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

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 8 97
Rank change year-on-year -8 +89 +26
Permanent jobs citing AI 467 428 98
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 6.25% 12.78% 1.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.35% 14.67% 2.39%
Number of salaries quoted 258 46 75
10th Percentile £36,175 £25,313 £40,000
25th Percentile £49,063 £33,125 £47,644
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -17.86% -10.90%
75th Percentile £90,000 £86,250 £73,818
90th Percentile £100,000 £90,000 £92,579
England median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +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 4,992 2,917 4,093
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 66.85% 87.13% 78.77%
Number of salaries quoted 3,684 1,498 2,297
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £31,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,130 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.75% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -8.00%

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 3 September 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 3 September 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 -16 230 £69,607 +74.02% 207
South Yorkshire +1 129 £65,000 -21.21% 103
East Yorkshire +15 47 £42,500 -26.09% 11
North Yorkshire +2 47 £55,000 - 40
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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 22 (4.71%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.07%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (0.64%) Jupyter
4 2 (0.43%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.21%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.21%) CMS
5 1 (0.21%) WordPress
Applications
1 93 (19.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (2.14%) Chatbot
3 4 (0.86%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.64%) LaTeX
5 2 (0.43%) Camtasia
5 2 (0.43%) Trello
6 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.21%) Notion
Business Applications
1 4 (0.86%) Shopify
2 3 (0.64%) Magento
2 3 (0.64%) Q-Pulse
2 3 (0.64%) Sage 200
3 2 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.43%) Workday HCM
4 1 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 225 (48.18%) Azure
2 156 (33.40%) Azure AI
3 113 (24.20%) Power Platform
4 52 (11.13%) AWS
5 51 (10.92%) SaaS
6 44 (9.42%) Microsoft 365
7 37 (7.92%) Microsoft Copilot
8 23 (4.93%) Entra ID
9 22 (4.71%) Power Automate
10 21 (4.50%) Azure DevOps
11 16 (3.43%) GCP
12 14 (3.00%) GitHub
13 13 (2.78%) Copilot Studio
13 13 (2.78%) OneDrive
14 12 (2.57%) PowerApps
15 11 (2.36%) Microsoft Purview
16 10 (2.14%) NetDocuments
17 9 (1.93%) Amazon ECS
17 9 (1.93%) Salesforce Service Cloud
17 9 (1.93%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.71%) Network Security
2 7 (1.50%) LAN
2 7 (1.50%) WAN
3 6 (1.28%) Broadband
3 6 (1.28%) Internet
4 4 (0.86%) CTI
4 4 (0.86%) VoIP
5 2 (0.43%) Firewall
6 1 (0.21%) DHCP
6 1 (0.21%) DNS
6 1 (0.21%) SAN
6 1 (0.21%) SSL
6 1 (0.21%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 98 (20.99%) Power BI
2 82 (17.56%) Tableau
3 13 (2.78%) MongoDB
4 12 (2.57%) Azure SQL Database
5 9 (1.93%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (1.28%) Data Lake
6 6 (1.28%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (1.07%) Big Data
8 4 (0.86%) DynamoDB
8 4 (0.86%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (0.64%) ClickHouse
9 3 (0.64%) Metadata
9 3 (0.64%) MySQL
9 3 (0.64%) Neo4j
9 3 (0.64%) Relational Database
9 3 (0.64%) Semantic Layer
9 3 (0.64%) SQL Server
10 2 (0.43%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (0.43%) Delta Lake
10 2 (0.43%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 4 (0.86%) Claude Code
2 3 (0.64%) Git
2 3 (0.64%) MLflow
3 2 (0.43%) GitLab
3 2 (0.43%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.21%) JIRA
4 1 (0.21%) Visual Studio
General
1 211 (45.18%) Social Skills
2 74 (15.85%) Finance
3 39 (8.35%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (7.71%) Marketing
5 35 (7.49%) Public Sector
6 30 (6.42%) Legal
7 24 (5.14%) Law
8 17 (3.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 16 (3.43%) Manufacturing
9 16 (3.43%) Retail
10 12 (2.57%) Organisational Skills
11 10 (2.14%) Games
11 10 (2.14%) Influencing Skills
12 9 (1.93%) Advertising
13 6 (1.28%) Banking
14 5 (1.07%) Aviation
15 3 (0.64%) Billing
15 3 (0.64%) Presentation Skills
16 2 (0.43%) Electronics
16 2 (0.43%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 88 (18.84%) Analyst
2 83 (17.77%) Junior
3 82 (17.56%) Data Analyst
4 81 (17.34%) Junior Analyst
4 81 (17.34%) Junior Data Analyst
5 66 (14.13%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 42 (8.99%) Lead
7 39 (8.35%) Developer
8 29 (6.21%) Senior
9 27 (5.78%) Architect
10 24 (5.14%) Software Engineer
11 19 (4.07%) IT Manager
12 16 (3.43%) Product Manager
13 15 (3.21%) .NET Developer
13 15 (3.21%) Technical Leader
14 12 (2.57%) IT Operations Manager
14 12 (2.57%) Operations Manager
14 12 (2.57%) Software Developer
15 11 (2.36%) Principal Engineer
16 10 (2.14%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (6.21%) React
2 20 (4.28%) .NET
3 15 (3.21%) ASP.NET
3 15 (3.21%) ASP.NET Core
3 15 (3.21%) ML.NET
3 15 (3.21%) Node.js
3 15 (3.21%) Terraform
4 13 (2.78%) Blazor
4 13 (2.78%) RESTful
5 11 (2.36%) .NET Core
6 6 (1.28%) Android SDK
6 6 (1.28%) CSS
6 6 (1.28%) GraphQL
6 6 (1.28%) REST
7 5 (1.07%) LangGraph
7 5 (1.07%) Middleware
8 4 (0.86%) A2A Protocol
8 4 (0.86%) LangChain
8 4 (0.86%) Model Context Protocol
8 4 (0.86%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 25 (5.35%) AI Agents
2 16 (3.43%) Cloud Native
2 16 (3.43%) Management Information System
3 13 (2.78%) Product Ownership
4 12 (2.57%) Self-Motivation
5 11 (2.36%) Social Media
6 10 (2.14%) Mobile App
6 10 (2.14%) Onboarding
7 9 (1.93%) Security Posture
8 8 (1.71%) Greenfield Project
9 7 (1.50%) Cyber Threat
9 7 (1.50%) Distributed Systems
9 7 (1.50%) Low-Code
10 5 (1.07%) BBC
10 5 (1.07%) CMDB
10 5 (1.07%) Data Centre
11 4 (0.86%) Algorithms
11 4 (0.86%) Driving Licence
11 4 (0.86%) IVR
11 4 (0.86%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 22 (4.71%) Windows
2 10 (2.14%) Android
3 4 (0.86%) Windows Server 2019
4 3 (0.64%) Linux
5 1 (0.21%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.21%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (21.84%) Business Intelligence
2 74 (15.85%) Analytics
3 62 (13.28%) Continuous Improvement
4 61 (13.06%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
5 58 (12.42%) Agile
5 58 (12.42%) Roadmaps
6 55 (11.78%) Machine Learning
7 54 (11.56%) Software Engineering
8 51 (10.92%) Mentoring
9 48 (10.28%) Cybersecurity
9 48 (10.28%) Problem-Solving
10 43 (9.21%) Decision-Making
11 42 (8.99%) CI/CD
12 36 (7.71%) Stakeholder Management
13 35 (7.49%) Coaching
14 33 (7.07%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 27 (5.78%) DevOps
16 26 (5.57%) Disaster Recovery
16 26 (5.57%) LLM
17 25 (5.35%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 181 (38.76%) Python
2 122 (26.12%) SQL
3 28 (6.00%) JavaScript
4 22 (4.71%) C#
5 17 (3.64%) TypeScript
6 8 (1.71%) Java
7 7 (1.50%) PowerShell
8 6 (1.28%) Kotlin
9 4 (0.86%) XAML
10 3 (0.64%) Go
10 3 (0.64%) PHP
11 2 (0.43%) Ruby
12 1 (0.21%) C
12 1 (0.21%) C++
12 1 (0.21%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.21%) Perl
12 1 (0.21%) R
12 1 (0.21%) Scala
12 1 (0.21%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 136 (29.12%) Azure Certification
2 29 (6.21%) Degree
3 11 (2.36%) Security Cleared
4 10 (2.14%) Computer Science Degree
4 10 (2.14%) SC Cleared
5 8 (1.71%) ACCA
5 8 (1.71%) CIMA
6 7 (1.50%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (1.07%) CISSP
8 4 (0.86%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 4 (0.86%) CCSP
8 4 (0.86%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (0.86%) CompTIA CySA+
8 4 (0.86%) CompTIA Security+
8 4 (0.86%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 4 (0.86%) PhD
9 2 (0.43%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.21%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.21%) CRISC
10 1 (0.21%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (3.85%) Cyber Essentials
2 17 (3.64%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 14 (3.00%) GDPR
3 14 (3.00%) QA
4 13 (2.78%) Data Quality
5 9 (1.93%) Accessibility
5 9 (1.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (1.07%) NIST
7 3 (0.64%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (0.64%) ISO 19650
7 3 (0.64%) NCSC
7 3 (0.64%) PMO
8 2 (0.43%) GRC
8 2 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 1 (0.21%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.21%) GAAP
System Software
1 10 (2.14%) Active Directory
2 9 (1.93%) Docker
3 1 (0.21%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.21%) Firmware
3 1 (0.21%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.21%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 21 (4.50%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (1.71%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.21%) Grafana
Vendors
1 168 (35.97%) Microsoft
2 26 (5.57%) Google
3 17 (3.64%) Salesforce
4 14 (3.00%) Databricks
5 8 (1.71%) OpenAI
6 7 (1.50%) Foundry
7 5 (1.07%) Adobe
7 5 (1.07%) Apple
7 5 (1.07%) Facebook
7 5 (1.07%) ServiceNow
7 5 (1.07%) Sony
7 5 (1.07%) Yahoo!
8 4 (0.86%) Avaya
8 4 (0.86%) Cisco
8 4 (0.86%) Genesys
9 3 (0.64%) HubSpot
9 3 (0.64%) Oracle
9 3 (0.64%) Sage
9 3 (0.64%) Xero
10 2 (0.43%) Workday