analytics
11 18 (6.64%) Content Writing
12 17 (6.27%) Business Intelligence
13 16 (5.90%) Continuous Improvement
14 15 (5.54%) Roadmaps
15 14 (5.17%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 33 (12.18%) Python
2 26 (9.59%) SQL
3 6 (2.21%) JavaScript
4 4 (1.48%) Java
4 4 (1.48%) T-SQL
5 2 (0.74%) C#
5 2 (0.74%) R
6 1 (0.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.37%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 217 (80.07%) Degree
2 166 (61.25%) Master's Degree
3 164 (60.52%) PhD
4 54 (19.93%) Postgraduate
5 7 (2.58%) PMP
6 6 (2.21%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.74%) ACCA
7 2 (0.74%) CIMA
7 2 (0.74%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.37%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.37%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.11%) GDPR
2 2 (0.74%) Accessibility
2 2 (0.74%) Data Quality
2 2 (0.74%) WCAG
3 1 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 12 (4.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (4.06%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.74%) Control-M
2 2 (0.74%) HP Fortify
3 1 (0.37%) Kubeflow
3 1 (0.37%) Terraform
Vendors
1 155 (57.20%) PayPal
2 18 (6.64%) Microsoft
3 8 (2.95%) Databricks
4 3 (1.11%) Oracle
5 2 (0.74%) IBM
6 1 (0.37%) OpenAI