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

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 48 94
Rank change year-on-year +41 +46 +33
Permanent jobs citing AI 549 120 117
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 12.28% 5.17% 2.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.43% 5.40% 2.71%
Number of salaries quoted 108 86 103
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,000 £39,750
25th Percentile £33,750 £25,313 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £45,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +28.42% -23.75% -8.19%
75th Percentile £85,000 £77,000 £81,403
90th Percentile £95,750 £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 3,342 2,221 4,317
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 74.78% 95.77% 85.81%
Number of salaries quoted 2,018 1,122 3,443
10th Percentile £28,250 £26,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £33,500 £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 £89,950 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%

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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

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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 9 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 9 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 +32 326 £52,000 +102.93% 119
South Yorkshire +9 92 £72,500 -21.62% 53
North Yorkshire +38 50 - - 23
East Yorkshire +5 30 - - 21
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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 11 (2.00%) Jupyter
2 5 (0.91%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.36%) CMS
3 2 (0.36%) JBoss
3 2 (0.36%) Umbraco
3 2 (0.36%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.18%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.18%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 159 (28.96%) Chatbot
2 111 (20.22%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.18%) Camtasia
Business Applications
1 3 (0.55%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 149 (27.14%) Cloud Computing
2 124 (22.59%) Azure
3 118 (21.49%) Power Platform
4 109 (19.85%) Azure AI
5 20 (3.64%) AWS
6 13 (2.37%) SaaS
7 7 (1.28%) Microsoft Purview
7 7 (1.28%) Power Automate
8 6 (1.09%) Azure Data Factory
9 5 (0.91%) GitHub
9 5 (0.91%) PowerApps
10 4 (0.73%) Amazon Bedrock
10 4 (0.73%) Azure App Service
10 4 (0.73%) Azure Logic Apps
10 4 (0.73%) Dynamics 365
10 4 (0.73%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (0.73%) Microsoft 365
10 4 (0.73%) Microsoft Copilot
11 3 (0.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 3 (0.55%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 138 (25.14%) Internet
2 31 (5.65%) Broadband
3 2 (0.36%) Intranet
4 1 (0.18%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 116 (21.13%) Power BI
2 111 (20.22%) Tableau
3 8 (1.46%) Metadata
4 4 (0.73%) SQL Server
5 3 (0.55%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (0.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (0.36%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.36%) Power Query
6 2 (0.36%) 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 (2.00%) Visual Studio Code
2 3 (0.55%) Git
3 2 (0.36%) JMeter
3 2 (0.36%) LoadRunner
3 2 (0.36%) Selenium
3 2 (0.36%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.18%) JIRA
General
1 266 (48.45%) Social Skills
2 153 (27.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 138 (25.14%) Banking
4 73 (13.30%) Analytical Skills
5 42 (7.65%) Finance
6 31 (5.65%) Games
7 16 (2.91%) Retail
8 15 (2.73%) Marketing
9 13 (2.37%) Public Sector
10 11 (2.00%) Legal
10 11 (2.00%) Manufacturing
11 6 (1.09%) Law
12 4 (0.73%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (0.73%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (0.55%) Aerospace
13 3 (0.55%) Presentation Skills
14 1 (0.18%) Agriculture
14 1 (0.18%) Back Office
14 1 (0.18%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 148 (26.96%) Trainer
2 111 (20.22%) Analyst
3 108 (19.67%) Data Analyst
3 108 (19.67%) Junior
3 108 (19.67%) Junior Analyst
3 108 (19.67%) Junior Data Analyst
4 104 (18.94%) Lecturer
5 24 (4.37%) Lead
6 23 (4.19%) Developer
7 19 (3.46%) Research Scientist
8 13 (2.37%) Biologist
9 12 (2.19%) Customer Support Specialist
9 12 (2.19%) Senior
9 12 (2.19%) Support Specialist
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 (1.82%) Content Editor
11 10 (1.82%) Marketing Executive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (2.37%) .NET
2 11 (2.00%) Hugging Face
2 11 (2.00%) Matplotlib
2 11 (2.00%) NumPy
2 11 (2.00%) Pandas
2 11 (2.00%) scikit-learn
2 11 (2.00%) Streamlit
3 7 (1.28%) Android SDK
3 7 (1.28%) GraphQL
3 7 (1.28%) PySpark
4 5 (0.91%) React
4 5 (0.91%) Spring
5 4 (0.73%) Hibernate
5 4 (0.73%) Middleware
6 3 (0.55%) .NET Framework
6 3 (0.55%) A2A Protocol
6 3 (0.55%) Flutter
6 3 (0.55%) Spring Boot
7 2 (0.36%) LangChain
7 2 (0.36%) LangGraph
Miscellaneous
1 139 (25.32%) IoT
2 32 (5.83%) Mobile App
3 28 (5.10%) Molecular Biology
4 23 (4.19%) Onboarding
5 12 (2.19%) Algorithms
5 12 (2.19%) Social Media
6 10 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
7 9 (1.64%) AI Agents
7 9 (1.64%) Cloud Native
8 7 (1.28%) Blog
9 5 (0.91%) Low-Code
10 4 (0.73%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (0.55%) Enterprise Cloud
12 2 (0.36%) DataPower
12 2 (0.36%) Driving Licence
12 2 (0.36%) Greenfield Project
12 2 (0.36%) Management Information System
12 2 (0.36%) Virtual Team
13 1 (0.18%) Hackathon
13 1 (0.18%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 30 (5.46%) Android
2 23 (4.19%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.18%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 174 (31.69%) Machine Learning
2 159 (28.96%) Conversational UI
3 153 (27.87%) Cybersecurity
4 147 (26.78%) User Experience
5 141 (25.68%) Web Development
6 120 (21.86%) Business Intelligence
7 59 (10.75%) Chemistry
8 47 (8.56%) CI/CD
8 47 (8.56%) Decision-Making
9 44 (8.01%) Agile
10 42 (7.65%) Mentoring
11 41 (7.47%) Roadmaps
12 35 (6.38%) Project Management
13 33 (6.01%) Observability
14 29 (5.28%) Technical Leadership
15 28 (5.10%) Biochemistry
15 28 (5.10%) Biology
15 28 (5.10%) Biotechnology
15 28 (5.10%) Data Interpretation
15 28 (5.10%) Experimental Design
Programming Languages
1 154 (28.05%) Python
2 131 (23.86%) SQL
3 23 (4.19%) Java
4 17 (3.10%) JavaScript
5 15 (2.73%) C#
6 7 (1.28%) Kotlin
6 7 (1.28%) T-SQL
7 4 (0.73%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 4 (0.73%) TypeScript
8 3 (0.55%) Go
9 2 (0.36%) R
Qualifications
1 297 (54.10%) Degree
2 244 (44.44%) Master's Degree
2 244 (44.44%) PhD
3 138 (25.14%) Postgraduate
4 108 (19.67%) Azure Certification
5 11 (2.00%) AWS Certification
5 11 (2.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 7 (1.28%) PMP
7 3 (0.55%) DBS Check
8 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.18%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.18%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (4.55%) Accessibility
2 6 (1.09%) Data Quality
3 4 (0.73%) GDPR
3 4 (0.73%) QA
4 2 (0.36%) GRC
4 2 (0.36%) 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 (0.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (1.28%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.36%) Control-M
2 2 (0.36%) HP Fortify
3 1 (0.18%) Terraform
Vendors
1 148 (26.96%) PayPal
2 136 (24.77%) Microsoft
3 8 (1.46%) Databricks
4 3 (0.55%) OpenAI
4 3 (0.55%) Oracle
4 3 (0.55%) Salesforce
5 2 (0.36%) Google
5 2 (0.36%) HubSpot
5 2 (0.36%) IBM
6 1 (0.18%) Foundry
6 1 (0.18%) SAP
6 1 (0.18%) ServiceNow