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 3 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 87 128
Rank change year-on-year +83 +41 +84
Permanent jobs citing AI 1,542 171 172
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 16.46% 3.14% 1.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 21.15% 3.38% 2.26%
Number of salaries quoted 148 88 143
10th Percentile £26,400 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £38,750 £42,500 £43,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £63,750 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.73% +27.50% -18.70%
75th Percentile £78,125 £87,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -

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 7,290 5,060 7,605
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 77.80% 92.81% 85.11%
Number of salaries quoted 4,128 2,451 6,104
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £34,571
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +7.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £65,000 £66,967 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -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 3 March 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 3 March 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 +84 1,260 £55,000 -4.35% 146
East Midlands +64 293 £50,000 -23.08% 166
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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 13 (0.84%) SharePoint
2 6 (0.39%) Jupyter
3 3 (0.19%) ArcGIS
4 2 (0.13%) Apache
4 2 (0.13%) CMS
4 2 (0.13%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.065%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.065%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (0.065%) SAS
5 1 (0.065%) WordPress
Applications
1 164 (10.64%) Chatbot
2 138 (8.95%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (0.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.26%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.065%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 11 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.13%) Integrated Workplace Management System
2 2 (0.13%) SAP Business One
3 1 (0.065%) Maximo
3 1 (0.065%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.065%) Odoo
3 1 (0.065%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.065%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,051 (68.16%) Cloud Computing
2 193 (12.52%) Azure
3 150 (9.73%) Power Platform
4 124 (8.04%) Azure AI
5 40 (2.59%) SaaS
6 38 (2.46%) AWS
7 17 (1.10%) Microsoft 365
8 13 (0.84%) Microsoft Copilot
9 12 (0.78%) Dynamics 365
9 12 (0.78%) PowerApps
10 11 (0.71%) Power Automate
11 10 (0.65%) GitHub
12 9 (0.58%) Azure DevOps
13 8 (0.52%) Azure Data Factory
13 8 (0.52%) Figma
13 8 (0.52%) GitHub Copilot
14 7 (0.45%) Entra ID
15 6 (0.39%) Copilot Studio
15 6 (0.39%) IaaS
15 6 (0.39%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1,045 (67.77%) Internet
2 4 (0.26%) Intranet
3 2 (0.13%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 136 (8.82%) Power BI
2 127 (8.24%) Tableau
3 13 (0.84%) SQL Server
4 5 (0.32%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (0.32%) Delta Lake
5 3 (0.19%) Data Mining
6 2 (0.13%) Metadata
7 1 (0.065%) Amazon QuickSight
7 1 (0.065%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.065%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.065%) Looker
7 1 (0.065%) MySQL
7 1 (0.065%) Neo4j
7 1 (0.065%) Pentaho
7 1 (0.065%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.065%) Redis
7 1 (0.065%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.065%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.065%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 8 (0.52%) Visual Studio
2 6 (0.39%) Visual Studio Code
3 3 (0.19%) Git
3 3 (0.19%) JIRA
4 2 (0.13%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.065%) Babel
5 1 (0.065%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.065%) JUnit
5 1 (0.065%) MLflow
5 1 (0.065%) Mockito
5 1 (0.065%) Vite
5 1 (0.065%) webpack
General
1 1,220 (79.12%) Social Skills
2 1,080 (70.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1,048 (67.96%) Banking
4 90 (5.84%) Analytical Skills
5 40 (2.59%) Finance
6 32 (2.08%) Retail
7 29 (1.88%) Legal
8 28 (1.82%) Public Sector
9 17 (1.10%) Manufacturing
10 16 (1.04%) Law
11 7 (0.45%) Marketing
11 7 (0.45%) Organisational Skills
12 6 (0.39%) Automotive
13 4 (0.26%) Agriculture
13 4 (0.26%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (0.19%) Financial Institution
14 3 (0.19%) Japanese Language
15 1 (0.065%) Advertising
15 1 (0.065%) Back Office
15 1 (0.065%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 783 (50.78%) Lecturer
2 156 (10.12%) Trainer
3 133 (8.63%) Analyst
4 125 (8.11%) Junior
5 122 (7.91%) Data Analyst
6 121 (7.85%) Junior Analyst
6 121 (7.85%) Junior Data Analyst
7 37 (2.40%) Research Scientist
8 33 (2.14%) Developer
9 22 (1.43%) Architect
10 20 (1.30%) Content Editor
11 18 (1.17%) Solutions Architect
12 15 (0.97%) Lead
13 13 (0.84%) Senior
14 10 (0.65%) Head of Engineering
15 9 (0.58%) Alliance Manager
15 9 (0.58%) Data Engineer
15 9 (0.58%) Trainee
16 8 (0.52%) Designer
16 8 (0.52%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (1.17%) .NET
2 11 (0.71%) React
3 8 (0.52%) Blazor
3 8 (0.52%) Material Design
3 8 (0.52%) WebAssembly
4 7 (0.45%) HTML
4 7 (0.45%) scikit-learn
5 6 (0.39%) .NET Framework
5 6 (0.39%) AngularJS
5 6 (0.39%) CSS
5 6 (0.39%) Hugging Face
5 6 (0.39%) Matplotlib
5 6 (0.39%) NumPy
5 6 (0.39%) Pandas
5 6 (0.39%) PyTorch
5 6 (0.39%) RESTful
5 6 (0.39%) Streamlit
5 6 (0.39%) TensorFlow
6 5 (0.32%) PySpark
7 4 (0.26%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 1,047 (67.90%) IoT
2 35 (2.27%) Molecular Biology
3 11 (0.71%) Cloud Native
3 11 (0.71%) Product Ownership
4 9 (0.58%) Algorithms
4 9 (0.58%) Blog
4 9 (0.58%) Public Cloud
5 8 (0.52%) Onboarding
6 7 (0.45%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (0.32%) AI Agents
7 5 (0.32%) Driving Licence
8 4 (0.26%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (0.26%) Low-Code
8 4 (0.26%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (0.19%) Management Information System
9 3 (0.19%) Reference Data
9 3 (0.19%) Web Conferencing
10 2 (0.13%) Legacy Code
10 2 (0.13%) Lidar
10 2 (0.13%) Self-Driving Car
Operating Systems
1 8 (0.52%) Windows
2 2 (0.13%) Linux
2 2 (0.13%) Mac OS X
2 2 (0.13%) Robot Operating System
2 2 (0.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,093 (70.88%) Machine Learning
2 1,065 (69.07%) User Experience
3 1,060 (68.74%) Cybersecurity
4 1,047 (67.90%) Web Development
5 167 (10.83%) Conversational UI
6 143 (9.27%) Business Intelligence
7 56 (3.63%) Chemistry
8 45 (2.92%) Analytics
9 40 (2.59%) Agile
10 38 (2.46%) Customer Service
11 35 (2.27%) Biochemistry
11 35 (2.27%) Biology
11 35 (2.27%) Biotechnology
11 35 (2.27%) Data Interpretation
11 35 (2.27%) Experimental Design
12 30 (1.95%) Roadmaps
13 29 (1.88%) Problem-Solving
14 28 (1.82%) CRM
15 24 (1.56%) Continuous Improvement
16 22 (1.43%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 176 (11.41%) Python
2 154 (9.99%) SQL
3 20 (1.30%) JavaScript
4 17 (1.10%) C#
5 9 (0.58%) TypeScript
6 6 (0.39%) Java
7 3 (0.19%) C++
8 2 (0.13%) PHP
8 2 (0.13%) R
8 2 (0.13%) Ruby
9 1 (0.065%) Bash
9 1 (0.065%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.065%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1,227 (79.57%) Degree
2 1,147 (74.38%) Master's Degree
3 1,144 (74.19%) PhD
4 1,045 (67.77%) Postgraduate
5 122 (7.91%) Azure Certification
6 14 (0.91%) AWS Certification
7 10 (0.65%) SC Cleared
7 10 (0.65%) Security Cleared
8 6 (0.39%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 5 (0.32%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (0.26%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (0.19%) ACCA
11 3 (0.19%) CIMA
11 3 (0.19%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.19%) MOS
12 2 (0.13%) CISA
12 2 (0.13%) DBS Check
13 1 (0.065%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 1 (0.065%) CBAP
13 1 (0.065%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (0.91%) Accessibility
2 13 (0.84%) QA
3 12 (0.78%) GDPR
3 12 (0.78%) WCAG
4 7 (0.45%) Data Quality
5 4 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.13%) COBIT
6 2 (0.13%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.13%) NIST
7 1 (0.065%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.065%) GRC
7 1 (0.065%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.065%) SOC 2
System Software
1 7 (0.45%) Active Directory
2 4 (0.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (0.39%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.13%) Grafana
2 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.065%) Ansible
3 1 (0.065%) Argo
3 1 (0.065%) Kustomize
3 1 (0.065%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 186 (12.06%) Microsoft
2 156 (10.12%) PayPal
3 17 (1.10%) Databricks
4 9 (0.58%) Adobe
5 8 (0.52%) Apple
6 6 (0.39%) OpenAI
6 6 (0.39%) ServiceNow
7 5 (0.32%) SAP
8 4 (0.26%) ConnectWise
9 3 (0.19%) ESRI
9 3 (0.19%) HubSpot
9 3 (0.19%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.13%) DocuSign
10 2 (0.13%) Google
10 2 (0.13%) Planon
10 2 (0.13%) UiPath
11 1 (0.065%) Blue Prism
11 1 (0.065%) Denodo
11 1 (0.065%) Foundry
11 1 (0.065%) Pardot