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 20 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 145 151
Rank change year-on-year +135 +6 +23
Permanent jobs citing AI 549 140 76
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 9.34% 1.59% 1.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.32% 1.93% 1.63%
Number of salaries quoted 120 78 34
10th Percentile £34,400 £37,500 £27,900
25th Percentile £47,188 £51,563 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,750 £77,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.21% +18.46% +4.00%
75th Percentile £85,313 £96,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £77,000 £76,383
% change year-on-year -9.09% +0.81% +9.12%

All Process and 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 4,851 7,248 4,658
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 82.56% 82.50% 93.10%
Number of salaries quoted 3,236 3,196 3,590
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,000 £26,768
25th Percentile £32,500 £38,750 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% -2.87%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -1.64%

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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 20 November 2025.

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 20 November 2025. 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 +114 339 £65,000 - 236
East Midlands +101 208 £61,250 -27.94% 129
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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 8 (1.46%) Apache Spark
1 8 (1.46%) CMS
2 7 (1.28%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.09%) Apache
4 4 (0.73%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.36%) SAS
5 2 (0.36%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.18%) WordPress
Applications
1 293 (53.37%) Chatbot
2 13 (2.37%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.73%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.55%) InDesign
5 1 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 18 (3.28%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.73%) Shopify
3 3 (0.55%) SAP Business One
4 1 (0.18%) Integrated Workplace Management System
4 1 (0.18%) Maximo
4 1 (0.18%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.18%) Odoo
Cloud Services
1 76 (13.84%) Azure
2 58 (10.56%) Cloud Computing
3 39 (7.10%) AWS
4 31 (5.65%) SaaS
5 30 (5.46%) Power Platform
6 21 (3.83%) Azure AI
7 13 (2.37%) GCP
8 12 (2.19%) PowerApps
9 11 (2.00%) Dynamics 365
9 11 (2.00%) Microsoft 365
9 11 (2.00%) Power Automate
10 8 (1.46%) Amazon S3
11 7 (1.28%) Azure Logic Apps
11 7 (1.28%) Microsoft Copilot
12 6 (1.09%) Amazon EKS
12 6 (1.09%) Amazon ELB
12 6 (1.09%) Azure DevOps
12 6 (1.09%) Serverless
13 5 (0.91%) Snowflake
14 4 (0.73%) ChatGPT
Communications & Networking
1 58 (10.56%) Internet
2 5 (0.91%) Intranet
3 1 (0.18%) Bluetooth
3 1 (0.18%) PuTTY
3 1 (0.18%) UWB
3 1 (0.18%) Wideband
3 1 (0.18%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (4.37%) Power BI
2 16 (2.91%) Tableau
3 14 (2.55%) SQL Server
4 9 (1.64%) Delta Lake
5 8 (1.46%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (1.46%) Metadata
6 7 (1.28%) DynamoDB
6 7 (1.28%) Spark SQL
7 6 (1.09%) NoSQL
8 5 (0.91%) MongoDB
9 3 (0.55%) Big Data
9 3 (0.55%) MySQL
9 3 (0.55%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (0.55%) Power Query
9 3 (0.55%) Relational Database
9 3 (0.55%) Snowflake Schema
10 2 (0.36%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (0.36%) BigQuery
10 2 (0.36%) Neo4j
11 1 (0.18%) HBase
Development Applications
1 10 (1.82%) Git
2 6 (1.09%) MLflow
3 2 (0.36%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.18%) Babel
4 1 (0.18%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.18%) GitLab
4 1 (0.18%) JIRA
4 1 (0.18%) JUnit
4 1 (0.18%) Mockito
4 1 (0.18%) Vite
4 1 (0.18%) webpack
General
1 127 (23.13%) Social Skills
2 121 (22.04%) Analytical Skills
3 88 (16.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 64 (11.66%) Banking
5 32 (5.83%) Retail
6 28 (5.10%) Finance
6 28 (5.10%) Public Sector
7 20 (3.64%) Law
8 17 (3.10%) Legal
8 17 (3.10%) Marketing
9 6 (1.09%) Agriculture
9 6 (1.09%) Financial Institution
9 6 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (0.91%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (0.91%) Manufacturing
10 5 (0.91%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (0.55%) Automotive
12 2 (0.36%) Advertising
12 2 (0.36%) Back Office
13 1 (0.18%) Games
Job Titles
1 287 (52.28%) Trainer
2 48 (8.74%) Lecturer
3 46 (8.38%) Research Scientist
4 38 (6.92%) Architect
5 36 (6.56%) Content Editor
6 29 (5.28%) Developer
7 17 (3.10%) Biostatistician
8 14 (2.55%) Analyst
9 13 (2.37%) Junior
10 12 (2.19%) Customer Support Specialist
10 12 (2.19%) Data Analyst
10 12 (2.19%) Support Specialist
11 11 (2.00%) Data Engineer
11 11 (2.00%) Junior Analyst
11 11 (2.00%) Junior Data Analyst
11 11 (2.00%) Solutions Architect
12 10 (1.82%) Coordinator
13 9 (1.64%) Lead
14 8 (1.46%) Customer Service Representative
14 8 (1.46%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (1.82%) .NET
1 10 (1.82%) PySpark
2 8 (1.46%) RESTful
3 7 (1.28%) HTML
3 7 (1.28%) PyTorch
3 7 (1.28%) TensorFlow
4 6 (1.09%) .NET Framework
4 6 (1.09%) CSS
4 6 (1.09%) Keras
4 6 (1.09%) Lambda Expressions
4 6 (1.09%) Metaflow
4 6 (1.09%) NumPy
4 6 (1.09%) Pandas
4 6 (1.09%) React
4 6 (1.09%) scikit-learn
4 6 (1.09%) YAML
5 5 (0.91%) Spring
6 4 (0.73%) Entity Framework
6 4 (0.73%) Kafka
6 4 (0.73%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 60 (10.93%) IoT
2 47 (8.56%) Molecular Biology
3 11 (2.00%) Cloud Native
4 10 (1.82%) Data Centre
4 10 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
5 9 (1.64%) AI Agents
5 9 (1.64%) Onboarding
6 8 (1.46%) Linux Command Line
6 8 (1.46%) Web Conferencing
7 6 (1.09%) Blog
7 6 (1.09%) Legacy Code
7 6 (1.09%) Microsoft Licensing
7 6 (1.09%) Product Ownership
8 5 (0.91%) e-Learning
8 5 (0.91%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (0.73%) Algorithms
9 4 (0.73%) Data Structures
10 3 (0.55%) Graphic Design
10 3 (0.55%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (0.55%) Learning Management System
Operating Systems
1 7 (1.28%) Unix
1 7 (1.28%) Windows
2 4 (0.73%) Linux
3 3 (0.55%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.36%) Mac OS X
5 1 (0.18%) OpenVMS
5 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 296 (53.92%) Conversational UI
2 107 (19.49%) Machine Learning
3 99 (18.03%) Chemistry
4 82 (14.94%) User Experience
5 76 (13.84%) Cybersecurity
6 62 (11.29%) Web Development
7 48 (8.74%) Biology
8 47 (8.56%) Biochemistry
8 47 (8.56%) Biotechnology
8 47 (8.56%) Data Interpretation
8 47 (8.56%) Experimental Design
9 44 (8.01%) Analytics
10 43 (7.83%) Content Writing
10 43 (7.83%) Customer Service
10 43 (7.83%) Roadmaps
11 38 (6.92%) Agile
12 35 (6.38%) Mathematics
13 30 (5.46%) Problem-Solving
14 27 (4.92%) DevOps
14 27 (4.92%) Physics
Programming Languages
1 68 (12.39%) Python
2 62 (11.29%) SQL
3 15 (2.73%) Java
3 15 (2.73%) JavaScript
4 11 (2.00%) C#
5 8 (1.46%) R
6 6 (1.09%) TypeScript
7 5 (0.91%) PowerShell
8 4 (0.73%) Bicep
9 3 (0.55%) PHP
10 2 (0.36%) Ruby
10 2 (0.36%) VB
11 1 (0.18%) Bash
11 1 (0.18%) C++
11 1 (0.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.18%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.18%) PROC SQL
Qualifications
1 372 (67.76%) Degree
2 235 (42.81%) Master's Degree
2 235 (42.81%) PhD
3 58 (10.56%) Postgraduate
4 13 (2.37%) Azure Certification
5 12 (2.19%) Security Cleared
6 11 (2.00%) SC Cleared
7 4 (0.73%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (0.73%) TOGAF Certification
8 2 (0.36%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.18%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.18%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.18%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.18%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (0.91%) Accessibility
1 5 (0.91%) Data Quality
1 5 (0.91%) QA
2 3 (0.55%) WCAG
3 1 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (0.18%) COBIT
3 1 (0.18%) GDPR
System Software
1 11 (2.00%) Docker
2 1 (0.18%) Apache Flume
2 1 (0.18%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 14 (2.55%) Kubernetes
2 12 (2.19%) Terraform
3 6 (1.09%) Kubeflow
4 1 (0.18%) Argo
4 1 (0.18%) Grafana
4 1 (0.18%) Kibana
4 1 (0.18%) Kustomize
4 1 (0.18%) logstash
4 1 (0.18%) Oozie
Vendors
1 287 (52.28%) PayPal
2 64 (11.66%) Microsoft
3 20 (3.64%) Databricks
4 16 (2.91%) Adobe
5 9 (1.64%) Apple
5 9 (1.64%) Palo Alto
6 7 (1.28%) OpenAI
7 6 (1.09%) UiPath
8 5 (0.91%) HubSpot
8 5 (0.91%) SAP
9 4 (0.73%) Cisco
9 4 (0.73%) Extreme Networks
9 4 (0.73%) Google
9 4 (0.73%) Juniper
9 4 (0.73%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.36%) Automation Anywhere
11 1 (0.18%) Blue Prism
11 1 (0.18%) Denodo
11 1 (0.18%) Pardot
11 1 (0.18%) Planon