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 27 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 11 94
Rank change year-on-year -3 +83 +107
Permanent jobs citing AI 526 382 138
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 7.77% 12.48% 2.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.49% 13.52% 2.77%
Number of salaries quoted 248 63 126
10th Percentile £33,525 £25,000 £39,875
25th Percentile £44,993 £25,313 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £25,625 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +153.66% -60.58% -2.15%
75th Percentile £90,000 £61,250 £73,886
90th Percentile £100,000 £86,250 £93,750
England median annual salary £70,000 £66,296 £70,000
% change year-on-year +5.59% -5.29% -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 4,579 2,825 4,983
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 67.65% 92.32% 79.33%
Number of salaries quoted 3,241 1,311 3,729
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £31,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -8.90%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -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 27 June 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 27 June 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 -13 251 £65,000 +153.66% 70
South Yorkshire +3 146 £65,000 -21.21% 30
East Yorkshire +12 60 £40,000 -30.43% 5
North Yorkshire +12 52 £52,500 -8.70% 10
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 (2.09%) Jupyter
2 7 (1.33%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.38%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.19%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 148 (28.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (2.85%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.57%) Camtasia
4 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.38%) Trello
5 1 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.19%) Notion
Business Applications
1 3 (0.57%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.38%) Q-Pulse
2 2 (0.38%) Sage 200
2 2 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.38%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 255 (48.48%) Azure
2 214 (40.68%) Azure AI
3 163 (30.99%) Power Platform
4 47 (8.94%) AWS
5 40 (7.60%) SaaS
6 26 (4.94%) Microsoft Copilot
7 23 (4.37%) Microsoft 365
8 18 (3.42%) Power Automate
9 14 (2.66%) Azure DevOps
9 14 (2.66%) Copilot Studio
9 14 (2.66%) Entra ID
9 14 (2.66%) GitHub
10 11 (2.09%) Cloud Computing
11 10 (1.90%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 9 (1.71%) GCP
12 9 (1.71%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
13 7 (1.33%) GitHub Actions
13 7 (1.33%) PowerApps
14 6 (1.14%) Amazon ECS
14 6 (1.14%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 37 (7.03%) Broadband
2 4 (0.76%) Network Security
3 2 (0.38%) Internet
3 2 (0.38%) LAN
3 2 (0.38%) WAN
4 1 (0.19%) DHCP
4 1 (0.19%) DNS
4 1 (0.19%) Firewall
4 1 (0.19%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 155 (29.47%) Power BI
2 145 (27.57%) Tableau
3 10 (1.90%) Azure SQL Database
4 9 (1.71%) MongoDB
5 6 (1.14%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (0.95%) Big Data
6 5 (0.95%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (0.76%) DynamoDB
7 4 (0.76%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (0.57%) ClickHouse
8 3 (0.57%) Data Lake
8 3 (0.57%) Neo4j
8 3 (0.57%) Relational Database
8 3 (0.57%) Star Schema
9 2 (0.38%) Semantic Layer
10 1 (0.19%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.19%) BigQuery
10 1 (0.19%) InfluxDB
10 1 (0.19%) Looker
10 1 (0.19%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 11 (2.09%) Visual Studio Code
2 3 (0.57%) Claude Code
2 3 (0.57%) Git
3 2 (0.38%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.19%) JIRA
4 1 (0.19%) MLflow
4 1 (0.19%) Visual Studio
General
1 251 (47.72%) Social Skills
2 81 (15.40%) Finance
3 43 (8.17%) Marketing
4 38 (7.22%) Games
5 37 (7.03%) Analytical Skills
6 21 (3.99%) Law
7 19 (3.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 19 (3.61%) Legal
7 19 (3.61%) Manufacturing
8 17 (3.23%) Public Sector
9 15 (2.85%) Retail
10 11 (2.09%) Organisational Skills
11 8 (1.52%) Advertising
12 5 (0.95%) Banking
13 4 (0.76%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (0.57%) Aviation
14 3 (0.57%) Billing
14 3 (0.57%) Presentation Skills
15 2 (0.38%) Tech for Good
16 1 (0.19%) Aeronautics
Job Titles
1 154 (29.28%) Analyst
2 145 (27.57%) Data Analyst
3 144 (27.38%) Junior
3 144 (27.38%) Junior Analyst
3 144 (27.38%) Junior Data Analyst
4 62 (11.79%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 51 (9.70%) Lead
6 47 (8.94%) Developer
7 21 (3.99%) Senior
7 21 (3.99%) Software Engineer
8 16 (3.04%) Product Manager
8 16 (3.04%) Software Developer
8 16 (3.04%) Technical Leader
9 15 (2.85%) IT Manager
10 14 (2.66%) Marketing Executive
11 12 (2.28%) Architect
11 12 (2.28%) Engineering Manager
11 12 (2.28%) Principal Engineer
12 11 (2.09%) .NET Developer
12 11 (2.09%) Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (4.75%) React
2 21 (3.99%) .NET
3 13 (2.47%) Android SDK
3 13 (2.47%) GraphQL
3 13 (2.47%) Node.js
4 12 (2.28%) scikit-learn
5 11 (2.09%) ASP.NET
5 11 (2.09%) ASP.NET Core
5 11 (2.09%) Hugging Face
5 11 (2.09%) Matplotlib
5 11 (2.09%) ML.NET
5 11 (2.09%) NumPy
5 11 (2.09%) Pandas
5 11 (2.09%) Streamlit
6 10 (1.90%) RESTful
7 9 (1.71%) .NET Core
7 9 (1.71%) Blazor
8 5 (0.95%) CSS
8 5 (0.95%) LangChain
9 4 (0.76%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 40 (7.60%) Mobile App
2 32 (6.08%) Onboarding
3 22 (4.18%) Social Media
4 18 (3.42%) Self-Motivation
5 16 (3.04%) Cloud Native
6 15 (2.85%) Management Information System
7 13 (2.47%) AI Agents
7 13 (2.47%) Algorithms
8 11 (2.09%) Product Ownership
9 8 (1.52%) Low-Code
10 7 (1.33%) Distributed Systems
10 7 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
11 5 (0.95%) Analytical Mindset
11 5 (0.95%) Driving Licence
12 4 (0.76%) BBC
12 4 (0.76%) Legacy Systems
12 4 (0.76%) Marketing Technology
12 4 (0.76%) Security Posture
13 3 (0.57%) e-Learning
13 3 (0.57%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 39 (7.41%) Android
2 23 (4.37%) Apple iOS
3 12 (2.28%) Windows
4 1 (0.19%) Linux
4 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 156 (29.66%) Business Intelligence
2 72 (13.69%) Agile
2 72 (13.69%) Roadmaps
3 70 (13.31%) CI/CD
4 68 (12.93%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
5 67 (12.74%) Decision-Making
6 65 (12.36%) Mentoring
7 59 (11.22%) Analytics
8 56 (10.65%) Machine Learning
9 55 (10.46%) Software Engineering
10 48 (9.13%) Problem-Solving
11 47 (8.94%) Observability
12 40 (7.60%) Continuous Improvement
12 40 (7.60%) Technical Leadership
13 32 (6.08%) LLM
14 31 (5.89%) Cybersecurity
15 29 (5.51%) Budgeting
16 27 (5.13%) B2B
16 27 (5.13%) Incident Management
16 27 (5.13%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 260 (49.43%) Python
2 174 (33.08%) SQL
3 31 (5.89%) JavaScript
4 26 (4.94%) C#
5 24 (4.56%) Java
6 16 (3.04%) TypeScript
7 13 (2.47%) Kotlin
8 5 (0.95%) Go
9 3 (0.57%) PHP
10 2 (0.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (0.38%) PowerShell
10 2 (0.38%) Ruby
10 2 (0.38%) XAML
11 1 (0.19%) C
11 1 (0.19%) C++
11 1 (0.19%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 199 (37.83%) Azure Certification
2 23 (4.37%) Degree
3 11 (2.09%) AWS Certification
3 11 (2.09%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 10 (1.90%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (1.33%) ACCA
5 7 (1.33%) CIMA
6 5 (0.95%) CISSP
6 5 (0.95%) SC Cleared
6 5 (0.95%) Security Cleared
7 4 (0.76%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 4 (0.76%) CCSP
7 4 (0.76%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (0.57%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.19%) CISM
9 1 (0.19%) CRISC
9 1 (0.19%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (4.56%) Accessibility
2 14 (2.66%) Cyber Essentials
3 13 (2.47%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 12 (2.28%) GDPR
5 11 (2.09%) QA
6 10 (1.90%) Data Quality
6 10 (1.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.95%) NIST
8 4 (0.76%) GRC
9 3 (0.57%) Actionable Recommendations
9 3 (0.57%) NCSC
9 3 (0.57%) PMO
10 2 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 1 (0.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 6 (1.14%) Docker
2 4 (0.76%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.19%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.19%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 13 (2.47%) Terraform
2 12 (2.28%) Microsoft Intune
3 7 (1.33%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.19%) Grafana
Vendors
1 207 (39.35%) Microsoft
2 19 (3.61%) Salesforce
3 18 (3.42%) Google
4 10 (1.90%) Databricks
5 6 (1.14%) OpenAI
6 5 (0.95%) Foundry
6 5 (0.95%) HubSpot
7 4 (0.76%) Apple
7 4 (0.76%) Facebook
7 4 (0.76%) Sony
7 4 (0.76%) Yahoo!
8 3 (0.57%) SAP
8 3 (0.57%) Xero
9 2 (0.38%) Oracle
9 2 (0.38%) Sage
9 2 (0.38%) Workday
10 1 (0.19%) Cloudera
10 1 (0.19%) Dell
10 1 (0.19%) ServiceNow