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

6 months to
9 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 14 107
Rank change year-on-year +1 +93 +16
Permanent jobs citing AI 535 409 92
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 7.33% 11.46% 1.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.94% 12.88% 2.26%
Number of salaries quoted 273 70 80
10th Percentile £33,000 £25,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £46,000 £25,313 £47,788
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £37,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +73.33% -46.43% -
75th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £73,886
90th Percentile £100,000 £90,000 £93,750
England median annual salary £70,752 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +1.07% -3.45% -3.33%

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 4,892 3,176 4,068
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 67.07% 89.01% 78.88%
Number of salaries quoted 3,537 1,548 2,568
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £30,906 £38,890
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.37% -5.00% -8.19%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £86,053 £80,000 £78,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £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 9 August 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 August 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 -12 256 £65,000 +153.66% 126
South Yorkshire +7 150 £65,000 -21.21% 41
East Yorkshire +20 55 £42,500 -26.09% 7
North Yorkshire +12 54 £55,000 - 22
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 16 (2.99%) SharePoint
2 11 (2.06%) Jupyter
3 5 (0.93%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.37%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.19%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 124 (23.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (3.36%) Chatbot
3 4 (0.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.56%) LaTeX
4 3 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.37%) Camtasia
5 2 (0.37%) Trello
6 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.19%) Notion
Business Applications
1 3 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (0.56%) Magento
1 3 (0.56%) Q-Pulse
1 3 (0.56%) Sage 200
1 3 (0.56%) Shopify
2 2 (0.37%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.37%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 253 (47.29%) Azure
2 192 (35.89%) Azure AI
3 147 (27.48%) Power Platform
4 53 (9.91%) AWS
5 46 (8.60%) SaaS
6 34 (6.36%) Microsoft 365
7 30 (5.61%) Microsoft Copilot
8 23 (4.30%) Power Automate
9 21 (3.93%) Azure DevOps
10 20 (3.74%) Entra ID
11 14 (2.62%) Copilot Studio
11 14 (2.62%) GitHub
12 12 (2.24%) PowerApps
13 10 (1.87%) GCP
13 10 (1.87%) Salesforce Service Cloud
13 10 (1.87%) Serverless
14 9 (1.68%) Amazon ECS
14 9 (1.68%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
15 8 (1.50%) Cloud Computing
15 8 (1.50%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 28 (5.23%) Broadband
2 6 (1.12%) Network Security
3 5 (0.93%) Internet
4 4 (0.75%) CTI
4 4 (0.75%) LAN
4 4 (0.75%) VoIP
4 4 (0.75%) WAN
5 2 (0.37%) Firewall
6 1 (0.19%) DHCP
6 1 (0.19%) DNS
6 1 (0.19%) SAN
6 1 (0.19%) SSL
6 1 (0.19%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 131 (24.49%) Power BI
2 118 (22.06%) Tableau
3 13 (2.43%) MongoDB
4 12 (2.24%) Azure SQL Database
5 9 (1.68%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (1.12%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (0.93%) Big Data
7 5 (0.93%) Data Lake
8 4 (0.75%) DynamoDB
8 4 (0.75%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (0.56%) ClickHouse
9 3 (0.56%) Metadata
9 3 (0.56%) MySQL
9 3 (0.56%) Relational Database
9 3 (0.56%) Semantic Layer
9 3 (0.56%) SQL Server
10 2 (0.37%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (0.37%) BigQuery
10 2 (0.37%) Delta Lake
10 2 (0.37%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 8 (1.50%) Visual Studio Code
2 4 (0.75%) Claude Code
3 3 (0.56%) Git
3 3 (0.56%) MLflow
4 2 (0.37%) GitLab
4 2 (0.37%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.37%) JIRA
5 1 (0.19%) Visual Studio
General
1 244 (45.61%) Social Skills
2 88 (16.45%) Finance
3 42 (7.85%) Marketing
4 40 (7.48%) Analytical Skills
5 32 (5.98%) Games
6 30 (5.61%) Public Sector
7 25 (4.67%) Legal
8 24 (4.49%) Manufacturing
9 23 (4.30%) Law
9 23 (4.30%) Retail
10 21 (3.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 14 (2.62%) Organisational Skills
12 11 (2.06%) Influencing Skills
13 9 (1.68%) Advertising
14 5 (0.93%) Aviation
14 5 (0.93%) Banking
15 3 (0.56%) Billing
15 3 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
16 2 (0.37%) Local Government
16 2 (0.37%) Police
Job Titles
1 127 (23.74%) Analyst
2 118 (22.06%) Data Analyst
2 118 (22.06%) Junior
3 117 (21.87%) Junior Analyst
3 117 (21.87%) Junior Data Analyst
4 62 (11.59%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 51 (9.53%) Lead
6 46 (8.60%) Developer
7 23 (4.30%) Senior
7 23 (4.30%) Software Engineer
8 20 (3.74%) Architect
9 18 (3.36%) Technical Leader
10 17 (3.18%) IT Manager
10 17 (3.18%) Product Manager
11 15 (2.80%) .NET Developer
11 15 (2.80%) Software Developer
12 12 (2.24%) Marketing Executive
12 12 (2.24%) Principal Engineer
13 11 (2.06%) IT Operations Manager
13 11 (2.06%) Operations Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (5.61%) React
2 21 (3.93%) .NET
3 15 (2.80%) ASP.NET
3 15 (2.80%) ASP.NET Core
3 15 (2.80%) ML.NET
3 15 (2.80%) Node.js
4 13 (2.43%) Blazor
4 13 (2.43%) RESTful
5 12 (2.24%) Android SDK
5 12 (2.24%) GraphQL
6 11 (2.06%) .NET Core
7 9 (1.68%) scikit-learn
8 8 (1.50%) Hugging Face
8 8 (1.50%) Matplotlib
8 8 (1.50%) NumPy
8 8 (1.50%) Pandas
8 8 (1.50%) Streamlit
9 6 (1.12%) CSS
10 4 (0.75%) Redux
10 4 (0.75%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 32 (5.98%) Mobile App
2 25 (4.67%) Onboarding
3 22 (4.11%) AI Agents
4 19 (3.55%) Social Media
5 18 (3.36%) Self-Motivation
6 16 (2.99%) Management Information System
7 14 (2.62%) Cloud Native
8 13 (2.43%) Product Ownership
9 11 (2.06%) Algorithms
10 10 (1.87%) Greenfield Project
11 9 (1.68%) Security Posture
12 8 (1.50%) Low-Code
13 7 (1.31%) Distributed Systems
14 6 (1.12%) Driving Licence
15 5 (0.93%) BBC
15 5 (0.93%) CMDB
15 5 (0.93%) Cyber Threat
16 4 (0.75%) iPhone
16 4 (0.75%) IVR
16 4 (0.75%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 32 (5.98%) Android
2 19 (3.55%) Windows
3 16 (2.99%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.56%) Linux
5 2 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.19%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.19%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 135 (25.23%) Business Intelligence
2 77 (14.39%) Agile
3 76 (14.21%) Roadmaps
4 70 (13.08%) Analytics
5 68 (12.71%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
6 65 (12.15%) CI/CD
6 65 (12.15%) Mentoring
7 62 (11.59%) Continuous Improvement
7 62 (11.59%) Decision-Making
8 61 (11.40%) Machine Learning
9 56 (10.47%) Problem-Solving
10 53 (9.91%) Software Engineering
11 42 (7.85%) Cybersecurity
12 39 (7.29%) Observability
13 37 (6.92%) Stakeholder Management
13 37 (6.92%) Technical Leadership
14 33 (6.17%) LLM
14 33 (6.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 31 (5.79%) Coaching
16 26 (4.86%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 227 (42.43%) Python
2 153 (28.60%) SQL
3 32 (5.98%) JavaScript
4 25 (4.67%) C#
5 18 (3.36%) Java
5 18 (3.36%) TypeScript
6 12 (2.24%) Kotlin
7 7 (1.31%) PowerShell
8 4 (0.75%) Go
9 3 (0.56%) PHP
10 2 (0.37%) Ruby
10 2 (0.37%) XAML
11 1 (0.19%) C
11 1 (0.19%) C++
11 1 (0.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.19%) Perl
11 1 (0.19%) R
11 1 (0.19%) Scala
11 1 (0.19%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 172 (32.15%) Azure Certification
2 27 (5.05%) Degree
3 11 (2.06%) Security Cleared
4 10 (1.87%) Computer Science Degree
4 10 (1.87%) SC Cleared
5 8 (1.50%) ACCA
5 8 (1.50%) AWS Certification
5 8 (1.50%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 8 (1.50%) CIMA
5 8 (1.50%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (0.93%) CISSP
7 4 (0.75%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 4 (0.75%) CCSP
7 4 (0.75%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (0.75%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 3 (0.56%) CompTIA CySA+
8 3 (0.56%) CompTIA Security+
8 3 (0.56%) PhD
9 2 (0.37%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.19%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (4.67%) Accessibility
2 15 (2.80%) Cyber Essentials
2 15 (2.80%) QA
3 14 (2.62%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 14 (2.62%) GDPR
4 12 (2.24%) Data Quality
5 9 (1.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (0.93%) NIST
7 4 (0.75%) GRC
8 3 (0.56%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (0.56%) ISO 19650
8 3 (0.56%) NCSC
8 3 (0.56%) PMO
9 2 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 1 (0.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.19%) GAAP
System Software
1 10 (1.87%) Active Directory
2 7 (1.31%) Docker
3 1 (0.19%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.19%) Firmware
3 1 (0.19%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.19%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 18 (3.36%) Microsoft Intune
2 15 (2.80%) Terraform
3 6 (1.12%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.19%) Grafana
Vendors
1 201 (37.57%) Microsoft
2 19 (3.55%) Google
3 18 (3.36%) Salesforce
4 14 (2.62%) Databricks
5 7 (1.31%) Foundry
5 7 (1.31%) OpenAI
6 6 (1.12%) ServiceNow
7 5 (0.93%) Apple
7 5 (0.93%) Facebook
7 5 (0.93%) HubSpot
7 5 (0.93%) Sony
7 5 (0.93%) Yahoo!
8 4 (0.75%) Avaya
8 4 (0.75%) Cisco
8 4 (0.75%) Genesys
9 3 (0.56%) Sage
9 3 (0.56%) Xero
10 2 (0.37%) Oracle
10 2 (0.37%) SAP
10 2 (0.37%) Workday