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

6 months to
9 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 8 90
Rank change year-on-year -8 +82 +36
Permanent jobs citing AI 474 425 99
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 6.27% 12.84% 1.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.35% 14.79% 2.54%
Number of salaries quoted 264 42 73
10th Percentile £36,075 £25,313 £40,000
25th Percentile £49,688 £36,875 £47,788
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,250 £69,018 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.01% -1.40% -12.10%
75th Percentile £90,200 £86,250 £73,886
90th Percentile £100,000 £90,000 £93,164
England median annual salary £74,000 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +5.71% -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 5,069 2,874 3,904
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 67.06% 86.85% 78.58%
Number of salaries quoted 3,736 1,449 2,034
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £31,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,483 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £79,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -8.00%

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 9 September 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 September 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 -16 233 £70,000 +21.74% 239
South Yorkshire 0 130 £65,000 -21.21% 103
East Yorkshire +15 47 £42,500 -26.09% 9
North Yorkshire 0 47 £55,000 -24.14% 34
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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 22 (4.64%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.05%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (0.63%) Jupyter
4 2 (0.42%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.21%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.21%) CMS
5 1 (0.21%) WordPress
Applications
1 95 (20.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (2.11%) Chatbot
3 6 (1.27%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.63%) LaTeX
6 2 (0.42%) Camtasia
6 2 (0.42%) Trello
7 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.21%) Notion
Business Applications
1 4 (0.84%) Shopify
2 3 (0.63%) Magento
2 3 (0.63%) Q-Pulse
2 3 (0.63%) Sage 200
3 2 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.42%) Workday HCM
4 1 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 225 (47.47%) Azure
2 156 (32.91%) Azure AI
3 113 (23.84%) Power Platform
4 53 (11.18%) AWS
4 53 (11.18%) SaaS
5 44 (9.28%) Microsoft 365
6 37 (7.81%) Microsoft Copilot
7 23 (4.85%) Entra ID
8 22 (4.64%) Power Automate
9 21 (4.43%) Azure DevOps
10 17 (3.59%) GCP
11 14 (2.95%) GitHub
12 13 (2.74%) Copilot Studio
12 13 (2.74%) OneDrive
13 12 (2.53%) PowerApps
14 11 (2.32%) Microsoft Purview
15 10 (2.11%) NetDocuments
16 9 (1.90%) Amazon ECS
16 9 (1.90%) Salesforce Service Cloud
16 9 (1.90%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.69%) Network Security
2 7 (1.48%) LAN
2 7 (1.48%) WAN
3 6 (1.27%) Broadband
3 6 (1.27%) Internet
4 4 (0.84%) CTI
4 4 (0.84%) VoIP
5 2 (0.42%) Firewall
6 1 (0.21%) DHCP
6 1 (0.21%) DNS
6 1 (0.21%) SAN
6 1 (0.21%) SSL
6 1 (0.21%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 98 (20.68%) Power BI
2 82 (17.30%) Tableau
3 13 (2.74%) MongoDB
4 12 (2.53%) Azure SQL Database
5 9 (1.90%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (1.27%) Data Lake
6 6 (1.27%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (1.05%) Big Data
8 4 (0.84%) DynamoDB
8 4 (0.84%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (0.63%) ClickHouse
9 3 (0.63%) Metadata
9 3 (0.63%) MySQL
9 3 (0.63%) Neo4j
9 3 (0.63%) Relational Database
9 3 (0.63%) Semantic Layer
9 3 (0.63%) SQL Server
10 2 (0.42%) BigQuery
10 2 (0.42%) Delta Lake
10 2 (0.42%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 4 (0.84%) Claude Code
2 3 (0.63%) Git
2 3 (0.63%) MLflow
3 2 (0.42%) GitLab
3 2 (0.42%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.21%) JIRA
4 1 (0.21%) Visual Studio
General
1 214 (45.15%) Social Skills
2 76 (16.03%) Finance
3 41 (8.65%) Analytical Skills
4 40 (8.44%) Marketing
5 35 (7.38%) Public Sector
6 30 (6.33%) Legal
7 24 (5.06%) Law
8 17 (3.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 16 (3.38%) Manufacturing
9 16 (3.38%) Retail
10 14 (2.95%) Organisational Skills
11 10 (2.11%) Games
11 10 (2.11%) Influencing Skills
12 9 (1.90%) Advertising
13 6 (1.27%) Banking
14 5 (1.05%) Aviation
15 3 (0.63%) Billing
15 3 (0.63%) Local Government
15 3 (0.63%) Presentation Skills
16 2 (0.42%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 88 (18.57%) Analyst
2 83 (17.51%) Junior
3 82 (17.30%) Data Analyst
4 81 (17.09%) Junior Analyst
4 81 (17.09%) Junior Data Analyst
5 67 (14.14%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 42 (8.86%) Lead
7 39 (8.23%) Developer
8 29 (6.12%) Architect
8 29 (6.12%) Senior
9 25 (5.27%) Software Engineer
10 19 (4.01%) IT Manager
11 16 (3.38%) Product Manager
12 15 (3.16%) .NET Developer
12 15 (3.16%) Technical Leader
13 12 (2.53%) IT Operations Manager
13 12 (2.53%) Operations Manager
13 12 (2.53%) Software Developer
13 12 (2.53%) Solutions Architect
14 11 (2.32%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (6.12%) React
2 20 (4.22%) .NET
3 15 (3.16%) ASP.NET
3 15 (3.16%) ASP.NET Core
3 15 (3.16%) ML.NET
3 15 (3.16%) Node.js
3 15 (3.16%) Terraform
4 13 (2.74%) Blazor
4 13 (2.74%) RESTful
5 11 (2.32%) .NET Core
6 6 (1.27%) Android SDK
6 6 (1.27%) CSS
6 6 (1.27%) GraphQL
6 6 (1.27%) REST
7 5 (1.05%) LangGraph
7 5 (1.05%) Middleware
7 5 (1.05%) Model Context Protocol
8 4 (0.84%) A2A Protocol
8 4 (0.84%) LangChain
8 4 (0.84%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 28 (5.91%) AI Agents
2 16 (3.38%) Cloud Native
2 16 (3.38%) Management Information System
3 13 (2.74%) Product Ownership
4 12 (2.53%) Self-Motivation
5 11 (2.32%) Social Media
6 10 (2.11%) Mobile App
6 10 (2.11%) Onboarding
7 9 (1.90%) Security Posture
8 8 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
9 7 (1.48%) Cyber Threat
9 7 (1.48%) Distributed Systems
9 7 (1.48%) Low-Code
10 5 (1.05%) BBC
10 5 (1.05%) CMDB
10 5 (1.05%) Data Centre
11 4 (0.84%) Algorithms
11 4 (0.84%) Driving Licence
11 4 (0.84%) IVR
11 4 (0.84%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 22 (4.64%) Windows
2 10 (2.11%) Android
3 4 (0.84%) Windows Server 2019
4 3 (0.63%) Linux
5 1 (0.21%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.21%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (21.52%) Business Intelligence
2 74 (15.61%) Analytics
3 64 (13.50%) Continuous Improvement
4 62 (13.08%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
5 60 (12.66%) Roadmaps
6 58 (12.24%) Agile
7 56 (11.81%) Software Engineering
8 55 (11.60%) Machine Learning
9 51 (10.76%) Mentoring
10 48 (10.13%) Cybersecurity
10 48 (10.13%) Problem-Solving
11 45 (9.49%) Decision-Making
12 43 (9.07%) CI/CD
13 36 (7.59%) Coaching
13 36 (7.59%) Stakeholder Management
14 33 (6.96%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 29 (6.12%) DevOps
15 29 (6.12%) LLM
16 27 (5.70%) Technical Leadership
17 26 (5.49%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 182 (38.40%) Python
2 122 (25.74%) SQL
3 28 (5.91%) JavaScript
4 22 (4.64%) C#
5 18 (3.80%) TypeScript
6 8 (1.69%) Java
7 7 (1.48%) PowerShell
8 6 (1.27%) Kotlin
9 4 (0.84%) XAML
10 3 (0.63%) Go
10 3 (0.63%) PHP
11 2 (0.42%) Ruby
12 1 (0.21%) C
12 1 (0.21%) C++
12 1 (0.21%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.21%) Perl
12 1 (0.21%) R
12 1 (0.21%) Scala
12 1 (0.21%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 136 (28.69%) Azure Certification
2 30 (6.33%) Degree
3 13 (2.74%) Security Cleared
4 12 (2.53%) SC Cleared
5 10 (2.11%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (1.69%) ACCA
6 8 (1.69%) CIMA
7 7 (1.48%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (1.05%) CISSP
8 5 (1.05%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 4 (0.84%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 4 (0.84%) CCSP
9 4 (0.84%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (0.84%) CompTIA CySA+
9 4 (0.84%) CompTIA Security+
9 4 (0.84%) PhD
10 2 (0.42%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.21%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.21%) CRISC
11 1 (0.21%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (3.80%) Cyber Essentials
2 17 (3.59%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 15 (3.16%) Data Quality
4 14 (2.95%) GDPR
4 14 (2.95%) QA
5 10 (2.11%) Accessibility
6 9 (1.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (1.05%) NIST
8 4 (0.84%) GRC
9 3 (0.63%) Actionable Recommendations
9 3 (0.63%) ISO 19650
9 3 (0.63%) NCSC
9 3 (0.63%) PMO
10 2 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 1 (0.21%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.21%) GAAP
11 1 (0.21%) WCAG
System Software
1 10 (2.11%) Active Directory
2 9 (1.90%) Docker
3 1 (0.21%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.21%) Firmware
3 1 (0.21%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.21%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 21 (4.43%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (1.69%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.21%) Grafana
Vendors
1 170 (35.86%) Microsoft
2 26 (5.49%) Google
3 17 (3.59%) Salesforce
4 14 (2.95%) Databricks
5 8 (1.69%) OpenAI
6 7 (1.48%) Foundry
7 5 (1.05%) Adobe
7 5 (1.05%) Apple
7 5 (1.05%) Facebook
7 5 (1.05%) ServiceNow
7 5 (1.05%) Sony
7 5 (1.05%) Yahoo!
8 4 (0.84%) Avaya
8 4 (0.84%) Cisco
8 4 (0.84%) Genesys
9 3 (0.63%) HubSpot
9 3 (0.63%) Oracle
9 3 (0.63%) Sage
9 3 (0.63%) Xero
10 2 (0.42%) Workday