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 26 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 41 106
Rank change year-on-year +34 +65 +16
Permanent jobs citing AI 559 126 116
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 11.49% 5.84% 2.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.58% 6.08% 2.60%
Number of salaries quoted 139 96 105
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,000 £39,750
25th Percentile £33,750 £25,313 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £45,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +44.44% -25.00% -9.67%
75th Percentile £85,625 £77,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £104,000 £96,250 £100,064
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -

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 3,588 2,071 4,464
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 73.75% 95.92% 84.72%
Number of salaries quoted 2,213 1,187 3,543
10th Percentile £28,250 £25,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.09%
75th Percentile £67,500 £71,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £84,750 £90,000 £81,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +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

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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 26 March 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 26 March 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 +23 315 £56,250 +119.51% 108
South Yorkshire +4 104 £72,500 -21.62% 35
North Yorkshire +28 45 £55,000 - 11
East Yorkshire +6 41 £72,500 -18.08% 7
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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 11 (1.97%) Jupyter
2 4 (0.72%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.54%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.36%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.36%) CMS
4 2 (0.36%) JBoss
4 2 (0.36%) Umbraco
4 2 (0.36%) WebSphere
Applications
1 147 (26.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 86 (15.38%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.36%) Camtasia
Business Applications
1 3 (0.54%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 178 (31.84%) Azure
2 156 (27.91%) Power Platform
3 155 (27.73%) Azure AI
4 149 (26.65%) Cloud Computing
5 27 (4.83%) AWS
6 24 (4.29%) SaaS
7 7 (1.25%) Microsoft Purview
7 7 (1.25%) Power Automate
8 6 (1.07%) Azure Data Factory
8 6 (1.07%) GitHub
9 5 (0.89%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 5 (0.89%) GCP
9 5 (0.89%) Microsoft Copilot
9 5 (0.89%) PowerApps
10 4 (0.72%) Azure App Service
10 4 (0.72%) Azure Logic Apps
10 4 (0.72%) Dynamics 365
10 4 (0.72%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (0.72%) Microsoft 365
11 3 (0.54%) Amazon Bedrock
Communications & Networking
1 138 (24.69%) Internet
2 37 (6.62%) Broadband
3 2 (0.36%) Intranet
4 1 (0.18%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 154 (27.55%) Power BI
2 148 (26.48%) Tableau
3 7 (1.25%) Metadata
4 4 (0.72%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (0.72%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (0.72%) SQL Server
5 3 (0.54%) Data Lake
5 3 (0.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (0.36%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (0.36%) BigQuery
6 2 (0.36%) Looker
6 2 (0.36%) Neo4j
6 2 (0.36%) Power Query
6 2 (0.36%) Semantic Layer
7 1 (0.18%) Data Hub
7 1 (0.18%) Data Vault
7 1 (0.18%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.18%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.18%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (0.18%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 11 (1.97%) Visual Studio Code
2 3 (0.54%) Git
3 2 (0.36%) JMeter
3 2 (0.36%) LoadRunner
3 2 (0.36%) Selenium
3 2 (0.36%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.18%) JIRA
4 1 (0.18%) MLflow
General
1 319 (57.07%) Social Skills
2 160 (28.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 139 (24.87%) Banking
4 51 (9.12%) Finance
5 39 (6.98%) Analytical Skills
6 37 (6.62%) Games
7 24 (4.29%) Marketing
8 18 (3.22%) Retail
9 14 (2.50%) Public Sector
10 12 (2.15%) Legal
11 11 (1.97%) Manufacturing
12 9 (1.61%) Law
13 5 (0.89%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (0.72%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (0.72%) Presentation Skills
15 2 (0.36%) Billing
16 1 (0.18%) Advertising
16 1 (0.18%) Agriculture
16 1 (0.18%) Back Office
16 1 (0.18%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 148 (26.48%) Analyst
2 144 (25.76%) Data Analyst
2 144 (25.76%) Junior
2 144 (25.76%) Junior Analyst
2 144 (25.76%) Junior Data Analyst
3 99 (17.71%) Lecturer
4 74 (13.24%) Trainer
5 30 (5.37%) Developer
6 27 (4.83%) Lead
7 15 (2.68%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 14 (2.50%) Marketing Executive
9 13 (2.33%) Research Scientist
9 13 (2.33%) Senior
10 12 (2.15%) Software Developer
11 11 (1.97%) Architect
11 11 (1.97%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
11 11 (1.97%) Programmer
11 11 (1.97%) Trainee
11 11 (1.97%) Trainee Programmer
12 10 (1.79%) Biologist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (2.50%) .NET
2 13 (2.33%) Android SDK
2 13 (2.33%) GraphQL
3 12 (2.15%) scikit-learn
4 11 (1.97%) Hugging Face
4 11 (1.97%) Matplotlib
4 11 (1.97%) NumPy
4 11 (1.97%) Pandas
4 11 (1.97%) Streamlit
5 8 (1.43%) PySpark
5 8 (1.43%) React
6 5 (0.89%) Spring
7 4 (0.72%) A2A Protocol
7 4 (0.72%) Hibernate
7 4 (0.72%) LangChain
7 4 (0.72%) Middleware
8 3 (0.54%) .NET Framework
8 3 (0.54%) ASP.NET
8 3 (0.54%) Kafka
8 3 (0.54%) LangGraph
Miscellaneous
1 139 (24.87%) IoT
2 38 (6.80%) Mobile App
3 24 (4.29%) Onboarding
4 19 (3.40%) Social Media
5 18 (3.22%) Molecular Biology
6 17 (3.04%) Self-Motivation
7 13 (2.33%) Cloud Native
8 12 (2.15%) Algorithms
9 11 (1.97%) AI Agents
10 7 (1.25%) Blog
11 6 (1.07%) Low-Code
12 4 (0.72%) Analytical Mindset
13 3 (0.54%) Enterprise Cloud
14 2 (0.36%) DataPower
14 2 (0.36%) Driving Licence
14 2 (0.36%) e-Learning
14 2 (0.36%) Greenfield Project
14 2 (0.36%) Management Information System
14 2 (0.36%) Marketing Technology
14 2 (0.36%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 36 (6.44%) Android
2 23 (4.11%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.18%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 176 (31.48%) Machine Learning
2 158 (28.26%) Business Intelligence
3 154 (27.55%) Cybersecurity
4 147 (26.30%) User Experience
5 141 (25.22%) Web Development
6 86 (15.38%) Conversational UI
7 55 (9.84%) CI/CD
7 55 (9.84%) Decision-Making
8 52 (9.30%) Agile
9 49 (8.77%) Roadmaps
10 47 (8.41%) Mentoring
11 39 (6.98%) Observability
12 34 (6.08%) Analytics
12 34 (6.08%) Project Management
13 29 (5.19%) Problem-Solving
14 28 (5.01%) Technical Leadership
15 27 (4.83%) Software Engineering
16 25 (4.47%) Budgeting
17 24 (4.29%) Backends for Frontends
17 24 (4.29%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 204 (36.49%) Python
2 171 (30.59%) SQL
3 29 (5.19%) Java
4 20 (3.58%) JavaScript
5 16 (2.86%) C#
6 13 (2.33%) Kotlin
7 7 (1.25%) T-SQL
8 6 (1.07%) TypeScript
9 4 (0.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 3 (0.54%) Go
11 2 (0.36%) R
Qualifications
1 222 (39.71%) Degree
2 179 (32.02%) Master's Degree
2 179 (32.02%) PhD
3 154 (27.55%) Azure Certification
4 138 (24.69%) Postgraduate
5 11 (1.97%) AWS Certification
5 11 (1.97%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 7 (1.25%) PMP
7 4 (0.72%) ACCA
7 4 (0.72%) CIMA
8 3 (0.54%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.18%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 1 (0.18%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (4.47%) Accessibility
2 7 (1.25%) Data Quality
3 6 (1.07%) GDPR
3 6 (1.07%) QA
4 3 (0.54%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (0.36%) GRC
5 2 (0.36%) WCAG
6 1 (0.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.18%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (0.36%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (1.07%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.36%) Control-M
2 2 (0.36%) HP Fortify
2 2 (0.36%) Terraform
Vendors
1 176 (31.48%) Microsoft
2 73 (13.06%) PayPal
3 10 (1.79%) Databricks
4 7 (1.25%) Google
5 4 (0.72%) Salesforce
6 3 (0.54%) OpenAI
6 3 (0.54%) Oracle
7 2 (0.36%) HubSpot
7 2 (0.36%) IBM
7 2 (0.36%) Xero
8 1 (0.18%) Apple
8 1 (0.18%) Cloudera
8 1 (0.18%) Dell
8 1 (0.18%) Facebook
8 1 (0.18%) Foundry
8 1 (0.18%) SAP
8 1 (0.18%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.18%) Sony
8 1 (0.18%) Yahoo!