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 8 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 45 102
Rank change year-on-year +36 +57 +19
Permanent jobs citing AI 551 114 115
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 10.35% 5.07% 2.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.29% 5.34% 2.53%
Number of salaries quoted 161 97 105
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,000 £39,750
25th Percentile £36,750 £25,313 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £45,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -25.00% -11.11%
75th Percentile £90,000 £77,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £103,750 £96,250 £100,064
England median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% +7.14% -3.45%

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 3,857 2,133 4,549
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 72.47% 94.84% 84.19%
Number of salaries quoted 2,443 1,244 3,626
10th Percentile £28,250 £25,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £32,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +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

AI
Salary Histogram in Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing AI in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 8 April 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 8 April 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 +29 294 £65,000 +153.66% 108
South Yorkshire +5 108 £67,500 -22.86% 35
East Yorkshire +8 47 £55,000 -37.85% 7
North Yorkshire +30 45 £55,000 - 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 11 (2.00%) Jupyter
2 4 (0.73%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.54%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.36%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.36%) CMS
4 2 (0.36%) JBoss
4 2 (0.36%) Umbraco
4 2 (0.36%) WebSphere
Applications
1 165 (29.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (3.81%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.36%) Camtasia
Business Applications
1 2 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.18%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 217 (39.38%) Azure
2 191 (34.66%) Azure AI
3 174 (31.58%) Power Platform
4 149 (27.04%) Cloud Computing
5 34 (6.17%) SaaS
6 29 (5.26%) AWS
7 8 (1.45%) Power Automate
8 7 (1.27%) Microsoft Purview
9 6 (1.09%) Azure Data Factory
9 6 (1.09%) GCP
9 6 (1.09%) GitHub
9 6 (1.09%) Microsoft Copilot
10 5 (0.91%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 5 (0.91%) Microsoft 365
10 5 (0.91%) PowerApps
11 4 (0.73%) Azure App Service
11 4 (0.73%) Azure Logic Apps
11 4 (0.73%) Dynamics 365
11 4 (0.73%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (0.73%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 138 (25.05%) Internet
2 37 (6.72%) Broadband
3 2 (0.36%) Intranet
4 1 (0.18%) DNS
4 1 (0.18%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 172 (31.22%) Power BI
2 165 (29.95%) Tableau
3 7 (1.27%) Metadata
4 5 (0.91%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (0.73%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (0.73%) SQL Server
6 3 (0.54%) Data Lake
6 3 (0.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (0.36%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (0.36%) BigQuery
7 2 (0.36%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (0.36%) Looker
7 2 (0.36%) Neo4j
7 2 (0.36%) Power Query
7 2 (0.36%) Semantic Layer
8 1 (0.18%) ClickHouse
8 1 (0.18%) Data Hub
8 1 (0.18%) Data Vault
8 1 (0.18%) InfluxDB
8 1 (0.18%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 11 (2.00%) Visual Studio Code
2 3 (0.54%) Git
3 1 (0.18%) JIRA
3 1 (0.18%) JMeter
3 1 (0.18%) LoadRunner
3 1 (0.18%) MLflow
3 1 (0.18%) Selenium
3 1 (0.18%) SonarQube
General
1 362 (65.70%) Social Skills
2 161 (29.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 139 (25.23%) Banking
4 58 (10.53%) Finance
5 38 (6.90%) Games
6 31 (5.63%) Marketing
7 27 (4.90%) Analytical Skills
8 18 (3.27%) Retail
9 14 (2.54%) Law
10 13 (2.36%) Legal
10 13 (2.36%) Public Sector
11 12 (2.18%) Manufacturing
12 7 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
13 5 (0.91%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (0.91%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (0.54%) Billing
15 2 (0.36%) Advertising
16 1 (0.18%) Back Office
16 1 (0.18%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 167 (30.31%) Analyst
2 162 (29.40%) Data Analyst
2 162 (29.40%) Junior
2 162 (29.40%) Junior Analyst
2 162 (29.40%) Junior Data Analyst
3 98 (17.79%) Lecturer
4 33 (5.99%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 32 (5.81%) Lead
6 31 (5.63%) Developer
7 14 (2.54%) Marketing Executive
7 14 (2.54%) Senior
8 13 (2.36%) Technical Leader
9 12 (2.18%) Architect
9 12 (2.18%) Software Developer
10 11 (2.00%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
10 11 (2.00%) Programmer
10 11 (2.00%) Trainee
10 11 (2.00%) Trainee Programmer
11 10 (1.81%) Data Engineer
12 9 (1.63%) Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (2.72%) .NET
2 13 (2.36%) Android SDK
2 13 (2.36%) GraphQL
3 12 (2.18%) scikit-learn
4 11 (2.00%) Hugging Face
4 11 (2.00%) Matplotlib
4 11 (2.00%) NumPy
4 11 (2.00%) Pandas
4 11 (2.00%) React
4 11 (2.00%) Streamlit
5 8 (1.45%) PySpark
6 5 (0.91%) Spring
7 4 (0.73%) Bootstrap
7 4 (0.73%) Flutter
7 4 (0.73%) Hibernate
7 4 (0.73%) LangChain
7 4 (0.73%) Node.js
7 4 (0.73%) Redux
8 3 (0.54%) ASP.NET Core
8 3 (0.54%) LangGraph
Miscellaneous
1 140 (25.41%) IoT
2 38 (6.90%) Mobile App
3 25 (4.54%) Onboarding
4 19 (3.45%) Social Media
5 18 (3.27%) Self-Motivation
6 12 (2.18%) Algorithms
6 12 (2.18%) Cloud Native
7 10 (1.81%) AI Agents
8 7 (1.27%) Blog
9 6 (1.09%) Low-Code
10 5 (0.91%) Analytical Mindset
11 4 (0.73%) Enterprise Cloud
11 4 (0.73%) Marketing Technology
12 3 (0.54%) Product Ownership
13 2 (0.36%) DataPower
13 2 (0.36%) Driving Licence
13 2 (0.36%) e-Learning
13 2 (0.36%) Greenfield Project
13 2 (0.36%) Management Information System
13 2 (0.36%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 36 (6.53%) Android
2 23 (4.17%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.18%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 178 (32.30%) Machine Learning
2 175 (31.76%) Business Intelligence
3 155 (28.13%) Cybersecurity
4 148 (26.86%) User Experience
5 141 (25.59%) Web Development
6 61 (11.07%) Decision-Making
7 57 (10.34%) CI/CD
8 55 (9.98%) Roadmaps
9 53 (9.62%) Agile
10 48 (8.71%) Mentoring
11 40 (7.26%) Observability
12 39 (7.08%) Analytics
12 39 (7.08%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
13 34 (6.17%) Project Management
14 31 (5.63%) Problem-Solving
14 31 (5.63%) Technical Leadership
15 30 (5.44%) Software Engineering
16 26 (4.72%) Budgeting
16 26 (4.72%) Continuous Improvement
17 25 (4.54%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 242 (43.92%) Python
2 191 (34.66%) SQL
3 30 (5.44%) Java
4 21 (3.81%) JavaScript
5 18 (3.27%) C#
6 13 (2.36%) Kotlin
7 8 (1.45%) TypeScript
8 7 (1.27%) T-SQL
9 4 (0.73%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 4 (0.73%) Go
10 2 (0.36%) R
Qualifications
1 190 (34.48%) Azure Certification
2 155 (28.13%) Degree
3 141 (25.59%) Master's Degree
3 141 (25.59%) PhD
4 138 (25.05%) Postgraduate
5 11 (2.00%) AWS Certification
5 11 (2.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 7 (1.27%) ACCA
6 7 (1.27%) CIMA
6 7 (1.27%) PMP
7 3 (0.54%) DBS Check
8 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.18%) CISM
9 1 (0.18%) CISSP
9 1 (0.18%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.18%) CRISC
9 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.18%) SC Cleared
9 1 (0.18%) Security Cleared
9 1 (0.18%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (4.54%) Accessibility
2 8 (1.45%) QA
3 7 (1.27%) Data Quality
4 6 (1.09%) GDPR
5 4 (0.73%) Actionable Recommendations
6 3 (0.54%) GRC
7 2 (0.36%) WCAG
8 1 (0.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.18%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (0.54%) Docker
2 1 (0.18%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (1.27%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.54%) Terraform
3 1 (0.18%) Control-M
3 1 (0.18%) Grafana
3 1 (0.18%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 197 (35.75%) Microsoft
2 10 (1.81%) Databricks
2 10 (1.81%) Google
3 7 (1.27%) Salesforce
4 6 (1.09%) PayPal
5 3 (0.54%) HubSpot
5 3 (0.54%) OpenAI
5 3 (0.54%) Xero
6 1 (0.18%) Apple
6 1 (0.18%) Cloudera
6 1 (0.18%) Dell
6 1 (0.18%) Facebook
6 1 (0.18%) Foundry
6 1 (0.18%) IBM
6 1 (0.18%) Oracle
6 1 (0.18%) SAP
6 1 (0.18%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.18%) Sony
6 1 (0.18%) Yahoo!