AI Job Trends in Derbyshire

AI
East Midlands > Derbyshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Derbyshire requiring AI skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 3 47
Rank change year-on-year -26 +44 +2
Permanent jobs citing AI 36 139 7
As % of all permanent jobs in Derbyshire 3.52% 30.96% 1.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.79% 36.29% 1.75%
Number of salaries quoted 17 4 5
10th Percentile £34,000 - -
25th Percentile £35,000 £62,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £70,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -46.43% +55.56% -33.33%
75th Percentile £38,750 £77,500 £47,500
90th Percentile £52,500 - £48,250
East Midlands median annual salary £52,500 £65,000 £55,250
% change year-on-year -19.23% +17.65% +16.32%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Derbyshire

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 Derbyshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 751 383 399
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Derbyshire 73.34% 85.30% 65.84%
Number of salaries quoted 498 176 225
10th Percentile £27,000 £25,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £26,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £36,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.59% -18.89% -10.00%
75th Percentile £55,000 £51,406 £53,750
90th Percentile £62,500 £66,250 £61,250
East Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £41,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +20.48% -7.78% -14.29%

AI
Job Vacancy Trend in Derbyshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing AI relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Derbyshire.

AI job vacancy trend in Derbyshire

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Salary Trend in Derbyshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Derbyshire citing AI.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Derbyshire citing AI

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Salary Histogram in Derbyshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing AI in Derbyshire over the 6 months to 15 September 2026.

Salary histogram for AI in Derbyshire

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Job Locations in Derbyshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing AI within the Derbyshire region over the 6 months to 15 September 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
Derby -13 21 £50,000 -28.57% 27
Belper -1 11 £37,500 -
Alfreton -7 2 - -
Ashbourne -9 1 - - 1
Chesterfield -14 1 £30,000 - 2
AI
East Midlands

AI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Derbyshire 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 7 (19.44%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (22.22%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 27 (75.00%) Azure
2 17 (47.22%) Azure AI
2 17 (47.22%) Power Platform
3 8 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (16.67%) Copilot Studio
4 6 (16.67%) Microsoft Copilot
4 6 (16.67%) Power Automate
5 3 (8.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 3 (8.33%) Dynamics 365
5 3 (8.33%) GitHub
5 3 (8.33%) GitHub Copilot
5 3 (8.33%) PowerApps
6 2 (5.56%) AWS
6 2 (5.56%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (5.56%) Azure Databricks
6 2 (5.56%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (27.78%) Power BI
1 10 (27.78%) Tableau
2 3 (8.33%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (5.56%) Data Lake
3 2 (5.56%) Delta Lake
4 1 (2.78%) Relational Database
General
1 21 (58.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (8.33%) Banking
2 3 (8.33%) Finance
3 1 (2.78%) Law
3 1 (2.78%) Legal
Job Titles
1 12 (33.33%) Developer
2 8 (22.22%) Analyst
2 8 (22.22%) Data Analyst
2 8 (22.22%) Junior
2 8 (22.22%) Junior Analyst
2 8 (22.22%) Junior Data Analyst
3 6 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 5 (13.89%) Data Scientist
4 5 (13.89%) Hardware Technician
5 3 (8.33%) .NET Developer
5 3 (8.33%) Business Developer
5 3 (8.33%) Power Platform Developer
5 3 (8.33%) Statistician
5 3 (8.33%) Systems Developer
6 2 (5.56%) Data Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Principal Data Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.33%) .NET
1 3 (8.33%) .NET Core
1 3 (8.33%) ASP.NET
1 3 (8.33%) ASP.NET Core
1 3 (8.33%) CSS
1 3 (8.33%) HTML
1 3 (8.33%) ML.NET
2 2 (5.56%) Matplotlib
2 2 (5.56%) PySpark
2 2 (5.56%) PyTorch
2 2 (5.56%) scikit-learn
2 2 (5.56%) Seaborn
2 2 (5.56%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.33%) Digital TV
1 3 (8.33%) Low-Code
2 2 (5.56%) Enterprise Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (27.78%) Business Intelligence
2 8 (22.22%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
2 8 (22.22%) DevOps
2 8 (22.22%) Machine Learning
3 6 (16.67%) Process Improvement
3 6 (16.67%) Project Delivery
4 5 (13.89%) CI/CD
4 5 (13.89%) Computer Vision
4 5 (13.89%) Data Science
4 5 (13.89%) Roadmaps
4 5 (13.89%) Statistics
4 5 (13.89%) Validation
5 4 (11.11%) Feature Engineering
5 4 (11.11%) Risk Management
6 3 (8.33%) AI Transformation
6 3 (8.33%) Analytics
6 3 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (8.33%) Deep Learning
6 3 (8.33%) Full-Stack Development
6 3 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 21 (58.33%) Python
2 15 (41.67%) SQL
3 3 (8.33%) C#
4 1 (2.78%) R
Qualifications
1 14 (38.89%) Azure Certification
2 2 (5.56%) Degree
3 1 (2.78%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.78%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.56%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (8.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 20 (55.56%) Microsoft
2 6 (16.67%) Foundry
3 2 (5.56%) Databricks
4 1 (2.78%) HighQ
4 1 (2.78%) Salesforce