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 22 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 14 97
Rank change year-on-year +5 +83 +44
Permanent jobs citing AI 592 323 123
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 9.14% 12.47% 2.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.23% 13.20% 2.63%
Number of salaries quoted 200 72 117
10th Percentile £32,750 £25,000 £39,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £25,313 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £35,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +85.71% -44.00% -4.36%
75th Percentile £92,500 £68,333 £78,088
90th Percentile £100,000 £90,822 £100,026
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 4,473 2,447 4,679
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 69.04% 94.44% 82.43%
Number of salaries quoted 2,965 1,204 3,725
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £39,050 £31,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £69,625 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -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

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Salary Histogram in Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing AI in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 22 May 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 22 May 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 -5 293 £67,500 +163.41% 78
South Yorkshire +3 133 £65,000 -21.21% 40
East Yorkshire +10 66 £37,500 - 7
North Yorkshire +7 54 £55,000 - 17
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 11 (1.86%) Jupyter
2 3 (0.51%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.34%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.34%) JBoss
3 2 (0.34%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.34%) WebSphere
Applications
1 182 (30.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (2.53%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.51%) Camtasia
4 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.17%) Notion
4 1 (0.17%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 267 (45.10%) Azure
2 238 (40.20%) Azure AI
3 193 (32.60%) Power Platform
4 98 (16.55%) Cloud Computing
5 38 (6.42%) SaaS
6 36 (6.08%) AWS
7 17 (2.87%) Microsoft Copilot
8 14 (2.36%) Power Automate
9 13 (2.20%) Microsoft 365
10 10 (1.69%) GitHub
11 9 (1.52%) Copilot Studio
12 8 (1.35%) GCP
12 8 (1.35%) Salesforce Service Cloud
13 7 (1.18%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
14 6 (1.01%) Azure DevOps
14 6 (1.01%) Azure Logic Apps
14 6 (1.01%) Entra ID
14 6 (1.01%) PowerApps
15 5 (0.84%) GitHub Actions
16 4 (0.68%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 87 (14.70%) Internet
2 37 (6.25%) Broadband
3 4 (0.68%) Network Security
4 1 (0.17%) DNS
4 1 (0.17%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 188 (31.76%) Power BI
2 182 (30.74%) Tableau
3 5 (0.84%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (0.68%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (0.51%) ClickHouse
5 3 (0.51%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (0.51%) DynamoDB
5 3 (0.51%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (0.51%) Semantic Layer
5 3 (0.51%) SQL Server
6 2 (0.34%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (0.34%) BigQuery
6 2 (0.34%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.34%) Looker
6 2 (0.34%) Metadata
6 2 (0.34%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.34%) Neo4j
6 2 (0.34%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (0.34%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 11 (1.86%) Visual Studio Code
2 3 (0.51%) Git
3 2 (0.34%) Claude Code
4 1 (0.17%) JIRA
4 1 (0.17%) MLflow
4 1 (0.17%) Visual Studio
General
1 364 (61.49%) Social Skills
2 105 (17.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 92 (15.54%) Banking
4 66 (11.15%) Finance
5 40 (6.76%) Marketing
6 38 (6.42%) Games
7 32 (5.41%) Analytical Skills
8 16 (2.70%) Retail
9 15 (2.53%) Law
10 14 (2.36%) Manufacturing
11 11 (1.86%) Legal
11 11 (1.86%) Public Sector
12 7 (1.18%) Advertising
13 6 (1.01%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
15 3 (0.51%) Aviation
15 3 (0.51%) Billing
16 2 (0.34%) Presentation Skills
17 1 (0.17%) Back Office
17 1 (0.17%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 186 (31.42%) Analyst
2 180 (30.41%) Data Analyst
2 180 (30.41%) Junior
2 180 (30.41%) Junior Analyst
2 180 (30.41%) Junior Data Analyst
3 61 (10.30%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 61 (10.30%) Lecturer
4 46 (7.77%) Lead
5 41 (6.93%) Developer
6 18 (3.04%) Software Engineer
7 17 (2.87%) Software Developer
7 17 (2.87%) Technical Leader
8 15 (2.53%) Senior
9 14 (2.36%) Marketing Executive
10 13 (2.20%) Product Manager
11 11 (1.86%) Architect
11 11 (1.86%) Principal Engineer
11 11 (1.86%) Programmer
11 11 (1.86%) Trainee
11 11 (1.86%) Trainee Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (2.87%) .NET
2 15 (2.53%) React
3 13 (2.20%) Android SDK
3 13 (2.20%) GraphQL
4 12 (2.03%) scikit-learn
5 11 (1.86%) Hugging Face
5 11 (1.86%) Matplotlib
5 11 (1.86%) NumPy
5 11 (1.86%) Pandas
5 11 (1.86%) Streamlit
6 8 (1.35%) Node.js
7 5 (0.84%) REST
8 4 (0.68%) Bootstrap
8 4 (0.68%) Flutter
8 4 (0.68%) LangChain
8 4 (0.68%) Redux
9 3 (0.51%) A2A Protocol
9 3 (0.51%) LangGraph
9 3 (0.51%) ML.NET
9 3 (0.51%) Model Context Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 89 (15.03%) IoT
2 38 (6.42%) Mobile App
3 28 (4.73%) Onboarding
4 20 (3.38%) Social Media
5 17 (2.87%) Self-Motivation
6 12 (2.03%) Algorithms
6 12 (2.03%) Cloud Native
7 11 (1.86%) Management Information System
8 10 (1.69%) Low-Code
9 9 (1.52%) Product Ownership
10 6 (1.01%) AI Agents
11 5 (0.84%) Driving Licence
12 4 (0.68%) Analytical Mindset
12 4 (0.68%) Distributed Systems
12 4 (0.68%) Greenfield Project
12 4 (0.68%) Marketing Technology
13 3 (0.51%) e-Learning
13 3 (0.51%) Robotics
13 3 (0.51%) Security Posture
14 2 (0.34%) DataPower
Operating Systems
1 36 (6.08%) Android
2 23 (3.89%) Apple iOS
3 5 (0.84%) Windows
4 1 (0.17%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 189 (31.93%) Business Intelligence
2 124 (20.95%) Machine Learning
3 105 (17.74%) Cybersecurity
4 98 (16.55%) User Experience
5 88 (14.86%) Web Development
6 66 (11.15%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
6 66 (11.15%) CI/CD
7 65 (10.98%) Roadmaps
8 62 (10.47%) Agile
9 61 (10.30%) Decision-Making
10 53 (8.95%) Mentoring
11 49 (8.28%) Analytics
11 49 (8.28%) Software Engineering
12 45 (7.60%) Observability
13 36 (6.08%) Problem-Solving
14 35 (5.91%) Technical Leadership
15 33 (5.57%) Continuous Improvement
16 28 (4.73%) LLM
17 27 (4.56%) Incident Management
17 27 (4.56%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 288 (48.65%) Python
2 202 (34.12%) SQL
3 28 (4.73%) Java
4 21 (3.55%) C#
5 20 (3.38%) JavaScript
6 13 (2.20%) Kotlin
7 12 (2.03%) TypeScript
8 4 (0.68%) Go
8 4 (0.68%) T-SQL
9 3 (0.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (0.34%) PHP
11 1 (0.17%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 235 (39.70%) Azure Certification
2 100 (16.89%) Degree
3 87 (14.70%) Master's Degree
3 87 (14.70%) PhD
3 87 (14.70%) Postgraduate
4 11 (1.86%) AWS Certification
4 11 (1.86%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 7 (1.18%) ACCA
5 7 (1.18%) CIMA
5 7 (1.18%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (0.84%) CISSP
7 4 (0.68%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 4 (0.68%) CCSP
7 4 (0.68%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (0.51%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.17%) CISM
9 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.17%) PMP
9 1 (0.17%) SC Cleared
9 1 (0.17%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (4.05%) Accessibility
2 11 (1.86%) QA
3 9 (1.52%) GDPR
4 8 (1.35%) Cyber Essentials
4 8 (1.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 8 (1.35%) Data Quality
4 8 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.68%) NIST
6 3 (0.51%) Actionable Recommendations
6 3 (0.51%) GRC
6 3 (0.51%) NCSC
7 1 (0.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.17%) PMO
System Software
1 4 (0.68%) Docker
2 1 (0.17%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (1.01%) Terraform
2 5 (0.84%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (0.51%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.17%) Grafana
Vendors
1 222 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 17 (2.87%) Salesforce
3 13 (2.20%) Google
4 6 (1.01%) Databricks
5 5 (0.84%) HubSpot
6 3 (0.51%) OpenAI
6 3 (0.51%) Xero
7 2 (0.34%) Apple
7 2 (0.34%) Facebook
7 2 (0.34%) Sony
7 2 (0.34%) Yahoo!
8 1 (0.17%) Cloudera
8 1 (0.17%) Dell
8 1 (0.17%) Foundry
8 1 (0.17%) SAP
8 1 (0.17%) ServiceNow