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 4 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 5 82
Rank change year-on-year -10 +77 +39
Permanent jobs citing AI 409 560 101
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 5.34% 16.54% 2.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.93% 18.86% 2.70%
Number of salaries quoted 249 34 66
10th Percentile £36,200 £37,000 £39,375
25th Percentile £50,000 £43,125 £44,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £73,750 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.86% +9.26% -12.90%
75th Percentile £88,750 £86,250 £72,813
90th Percentile £100,000 £90,000 £91,875
England median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.57% -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 5,160 2,969 3,734
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 67.36% 87.68% 79.94%
Number of salaries quoted 3,820 1,386 1,726
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £31,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -9.52% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £86,250 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -2.44%

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 4 October 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 4 October 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 -17 207 £70,000 -3.45% 422
South Yorkshire -11 115 £69,607 -14.33% 186
North Yorkshire -6 36 £55,000 -24.14% 99
East Yorkshire +8 32 £42,500 -26.09% 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 22 (5.38%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.22%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (0.73%) CMS
3 3 (0.73%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.24%) WordPress
Applications
1 53 (12.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (2.20%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (1.71%) Chatbot
4 4 (0.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.73%) LaTeX
6 2 (0.49%) Trello
7 1 (0.24%) Camtasia
7 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.24%) Notion
Business Applications
1 4 (0.98%) Shopify
2 3 (0.73%) Magento
2 3 (0.73%) Q-Pulse
2 3 (0.73%) Sage 200
3 2 (0.49%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.49%) Workday HCM
4 1 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 155 (37.90%) Azure
2 93 (22.74%) Azure AI
3 65 (15.89%) Power Platform
4 52 (12.71%) SaaS
5 49 (11.98%) AWS
6 44 (10.76%) Microsoft 365
7 36 (8.80%) Microsoft Copilot
8 23 (5.62%) Entra ID
9 21 (5.13%) Power Automate
10 20 (4.89%) Azure DevOps
11 15 (3.67%) GCP
12 14 (3.42%) Copilot Studio
12 14 (3.42%) GitHub
13 13 (3.18%) OneDrive
14 12 (2.93%) PowerApps
15 10 (2.44%) Microsoft Purview
15 10 (2.44%) NetDocuments
16 9 (2.20%) Amazon ECS
17 8 (1.96%) Salesforce Service Cloud
17 8 (1.96%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.96%) LAN
1 8 (1.96%) Network Security
2 7 (1.71%) Internet
2 7 (1.71%) WAN
3 4 (0.98%) CTI
3 4 (0.98%) VoIP
4 2 (0.49%) Broadband
4 2 (0.49%) DHCP
4 2 (0.49%) DNS
4 2 (0.49%) Firewall
5 1 (0.24%) DSL
5 1 (0.24%) SAN
5 1 (0.24%) SSL
5 1 (0.24%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.24%) VLAN
5 1 (0.24%) VPN
5 1 (0.24%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.24%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (12.22%) Power BI
2 37 (9.05%) Tableau
3 12 (2.93%) MongoDB
4 10 (2.44%) Azure SQL Database
5 8 (1.96%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (1.47%) Big Data
6 6 (1.47%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (1.22%) Relational Database
7 5 (1.22%) SQL Server
8 4 (0.98%) Data Lake
8 4 (0.98%) DynamoDB
8 4 (0.98%) GIS
8 4 (0.98%) MySQL
9 3 (0.73%) ClickHouse
9 3 (0.73%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (0.73%) Metadata
9 3 (0.73%) Semantic Layer
10 2 (0.49%) Delta Lake
10 2 (0.49%) Neo4j
10 2 (0.49%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 6 (1.47%) Claude Code
2 3 (0.73%) Git
2 3 (0.73%) GitLab
3 2 (0.49%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.49%) MLflow
4 1 (0.24%) JIRA
4 1 (0.24%) Visual Studio
General
1 160 (39.12%) Social Skills
2 81 (19.80%) Finance
3 49 (11.98%) Marketing
4 45 (11.00%) Analytical Skills
5 35 (8.56%) Public Sector
6 31 (7.58%) Legal
7 20 (4.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 20 (4.89%) Law
7 20 (4.89%) Retail
8 15 (3.67%) Manufacturing
8 15 (3.67%) Organisational Skills
9 14 (3.42%) Influencing Skills
10 7 (1.71%) Advertising
11 6 (1.47%) Banking
12 5 (1.22%) Aviation
12 5 (1.22%) Local Government
13 4 (0.98%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (0.73%) French Language
14 3 (0.73%) Games
14 3 (0.73%) Police
Job Titles
1 48 (11.74%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 46 (11.25%) Analyst
3 39 (9.54%) Junior
4 38 (9.29%) Data Analyst
4 38 (9.29%) Lead
5 37 (9.05%) Junior Analyst
6 36 (8.80%) Junior Data Analyst
7 33 (8.07%) Developer
7 33 (8.07%) Senior
8 30 (7.33%) Architect
9 26 (6.36%) Software Engineer
10 19 (4.65%) IT Manager
11 17 (4.16%) Account Executive
12 14 (3.42%) .NET Developer
12 14 (3.42%) Product Manager
13 13 (3.18%) Solutions Architect
14 12 (2.93%) IT Operations Manager
14 12 (2.93%) Operations Manager
15 11 (2.69%) Consultant
15 11 (2.69%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (6.60%) .NET
2 25 (6.11%) React
3 14 (3.42%) ASP.NET
3 14 (3.42%) ASP.NET Core
3 14 (3.42%) ML.NET
3 14 (3.42%) Terraform
4 13 (3.18%) Node.js
5 12 (2.93%) Blazor
5 12 (2.93%) RESTful
6 10 (2.44%) .NET Core
7 9 (2.20%) REST
8 8 (1.96%) CSS
8 8 (1.96%) Middleware
9 5 (1.22%) Model Context Protocol
10 4 (0.98%) LangGraph
11 3 (0.73%) A2A Protocol
11 3 (0.73%) HTML
11 3 (0.73%) Tailwind CSS
12 2 (0.49%) ADO
12 2 (0.49%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 27 (6.60%) AI Agents
2 20 (4.89%) Onboarding
3 18 (4.40%) Management Information System
4 14 (3.42%) Product Ownership
5 13 (3.18%) Cloud Native
6 9 (2.20%) Security Posture
7 8 (1.96%) Cyber Threat
7 8 (1.96%) Greenfield Project
8 7 (1.71%) Distributed Systems
9 6 (1.47%) Driving Licence
9 6 (1.47%) Low-Code
9 6 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (1.22%) CMDB
10 5 (1.22%) Data Centre
10 5 (1.22%) Marketing Technology
11 4 (0.98%) Algorithms
11 4 (0.98%) BBC
11 4 (0.98%) IVR
11 4 (0.98%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (0.98%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 24 (5.87%) Windows
2 5 (1.22%) Linux
3 4 (0.98%) Android
3 4 (0.98%) Windows Server 2019
4 2 (0.49%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.24%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.24%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.24%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (17.11%) Analytics
1 70 (17.11%) Continuous Improvement
2 56 (13.69%) Roadmaps
3 55 (13.45%) Business Intelligence
4 54 (13.20%) Agile
5 53 (12.96%) Machine Learning
5 53 (12.96%) Problem-Solving
6 51 (12.47%) Cybersecurity
7 49 (11.98%) Software Engineering
8 46 (11.25%) Mentoring
9 45 (11.00%) Stakeholder Management
10 43 (10.51%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
11 40 (9.78%) Coaching
11 40 (9.78%) Decision-Making
12 36 (8.80%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 34 (8.31%) CI/CD
14 30 (7.33%) DevOps
15 27 (6.60%) Technical Leadership
16 26 (6.36%) Disaster Recovery
17 25 (6.11%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 119 (29.10%) Python
2 74 (18.09%) SQL
3 29 (7.09%) JavaScript
4 26 (6.36%) C#
5 17 (4.16%) TypeScript
6 7 (1.71%) PowerShell
7 5 (1.22%) PHP
8 4 (0.98%) Go
8 4 (0.98%) XAML
9 3 (0.73%) Java
10 2 (0.49%) Ruby
11 1 (0.24%) C
11 1 (0.24%) C++
11 1 (0.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.24%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.24%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.24%) Perl
11 1 (0.24%) R
11 1 (0.24%) Rust
11 1 (0.24%) Scala
Qualifications
1 73 (17.85%) Azure Certification
2 38 (9.29%) Degree
3 18 (4.40%) Security Cleared
4 16 (3.91%) SC Cleared
5 12 (2.93%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (1.71%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (1.47%) CompTIA CySA+
7 6 (1.47%) CompTIA Security+
8 5 (1.22%) Master's Degree
8 5 (1.22%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 4 (0.98%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 4 (0.98%) CCSP
9 4 (0.98%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (0.98%) CISSP
9 4 (0.98%) DBS Check
9 4 (0.98%) PhD
10 3 (0.73%) CIPD
11 1 (0.24%) ACCA
11 1 (0.24%) Postgraduate
11 1 (0.24%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (4.40%) Cyber Essentials
2 17 (4.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 17 (4.16%) Data Quality
3 13 (3.18%) GDPR
4 12 (2.93%) QA
5 11 (2.69%) Accessibility
6 10 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (1.22%) NIST
8 3 (0.73%) GRC
8 3 (0.73%) ISO 19650
8 3 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 3 (0.73%) NCSC
8 3 (0.73%) PMO
9 2 (0.49%) WCAG
10 1 (0.24%) GAAP
10 1 (0.24%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 9 (2.20%) Active Directory
1 9 (2.20%) Docker
2 1 (0.24%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.24%) Firmware
2 1 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.24%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 21 (5.13%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (1.71%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 128 (31.30%) Microsoft
2 21 (5.13%) Google
3 20 (4.89%) Salesforce
4 13 (3.18%) Databricks
5 8 (1.96%) Samsung
5 8 (1.96%) TikTok
6 7 (1.71%) Adobe
6 7 (1.71%) Foundry
6 7 (1.71%) OpenAI
7 5 (1.22%) Sage
7 5 (1.22%) ServiceNow
8 4 (0.98%) Apple
8 4 (0.98%) Avaya
8 4 (0.98%) Cisco
8 4 (0.98%) Facebook
8 4 (0.98%) Genesys
8 4 (0.98%) Sony
8 4 (0.98%) Yahoo!
9 3 (0.73%) Oracle
10 2 (0.49%) SAP