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

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 43 103
Rank change year-on-year +36 +60 +23
Permanent jobs citing AI 565 124 115
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 12.15% 5.49% 2.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.27% 5.74% 2.63%
Number of salaries quoted 123 92 104
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,000 £39,750
25th Percentile £33,750 £25,313 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £45,000 £56,250
Median % change year-on-year +38.89% -20.00% -13.93%
75th Percentile £84,250 £77,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £97,250 £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 3,472 2,162 4,373
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 74.65% 95.79% 85.38%
Number of salaries quoted 2,114 1,171 3,477
10th Percentile £28,250 £25,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £33,750 £35,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.09%
75th Percentile £67,500 £72,500 £65,603
90th Percentile £83,675 £90,000 £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 18 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 18 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 +34 331 £56,250 +119.51% 101
South Yorkshire +7 99 £71,250 -22.97% 45
North Yorkshire +37 48 - - 14
East Yorkshire +4 35 £72,500 -18.08% 10
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 (1.95%) Jupyter
2 4 (0.71%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.53%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.35%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.35%) CMS
4 2 (0.35%) JBoss
4 2 (0.35%) Umbraco
4 2 (0.35%) WebSphere
Applications
1 135 (23.89%) Chatbot
2 129 (22.83%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.35%) Camtasia
Business Applications
1 3 (0.53%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 149 (26.37%) Cloud Computing
2 148 (26.19%) Azure
3 137 (24.25%) Power Platform
4 127 (22.48%) Azure AI
5 24 (4.25%) AWS
6 18 (3.19%) SaaS
7 8 (1.42%) Microsoft Purview
8 7 (1.24%) Azure Data Factory
8 7 (1.24%) Power Automate
9 6 (1.06%) GitHub
10 5 (0.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 5 (0.88%) GCP
10 5 (0.88%) Microsoft Copilot
10 5 (0.88%) PowerApps
11 4 (0.71%) Azure App Service
11 4 (0.71%) Azure Logic Apps
11 4 (0.71%) Dynamics 365
11 4 (0.71%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (0.71%) Microsoft 365
12 3 (0.53%) Amazon Bedrock
Communications & Networking
1 138 (24.42%) Internet
2 37 (6.55%) Broadband
3 2 (0.35%) Intranet
4 1 (0.18%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 135 (23.89%) Power BI
2 130 (23.01%) Tableau
3 8 (1.42%) Metadata
4 4 (0.71%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (0.71%) SQL Server
5 3 (0.53%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (0.53%) Data Lake
5 3 (0.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (0.35%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (0.35%) BigQuery
6 2 (0.35%) Looker
6 2 (0.35%) Neo4j
6 2 (0.35%) Power Query
6 2 (0.35%) Semantic Layer
7 1 (0.18%) Data Hub
7 1 (0.18%) Data Vault
7 1 (0.18%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.18%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.18%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (0.18%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 11 (1.95%) 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
4 1 (0.18%) MLflow
General
1 288 (50.97%) Social Skills
2 159 (28.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 139 (24.60%) Banking
4 56 (9.91%) Analytical Skills
5 46 (8.14%) Finance
6 37 (6.55%) Games
7 18 (3.19%) Marketing
8 16 (2.83%) Retail
9 14 (2.48%) Public Sector
10 12 (2.12%) Legal
11 11 (1.95%) Manufacturing
12 8 (1.42%) Law
13 5 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
15 3 (0.53%) Aerospace
16 1 (0.18%) Agriculture
16 1 (0.18%) Back Office
16 1 (0.18%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 130 (23.01%) Analyst
2 126 (22.30%) Data Analyst
2 126 (22.30%) Junior
2 126 (22.30%) Junior Analyst
2 126 (22.30%) Junior Data Analyst
3 124 (21.95%) Trainer
4 102 (18.05%) Lecturer
5 27 (4.78%) Developer
6 26 (4.60%) Lead
7 18 (3.19%) Research Scientist
8 13 (2.30%) Senior
9 12 (2.12%) Architect
9 12 (2.12%) Biologist
9 12 (2.12%) Customer Support Specialist
9 12 (2.12%) Marketing Executive
9 12 (2.12%) Support Specialist
10 11 (1.95%) Data Engineer
10 11 (1.95%) Programmer
10 11 (1.95%) Trainee
10 11 (1.95%) Trainee Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (2.30%) .NET
1 13 (2.30%) Android SDK
1 13 (2.30%) GraphQL
2 12 (2.12%) scikit-learn
3 11 (1.95%) Hugging Face
3 11 (1.95%) Matplotlib
3 11 (1.95%) NumPy
3 11 (1.95%) Pandas
3 11 (1.95%) Streamlit
4 9 (1.59%) PySpark
5 6 (1.06%) React
6 5 (0.88%) Spring
7 4 (0.71%) A2A Protocol
7 4 (0.71%) Hibernate
7 4 (0.71%) LangChain
7 4 (0.71%) Middleware
8 3 (0.53%) Flutter
8 3 (0.53%) Kafka
8 3 (0.53%) LangGraph
8 3 (0.53%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 139 (24.60%) IoT
2 38 (6.73%) Mobile App
3 23 (4.07%) Molecular Biology
3 23 (4.07%) Onboarding
4 18 (3.19%) Social Media
5 16 (2.83%) Self-Motivation
6 13 (2.30%) Cloud Native
7 12 (2.12%) Algorithms
8 11 (1.95%) AI Agents
9 7 (1.24%) Blog
10 5 (0.88%) Low-Code
11 4 (0.71%) Analytical Mindset
12 3 (0.53%) Enterprise Cloud
13 2 (0.35%) DataPower
13 2 (0.35%) Driving Licence
13 2 (0.35%) e-Learning
13 2 (0.35%) Greenfield Project
13 2 (0.35%) Management Information System
13 2 (0.35%) Virtual Team
14 1 (0.18%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 36 (6.37%) Android
2 23 (4.07%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.18%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 176 (31.15%) Machine Learning
2 153 (27.08%) Cybersecurity
3 147 (26.02%) User Experience
4 141 (24.96%) Web Development
5 139 (24.60%) Business Intelligence
6 135 (23.89%) Conversational UI
7 54 (9.56%) CI/CD
8 51 (9.03%) Agile
9 50 (8.85%) Decision-Making
10 46 (8.14%) Roadmaps
11 45 (7.96%) Mentoring
12 39 (6.90%) Chemistry
12 39 (6.90%) Observability
13 34 (6.02%) Project Management
14 32 (5.66%) Analytics
15 29 (5.13%) Technical Leadership
16 28 (4.96%) Problem-Solving
17 24 (4.25%) Backends for Frontends
18 23 (4.07%) Budgeting
18 23 (4.07%) Data Interpretation
Programming Languages
1 176 (31.15%) Python
2 153 (27.08%) SQL
3 29 (5.13%) Java
4 18 (3.19%) JavaScript
5 15 (2.65%) C#
6 13 (2.30%) Kotlin
7 8 (1.42%) T-SQL
8 5 (0.88%) TypeScript
9 4 (0.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 3 (0.53%) Go
11 2 (0.35%) R
Qualifications
1 272 (48.14%) Degree
2 219 (38.76%) Master's Degree
2 219 (38.76%) PhD
3 138 (24.42%) Postgraduate
4 127 (22.48%) Azure Certification
5 11 (1.95%) AWS Certification
5 11 (1.95%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 7 (1.24%) PMP
7 3 (0.53%) DBS Check
8 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.18%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.18%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (4.42%) Accessibility
2 7 (1.24%) Data Quality
3 6 (1.06%) GDPR
4 5 (0.88%) QA
5 2 (0.35%) GRC
5 2 (0.35%) WCAG
6 1 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (0.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (1.24%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.35%) Control-M
2 2 (0.35%) HP Fortify
2 2 (0.35%) Terraform
Vendors
1 157 (27.79%) Microsoft
2 123 (21.77%) PayPal
3 11 (1.95%) Databricks
4 4 (0.71%) Salesforce
5 3 (0.53%) Google
5 3 (0.53%) OpenAI
5 3 (0.53%) Oracle
6 2 (0.35%) HubSpot
6 2 (0.35%) IBM
7 1 (0.18%) Cloudera
7 1 (0.18%) Dell
7 1 (0.18%) Foundry
7 1 (0.18%) SAP
7 1 (0.18%) ServiceNow