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

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 59 85
Rank change year-on-year +54 +26 +41
Permanent jobs citing AI 472 106 117
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 12.92% 3.58% 2.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.76% 3.91% 3.23%
Number of salaries quoted 62 59 99
10th Percentile £21,500 £39,750 £40,950
25th Percentile £41,497 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% -3.70% -1.92%
75th Percentile £86,250 £93,536 £84,056
90th Percentile £97,250 £100,000 £100,064
England median annual salary £72,500 £77,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -5.84% +10.00% -

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 2,816 2,712 3,624
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 77.11% 91.62% 87.58%
Number of salaries quoted 1,671 1,074 2,919
10th Percentile £28,000 £29,400 £27,500
25th Percentile £30,625 £41,250 £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 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,125 £83,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £61,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -9.84% +6.09% -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 30 January 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 30 January 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 +59 289 £67,500 +50.00% 90
South Yorkshire +9 67 £75,000 -18.92% 38
North Yorkshire +30 47 £72,500 +34.88% 26
East Yorkshire +15 23 - - 28
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 6 (1.27%) SharePoint
2 4 (0.85%) CMS
3 2 (0.42%) JBoss
3 2 (0.42%) Umbraco
3 2 (0.42%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.21%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.21%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.21%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.21%) Kinematics
4 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 196 (41.53%) Chatbot
2 59 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.21%) Camtasia
Business Applications
1 3 (0.64%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 138 (29.24%) Cloud Computing
2 68 (14.41%) Azure
3 63 (13.35%) Power Platform
4 55 (11.65%) Azure AI
5 11 (2.33%) SaaS
6 7 (1.48%) AWS
6 7 (1.48%) Microsoft Purview
7 6 (1.27%) Azure Data Factory
8 5 (1.06%) GitHub
8 5 (1.06%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (1.06%) Power Automate
9 4 (0.85%) Amazon Bedrock
9 4 (0.85%) Azure App Service
9 4 (0.85%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (0.85%) Microsoft Copilot
9 4 (0.85%) PowerApps
10 3 (0.64%) Azure Logic Apps
10 3 (0.64%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 3 (0.64%) GCP
11 2 (0.42%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 138 (29.24%) Internet
2 7 (1.48%) Broadband
3 2 (0.42%) Intranet
4 1 (0.21%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (13.14%) Power BI
2 59 (12.50%) Tableau
3 8 (1.69%) Metadata
4 4 (0.85%) SQL Server
5 3 (0.64%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (0.64%) NoSQL
5 3 (0.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (0.42%) Data Mining
6 2 (0.42%) Power Query
7 1 (0.21%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.21%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.21%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.21%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.21%) Data Vault
7 1 (0.21%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.21%) Looker
7 1 (0.21%) Neo4j
7 1 (0.21%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.21%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 3 (0.64%) Git
2 2 (0.42%) JMeter
2 2 (0.42%) LoadRunner
2 2 (0.42%) Selenium
2 2 (0.42%) SonarQube
General
1 209 (44.28%) Social Skills
2 145 (30.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 139 (29.45%) Banking
4 90 (19.07%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (3.81%) Finance
6 13 (2.75%) Public Sector
7 11 (2.33%) Legal
8 8 (1.69%) Retail
9 7 (1.48%) Games
10 5 (1.06%) Law
11 4 (0.85%) Marketing
12 3 (0.64%) Aerospace
12 3 (0.64%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.64%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.21%) Agriculture
13 1 (0.21%) Back Office
13 1 (0.21%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 196 (41.53%) Trainer
2 107 (22.67%) Lecturer
3 55 (11.65%) Analyst
4 54 (11.44%) Data Analyst
4 54 (11.44%) Junior
4 54 (11.44%) Junior Analyst
4 54 (11.44%) Junior Data Analyst
5 19 (4.03%) Research Scientist
6 15 (3.18%) Content Editor
7 14 (2.97%) Customer Support Specialist
7 14 (2.97%) Support Specialist
8 13 (2.75%) Biologist
9 12 (2.54%) Lead
10 11 (2.33%) Biostatistician
10 11 (2.33%) Developer
11 10 (2.12%) Architect
11 10 (2.12%) Senior
12 7 (1.48%) Data Engineer
12 7 (1.48%) Solutions Architect
13 5 (1.06%) Customer Service Representative
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (1.69%) .NET
2 7 (1.48%) PySpark
3 4 (0.85%) Hibernate
3 4 (0.85%) Middleware
3 4 (0.85%) Spring
4 3 (0.64%) .NET Framework
4 3 (0.64%) A2A Protocol
4 3 (0.64%) React
4 3 (0.64%) REST
5 2 (0.42%) ASP.NET
5 2 (0.42%) ASP.NET Core
5 2 (0.42%) CSS
5 2 (0.42%) Grails
5 2 (0.42%) HTML
5 2 (0.42%) Kafka
5 2 (0.42%) Razor View Engine
5 2 (0.42%) RESTful
5 2 (0.42%) SOAP
5 2 (0.42%) Spring Boot
5 2 (0.42%) Struts
Miscellaneous
1 139 (29.45%) IoT
2 30 (6.36%) Molecular Biology
3 10 (2.12%) Cloud Native
4 8 (1.69%) AI Agents
4 8 (1.69%) Mobile App
5 7 (1.48%) Blog
5 7 (1.48%) Onboarding
6 4 (0.85%) Low-Code
7 3 (0.64%) Enterprise Cloud
7 3 (0.64%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (0.42%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (0.42%) DataPower
8 2 (0.42%) Robotics
8 2 (0.42%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.21%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (0.21%) Hackathon
9 1 (0.21%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.21%) Legacy Code
9 1 (0.21%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.21%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 7 (1.48%) Android
1 7 (1.48%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.21%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 196 (41.53%) Conversational UI
2 159 (33.69%) Machine Learning
3 152 (32.20%) Cybersecurity
4 146 (30.93%) User Experience
5 141 (29.87%) Web Development
6 77 (16.31%) Chemistry
7 66 (13.98%) Business Intelligence
8 30 (6.36%) Biochemistry
8 30 (6.36%) Biology
8 30 (6.36%) Biotechnology
8 30 (6.36%) Data Interpretation
8 30 (6.36%) Experimental Design
9 26 (5.51%) Content Writing
10 25 (5.30%) Decision-Making
11 23 (4.87%) Mentoring
12 22 (4.66%) Roadmaps
13 20 (4.24%) Analytics
13 20 (4.24%) CI/CD
13 20 (4.24%) Physics
14 19 (4.03%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 80 (16.95%) Python
2 79 (16.74%) SQL
3 9 (1.91%) Java
3 9 (1.91%) JavaScript
4 7 (1.48%) C#
4 7 (1.48%) T-SQL
5 3 (0.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 3 (0.64%) TypeScript
6 2 (0.42%) R
7 1 (0.21%) Go
Qualifications
1 346 (73.31%) Degree
2 265 (56.14%) Master's Degree
2 265 (56.14%) PhD
3 138 (29.24%) Postgraduate
4 54 (11.44%) Azure Certification
5 7 (1.48%) PMP
6 3 (0.64%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.21%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.21%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (1.91%) Accessibility
2 4 (0.85%) Data Quality
3 3 (0.64%) GDPR
4 2 (0.42%) WCAG
5 1 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.21%) COBIT
5 1 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.21%) QA
System Software
1 3 (0.64%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (1.27%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.42%) Control-M
2 2 (0.42%) HP Fortify
3 1 (0.21%) Functional Safety
3 1 (0.21%) Terraform
Vendors
1 196 (41.53%) PayPal
2 71 (15.04%) Microsoft
3 8 (1.69%) Databricks
4 3 (0.64%) Oracle
5 2 (0.42%) IBM
5 2 (0.42%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.21%) Foundry
6 1 (0.21%) Google
6 1 (0.21%) Pardot
6 1 (0.21%) Salesforce