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 22 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 8 102
Rank change year-on-year -8 +94 +15
Permanent jobs citing AI 499 434 94
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 6.75% 12.61% 1.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.14% 14.34% 2.24%
Number of salaries quoted 259 56 78
10th Percentile £32,500 £25,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £25,313 £47,572
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £43,750 £68,750
Median % change year-on-year +48.57% -36.36% -5.17%
75th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £90,000 £91,700
England median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +3.57% -3.45% -3.33%

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 4,922 3,027 4,197
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 66.62% 87.94% 78.91%
Number of salaries quoted 3,579 1,522 2,486
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,775 £29,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £30,500 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.47% -5.00% -6.54%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £86,250 £80,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -0.90% -11.20%

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 22 August 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 22 August 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 -12 245 £67,500 +163.41% 155
South Yorkshire +5 135 £65,000 -20.00% 72
East Yorkshire +13 51 £42,500 -26.09% 8
North Yorkshire +7 50 £55,000 - 30
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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 20 (4.01%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.00%) Jupyter
2 5 (1.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.20%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 109 (21.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (2.40%) Chatbot
3 4 (0.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.60%) LaTeX
4 3 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.40%) Camtasia
5 2 (0.40%) Trello
6 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.20%) Notion
Business Applications
1 3 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (0.60%) Magento
1 3 (0.60%) Q-Pulse
1 3 (0.60%) Sage 200
1 3 (0.60%) Shopify
2 2 (0.40%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.40%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 239 (47.90%) Azure
2 174 (34.87%) Azure AI
3 131 (26.25%) Power Platform
4 50 (10.02%) AWS
5 49 (9.82%) SaaS
6 41 (8.22%) Microsoft 365
7 35 (7.01%) Microsoft Copilot
8 23 (4.61%) Power Automate
9 22 (4.41%) Entra ID
10 21 (4.21%) Azure DevOps
11 14 (2.81%) Copilot Studio
11 14 (2.81%) GitHub
12 13 (2.61%) GCP
13 12 (2.40%) PowerApps
14 11 (2.20%) OneDrive
15 10 (2.00%) Serverless
16 9 (1.80%) Amazon ECS
16 9 (1.80%) Microsoft Purview
16 9 (1.80%) Salesforce Service Cloud
17 8 (1.60%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 21 (4.21%) Broadband
2 8 (1.60%) Network Security
3 6 (1.20%) LAN
3 6 (1.20%) WAN
4 5 (1.00%) Internet
5 4 (0.80%) CTI
5 4 (0.80%) VoIP
6 2 (0.40%) Firewall
7 1 (0.20%) DHCP
7 1 (0.20%) DNS
7 1 (0.20%) SAN
7 1 (0.20%) SSL
7 1 (0.20%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 115 (23.05%) Power BI
2 100 (20.04%) Tableau
3 13 (2.61%) MongoDB
4 12 (2.40%) Azure SQL Database
5 9 (1.80%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (1.20%) Data Lake
6 6 (1.20%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (1.00%) Big Data
8 4 (0.80%) DynamoDB
8 4 (0.80%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (0.60%) ClickHouse
9 3 (0.60%) Metadata
9 3 (0.60%) MySQL
9 3 (0.60%) Relational Database
9 3 (0.60%) Semantic Layer
9 3 (0.60%) SQL Server
10 2 (0.40%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (0.40%) BigQuery
10 2 (0.40%) Delta Lake
10 2 (0.40%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 4 (0.80%) Claude Code
2 3 (0.60%) Git
2 3 (0.60%) MLflow
3 2 (0.40%) GitLab
3 2 (0.40%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.40%) JIRA
3 2 (0.40%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (0.20%) Visual Studio
General
1 226 (45.29%) Social Skills
2 78 (15.63%) Finance
3 40 (8.02%) Analytical Skills
4 39 (7.82%) Marketing
5 33 (6.61%) Public Sector
6 27 (5.41%) Legal
7 25 (5.01%) Games
8 23 (4.61%) Law
9 22 (4.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 18 (3.61%) Manufacturing
10 18 (3.61%) Retail
11 12 (2.40%) Organisational Skills
12 10 (2.00%) Influencing Skills
13 9 (1.80%) Advertising
14 5 (1.00%) Aviation
14 5 (1.00%) Banking
15 3 (0.60%) Billing
15 3 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
16 2 (0.40%) Local Government
16 2 (0.40%) Police
Job Titles
1 107 (21.44%) Analyst
2 100 (20.04%) Data Analyst
2 100 (20.04%) Junior
3 99 (19.84%) Junior Analyst
3 99 (19.84%) Junior Data Analyst
4 63 (12.63%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 46 (9.22%) Lead
6 44 (8.82%) Developer
7 24 (4.81%) Senior
7 24 (4.81%) Software Engineer
8 23 (4.61%) Architect
9 19 (3.81%) IT Manager
10 17 (3.41%) Technical Leader
11 16 (3.21%) Product Manager
12 15 (3.01%) .NET Developer
13 13 (2.61%) Software Developer
14 12 (2.40%) IT Operations Manager
14 12 (2.40%) Operations Manager
15 11 (2.20%) Principal Engineer
16 10 (2.00%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (6.01%) React
2 19 (3.81%) .NET
3 15 (3.01%) ASP.NET
3 15 (3.01%) ASP.NET Core
3 15 (3.01%) ML.NET
3 15 (3.01%) Node.js
3 15 (3.01%) Terraform
4 13 (2.61%) Blazor
4 13 (2.61%) RESTful
5 12 (2.40%) Android SDK
5 12 (2.40%) GraphQL
6 11 (2.20%) .NET Core
7 6 (1.20%) CSS
7 6 (1.20%) REST
8 4 (0.80%) A2A Protocol
8 4 (0.80%) Bootstrap
8 4 (0.80%) LangGraph
8 4 (0.80%) Model Context Protocol
8 4 (0.80%) Redux
9 3 (0.60%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 25 (5.01%) Mobile App
2 24 (4.81%) AI Agents
3 18 (3.61%) Onboarding
3 18 (3.61%) Self-Motivation
3 18 (3.61%) Social Media
4 16 (3.21%) Management Information System
5 14 (2.81%) Cloud Native
6 12 (2.40%) Product Ownership
7 10 (2.00%) Greenfield Project
8 9 (1.80%) Security Posture
9 8 (1.60%) Low-Code
10 7 (1.40%) Distributed Systems
11 6 (1.20%) Cyber Threat
12 5 (1.00%) Algorithms
12 5 (1.00%) BBC
12 5 (1.00%) CMDB
12 5 (1.00%) Data Centre
12 5 (1.00%) Driving Licence
13 4 (0.80%) iPhone
13 4 (0.80%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 25 (5.01%) Android
2 21 (4.21%) Windows
3 9 (1.80%) Apple iOS
4 4 (0.80%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (0.60%) Linux
6 1 (0.20%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.20%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (23.85%) Business Intelligence
2 73 (14.63%) Agile
3 70 (14.03%) Analytics
4 67 (13.43%) Roadmaps
5 62 (12.42%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
6 61 (12.22%) Continuous Improvement
7 59 (11.82%) Mentoring
8 57 (11.42%) CI/CD
9 56 (11.22%) Machine Learning
10 55 (11.02%) Problem-Solving
11 51 (10.22%) Decision-Making
11 51 (10.22%) Software Engineering
12 45 (9.02%) Cybersecurity
13 36 (7.21%) Stakeholder Management
14 34 (6.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 33 (6.61%) Coaching
16 32 (6.41%) Observability
16 32 (6.41%) Technical Leadership
17 27 (5.41%) LLM
18 25 (5.01%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 202 (40.48%) Python
2 138 (27.66%) SQL
3 30 (6.01%) JavaScript
4 23 (4.61%) C#
5 18 (3.61%) TypeScript
6 15 (3.01%) Java
7 12 (2.40%) Kotlin
8 7 (1.40%) PowerShell
9 4 (0.80%) Go
10 3 (0.60%) PHP
10 3 (0.60%) XAML
11 2 (0.40%) Ruby
12 1 (0.20%) C
12 1 (0.20%) C++
12 1 (0.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.20%) Perl
12 1 (0.20%) R
12 1 (0.20%) Scala
12 1 (0.20%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 154 (30.86%) Azure Certification
2 27 (5.41%) Degree
3 11 (2.20%) Security Cleared
4 10 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 10 (2.00%) SC Cleared
5 8 (1.60%) ACCA
5 8 (1.60%) CIMA
5 8 (1.60%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (1.00%) CISSP
7 4 (0.80%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 4 (0.80%) CCSP
7 4 (0.80%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (0.80%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 3 (0.60%) CompTIA CySA+
8 3 (0.60%) CompTIA Security+
8 3 (0.60%) PhD
9 2 (0.40%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.40%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 2 (0.40%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.20%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (3.61%) Accessibility
2 17 (3.41%) Cyber Essentials
3 16 (3.21%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 15 (3.01%) QA
5 14 (2.81%) GDPR
6 13 (2.61%) Data Quality
7 9 (1.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (1.00%) NIST
9 3 (0.60%) Actionable Recommendations
9 3 (0.60%) ISO 19650
9 3 (0.60%) NCSC
9 3 (0.60%) PMO
10 2 (0.40%) GRC
10 2 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 1 (0.20%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.20%) GAAP
System Software
1 10 (2.00%) Active Directory
2 9 (1.80%) Docker
3 1 (0.20%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.20%) Firmware
3 1 (0.20%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.20%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 20 (4.01%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (1.60%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.20%) Grafana
Vendors
1 185 (37.07%) Microsoft
2 22 (4.41%) Google
3 17 (3.41%) Salesforce
4 14 (2.81%) Databricks
5 7 (1.40%) Foundry
5 7 (1.40%) OpenAI
6 5 (1.00%) Apple
6 5 (1.00%) Facebook
6 5 (1.00%) ServiceNow
6 5 (1.00%) Sony
6 5 (1.00%) Yahoo!
7 4 (0.80%) Avaya
7 4 (0.80%) Cisco
7 4 (0.80%) Genesys
8 3 (0.60%) Adobe
8 3 (0.60%) HubSpot
8 3 (0.60%) Sage
8 3 (0.60%) Xero
9 2 (0.40%) SAP
9 2 (0.40%) Workday