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

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 12 96
Rank change year-on-year -3 +84 +53
Permanent jobs citing AI 501 343 131
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 7.50% 12.87% 2.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.16% 13.93% 2.60%
Number of salaries quoted 228 67 123
10th Percentile £33,525 £25,000 £39,750
25th Percentile £44,667 £25,313 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £25,625 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +153.66% -60.58% -3.70%
75th Percentile £90,000 £63,652 £74,443
90th Percentile £100,750 £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 4,491 2,462 5,033
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 67.21% 92.38% 79.36%
Number of salaries quoted 3,151 1,259 3,841
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £30,813 £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 £67,500 £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 12 June 2026.

Salary histogram for AI in Yorkshire

AI
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 12 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 -12 241 £66,250 +158.54% 78
South Yorkshire +4 134 £65,000 -21.21% 30
East Yorkshire +11 60 £40,000 -30.43% 3
North Yorkshire +13 49 £55,000 -6.38% 11
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 (2.20%) Jupyter
2 6 (1.20%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.20%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 148 (29.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (2.99%) 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
2 1 (0.20%) Q-Pulse
2 1 (0.20%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 244 (48.70%) Azure
2 206 (41.12%) Azure AI
3 157 (31.34%) Power Platform
4 43 (8.58%) AWS
5 41 (8.18%) SaaS
6 23 (4.59%) Microsoft Copilot
7 20 (3.99%) Microsoft 365
8 17 (3.39%) Power Automate
9 11 (2.20%) Cloud Computing
9 11 (2.20%) Copilot Studio
9 11 (2.20%) Entra ID
10 10 (2.00%) GitHub
10 10 (2.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 9 (1.80%) Azure DevOps
11 9 (1.80%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
12 7 (1.40%) GCP
13 6 (1.20%) PowerApps
13 6 (1.20%) Serverless
14 5 (1.00%) Azure Logic Apps
15 4 (0.80%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 37 (7.39%) 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%) Internet
3 1 (0.20%) LAN
3 1 (0.20%) VLAN
3 1 (0.20%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 152 (30.34%) Power BI
2 145 (28.94%) Tableau
3 7 (1.40%) Azure SQL Database
4 6 (1.20%) MongoDB
5 5 (1.00%) Big Data
5 5 (1.00%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (1.00%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (0.80%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (0.60%) ClickHouse
7 3 (0.60%) Data Lake
7 3 (0.60%) DynamoDB
7 3 (0.60%) Neo4j
7 3 (0.60%) Relational Database
7 3 (0.60%) SQL Server
8 2 (0.40%) Power Query
8 2 (0.40%) Semantic Layer
8 2 (0.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (0.40%) Star Schema
9 1 (0.20%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.20%) Data Hub
Development Applications
1 11 (2.20%) 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
1 248 (49.50%) Social Skills
2 76 (15.17%) Finance
3 41 (8.18%) Marketing
4 38 (7.58%) Games
5 34 (6.79%) Analytical Skills
6 20 (3.99%) Law
7 18 (3.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 18 (3.59%) Legal
8 16 (3.19%) Manufacturing
9 15 (2.99%) Retail
10 11 (2.20%) Organisational Skills
10 11 (2.20%) Public Sector
11 7 (1.40%) Advertising
12 5 (1.00%) Banking
13 4 (0.80%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (0.60%) Aviation
14 3 (0.60%) Billing
14 3 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
15 2 (0.40%) Tech for Good
16 1 (0.20%) Aeronautics
Job Titles
1 153 (30.54%) Analyst
2 144 (28.74%) Data Analyst
2 144 (28.74%) Junior
2 144 (28.74%) Junior Analyst
2 144 (28.74%) Junior Data Analyst
3 62 (12.38%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 48 (9.58%) Lead
5 44 (8.78%) Developer
6 20 (3.99%) Software Engineer
7 19 (3.79%) Senior
8 17 (3.39%) Software Developer
8 17 (3.39%) Technical Leader
9 15 (2.99%) Product Manager
10 14 (2.79%) Marketing Executive
11 12 (2.40%) Architect
11 12 (2.40%) Engineering Manager
11 12 (2.40%) Principal Engineer
12 11 (2.20%) IT Manager
12 11 (2.20%) Programmer
12 11 (2.20%) Trainee Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (4.39%) React
2 18 (3.59%) .NET
3 13 (2.59%) Android SDK
3 13 (2.59%) GraphQL
4 12 (2.40%) Node.js
4 12 (2.40%) scikit-learn
5 11 (2.20%) Hugging Face
5 11 (2.20%) Matplotlib
5 11 (2.20%) NumPy
5 11 (2.20%) Pandas
5 11 (2.20%) Streamlit
6 7 (1.40%) ASP.NET
6 7 (1.40%) ASP.NET Core
6 7 (1.40%) ML.NET
6 7 (1.40%) RESTful
7 6 (1.20%) .NET Core
7 6 (1.20%) Blazor
8 5 (1.00%) LangChain
9 4 (0.80%) Flutter
9 4 (0.80%) LangGraph
Miscellaneous
1 39 (7.78%) Mobile App
2 32 (6.39%) Onboarding
3 21 (4.19%) Social Media
4 18 (3.59%) Self-Motivation
5 13 (2.59%) Algorithms
5 13 (2.59%) Cloud Native
5 13 (2.59%) Management Information System
6 11 (2.20%) Product Ownership
7 10 (2.00%) Low-Code
8 9 (1.80%) AI Agents
9 5 (1.00%) Distributed Systems
9 5 (1.00%) Driving Licence
9 5 (1.00%) Greenfield Project
10 4 (0.80%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (0.80%) Marketing Technology
10 4 (0.80%) Security Posture
11 3 (0.60%) BBC
11 3 (0.60%) e-Learning
11 3 (0.60%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (0.60%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 38 (7.58%) Android
2 23 (4.59%) Apple iOS
3 11 (2.20%) Windows
4 1 (0.20%) Linux
4 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 153 (30.54%) Business Intelligence
2 69 (13.77%) Roadmaps
3 67 (13.37%) Agile
3 67 (13.37%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
4 66 (13.17%) CI/CD
5 63 (12.57%) Decision-Making
6 60 (11.98%) Mentoring
7 56 (11.18%) Analytics
8 54 (10.78%) Software Engineering
9 48 (9.58%) Machine Learning
10 46 (9.18%) Observability
11 44 (8.78%) Problem-Solving
12 39 (7.78%) Technical Leadership
13 36 (7.19%) Continuous Improvement
14 32 (6.39%) LLM
15 27 (5.39%) Budgeting
15 27 (5.39%) Incident Management
15 27 (5.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 26 (5.19%) Project Management
17 25 (4.99%) B2B
Programming Languages
1 257 (51.30%) Python
2 168 (33.53%) SQL
3 26 (5.19%) Java
3 26 (5.19%) JavaScript
4 24 (4.79%) C#
5 15 (2.99%) TypeScript
6 13 (2.59%) Kotlin
7 4 (0.80%) Go
8 3 (0.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 3 (0.60%) T-SQL
9 2 (0.40%) PHP
9 2 (0.40%) Ruby
10 1 (0.20%) C
10 1 (0.20%) C++
10 1 (0.20%) XAML
Qualifications
1 199 (39.72%) Azure Certification
2 15 (2.99%) Degree
3 11 (2.20%) AWS Certification
3 11 (2.20%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 8 (1.60%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (1.40%) ACCA
5 7 (1.40%) CIMA
6 5 (1.00%) CISSP
7 4 (0.80%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 4 (0.80%) CCSP
7 4 (0.80%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (0.60%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 3 (0.60%) SC Cleared
8 3 (0.60%) Security Cleared
9 1 (0.20%) CISM
9 1 (0.20%) CRISC
9 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.20%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (4.79%) Accessibility
2 13 (2.59%) Cyber Essentials
3 12 (2.40%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 12 (2.40%) QA
4 9 (1.80%) GDPR
4 9 (1.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (1.60%) Data Quality
6 4 (0.80%) GRC
6 4 (0.80%) NIST
7 3 (0.60%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (0.60%) NCSC
8 1 (0.20%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.20%) PMO
System Software
1 5 (1.00%) Docker
2 4 (0.80%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.20%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.20%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 11 (2.20%) Microsoft Intune
2 10 (2.00%) Terraform
3 4 (0.80%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.20%) Grafana
Vendors
1 199 (39.72%) Microsoft
2 19 (3.79%) Salesforce
3 16 (3.19%) Google
4 9 (1.80%) Databricks
5 5 (1.00%) HubSpot
6 4 (0.80%) OpenAI
7 3 (0.60%) Apple
7 3 (0.60%) Facebook
7 3 (0.60%) Sony
7 3 (0.60%) Xero
7 3 (0.60%) Yahoo!
8 1 (0.20%) Cloudera
8 1 (0.20%) Dell
8 1 (0.20%) Foundry
8 1 (0.20%) Sage
8 1 (0.20%) SAP
8 1 (0.20%) ServiceNow