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

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 12 102
Rank change year-on-year -5 +90 +46
Permanent jobs citing AI 497 339 129
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 7.44% 12.75% 2.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.05% 13.76% 2.62%
Number of salaries quoted 215 68 122
10th Percentile £33,300 £25,000 £39,750
25th Percentile £42,000 £25,313 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £30,313 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +114.43% -53.37% -3.70%
75th Percentile £90,000 £63,652 £74,721
90th Percentile £100,000 £86,250 £93,750
England median annual salary £70,000 £66,350 £70,000
% change year-on-year +5.50% -5.21% -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 4,498 2,463 4,923
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 67.31% 92.63% 79.56%
Number of salaries quoted 3,142 1,260 3,804
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £30,500 £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 £67,653 £65,000
90th Percentile £86,250 £85,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £58,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% +5.45% -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 June 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 June 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 -13 236 £65,000 +153.66% 83
South Yorkshire +6 133 £65,000 -21.21% 32
East Yorkshire +11 62 £40,000 -30.43% 4
North Yorkshire +9 49 £55,000 - 14
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 (2.21%) Jupyter
2 4 (0.80%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.20%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 156 (31.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (3.02%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.60%) Camtasia
4 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.40%) Trello
5 1 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.20%) Notion
Business Applications
1 3 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 248 (49.90%) Azure
2 212 (42.66%) Azure AI
3 165 (33.20%) Power Platform
4 41 (8.25%) SaaS
5 40 (8.05%) AWS
6 21 (4.23%) Microsoft Copilot
7 17 (3.42%) Microsoft 365
7 17 (3.42%) Power Automate
8 11 (2.21%) Cloud Computing
8 11 (2.21%) Copilot Studio
9 10 (2.01%) GitHub
9 10 (2.01%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 9 (1.81%) Entra ID
10 9 (1.81%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
11 7 (1.41%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (1.41%) GCP
12 6 (1.21%) PowerApps
12 6 (1.21%) Serverless
13 5 (1.01%) Azure Logic Apps
14 4 (0.80%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 37 (7.44%) Broadband
2 4 (0.80%) Network Security
3 1 (0.20%) DHCP
3 1 (0.20%) DNS
3 1 (0.20%) Firewall
3 1 (0.20%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 160 (32.19%) Power BI
2 154 (30.99%) Tableau
3 6 (1.21%) Azure SQL Database
4 5 (1.01%) Big Data
4 5 (1.01%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (1.01%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (0.80%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (0.80%) MongoDB
6 3 (0.60%) ClickHouse
6 3 (0.60%) DynamoDB
6 3 (0.60%) Neo4j
6 3 (0.60%) Relational Database
6 3 (0.60%) SQL Server
7 2 (0.40%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.40%) Power Query
7 2 (0.40%) Semantic Layer
7 2 (0.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (0.40%) Star Schema
8 1 (0.20%) Data Hub
8 1 (0.20%) Looker
Development Applications
1 11 (2.21%) Visual Studio Code
2 3 (0.60%) Claude Code
2 3 (0.60%) Git
3 1 (0.20%) JIRA
3 1 (0.20%) MLflow
3 1 (0.20%) Visual Studio
General
1 252 (50.70%) Social Skills
2 72 (14.49%) Finance
3 41 (8.25%) Marketing
4 38 (7.65%) Games
5 34 (6.84%) Analytical Skills
6 19 (3.82%) Law
7 17 (3.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 16 (3.22%) Legal
9 15 (3.02%) Manufacturing
9 15 (3.02%) Retail
10 11 (2.21%) Public Sector
11 10 (2.01%) Organisational Skills
12 7 (1.41%) Advertising
13 5 (1.01%) Banking
14 4 (0.80%) Influencing Skills
15 3 (0.60%) Aviation
15 3 (0.60%) Billing
15 3 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
16 2 (0.40%) Tech for Good
17 1 (0.20%) Aeronautics
Job Titles
1 161 (32.39%) Analyst
2 153 (30.78%) Data Analyst
2 153 (30.78%) Junior
2 153 (30.78%) Junior Analyst
2 153 (30.78%) Junior Data Analyst
3 62 (12.47%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 48 (9.66%) Lead
5 42 (8.45%) Developer
6 20 (4.02%) Software Engineer
7 17 (3.42%) Senior
7 17 (3.42%) Software Developer
7 17 (3.42%) Technical Leader
8 15 (3.02%) Product Manager
9 14 (2.82%) Marketing Executive
10 12 (2.41%) Engineering Manager
10 12 (2.41%) Principal Engineer
11 11 (2.21%) Architect
11 11 (2.21%) Programmer
11 11 (2.21%) Trainee
11 11 (2.21%) Trainee Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (3.82%) React
2 16 (3.22%) .NET
3 13 (2.62%) Android SDK
3 13 (2.62%) GraphQL
4 12 (2.41%) scikit-learn
5 11 (2.21%) Hugging Face
5 11 (2.21%) Matplotlib
5 11 (2.21%) Node.js
5 11 (2.21%) NumPy
5 11 (2.21%) Pandas
5 11 (2.21%) Streamlit
6 5 (1.01%) .NET Core
6 5 (1.01%) ASP.NET
6 5 (1.01%) ASP.NET Core
6 5 (1.01%) LangChain
6 5 (1.01%) ML.NET
6 5 (1.01%) RESTful
7 4 (0.80%) Blazor
7 4 (0.80%) Flutter
7 4 (0.80%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 39 (7.85%) Mobile App
2 30 (6.04%) Onboarding
3 20 (4.02%) Social Media
4 18 (3.62%) Self-Motivation
5 13 (2.62%) Algorithms
6 12 (2.41%) Cloud Native
6 12 (2.41%) Management Information System
7 11 (2.21%) Product Ownership
8 10 (2.01%) Low-Code
9 8 (1.61%) AI Agents
10 5 (1.01%) Driving Licence
11 4 (0.80%) Analytical Mindset
11 4 (0.80%) Distributed Systems
11 4 (0.80%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (0.80%) Marketing Technology
12 3 (0.60%) e-Learning
12 3 (0.60%) Robotics
12 3 (0.60%) Security Posture
13 2 (0.40%) BBC
13 2 (0.40%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 38 (7.65%) Android
2 23 (4.63%) Apple iOS
3 9 (1.81%) Windows
4 1 (0.20%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 160 (32.19%) Business Intelligence
2 67 (13.48%) Roadmaps
3 66 (13.28%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
4 65 (13.08%) Agile
4 65 (13.08%) CI/CD
5 60 (12.07%) Decision-Making
6 58 (11.67%) Mentoring
7 55 (11.07%) Analytics
8 52 (10.46%) Software Engineering
9 45 (9.05%) Observability
10 44 (8.85%) Machine Learning
11 43 (8.65%) Problem-Solving
12 38 (7.65%) Technical Leadership
13 35 (7.04%) Continuous Improvement
14 31 (6.24%) LLM
15 27 (5.43%) Incident Management
16 26 (5.23%) Budgeting
16 26 (5.23%) Project Management
17 25 (5.03%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 24 (4.83%) B2B
Programming Languages
1 265 (53.32%) Python
2 175 (35.21%) SQL
3 26 (5.23%) Java
4 24 (4.83%) JavaScript
5 22 (4.43%) C#
6 14 (2.82%) TypeScript
7 13 (2.62%) Kotlin
8 4 (0.80%) Go
9 3 (0.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 3 (0.60%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.40%) PHP
10 2 (0.40%) Ruby
11 1 (0.20%) C
11 1 (0.20%) C++
Qualifications
1 208 (41.85%) Azure Certification
2 14 (2.82%) Degree
3 11 (2.21%) AWS Certification
3 11 (2.21%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 7 (1.41%) ACCA
4 7 (1.41%) CIMA
4 7 (1.41%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.01%) CISSP
6 4 (0.80%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 4 (0.80%) CCSP
6 4 (0.80%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (0.60%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 3 (0.60%) SC Cleared
7 3 (0.60%) Security Cleared
8 1 (0.20%) CISM
8 1 (0.20%) CRISC
8 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.20%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (4.83%) Accessibility
2 12 (2.41%) QA
3 11 (2.21%) Cyber Essentials
3 11 (2.21%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 8 (1.61%) Data Quality
4 8 (1.61%) GDPR
4 8 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.80%) NIST
6 3 (0.60%) Actionable Recommendations
6 3 (0.60%) GRC
6 3 (0.60%) NCSC
7 1 (0.20%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.20%) PMO
System Software
1 5 (1.01%) Docker
2 3 (0.60%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.20%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.20%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 9 (1.81%) Microsoft Intune
1 9 (1.81%) Terraform
2 4 (0.80%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.20%) Grafana
Vendors
1 202 (40.64%) Microsoft
2 19 (3.82%) Salesforce
3 15 (3.02%) Google
4 8 (1.61%) Databricks
5 5 (1.01%) HubSpot
6 4 (0.80%) OpenAI
7 3 (0.60%) Xero
8 2 (0.40%) Apple
8 2 (0.40%) Facebook
8 2 (0.40%) Sony
8 2 (0.40%) Yahoo!
9 1 (0.20%) Cloudera
9 1 (0.20%) Dell
9 1 (0.20%) SAP
9 1 (0.20%) ServiceNow