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 11 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 44 102
Rank change year-on-year +38 +58 +20
Permanent jobs citing AI 569 121 117
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 12.52% 5.24% 2.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.70% 5.48% 2.71%
Number of salaries quoted 113 87 103
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,000 £39,750
25th Percentile £33,750 £25,313 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £45,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +27.78% -25.00% -8.19%
75th Percentile £83,500 £77,000 £81,403
90th Percentile £95,000 £96,250 £100,064
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -

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 3,407 2,210 4,323
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 74.98% 95.80% 85.74%
Number of salaries quoted 2,046 1,124 3,448
10th Percentile £28,250 £26,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £33,563 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.09%
75th Percentile £67,500 £73,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £83,750 £89,850 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -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

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Salary Histogram in Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing AI in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 11 March 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 11 March 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 +30 337 £51,500 +100.98% 126
South Yorkshire +9 96 £72,500 -21.62% 55
North Yorkshire +38 52 - - 16
East Yorkshire +4 33 £72,500 -18.08% 24
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 (1.93%) Jupyter
2 5 (0.88%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.35%) CMS
3 2 (0.35%) JBoss
3 2 (0.35%) Umbraco
3 2 (0.35%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.18%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.18%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 159 (27.94%) Chatbot
2 120 (21.09%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.18%) Camtasia
Business Applications
1 3 (0.53%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 149 (26.19%) Cloud Computing
2 134 (23.55%) Azure
3 127 (22.32%) Power Platform
4 118 (20.74%) Azure AI
5 20 (3.51%) AWS
6 14 (2.46%) SaaS
7 8 (1.41%) Power Automate
8 7 (1.23%) Microsoft Purview
9 6 (1.05%) Azure Data Factory
10 5 (0.88%) GitHub
10 5 (0.88%) PowerApps
11 4 (0.70%) Amazon Bedrock
11 4 (0.70%) Azure App Service
11 4 (0.70%) Azure Logic Apps
11 4 (0.70%) Dynamics 365
11 4 (0.70%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (0.70%) Microsoft 365
11 4 (0.70%) Microsoft Copilot
12 3 (0.53%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 3 (0.53%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 138 (24.25%) Internet
2 37 (6.50%) Broadband
3 2 (0.35%) Intranet
4 1 (0.18%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 125 (21.97%) Power BI
2 120 (21.09%) Tableau
3 8 (1.41%) Metadata
4 4 (0.70%) SQL Server
5 3 (0.53%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (0.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (0.35%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.35%) Power Query
6 2 (0.35%) Semantic Layer
7 1 (0.18%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.18%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.18%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.18%) Data Vault
7 1 (0.18%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.18%) Looker
7 1 (0.18%) Neo4j
7 1 (0.18%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.18%) Spark SQL
7 1 (0.18%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 11 (1.93%) Visual Studio Code
2 3 (0.53%) Git
3 2 (0.35%) JMeter
3 2 (0.35%) LoadRunner
3 2 (0.35%) Selenium
3 2 (0.35%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.18%) JIRA
General
1 276 (48.51%) Social Skills
2 159 (27.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 138 (24.25%) Banking
4 74 (13.01%) Analytical Skills
5 42 (7.38%) Finance
6 37 (6.50%) Games
7 17 (2.99%) Marketing
8 16 (2.81%) Retail
9 13 (2.28%) Public Sector
10 11 (1.93%) Legal
10 11 (1.93%) Manufacturing
11 6 (1.05%) Law
12 5 (0.88%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (0.70%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (0.53%) Aerospace
14 3 (0.53%) Presentation Skills
15 1 (0.18%) Agriculture
15 1 (0.18%) Back Office
15 1 (0.18%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 148 (26.01%) Trainer
2 120 (21.09%) Analyst
3 117 (20.56%) Data Analyst
3 117 (20.56%) Junior
3 117 (20.56%) Junior Analyst
3 117 (20.56%) Junior Data Analyst
4 104 (18.28%) Lecturer
5 27 (4.75%) Developer
6 24 (4.22%) Lead
7 19 (3.34%) Research Scientist
8 13 (2.28%) Biologist
9 12 (2.11%) Customer Support Specialist
9 12 (2.11%) Marketing Executive
9 12 (2.11%) Senior
9 12 (2.11%) Support Specialist
10 11 (1.93%) Architect
10 11 (1.93%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
10 11 (1.93%) Programmer
10 11 (1.93%) Trainee
10 11 (1.93%) Trainee Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (2.28%) .NET
1 13 (2.28%) Android SDK
1 13 (2.28%) GraphQL
2 11 (1.93%) Hugging Face
2 11 (1.93%) Matplotlib
2 11 (1.93%) NumPy
2 11 (1.93%) Pandas
2 11 (1.93%) scikit-learn
2 11 (1.93%) Streamlit
3 7 (1.23%) PySpark
4 5 (0.88%) React
4 5 (0.88%) Spring
5 4 (0.70%) Hibernate
5 4 (0.70%) Middleware
6 3 (0.53%) .NET Framework
6 3 (0.53%) A2A Protocol
6 3 (0.53%) Flutter
6 3 (0.53%) Spring Boot
7 2 (0.35%) LangChain
7 2 (0.35%) LangGraph
Miscellaneous
1 139 (24.43%) IoT
2 38 (6.68%) Mobile App
3 28 (4.92%) Molecular Biology
4 23 (4.04%) Onboarding
5 18 (3.16%) Social Media
6 16 (2.81%) Self-Motivation
7 12 (2.11%) Algorithms
8 11 (1.93%) Cloud Native
9 9 (1.58%) AI Agents
10 7 (1.23%) Blog
11 5 (0.88%) Low-Code
12 4 (0.70%) Analytical Mindset
13 3 (0.53%) Enterprise Cloud
14 2 (0.35%) DataPower
14 2 (0.35%) Driving Licence
14 2 (0.35%) Greenfield Project
14 2 (0.35%) Management Information System
14 2 (0.35%) Virtual Team
15 1 (0.18%) e-Learning
15 1 (0.18%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 36 (6.33%) Android
2 23 (4.04%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.18%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 174 (30.58%) Machine Learning
2 159 (27.94%) Conversational UI
3 153 (26.89%) Cybersecurity
4 147 (25.83%) User Experience
5 141 (24.78%) Web Development
6 129 (22.67%) Business Intelligence
7 59 (10.37%) Chemistry
8 53 (9.31%) CI/CD
9 50 (8.79%) Agile
10 48 (8.44%) Decision-Making
11 43 (7.56%) Roadmaps
12 42 (7.38%) Mentoring
13 39 (6.85%) Observability
14 35 (6.15%) Project Management
15 29 (5.10%) Technical Leadership
16 28 (4.92%) Biochemistry
16 28 (4.92%) Biology
16 28 (4.92%) Data Interpretation
16 28 (4.92%) Experimental Design
16 28 (4.92%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 163 (28.65%) Python
2 140 (24.60%) SQL
3 29 (5.10%) Java
4 17 (2.99%) JavaScript
5 15 (2.64%) C#
6 13 (2.28%) Kotlin
7 7 (1.23%) T-SQL
8 4 (0.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 4 (0.70%) TypeScript
9 3 (0.53%) Go
10 2 (0.35%) R
Qualifications
1 297 (52.20%) Degree
2 244 (42.88%) Master's Degree
2 244 (42.88%) PhD
3 138 (24.25%) Postgraduate
4 117 (20.56%) Azure Certification
5 11 (1.93%) AWS Certification
5 11 (1.93%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 7 (1.23%) PMP
7 3 (0.53%) DBS Check
8 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.18%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.18%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (4.39%) Accessibility
2 6 (1.05%) Data Quality
3 5 (0.88%) GDPR
3 5 (0.88%) QA
4 2 (0.35%) GRC
4 2 (0.35%) WCAG
5 1 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (0.53%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (1.23%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.35%) Control-M
2 2 (0.35%) HP Fortify
3 1 (0.18%) Terraform
Vendors
1 148 (26.01%) PayPal
2 146 (25.66%) Microsoft
3 8 (1.41%) Databricks
4 3 (0.53%) OpenAI
4 3 (0.53%) Oracle
4 3 (0.53%) Salesforce
5 2 (0.35%) Google
5 2 (0.35%) HubSpot
5 2 (0.35%) IBM
6 1 (0.18%) Foundry
6 1 (0.18%) SAP
6 1 (0.18%) ServiceNow