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 12 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 22 97
Rank change year-on-year +13 +75 +30
Permanent jobs citing AI 587 222 130
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 9.49% 8.96% 2.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.63% 9.51% 2.78%
Number of salaries quoted 188 88 118
10th Percentile £32,500 £25,000 £39,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £25,313 £45,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £45,000 £63,750
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -29.41% -2.45%
75th Percentile £92,500 £77,000 £78,584
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,625 £100,064
England median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -6.67%

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 4,307 2,334 4,674
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 69.65% 94.19% 82.87%
Number of salaries quoted 2,810 1,283 3,721
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,800 £27,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £31,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £48,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +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 12 May 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 12 May 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 +4 287 £67,500 +163.41% 74
South Yorkshire 0 130 £65,000 -21.21% 31
East Yorkshire +11 67 £37,500 -57.63% 8
North Yorkshire +10 58 £55,000 - 17
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 (1.87%) Jupyter
2 4 (0.68%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.51%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.34%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.34%) CMS
4 2 (0.34%) JBoss
4 2 (0.34%) Umbraco
4 2 (0.34%) WebSphere
Applications
1 191 (32.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (3.07%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.51%) Camtasia
4 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.17%) Notion
Business Applications
1 2 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 272 (46.34%) Azure
2 247 (42.08%) Azure AI
3 201 (34.24%) Power Platform
4 98 (16.70%) Cloud Computing
5 37 (6.30%) SaaS
6 33 (5.62%) AWS
7 12 (2.04%) Microsoft Copilot
7 12 (2.04%) Power Automate
8 10 (1.70%) Microsoft 365
9 8 (1.36%) GCP
10 7 (1.19%) GitHub
10 7 (1.19%) PowerApps
11 6 (1.02%) Azure Logic Apps
11 6 (1.02%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 5 (0.85%) Azure DevOps
12 5 (0.85%) Copilot Studio
12 5 (0.85%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
13 4 (0.68%) Dynamics 365
13 4 (0.68%) GitHub Actions
13 4 (0.68%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 87 (14.82%) Internet
2 37 (6.30%) Broadband
3 3 (0.51%) Network Security
4 2 (0.34%) Intranet
5 1 (0.17%) DNS
5 1 (0.17%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 197 (33.56%) Power BI
2 191 (32.54%) Tableau
3 5 (0.85%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (0.68%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (0.68%) Metadata
5 3 (0.51%) ClickHouse
5 3 (0.51%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (0.51%) SQL Server
6 2 (0.34%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (0.34%) BigQuery
6 2 (0.34%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.34%) Looker
6 2 (0.34%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.34%) Neo4j
6 2 (0.34%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (0.34%) Power Query
6 2 (0.34%) Semantic Layer
6 2 (0.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.17%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.17%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (1.87%) Visual Studio Code
2 3 (0.51%) Git
3 1 (0.17%) JIRA
3 1 (0.17%) MLflow
General
1 370 (63.03%) Social Skills
2 106 (18.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 91 (15.50%) Banking
4 63 (10.73%) Finance
5 38 (6.47%) Games
5 38 (6.47%) Marketing
6 34 (5.79%) Analytical Skills
7 17 (2.90%) Retail
8 13 (2.21%) Manufacturing
8 13 (2.21%) Public Sector
9 12 (2.04%) Law
10 9 (1.53%) Legal
11 6 (1.02%) Advertising
12 5 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (0.51%) Aviation
14 3 (0.51%) Billing
15 2 (0.34%) Presentation Skills
16 1 (0.17%) Aeronautics
16 1 (0.17%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 195 (33.22%) Analyst
2 189 (32.20%) Data Analyst
2 189 (32.20%) Junior
2 189 (32.20%) Junior Analyst
2 189 (32.20%) Junior Data Analyst
3 62 (10.56%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 62 (10.56%) Lecturer
4 43 (7.33%) Lead
5 39 (6.64%) Developer
6 17 (2.90%) Software Developer
6 17 (2.90%) Technical Leader
7 14 (2.39%) Marketing Executive
7 14 (2.39%) Software Engineer
8 13 (2.21%) Senior
9 11 (1.87%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
9 11 (1.87%) Principal Engineer
9 11 (1.87%) Product Manager
9 11 (1.87%) Programmer
9 11 (1.87%) Trainee
9 11 (1.87%) Trainee Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (3.24%) .NET
2 13 (2.21%) Android SDK
2 13 (2.21%) GraphQL
3 12 (2.04%) React
3 12 (2.04%) scikit-learn
4 11 (1.87%) Hugging Face
4 11 (1.87%) Matplotlib
4 11 (1.87%) NumPy
4 11 (1.87%) Pandas
4 11 (1.87%) Streamlit
5 5 (0.85%) ASP.NET
5 5 (0.85%) ASP.NET Core
5 5 (0.85%) Node.js
5 5 (0.85%) PySpark
6 4 (0.68%) Bootstrap
6 4 (0.68%) CSS
6 4 (0.68%) Flutter
6 4 (0.68%) Redux
6 4 (0.68%) REST
6 4 (0.68%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 89 (15.16%) IoT
2 38 (6.47%) Mobile App
3 28 (4.77%) Onboarding
4 20 (3.41%) Social Media
5 16 (2.73%) Self-Motivation
6 12 (2.04%) Algorithms
7 11 (1.87%) Cloud Native
8 10 (1.70%) Low-Code
8 10 (1.70%) Management Information System
9 7 (1.19%) Product Ownership
10 5 (0.85%) AI Agents
10 5 (0.85%) Driving Licence
11 4 (0.68%) Analytical Mindset
11 4 (0.68%) Marketing Technology
12 3 (0.51%) Distributed Systems
12 3 (0.51%) e-Learning
12 3 (0.51%) Enterprise Cloud
12 3 (0.51%) Greenfield Project
12 3 (0.51%) Robotics
12 3 (0.51%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 36 (6.13%) Android
2 23 (3.92%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.34%) Windows
4 1 (0.17%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 198 (33.73%) Business Intelligence
2 124 (21.12%) Machine Learning
3 102 (17.38%) Cybersecurity
4 97 (16.52%) User Experience
5 90 (15.33%) Web Development
6 66 (11.24%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
7 63 (10.73%) CI/CD
8 61 (10.39%) Decision-Making
8 61 (10.39%) Roadmaps
9 57 (9.71%) Agile
10 53 (9.03%) Mentoring
11 46 (7.84%) Analytics
12 44 (7.50%) Software Engineering
13 43 (7.33%) Observability
14 33 (5.62%) Problem-Solving
14 33 (5.62%) Technical Leadership
15 31 (5.28%) Continuous Improvement
16 28 (4.77%) Project Management
17 27 (4.60%) LLM
18 26 (4.43%) Budgeting
Programming Languages
1 296 (50.43%) Python
2 214 (36.46%) SQL
3 29 (4.94%) Java
4 22 (3.75%) C#
5 20 (3.41%) JavaScript
6 13 (2.21%) Kotlin
7 8 (1.36%) TypeScript
8 5 (0.85%) T-SQL
9 4 (0.68%) Go
10 3 (0.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.17%) R
Qualifications
1 244 (41.57%) Azure Certification
2 101 (17.21%) Degree
3 90 (15.33%) Master's Degree
3 90 (15.33%) PhD
4 87 (14.82%) Postgraduate
5 11 (1.87%) AWS Certification
5 11 (1.87%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 7 (1.19%) ACCA
6 7 (1.19%) CIMA
7 6 (1.02%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (0.68%) CISSP
9 3 (0.51%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 3 (0.51%) CCSP
9 3 (0.51%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.34%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 2 (0.34%) PMP
11 1 (0.17%) CISM
11 1 (0.17%) SC Cleared
11 1 (0.17%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (4.43%) Accessibility
2 10 (1.70%) QA
3 8 (1.36%) GDPR
4 7 (1.19%) Data Quality
4 7 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials
5 5 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 3 (0.51%) Actionable Recommendations
6 3 (0.51%) GRC
6 3 (0.51%) NCSC
6 3 (0.51%) NIST
7 2 (0.34%) WCAG
8 1 (0.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.17%) PMO
System Software
1 4 (0.68%) Docker
2 1 (0.17%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (0.85%) Kubernetes
2 4 (0.68%) Terraform
3 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.17%) Grafana
Vendors
1 229 (39.01%) Microsoft
2 15 (2.56%) Salesforce
3 13 (2.21%) Google
4 6 (1.02%) Databricks
5 5 (0.85%) HubSpot
6 3 (0.51%) OpenAI
6 3 (0.51%) PayPal
6 3 (0.51%) Xero
7 2 (0.34%) Apple
7 2 (0.34%) Facebook
7 2 (0.34%) Sony
7 2 (0.34%) Yahoo!
8 1 (0.17%) Cloudera
8 1 (0.17%) Dell
8 1 (0.17%) Foundry
8 1 (0.17%) SAP
8 1 (0.17%) ServiceNow