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 4 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 59 87
Rank change year-on-year +49 +28 +45
Permanent jobs citing AI 417 121 95
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 12.13% 3.15% 3.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.18% 3.72% 3.41%
Number of salaries quoted 59 74 65
10th Percentile £20,000 £40,000 £46,306
25th Percentile £43,750 £45,000 £63,353
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £68,750 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -11.29% +19.23%
75th Percentile £90,000 £79,250 £84,056
90th Percentile £97,500 £96,250 -
England median annual salary £72,500 £77,500 £76,234
% change year-on-year -6.45% +1.66% +8.91%

All Process and 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 2,940 3,249 2,790
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 85.49% 84.54% 94.93%
Number of salaries quoted 1,570 1,358 2,120
10th Percentile £26,500 £30,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £30,500 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% - -2.55%
75th Percentile £68,938 £69,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £83,500 £81,250 £84,056
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 4 December 2025.

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 4 December 2025. 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 +54 252 £75,000 +11.11% 91
South Yorkshire +15 75 £80,000 +14.29% 48
North Yorkshire +31 55 £72,500 +24.46% 54
East Yorkshire +11 18 - - 3
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 4 (0.96%) Apache Spark
1 4 (0.96%) CMS
1 4 (0.96%) SharePoint
2 3 (0.72%) Kinematics
3 2 (0.48%) JBoss
3 2 (0.48%) Umbraco
3 2 (0.48%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.24%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.24%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 262 (62.83%) Chatbot
2 32 (7.67%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (0.72%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 53 (12.71%) Azure
2 52 (12.47%) Cloud Computing
3 36 (8.63%) Power Platform
4 28 (6.71%) Azure AI
5 22 (5.28%) AWS
6 15 (3.60%) SaaS
7 10 (2.40%) GCP
8 7 (1.68%) Microsoft Purview
9 6 (1.44%) Azure Data Factory
10 4 (0.96%) Amazon Bedrock
10 4 (0.96%) Azure App Service
10 4 (0.96%) GitHub
10 4 (0.96%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (0.72%) Amazon EKS
11 3 (0.72%) Amazon ELB
11 3 (0.72%) Amazon S3
11 3 (0.72%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 3 (0.72%) Power Automate
12 2 (0.48%) Dynamics 365
12 2 (0.48%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 52 (12.47%) Internet
2 2 (0.48%) Intranet
3 1 (0.24%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (8.39%) Power BI
2 32 (7.67%) Tableau
3 11 (2.64%) Metadata
4 10 (2.40%) PostgreSQL
5 9 (2.16%) MongoDB
6 6 (1.44%) NoSQL
7 5 (1.20%) MySQL
8 3 (0.72%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (0.72%) Delta Lake
8 3 (0.72%) DynamoDB
8 3 (0.72%) Spark SQL
9 2 (0.48%) Data Mining
9 2 (0.48%) SQL Server
10 1 (0.24%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.24%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.24%) BigQuery
10 1 (0.24%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.24%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.24%) Looker
10 1 (0.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (0.96%) Jenkins
2 3 (0.72%) Git
2 3 (0.72%) JIRA
2 3 (0.72%) MLflow
3 2 (0.48%) JMeter
3 2 (0.48%) LoadRunner
3 2 (0.48%) Selenium
3 2 (0.48%) SonarQube
General
1 114 (27.34%) Analytical Skills
2 102 (24.46%) Social Skills
3 61 (14.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 53 (12.71%) Banking
5 14 (3.36%) Public Sector
6 13 (3.12%) Retail
7 11 (2.64%) Finance
8 10 (2.40%) Marketing
9 8 (1.92%) Law
9 8 (1.92%) Legal
10 6 (1.44%) Aerospace
11 4 (0.96%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (0.72%) Agriculture
12 3 (0.72%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.24%) Back Office
13 1 (0.24%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 259 (62.11%) Trainer
2 51 (12.23%) Lecturer
3 32 (7.67%) Analyst
4 29 (6.95%) Data Analyst
5 27 (6.47%) Junior
5 27 (6.47%) Junior Analyst
5 27 (6.47%) Junior Data Analyst
6 24 (5.76%) Research Scientist
7 17 (4.08%) Biostatistician
7 17 (4.08%) Content Editor
8 15 (3.60%) Customer Support Specialist
8 15 (3.60%) Support Specialist
9 14 (3.36%) Architect
10 13 (3.12%) Biologist
11 12 (2.88%) Developer
12 11 (2.64%) Lead
13 7 (1.68%) Data Engineer
13 7 (1.68%) Principal Engineer
13 7 (1.68%) Solutions Architect
14 6 (1.44%) Communications Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (2.40%) PySpark
1 10 (2.40%) RESTful
2 6 (1.44%) Kafka
3 5 (1.20%) .NET
3 5 (1.20%) FastAPI
3 5 (1.20%) GraphQL
3 5 (1.20%) React
4 4 (0.96%) Celery
4 4 (0.96%) Django
4 4 (0.96%) Flask
4 4 (0.96%) gRPC
4 4 (0.96%) Hibernate
4 4 (0.96%) Middleware
4 4 (0.96%) RabbitMQ
4 4 (0.96%) Spring
4 4 (0.96%) WebSockets
5 3 (0.72%) Node.js
5 3 (0.72%) Pandas
5 3 (0.72%) REST
5 3 (0.72%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 53 (12.71%) IoT
2 38 (9.11%) Molecular Biology
3 7 (1.68%) Blog
3 7 (1.68%) Cloud Native
4 6 (1.44%) AI Agents
5 5 (1.20%) Marketing Technology
5 5 (1.20%) Product Ownership
6 4 (0.96%) Robotics
7 3 (0.72%) Augmented Reality
7 3 (0.72%) Enterprise Cloud
7 3 (0.72%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (0.72%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (0.72%) Virtual Reality
8 2 (0.48%) DataPower
8 2 (0.48%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (0.48%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.24%) Legacy Code
9 1 (0.24%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.24%) NHS
9 1 (0.24%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.72%) Unix
2 1 (0.24%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 262 (62.83%) Conversational UI
2 107 (25.66%) Chemistry
3 79 (18.94%) Machine Learning
4 66 (15.83%) Cybersecurity
5 57 (13.67%) User Experience
6 55 (13.19%) Web Development
7 39 (9.35%) Business Intelligence
8 38 (9.11%) Biochemistry
8 38 (9.11%) Biology
8 38 (9.11%) Biotechnology
8 38 (9.11%) Data Interpretation
8 38 (9.11%) Experimental Design
9 33 (7.91%) Physics
10 31 (7.43%) Mathematics
11 30 (7.19%) Content Writing
12 23 (5.52%) Mentoring
13 22 (5.28%) Roadmaps
14 21 (5.04%) Analytics
15 17 (4.08%) Biostatistics
15 17 (4.08%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 60 (14.39%) Python
2 54 (12.95%) SQL
3 9 (2.16%) JavaScript
4 6 (1.44%) TypeScript
5 5 (1.20%) Java
5 5 (1.20%) T-SQL
6 3 (0.72%) C#
7 2 (0.48%) R
8 1 (0.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 325 (77.94%) Degree
2 234 (56.12%) Master's Degree
3 232 (55.64%) PhD
4 52 (12.47%) Postgraduate
5 27 (6.47%) Azure Certification
6 7 (1.68%) PMP
7 3 (0.72%) DBS Check
8 2 (0.48%) ACCA
8 2 (0.48%) CIMA
9 1 (0.24%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.24%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (0.72%) GDPR
1 3 (0.72%) QA
2 2 (0.48%) Accessibility
2 2 (0.48%) Data Quality
2 2 (0.48%) WCAG
3 1 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (0.24%) COBIT
3 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 15 (3.60%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (3.12%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.72%) Functional Safety
2 3 (0.72%) Kubeflow
2 3 (0.72%) Terraform
3 2 (0.48%) Control-M
3 2 (0.48%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 259 (62.11%) PayPal
2 41 (9.83%) Microsoft
3 11 (2.64%) Databricks
4 3 (0.72%) Oracle
5 2 (0.48%) IBM
6 1 (0.24%) Foundry
6 1 (0.24%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.24%) Pardot