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 1 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 13 99
Rank change year-on-year -1 +86 +88
Permanent jobs citing AI 533 386 136
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 7.79% 11.97% 2.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.51% 13.08% 2.72%
Number of salaries quoted 255 65 124
10th Percentile £33,750 £25,000 £39,825
25th Percentile £45,000 £25,313 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £25,625 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +153.66% -60.58% -2.15%
75th Percentile £90,000 £63,652 £73,886
90th Percentile £100,000 £88,500 £93,750
England median annual salary £70,000 £66,340 £70,000
% change year-on-year +5.52% -5.23% -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 4,631 2,951 5,000
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 67.67% 91.50% 79.34%
Number of salaries quoted 3,290 1,379 3,716
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £31,000 £36,565
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 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,092 £83,750 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -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 1 July 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 1 July 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 -13 253 £65,000 +153.66% 75
South Yorkshire +4 150 £65,000 -21.21% 34
East Yorkshire +15 60 £40,000 -30.43% 8
North Yorkshire +11 53 £55,000 -4.35% 15
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 (2.06%) Jupyter
2 9 (1.69%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.38%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.19%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 148 (27.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (3.19%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.56%) Camtasia
4 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.38%) Trello
5 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.19%) Notion
Business Applications
1 3 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (0.56%) Q-Pulse
1 3 (0.56%) Sage 200
2 2 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.38%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 259 (48.59%) Azure
2 218 (40.90%) Azure AI
3 163 (30.58%) Power Platform
4 48 (9.01%) AWS
5 40 (7.50%) SaaS
6 27 (5.07%) Microsoft Copilot
7 25 (4.69%) Microsoft 365
8 18 (3.38%) Power Automate
9 17 (3.19%) Azure DevOps
10 14 (2.63%) Copilot Studio
10 14 (2.63%) Entra ID
10 14 (2.63%) GitHub
11 11 (2.06%) Cloud Computing
12 10 (1.88%) Salesforce Service Cloud
13 9 (1.69%) GCP
13 9 (1.69%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
14 7 (1.31%) GitHub Actions
14 7 (1.31%) PowerApps
15 6 (1.13%) Amazon ECS
15 6 (1.13%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 37 (6.94%) Broadband
2 4 (0.75%) Network Security
3 3 (0.56%) Internet
4 2 (0.38%) CTI
4 2 (0.38%) LAN
4 2 (0.38%) VoIP
4 2 (0.38%) WAN
5 1 (0.19%) DHCP
5 1 (0.19%) DNS
5 1 (0.19%) Firewall
5 1 (0.19%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 155 (29.08%) Power BI
2 145 (27.20%) Tableau
3 12 (2.25%) Azure SQL Database
3 12 (2.25%) MongoDB
4 6 (1.13%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (0.94%) Big Data
5 5 (0.94%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (0.75%) DynamoDB
6 4 (0.75%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (0.56%) ClickHouse
7 3 (0.56%) Data Lake
7 3 (0.56%) Neo4j
7 3 (0.56%) Relational Database
7 3 (0.56%) Star Schema
8 2 (0.38%) Semantic Layer
9 1 (0.19%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.19%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.19%) InfluxDB
9 1 (0.19%) Looker
9 1 (0.19%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 11 (2.06%) Visual Studio Code
2 3 (0.56%) Claude Code
2 3 (0.56%) Git
3 2 (0.38%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.19%) JIRA
4 1 (0.19%) MLflow
4 1 (0.19%) Visual Studio
General
1 252 (47.28%) Social Skills
2 81 (15.20%) Finance
3 43 (8.07%) Marketing
4 38 (7.13%) Games
5 37 (6.94%) Analytical Skills
6 21 (3.94%) Law
7 20 (3.75%) Manufacturing
8 19 (3.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 19 (3.56%) Legal
8 19 (3.56%) Public Sector
9 15 (2.81%) Retail
10 11 (2.06%) Organisational Skills
11 8 (1.50%) Advertising
12 6 (1.13%) Influencing Skills
13 5 (0.94%) Banking
14 3 (0.56%) Aviation
14 3 (0.56%) Billing
14 3 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
15 2 (0.38%) Tech for Good
16 1 (0.19%) Aeronautics
Job Titles
1 154 (28.89%) Analyst
2 145 (27.20%) Data Analyst
3 144 (27.02%) Junior
3 144 (27.02%) Junior Analyst
3 144 (27.02%) Junior Data Analyst
4 62 (11.63%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 53 (9.94%) Lead
6 50 (9.38%) Developer
7 21 (3.94%) Senior
7 21 (3.94%) Software Engineer
8 18 (3.38%) Technical Leader
9 16 (3.00%) IT Manager
9 16 (3.00%) Product Manager
9 16 (3.00%) Software Developer
10 14 (2.63%) .NET Developer
10 14 (2.63%) Architect
10 14 (2.63%) Marketing Executive
11 12 (2.25%) Engineering Manager
11 12 (2.25%) Principal Engineer
12 11 (2.06%) Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (5.25%) React
2 24 (4.50%) .NET
3 14 (2.63%) ASP.NET
3 14 (2.63%) ASP.NET Core
3 14 (2.63%) ML.NET
4 13 (2.44%) Android SDK
4 13 (2.44%) GraphQL
4 13 (2.44%) Node.js
4 13 (2.44%) RESTful
5 12 (2.25%) Blazor
5 12 (2.25%) scikit-learn
6 11 (2.06%) .NET Core
6 11 (2.06%) Hugging Face
6 11 (2.06%) Matplotlib
6 11 (2.06%) NumPy
6 11 (2.06%) Pandas
6 11 (2.06%) Streamlit
7 5 (0.94%) CSS
7 5 (0.94%) LangChain
8 4 (0.75%) LangGraph
Miscellaneous
1 41 (7.69%) Mobile App
2 32 (6.00%) Onboarding
3 23 (4.32%) Social Media
4 18 (3.38%) Self-Motivation
5 16 (3.00%) Cloud Native
6 15 (2.81%) AI Agents
6 15 (2.81%) Management Information System
7 13 (2.44%) Algorithms
8 11 (2.06%) Product Ownership
9 8 (1.50%) Greenfield Project
10 7 (1.31%) Distributed Systems
10 7 (1.31%) Low-Code
11 5 (0.94%) Analytical Mindset
11 5 (0.94%) BBC
11 5 (0.94%) Driving Licence
12 4 (0.75%) iPhone
12 4 (0.75%) Legacy Systems
12 4 (0.75%) Marketing Technology
12 4 (0.75%) Security Posture
13 3 (0.56%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 40 (7.50%) Android
2 23 (4.32%) Apple iOS
3 12 (2.25%) Windows
4 1 (0.19%) Linux
4 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 156 (29.27%) Business Intelligence
2 77 (14.45%) Agile
3 74 (13.88%) Roadmaps
4 71 (13.32%) CI/CD
5 69 (12.95%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
6 68 (12.76%) Decision-Making
7 67 (12.57%) Mentoring
8 60 (11.26%) Analytics
8 60 (11.26%) Machine Learning
9 56 (10.51%) Software Engineering
10 48 (9.01%) Observability
10 48 (9.01%) Problem-Solving
11 43 (8.07%) Continuous Improvement
12 41 (7.69%) Technical Leadership
13 33 (6.19%) LLM
14 32 (6.00%) Cybersecurity
15 29 (5.44%) Budgeting
16 28 (5.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 27 (5.07%) B2B
17 27 (5.07%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 261 (48.97%) Python
2 176 (33.02%) SQL
3 34 (6.38%) JavaScript
4 29 (5.44%) C#
5 24 (4.50%) Java
6 16 (3.00%) TypeScript
7 13 (2.44%) Kotlin
8 5 (0.94%) Go
9 3 (0.56%) PHP
10 2 (0.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (0.38%) PowerShell
10 2 (0.38%) Ruby
10 2 (0.38%) XAML
11 1 (0.19%) C
11 1 (0.19%) C++
11 1 (0.19%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 199 (37.34%) Azure Certification
2 22 (4.13%) Degree
3 11 (2.06%) AWS Certification
3 11 (2.06%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 10 (1.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (1.31%) ACCA
5 7 (1.31%) CIMA
6 5 (0.94%) CISSP
6 5 (0.94%) SC Cleared
6 5 (0.94%) Security Cleared
7 4 (0.75%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 4 (0.75%) CCSP
7 4 (0.75%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (0.56%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.19%) CISM
9 1 (0.19%) CRISC
9 1 (0.19%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (4.88%) Accessibility
2 14 (2.63%) Cyber Essentials
3 13 (2.44%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 12 (2.25%) GDPR
5 11 (2.06%) QA
6 10 (1.88%) Data Quality
6 10 (1.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.94%) NIST
8 4 (0.75%) GRC
9 3 (0.56%) Actionable Recommendations
9 3 (0.56%) NCSC
9 3 (0.56%) PMO
10 2 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 1 (0.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 6 (1.13%) Docker
2 4 (0.75%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.19%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.19%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 13 (2.44%) Terraform
2 12 (2.25%) Microsoft Intune
3 7 (1.31%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.19%) Grafana
Vendors
1 212 (39.77%) Microsoft
2 20 (3.75%) Google
3 19 (3.56%) Salesforce
4 11 (2.06%) Databricks
5 6 (1.13%) Foundry
5 6 (1.13%) OpenAI
6 5 (0.94%) Apple
6 5 (0.94%) Facebook
6 5 (0.94%) HubSpot
6 5 (0.94%) Sony
6 5 (0.94%) Yahoo!
7 3 (0.56%) Sage
7 3 (0.56%) SAP
7 3 (0.56%) Xero
8 2 (0.38%) Avaya
8 2 (0.38%) Cisco
8 2 (0.38%) Genesys
8 2 (0.38%) Oracle
8 2 (0.38%) Workday
9 1 (0.19%) ServiceNow