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 12 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 7 93
Rank change year-on-year -9 +86 +36
Permanent jobs citing AI 462 422 100
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 6.09% 12.76% 2.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.11% 14.70% 2.55%
Number of salaries quoted 264 39 74
10th Percentile £36,250 £25,313 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £37,500 £47,788
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,250 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.36% - -12.10%
75th Percentile £91,577 £86,250 £73,852
90th Percentile £100,000 £91,500 £92,871
England median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% -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 5,069 2,870 3,927
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 66.85% 86.76% 78.84%
Number of salaries quoted 3,739 1,444 2,037
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £31,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,313 £65,000
90th Percentile £88,148 £80,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -8.00%

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 12 September 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 12 September 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 -16 228 £70,000 +30.23% 173
South Yorkshire -3 126 £65,000 -21.21% 67
North Yorkshire +1 45 £55,000 -24.14% 52
East Yorkshire +15 44 £42,500 -26.09% 11
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 22 (4.76%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.08%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (0.65%) Jupyter
4 2 (0.43%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.22%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.22%) CMS
5 1 (0.22%) WordPress
Applications
1 87 (18.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.95%) Chatbot
3 7 (1.52%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.65%) LaTeX
6 2 (0.43%) Camtasia
6 2 (0.43%) Trello
7 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.22%) Notion
Business Applications
1 4 (0.87%) Shopify
2 3 (0.65%) Magento
2 3 (0.65%) Q-Pulse
2 3 (0.65%) Sage 200
3 2 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.43%) Workday HCM
4 1 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 215 (46.54%) Azure
2 147 (31.82%) Azure AI
3 103 (22.29%) Power Platform
4 53 (11.47%) SaaS
5 51 (11.04%) AWS
6 45 (9.74%) Microsoft 365
7 38 (8.23%) Microsoft Copilot
8 23 (4.98%) Entra ID
9 21 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
9 21 (4.55%) Power Automate
10 17 (3.68%) GCP
11 14 (3.03%) Copilot Studio
11 14 (3.03%) GitHub
12 13 (2.81%) OneDrive
13 12 (2.60%) PowerApps
14 11 (2.38%) Microsoft Purview
15 10 (2.16%) NetDocuments
16 9 (1.95%) Amazon ECS
16 9 (1.95%) Salesforce Service Cloud
16 9 (1.95%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.73%) Network Security
2 7 (1.52%) LAN
2 7 (1.52%) WAN
3 6 (1.30%) Internet
4 4 (0.87%) CTI
4 4 (0.87%) VoIP
5 2 (0.43%) Firewall
6 1 (0.22%) DHCP
6 1 (0.22%) DNS
6 1 (0.22%) SAN
6 1 (0.22%) SSL
6 1 (0.22%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (19.05%) Power BI
2 73 (15.80%) Tableau
3 13 (2.81%) MongoDB
4 12 (2.60%) Azure SQL Database
5 8 (1.73%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (1.30%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (1.08%) Big Data
7 5 (1.08%) Data Lake
8 4 (0.87%) DynamoDB
8 4 (0.87%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (0.65%) ClickHouse
9 3 (0.65%) Metadata
9 3 (0.65%) MySQL
9 3 (0.65%) Neo4j
9 3 (0.65%) Relational Database
9 3 (0.65%) Semantic Layer
9 3 (0.65%) SQL Server
10 2 (0.43%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (0.43%) BigQuery
10 2 (0.43%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 5 (1.08%) Claude Code
2 3 (0.65%) Git
2 3 (0.65%) MLflow
3 2 (0.43%) GitLab
3 2 (0.43%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.22%) JIRA
4 1 (0.22%) Visual Studio
General
1 207 (44.81%) Social Skills
2 79 (17.10%) Finance
3 44 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
4 41 (8.87%) Marketing
5 36 (7.79%) Public Sector
6 30 (6.49%) Legal
7 24 (5.19%) Law
8 16 (3.46%) Manufacturing
8 16 (3.46%) Retail
9 14 (3.03%) Organisational Skills
10 12 (2.60%) Influencing Skills
11 11 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 9 (1.95%) Advertising
13 6 (1.30%) Banking
14 5 (1.08%) Aviation
15 4 (0.87%) Games
15 4 (0.87%) Local Government
16 3 (0.65%) Billing
16 3 (0.65%) Presentation Skills
17 2 (0.43%) Police
Job Titles
1 81 (17.53%) Analyst
2 75 (16.23%) Junior
3 73 (15.80%) Data Analyst
3 73 (15.80%) Junior Analyst
4 72 (15.58%) Junior Data Analyst
5 66 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 42 (9.09%) Lead
7 35 (7.58%) Developer
8 31 (6.71%) Senior
9 29 (6.28%) Architect
10 25 (5.41%) Software Engineer
11 19 (4.11%) IT Manager
12 16 (3.46%) Product Manager
12 16 (3.46%) Technical Leader
13 15 (3.25%) .NET Developer
14 12 (2.60%) IT Operations Manager
14 12 (2.60%) Operations Manager
14 12 (2.60%) Solutions Architect
15 11 (2.38%) Principal Engineer
15 11 (2.38%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (6.06%) React
2 20 (4.33%) .NET
3 15 (3.25%) ASP.NET
3 15 (3.25%) ASP.NET Core
3 15 (3.25%) ML.NET
3 15 (3.25%) Terraform
4 14 (3.03%) Node.js
5 13 (2.81%) Blazor
5 13 (2.81%) RESTful
6 11 (2.38%) .NET Core
7 6 (1.30%) CSS
7 6 (1.30%) Middleware
7 6 (1.30%) REST
8 5 (1.08%) LangGraph
8 5 (1.08%) Model Context Protocol
9 4 (0.87%) LangChain
10 3 (0.65%) A2A Protocol
10 3 (0.65%) Bootstrap
10 3 (0.65%) Redux
10 3 (0.65%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 29 (6.28%) AI Agents
2 16 (3.46%) Management Information System
3 14 (3.03%) Cloud Native
4 13 (2.81%) Product Ownership
5 10 (2.16%) Onboarding
6 9 (1.95%) Security Posture
7 8 (1.73%) Cyber Threat
7 8 (1.73%) Greenfield Project
8 7 (1.52%) Distributed Systems
8 7 (1.52%) Low-Code
9 6 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (1.08%) BBC
10 5 (1.08%) CMDB
10 5 (1.08%) Data Centre
10 5 (1.08%) Driving Licence
10 5 (1.08%) Social Media
11 4 (0.87%) Algorithms
11 4 (0.87%) iPhone
11 4 (0.87%) IVR
11 4 (0.87%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 22 (4.76%) Windows
2 4 (0.87%) Android
2 4 (0.87%) Windows Server 2019
3 3 (0.65%) Linux
4 1 (0.22%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.22%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (19.91%) Business Intelligence
2 72 (15.58%) Analytics
3 67 (14.50%) Continuous Improvement
4 61 (13.20%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
5 57 (12.34%) Roadmaps
6 55 (11.90%) Machine Learning
7 54 (11.69%) Agile
8 53 (11.47%) Software Engineering
9 51 (11.04%) Mentoring
10 50 (10.82%) Cybersecurity
11 47 (10.17%) Decision-Making
12 45 (9.74%) Problem-Solving
13 39 (8.44%) Stakeholder Management
14 38 (8.23%) Coaching
15 36 (7.79%) CI/CD
16 33 (7.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 29 (6.28%) DevOps
18 27 (5.84%) LLM
18 27 (5.84%) Technical Leadership
19 26 (5.63%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 172 (37.23%) Python
2 112 (24.24%) SQL
3 27 (5.84%) JavaScript
4 22 (4.76%) C#
5 17 (3.68%) TypeScript
6 7 (1.52%) PowerShell
7 4 (0.87%) XAML
8 3 (0.65%) Go
8 3 (0.65%) PHP
9 2 (0.43%) Java
9 2 (0.43%) Ruby
10 1 (0.22%) C
10 1 (0.22%) C++
10 1 (0.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.22%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.22%) Perl
10 1 (0.22%) R
10 1 (0.22%) Scala
10 1 (0.22%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 127 (27.49%) Azure Certification
2 32 (6.93%) Degree
3 13 (2.81%) Security Cleared
4 12 (2.60%) SC Cleared
5 10 (2.16%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (1.73%) ACCA
6 8 (1.73%) CIMA
7 7 (1.52%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (1.30%) CompTIA CySA+
8 6 (1.30%) CompTIA Security+
9 5 (1.08%) CISSP
9 5 (1.08%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 4 (0.87%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 4 (0.87%) CCSP
10 4 (0.87%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (0.87%) PhD
11 2 (0.43%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.22%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.22%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (3.90%) Cyber Essentials
2 17 (3.68%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 16 (3.46%) Data Quality
4 13 (2.81%) GDPR
4 13 (2.81%) QA
5 11 (2.38%) Accessibility
6 9 (1.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (1.08%) NIST
8 4 (0.87%) GRC
9 3 (0.65%) Actionable Recommendations
9 3 (0.65%) ISO 19650
9 3 (0.65%) NCSC
9 3 (0.65%) PMO
10 2 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 2 (0.43%) WCAG
11 1 (0.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.22%) GAAP
System Software
1 10 (2.16%) Active Directory
2 9 (1.95%) Docker
3 1 (0.22%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.22%) Firmware
3 1 (0.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.22%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 21 (4.55%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (1.73%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.22%) Grafana
Vendors
1 163 (35.28%) Microsoft
2 26 (5.63%) Google
3 17 (3.68%) Salesforce
4 13 (2.81%) Databricks
5 8 (1.73%) OpenAI
6 7 (1.52%) Foundry
7 5 (1.08%) Adobe
7 5 (1.08%) Apple
7 5 (1.08%) Facebook
7 5 (1.08%) ServiceNow
7 5 (1.08%) Sony
7 5 (1.08%) Yahoo!
8 4 (0.87%) Avaya
8 4 (0.87%) Cisco
8 4 (0.87%) Genesys
9 3 (0.65%) HubSpot
9 3 (0.65%) Oracle
9 3 (0.65%) Sage
9 3 (0.65%) Xero
10 2 (0.43%) SAP