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 15 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 4 116
Rank change year-on-year -15 +112 +45
Permanent jobs citing AI 806 822 180
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 5.13% 14.87% 1.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.23% 17.11% 2.39%
Number of salaries quoted 444 90 75
10th Percentile £36,038 £37,500 £38,500
25th Percentile £45,563 £51,438 £51,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -3.85% -
75th Percentile £83,750 £76,625 £94,375
90th Percentile £97,500 £99,750 £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 11,153 4,803 7,520
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 70.96% 86.87% 80.63%
Number of salaries quoted 7,902 2,802 3,427
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £39,000 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,445 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.02% -9.11% -4.76%
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 15 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 15 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 -8 531 £65,000 +8.33% 134
East Midlands -23 275 £62,500 -3.85% 60
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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 47 (5.83%) SharePoint
2 17 (2.11%) CMS
3 13 (1.61%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (1.12%) 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 (4.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (1.49%) Chatbot
2 12 (1.49%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (0.62%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.25%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.12%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.12%) Adobe Premiere
5 1 (0.12%) Elementor
5 1 (0.12%) InDesign
5 1 (0.12%) LaTeX
5 1 (0.12%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.12%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 12 (1.49%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.99%) Cloudability
3 4 (0.50%) Sage 50
3 4 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.50%) 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
1 192 (23.82%) Azure
2 122 (15.14%) Power Platform
3 100 (12.41%) SaaS
4 90 (11.17%) AWS
5 61 (7.57%) Microsoft Copilot
6 60 (7.44%) Microsoft 365
7 38 (4.71%) Azure DevOps
8 37 (4.59%) Azure AI
9 35 (4.34%) Power Automate
10 33 (4.09%) Dynamics 365
11 30 (3.72%) Serverless
12 27 (3.35%) GCP
13 24 (2.98%) GitHub
14 18 (2.23%) Entra ID
15 16 (1.99%) Azure Functions
15 16 (1.99%) PowerApps
16 15 (1.86%) Copilot Studio
17 14 (1.74%) GitHub Copilot
18 11 (1.36%) iPaaS
19 10 (1.24%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 22 (2.73%) Firewall
2 20 (2.48%) DNS
3 12 (1.49%) Internet
3 12 (1.49%) VPN
4 6 (0.74%) DHCP
5 4 (0.50%) MQTT
5 4 (0.50%) VoIP
6 3 (0.37%) HTTP
6 3 (0.37%) Network Security
6 3 (0.37%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.25%) Broadband
7 2 (0.25%) VLAN
7 2 (0.25%) Wireless
8 1 (0.12%) Bluetooth
8 1 (0.12%) FTP
8 1 (0.12%) LAN
8 1 (0.12%) SNMP
8 1 (0.12%) SSL
8 1 (0.12%) WAN
8 1 (0.12%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 95 (11.79%) Power BI
2 38 (4.71%) Tableau
3 36 (4.47%) SQL Server
4 20 (2.48%) Data Lake
4 20 (2.48%) MongoDB
5 18 (2.23%) Azure SQL Database
6 15 (1.86%) 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
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%) Data Mining
11 5 (0.62%) DynamoDB
11 5 (0.62%) MySQL
11 5 (0.62%) Oracle BI EE
11 5 (0.62%) QlikView
11 5 (0.62%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 26 (3.23%) Git
2 16 (1.99%) JIRA
3 12 (1.49%) Maven
4 10 (1.24%) JUnit
4 10 (1.24%) Mockito
5 4 (0.50%) Jenkins
5 4 (0.50%) Octopus Deploy
5 4 (0.50%) 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
1 252 (31.27%) Finance
2 251 (31.14%) Social Skills
3 142 (17.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 111 (13.77%) Marketing
5 95 (11.79%) Analytical Skills
6 47 (5.83%) Influencing Skills
7 46 (5.71%) Public Sector
8 44 (5.46%) Legal
9 39 (4.84%) Retail
10 29 (3.60%) Manufacturing
11 28 (3.47%) Presentation Skills
12 27 (3.35%) Law
12 27 (3.35%) Organisational Skills
13 20 (2.48%) Banking
14 19 (2.36%) Advertising
15 12 (1.49%) Telecoms
16 9 (1.12%) French Language
17 8 (0.99%) Automotive
18 6 (0.74%) Electronics
18 6 (0.74%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 124 (15.38%) Senior
2 110 (13.65%) Developer
3 90 (11.17%) Lead
4 69 (8.56%) Architect
5 54 (6.70%) Analyst
6 46 (5.71%) Software Engineer
7 38 (4.71%) Data Engineer
8 36 (4.47%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 33 (4.09%) Consultant
10 30 (3.72%) Sales Executive
11 27 (3.35%) Senior Developer
12 25 (3.10%) Account Executive
12 25 (3.10%) Business Analyst
12 25 (3.10%) Data Scientist
12 25 (3.10%) Principal Engineer
12 25 (3.10%) Solutions Architect
13 20 (2.48%) Automation Developer
14 19 (2.36%) Data Manager
15 18 (2.23%) Sales Account Executive
16 17 (2.11%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (4.84%) REST
2 36 (4.47%) .NET
3 29 (3.60%) React
4 24 (2.98%) CSS
5 22 (2.73%) Terraform
6 16 (1.99%) ASP.NET
6 16 (1.99%) ASP.NET Core
6 16 (1.99%) HTML
7 14 (1.74%) XML
8 13 (1.61%) JSON
8 13 (1.61%) PySpark
8 13 (1.61%) Spring
9 12 (1.49%) .NET Core
10 11 (1.36%) PyTorch
10 11 (1.36%) TensorFlow
11 10 (1.24%) Middleware
11 10 (1.24%) RESTful
12 9 (1.12%) JWT
12 9 (1.12%) OAuth
12 9 (1.12%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 89 (11.04%) Onboarding
2 41 (5.09%) Self-Motivation
3 32 (3.97%) Management Information System
3 32 (3.97%) Marketing Technology
4 31 (3.85%) Cloud Native
5 30 (3.72%) AI Agents
6 20 (2.48%) Product Ownership
7 18 (2.23%) Virtual Team
8 17 (2.11%) Social Media
9 15 (1.86%) Driving Licence
10 14 (1.74%) Distributed Systems
11 11 (1.36%) Greenfield Project
12 10 (1.24%) IoT
12 10 (1.24%) Legacy Systems
12 10 (1.24%) Low-Code
12 10 (1.24%) Public Cloud
12 10 (1.24%) Taxonomies
13 9 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
14 8 (0.99%) Cyber Threat
14 8 (0.99%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 35 (4.34%) Linux
2 28 (3.47%) Windows
3 24 (2.98%) Windows Server
4 9 (1.12%) Ubuntu
5 4 (0.50%) Android
5 4 (0.50%) VMS
6 3 (0.37%) macOS
7 2 (0.25%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.25%) Solaris
8 1 (0.12%) Alpine Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 166 (20.60%) Analytics
2 160 (19.85%) Continuous Improvement
3 132 (16.38%) Agile
4 128 (15.88%) Stakeholder Management
5 124 (15.38%) Mentoring
6 111 (13.77%) Roadmaps
7 109 (13.52%) Problem-Solving
8 107 (13.28%) Decision-Making
9 106 (13.15%) Business Intelligence
10 92 (11.41%) CI/CD
11 88 (10.92%) Machine Learning
12 81 (10.05%) Coaching
13 80 (9.93%) SEO
14 77 (9.55%) Software Engineering
15 74 (9.18%) Digital Marketing
16 66 (8.19%) Content Marketing
16 66 (8.19%) DevOps
17 63 (7.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 60 (7.44%) Cybersecurity
19 59 (7.32%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 128 (15.88%) Python
2 112 (13.90%) SQL
3 54 (6.70%) JavaScript
4 45 (5.58%) C#
5 26 (3.23%) PowerShell
6 21 (2.61%) TypeScript
7 20 (2.48%) Java
8 15 (1.86%) 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%) C
14 1 (0.12%) MATLAB
14 1 (0.12%) Rust
14 1 (0.12%) VB.NET
14 1 (0.12%) VBA
Qualifications
1 99 (12.28%) Degree
2 71 (8.81%) Security Cleared
3 65 (8.06%) SC Cleared
4 41 (5.09%) Azure Certification
5 24 (2.98%) Master's Degree
6 20 (2.48%) Microsoft Certification
7 16 (1.99%) ACCA
8 15 (1.86%) CIMA
9 11 (1.36%) AWS Certification
9 11 (1.36%) DV Cleared
9 11 (1.36%) TOGAF Certification
10 10 (1.24%) BPSS Clearance
11 9 (1.12%) Computer Science Degree
12 8 (0.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 4 (0.50%) CBAP
13 4 (0.50%) CISM
13 4 (0.50%) CISSP
13 4 (0.50%) DBS Check
13 4 (0.50%) PMI Certification
14 3 (0.37%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (7.44%) Data Quality
2 33 (4.09%) Accessibility
3 29 (3.60%) GDPR
3 29 (3.60%) QA
4 19 (2.36%) SLA
5 13 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (1.49%) GRC
7 9 (1.12%) WCAG
8 7 (0.87%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 6 (0.74%) PMO
10 5 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials
10 5 (0.62%) NCSC
11 4 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 4 (0.50%) 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 36 (4.47%) Docker
2 16 (1.99%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (1.12%) Active Directory
4 8 (0.99%) Hyper-V
5 4 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 35 (4.34%) Kubernetes
2 17 (2.11%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (0.37%) Ansible
4 2 (0.25%) Bosun
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
4 2 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.12%) Data Guard
5 1 (0.12%) Nagios
5 1 (0.12%) Podman
Vendors
1 210 (26.05%) Microsoft
2 43 (5.33%) TikTok
3 42 (5.21%) Samsung
4 33 (4.09%) Salesforce
5 26 (3.23%) ServiceNow
6 23 (2.85%) Google
6 23 (2.85%) Oracle
7 22 (2.73%) Adobe
8 18 (2.23%) Databricks
9 17 (2.11%) SAP
10 16 (1.99%) VMware
11 14 (1.74%) YouTube
12 11 (1.36%) Apple
12 11 (1.36%) OpenAI
13 8 (0.99%) Botify
13 8 (0.99%) Citrix
13 8 (0.99%) Foundry
13 8 (0.99%) SonicWALL
14 7 (0.87%) Cisco
14 7 (0.87%) HubSpot