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 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 2 45 39
Rank change year-on-year +43 -6 +22
Permanent jobs citing AI 129 4 2
As % of all permanent jobs in Derbyshire 28.48% 0.85% 0.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 33.42% 1.24% 0.71%
Number of salaries quoted 6 3 0
10th Percentile £58,750 £51,400 -
25th Percentile £59,688 £61,000 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £77,000 -
Median % change year-on-year -15.58% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £88,500 -
90th Percentile £77,500 £95,400 -
East Midlands median annual salary £60,000 £85,000 £41,000
% change year-on-year -29.41% +107.32% -33.06%

All Process and 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 386 323 281
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Derbyshire 85.21% 69.02% 97.91%
Number of salaries quoted 193 165 149
10th Percentile £25,000 £30,000 £25,000
25th Percentile £26,250 £37,500 £30,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,500 £45,000 £49,500
Median % change year-on-year -21.11% -9.09% +7.03%
75th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £58,750
90th Percentile £67,500 £61,250 £67,500
East Midlands median annual salary £40,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -15.79% -9.52% +5.00%

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

AI
Salary Trend in Derbyshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Derbyshire citing AI.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Derbyshire citing AI

AI
Salary Histogram in Derbyshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing AI in Derbyshire over the 6 months to 15 November 2025.

Salary histogram for AI in Derbyshire

AI
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 November 2025. 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 26 £65,000 -15.58% 9
Dronfield - 7 - -
Alfreton - 7 - -
Ashbourne - 7 - -
Bakewell - 7 - -
Belper - 7 - -
Buxton - 7 - -
Chesterfield - 7 - - 1
Glossop - 5 - -
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 1 (0.78%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 19 (14.73%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 54 (41.86%) Cloud Computing
2 3 (2.33%) AWS
3 2 (1.55%) Azure
3 2 (1.55%) GCP
4 1 (0.78%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (0.78%) Amazon ELB
4 1 (0.78%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 54 (41.86%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.55%) Big Data
2 1 (0.78%) Delta Lake
2 1 (0.78%) DynamoDB
2 1 (0.78%) Metadata
2 1 (0.78%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 2 (1.55%) Git
2 1 (0.78%) MLflow
General
1 57 (44.19%) Social Skills
2 54 (41.86%) Banking
2 54 (41.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 42 (32.56%) Manufacturing
3 42 (32.56%) Retail
4 18 (13.95%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (5.43%) Catalan Language
5 7 (5.43%) Dutch Language
5 7 (5.43%) Finnish Language
5 7 (5.43%) Norwegian Language
Job Titles
1 61 (47.29%) Trainer
2 44 (34.11%) Lecturer
3 3 (2.33%) Content Editor
3 3 (2.33%) Customer Support Specialist
3 3 (2.33%) Digital Content Editor
3 3 (2.33%) Digital Editor
3 3 (2.33%) Support Specialist
4 2 (1.55%) Architect
4 2 (1.55%) Data Architect
4 2 (1.55%) Data Scientist
5 1 (0.78%) Machine Learning Engineer
5 1 (0.78%) Operations Engineer
5 1 (0.78%) Principal Engineer
5 1 (0.78%) Principal Software Engineer
5 1 (0.78%) Python Engineer
5 1 (0.78%) Python Software Engineer
5 1 (0.78%) Research Scientist
5 1 (0.78%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (5.43%) HTML
2 2 (1.55%) Django
2 2 (1.55%) Flask
3 1 (0.78%) Keras
3 1 (0.78%) Lambda Expressions
3 1 (0.78%) Metaflow
3 1 (0.78%) NumPy
3 1 (0.78%) Pandas
3 1 (0.78%) PySpark
3 1 (0.78%) PyTorch
3 1 (0.78%) scikit-learn
3 1 (0.78%) TensorFlow
3 1 (0.78%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 54 (41.86%) IoT
2 42 (32.56%) Robotics
3 2 (1.55%) Cloud Native
3 2 (1.55%) Management Information System
4 1 (0.78%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (0.78%) Molecular Biology
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.78%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (83.72%) Machine Learning
2 56 (43.41%) Web Development
3 54 (41.86%) Cybersecurity
3 54 (41.86%) User Experience
4 44 (34.11%) LLM
4 44 (34.11%) Problem-Solving
5 42 (32.56%) Data Privacy
5 42 (32.56%) Generative AI
5 42 (32.56%) Red Team
6 19 (14.73%) Conversational UI
7 16 (12.40%) Chemistry
8 10 (7.75%) Computer Science
9 8 (6.20%) Biochemistry
9 8 (6.20%) Biology
10 4 (3.10%) Enterprise Architecture
10 4 (3.10%) ETL
11 3 (2.33%) Deployment Automation
11 3 (2.33%) Mathematics
11 3 (2.33%) Statistics
11 3 (2.33%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 12 (9.30%) Python
2 10 (7.75%) SQL
3 7 (5.43%) C
3 7 (5.43%) C#
3 7 (5.43%) C++
3 7 (5.43%) Dart
3 7 (5.43%) Java
3 7 (5.43%) JavaScript
3 7 (5.43%) MATLAB
3 7 (5.43%) PHP
3 7 (5.43%) R
3 7 (5.43%) Ruby
3 7 (5.43%) Rust
3 7 (5.43%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 122 (94.57%) Degree
2 67 (51.94%) Master's Degree
2 67 (51.94%) PhD
3 54 (41.86%) Postgraduate
4 7 (5.43%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.55%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.55%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (0.78%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (2.33%) Kubernetes
1 3 (2.33%) Terraform
2 1 (0.78%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 43 (33.33%) Databricks
2 42 (32.56%) Adobe
2 42 (32.56%) Google
3 19 (14.73%) PayPal