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 10 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 8 109
Rank change year-on-year -8 +101 +69
Permanent jobs citing AI 758 707 288
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 5.79% 12.70% 2.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.28% 14.78% 2.72%
Number of salaries quoted 380 116 175
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £46,500 £48,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -2.13%
75th Percentile £80,000 £74,063 £67,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £90,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £66,350 £70,000
% change year-on-year +5.50% -5.21% -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 9,153 4,782 10,594
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 69.86% 85.93% 79.49%
Number of salaries quoted 6,493 2,822 7,137
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £49,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +3.16% -9.52%
75th Percentile £67,250 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -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 10 July 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 10 July 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 -5 477 £57,500 -1.50% 162
East Midlands -16 280 £52,500 -16.00% 93
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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 16 (2.11%) SharePoint
2 9 (1.19%) Jupyter
3 3 (0.40%) ArcGIS
3 3 (0.40%) CMS
3 3 (0.40%) Confluence
4 2 (0.26%) Apache
4 2 (0.26%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (0.26%) WordPress
5 1 (0.13%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.13%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.13%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 191 (25.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (1.72%) Chatbot
3 11 (1.45%) Microsoft Office
4 7 (0.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (0.79%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.26%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.13%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 12 (1.58%) Cloudability
2 7 (0.92%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.53%) Sage 50
4 3 (0.40%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.13%) Integrated Workplace Management System
5 1 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.13%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.13%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.13%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.13%) SAP Business One
5 1 (0.13%) SAP EHS
5 1 (0.13%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 357 (47.10%) Azure
2 257 (33.91%) Azure AI
3 237 (31.27%) Power Platform
4 81 (10.69%) AWS
5 53 (6.99%) SaaS
6 35 (4.62%) Microsoft Copilot
7 27 (3.56%) GCP
8 23 (3.03%) Microsoft 365
9 21 (2.77%) Serverless
10 16 (2.11%) Azure DevOps
11 14 (1.85%) Power Automate
12 13 (1.72%) GitHub
13 12 (1.58%) Microsoft Purview
14 11 (1.45%) PowerApps
15 10 (1.32%) Cloud Computing
15 10 (1.32%) Copilot Studio
15 10 (1.32%) Dynamics 365
15 10 (1.32%) GitHub Copilot
16 9 (1.19%) Anthropic Claude
16 9 (1.19%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.92%) DNS
2 6 (0.79%) Firewall
3 5 (0.66%) VPN
4 4 (0.53%) MQTT
5 3 (0.40%) Broadband
6 2 (0.26%) DHCP
6 2 (0.26%) VLAN
6 2 (0.26%) VoIP
6 2 (0.26%) Wireless
7 1 (0.13%) Diameter Protocol
7 1 (0.13%) IPFIX
7 1 (0.13%) Network Security
7 1 (0.13%) RTSP
7 1 (0.13%) SCTP
7 1 (0.13%) Software-Defined Radio
7 1 (0.13%) Unified Communications
7 1 (0.13%) UWB
7 1 (0.13%) VoLTE
7 1 (0.13%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.13%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 218 (28.76%) Power BI
2 188 (24.80%) Tableau
3 22 (2.90%) SQL Server
4 17 (2.24%) Azure SQL Database
5 16 (2.11%) MongoDB
6 12 (1.58%) Metadata
7 10 (1.32%) Data Lake
8 7 (0.92%) Data Warehouse
8 7 (0.92%) Redis
9 6 (0.79%) DynamoDB
10 5 (0.66%) Star Schema
11 4 (0.53%) Big Data
11 4 (0.53%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 4 (0.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 3 (0.40%) Amazon RDS
12 3 (0.40%) Looker
12 3 (0.40%) MySQL
12 3 (0.40%) Power Query
12 3 (0.40%) Semantic Layer
13 2 (0.26%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 10 (1.32%) Snyk
2 9 (1.19%) Visual Studio Code
3 6 (0.79%) Git
3 6 (0.79%) JIRA
4 5 (0.66%) JUnit
4 5 (0.66%) Maven
4 5 (0.66%) Mockito
4 5 (0.66%) Selenium
5 2 (0.26%) Cypress.io
5 2 (0.26%) GitLab
5 2 (0.26%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.26%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.26%) Yeoman
6 1 (0.13%) Appium
6 1 (0.13%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.13%) Gatling
6 1 (0.13%) Postman
6 1 (0.13%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.13%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.13%) Vite
General
1 343 (45.25%) Social Skills
2 134 (17.68%) Finance
3 68 (8.97%) Analytical Skills
4 60 (7.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 38 (5.01%) Legal
6 34 (4.49%) Law
6 34 (4.49%) Retail
7 28 (3.69%) Manufacturing
8 25 (3.30%) Influencing Skills
9 20 (2.64%) Banking
10 19 (2.51%) Marketing
10 19 (2.51%) Organisational Skills
11 17 (2.24%) Public Sector
12 9 (1.19%) Advertising
13 8 (1.06%) Automotive
14 7 (0.92%) Social Housing
15 6 (0.79%) Financial Institution
15 6 (0.79%) Japanese Language
16 5 (0.66%) Agriculture
16 5 (0.66%) Games
Job Titles
1 225 (29.68%) Analyst
2 180 (23.75%) Data Analyst
3 179 (23.61%) Junior
4 177 (23.35%) Junior Analyst
5 176 (23.22%) Junior Data Analyst
6 80 (10.55%) Developer
7 77 (10.16%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 76 (10.03%) Senior
9 68 (8.97%) Lead
10 48 (6.33%) Architect
11 25 (3.30%) Data Scientist
12 24 (3.17%) Business Analyst
13 23 (3.03%) Accountant
13 23 (3.03%) Data Engineer
13 23 (3.03%) Systems Accountant
14 20 (2.64%) Software Engineer
15 17 (2.24%) Senior Analyst
16 16 (2.11%) Data Architect
16 16 (2.11%) Technical Leader
17 15 (1.98%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (3.69%) .NET
2 23 (3.03%) React
3 18 (2.37%) ASP.NET
4 17 (2.24%) ASP.NET Core
5 14 (1.85%) HTML
6 13 (1.72%) .NET Core
7 12 (1.58%) CSS
7 12 (1.58%) RESTful
7 12 (1.58%) scikit-learn
8 11 (1.45%) Blazor
8 11 (1.45%) Matplotlib
8 11 (1.45%) REST
9 10 (1.32%) Hugging Face
9 10 (1.32%) ML.NET
10 9 (1.19%) .NET Framework
10 9 (1.19%) NumPy
10 9 (1.19%) Pandas
10 9 (1.19%) Playwright
10 9 (1.19%) Streamlit
11 7 (0.92%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 23 (3.03%) Product Ownership
2 18 (2.37%) Cloud Native
3 13 (1.72%) Robotics
4 12 (1.58%) Algorithms
5 11 (1.45%) Distributed Systems
5 11 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
6 10 (1.32%) Data Centre
6 10 (1.32%) Driving Licence
6 10 (1.32%) Low-Code
6 10 (1.32%) Virtual Team
7 9 (1.19%) AI Agents
8 8 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
8 8 (1.06%) IoT
9 7 (0.92%) CSOC
9 7 (0.92%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (0.66%) Management Information System
10 5 (0.66%) Mobile App
10 5 (0.66%) Public Cloud
10 5 (0.66%) Security Posture
11 4 (0.53%) Augmented Reality
Operating Systems
1 13 (1.72%) Linux
2 10 (1.32%) Windows
3 6 (0.79%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.53%) VMS
5 2 (0.26%) Android
5 2 (0.26%) Robot Operating System
6 1 (0.13%) Alpine Linux
6 1 (0.13%) Kali Linux
6 1 (0.13%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 225 (29.68%) Business Intelligence
2 102 (13.46%) Analytics
3 85 (11.21%) Machine Learning
4 78 (10.29%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
4 78 (10.29%) Problem-Solving
5 76 (10.03%) Agile
6 72 (9.50%) Continuous Improvement
7 67 (8.84%) Roadmaps
8 64 (8.44%) Mentoring
9 62 (8.18%) CI/CD
9 62 (8.18%) Decision-Making
10 47 (6.20%) LLM
11 44 (5.80%) Cybersecurity
12 43 (5.67%) Actionable Insight
12 43 (5.67%) Stakeholder Management
13 40 (5.28%) Data Governance
14 39 (5.15%) Validation
15 38 (5.01%) Workflow
16 36 (4.75%) Data Science
16 36 (4.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 327 (43.14%) Python
2 241 (31.79%) SQL
3 30 (3.96%) C#
4 25 (3.30%) JavaScript
5 17 (2.24%) TypeScript
6 10 (1.32%) PowerShell
7 9 (1.19%) Java
8 7 (0.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 6 (0.79%) Bash
9 6 (0.79%) PHP
10 5 (0.66%) Kusto Query Language
10 5 (0.66%) PL/SQL
10 5 (0.66%) R
11 3 (0.40%) C++
11 3 (0.40%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.26%) Go
13 1 (0.13%) C
13 1 (0.13%) JCL
13 1 (0.13%) MATLAB
13 1 (0.13%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 243 (32.06%) Azure Certification
2 48 (6.33%) Degree
3 34 (4.49%) Security Cleared
4 33 (4.35%) SC Cleared
5 21 (2.77%) AWS Certification
6 19 (2.51%) ACCA
6 19 (2.51%) CIMA
7 12 (1.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 11 (1.45%) Master's Degree
9 9 (1.19%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 7 (0.92%) SANS
11 6 (0.79%) Computer Science Degree
11 6 (0.79%) MOS
12 5 (0.66%) DV Cleared
13 4 (0.53%) CISA
14 3 (0.40%) BPSS Clearance
14 3 (0.40%) CIPD
14 3 (0.40%) PRINCE2 Certification
15 2 (0.26%) PMI Certification
15 2 (0.26%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (5.67%) Data Quality
2 26 (3.43%) GDPR
3 25 (3.30%) QA
4 15 (1.98%) Accessibility
5 14 (1.85%) GRC
6 7 (0.92%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 6 (0.79%) SLA
8 4 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.53%) NIST
8 4 (0.53%) PMO
8 4 (0.53%) WCAG
9 2 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.13%) COBIT
10 1 (0.13%) GxP
10 1 (0.13%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.13%) ISO 19650
10 1 (0.13%) JTAG
10 1 (0.13%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.13%) PSD2
10 1 (0.13%) SOC 2
System Software
1 23 (3.03%) Docker
2 10 (1.32%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (0.79%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.13%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.13%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 22 (2.90%) Kubernetes
2 12 (1.58%) Terraform
3 4 (0.53%) Grafana
3 4 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.26%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.13%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.13%) Nagios
5 1 (0.13%) Podman
5 1 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 300 (39.58%) Microsoft
2 19 (2.51%) ServiceNow
3 15 (1.98%) Databricks
4 14 (1.85%) Adobe
5 12 (1.58%) Apple
5 12 (1.58%) OpenAI
6 10 (1.32%) CrowdStrike
6 10 (1.32%) Oracle
6 10 (1.32%) Palo Alto
6 10 (1.32%) SAP
6 10 (1.32%) Tenable
7 7 (0.92%) Foundry
8 6 (0.79%) Salesforce
9 5 (0.66%) Aderant
9 5 (0.66%) ConnectWise
9 5 (0.66%) Facebook
9 5 (0.66%) Google
9 5 (0.66%) Intapp
9 5 (0.66%) Sage
10 4 (0.53%) Xero