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

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 13 99
Rank change year-on-year -1 +86 +78
Permanent jobs citing AI 543 402 128
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 7.92% 11.77% 2.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.63% 13.00% 2.64%
Number of salaries quoted 265 69 117
10th Percentile £33,750 £25,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £25,313 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £35,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +85.71% -46.15% -0.54%
75th Percentile £90,000 £70,834 £73,886
90th Percentile £100,000 £90,000 £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 4,670 3,093 4,855
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 68.16% 90.57% 79.67%
Number of salaries quoted 3,336 1,474 3,568
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £31,250 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -8.41%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,216 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -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 10 July 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 10 July 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 -11 258 £65,000 +153.66% 73
South Yorkshire +7 155 £65,000 -21.21% 42
East Yorkshire +15 60 £40,000 -30.43% 3
North Yorkshire +14 53 £55,000 -4.35% 15
AI
England

AI
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 (2.03%) Jupyter
2 10 (1.84%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.37%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.18%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 150 (27.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (3.68%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.55%) Camtasia
3 3 (0.55%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.37%) Trello
5 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.18%) Notion
Business Applications
1 3 (0.55%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (0.55%) Q-Pulse
1 3 (0.55%) Sage 200
2 2 (0.37%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.37%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 262 (48.25%) Azure
2 219 (40.33%) Azure AI
3 165 (30.39%) Power Platform
4 49 (9.02%) AWS
5 41 (7.55%) SaaS
6 29 (5.34%) Microsoft Copilot
7 27 (4.97%) Microsoft 365
8 19 (3.50%) Azure DevOps
9 18 (3.31%) Power Automate
10 15 (2.76%) Entra ID
11 14 (2.58%) Copilot Studio
11 14 (2.58%) GitHub
12 11 (2.03%) Cloud Computing
13 10 (1.84%) Salesforce Service Cloud
14 9 (1.66%) GCP
14 9 (1.66%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
15 7 (1.29%) Amazon ECS
15 7 (1.29%) GitHub Actions
15 7 (1.29%) PowerApps
15 7 (1.29%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 37 (6.81%) Broadband
2 4 (0.74%) CTI
2 4 (0.74%) Internet
2 4 (0.74%) Network Security
2 4 (0.74%) VoIP
3 3 (0.55%) LAN
3 3 (0.55%) WAN
4 1 (0.18%) DHCP
4 1 (0.18%) DNS
4 1 (0.18%) Firewall
4 1 (0.18%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 156 (28.73%) Power BI
2 145 (26.70%) Tableau
3 13 (2.39%) MongoDB
4 12 (2.21%) Azure SQL Database
5 7 (1.29%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (0.92%) Big Data
6 5 (0.92%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (0.74%) DynamoDB
7 4 (0.74%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (0.55%) ClickHouse
8 3 (0.55%) Data Lake
8 3 (0.55%) Neo4j
8 3 (0.55%) Relational Database
8 3 (0.55%) Star Schema
9 2 (0.37%) Semantic Layer
10 1 (0.18%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.18%) BigQuery
10 1 (0.18%) Data Hub
10 1 (0.18%) Looker
10 1 (0.18%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (2.03%) Visual Studio Code
2 3 (0.55%) Claude Code
2 3 (0.55%) Git
3 2 (0.37%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.37%) JIRA
4 1 (0.18%) MLflow
4 1 (0.18%) Visual Studio
General
1 254 (46.78%) Social Skills
2 81 (14.92%) Finance
3 43 (7.92%) Marketing
4 38 (7.00%) Games
5 37 (6.81%) Analytical Skills
6 22 (4.05%) Law
7 21 (3.87%) Manufacturing
7 21 (3.87%) Public Sector
8 19 (3.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 19 (3.50%) Legal
9 16 (2.95%) Retail
10 11 (2.03%) Organisational Skills
11 8 (1.47%) Advertising
11 8 (1.47%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (0.92%) Banking
13 3 (0.55%) Aviation
13 3 (0.55%) Billing
13 3 (0.55%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.37%) Tech for Good
15 1 (0.18%) Aeronautics
Job Titles
1 154 (28.36%) Analyst
2 145 (26.70%) Data Analyst
3 144 (26.52%) Junior
3 144 (26.52%) Junior Analyst
3 144 (26.52%) Junior Data Analyst
4 63 (11.60%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 55 (10.13%) Lead
6 51 (9.39%) Developer
7 21 (3.87%) Senior
7 21 (3.87%) Software Engineer
8 20 (3.68%) Technical Leader
9 17 (3.13%) IT Manager
10 16 (2.95%) Architect
10 16 (2.95%) Product Manager
10 16 (2.95%) Software Developer
11 15 (2.76%) .NET Developer
12 14 (2.58%) Marketing Executive
13 13 (2.39%) Engineering Manager
14 12 (2.21%) Principal Engineer
15 11 (2.03%) Trainee Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (5.52%) React
2 24 (4.42%) .NET
3 15 (2.76%) ASP.NET
3 15 (2.76%) ASP.NET Core
3 15 (2.76%) ML.NET
4 14 (2.58%) Node.js
4 14 (2.58%) RESTful
5 13 (2.39%) Android SDK
5 13 (2.39%) Blazor
5 13 (2.39%) GraphQL
6 12 (2.21%) scikit-learn
7 11 (2.03%) .NET Core
7 11 (2.03%) Hugging Face
7 11 (2.03%) Matplotlib
7 11 (2.03%) NumPy
7 11 (2.03%) Pandas
7 11 (2.03%) Streamlit
8 5 (0.92%) CSS
8 5 (0.92%) LangChain
9 4 (0.74%) LangGraph
Miscellaneous
1 41 (7.55%) Mobile App
2 32 (5.89%) Onboarding
3 23 (4.24%) Social Media
4 19 (3.50%) Self-Motivation
5 16 (2.95%) AI Agents
5 16 (2.95%) Cloud Native
6 15 (2.76%) Management Information System
7 13 (2.39%) Algorithms
8 12 (2.21%) Product Ownership
9 9 (1.66%) Greenfield Project
10 8 (1.47%) Low-Code
11 7 (1.29%) Distributed Systems
12 5 (0.92%) Analytical Mindset
12 5 (0.92%) BBC
12 5 (0.92%) Driving Licence
13 4 (0.74%) iPhone
13 4 (0.74%) IVR
13 4 (0.74%) Legacy Systems
13 4 (0.74%) Marketing Technology
13 4 (0.74%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 40 (7.37%) Android
2 23 (4.24%) Apple iOS
3 13 (2.39%) Windows
4 2 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.18%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 157 (28.91%) Business Intelligence
2 82 (15.10%) Agile
3 76 (14.00%) Roadmaps
4 72 (13.26%) CI/CD
5 70 (12.89%) Mentoring
6 69 (12.71%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
6 69 (12.71%) Decision-Making
7 63 (11.60%) Analytics
8 62 (11.42%) Machine Learning
9 55 (10.13%) Software Engineering
10 50 (9.21%) Problem-Solving
11 48 (8.84%) Observability
12 46 (8.47%) Continuous Improvement
13 42 (7.73%) Technical Leadership
14 33 (6.08%) Cybersecurity
14 33 (6.08%) LLM
15 29 (5.34%) Budgeting
15 29 (5.34%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 28 (5.16%) B2B
16 28 (5.16%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 260 (47.88%) Python
2 177 (32.60%) SQL
3 35 (6.45%) JavaScript
4 29 (5.34%) C#
5 23 (4.24%) Java
6 17 (3.13%) TypeScript
7 13 (2.39%) Kotlin
8 5 (0.92%) Go
9 3 (0.55%) PHP
10 2 (0.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (0.37%) PowerShell
10 2 (0.37%) Ruby
10 2 (0.37%) XAML
11 1 (0.18%) C
11 1 (0.18%) C++
11 1 (0.18%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 199 (36.65%) Azure Certification
2 23 (4.24%) Degree
3 11 (2.03%) AWS Certification
3 11 (2.03%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 10 (1.84%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (1.29%) ACCA
5 7 (1.29%) CIMA
6 5 (0.92%) CISSP
6 5 (0.92%) SC Cleared
6 5 (0.92%) Security Cleared
7 4 (0.74%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 4 (0.74%) CCSP
7 4 (0.74%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (0.55%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.18%) CISM
9 1 (0.18%) CRISC
9 1 (0.18%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (5.34%) Accessibility
2 15 (2.76%) Cyber Essentials
3 14 (2.58%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 12 (2.21%) GDPR
4 12 (2.21%) QA
5 11 (2.03%) Data Quality
6 10 (1.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.92%) NIST
8 4 (0.74%) GRC
9 3 (0.55%) Actionable Recommendations
9 3 (0.55%) NCSC
9 3 (0.55%) PMO
10 2 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 1 (0.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 6 (1.10%) Docker
2 4 (0.74%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.18%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.18%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 14 (2.58%) Terraform
2 13 (2.39%) Microsoft Intune
3 7 (1.29%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.18%) Grafana
Vendors
1 217 (39.96%) Microsoft
2 20 (3.68%) Google
3 19 (3.50%) Salesforce
4 11 (2.03%) Databricks
5 6 (1.10%) Foundry
5 6 (1.10%) OpenAI
6 5 (0.92%) Apple
6 5 (0.92%) Facebook
6 5 (0.92%) HubSpot
6 5 (0.92%) Sony
6 5 (0.92%) Yahoo!
7 4 (0.74%) Avaya
7 4 (0.74%) Cisco
7 4 (0.74%) Genesys
8 3 (0.55%) Sage
8 3 (0.55%) SAP
8 3 (0.55%) Xero
9 2 (0.37%) Oracle
9 2 (0.37%) Workday
10 1 (0.18%) Dell