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

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 9 101
Rank change year-on-year -8 +92 +76
Permanent jobs citing AI 832 704 238
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 5.86% 12.27% 2.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.38% 14.41% 2.83%
Number of salaries quoted 428 114 129
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £46,688 £50,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,850 £60,000 £58,700
Median % change year-on-year -5.25% +2.21% -9.69%
75th Percentile £83,750 £72,688 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £89,625 £93,750
England median annual salary £71,061 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +1.52% -3.45% -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 9,930 4,886 8,421
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 69.92% 85.17% 77.86%
Number of salaries quoted 7,063 2,978 5,162
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,968 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £66,250 £63,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £76,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -12.00%

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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 5 August 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 5 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 Midlands -4 541 £60,000 - 309
East Midlands -16 290 £52,500 -16.00% 121
AI
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 23 (2.76%) SharePoint
2 8 (0.96%) Jupyter
3 7 (0.84%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 5 (0.60%) Apache
4 5 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (0.48%) ArcGIS
5 4 (0.48%) CMS
5 4 (0.48%) WordPress
6 3 (0.36%) Confluence
6 3 (0.36%) IIS
6 3 (0.36%) nginx
7 1 (0.12%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.12%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.12%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.12%) SAS
Applications
1 169 (20.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (1.44%) Chatbot
3 10 (1.20%) Microsoft Office
4 8 (0.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (0.72%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.12%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.12%) Adobe Premiere
6 1 (0.12%) InDesign
6 1 (0.12%) LaTeX
6 1 (0.12%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.12%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.12%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 12 (1.44%) Cloudability
2 7 (0.84%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.48%) Sage 50
3 4 (0.48%) Shopify
4 3 (0.36%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (0.36%) NetSuite
4 3 (0.36%) SAP Business One
5 1 (0.12%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.12%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.12%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.12%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.12%) SAP EHS
5 1 (0.12%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 361 (43.39%) Azure
2 235 (28.25%) Azure AI
3 234 (28.13%) Power Platform
4 96 (11.54%) AWS
5 56 (6.73%) SaaS
6 44 (5.29%) Microsoft Copilot
7 37 (4.45%) Microsoft 365
8 30 (3.61%) GCP
9 25 (3.00%) Serverless
10 23 (2.76%) Azure DevOps
11 21 (2.52%) Power Automate
12 15 (1.80%) Dynamics 365
13 14 (1.68%) GitHub
13 14 (1.68%) PowerApps
14 11 (1.32%) GitHub Copilot
15 10 (1.20%) Microsoft Purview
15 10 (1.20%) Snowflake
16 9 (1.08%) Anthropic Claude
16 9 (1.08%) Entra ID
17 8 (0.96%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.20%) DNS
1 10 (1.20%) Firewall
2 6 (0.72%) VPN
3 4 (0.48%) MQTT
4 3 (0.36%) Network Security
4 3 (0.36%) Wireless
5 2 (0.24%) Broadband
5 2 (0.24%) DHCP
5 2 (0.24%) HTTP
5 2 (0.24%) VLAN
5 2 (0.24%) VoIP
6 1 (0.12%) CTI
6 1 (0.12%) FTP
6 1 (0.12%) Internet
6 1 (0.12%) Intranet
6 1 (0.12%) LAN
6 1 (0.12%) SMS
6 1 (0.12%) SNMP
6 1 (0.12%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.12%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 211 (25.36%) Power BI
2 168 (20.19%) Tableau
3 25 (3.00%) SQL Server
4 17 (2.04%) Azure SQL Database
4 17 (2.04%) MongoDB
5 14 (1.68%) Data Lake
6 13 (1.56%) Metadata
7 11 (1.32%) Data Warehouse
8 8 (0.96%) Redis
9 6 (0.72%) DynamoDB
9 6 (0.72%) Power Query
9 6 (0.72%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 6 (0.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 5 (0.60%) Star Schema
11 4 (0.48%) Big Data
11 4 (0.48%) Relational Database
12 3 (0.36%) Amazon RDS
12 3 (0.36%) Looker
12 3 (0.36%) MySQL
12 3 (0.36%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 12 (1.44%) Git
1 12 (1.44%) Maven
2 10 (1.20%) JIRA
2 10 (1.20%) JUnit
2 10 (1.20%) Mockito
2 10 (1.20%) Snyk
3 9 (1.08%) Visual Studio Code
4 5 (0.60%) Selenium
5 4 (0.48%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.24%) Ant
6 2 (0.24%) Apache Ivy
6 2 (0.24%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.24%) GitLab
6 2 (0.24%) IBM UrbanCode
6 2 (0.24%) Yeoman
7 1 (0.12%) JMeter
7 1 (0.12%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.12%) Postman
7 1 (0.12%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.12%) Vite
General
1 350 (42.07%) Social Skills
2 185 (22.24%) Finance
3 82 (9.86%) Analytical Skills
4 69 (8.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 37 (4.45%) Legal
6 36 (4.33%) Retail
7 34 (4.09%) Law
8 31 (3.73%) Manufacturing
9 30 (3.61%) Influencing Skills
10 28 (3.37%) Marketing
11 21 (2.52%) Public Sector
12 20 (2.40%) Banking
12 20 (2.40%) Organisational Skills
13 11 (1.32%) Advertising
14 10 (1.20%) Automotive
15 8 (0.96%) Presentation Skills
16 7 (0.84%) Financial Institution
16 7 (0.84%) Social Housing
17 6 (0.72%) Telecoms
18 5 (0.60%) Japanese Language
Job Titles
1 208 (25.00%) Analyst
2 158 (18.99%) Data Analyst
2 158 (18.99%) Junior
3 155 (18.63%) Junior Analyst
4 154 (18.51%) Junior Data Analyst
5 103 (12.38%) Senior
6 95 (11.42%) Developer
7 78 (9.38%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 75 (9.01%) Lead
9 57 (6.85%) Architect
10 29 (3.49%) Software Engineer
11 27 (3.25%) Business Analyst
11 27 (3.25%) Data Scientist
12 25 (3.00%) Data Engineer
13 24 (2.88%) Accountant
13 24 (2.88%) Systems Accountant
14 22 (2.64%) Consultant
15 21 (2.52%) Senior Developer
16 20 (2.40%) Senior Analyst
17 17 (2.04%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (4.21%) React
2 27 (3.25%) .NET
3 23 (2.76%) REST
4 17 (2.04%) ASP.NET
4 17 (2.04%) ASP.NET Core
5 14 (1.68%) HTML
5 14 (1.68%) Playwright
6 13 (1.56%) .NET Core
6 13 (1.56%) Spring
7 12 (1.44%) CSS
7 12 (1.44%) RESTful
8 10 (1.20%) ML.NET
8 10 (1.20%) scikit-learn
9 9 (1.08%) .NET Framework
9 9 (1.08%) Blazor
9 9 (1.08%) Matplotlib
10 8 (0.96%) Hugging Face
10 8 (0.96%) Kafka
11 7 (0.84%) Pandas
11 7 (0.84%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 24 (2.88%) Self-Motivation
2 23 (2.76%) Product Ownership
3 22 (2.64%) Cloud Native
4 13 (1.56%) Greenfield Project
5 12 (1.44%) AI Agents
5 12 (1.44%) Data Centre
5 12 (1.44%) Distributed Systems
5 12 (1.44%) Driving Licence
6 11 (1.32%) Low-Code
6 11 (1.32%) Robotics
7 10 (1.20%) Management Information System
7 10 (1.20%) Onboarding
7 10 (1.20%) Virtual Team
8 8 (0.96%) Algorithms
8 8 (0.96%) Enterprise Software
8 8 (0.96%) IoT
8 8 (0.96%) Security Posture
9 7 (0.84%) CSOC
10 6 (0.72%) BYOD
10 6 (0.72%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 25 (3.00%) Linux
2 17 (2.04%) Windows
3 12 (1.44%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.48%) Ubuntu
4 4 (0.48%) VMS
5 2 (0.24%) Android
5 2 (0.24%) Solaris
6 1 (0.12%) Alpine Linux
6 1 (0.12%) Kali Linux
6 1 (0.12%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 217 (26.08%) Business Intelligence
2 118 (14.18%) Analytics
3 106 (12.74%) Agile
4 97 (11.66%) Continuous Improvement
4 97 (11.66%) Problem-Solving
5 92 (11.06%) Machine Learning
6 81 (9.74%) Mentoring
7 78 (9.38%) CI/CD
8 76 (9.13%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
9 73 (8.77%) Decision-Making
10 71 (8.53%) Roadmaps
11 60 (7.21%) LLM
12 58 (6.97%) Stakeholder Management
13 55 (6.61%) Cybersecurity
14 45 (5.41%) Data Science
15 44 (5.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 43 (5.17%) Actionable Insight
16 43 (5.17%) Software Engineering
16 43 (5.17%) Workflow
17 42 (5.05%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 308 (37.02%) Python
2 234 (28.13%) SQL
3 36 (4.33%) JavaScript
4 29 (3.49%) C#
5 24 (2.88%) TypeScript
6 18 (2.16%) PowerShell
7 16 (1.92%) Java
8 12 (1.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 11 (1.32%) Bash
10 10 (1.20%) PL/SQL
11 7 (0.84%) PHP
12 5 (0.60%) Kusto Query Language
12 5 (0.60%) R
12 5 (0.60%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.24%) Go
14 1 (0.12%) C++
14 1 (0.12%) JCL
14 1 (0.12%) MATLAB
14 1 (0.12%) Rust
14 1 (0.12%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 225 (27.04%) Azure Certification
2 55 (6.61%) Security Cleared
3 54 (6.49%) Degree
4 53 (6.37%) SC Cleared
5 21 (2.52%) AWS Certification
6 19 (2.28%) ACCA
6 19 (2.28%) CIMA
7 12 (1.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 8 (0.96%) Computer Science Degree
8 8 (0.96%) DV Cleared
8 8 (0.96%) Master's Degree
9 7 (0.84%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 7 (0.84%) BPSS Clearance
9 7 (0.84%) SANS
10 5 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (0.60%) MOS
11 4 (0.48%) CISA
12 3 (0.36%) CBAP
12 3 (0.36%) CIPD
12 3 (0.36%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (5.17%) Data Quality
2 32 (3.85%) QA
3 23 (2.76%) GDPR
4 22 (2.64%) Accessibility
5 16 (1.92%) GRC
6 13 (1.56%) SLA
7 10 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 7 (0.84%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 4 (0.48%) NIST
9 4 (0.48%) PMO
10 3 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 3 (0.36%) ISO 9001
11 2 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.12%) COBIT
12 1 (0.12%) JTAG
12 1 (0.12%) PCI DSS
12 1 (0.12%) PSD2
12 1 (0.12%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.12%) WCAG
System Software
1 30 (3.61%) Docker
2 10 (1.20%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (0.72%) Active Directory
4 5 (0.60%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.24%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 30 (3.61%) Kubernetes
2 16 (1.92%) Terraform
3 7 (0.84%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (0.48%) Grafana
5 2 (0.24%) Ansible
5 2 (0.24%) Progress Chef
5 2 (0.24%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.24%) Puppet
6 1 (0.12%) HP Fortify
6 1 (0.12%) Nagios
6 1 (0.12%) Podman
6 1 (0.12%) SCCM
Vendors
1 305 (36.66%) Microsoft
2 22 (2.64%) ServiceNow
3 16 (1.92%) Databricks
4 15 (1.80%) Adobe
4 15 (1.80%) Oracle
5 13 (1.56%) SAP
6 12 (1.44%) Apple
6 12 (1.44%) OpenAI
7 11 (1.32%) CrowdStrike
8 10 (1.20%) Palo Alto
8 10 (1.20%) Tenable
9 7 (0.84%) Foundry
9 7 (0.84%) Google
10 5 (0.60%) Aderant
10 5 (0.60%) ConnectWise
10 5 (0.60%) Facebook
10 5 (0.60%) Intapp
10 5 (0.60%) Sage
10 5 (0.60%) VMware
11 4 (0.48%) Xero