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

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 6 91
Rank change year-on-year -9 +85 +37
Permanent jobs citing AI 451 442 98
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 5.86% 13.35% 1.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.70% 15.41% 2.51%
Number of salaries quoted 259 34 70
10th Percentile £36,200 £37,000 £39,875
25th Percentile £50,000 £43,125 £46,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £77,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.34% +10.00% -10.90%
75th Percentile £91,034 £86,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £90,000 £91,114
England median annual salary £75,000 £72,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -

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 5,184 2,869 3,906
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 67.32% 86.68% 79.39%
Number of salaries quoted 3,796 1,415 1,950
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £31,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £47,500 £51,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -7.77% -1.90%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,250 £65,625
90th Percentile £88,148 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,560
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.45% -7.90%

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 21 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 21 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 -17 223 £70,000 -6.67% 344
South Yorkshire -3 124 £69,607 -15.63% 140
North Yorkshire -2 44 £52,500 -27.59% 74
East Yorkshire +12 43 £42,500 -26.09% 17
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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 (4.88%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.11%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (0.67%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.22%) CMS
4 1 (0.22%) WordPress
Applications
1 80 (17.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (2.00%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (1.77%) Chatbot
4 4 (0.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.67%) LaTeX
6 2 (0.44%) Trello
7 1 (0.22%) Camtasia
7 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.22%) Notion
Business Applications
1 4 (0.89%) Shopify
2 3 (0.67%) Magento
2 3 (0.67%) Q-Pulse
2 3 (0.67%) Sage 200
3 2 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.44%) Workday HCM
4 1 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 202 (44.79%) Azure
2 137 (30.38%) Azure AI
3 93 (20.62%) Power Platform
4 51 (11.31%) SaaS
5 50 (11.09%) AWS
6 44 (9.76%) Microsoft 365
7 37 (8.20%) Microsoft Copilot
8 23 (5.10%) Entra ID
9 21 (4.66%) Power Automate
10 20 (4.43%) Azure DevOps
11 15 (3.33%) GCP
12 14 (3.10%) Copilot Studio
12 14 (3.10%) GitHub
13 13 (2.88%) OneDrive
14 12 (2.66%) PowerApps
15 10 (2.22%) Microsoft Purview
15 10 (2.22%) NetDocuments
16 9 (2.00%) Amazon ECS
16 9 (2.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
16 9 (2.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.77%) Network Security
2 7 (1.55%) LAN
2 7 (1.55%) WAN
3 6 (1.33%) Internet
4 4 (0.89%) CTI
4 4 (0.89%) VoIP
5 2 (0.44%) 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 78 (17.29%) Power BI
2 63 (13.97%) Tableau
3 12 (2.66%) MongoDB
4 11 (2.44%) Azure SQL Database
5 8 (1.77%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (1.33%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (1.11%) Big Data
8 4 (0.89%) Data Lake
8 4 (0.89%) DynamoDB
8 4 (0.89%) Relational Database
8 4 (0.89%) SQL Server
9 3 (0.67%) ClickHouse
9 3 (0.67%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (0.67%) GIS
9 3 (0.67%) Metadata
9 3 (0.67%) MySQL
9 3 (0.67%) Semantic Layer
10 2 (0.44%) Delta Lake
10 2 (0.44%) Neo4j
10 2 (0.44%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 5 (1.11%) Claude Code
2 3 (0.67%) Git
2 3 (0.67%) GitLab
3 2 (0.44%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.44%) MLflow
4 1 (0.22%) JIRA
4 1 (0.22%) Visual Studio
General
1 204 (45.23%) Social Skills
2 76 (16.85%) Finance
3 45 (9.98%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (9.31%) Marketing
5 36 (7.98%) Public Sector
6 30 (6.65%) Legal
7 22 (4.88%) Law
8 20 (4.43%) Retail
9 16 (3.55%) Manufacturing
10 15 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
11 13 (2.88%) Influencing Skills
12 11 (2.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 9 (2.00%) Advertising
14 5 (1.11%) Aviation
14 5 (1.11%) Banking
15 4 (0.89%) Games
15 4 (0.89%) Local Government
16 3 (0.67%) Billing
17 2 (0.44%) Electronics
17 2 (0.44%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 71 (15.74%) Analyst
2 66 (14.63%) Junior
3 65 (14.41%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 64 (14.19%) Data Analyst
4 64 (14.19%) Junior Analyst
5 63 (13.97%) Junior Data Analyst
6 42 (9.31%) Lead
7 33 (7.32%) Developer
8 32 (7.10%) Senior
9 29 (6.43%) Architect
10 25 (5.54%) Software Engineer
11 19 (4.21%) IT Manager
12 15 (3.33%) Product Manager
12 15 (3.33%) Technical Leader
13 14 (3.10%) .NET Developer
14 12 (2.66%) IT Operations Manager
14 12 (2.66%) Operations Manager
14 12 (2.66%) Senior Manager
14 12 (2.66%) Solutions Architect
15 10 (2.22%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (5.99%) React
2 23 (5.10%) .NET
3 15 (3.33%) Terraform
4 14 (3.10%) ASP.NET
4 14 (3.10%) ASP.NET Core
4 14 (3.10%) ML.NET
4 14 (3.10%) Node.js
5 12 (2.66%) Blazor
5 12 (2.66%) RESTful
6 10 (2.22%) .NET Core
7 7 (1.55%) REST
8 6 (1.33%) CSS
8 6 (1.33%) Middleware
9 5 (1.11%) Model Context Protocol
10 4 (0.89%) LangGraph
11 3 (0.67%) A2A Protocol
11 3 (0.67%) HTML
11 3 (0.67%) Tailwind CSS
12 2 (0.44%) Bootstrap
12 2 (0.44%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 27 (5.99%) AI Agents
2 17 (3.77%) Management Information System
3 13 (2.88%) Cloud Native
3 13 (2.88%) Product Ownership
4 10 (2.22%) Onboarding
5 9 (2.00%) Security Posture
6 8 (1.77%) Cyber Threat
6 8 (1.77%) Greenfield Project
7 7 (1.55%) Distributed Systems
7 7 (1.55%) Low-Code
7 7 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (1.11%) CMDB
8 5 (1.11%) Data Centre
8 5 (1.11%) Driving Licence
9 4 (0.89%) Algorithms
9 4 (0.89%) BBC
9 4 (0.89%) iPhone
9 4 (0.89%) IVR
9 4 (0.89%) Mobile App
9 4 (0.89%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 22 (4.88%) Windows
2 4 (0.89%) Android
2 4 (0.89%) Windows Server 2019
3 3 (0.67%) Linux
4 1 (0.22%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.22%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (18.40%) Business Intelligence
2 72 (15.96%) Analytics
3 69 (15.30%) Continuous Improvement
4 61 (13.53%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
5 55 (12.20%) Agile
5 55 (12.20%) Roadmaps
6 53 (11.75%) Machine Learning
7 51 (11.31%) Cybersecurity
7 51 (11.31%) Software Engineering
8 49 (10.86%) Decision-Making
8 49 (10.86%) Mentoring
9 48 (10.64%) Problem-Solving
10 41 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
11 38 (8.43%) Coaching
12 36 (7.98%) CI/CD
13 34 (7.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 31 (6.87%) DevOps
15 27 (5.99%) LLM
15 27 (5.99%) Technical Leadership
16 26 (5.76%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 161 (35.70%) Python
2 101 (22.39%) SQL
3 26 (5.76%) JavaScript
4 25 (5.54%) C#
5 17 (3.77%) TypeScript
6 7 (1.55%) PowerShell
7 4 (0.89%) Go
7 4 (0.89%) XAML
8 3 (0.67%) Java
8 3 (0.67%) PHP
9 2 (0.44%) 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
Qualifications
1 117 (25.94%) Azure Certification
2 33 (7.32%) Degree
3 16 (3.55%) Security Cleared
4 14 (3.10%) SC Cleared
5 11 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (1.77%) ACCA
6 8 (1.77%) CIMA
7 7 (1.55%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (1.33%) CompTIA CySA+
8 6 (1.33%) CompTIA Security+
9 5 (1.11%) CISSP
9 5 (1.11%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 4 (0.89%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 4 (0.89%) CCSP
10 4 (0.89%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (0.89%) PhD
11 2 (0.44%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.22%) AWS Certification
12 1 (0.22%) CRISC
12 1 (0.22%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (3.99%) Cyber Essentials
2 17 (3.77%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 17 (3.77%) Data Quality
3 14 (3.10%) QA
4 12 (2.66%) GDPR
5 11 (2.44%) Accessibility
6 9 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (1.11%) NIST
8 4 (0.89%) GRC
9 3 (0.67%) Actionable Recommendations
9 3 (0.67%) ISO 19650
9 3 (0.67%) NCSC
9 3 (0.67%) PMO
10 2 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 2 (0.44%) WCAG
11 1 (0.22%) GAAP
System Software
1 10 (2.22%) Active Directory
1 10 (2.22%) Docker
2 1 (0.22%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.22%) Firmware
2 1 (0.22%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.22%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 21 (4.66%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (1.77%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.22%) Grafana
Vendors
1 156 (34.59%) Microsoft
2 24 (5.32%) Google
3 16 (3.55%) Salesforce
4 12 (2.66%) Databricks
5 7 (1.55%) Foundry
5 7 (1.55%) OpenAI
6 5 (1.11%) Adobe
6 5 (1.11%) ServiceNow
7 4 (0.89%) Apple
7 4 (0.89%) Avaya
7 4 (0.89%) Cisco
7 4 (0.89%) Facebook
7 4 (0.89%) Genesys
7 4 (0.89%) Sage
7 4 (0.89%) Sony
7 4 (0.89%) Yahoo!
8 3 (0.67%) HubSpot
8 3 (0.67%) Oracle
8 3 (0.67%) Xero
9 2 (0.44%) Workday