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

6 months to
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 51 95
Rank change year-on-year +44 +44 +35
Permanent jobs citing AI 510 115 113
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 12.43% 4.61% 2.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.23% 4.95% 2.89%
Number of salaries quoted 96 72 98
10th Percentile £31,250 £25,313 £40,800
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,938 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,250 £61,250 £61,250
Median % change year-on-year - - -11.41%
75th Percentile £85,000 £90,822 £84,764
90th Percentile £96,250 £99,625 £100,064
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -

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 3,143 2,323 3,905
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 76.58% 93.11% 86.89%
Number of salaries quoted 1,902 1,042 3,131
10th Percentile £28,250 £27,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £32,000 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,445 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.72% +5.00% -8.90%
75th Percentile £67,500 £73,886 £66,778
90th Percentile £83,750 £89,950 £83,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -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

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Salary Histogram in Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing AI in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 20 February 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 20 February 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 +43 303 £52,750 +17.22% 135
South Yorkshire +7 85 £73,000 -21.08% 65
North Yorkshire +30 48 £72,500 +34.88% 35
East Yorkshire +10 26 - - 30
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 9 (1.76%) Jupyter
2 5 (0.98%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.78%) CMS
4 2 (0.39%) JBoss
4 2 (0.39%) Umbraco
4 2 (0.39%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.20%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.20%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.20%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.20%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 163 (31.96%) Chatbot
2 95 (18.63%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.20%) Camtasia
Business Applications
1 3 (0.59%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 147 (28.82%) Cloud Computing
2 105 (20.59%) Azure
3 98 (19.22%) Power Platform
4 91 (17.84%) Azure AI
5 19 (3.73%) AWS
6 14 (2.75%) SaaS
7 7 (1.37%) Microsoft Purview
8 6 (1.18%) Azure Data Factory
9 5 (0.98%) GitHub
9 5 (0.98%) Power Automate
10 4 (0.78%) Amazon Bedrock
10 4 (0.78%) Azure App Service
10 4 (0.78%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (0.78%) Microsoft 365
10 4 (0.78%) PowerApps
11 3 (0.59%) Azure Logic Apps
11 3 (0.59%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 3 (0.59%) GCP
11 3 (0.59%) Microsoft Copilot
12 2 (0.39%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 138 (27.06%) Internet
2 16 (3.14%) Broadband
3 2 (0.39%) Intranet
4 1 (0.20%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 98 (19.22%) Power BI
2 95 (18.63%) Tableau
3 8 (1.57%) Metadata
4 4 (0.78%) SQL Server
5 3 (0.59%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (0.59%) NoSQL
5 3 (0.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (0.39%) Data Mining
6 2 (0.39%) Power Query
6 2 (0.39%) Semantic Layer
7 1 (0.20%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.20%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.20%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.20%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.20%) Data Vault
7 1 (0.20%) Looker
7 1 (0.20%) Neo4j
7 1 (0.20%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.20%) Spark SQL
7 1 (0.20%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 9 (1.76%) Visual Studio Code
2 3 (0.59%) Git
3 2 (0.39%) JMeter
3 2 (0.39%) LoadRunner
3 2 (0.39%) Selenium
3 2 (0.39%) SonarQube
General
1 248 (48.63%) Social Skills
2 147 (28.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 139 (27.25%) Banking
4 81 (15.88%) Analytical Skills
5 36 (7.06%) Finance
6 16 (3.14%) Games
7 15 (2.94%) Retail
8 13 (2.55%) Public Sector
9 12 (2.35%) Marketing
10 11 (2.16%) Legal
11 9 (1.76%) Manufacturing
12 6 (1.18%) Law
13 3 (0.59%) Aerospace
13 3 (0.59%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.59%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (0.59%) Presentation Skills
14 1 (0.20%) Agriculture
14 1 (0.20%) Back Office
14 1 (0.20%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 154 (30.20%) Trainer
2 105 (20.59%) Lecturer
3 93 (18.24%) Analyst
4 90 (17.65%) Data Analyst
4 90 (17.65%) Junior
4 90 (17.65%) Junior Analyst
4 90 (17.65%) Junior Data Analyst
5 19 (3.73%) Research Scientist
6 18 (3.53%) Lead
7 17 (3.33%) Developer
8 13 (2.55%) Biologist
9 12 (2.35%) Customer Support Specialist
9 12 (2.35%) Senior
9 12 (2.35%) Support Specialist
10 11 (2.16%) Trainee
11 10 (1.96%) Architect
11 10 (1.96%) Content Editor
12 9 (1.76%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
12 9 (1.76%) Programmer
12 9 (1.76%) Trainee Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (2.35%) .NET
2 9 (1.76%) Hugging Face
2 9 (1.76%) Matplotlib
2 9 (1.76%) NumPy
2 9 (1.76%) Pandas
2 9 (1.76%) scikit-learn
2 9 (1.76%) Streamlit
3 7 (1.37%) PySpark
4 5 (0.98%) Spring
5 4 (0.78%) Hibernate
5 4 (0.78%) Middleware
5 4 (0.78%) React
6 3 (0.59%) .NET Framework
6 3 (0.59%) A2A Protocol
6 3 (0.59%) REST
6 3 (0.59%) Spring Boot
7 2 (0.39%) Grails
7 2 (0.39%) Kafka
7 2 (0.39%) Razor View Engine
7 2 (0.39%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 139 (27.25%) IoT
2 28 (5.49%) Molecular Biology
3 17 (3.33%) Mobile App
4 14 (2.75%) Onboarding
5 10 (1.96%) Algorithms
5 10 (1.96%) Cloud Native
6 9 (1.76%) AI Agents
7 7 (1.37%) Blog
8 6 (1.18%) Social Media
9 5 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (0.78%) Low-Code
11 3 (0.59%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (0.59%) Enterprise Cloud
12 2 (0.39%) DataPower
12 2 (0.39%) Management Information System
12 2 (0.39%) Virtual Team
13 1 (0.20%) e-Learning
13 1 (0.20%) Enterprise Software
13 1 (0.20%) NHS
13 1 (0.20%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 15 (2.94%) Android
2 14 (2.75%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.20%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 171 (33.53%) Machine Learning
2 163 (31.96%) Conversational UI
3 153 (30.00%) Cybersecurity
4 146 (28.63%) User Experience
5 141 (27.65%) Web Development
6 102 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
7 65 (12.75%) Chemistry
8 38 (7.45%) Decision-Making
9 33 (6.47%) Mentoring
10 32 (6.27%) CI/CD
11 31 (6.08%) Roadmaps
12 28 (5.49%) Biochemistry
12 28 (5.49%) Biology
12 28 (5.49%) Biotechnology
12 28 (5.49%) Data Interpretation
12 28 (5.49%) Experimental Design
13 27 (5.29%) Agile
14 26 (5.10%) Analytics
15 25 (4.90%) Project Management
16 20 (3.92%) Physics
Programming Languages
1 133 (26.08%) Python
2 116 (22.75%) SQL
3 16 (3.14%) Java
4 14 (2.75%) JavaScript
5 12 (2.35%) C#
6 7 (1.37%) T-SQL
7 4 (0.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 4 (0.78%) TypeScript
8 2 (0.39%) Go
8 2 (0.39%) R
9 1 (0.20%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 303 (59.41%) Degree
2 250 (49.02%) Master's Degree
2 250 (49.02%) PhD
3 138 (27.06%) Postgraduate
4 90 (17.65%) Azure Certification
5 9 (1.76%) AWS Certification
5 9 (1.76%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 7 (1.37%) PMP
7 3 (0.59%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.20%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.20%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (3.14%) Accessibility
2 6 (1.18%) Data Quality
3 4 (0.78%) GDPR
4 3 (0.59%) QA
5 2 (0.39%) WCAG
6 1 (0.20%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.20%) COBIT
6 1 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.20%) GRC
6 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (0.59%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (1.37%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.39%) Control-M
2 2 (0.39%) HP Fortify
3 1 (0.20%) Terraform
Vendors
1 154 (30.20%) PayPal
2 116 (22.75%) Microsoft
3 8 (1.57%) Databricks
4 3 (0.59%) OpenAI
4 3 (0.59%) Oracle
4 3 (0.59%) Salesforce
5 2 (0.39%) HubSpot
5 2 (0.39%) IBM
6 1 (0.20%) Foundry
6 1 (0.20%) Google
6 1 (0.20%) Pardot
6 1 (0.20%) SAP
6 1 (0.20%) ServiceNow