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

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 4 113
Rank change year-on-year -14 +109 +56
Permanent jobs citing AI 819 829 188
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 5.22% 14.98% 2.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.38% 17.25% 2.52%
Number of salaries quoted 442 92 76
10th Percentile £36,013 £37,625 £38,750
25th Percentile £45,875 £52,375 £52,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £61,250 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% -5.77% -
75th Percentile £81,250 £77,500 £95,313
90th Percentile £97,500 £106,500 £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 11,104 4,806 7,468
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 70.83% 86.84% 80.51%
Number of salaries quoted 7,833 2,802 3,425
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £39,500 £32,031 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,353 £45,390 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.93% -9.22% -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 13 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 13 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 -8 535 £65,000 +8.33% 398
East Midlands -21 284 £60,000 -7.69% 175
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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 45 (5.49%) SharePoint
2 17 (2.08%) CMS
3 12 (1.47%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (1.10%) Apache
5 8 (0.98%) IIS
5 8 (0.98%) nginx
6 7 (0.85%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 5 (0.61%) WordPress
8 2 (0.24%) Confluence
8 2 (0.24%) SAS
9 1 (0.12%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.12%) Apache Spark
9 1 (0.12%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.12%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.12%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 44 (5.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (1.47%) Chatbot
3 11 (1.34%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (0.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.61%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.24%) 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 (1.47%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.98%) 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 (0.24%) Integrated Workplace Management System
5 2 (0.24%) Sage 200
5 2 (0.24%) SAP Business One
5 2 (0.24%) 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
1 209 (25.52%) Azure
2 131 (16.00%) Power Platform
3 98 (11.97%) SaaS
4 89 (10.87%) AWS
5 59 (7.20%) Microsoft 365
5 59 (7.20%) Microsoft Copilot
6 58 (7.08%) Azure AI
7 36 (4.40%) Azure DevOps
8 35 (4.27%) Power Automate
9 33 (4.03%) Dynamics 365
10 29 (3.54%) Serverless
11 26 (3.17%) GCP
12 24 (2.93%) GitHub
13 17 (2.08%) Entra ID
14 16 (1.95%) PowerApps
15 15 (1.83%) Azure Functions
16 14 (1.71%) Copilot Studio
16 14 (1.71%) GitHub Copilot
17 11 (1.34%) iPaaS
18 9 (1.10%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 21 (2.56%) Firewall
2 19 (2.32%) DNS
3 12 (1.47%) Internet
4 11 (1.34%) VPN
5 5 (0.61%) DHCP
6 4 (0.49%) MQTT
6 4 (0.49%) VoIP
7 3 (0.37%) HTTP
7 3 (0.37%) Network Security
7 3 (0.37%) TCP/IP
8 2 (0.24%) Broadband
8 2 (0.24%) VLAN
8 2 (0.24%) Wireless
9 1 (0.12%) Diameter Protocol
9 1 (0.12%) RTSP
9 1 (0.12%) SCTP
9 1 (0.12%) Software-Defined Radio
9 1 (0.12%) Unified Communications
9 1 (0.12%) UWB
9 1 (0.12%) VoLTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 105 (12.82%) Power BI
2 49 (5.98%) Tableau
3 35 (4.27%) SQL Server
4 20 (2.44%) MongoDB
5 19 (2.32%) Data Lake
6 18 (2.20%) Azure SQL Database
7 15 (1.83%) Data Warehouse
8 14 (1.71%) Metadata
9 13 (1.59%) Big Data
10 8 (0.98%) Power Query
11 6 (0.73%) Delta Lake
11 6 (0.73%) Redis
11 6 (0.73%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 6 (0.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 5 (0.61%) DynamoDB
12 5 (0.61%) Oracle BI EE
12 5 (0.61%) QlikView
12 5 (0.61%) Relational Database
12 5 (0.61%) Semantic Layer
12 5 (0.61%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 25 (3.05%) Git
2 16 (1.95%) JIRA
3 12 (1.47%) Maven
4 10 (1.22%) JUnit
4 10 (1.22%) 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 (0.24%) Ant
7 2 (0.24%) Apache Ivy
7 2 (0.24%) IBM UrbanCode
7 2 (0.24%) 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
1 272 (33.21%) Social Skills
2 249 (30.40%) Finance
3 145 (17.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 106 (12.94%) Marketing
5 97 (11.84%) Analytical Skills
6 47 (5.74%) Influencing Skills
7 45 (5.49%) Public Sector
8 42 (5.13%) Legal
9 38 (4.64%) Retail
10 28 (3.42%) Manufacturing
10 28 (3.42%) Presentation Skills
11 26 (3.17%) Law
11 26 (3.17%) Organisational Skills
12 20 (2.44%) Banking
13 19 (2.32%) Advertising
14 12 (1.47%) Telecoms
15 9 (1.10%) French Language
16 7 (0.85%) Automotive
17 6 (0.73%) Electronics
17 6 (0.73%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 119 (14.53%) Senior
2 109 (13.31%) Developer
3 91 (11.11%) Lead
4 68 (8.30%) Analyst
4 68 (8.30%) Architect
5 44 (5.37%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 43 (5.25%) Software Engineer
7 37 (4.52%) Data Engineer
8 33 (4.03%) Consultant
9 30 (3.66%) Sales Executive
10 26 (3.17%) Senior Developer
11 25 (3.05%) Account Executive
11 25 (3.05%) Business Analyst
11 25 (3.05%) Data Scientist
11 25 (3.05%) Junior
12 24 (2.93%) Data Analyst
12 24 (2.93%) Principal Engineer
12 24 (2.93%) Solutions Architect
13 23 (2.81%) Junior Analyst
14 22 (2.69%) Junior Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (4.52%) REST
2 34 (4.15%) .NET
3 29 (3.54%) React
4 22 (2.69%) Terraform
5 21 (2.56%) CSS
6 16 (1.95%) ASP.NET
6 16 (1.95%) ASP.NET Core
7 13 (1.59%) HTML
7 13 (1.59%) Spring
7 13 (1.59%) XML
8 12 (1.47%) .NET Core
8 12 (1.47%) JSON
8 12 (1.47%) PySpark
9 11 (1.34%) PyTorch
9 11 (1.34%) TensorFlow
10 10 (1.22%) Middleware
10 10 (1.22%) RESTful
11 9 (1.10%) JWT
11 9 (1.10%) OAuth
11 9 (1.10%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 88 (10.74%) Onboarding
2 43 (5.25%) Self-Motivation
3 32 (3.91%) Management Information System
3 32 (3.91%) Marketing Technology
4 31 (3.79%) Cloud Native
5 27 (3.30%) AI Agents
6 20 (2.44%) Product Ownership
7 19 (2.32%) Virtual Team
8 15 (1.83%) Driving Licence
9 14 (1.71%) Distributed Systems
10 12 (1.47%) Social Media
11 11 (1.34%) Greenfield Project
12 10 (1.22%) IoT
12 10 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
12 10 (1.22%) Low-Code
12 10 (1.22%) Public Cloud
12 10 (1.22%) Taxonomies
13 9 (1.10%) Enterprise Software
14 8 (0.98%) BYOD
14 8 (0.98%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 35 (4.27%) Linux
2 27 (3.30%) Windows
3 23 (2.81%) Windows Server
4 9 (1.10%) Ubuntu
5 4 (0.49%) Android
5 4 (0.49%) VMS
6 3 (0.37%) macOS
7 2 (0.24%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.24%) Solaris
8 1 (0.12%) Alpine Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 163 (19.90%) Analytics
2 160 (19.54%) Continuous Improvement
3 133 (16.24%) Agile
4 125 (15.26%) Stakeholder Management
5 123 (15.02%) Mentoring
6 116 (14.16%) Business Intelligence
7 109 (13.31%) Problem-Solving
8 108 (13.19%) Roadmaps
9 104 (12.70%) Decision-Making
10 90 (10.99%) CI/CD
11 87 (10.62%) Machine Learning
12 80 (9.77%) Coaching
13 76 (9.28%) SEO
14 72 (8.79%) Software Engineering
15 70 (8.55%) Digital Marketing
16 66 (8.06%) Content Marketing
17 64 (7.81%) DevOps
18 63 (7.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 61 (7.45%) Cybersecurity
20 56 (6.84%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 146 (17.83%) Python
2 122 (14.90%) SQL
3 52 (6.35%) JavaScript
4 43 (5.25%) C#
5 25 (3.05%) PowerShell
6 21 (2.56%) TypeScript
7 20 (2.44%) Java
8 14 (1.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 11 (1.34%) Bash
9 11 (1.34%) PL/SQL
9 11 (1.34%) R
10 7 (0.85%) PHP
11 6 (0.73%) T-SQL
12 5 (0.61%) C++
13 3 (0.37%) Kusto Query Language
14 2 (0.24%) Go
15 1 (0.12%) MATLAB
15 1 (0.12%) Rust
15 1 (0.12%) VB.NET
15 1 (0.12%) VBA
Qualifications
1 95 (11.60%) Degree
2 74 (9.04%) Security Cleared
3 68 (8.30%) SC Cleared
4 62 (7.57%) Azure Certification
5 24 (2.93%) Master's Degree
6 20 (2.44%) Microsoft Certification
7 17 (2.08%) ACCA
8 16 (1.95%) CIMA
9 11 (1.34%) AWS Certification
9 11 (1.34%) DV Cleared
10 10 (1.22%) BPSS Clearance
10 10 (1.22%) TOGAF Certification
11 9 (1.10%) Computer Science Degree
12 8 (0.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 4 (0.49%) CBAP
13 4 (0.49%) CISM
13 4 (0.49%) CISSP
13 4 (0.49%) PMI Certification
13 4 (0.49%) SANS
14 3 (0.37%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (7.20%) Data Quality
2 33 (4.03%) Accessibility
3 29 (3.54%) QA
4 28 (3.42%) GDPR
5 19 (2.32%) SLA
6 13 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 12 (1.47%) GRC
8 9 (1.10%) WCAG
9 7 (0.85%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 6 (0.73%) PMO
11 5 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials
11 5 (0.61%) NCSC
12 4 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 4 (0.49%) ISO 9001
13 3 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
13 3 (0.37%) NIST
13 3 (0.37%) PCI DSS
14 1 (0.12%) GxP
14 1 (0.12%) ISO 19650
14 1 (0.12%) JTAG
System Software
1 35 (4.27%) Docker
2 15 (1.83%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (0.98%) Active Directory
4 7 (0.85%) Hyper-V
5 4 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 34 (4.15%) Kubernetes
2 16 (1.95%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (0.37%) Ansible
4 2 (0.24%) Bosun
4 2 (0.24%) Grafana
4 2 (0.24%) Progress Chef
4 2 (0.24%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.24%) Puppet
4 2 (0.24%) SCCM
4 2 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.12%) Data Guard
5 1 (0.12%) Nagios
5 1 (0.12%) Podman
Vendors
1 218 (26.62%) Microsoft
2 43 (5.25%) TikTok
3 42 (5.13%) Samsung
4 33 (4.03%) Salesforce
5 25 (3.05%) ServiceNow
6 23 (2.81%) Google
6 23 (2.81%) Oracle
7 22 (2.69%) Adobe
8 17 (2.08%) SAP
9 16 (1.95%) Databricks
10 15 (1.83%) VMware
11 14 (1.71%) YouTube
12 11 (1.34%) Apple
13 10 (1.22%) OpenAI
14 8 (0.98%) Botify
14 8 (0.98%) Citrix
14 8 (0.98%) SonicWALL
15 7 (0.85%) Cisco
15 7 (0.85%) Foundry
15 7 (0.85%) HubSpot