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

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 14 103
Rank change year-on-year 0 +89 +22
Permanent jobs citing AI 522 403 94
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 7.14% 11.41% 1.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.72% 12.85% 2.23%
Number of salaries quoted 270 61 80
10th Percentile £33,675 £25,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £46,500 £25,313 £47,788
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £40,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +62.50% -42.86% -
75th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £73,886
90th Percentile £100,000 £90,000 £93,750
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 4,870 3,137 4,213
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 66.59% 88.84% 79.37%
Number of salaries quoted 3,522 1,527 2,562
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £30,813 £38,890
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -8.41%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,922 £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 12 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 12 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 £65,000 +153.66% 189
South Yorkshire +6 145 £65,000 -20.00% 87
East Yorkshire +22 53 £42,500 -26.09% 8
North Yorkshire +13 52 £55,000 - 34
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 16 (3.07%) SharePoint
2 11 (2.11%) Jupyter
3 5 (0.96%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.38%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.19%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 116 (22.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (3.45%) Chatbot
3 4 (0.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.57%) LaTeX
4 3 (0.57%) 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 (0.57%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (0.57%) Magento
1 3 (0.57%) Q-Pulse
1 3 (0.57%) Sage 200
1 3 (0.57%) Shopify
2 2 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.38%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 245 (46.93%) Azure
2 183 (35.06%) Azure AI
3 139 (26.63%) Power Platform
4 53 (10.15%) AWS
5 46 (8.81%) SaaS
6 35 (6.70%) Microsoft 365
7 31 (5.94%) Microsoft Copilot
8 23 (4.41%) Power Automate
9 21 (4.02%) Azure DevOps
9 21 (4.02%) Entra ID
10 14 (2.68%) Copilot Studio
10 14 (2.68%) GitHub
11 12 (2.30%) PowerApps
12 10 (1.92%) GCP
12 10 (1.92%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 10 (1.92%) Serverless
13 9 (1.72%) Amazon ECS
13 9 (1.72%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
14 8 (1.53%) Cloud Computing
14 8 (1.53%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 26 (4.98%) Broadband
2 6 (1.15%) Network Security
3 5 (0.96%) Internet
3 5 (0.96%) LAN
3 5 (0.96%) WAN
4 4 (0.77%) CTI
4 4 (0.77%) VoIP
5 2 (0.38%) Firewall
6 1 (0.19%) DHCP
6 1 (0.19%) DNS
6 1 (0.19%) SAN
6 1 (0.19%) SSL
6 1 (0.19%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 123 (23.56%) Power BI
2 109 (20.88%) Tableau
3 13 (2.49%) MongoDB
4 12 (2.30%) Azure SQL Database
5 9 (1.72%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (1.15%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (0.96%) Big Data
7 5 (0.96%) Data Lake
8 4 (0.77%) DynamoDB
8 4 (0.77%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (0.57%) ClickHouse
9 3 (0.57%) Metadata
9 3 (0.57%) MySQL
9 3 (0.57%) Relational Database
9 3 (0.57%) Semantic Layer
9 3 (0.57%) SQL Server
10 2 (0.38%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (0.38%) BigQuery
10 2 (0.38%) Delta Lake
10 2 (0.38%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 8 (1.53%) Visual Studio Code
2 4 (0.77%) Claude Code
3 3 (0.57%) Git
3 3 (0.57%) 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 (45.02%) Social Skills
2 88 (16.86%) Finance
3 40 (7.66%) Analytical Skills
3 40 (7.66%) Marketing
4 30 (5.75%) Games
4 30 (5.75%) Public Sector
5 26 (4.98%) Legal
6 24 (4.60%) Law
6 24 (4.60%) Manufacturing
7 23 (4.41%) Retail
8 21 (4.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 14 (2.68%) Organisational Skills
10 11 (2.11%) Influencing Skills
11 9 (1.72%) Advertising
12 5 (0.96%) Aviation
12 5 (0.96%) Banking
13 3 (0.57%) Billing
13 3 (0.57%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.38%) Local Government
14 2 (0.38%) Police
Job Titles
1 118 (22.61%) Analyst
2 109 (20.88%) Data Analyst
2 109 (20.88%) Junior
3 108 (20.69%) Junior Analyst
3 108 (20.69%) Junior Data Analyst
4 62 (11.88%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 50 (9.58%) Lead
6 46 (8.81%) Developer
7 24 (4.60%) Software Engineer
8 23 (4.41%) Senior
9 20 (3.83%) Architect
10 18 (3.45%) IT Manager
11 17 (3.26%) Product Manager
11 17 (3.26%) Technical Leader
12 15 (2.87%) .NET Developer
12 15 (2.87%) Software Developer
13 12 (2.30%) IT Operations Manager
13 12 (2.30%) Operations Manager
13 12 (2.30%) Principal Engineer
14 11 (2.11%) Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (5.75%) React
2 21 (4.02%) .NET
3 15 (2.87%) ASP.NET
3 15 (2.87%) ASP.NET Core
3 15 (2.87%) ML.NET
3 15 (2.87%) Node.js
4 13 (2.49%) Blazor
4 13 (2.49%) RESTful
5 12 (2.30%) Android SDK
5 12 (2.30%) GraphQL
6 11 (2.11%) .NET Core
7 9 (1.72%) scikit-learn
8 8 (1.53%) Hugging Face
8 8 (1.53%) Matplotlib
8 8 (1.53%) NumPy
8 8 (1.53%) Pandas
8 8 (1.53%) Streamlit
9 6 (1.15%) CSS
10 4 (0.77%) Bootstrap
10 4 (0.77%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 30 (5.75%) Mobile App
2 23 (4.41%) Onboarding
3 22 (4.21%) AI Agents
4 19 (3.64%) Social Media
5 18 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
6 16 (3.07%) Management Information System
7 14 (2.68%) Cloud Native
8 13 (2.49%) Product Ownership
9 11 (2.11%) Algorithms
10 10 (1.92%) Greenfield Project
11 9 (1.72%) Security Posture
12 8 (1.53%) Low-Code
13 7 (1.34%) Distributed Systems
14 6 (1.15%) Driving Licence
15 5 (0.96%) BBC
15 5 (0.96%) CMDB
15 5 (0.96%) Cyber Threat
16 4 (0.77%) iPhone
16 4 (0.77%) IVR
16 4 (0.77%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 30 (5.75%) Android
2 20 (3.83%) Windows
3 14 (2.68%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.57%) Linux
4 3 (0.57%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.19%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.19%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (24.33%) Business Intelligence
2 75 (14.37%) Agile
3 74 (14.18%) Roadmaps
4 70 (13.41%) Analytics
5 68 (13.03%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
6 63 (12.07%) CI/CD
6 63 (12.07%) Mentoring
7 62 (11.88%) Continuous Improvement
8 61 (11.69%) Machine Learning
9 58 (11.11%) Decision-Making
10 56 (10.73%) Problem-Solving
11 54 (10.34%) Software Engineering
12 43 (8.24%) Cybersecurity
13 37 (7.09%) Observability
13 37 (7.09%) Stakeholder Management
14 35 (6.70%) Technical Leadership
15 33 (6.32%) LLM
15 33 (6.32%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 31 (5.94%) Coaching
17 26 (4.98%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 218 (41.76%) Python
2 145 (27.78%) SQL
3 32 (6.13%) JavaScript
4 25 (4.79%) C#
5 18 (3.45%) Java
5 18 (3.45%) TypeScript
6 12 (2.30%) Kotlin
7 7 (1.34%) PowerShell
8 4 (0.77%) Go
9 3 (0.57%) PHP
10 2 (0.38%) Ruby
10 2 (0.38%) XAML
11 1 (0.19%) C
11 1 (0.19%) C++
11 1 (0.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.19%) Perl
11 1 (0.19%) R
11 1 (0.19%) Scala
11 1 (0.19%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 163 (31.23%) Azure Certification
2 27 (5.17%) Degree
3 11 (2.11%) Security Cleared
4 10 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
4 10 (1.92%) SC Cleared
5 8 (1.53%) ACCA
5 8 (1.53%) AWS Certification
5 8 (1.53%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 8 (1.53%) CIMA
5 8 (1.53%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (0.96%) CISSP
7 4 (0.77%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 4 (0.77%) CCSP
7 4 (0.77%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (0.77%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 3 (0.57%) CompTIA CySA+
8 3 (0.57%) CompTIA Security+
8 3 (0.57%) PhD
9 2 (0.38%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.19%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (4.41%) Accessibility
2 16 (3.07%) Cyber Essentials
3 15 (2.87%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 15 (2.87%) QA
4 14 (2.68%) GDPR
5 12 (2.30%) Data Quality
6 9 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.96%) NIST
8 4 (0.77%) GRC
9 3 (0.57%) Actionable Recommendations
9 3 (0.57%) ISO 19650
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
11 1 (0.19%) GAAP
System Software
1 10 (1.92%) Active Directory
2 7 (1.34%) 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 19 (3.64%) Microsoft Intune
2 15 (2.87%) Terraform
3 6 (1.15%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.19%) Grafana
Vendors
1 193 (36.97%) Microsoft
2 19 (3.64%) Google
3 18 (3.45%) Salesforce
4 14 (2.68%) 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 (0.57%) Sage
9 3 (0.57%) Xero
10 2 (0.38%) Oracle
10 2 (0.38%) SAP
10 2 (0.38%) Workday