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 30 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 60 91
Rank change year-on-year +51 +31 +39
Permanent jobs citing AI 422 124 96
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 12.30% 3.11% 3.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.42% 3.72% 3.31%
Number of salaries quoted 58 77 66
10th Percentile £20,000 £40,000 £46,306
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £63,353
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,750 £70,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.36% -9.68% +19.23%
75th Percentile £86,250 £80,000 £84,056
90th Percentile £97,500 £96,250 -
England median annual salary £72,426 £77,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -5.94% -0.65% +10.71%

All Process and 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 2,926 3,337 2,896
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 85.26% 83.59% 94.95%
Number of salaries quoted 1,567 1,399 2,177
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £30,500 £41,250 £39,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.62% - -
75th Percentile £68,750 £69,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £81,250 £84,056
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -3.23%

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 30 November 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 30 November 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 +54 256 £63,750 -5.56% 43
South Yorkshire +14 75 £80,000 +14.29% 11
North Yorkshire +35 57 £72,500 +24.46% 7
East Yorkshire +14 18 - - 4
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 4 (0.95%) Apache Spark
1 4 (0.95%) CMS
1 4 (0.95%) SharePoint
2 3 (0.71%) Kinematics
3 2 (0.47%) JBoss
3 2 (0.47%) Umbraco
3 2 (0.47%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.24%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.24%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 268 (63.51%) Chatbot
2 32 (7.58%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (0.71%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 52 (12.32%) Azure
2 51 (12.09%) Cloud Computing
3 36 (8.53%) Power Platform
4 28 (6.64%) Azure AI
5 22 (5.21%) AWS
6 14 (3.32%) SaaS
7 10 (2.37%) GCP
8 6 (1.42%) Azure Data Factory
8 6 (1.42%) Microsoft Purview
9 4 (0.95%) Amazon Bedrock
10 3 (0.71%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (0.71%) Amazon ELB
10 3 (0.71%) Amazon S3
10 3 (0.71%) Azure App Service
10 3 (0.71%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 3 (0.71%) GitHub
10 3 (0.71%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (0.71%) Power Automate
11 2 (0.47%) IaaS
11 2 (0.47%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 51 (12.09%) Internet
2 2 (0.47%) Intranet
3 1 (0.24%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (8.29%) Power BI
2 32 (7.58%) Tableau
3 10 (2.37%) Metadata
3 10 (2.37%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (2.13%) MongoDB
5 6 (1.42%) NoSQL
6 5 (1.18%) MySQL
7 3 (0.71%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (0.71%) Delta Lake
7 3 (0.71%) DynamoDB
7 3 (0.71%) Spark SQL
8 2 (0.47%) Data Mining
8 2 (0.47%) SQL Server
9 1 (0.24%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.24%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.24%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.24%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.24%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.24%) Looker
9 1 (0.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (0.95%) Jenkins
2 3 (0.71%) Git
2 3 (0.71%) JIRA
2 3 (0.71%) MLflow
3 2 (0.47%) JMeter
3 2 (0.47%) LoadRunner
3 2 (0.47%) Selenium
3 2 (0.47%) SonarQube
General
1 120 (28.44%) Analytical Skills
2 103 (24.41%) Social Skills
3 62 (14.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 52 (12.32%) Banking
5 14 (3.32%) Public Sector
6 12 (2.84%) Retail
7 11 (2.61%) Finance
8 9 (2.13%) Legal
8 9 (2.13%) Marketing
9 8 (1.90%) Law
10 6 (1.42%) Aerospace
11 4 (0.95%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (0.71%) Agriculture
12 3 (0.71%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.24%) Back Office
13 1 (0.24%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 264 (62.56%) Trainer
2 51 (12.09%) Lecturer
3 32 (7.58%) Analyst
4 29 (6.87%) Data Analyst
5 27 (6.40%) Junior
5 27 (6.40%) Junior Analyst
5 27 (6.40%) Junior Data Analyst
6 24 (5.69%) Research Scientist
7 17 (4.03%) Biostatistician
7 17 (4.03%) Content Editor
8 15 (3.55%) Customer Support Specialist
8 15 (3.55%) Support Specialist
9 14 (3.32%) Architect
10 13 (3.08%) Biologist
11 12 (2.84%) Developer
12 10 (2.37%) Lead
13 7 (1.66%) Principal Engineer
13 7 (1.66%) Solutions Architect
14 6 (1.42%) Communications Manager
14 6 (1.42%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (2.37%) RESTful
2 9 (2.13%) PySpark
3 6 (1.42%) Kafka
4 5 (1.18%) .NET
4 5 (1.18%) FastAPI
4 5 (1.18%) GraphQL
4 5 (1.18%) React
5 4 (0.95%) Celery
5 4 (0.95%) Django
5 4 (0.95%) Flask
5 4 (0.95%) gRPC
5 4 (0.95%) Hibernate
5 4 (0.95%) Middleware
5 4 (0.95%) RabbitMQ
5 4 (0.95%) Spring
5 4 (0.95%) WebSockets
6 3 (0.71%) .NET Framework
6 3 (0.71%) Node.js
6 3 (0.71%) Pandas
6 3 (0.71%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 52 (12.32%) IoT
2 38 (9.00%) Molecular Biology
3 7 (1.66%) Blog
4 6 (1.42%) AI Agents
4 6 (1.42%) Cloud Native
4 6 (1.42%) Product Ownership
5 5 (1.18%) Marketing Technology
6 4 (0.95%) Robotics
7 3 (0.71%) Augmented Reality
7 3 (0.71%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (0.71%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (0.71%) Virtual Reality
8 2 (0.47%) DataPower
8 2 (0.47%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (0.47%) Mobile App
8 2 (0.47%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.24%) e-Learning
9 1 (0.24%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.24%) NHS
9 1 (0.24%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.71%) Unix
2 1 (0.24%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 268 (63.51%) Conversational UI
2 112 (26.54%) Chemistry
3 77 (18.25%) Machine Learning
4 65 (15.40%) Cybersecurity
5 56 (13.27%) User Experience
6 54 (12.80%) Web Development
7 39 (9.24%) Business Intelligence
8 38 (9.00%) Biochemistry
8 38 (9.00%) Biology
8 38 (9.00%) Biotechnology
8 38 (9.00%) Data Interpretation
8 38 (9.00%) Experimental Design
9 33 (7.82%) Physics
10 31 (7.35%) Mathematics
11 30 (7.11%) Content Writing
12 23 (5.45%) Mentoring
13 20 (4.74%) Analytics
13 20 (4.74%) Roadmaps
14 17 (4.03%) Biostatistics
14 17 (4.03%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 59 (13.98%) Python
2 53 (12.56%) SQL
3 9 (2.13%) JavaScript
4 6 (1.42%) TypeScript
5 5 (1.18%) Java
5 5 (1.18%) T-SQL
6 3 (0.71%) C#
7 2 (0.47%) R
8 1 (0.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 329 (77.96%) Degree
2 238 (56.40%) Master's Degree
3 236 (55.92%) PhD
4 51 (12.09%) Postgraduate
5 27 (6.40%) Azure Certification
6 7 (1.66%) PMP
7 3 (0.71%) DBS Check
8 2 (0.47%) ACCA
8 2 (0.47%) CIMA
9 1 (0.24%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.24%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (0.71%) GDPR
1 3 (0.71%) QA
2 2 (0.47%) Accessibility
2 2 (0.47%) Data Quality
2 2 (0.47%) WCAG
3 1 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (0.24%) COBIT
3 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 15 (3.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (3.08%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.71%) Functional Safety
2 3 (0.71%) Kubeflow
2 3 (0.71%) Terraform
3 2 (0.47%) Control-M
3 2 (0.47%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 264 (62.56%) PayPal
2 40 (9.48%) Microsoft
3 10 (2.37%) Databricks
4 3 (0.71%) Oracle
5 2 (0.47%) Cisco
5 2 (0.47%) IBM
6 1 (0.24%) Foundry
6 1 (0.24%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.24%) Pardot