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 15 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 6 89
Rank change year-on-year -10 +83 +38
Permanent jobs citing AI 454 442 98
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 5.96% 13.43% 1.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.91% 15.48% 2.52%
Number of salaries quoted 257 39 72
10th Percentile £36,150 £25,313 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £37,500 £47,716
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% - -12.10%
75th Percentile £92,500 £86,250 £73,886
90th Percentile £100,000 £91,500 £93,457
England median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% -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 5,094 2,855 3,882
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 66.88% 86.78% 78.81%
Number of salaries quoted 3,748 1,407 1,991
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £31,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,250 £65,603
90th Percentile £88,148 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -7.26%

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 15 September 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 15 September 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 -17 223 £70,000 +30.23% 328
South Yorkshire -2 123 £65,000 -21.21% 151
North Yorkshire 0 46 £55,000 -24.14% 72
East Yorkshire +11 44 £42,500 -26.09% 13
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 22 (4.85%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.10%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (0.66%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.22%) CMS
4 1 (0.22%) WordPress
Applications
1 87 (19.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.98%) Chatbot
3 7 (1.54%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.66%) LaTeX
6 2 (0.44%) Camtasia
6 2 (0.44%) Trello
7 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.22%) Notion
Business Applications
1 4 (0.88%) Shopify
2 3 (0.66%) Magento
2 3 (0.66%) Q-Pulse
2 3 (0.66%) Sage 200
3 2 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.44%) Workday HCM
4 1 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 212 (46.70%) Azure
2 147 (32.38%) Azure AI
3 102 (22.47%) Power Platform
4 50 (11.01%) SaaS
5 49 (10.79%) AWS
6 45 (9.91%) Microsoft 365
7 38 (8.37%) Microsoft Copilot
8 23 (5.07%) Entra ID
9 21 (4.63%) Azure DevOps
9 21 (4.63%) Power Automate
10 15 (3.30%) GCP
11 14 (3.08%) Copilot Studio
11 14 (3.08%) GitHub
12 13 (2.86%) OneDrive
13 12 (2.64%) PowerApps
14 10 (2.20%) Microsoft Purview
14 10 (2.20%) NetDocuments
15 9 (1.98%) Amazon ECS
15 9 (1.98%) Salesforce Service Cloud
15 9 (1.98%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.76%) Network Security
2 7 (1.54%) LAN
2 7 (1.54%) WAN
3 6 (1.32%) Internet
4 4 (0.88%) CTI
4 4 (0.88%) VoIP
5 2 (0.44%) Firewall
6 1 (0.22%) DHCP
6 1 (0.22%) DNS
6 1 (0.22%) SAN
6 1 (0.22%) SSL
6 1 (0.22%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (19.16%) Power BI
2 72 (15.86%) Tableau
3 13 (2.86%) MongoDB
4 12 (2.64%) Azure SQL Database
5 7 (1.54%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (1.32%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (1.10%) Big Data
8 4 (0.88%) Data Lake
8 4 (0.88%) DynamoDB
9 3 (0.66%) ClickHouse
9 3 (0.66%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (0.66%) Metadata
9 3 (0.66%) MySQL
9 3 (0.66%) Relational Database
9 3 (0.66%) Semantic Layer
9 3 (0.66%) SQL Server
10 2 (0.44%) Delta Lake
10 2 (0.44%) Neo4j
10 2 (0.44%) Star Schema
11 1 (0.22%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 5 (1.10%) Claude Code
2 3 (0.66%) Git
3 2 (0.44%) GitLab
3 2 (0.44%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.44%) MLflow
4 1 (0.22%) JIRA
4 1 (0.22%) Visual Studio
General
1 204 (44.93%) Social Skills
2 76 (16.74%) Finance
3 42 (9.25%) Analytical Skills
4 40 (8.81%) Marketing
5 35 (7.71%) Public Sector
6 29 (6.39%) Legal
7 23 (5.07%) Law
8 16 (3.52%) Manufacturing
8 16 (3.52%) Retail
9 14 (3.08%) Organisational Skills
10 11 (2.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 11 (2.42%) Influencing Skills
11 9 (1.98%) Advertising
12 6 (1.32%) Banking
13 5 (1.10%) Aviation
14 4 (0.88%) Games
14 4 (0.88%) Local Government
15 3 (0.66%) Billing
16 2 (0.44%) Police
16 2 (0.44%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 80 (17.62%) Analyst
2 75 (16.52%) Junior
3 73 (16.08%) Data Analyst
3 73 (16.08%) Junior Analyst
4 72 (15.86%) Junior Data Analyst
5 65 (14.32%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 41 (9.03%) Lead
7 35 (7.71%) Developer
8 30 (6.61%) Senior
9 29 (6.39%) Architect
10 24 (5.29%) Software Engineer
11 19 (4.19%) IT Manager
12 15 (3.30%) .NET Developer
12 15 (3.30%) Product Manager
12 15 (3.30%) Technical Leader
13 12 (2.64%) IT Operations Manager
13 12 (2.64%) Operations Manager
13 12 (2.64%) Solutions Architect
14 11 (2.42%) Senior Manager
14 11 (2.42%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (6.17%) React
2 20 (4.41%) .NET
3 15 (3.30%) ASP.NET
3 15 (3.30%) ASP.NET Core
3 15 (3.30%) ML.NET
3 15 (3.30%) Terraform
4 14 (3.08%) Node.js
5 13 (2.86%) Blazor
5 13 (2.86%) RESTful
6 11 (2.42%) .NET Core
7 6 (1.32%) CSS
7 6 (1.32%) Middleware
7 6 (1.32%) REST
8 5 (1.10%) Model Context Protocol
9 4 (0.88%) LangGraph
10 3 (0.66%) A2A Protocol
10 3 (0.66%) Bootstrap
10 3 (0.66%) HTML
10 3 (0.66%) Redux
10 3 (0.66%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 27 (5.95%) AI Agents
2 16 (3.52%) Management Information System
3 13 (2.86%) Product Ownership
4 12 (2.64%) Cloud Native
5 10 (2.20%) Onboarding
6 9 (1.98%) Security Posture
7 8 (1.76%) Cyber Threat
7 8 (1.76%) Greenfield Project
8 7 (1.54%) Distributed Systems
8 7 (1.54%) Low-Code
9 6 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (1.10%) BBC
10 5 (1.10%) CMDB
10 5 (1.10%) Data Centre
10 5 (1.10%) Driving Licence
10 5 (1.10%) Social Media
11 4 (0.88%) iPhone
11 4 (0.88%) IVR
11 4 (0.88%) Mobile App
11 4 (0.88%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 22 (4.85%) Windows
2 4 (0.88%) Android
2 4 (0.88%) Windows Server 2019
3 3 (0.66%) Linux
4 1 (0.22%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.22%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (20.04%) Business Intelligence
2 70 (15.42%) Analytics
3 65 (14.32%) Continuous Improvement
4 61 (13.44%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
5 55 (12.11%) Roadmaps
6 53 (11.67%) Agile
7 52 (11.45%) Machine Learning
7 52 (11.45%) Software Engineering
8 50 (11.01%) Cybersecurity
9 49 (10.79%) Mentoring
10 45 (9.91%) Decision-Making
10 45 (9.91%) Problem-Solving
11 39 (8.59%) Stakeholder Management
12 37 (8.15%) Coaching
13 35 (7.71%) CI/CD
14 33 (7.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 29 (6.39%) DevOps
16 27 (5.95%) Technical Leadership
17 26 (5.73%) Disaster Recovery
17 26 (5.73%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 169 (37.22%) Python
2 110 (24.23%) SQL
3 27 (5.95%) JavaScript
4 22 (4.85%) C#
5 17 (3.74%) TypeScript
6 7 (1.54%) PowerShell
7 4 (0.88%) XAML
8 3 (0.66%) Go
8 3 (0.66%) PHP
9 2 (0.44%) Java
9 2 (0.44%) Ruby
10 1 (0.22%) C
10 1 (0.22%) C++
10 1 (0.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.22%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.22%) Perl
10 1 (0.22%) R
10 1 (0.22%) Scala
Qualifications
1 126 (27.75%) Azure Certification
2 32 (7.05%) Degree
3 14 (3.08%) Security Cleared
4 13 (2.86%) SC Cleared
5 10 (2.20%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (1.76%) ACCA
6 8 (1.76%) CIMA
7 7 (1.54%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (1.32%) CompTIA CySA+
8 6 (1.32%) CompTIA Security+
9 5 (1.10%) CISSP
9 5 (1.10%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 4 (0.88%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 4 (0.88%) CCSP
10 4 (0.88%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (0.88%) PhD
11 2 (0.44%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.22%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.22%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (3.96%) Cyber Essentials
2 17 (3.74%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 15 (3.30%) Data Quality
4 13 (2.86%) QA
5 12 (2.64%) GDPR
6 11 (2.42%) Accessibility
7 9 (1.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (1.10%) NIST
9 4 (0.88%) GRC
10 3 (0.66%) Actionable Recommendations
10 3 (0.66%) ISO 19650
10 3 (0.66%) NCSC
10 3 (0.66%) PMO
11 2 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 2 (0.44%) WCAG
12 1 (0.22%) GAAP
System Software
1 10 (2.20%) Active Directory
2 9 (1.98%) Docker
3 1 (0.22%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.22%) Firmware
3 1 (0.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.22%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 21 (4.63%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (1.76%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.22%) Grafana
Vendors
1 163 (35.90%) Microsoft
2 25 (5.51%) Google
3 16 (3.52%) Salesforce
4 11 (2.42%) Databricks
5 7 (1.54%) Foundry
5 7 (1.54%) OpenAI
6 5 (1.10%) Adobe
6 5 (1.10%) Apple
6 5 (1.10%) Facebook
6 5 (1.10%) ServiceNow
6 5 (1.10%) Sony
6 5 (1.10%) Yahoo!
7 4 (0.88%) Avaya
7 4 (0.88%) Cisco
7 4 (0.88%) Genesys
8 3 (0.66%) HubSpot
8 3 (0.66%) Oracle
8 3 (0.66%) Sage
8 3 (0.66%) Xero
9 2 (0.44%) SAP