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 29 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 64 79
Rank change year-on-year +59 +15 +20
Permanent jobs citing AI 475 103 105
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 14.26% 3.11% 3.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.57% 3.48% 3.75%
Number of salaries quoted 62 58 75
10th Percentile £21,500 £37,625 £46,272
25th Percentile £43,563 £45,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -10.34% +11.54%
75th Percentile £90,000 £89,616 £84,056
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,375 £96,989
England median annual salary £72,500 £77,500 £75,500
% change year-on-year -6.45% +2.65% +7.86%

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 2,703 2,961 2,798
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 81.15% 89.43% 91.68%
Number of salaries quoted 1,580 1,165 2,184
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £30,250 £41,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.62% - -4.34%
75th Percentile £70,000 £69,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £84,056
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 29 December 2025.

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 29 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
West Yorkshire +65 289 £77,000 +71.11% 404
South Yorkshire +10 71 £80,000 +3.90% 179
North Yorkshire +34 50 £72,500 +31.82% 107
East Yorkshire +14 20 - - 91
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 6 (1.26%) SharePoint
2 4 (0.84%) CMS
3 3 (0.63%) Kinematics
4 2 (0.42%) JBoss
4 2 (0.42%) Umbraco
4 2 (0.42%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.21%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.21%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.21%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 214 (45.05%) Chatbot
2 50 (10.53%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (0.63%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 138 (29.05%) Cloud Computing
2 71 (14.95%) Azure
3 56 (11.79%) Power Platform
4 46 (9.68%) Azure AI
5 19 (4.00%) AWS
6 17 (3.58%) SaaS
7 10 (2.11%) GCP
8 7 (1.47%) Microsoft Purview
9 6 (1.26%) Azure Data Factory
10 5 (1.05%) Power Automate
11 4 (0.84%) Amazon Bedrock
11 4 (0.84%) Azure App Service
11 4 (0.84%) GitHub
11 4 (0.84%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (0.84%) Microsoft 365
11 4 (0.84%) PowerApps
12 3 (0.63%) Azure Logic Apps
12 3 (0.63%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 3 (0.63%) Microsoft Copilot
13 2 (0.42%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 138 (29.05%) Internet
2 2 (0.42%) Intranet
3 1 (0.21%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (11.58%) Power BI
2 50 (10.53%) Tableau
3 10 (2.11%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (1.89%) MongoDB
5 8 (1.68%) Metadata
6 6 (1.26%) NoSQL
7 5 (1.05%) MySQL
8 4 (0.84%) SQL Server
9 3 (0.63%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (0.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 2 (0.42%) Data Mining
10 2 (0.42%) Power Query
11 1 (0.21%) Amazon Redshift
11 1 (0.21%) Apache Cassandra
11 1 (0.21%) BigQuery
11 1 (0.21%) Data Lake
11 1 (0.21%) Data Vault
11 1 (0.21%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.21%) Looker
11 1 (0.21%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 4 (0.84%) Jenkins
2 3 (0.63%) Git
2 3 (0.63%) JIRA
3 2 (0.42%) JMeter
3 2 (0.42%) LoadRunner
3 2 (0.42%) Selenium
3 2 (0.42%) SonarQube
General
1 202 (42.53%) Social Skills
2 145 (30.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 139 (29.26%) Banking
4 98 (20.63%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (2.95%) Finance
6 13 (2.74%) Public Sector
6 13 (2.74%) Retail
7 9 (1.89%) Legal
7 9 (1.89%) Marketing
8 8 (1.68%) Law
9 4 (0.84%) Aerospace
10 3 (0.63%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (0.63%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.42%) Agriculture
12 1 (0.21%) Back Office
12 1 (0.21%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 211 (44.42%) Trainer
2 108 (22.74%) Lecturer
3 48 (10.11%) Analyst
4 47 (9.89%) Data Analyst
5 45 (9.47%) Junior
5 45 (9.47%) Junior Analyst
5 45 (9.47%) Junior Data Analyst
6 20 (4.21%) Research Scientist
7 15 (3.16%) Content Editor
8 14 (2.95%) Architect
8 14 (2.95%) Customer Support Specialist
8 14 (2.95%) Support Specialist
9 13 (2.74%) Biologist
9 13 (2.74%) Developer
10 12 (2.53%) Lead
11 11 (2.32%) Biostatistician
12 8 (1.68%) Senior
13 7 (1.47%) Data Engineer
13 7 (1.47%) Principal Engineer
13 7 (1.47%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (2.11%) RESTful
2 7 (1.47%) PySpark
3 6 (1.26%) .NET
3 6 (1.26%) Kafka
3 6 (1.26%) React
4 5 (1.05%) FastAPI
4 5 (1.05%) GraphQL
5 4 (0.84%) Celery
5 4 (0.84%) Django
5 4 (0.84%) Flask
5 4 (0.84%) gRPC
5 4 (0.84%) Hibernate
5 4 (0.84%) Middleware
5 4 (0.84%) RabbitMQ
5 4 (0.84%) Spring
5 4 (0.84%) WebSockets
6 3 (0.63%) .NET Framework
6 3 (0.63%) Bootstrap
6 3 (0.63%) Node.js
6 3 (0.63%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 139 (29.26%) IoT
2 30 (6.32%) Molecular Biology
3 7 (1.47%) Blog
3 7 (1.47%) Cloud Native
4 6 (1.26%) AI Agents
5 5 (1.05%) Marketing Technology
5 5 (1.05%) Product Ownership
6 4 (0.84%) Low-Code
6 4 (0.84%) Robotics
7 3 (0.63%) Augmented Reality
7 3 (0.63%) Enterprise Cloud
7 3 (0.63%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (0.63%) Virtual Reality
8 2 (0.42%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (0.42%) DataPower
8 2 (0.42%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.21%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.21%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.21%) NHS
9 1 (0.21%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.21%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 214 (45.05%) Conversational UI
2 162 (34.11%) Machine Learning
3 152 (32.00%) Cybersecurity
4 144 (30.32%) User Experience
5 141 (29.68%) Web Development
6 87 (18.32%) Chemistry
7 59 (12.42%) Business Intelligence
8 30 (6.32%) Biochemistry
8 30 (6.32%) Biology
8 30 (6.32%) Biotechnology
8 30 (6.32%) Data Interpretation
8 30 (6.32%) Experimental Design
9 26 (5.47%) Content Writing
9 26 (5.47%) Physics
10 25 (5.26%) Mentoring
11 24 (5.05%) Analytics
12 23 (4.84%) Mathematics
12 23 (4.84%) Roadmaps
13 19 (4.00%) Continuous Improvement
14 18 (3.79%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 77 (16.21%) Python
2 71 (14.95%) SQL
3 10 (2.11%) JavaScript
4 7 (1.47%) Java
4 7 (1.47%) T-SQL
5 6 (1.26%) TypeScript
6 5 (1.05%) C#
7 3 (0.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (0.42%) R
9 1 (0.21%) Go
Qualifications
1 365 (76.84%) Degree
2 282 (59.37%) Master's Degree
3 280 (58.95%) PhD
4 138 (29.05%) Postgraduate
5 45 (9.47%) Azure Certification
6 7 (1.47%) PMP
7 3 (0.63%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.21%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.21%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (0.84%) Data Quality
1 4 (0.84%) QA
2 3 (0.63%) GDPR
3 2 (0.42%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.42%) WCAG
4 1 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.21%) COBIT
4 1 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 12 (2.53%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (2.11%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.63%) Functional Safety
3 2 (0.42%) Control-M
3 2 (0.42%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 211 (44.42%) PayPal
2 61 (12.84%) Microsoft
3 8 (1.68%) Databricks
4 3 (0.63%) Oracle
5 2 (0.42%) IBM
6 1 (0.21%) Foundry
6 1 (0.21%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.21%) Pardot