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 25 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 8 90
Rank change year-on-year +4 +82 +110
Permanent jobs citing AI 1,694 619 318
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 12.82% 12.71% 2.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.72% 14.20% 3.22%
Number of salaries quoted 298 98 205
10th Percentile £35,000 £33,375 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,180 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £57,311
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +0.33% -5.66%
75th Percentile £74,688 £74,688 £66,250
90th Percentile £96,500 £100,000 £82,671
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - - -6.67%

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 9,561 4,360 9,869
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 72.33% 89.53% 80.66%
Number of salaries quoted 5,838 2,358 7,294
10th Percentile £29,925 £26,990 £26,250
25th Percentile £39,959 £32,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £62,238
90th Percentile £82,500 £75,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £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 25 May 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 25 May 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 +7 1,364 £52,500 -8.70% 158
East Midlands -8 341 £52,500 -8.70% 100
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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 11 (0.65%) SharePoint
2 9 (0.53%) Jupyter
3 3 (0.18%) ArcGIS
3 3 (0.18%) Confluence
4 2 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.059%) Apache
5 1 (0.059%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.059%) CMS
5 1 (0.059%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 233 (13.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (0.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 12 (0.71%) Microsoft Office
4 11 (0.65%) Chatbot
5 5 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.059%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.059%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 12 (0.71%) Cloudability
2 7 (0.41%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.24%) Sage 50
4 3 (0.18%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.059%) Integrated Workplace Management System
5 1 (0.059%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.059%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.059%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.059%) SAP Business One
5 1 (0.059%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 997 (58.85%) Cloud Computing
2 375 (22.14%) Azure
3 280 (16.53%) Azure AI
4 254 (14.99%) Power Platform
5 77 (4.55%) AWS
6 39 (2.30%) SaaS
7 26 (1.53%) Microsoft 365
8 24 (1.42%) Microsoft Copilot
9 22 (1.30%) GCP
10 17 (1.00%) Serverless
11 12 (0.71%) Azure DevOps
11 12 (0.71%) Microsoft Purview
12 11 (0.65%) GitHub
13 10 (0.59%) Figma
13 10 (0.59%) GitHub Copilot
14 8 (0.47%) Entra ID
15 7 (0.41%) Anthropic Claude
15 7 (0.41%) Power Automate
15 7 (0.41%) PowerApps
15 7 (0.41%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 987 (58.26%) Internet
2 7 (0.41%) DNS
3 6 (0.35%) Firewall
4 5 (0.30%) VPN
5 4 (0.24%) MQTT
6 3 (0.18%) Broadband
7 2 (0.12%) DHCP
7 2 (0.12%) VLAN
8 1 (0.059%) BGP
8 1 (0.059%) Intranet
8 1 (0.059%) IPFIX
8 1 (0.059%) Network Security
8 1 (0.059%) OSPF
8 1 (0.059%) SMS
8 1 (0.059%) SNMP
8 1 (0.059%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.059%) WireGuard
8 1 (0.059%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 240 (14.17%) Power BI
2 220 (12.99%) Tableau
3 16 (0.94%) SQL Server
4 12 (0.71%) MongoDB
5 8 (0.47%) Azure SQL Database
5 8 (0.47%) Data Lake
5 8 (0.47%) Metadata
6 7 (0.41%) Redis
7 5 (0.30%) DynamoDB
7 5 (0.30%) Star Schema
8 4 (0.24%) Big Data
8 4 (0.24%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (0.18%) Data Mining
9 3 (0.18%) Delta Lake
9 3 (0.18%) Looker
9 3 (0.18%) Semantic Layer
10 2 (0.12%) Power Query
11 1 (0.059%) Amazon QuickSight
11 1 (0.059%) Amazon Redshift
11 1 (0.059%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 10 (0.59%) Snyk
2 9 (0.53%) Visual Studio Code
3 8 (0.47%) Visual Studio
4 6 (0.35%) JIRA
5 5 (0.30%) JUnit
5 5 (0.30%) Maven
5 5 (0.30%) Mockito
5 5 (0.30%) Selenium
6 2 (0.12%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.12%) Git
7 1 (0.059%) Appium
7 1 (0.059%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.059%) Burp Suite
7 1 (0.059%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.059%) GitLab
7 1 (0.059%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.059%) JMeter
7 1 (0.059%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.059%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.059%) Yeoman
General
1 1,345 (79.40%) Social Skills
2 1,057 (62.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 998 (58.91%) Banking
4 111 (6.55%) Finance
5 71 (4.19%) Analytical Skills
6 38 (2.24%) Legal
7 30 (1.77%) Law
7 30 (1.77%) Retail
8 24 (1.42%) Manufacturing
9 21 (1.24%) Influencing Skills
10 16 (0.94%) Public Sector
11 11 (0.65%) Marketing
11 11 (0.65%) Organisational Skills
12 7 (0.41%) Automotive
13 6 (0.35%) Financial Institution
13 6 (0.35%) Japanese Language
14 5 (0.30%) Agriculture
14 5 (0.30%) Social Housing
15 2 (0.12%) Advertising
15 2 (0.12%) Games
Job Titles
1 735 (43.39%) Lecturer
2 262 (15.47%) Analyst
3 214 (12.63%) Junior
4 212 (12.51%) Data Analyst
5 210 (12.40%) Junior Analyst
6 209 (12.34%) Junior Data Analyst
7 74 (4.37%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 66 (3.90%) Senior
9 54 (3.19%) Developer
10 40 (2.36%) Lead
11 37 (2.18%) Architect
12 22 (1.30%) Business Analyst
13 20 (1.18%) Accountant
13 20 (1.18%) Systems Accountant
14 18 (1.06%) Data Engineer
15 17 (1.00%) Senior Analyst
16 13 (0.77%) Consultant
16 13 (0.77%) Software Engineer
17 12 (0.71%) Data Architect
17 12 (0.71%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (1.42%) .NET
2 21 (1.24%) React
3 11 (0.65%) Blazor
3 11 (0.65%) RESTful
4 10 (0.59%) ASP.NET
4 10 (0.59%) scikit-learn
5 9 (0.53%) .NET Framework
5 9 (0.53%) ASP.NET Core
5 9 (0.53%) Hugging Face
5 9 (0.53%) Matplotlib
5 9 (0.53%) NumPy
5 9 (0.53%) Pandas
5 9 (0.53%) Playwright
5 9 (0.53%) REST
5 9 (0.53%) Streamlit
6 8 (0.47%) Material Design
6 8 (0.47%) WebAssembly
7 7 (0.41%) HTML
8 6 (0.35%) AngularJS
8 6 (0.35%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 993 (58.62%) IoT
2 26 (1.53%) Product Ownership
3 15 (0.89%) Cloud Native
4 13 (0.77%) Public Cloud
5 12 (0.71%) Algorithms
5 12 (0.71%) Robotics
6 11 (0.65%) Data Centre
7 10 (0.59%) Driving Licence
7 10 (0.59%) Onboarding
8 9 (0.53%) Enterprise Software
9 8 (0.47%) Distributed Systems
10 7 (0.41%) Greenfield Project
10 7 (0.41%) Low-Code
10 7 (0.41%) Self-Motivation
10 7 (0.41%) Virtual Team
11 6 (0.35%) CSOC
12 5 (0.30%) Management Information System
12 5 (0.30%) Mobile App
13 4 (0.24%) Augmented Reality
13 4 (0.24%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 13 (0.77%) Windows
2 11 (0.65%) Linux
3 6 (0.35%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.24%) VMS
5 2 (0.12%) Android
5 2 (0.12%) Robot Operating System
6 1 (0.059%) Kali Linux
6 1 (0.059%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.059%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.059%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.059%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,054 (62.22%) Machine Learning
2 1,032 (60.92%) Cybersecurity
3 1,003 (59.21%) User Experience
4 987 (58.26%) Web Development
5 244 (14.40%) Business Intelligence
6 77 (4.55%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
7 75 (4.43%) Analytics
8 66 (3.90%) Agile
9 64 (3.78%) Problem-Solving
10 55 (3.25%) Continuous Improvement
11 50 (2.95%) Mentoring
12 48 (2.83%) CI/CD
13 46 (2.72%) Roadmaps
14 37 (2.18%) Decision-Making
15 35 (2.07%) LLM
16 31 (1.83%) Data Governance
17 30 (1.77%) Workflow
18 28 (1.65%) Data Protection
18 28 (1.65%) Stakeholder Management
18 28 (1.65%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 352 (20.78%) Python
2 255 (15.05%) SQL
3 26 (1.53%) JavaScript
4 25 (1.48%) C#
5 16 (0.94%) TypeScript
6 9 (0.53%) Java
7 8 (0.47%) PowerShell
8 6 (0.35%) Bash
8 6 (0.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 5 (0.30%) PL/SQL
10 4 (0.24%) Kusto Query Language
10 4 (0.24%) R
11 3 (0.18%) C++
11 3 (0.18%) PHP
12 1 (0.059%) Go
12 1 (0.059%) JCL
12 1 (0.059%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 1,032 (60.92%) Degree
2 997 (58.85%) Master's Degree
3 989 (58.38%) PhD
4 987 (58.26%) Postgraduate
5 276 (16.29%) Azure Certification
6 29 (1.71%) AWS Certification
7 27 (1.59%) SC Cleared
7 27 (1.59%) Security Cleared
8 17 (1.00%) ACCA
8 17 (1.00%) CIMA
9 12 (0.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 9 (0.53%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 7 (0.41%) Computer Science Degree
12 6 (0.35%) MOS
12 6 (0.35%) SANS
13 5 (0.30%) CISA
14 4 (0.24%) DV Cleared
15 3 (0.18%) BPSS Clearance
15 3 (0.18%) Microsoft Certification
16 2 (0.12%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (1.95%) Data Quality
2 24 (1.42%) GDPR
3 21 (1.24%) QA
4 20 (1.18%) Accessibility
5 11 (0.65%) GRC
6 10 (0.59%) WCAG
7 6 (0.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 5 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.30%) SLA
9 4 (0.24%) PMO
10 3 (0.18%) NIST
11 2 (0.12%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.059%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.059%) COBIT
12 1 (0.059%) ISO 19650
12 1 (0.059%) PCI DSS
12 1 (0.059%) PSD2
12 1 (0.059%) SOC 2
System Software
1 13 (0.77%) Docker
2 10 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
3 9 (0.53%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.059%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.059%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 15 (0.89%) Kubernetes
2 11 (0.65%) Terraform
3 5 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (0.18%) Grafana
5 1 (0.059%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.059%) Nagios
5 1 (0.059%) Podman
5 1 (0.059%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.059%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 325 (19.19%) Microsoft
2 22 (1.30%) Adobe
3 20 (1.18%) Apple
4 18 (1.06%) ServiceNow
5 17 (1.00%) Databricks
6 10 (0.59%) CrowdStrike
6 10 (0.59%) Palo Alto
6 10 (0.59%) Tenable
7 9 (0.53%) OpenAI
7 9 (0.53%) Oracle
7 9 (0.53%) SAP
8 5 (0.30%) Aderant
8 5 (0.30%) ConnectWise
8 5 (0.30%) Intapp
8 5 (0.30%) Sage
8 5 (0.30%) Salesforce
9 4 (0.24%) Google
9 4 (0.24%) Xero
10 3 (0.18%) ESRI
11 2 (0.12%) DocuSign