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

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 4 119
Rank change year-on-year -13 +115 +46
Permanent jobs citing AI 833 869 188
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 5.28% 15.39% 1.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.51% 17.71% 2.44%
Number of salaries quoted 444 99 84
10th Percentile £36,038 £38,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £52,250 £52,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £107,500 £104,250
England median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.57% -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 11,091 4,906 7,700
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 70.26% 86.88% 80.02%
Number of salaries quoted 7,845 2,837 3,622
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,175 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £36,762
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £46,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.87% -8.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,500 £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% -2.44%

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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 4 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 4 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 -8 561 £62,500 +4.17% 714
East Midlands -22 272 £52,500 -19.23% 432
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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 43 (5.16%) SharePoint
2 11 (1.32%) CMS
2 11 (1.32%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (1.08%) Apache
4 8 (0.96%) IIS
4 8 (0.96%) nginx
5 7 (0.84%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 4 (0.48%) WordPress
7 2 (0.24%) Confluence
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
8 1 (0.12%) SAS
Applications
1 62 (7.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (1.32%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (1.20%) Chatbot
4 6 (0.72%) Spreadsheet
5 5 (0.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.24%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.12%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.12%) Adobe Premiere
7 1 (0.12%) InDesign
7 1 (0.12%) LaTeX
7 1 (0.12%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.12%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 11 (1.32%) Cloudability
1 11 (1.32%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.60%) 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
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
1 253 (30.37%) Azure
2 147 (17.65%) Power Platform
3 102 (12.24%) Azure AI
4 92 (11.04%) AWS
5 82 (9.84%) SaaS
6 58 (6.96%) Microsoft 365
6 58 (6.96%) Microsoft Copilot
7 36 (4.32%) Azure DevOps
8 35 (4.20%) Power Automate
9 33 (3.96%) Serverless
10 30 (3.60%) GCP
11 28 (3.36%) Dynamics 365
12 21 (2.52%) GitHub
13 17 (2.04%) Entra ID
14 16 (1.92%) PowerApps
15 15 (1.80%) Azure Functions
16 14 (1.68%) Copilot Studio
17 12 (1.44%) GitHub Copilot
18 9 (1.08%) Microsoft Purview
18 9 (1.08%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 20 (2.40%) Firewall
2 18 (2.16%) DNS
3 10 (1.20%) VPN
4 9 (1.08%) Internet
5 5 (0.60%) DHCP
6 4 (0.48%) MQTT
6 4 (0.48%) Network Security
7 3 (0.36%) HTTP
7 3 (0.36%) Wireless
8 2 (0.24%) VLAN
8 2 (0.24%) VoIP
9 1 (0.12%) CTI
9 1 (0.12%) Diameter Protocol
9 1 (0.12%) Intelligent Network
9 1 (0.12%) IPFIX
9 1 (0.12%) RTSP
9 1 (0.12%) Software-Defined Radio
9 1 (0.12%) UWB
9 1 (0.12%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (0.12%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 122 (14.65%) Power BI
2 69 (8.28%) Tableau
3 34 (4.08%) SQL Server
4 20 (2.40%) MongoDB
5 19 (2.28%) Data Lake
6 18 (2.16%) Azure SQL Database
7 13 (1.56%) Data Warehouse
8 12 (1.44%) Big Data
8 12 (1.44%) Metadata
9 8 (0.96%) Power Query
10 6 (0.72%) Delta Lake
10 6 (0.72%) Redis
10 6 (0.72%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 6 (0.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 5 (0.60%) Data Mining
11 5 (0.60%) DynamoDB
11 5 (0.60%) Oracle BI EE
11 5 (0.60%) QlikView
11 5 (0.60%) Semantic Layer
11 5 (0.60%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 24 (2.88%) Git
2 16 (1.92%) JIRA
3 12 (1.44%) Maven
4 10 (1.20%) JUnit
4 10 (1.20%) Mockito
5 9 (1.08%) Snyk
6 4 (0.48%) Jenkins
6 4 (0.48%) Octopus Deploy
7 3 (0.36%) Visual Studio Code
8 2 (0.24%) Ant
8 2 (0.24%) Apache Ivy
8 2 (0.24%) GitLab
8 2 (0.24%) IBM UrbanCode
8 2 (0.24%) Selenium
8 2 (0.24%) Yeoman
9 1 (0.12%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.12%) JMeter
9 1 (0.12%) LoadRunner
9 1 (0.12%) NUnit
9 1 (0.12%) SonarQube
General
1 296 (35.53%) Social Skills
2 231 (27.73%) Finance
3 130 (15.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 88 (10.56%) Analytical Skills
5 77 (9.24%) Marketing
6 47 (5.64%) Public Sector
7 44 (5.28%) Influencing Skills
8 41 (4.92%) Legal
9 30 (3.60%) Retail
10 26 (3.12%) Law
10 26 (3.12%) Manufacturing
10 26 (3.12%) Organisational Skills
11 21 (2.52%) Presentation Skills
12 20 (2.40%) Banking
13 18 (2.16%) Advertising
14 7 (0.84%) Telecoms
15 6 (0.72%) Automotive
15 6 (0.72%) French Language
15 6 (0.72%) Social Housing
16 5 (0.60%) Games
Job Titles
1 122 (14.65%) Senior
2 109 (13.09%) Developer
3 95 (11.40%) Analyst
4 88 (10.56%) Lead
5 72 (8.64%) Architect
6 63 (7.56%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 47 (5.64%) Junior
8 46 (5.52%) Data Analyst
9 45 (5.40%) Junior Analyst
10 44 (5.28%) Junior Data Analyst
10 44 (5.28%) Software Engineer
11 35 (4.20%) Data Engineer
12 27 (3.24%) Business Analyst
12 27 (3.24%) Consultant
13 25 (3.00%) Senior Developer
14 23 (2.76%) Solutions Architect
15 22 (2.64%) Data Scientist
15 22 (2.64%) Principal Engineer
15 22 (2.64%) Sales Executive
16 19 (2.28%) Automation Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (3.96%) .NET
1 33 (3.96%) REST
2 29 (3.48%) React
3 20 (2.40%) Terraform
4 16 (1.92%) ASP.NET
4 16 (1.92%) ASP.NET Core
4 16 (1.92%) CSS
5 13 (1.56%) Spring
6 12 (1.44%) .NET Core
7 11 (1.32%) HTML
7 11 (1.32%) JSON
7 11 (1.32%) PySpark
7 11 (1.32%) PyTorch
7 11 (1.32%) TensorFlow
7 11 (1.32%) XML
8 10 (1.20%) Playwright
8 10 (1.20%) RESTful
9 9 (1.08%) ML.NET
10 8 (0.96%) Blazor
10 8 (0.96%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 60 (7.20%) Onboarding
2 40 (4.80%) Self-Motivation
3 29 (3.48%) Cloud Native
3 29 (3.48%) Management Information System
4 23 (2.76%) AI Agents
5 20 (2.40%) Product Ownership
6 19 (2.28%) Marketing Technology
7 16 (1.92%) Driving Licence
8 14 (1.68%) Distributed Systems
8 14 (1.68%) Virtual Team
9 12 (1.44%) Data Centre
9 12 (1.44%) Greenfield Project
10 10 (1.20%) IoT
10 10 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
10 10 (1.20%) Public Cloud
11 9 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
11 9 (1.08%) Low-Code
11 9 (1.08%) Security Posture
11 9 (1.08%) Social Media
11 9 (1.08%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 35 (4.20%) Linux
2 25 (3.00%) Windows
3 21 (2.52%) Windows Server
4 9 (1.08%) Ubuntu
5 4 (0.48%) Android
5 4 (0.48%) VMS
6 2 (0.24%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.24%) Solaris
7 1 (0.12%) Alpine Linux
7 1 (0.12%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 154 (18.49%) Continuous Improvement
2 144 (17.29%) Analytics
3 131 (15.73%) Agile
3 131 (15.73%) Business Intelligence
4 122 (14.65%) Mentoring
5 106 (12.73%) Stakeholder Management
6 104 (12.48%) Problem-Solving
7 99 (11.88%) Decision-Making
8 98 (11.76%) Roadmaps
9 94 (11.28%) CI/CD
10 89 (10.68%) Machine Learning
11 74 (8.88%) Coaching
12 72 (8.64%) Cybersecurity
13 70 (8.40%) Software Engineering
14 62 (7.44%) DevOps
15 60 (7.20%) LLM
16 54 (6.48%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 53 (6.36%) ERP
18 52 (6.24%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
19 51 (6.12%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 188 (22.57%) Python
2 140 (16.81%) SQL
3 48 (5.76%) JavaScript
4 42 (5.04%) C#
5 24 (2.88%) PowerShell
6 21 (2.52%) TypeScript
7 19 (2.28%) Java
8 14 (1.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 11 (1.32%) Bash
9 11 (1.32%) PL/SQL
10 10 (1.20%) R
11 6 (0.72%) PHP
12 5 (0.60%) C++
12 5 (0.60%) Kusto Query Language
12 5 (0.60%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.24%) Go
14 1 (0.12%) MATLAB
14 1 (0.12%) Ruby
14 1 (0.12%) VB.NET
14 1 (0.12%) VBA
Qualifications
1 104 (12.48%) Azure Certification
2 82 (9.84%) Degree
3 78 (9.36%) Security Cleared
4 72 (8.64%) SC Cleared
5 19 (2.28%) Microsoft Certification
6 16 (1.92%) ACCA
6 16 (1.92%) Master's Degree
7 15 (1.80%) CIMA
8 14 (1.68%) AWS Certification
9 11 (1.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 11 (1.32%) DV Cleared
10 10 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
11 9 (1.08%) Computer Science Degree
11 9 (1.08%) TOGAF Certification
12 7 (0.84%) SANS
13 4 (0.48%) CBAP
13 4 (0.48%) CISM
13 4 (0.48%) CISSP
13 4 (0.48%) PMI Certification
14 3 (0.36%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (6.48%) Data Quality
2 32 (3.84%) Accessibility
3 29 (3.48%) GDPR
4 28 (3.36%) QA
5 20 (2.40%) SLA
6 17 (2.04%) GRC
7 13 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 9 (1.08%) WCAG
9 7 (0.84%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 6 (0.72%) PMO
11 5 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
11 5 (0.60%) NCSC
12 4 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 4 (0.48%) ISO 9001
13 3 (0.36%) NIST
13 3 (0.36%) PCI DSS
14 2 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
15 1 (0.12%) GxP
15 1 (0.12%) ISO 19650
15 1 (0.12%) JTAG
System Software
1 35 (4.20%) Docker
2 14 (1.68%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (1.08%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (0.96%) Active Directory
5 6 (0.72%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 34 (4.08%) Kubernetes
2 14 (1.68%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (0.36%) 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
1 236 (28.33%) Microsoft
2 27 (3.24%) ServiceNow
3 24 (2.88%) TikTok
4 23 (2.76%) Samsung
5 20 (2.40%) Oracle
6 19 (2.28%) Adobe
6 19 (2.28%) Salesforce
7 17 (2.04%) Databricks
7 17 (2.04%) Google
8 15 (1.80%) SAP
9 14 (1.68%) Apple
9 14 (1.68%) VMware
10 12 (1.44%) YouTube
11 10 (1.20%) CrowdStrike
11 10 (1.20%) OpenAI
12 9 (1.08%) Palo Alto
12 9 (1.08%) Tenable
13 8 (0.96%) Citrix
13 8 (0.96%) SonicWALL
14 7 (0.84%) Foundry