AI Job Trends in the Midlands

AI
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring AI skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 4 126
Rank change year-on-year -14 +122 +36
Permanent jobs citing AI 809 822 166
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 5.14% 14.90% 1.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.23% 17.14% 2.23%
Number of salaries quoted 446 91 70
10th Percentile £36,063 £37,500 £39,750
25th Percentile £45,188 £51,625 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year - -7.41% +3.85%
75th Percentile £83,438 £77,500 £95,938
90th Percentile £97,500 £120,000 £110,000
England median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year - -3.33% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,189 4,797 7,452
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 71.05% 86.93% 80.67%
Number of salaries quoted 7,928 2,810 3,394
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £39,000 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,390 £50,404
Median % change year-on-year +10.16% -9.95% -3.99%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -1.32%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

AI job vacancy trend in the Midlands

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Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing AI.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing AI

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Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing AI in the Midlands over the 6 months to 16 October 2026.

Salary histogram for AI in the Midlands

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Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing AI within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 16 October 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 Midlands -8 536 £65,000 +8.33% 131
East Midlands -23 273 £62,500 -3.85% 56
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England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 48 (5.93%) SharePoint
2 17 (2.10%) CMS
3 14 (1.73%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (1.11%) Apache
5 8 (0.99%) IIS
5 8 (0.99%) nginx
5 8 (0.99%) WordPress
6 7 (0.87%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.25%) Confluence
7 2 (0.25%) SAS
8 1 (0.12%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.12%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.12%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.12%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.12%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 33 (4.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (1.48%) Chatbot
3 11 (1.36%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (0.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.62%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.25%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.12%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.12%) Adobe Premiere
6 1 (0.12%) Elementor
6 1 (0.12%) InDesign
6 1 (0.12%) LaTeX
6 1 (0.12%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.12%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 12 (1.48%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.99%) Cloudability
3 4 (0.49%) Sage 50
3 4 (0.49%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.49%) Shopify
4 3 (0.37%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (0.37%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.25%) Integrated Workplace Management System
5 2 (0.25%) Sage 200
5 2 (0.25%) SAP Business One
5 2 (0.25%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.12%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.12%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.12%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.12%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 1 (0.12%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.12%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 195 (24.10%) Azure
2 124 (15.33%) Power Platform
3 100 (12.36%) SaaS
4 91 (11.25%) AWS
5 60 (7.42%) Microsoft Copilot
6 59 (7.29%) Microsoft 365
7 39 (4.82%) Azure DevOps
8 37 (4.57%) Azure AI
9 35 (4.33%) Power Automate
10 33 (4.08%) Dynamics 365
11 30 (3.71%) Serverless
12 27 (3.34%) GCP
13 25 (3.09%) GitHub
14 18 (2.22%) Entra ID
15 16 (1.98%) Azure Functions
15 16 (1.98%) PowerApps
16 15 (1.85%) Copilot Studio
17 14 (1.73%) GitHub Copilot
18 11 (1.36%) iPaaS
19 10 (1.24%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 21 (2.60%) Firewall
2 20 (2.47%) DNS
3 12 (1.48%) Internet
4 11 (1.36%) VPN
5 7 (0.87%) DHCP
6 4 (0.49%) MQTT
6 4 (0.49%) TCP/IP
6 4 (0.49%) VoIP
7 3 (0.37%) HTTP
7 3 (0.37%) Network Security
8 2 (0.25%) Broadband
8 2 (0.25%) Wireless
9 1 (0.12%) BGP
9 1 (0.12%) OSPF
9 1 (0.12%) RTSP
9 1 (0.12%) SCTP
9 1 (0.12%) Unified Communications
9 1 (0.12%) UWB
9 1 (0.12%) VLAN
9 1 (0.12%) VoLTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 97 (11.99%) Power BI
2 37 (4.57%) SQL Server
2 37 (4.57%) Tableau
3 21 (2.60%) MongoDB
4 20 (2.47%) Data Lake
5 19 (2.35%) Azure SQL Database
6 15 (1.85%) Data Warehouse
7 13 (1.61%) Big Data
7 13 (1.61%) Metadata
8 8 (0.99%) Power Query
9 7 (0.87%) Delta Lake
9 7 (0.87%) Semantic Layer
10 6 (0.74%) Redis
10 6 (0.74%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 6 (0.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 5 (0.62%) DynamoDB
11 5 (0.62%) Oracle BI EE
11 5 (0.62%) QlikView
11 5 (0.62%) Relational Database
11 5 (0.62%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 26 (3.21%) Git
2 19 (2.35%) JIRA
3 12 (1.48%) Maven
4 10 (1.24%) JUnit
4 10 (1.24%) Mockito
5 4 (0.49%) Jenkins
5 4 (0.49%) Octopus Deploy
5 4 (0.49%) Snyk
6 3 (0.37%) GitLab
6 3 (0.37%) Visual Studio Code
7 2 (0.25%) Ant
7 2 (0.25%) Apache Ivy
7 2 (0.25%) IBM UrbanCode
7 2 (0.25%) Yeoman
8 1 (0.12%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.12%) JMeter
8 1 (0.12%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.12%) NUnit
8 1 (0.12%) Selenium
8 1 (0.12%) SonarQube
General
1 254 (31.40%) Social Skills
2 253 (31.27%) Finance
3 141 (17.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 112 (13.84%) Marketing
5 96 (11.87%) Analytical Skills
6 48 (5.93%) Influencing Skills
7 47 (5.81%) Public Sector
8 43 (5.32%) Legal
9 39 (4.82%) Retail
10 29 (3.58%) Manufacturing
11 28 (3.46%) Presentation Skills
12 27 (3.34%) Law
12 27 (3.34%) Organisational Skills
13 20 (2.47%) Banking
14 19 (2.35%) Advertising
15 13 (1.61%) Telecoms
16 9 (1.11%) French Language
17 8 (0.99%) Automotive
18 6 (0.74%) Electronics
18 6 (0.74%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 122 (15.08%) Senior
2 110 (13.60%) Developer
3 92 (11.37%) Lead
4 69 (8.53%) Architect
5 54 (6.67%) Analyst
6 46 (5.69%) Software Engineer
7 37 (4.57%) Data Engineer
8 36 (4.45%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 33 (4.08%) Consultant
10 30 (3.71%) Sales Executive
11 27 (3.34%) Senior Developer
12 25 (3.09%) Account Executive
12 25 (3.09%) Business Analyst
12 25 (3.09%) Principal Engineer
12 25 (3.09%) Solutions Architect
13 24 (2.97%) Data Scientist
14 20 (2.47%) Automation Developer
15 19 (2.35%) Data Manager
16 18 (2.22%) Sales Account Executive
17 16 (1.98%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (4.94%) REST
2 37 (4.57%) .NET
3 29 (3.58%) React
4 24 (2.97%) CSS
5 22 (2.72%) Terraform
6 16 (1.98%) ASP.NET
6 16 (1.98%) ASP.NET Core
6 16 (1.98%) HTML
7 14 (1.73%) XML
8 13 (1.61%) JSON
8 13 (1.61%) PySpark
8 13 (1.61%) Spring
9 12 (1.48%) .NET Core
10 11 (1.36%) PyTorch
10 11 (1.36%) TensorFlow
11 10 (1.24%) Middleware
11 10 (1.24%) RESTful
12 9 (1.11%) JWT
12 9 (1.11%) OAuth
12 9 (1.11%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 90 (11.12%) Onboarding
2 42 (5.19%) Self-Motivation
3 33 (4.08%) Management Information System
4 32 (3.96%) Marketing Technology
5 31 (3.83%) Cloud Native
6 29 (3.58%) AI Agents
7 20 (2.47%) Product Ownership
8 18 (2.22%) Virtual Team
9 17 (2.10%) Social Media
10 15 (1.85%) Distributed Systems
10 15 (1.85%) Driving Licence
11 11 (1.36%) Greenfield Project
11 11 (1.36%) IoT
12 10 (1.24%) Legacy Systems
12 10 (1.24%) Low-Code
12 10 (1.24%) Mobile App
12 10 (1.24%) Public Cloud
12 10 (1.24%) Taxonomies
13 9 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
14 8 (0.99%) BYOD
Operating Systems
1 34 (4.20%) Linux
2 28 (3.46%) Windows
3 25 (3.09%) Windows Server
4 8 (0.99%) Ubuntu
5 6 (0.74%) Android
6 4 (0.49%) VMS
7 3 (0.37%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.25%) macOS
8 2 (0.25%) Solaris
9 1 (0.12%) Alpine Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 168 (20.77%) Analytics
2 161 (19.90%) Continuous Improvement
3 135 (16.69%) Agile
4 130 (16.07%) Stakeholder Management
5 126 (15.57%) Mentoring
6 113 (13.97%) Roadmaps
7 112 (13.84%) Decision-Making
8 111 (13.72%) Problem-Solving
9 107 (13.23%) Business Intelligence
10 93 (11.50%) CI/CD
11 87 (10.75%) Machine Learning
12 82 (10.14%) Coaching
13 80 (9.89%) SEO
14 77 (9.52%) Software Engineering
15 74 (9.15%) Digital Marketing
16 67 (8.28%) DevOps
17 66 (8.16%) Content Marketing
18 65 (8.03%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 60 (7.42%) Cybersecurity
20 59 (7.29%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 128 (15.82%) Python
2 113 (13.97%) SQL
3 54 (6.67%) JavaScript
4 46 (5.69%) C#
5 26 (3.21%) PowerShell
6 21 (2.60%) TypeScript
7 20 (2.47%) Java
8 17 (2.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 11 (1.36%) Bash
9 11 (1.36%) PL/SQL
9 11 (1.36%) R
10 7 (0.87%) PHP
11 6 (0.74%) T-SQL
12 5 (0.62%) C++
13 2 (0.25%) Go
14 1 (0.12%) Bicep
14 1 (0.12%) C
14 1 (0.12%) Kusto Query Language
14 1 (0.12%) Rust
14 1 (0.12%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 99 (12.24%) Degree
2 72 (8.90%) Security Cleared
3 66 (8.16%) SC Cleared
4 41 (5.07%) Azure Certification
5 23 (2.84%) Master's Degree
6 20 (2.47%) Microsoft Certification
7 16 (1.98%) ACCA
8 15 (1.85%) CIMA
9 11 (1.36%) AWS Certification
9 11 (1.36%) BPSS Clearance
9 11 (1.36%) DV Cleared
9 11 (1.36%) TOGAF Certification
10 9 (1.11%) Computer Science Degree
11 8 (0.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 4 (0.49%) CISM
12 4 (0.49%) CISSP
12 4 (0.49%) DBS Check
13 3 (0.37%) MOS
13 3 (0.37%) PMI Certification
13 3 (0.37%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (7.66%) Data Quality
2 33 (4.08%) Accessibility
3 31 (3.83%) GDPR
4 29 (3.58%) QA
5 18 (2.22%) SLA
6 13 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 12 (1.48%) GRC
8 9 (1.11%) WCAG
9 7 (0.87%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 7 (0.87%) PMO
10 5 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials
10 5 (0.62%) NCSC
11 4 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 4 (0.49%) ISO 9001
12 3 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
12 3 (0.37%) NIST
12 3 (0.37%) PCI DSS
13 1 (0.12%) GxP
13 1 (0.12%) ISO 19650
13 1 (0.12%) JTAG
System Software
1 35 (4.33%) Docker
2 16 (1.98%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (1.24%) Active Directory
4 8 (0.99%) Hyper-V
5 4 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 34 (4.20%) Kubernetes
2 16 (1.98%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (0.37%) Ansible
3 3 (0.37%) Bosun
3 3 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.25%) Grafana
4 2 (0.25%) Progress Chef
4 2 (0.25%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.25%) Puppet
4 2 (0.25%) SCCM
5 1 (0.12%) Data Guard
5 1 (0.12%) Nagios
Vendors
1 211 (26.08%) Microsoft
2 43 (5.32%) TikTok
3 42 (5.19%) Samsung
4 34 (4.20%) Salesforce
5 27 (3.34%) ServiceNow
6 23 (2.84%) Oracle
7 22 (2.72%) Adobe
7 22 (2.72%) Google
8 20 (2.47%) Databricks
9 17 (2.10%) SAP
10 16 (1.98%) VMware
11 14 (1.73%) YouTube
12 12 (1.48%) Apple
13 11 (1.36%) OpenAI
14 8 (0.99%) Botify
14 8 (0.99%) Citrix
14 8 (0.99%) Foundry
14 8 (0.99%) SonicWALL
15 7 (0.87%) Cisco
15 7 (0.87%) HubSpot