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

6 months to
8 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 63 74
Rank change year-on-year +58 +11 +34
Permanent jobs citing AI 470 101 103
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 13.93% 3.18% 3.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.62% 3.53% 3.58%
Number of salaries quoted 61 56 77
10th Percentile £20,000 £36,875 £42,138
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £50,172
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £64,326 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year +12.71% -8.86% +7.75%
75th Percentile £90,000 £90,822 £84,056
90th Percentile £97,500 £98,125 £96,839
England median annual salary £72,500 £77,500 £75,250
% change year-on-year -6.45% +2.99% +7.50%

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 2,667 2,861 2,880
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 79.02% 90.08% 89.33%
Number of salaries quoted 1,541 1,120 2,250
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,000 £28,812
25th Percentile £30,250 £40,988 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £69,500 £69,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £84,056
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 8 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 8 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 +65 288 £70,000 +55.56% 134
South Yorkshire +12 68 £75,000 -2.60% 65
North Yorkshire +32 49 £72,500 +48.72% 52
East Yorkshire +11 20 - - 54
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 (1.28%) SharePoint
2 4 (0.85%) CMS
3 2 (0.43%) JBoss
3 2 (0.43%) Kinematics
3 2 (0.43%) Umbraco
3 2 (0.43%) 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%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 211 (44.89%) Chatbot
2 50 (10.64%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (0.64%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 138 (29.36%) Cloud Computing
2 68 (14.47%) Azure
3 56 (11.91%) Power Platform
4 46 (9.79%) Azure AI
5 16 (3.40%) AWS
5 16 (3.40%) SaaS
6 8 (1.70%) GCP
7 7 (1.49%) Microsoft Purview
8 6 (1.28%) Azure Data Factory
9 5 (1.06%) Power Automate
10 4 (0.85%) Amazon Bedrock
10 4 (0.85%) Azure App Service
10 4 (0.85%) GitHub
10 4 (0.85%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (0.85%) Microsoft 365
10 4 (0.85%) PowerApps
11 3 (0.64%) Azure Logic Apps
11 3 (0.64%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 3 (0.64%) Microsoft Copilot
12 2 (0.43%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 138 (29.36%) Internet
2 2 (0.43%) Intranet
3 1 (0.21%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (11.70%) Power BI
2 50 (10.64%) Tableau
3 8 (1.70%) Metadata
3 8 (1.70%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (1.49%) MongoDB
5 5 (1.06%) MySQL
6 4 (0.85%) NoSQL
6 4 (0.85%) SQL Server
7 3 (0.64%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (0.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (0.43%) Data Mining
8 2 (0.43%) Power Query
9 1 (0.21%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.21%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.21%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.21%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.21%) Data Vault
9 1 (0.21%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.21%) Looker
9 1 (0.21%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 3 (0.64%) Git
2 2 (0.43%) Jenkins
2 2 (0.43%) JIRA
2 2 (0.43%) JMeter
2 2 (0.43%) LoadRunner
2 2 (0.43%) Selenium
2 2 (0.43%) SonarQube
General
1 202 (42.98%) Social Skills
2 145 (30.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 139 (29.57%) Banking
4 96 (20.43%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (3.19%) Finance
6 13 (2.77%) Public Sector
6 13 (2.77%) Retail
7 10 (2.13%) Legal
8 8 (1.70%) Marketing
9 7 (1.49%) Law
10 4 (0.85%) Aerospace
11 3 (0.64%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (0.64%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.43%) Agriculture
13 1 (0.21%) Back Office
13 1 (0.21%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 209 (44.47%) Trainer
2 108 (22.98%) Lecturer
3 48 (10.21%) Analyst
4 47 (10.00%) Data Analyst
5 45 (9.57%) Junior
5 45 (9.57%) Junior Analyst
5 45 (9.57%) Junior Data Analyst
6 20 (4.26%) Research Scientist
7 15 (3.19%) Content Editor
8 14 (2.98%) Customer Support Specialist
8 14 (2.98%) Support Specialist
9 13 (2.77%) Biologist
9 13 (2.77%) Developer
10 12 (2.55%) Architect
10 12 (2.55%) Lead
11 11 (2.34%) Biostatistician
12 7 (1.49%) Data Engineer
12 7 (1.49%) Senior
12 7 (1.49%) Software Developer
12 7 (1.49%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (1.70%) RESTful
2 7 (1.49%) .NET
2 7 (1.49%) PySpark
3 5 (1.06%) React
4 4 (0.85%) Hibernate
4 4 (0.85%) Kafka
4 4 (0.85%) Middleware
4 4 (0.85%) Spring
5 3 (0.64%) .NET Framework
5 3 (0.64%) FastAPI
5 3 (0.64%) GraphQL
5 3 (0.64%) REST
6 2 (0.43%) ASP.NET Core
6 2 (0.43%) Django
6 2 (0.43%) Grails
6 2 (0.43%) gRPC
6 2 (0.43%) Node.js
6 2 (0.43%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (0.43%) Redux
6 2 (0.43%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 139 (29.57%) IoT
2 30 (6.38%) Molecular Biology
3 7 (1.49%) Blog
3 7 (1.49%) Cloud Native
4 6 (1.28%) AI Agents
5 5 (1.06%) Marketing Technology
6 4 (0.85%) Low-Code
7 3 (0.64%) Enterprise Cloud
7 3 (0.64%) Product Ownership
7 3 (0.64%) Robotics
7 3 (0.64%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (0.43%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (0.43%) Augmented Reality
8 2 (0.43%) DataPower
8 2 (0.43%) Virtual Reality
8 2 (0.43%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.21%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.21%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.21%) NHS
9 1 (0.21%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.21%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 211 (44.89%) Conversational UI
2 160 (34.04%) Machine Learning
3 152 (32.34%) Cybersecurity
4 145 (30.85%) User Experience
5 141 (30.00%) Web Development
6 85 (18.09%) Chemistry
7 59 (12.55%) Business Intelligence
8 30 (6.38%) Biochemistry
8 30 (6.38%) Biology
8 30 (6.38%) Biotechnology
8 30 (6.38%) Data Interpretation
8 30 (6.38%) Experimental Design
9 26 (5.53%) Content Writing
9 26 (5.53%) Physics
10 24 (5.11%) Analytics
11 23 (4.89%) Mathematics
11 23 (4.89%) Mentoring
11 23 (4.89%) Roadmaps
12 19 (4.04%) Continuous Improvement
13 17 (3.62%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 76 (16.17%) Python
2 71 (15.11%) SQL
3 10 (2.13%) JavaScript
4 8 (1.70%) Java
5 7 (1.49%) T-SQL
6 6 (1.28%) C#
7 5 (1.06%) TypeScript
8 3 (0.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (0.43%) R
10 1 (0.21%) Go
Qualifications
1 362 (77.02%) Degree
2 280 (59.57%) Master's Degree
3 278 (59.15%) PhD
4 138 (29.36%) Postgraduate
5 45 (9.57%) Azure Certification
6 7 (1.49%) PMP
7 3 (0.64%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.21%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.21%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (0.85%) Data Quality
2 3 (0.64%) GDPR
2 3 (0.64%) QA
3 2 (0.43%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.43%) WCAG
4 1 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.21%) COBIT
4 1 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 10 (2.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (1.70%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.43%) Control-M
2 2 (0.43%) Functional Safety
2 2 (0.43%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 209 (44.47%) PayPal
2 61 (12.98%) Microsoft
3 8 (1.70%) Databricks
4 3 (0.64%) Oracle
5 2 (0.43%) IBM
6 1 (0.21%) Foundry
6 1 (0.21%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.21%) Pardot