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 20 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 31 45
Rank change year-on-year +28 +14 +23
Permanent jobs citing AI 167 8 25
As % of all permanent jobs in Derbyshire 22.72% 3.65% 3.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 29.98% 4.52% 4.29%
Number of salaries quoted 6 6 23
10th Percentile - £46,250 £24,000
25th Percentile £27,500 £50,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £53,750 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.93% +19.44% -25.00%
75th Percentile £64,063 £72,438 £53,750
90th Percentile £66,250 £88,500 £64,700
East Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £62,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -20.00% +31.58% -5.00%

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 557 177 583
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Derbyshire 75.78% 80.82% 76.51%
Number of salaries quoted 251 149 446
10th Percentile £24,750 £23,500 £24,750
25th Percentile £27,875 £27,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,500 £44,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -3.41% -2.22%
75th Percentile £55,000 £51,000 £53,750
90th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
East Midlands median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year - - -10.00%

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 20 April 2026.

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 20 April 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 +5 28 £62,500 +16.28% 13
Glossop - 14 - - 2
Chesterfield - 3 £30,000 - 3
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 3 (1.80%) SharePoint
Applications
1 20 (11.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.60%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 135 (80.84%) Cloud Computing
2 26 (15.57%) Azure
3 25 (14.97%) Azure AI
4 24 (14.37%) Power Platform
5 1 (0.60%) Azure Cognitive Services
5 1 (0.60%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (0.60%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (0.60%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 135 (80.84%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (12.57%) Power BI
2 20 (11.98%) Tableau
3 1 (0.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
General
1 162 (97.01%) Social Skills
2 135 (80.84%) Banking
2 135 (80.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (1.80%) Law
3 3 (1.80%) Legal
4 1 (0.60%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (0.60%) Local Government
4 1 (0.60%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 108 (64.67%) Lecturer
2 20 (11.98%) Analyst
2 20 (11.98%) Data Analyst
2 20 (11.98%) Junior
2 20 (11.98%) Junior Analyst
2 20 (11.98%) Junior Data Analyst
3 5 (2.99%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 2 (1.20%) Data Scientist
5 1 (0.60%) Business Developer
5 1 (0.60%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 1 (0.60%) Business Intelligence Lead
5 1 (0.60%) Developer
5 1 (0.60%) Lead
5 1 (0.60%) Lead Developer
5 1 (0.60%) Power BI Developer
5 1 (0.60%) Trainer
Miscellaneous
1 135 (80.84%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (82.04%) Machine Learning
2 135 (80.84%) Cybersecurity
2 135 (80.84%) User Experience
2 135 (80.84%) Web Development
3 21 (12.57%) Business Intelligence
4 5 (2.99%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
5 3 (1.80%) Dashboard Development
5 3 (1.80%) Decision-Making
5 3 (1.80%) Risk Management
5 3 (1.80%) Visualisation
5 3 (1.80%) Workflow
6 2 (1.20%) Data Science
6 2 (1.20%) E-Commerce
6 2 (1.20%) LLM
6 2 (1.20%) Predictive Modelling
6 2 (1.20%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (1.20%) Statistical Analysis
6 2 (1.20%) Statistical Modelling
7 1 (0.60%) Generative AI
7 1 (0.60%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 28 (16.77%) Python
2 23 (13.77%) SQL
3 1 (0.60%) R
Qualifications
1 136 (81.44%) Degree
1 136 (81.44%) Master's Degree
1 136 (81.44%) PhD
2 135 (80.84%) Postgraduate
3 25 (14.97%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.60%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 23 (13.77%) Microsoft
2 3 (1.80%) Salesforce
3 1 (0.60%) OpenAI
3 1 (0.60%) PayPal