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

6 months to
31 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 12 99
Rank change year-on-year +1 +87 +46
Permanent jobs citing AI 587 334 124
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 8.86% 12.49% 2.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.89% 13.33% 2.58%
Number of salaries quoted 210 70 118
10th Percentile £32,975 £25,000 £39,750
25th Percentile £42,000 £25,313 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £35,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +85.71% -44.00% -4.36%
75th Percentile £90,000 £63,052 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £86,250 £96,827
England median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +3.70% -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 4,553 2,506 4,801
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 68.75% 93.72% 80.96%
Number of salaries quoted 3,076 1,220 3,776
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £39,050 £31,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -8.90%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £86,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £59,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.69% +7.27% -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 31 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 31 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 -5 295 £65,000 +153.66% 42
South Yorkshire +2 132 £65,000 -21.21% 30
East Yorkshire +14 63 £37,500 -34.78% 4
North Yorkshire +9 51 £55,000 - 10
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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 11 (1.87%) Jupyter
2 4 (0.68%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.17%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 165 (28.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (2.56%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.51%) Camtasia
4 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.34%) Trello
5 1 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.17%) Notion
Business Applications
1 3 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 255 (43.44%) Azure
2 220 (37.48%) Azure AI
3 174 (29.64%) Power Platform
4 98 (16.70%) Cloud Computing
5 41 (6.98%) SaaS
6 38 (6.47%) AWS
7 21 (3.58%) Microsoft Copilot
8 17 (2.90%) Microsoft 365
8 17 (2.90%) Power Automate
9 11 (1.87%) Copilot Studio
9 11 (1.87%) GitHub
10 10 (1.70%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 9 (1.53%) Entra ID
11 9 (1.53%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
12 7 (1.19%) GCP
13 6 (1.02%) Azure DevOps
13 6 (1.02%) PowerApps
14 5 (0.85%) Azure Logic Apps
14 5 (0.85%) GitHub Actions
14 5 (0.85%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 87 (14.82%) Internet
2 37 (6.30%) Broadband
3 4 (0.68%) Network Security
4 1 (0.17%) DHCP
4 1 (0.17%) DNS
4 1 (0.17%) Firewall
4 1 (0.17%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 169 (28.79%) Power BI
2 163 (27.77%) Tableau
3 5 (0.85%) Azure SQL Database
3 5 (0.85%) Big Data
3 5 (0.85%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (0.68%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (0.68%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (0.51%) ClickHouse
5 3 (0.51%) DynamoDB
5 3 (0.51%) MongoDB
5 3 (0.51%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.34%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.34%) Neo4j
6 2 (0.34%) Power Query
6 2 (0.34%) Semantic Layer
6 2 (0.34%) SQL Server
6 2 (0.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (0.34%) Star Schema
7 1 (0.17%) Data Hub
7 1 (0.17%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 11 (1.87%) Visual Studio Code
2 3 (0.51%) Claude Code
2 3 (0.51%) Git
3 1 (0.17%) JIRA
3 1 (0.17%) MLflow
3 1 (0.17%) Visual Studio
General
1 349 (59.45%) Social Skills
2 104 (17.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 92 (15.67%) Banking
4 67 (11.41%) Finance
5 42 (7.16%) Marketing
6 38 (6.47%) Games
7 34 (5.79%) Analytical Skills
8 18 (3.07%) Law
9 16 (2.73%) Legal
9 16 (2.73%) Retail
10 15 (2.56%) Manufacturing
11 11 (1.87%) Public Sector
12 10 (1.70%) Organisational Skills
13 7 (1.19%) Advertising
14 4 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
15 3 (0.51%) Aviation
15 3 (0.51%) Billing
15 3 (0.51%) Presentation Skills
16 2 (0.34%) Tech for Good
17 1 (0.17%) Aeronautics
Job Titles
1 170 (28.96%) Analyst
2 162 (27.60%) Data Analyst
2 162 (27.60%) Junior
2 162 (27.60%) Junior Analyst
2 162 (27.60%) Junior Data Analyst
3 62 (10.56%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 61 (10.39%) Lecturer
5 48 (8.18%) Lead
6 41 (6.98%) Developer
7 19 (3.24%) Software Engineer
8 17 (2.90%) Software Developer
8 17 (2.90%) Technical Leader
9 15 (2.56%) Product Manager
9 15 (2.56%) Senior
10 14 (2.39%) Marketing Executive
11 12 (2.04%) Principal Engineer
12 11 (1.87%) Engineering Manager
12 11 (1.87%) Programmer
12 11 (1.87%) Trainee
12 11 (1.87%) Trainee Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (2.90%) React
2 15 (2.56%) .NET
3 13 (2.21%) Android SDK
3 13 (2.21%) GraphQL
4 12 (2.04%) scikit-learn
5 11 (1.87%) Hugging Face
5 11 (1.87%) Matplotlib
5 11 (1.87%) NumPy
5 11 (1.87%) Pandas
5 11 (1.87%) Streamlit
6 10 (1.70%) Node.js
7 4 (0.68%) .NET Core
7 4 (0.68%) ASP.NET
7 4 (0.68%) ASP.NET Core
7 4 (0.68%) Bootstrap
7 4 (0.68%) CSS
7 4 (0.68%) PySpark
7 4 (0.68%) Redux
7 4 (0.68%) REST
7 4 (0.68%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 88 (14.99%) IoT
2 38 (6.47%) Mobile App
3 30 (5.11%) Onboarding
4 20 (3.41%) Social Media
5 18 (3.07%) Self-Motivation
6 13 (2.21%) Algorithms
7 12 (2.04%) Cloud Native
7 12 (2.04%) Management Information System
8 11 (1.87%) Product Ownership
9 10 (1.70%) Low-Code
10 7 (1.19%) AI Agents
11 5 (0.85%) Driving Licence
12 4 (0.68%) Analytical Mindset
12 4 (0.68%) Distributed Systems
12 4 (0.68%) Greenfield Project
12 4 (0.68%) Marketing Technology
13 3 (0.51%) e-Learning
13 3 (0.51%) Robotics
13 3 (0.51%) Security Posture
14 2 (0.34%) BBC
Operating Systems
1 37 (6.30%) Android
2 23 (3.92%) Apple iOS
3 9 (1.53%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 169 (28.79%) Business Intelligence
2 129 (21.98%) Machine Learning
3 107 (18.23%) Cybersecurity
4 99 (16.87%) User Experience
5 87 (14.82%) Web Development
6 68 (11.58%) Roadmaps
7 66 (11.24%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
7 66 (11.24%) CI/CD
8 64 (10.90%) Agile
9 62 (10.56%) Decision-Making
10 58 (9.88%) Mentoring
11 55 (9.37%) Analytics
12 51 (8.69%) Software Engineering
13 45 (7.67%) Observability
14 43 (7.33%) Problem-Solving
15 38 (6.47%) Technical Leadership
16 35 (5.96%) Continuous Improvement
17 30 (5.11%) LLM
18 27 (4.60%) Incident Management
19 26 (4.43%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 274 (46.68%) Python
2 184 (31.35%) SQL
3 26 (4.43%) Java
4 22 (3.75%) JavaScript
5 21 (3.58%) C#
6 13 (2.21%) Kotlin
6 13 (2.21%) TypeScript
7 4 (0.68%) Go
8 3 (0.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 3 (0.51%) T-SQL
9 2 (0.34%) PHP
9 2 (0.34%) Ruby
10 1 (0.17%) C
10 1 (0.17%) C++
Qualifications
1 217 (36.97%) Azure Certification
2 101 (17.21%) Degree
3 87 (14.82%) Master's Degree
3 87 (14.82%) PhD
3 87 (14.82%) Postgraduate
4 11 (1.87%) AWS Certification
4 11 (1.87%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 7 (1.19%) ACCA
5 7 (1.19%) CIMA
5 7 (1.19%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (0.85%) CISSP
7 4 (0.68%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 4 (0.68%) CCSP
7 4 (0.68%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (0.51%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 3 (0.51%) SC Cleared
8 3 (0.51%) Security Cleared
9 1 (0.17%) CISM
9 1 (0.17%) CRISC
9 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (4.09%) Accessibility
2 12 (2.04%) QA
3 11 (1.87%) Cyber Essentials
3 11 (1.87%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 8 (1.36%) Data Quality
4 8 (1.36%) GDPR
4 8 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.68%) NIST
6 3 (0.51%) Actionable Recommendations
6 3 (0.51%) GRC
6 3 (0.51%) NCSC
7 1 (0.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.17%) PMO
System Software
1 5 (0.85%) Docker
2 3 (0.51%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.17%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.17%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 9 (1.53%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (1.36%) Terraform
3 4 (0.68%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.17%) Grafana
Vendors
1 210 (35.78%) Microsoft
2 19 (3.24%) Salesforce
3 14 (2.39%) Google
4 8 (1.36%) Databricks
5 5 (0.85%) HubSpot
6 3 (0.51%) OpenAI
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%) SAP
8 1 (0.17%) ServiceNow