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 16 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 11 104
Rank change year-on-year -3 +93 +21
Permanent jobs citing AI 521 426 93
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 7.07% 12.04% 1.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.58% 13.58% 2.23%
Number of salaries quoted 268 56 79
10th Percentile £33,525 £25,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £25,313 £47,788
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £43,750 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +48.57% -37.50% -
75th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £73,818
90th Percentile £100,000 £90,000 £91,407
England median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +3.57% -3.45% -3.33%

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 4,924 3,138 4,166
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 66.82% 88.72% 79.01%
Number of salaries quoted 3,567 1,531 2,524
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,000 £29,396
25th Percentile £40,000 £30,625 £38,890
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £46,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.53% -7.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,369 £80,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £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

AI
Salary Histogram in Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing AI in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 16 August 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 16 August 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 -11 253 £66,250 +158.54% 143
South Yorkshire +4 144 £65,000 -20.00% 47
East Yorkshire +14 53 £42,500 -26.09% 4
North Yorkshire +11 52 £55,000 - 22
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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 18 (3.45%) SharePoint
2 9 (1.73%) Jupyter
3 5 (0.96%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.38%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.19%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 117 (22.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (3.07%) Chatbot
3 4 (0.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.58%) LaTeX
4 3 (0.58%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.38%) Camtasia
5 2 (0.38%) Trello
6 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.19%) Notion
Business Applications
1 3 (0.58%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (0.58%) Magento
1 3 (0.58%) Q-Pulse
1 3 (0.58%) Sage 200
1 3 (0.58%) Shopify
2 2 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.38%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 247 (47.41%) Azure
2 183 (35.12%) Azure AI
3 140 (26.87%) Power Platform
4 52 (9.98%) AWS
5 48 (9.21%) SaaS
6 39 (7.49%) Microsoft 365
7 34 (6.53%) Microsoft Copilot
8 23 (4.41%) Power Automate
9 22 (4.22%) Entra ID
10 21 (4.03%) Azure DevOps
11 14 (2.69%) Copilot Studio
11 14 (2.69%) GitHub
12 12 (2.30%) GCP
12 12 (2.30%) PowerApps
13 10 (1.92%) OneDrive
13 10 (1.92%) Salesforce Service Cloud
13 10 (1.92%) Serverless
14 9 (1.73%) Amazon ECS
14 9 (1.73%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
15 7 (1.34%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 26 (4.99%) Broadband
2 7 (1.34%) Network Security
3 6 (1.15%) LAN
3 6 (1.15%) WAN
4 5 (0.96%) Internet
5 4 (0.77%) CTI
5 4 (0.77%) VoIP
6 2 (0.38%) Firewall
7 1 (0.19%) DHCP
7 1 (0.19%) DNS
7 1 (0.19%) SAN
7 1 (0.19%) SSL
7 1 (0.19%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 124 (23.80%) Power BI
2 109 (20.92%) Tableau
3 13 (2.50%) MongoDB
4 12 (2.30%) Azure SQL Database
5 9 (1.73%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (1.15%) Data Lake
6 6 (1.15%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (0.96%) Big Data
8 4 (0.77%) DynamoDB
8 4 (0.77%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (0.58%) ClickHouse
9 3 (0.58%) Metadata
9 3 (0.58%) MySQL
9 3 (0.58%) Relational Database
9 3 (0.58%) Semantic Layer
9 3 (0.58%) SQL Server
10 2 (0.38%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (0.38%) Delta Lake
10 2 (0.38%) Neo4j
10 2 (0.38%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 6 (1.15%) Visual Studio Code
2 4 (0.77%) Claude Code
3 3 (0.58%) Git
3 3 (0.58%) MLflow
4 2 (0.38%) GitLab
4 2 (0.38%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.38%) JIRA
5 1 (0.19%) Visual Studio
General
1 235 (45.11%) Social Skills
2 86 (16.51%) Finance
3 40 (7.68%) Analytical Skills
3 40 (7.68%) Marketing
4 32 (6.14%) Public Sector
5 30 (5.76%) Games
6 27 (5.18%) Legal
7 24 (4.61%) Law
8 22 (4.22%) Manufacturing
9 21 (4.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 21 (4.03%) Retail
10 14 (2.69%) Organisational Skills
11 11 (2.11%) Influencing Skills
12 9 (1.73%) Advertising
13 5 (0.96%) Aviation
13 5 (0.96%) Banking
14 3 (0.58%) Billing
14 3 (0.58%) Presentation Skills
15 2 (0.38%) Local Government
15 2 (0.38%) Police
Job Titles
1 118 (22.65%) Analyst
2 109 (20.92%) Data Analyst
2 109 (20.92%) Junior
3 108 (20.73%) Junior Analyst
3 108 (20.73%) Junior Data Analyst
4 62 (11.90%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 50 (9.60%) Lead
6 45 (8.64%) Developer
7 24 (4.61%) Senior
8 23 (4.41%) Software Engineer
9 22 (4.22%) Architect
10 19 (3.65%) IT Manager
11 17 (3.26%) Product Manager
11 17 (3.26%) Technical Leader
12 15 (2.88%) .NET Developer
13 14 (2.69%) Software Developer
14 12 (2.30%) IT Operations Manager
14 12 (2.30%) Operations Manager
15 11 (2.11%) Engineering Manager
15 11 (2.11%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (5.76%) React
2 20 (3.84%) .NET
3 15 (2.88%) ASP.NET
3 15 (2.88%) ASP.NET Core
3 15 (2.88%) ML.NET
3 15 (2.88%) Node.js
4 13 (2.50%) Blazor
4 13 (2.50%) RESTful
5 12 (2.30%) Android SDK
5 12 (2.30%) GraphQL
6 11 (2.11%) .NET Core
7 7 (1.34%) scikit-learn
8 6 (1.15%) CSS
8 6 (1.15%) Hugging Face
8 6 (1.15%) Matplotlib
8 6 (1.15%) NumPy
8 6 (1.15%) Pandas
8 6 (1.15%) Streamlit
9 5 (0.96%) REST
10 4 (0.77%) Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 30 (5.76%) Mobile App
2 23 (4.41%) AI Agents
2 23 (4.41%) Onboarding
3 19 (3.65%) Social Media
4 18 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
5 16 (3.07%) Management Information System
6 14 (2.69%) Cloud Native
7 13 (2.50%) Product Ownership
8 10 (1.92%) Greenfield Project
9 9 (1.73%) Algorithms
9 9 (1.73%) Security Posture
10 8 (1.54%) Low-Code
11 7 (1.34%) Distributed Systems
12 6 (1.15%) Driving Licence
13 5 (0.96%) BBC
13 5 (0.96%) CMDB
13 5 (0.96%) Cyber Threat
14 4 (0.77%) iPhone
14 4 (0.77%) IVR
14 4 (0.77%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 30 (5.76%) Android
2 21 (4.03%) Windows
3 14 (2.69%) Apple iOS
4 4 (0.77%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (0.58%) Linux
6 1 (0.19%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.19%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (24.57%) Business Intelligence
2 77 (14.78%) Agile
3 73 (14.01%) Roadmaps
4 72 (13.82%) Analytics
5 66 (12.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
6 64 (12.28%) Mentoring
7 62 (11.90%) CI/CD
7 62 (11.90%) Continuous Improvement
8 60 (11.52%) Machine Learning
9 57 (10.94%) Decision-Making
10 55 (10.56%) Problem-Solving
11 51 (9.79%) Software Engineering
12 44 (8.45%) Cybersecurity
13 37 (7.10%) Observability
13 37 (7.10%) Stakeholder Management
13 37 (7.10%) Technical Leadership
14 34 (6.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 33 (6.33%) Coaching
16 30 (5.76%) LLM
17 25 (4.80%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 216 (41.46%) Python
2 147 (28.21%) SQL
3 31 (5.95%) JavaScript
4 24 (4.61%) C#
5 18 (3.45%) TypeScript
6 16 (3.07%) Java
7 12 (2.30%) Kotlin
8 7 (1.34%) PowerShell
9 4 (0.77%) Go
10 3 (0.58%) PHP
10 3 (0.58%) XAML
11 2 (0.38%) Ruby
12 1 (0.19%) C
12 1 (0.19%) C++
12 1 (0.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.19%) Perl
12 1 (0.19%) R
12 1 (0.19%) Scala
12 1 (0.19%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 163 (31.29%) Azure Certification
2 27 (5.18%) Degree
3 11 (2.11%) Security Cleared
4 10 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
4 10 (1.92%) SC Cleared
5 8 (1.54%) ACCA
5 8 (1.54%) CIMA
5 8 (1.54%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (1.15%) AWS Certification
6 6 (1.15%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 5 (0.96%) CISSP
8 4 (0.77%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 4 (0.77%) CCSP
8 4 (0.77%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (0.77%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 3 (0.58%) CompTIA CySA+
9 3 (0.58%) CompTIA Security+
9 3 (0.58%) PhD
10 2 (0.38%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.19%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (4.41%) Accessibility
2 17 (3.26%) Cyber Essentials
3 16 (3.07%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 14 (2.69%) GDPR
4 14 (2.69%) QA
5 12 (2.30%) Data Quality
6 9 (1.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.96%) NIST
8 4 (0.77%) GRC
9 3 (0.58%) Actionable Recommendations
9 3 (0.58%) ISO 19650
9 3 (0.58%) NCSC
9 3 (0.58%) PMO
10 2 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 1 (0.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.19%) GAAP
System Software
1 10 (1.92%) Active Directory
2 8 (1.54%) Docker
3 1 (0.19%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.19%) Firmware
3 1 (0.19%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.19%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 20 (3.84%) Microsoft Intune
2 15 (2.88%) Terraform
3 7 (1.34%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.19%) Grafana
Vendors
1 195 (37.43%) Microsoft
2 21 (4.03%) Google
3 18 (3.45%) Salesforce
4 14 (2.69%) Databricks
5 7 (1.34%) Foundry
5 7 (1.34%) OpenAI
6 6 (1.15%) ServiceNow
7 5 (0.96%) Apple
7 5 (0.96%) Facebook
7 5 (0.96%) Sony
7 5 (0.96%) Yahoo!
8 4 (0.77%) Avaya
8 4 (0.77%) Cisco
8 4 (0.77%) Genesys
8 4 (0.77%) HubSpot
9 3 (0.58%) Sage
9 3 (0.58%) Xero
10 2 (0.38%) Adobe
10 2 (0.38%) Oracle
10 2 (0.38%) SAP