AI Job Trends in Yorkshire

AI
England > Yorkshire

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

6 months to
6 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 11 101
Rank change year-on-year -2 +90 +48
Permanent jobs citing AI 522 338 126
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 7.88% 12.30% 2.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.64% 13.19% 2.59%
Number of salaries quoted 212 68 119
10th Percentile £33,075 £25,000 £39,750
25th Percentile £42,000 £25,313 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £30,313 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +114.43% -53.37% -0.54%
75th Percentile £90,000 £63,652 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £86,250 £94,308
England median annual salary £70,000 £67,037 £70,000
% change year-on-year +4.42% -4.23% -6.67%

All Process & Methodology Skills
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 Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,486 2,563 4,869
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 67.68% 93.27% 80.10%
Number of salaries quoted 3,103 1,233 3,782
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £30,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -8.90%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £86,851 £85,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £58,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% +5.45% -12.00%

AI
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

AI job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

AI
Salary Trend in Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing AI.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing AI

AI
Salary Histogram in Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing AI in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 6 June 2026.

Salary histogram for AI in Yorkshire

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Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing AI within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 6 June 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
West Yorkshire -12 255 £65,000 +153.66% 102
South Yorkshire +5 131 £65,000 -21.21% 38
East Yorkshire +11 61 £37,500 -34.78% 5
North Yorkshire +12 49 £55,000 - 20
AI
England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 11 (2.11%) Jupyter
2 4 (0.77%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.38%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.19%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 156 (29.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (2.87%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.57%) Camtasia
4 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.38%) Trello
5 1 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.19%) Notion
Business Applications
1 3 (0.57%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 245 (46.93%) Azure
2 211 (40.42%) Azure AI
3 165 (31.61%) Power Platform
4 41 (7.85%) SaaS
5 40 (7.66%) Cloud Computing
6 39 (7.47%) AWS
7 21 (4.02%) Microsoft Copilot
8 17 (3.26%) Microsoft 365
8 17 (3.26%) Power Automate
9 11 (2.11%) Copilot Studio
10 10 (1.92%) GitHub
10 10 (1.92%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 9 (1.72%) Entra ID
11 9 (1.72%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
12 7 (1.34%) GCP
13 6 (1.15%) Azure DevOps
13 6 (1.15%) PowerApps
13 6 (1.15%) Serverless
14 5 (0.96%) Azure Logic Apps
15 4 (0.77%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 37 (7.09%) Broadband
2 29 (5.56%) Internet
3 4 (0.77%) Network Security
4 1 (0.19%) DHCP
4 1 (0.19%) DNS
4 1 (0.19%) Firewall
4 1 (0.19%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 160 (30.65%) Power BI
2 154 (29.50%) Tableau
3 5 (0.96%) Azure SQL Database
3 5 (0.96%) Big Data
3 5 (0.96%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (0.77%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (0.77%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (0.57%) ClickHouse
5 3 (0.57%) DynamoDB
5 3 (0.57%) MongoDB
5 3 (0.57%) Neo4j
5 3 (0.57%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.38%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.38%) Power Query
6 2 (0.38%) Semantic Layer
6 2 (0.38%) SQL Server
6 2 (0.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (0.38%) Star Schema
7 1 (0.19%) Data Hub
7 1 (0.19%) Looker
Development Applications
1 11 (2.11%) Visual Studio Code
2 3 (0.57%) Claude Code
2 3 (0.57%) Git
3 1 (0.19%) JIRA
3 1 (0.19%) MLflow
3 1 (0.19%) Visual Studio
General
1 281 (53.83%) Social Skills
2 70 (13.41%) Finance
3 46 (8.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 41 (7.85%) Marketing
5 38 (7.28%) Games
6 34 (6.51%) Analytical Skills
6 34 (6.51%) Banking
7 18 (3.45%) Law
8 16 (3.07%) Legal
9 15 (2.87%) Manufacturing
9 15 (2.87%) Retail
10 11 (2.11%) Public Sector
11 10 (1.92%) Organisational Skills
12 7 (1.34%) Advertising
13 4 (0.77%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (0.57%) Aviation
14 3 (0.57%) Billing
14 3 (0.57%) Presentation Skills
15 2 (0.38%) Tech for Good
16 1 (0.19%) Aeronautics
Job Titles
1 161 (30.84%) Analyst
2 153 (29.31%) Data Analyst
2 153 (29.31%) Junior
2 153 (29.31%) Junior Analyst
2 153 (29.31%) Junior Data Analyst
3 62 (11.88%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 47 (9.00%) Lead
5 41 (7.85%) Developer
6 21 (4.02%) Lecturer
7 20 (3.83%) Software Engineer
8 17 (3.26%) Software Developer
8 17 (3.26%) Technical Leader
9 16 (3.07%) Senior
10 15 (2.87%) Product Manager
11 14 (2.68%) Marketing Executive
12 12 (2.30%) Engineering Manager
12 12 (2.30%) Principal Engineer
13 11 (2.11%) Programmer
13 11 (2.11%) Trainee
13 11 (2.11%) Trainee Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (3.45%) React
2 15 (2.87%) .NET
3 13 (2.49%) Android SDK
3 13 (2.49%) GraphQL
4 12 (2.30%) scikit-learn
5 11 (2.11%) Hugging Face
5 11 (2.11%) Matplotlib
5 11 (2.11%) Node.js
5 11 (2.11%) NumPy
5 11 (2.11%) Pandas
5 11 (2.11%) Streamlit
6 5 (0.96%) LangChain
7 4 (0.77%) ASP.NET
7 4 (0.77%) Bootstrap
7 4 (0.77%) CSS
7 4 (0.77%) LangGraph
7 4 (0.77%) ML.NET
7 4 (0.77%) Redux
7 4 (0.77%) REST
7 4 (0.77%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 38 (7.28%) Mobile App
2 30 (5.75%) IoT
2 30 (5.75%) Onboarding
3 20 (3.83%) Social Media
4 18 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
5 13 (2.49%) Algorithms
6 12 (2.30%) Cloud Native
6 12 (2.30%) Management Information System
7 11 (2.11%) Product Ownership
8 10 (1.92%) Low-Code
9 8 (1.53%) AI Agents
10 5 (0.96%) Driving Licence
11 4 (0.77%) Analytical Mindset
11 4 (0.77%) Distributed Systems
11 4 (0.77%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (0.77%) Marketing Technology
12 3 (0.57%) e-Learning
12 3 (0.57%) Robotics
12 3 (0.57%) Security Posture
13 2 (0.38%) BBC
Operating Systems
1 37 (7.09%) Android
2 23 (4.41%) Apple iOS
3 9 (1.72%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 160 (30.65%) Business Intelligence
2 71 (13.60%) Machine Learning
3 66 (12.64%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
3 66 (12.64%) Roadmaps
4 65 (12.45%) CI/CD
5 64 (12.26%) Agile
6 60 (11.49%) Decision-Making
7 58 (11.11%) Mentoring
8 54 (10.34%) Analytics
9 52 (9.96%) Software Engineering
10 49 (9.39%) Cybersecurity
11 45 (8.62%) Observability
12 43 (8.24%) Problem-Solving
13 41 (7.85%) User Experience
14 38 (7.28%) Technical Leadership
15 35 (6.70%) Continuous Improvement
16 31 (5.94%) LLM
17 29 (5.56%) Web Development
18 27 (5.17%) Incident Management
19 26 (4.98%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 265 (50.77%) Python
2 174 (33.33%) SQL
3 26 (4.98%) Java
4 23 (4.41%) JavaScript
5 21 (4.02%) C#
6 14 (2.68%) TypeScript
7 13 (2.49%) Kotlin
8 4 (0.77%) Go
9 3 (0.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 3 (0.57%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.38%) PHP
10 2 (0.38%) Ruby
11 1 (0.19%) C
11 1 (0.19%) C++
Qualifications
1 208 (39.85%) Azure Certification
2 43 (8.24%) Degree
3 29 (5.56%) Master's Degree
3 29 (5.56%) PhD
3 29 (5.56%) Postgraduate
4 11 (2.11%) AWS Certification
4 11 (2.11%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 7 (1.34%) ACCA
5 7 (1.34%) CIMA
5 7 (1.34%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (0.96%) CISSP
7 4 (0.77%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 4 (0.77%) CCSP
7 4 (0.77%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (0.57%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 3 (0.57%) SC Cleared
8 3 (0.57%) Security Cleared
9 1 (0.19%) CISM
9 1 (0.19%) CRISC
9 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (4.60%) Accessibility
2 12 (2.30%) QA
3 11 (2.11%) Cyber Essentials
3 11 (2.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 8 (1.53%) Data Quality
4 8 (1.53%) GDPR
4 8 (1.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.77%) NIST
6 3 (0.57%) Actionable Recommendations
6 3 (0.57%) GRC
6 3 (0.57%) NCSC
7 1 (0.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.19%) PMO
System Software
1 5 (0.96%) Docker
2 3 (0.57%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.19%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.19%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 9 (1.72%) Microsoft Intune
1 9 (1.72%) Terraform
2 4 (0.77%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.19%) Grafana
Vendors
1 200 (38.31%) Microsoft
2 19 (3.64%) Salesforce
3 14 (2.68%) Google
4 7 (1.34%) Databricks
5 5 (0.96%) HubSpot
6 4 (0.77%) OpenAI
7 3 (0.57%) Xero
8 2 (0.38%) Apple
8 2 (0.38%) Facebook
8 2 (0.38%) Sony
8 2 (0.38%) Yahoo!
9 1 (0.19%) Cloudera
9 1 (0.19%) Dell
9 1 (0.19%) SAP
9 1 (0.19%) ServiceNow