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

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 7 104
Rank change year-on-year -10 +97 +63
Permanent jobs citing AI 842 742 221
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 5.53% 13.00% 2.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.94% 15.30% 2.83%
Number of salaries quoted 448 106 100
10th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £35,450
25th Percentile £46,500 £48,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £80,000 £70,938 £87,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £97,750
England median annual salary £73,500 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -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 10,605 4,850 7,823
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 69.70% 85.00% 77.79%
Number of salaries quoted 7,575 2,906 4,129
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £28,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -8.00%

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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 September 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 September 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 -4 569 £62,000 +3.33% 220
East Midlands -20 273 £52,500 -19.23% 139
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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 39 (4.63%) SharePoint
2 10 (1.19%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (1.07%) Apache
4 8 (0.95%) IIS
4 8 (0.95%) nginx
5 7 (0.83%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 5 (0.59%) CMS
7 4 (0.48%) Confluence
7 4 (0.48%) Jupyter
7 4 (0.48%) WordPress
8 2 (0.24%) Apache Spark
9 1 (0.12%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.12%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.12%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.12%) SAS
Applications
1 102 (12.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (1.31%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (1.19%) Chatbot
4 6 (0.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.71%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.24%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.12%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.12%) Adobe Premiere
6 1 (0.12%) InDesign
6 1 (0.12%) LaTeX
6 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.12%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.12%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 12 (1.43%) Cloudability
2 5 (0.59%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.59%) 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%) 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%) Sage 200
6 1 (0.12%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 309 (36.70%) Azure
2 182 (21.62%) Power Platform
3 169 (20.07%) Azure AI
4 94 (11.16%) AWS
5 59 (7.01%) SaaS
6 55 (6.53%) Microsoft 365
6 55 (6.53%) Microsoft Copilot
7 33 (3.92%) Power Automate
8 31 (3.68%) Serverless
9 30 (3.56%) Azure DevOps
10 28 (3.33%) GCP
11 21 (2.49%) Dynamics 365
12 19 (2.26%) GitHub
13 16 (1.90%) Entra ID
13 16 (1.90%) PowerApps
14 12 (1.43%) Copilot Studio
14 12 (1.43%) GitHub Copilot
15 11 (1.31%) Azure Functions
16 10 (1.19%) Microsoft Purview
17 8 (0.95%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 18 (2.14%) DNS
1 18 (2.14%) Firewall
2 9 (1.07%) VPN
3 5 (0.59%) DHCP
4 4 (0.48%) Internet
4 4 (0.48%) MQTT
4 4 (0.48%) Network Security
5 3 (0.36%) HTTP
5 3 (0.36%) Wireless
6 2 (0.24%) VLAN
6 2 (0.24%) VoIP
7 1 (0.12%) Bluetooth
7 1 (0.12%) Broadband
7 1 (0.12%) LAN
7 1 (0.12%) RTSP
7 1 (0.12%) SCTP
7 1 (0.12%) SMS
7 1 (0.12%) SNMP
7 1 (0.12%) UWB
7 1 (0.12%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 156 (18.53%) Power BI
2 106 (12.59%) Tableau
3 27 (3.21%) SQL Server
4 20 (2.38%) MongoDB
5 19 (2.26%) Azure SQL Database
6 18 (2.14%) Data Lake
7 13 (1.54%) Metadata
8 11 (1.31%) Data Warehouse
9 9 (1.07%) Big Data
10 7 (0.83%) Power Query
10 7 (0.83%) Redis
11 6 (0.71%) Data Mining
11 6 (0.71%) DynamoDB
11 6 (0.71%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 6 (0.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 5 (0.59%) Oracle BI EE
12 5 (0.59%) QlikView
12 5 (0.59%) Relational Database
12 5 (0.59%) Star Schema
13 3 (0.36%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 18 (2.14%) Git
2 15 (1.78%) JIRA
3 12 (1.43%) Maven
4 10 (1.19%) JUnit
4 10 (1.19%) Mockito
4 10 (1.19%) Snyk
5 6 (0.71%) Selenium
5 6 (0.71%) Visual Studio Code
6 4 (0.48%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.24%) Ant
7 2 (0.24%) Apache Ivy
7 2 (0.24%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.24%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.24%) GitLab
7 2 (0.24%) IBM UrbanCode
7 2 (0.24%) JMeter
7 2 (0.24%) LoadRunner
7 2 (0.24%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (0.24%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.24%) Yeoman
General
1 321 (38.12%) Social Skills
2 206 (24.47%) Finance
3 88 (10.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 82 (9.74%) Analytical Skills
5 42 (4.99%) Influencing Skills
6 39 (4.63%) Legal
7 35 (4.16%) Public Sector
8 32 (3.80%) Law
8 32 (3.80%) Marketing
9 30 (3.56%) Manufacturing
9 30 (3.56%) Retail
10 23 (2.73%) Organisational Skills
11 22 (2.61%) Banking
12 12 (1.43%) Presentation Skills
13 11 (1.31%) Advertising
14 7 (0.83%) Automotive
15 6 (0.71%) Social Housing
15 6 (0.71%) Telecoms
16 5 (0.59%) Financial Institution
16 5 (0.59%) Games
Job Titles
1 144 (17.10%) Analyst
2 121 (14.37%) Senior
3 106 (12.59%) Developer
4 92 (10.93%) Junior
5 91 (10.81%) Data Analyst
6 89 (10.57%) Junior Analyst
7 88 (10.45%) Junior Data Analyst
7 88 (10.45%) Lead
8 79 (9.38%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 67 (7.96%) Architect
10 34 (4.04%) Software Engineer
11 30 (3.56%) Business Analyst
12 29 (3.44%) Data Engineer
13 23 (2.73%) Senior Developer
14 22 (2.61%) Data Scientist
15 21 (2.49%) Accountant
15 21 (2.49%) Consultant
15 21 (2.49%) Systems Accountant
16 20 (2.38%) Senior Analyst
17 19 (2.26%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (3.56%) React
2 28 (3.33%) .NET
3 26 (3.09%) REST
4 20 (2.38%) Terraform
5 17 (2.02%) ASP.NET
5 17 (2.02%) ASP.NET Core
6 14 (1.66%) Playwright
7 13 (1.54%) .NET Core
7 13 (1.54%) HTML
7 13 (1.54%) Spring
8 11 (1.31%) CSS
8 11 (1.31%) PyTorch
8 11 (1.31%) TensorFlow
9 10 (1.19%) ML.NET
9 10 (1.19%) RESTful
10 9 (1.07%) Blazor
11 8 (0.95%) Kafka
12 7 (0.83%) .NET Framework
12 7 (0.83%) Entity Framework
13 6 (0.71%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 34 (4.04%) Self-Motivation
2 25 (2.97%) Cloud Native
2 25 (2.97%) Onboarding
3 22 (2.61%) Product Ownership
4 20 (2.38%) Management Information System
5 14 (1.66%) AI Agents
5 14 (1.66%) Driving Licence
6 13 (1.54%) Data Centre
6 13 (1.54%) Distributed Systems
7 12 (1.43%) Greenfield Project
7 12 (1.43%) Low-Code
7 12 (1.43%) Virtual Team
8 11 (1.31%) Legacy Systems
8 11 (1.31%) Robotics
9 10 (1.19%) IoT
10 9 (1.07%) Public Cloud
10 9 (1.07%) Security Posture
11 8 (0.95%) Algorithms
11 8 (0.95%) BYOD
12 7 (0.83%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 34 (4.04%) Linux
2 23 (2.73%) Windows
3 20 (2.38%) Windows Server
4 9 (1.07%) Ubuntu
5 4 (0.48%) Android
5 4 (0.48%) VMS
6 2 (0.24%) Solaris
7 1 (0.12%) Alpine Linux
7 1 (0.12%) Kali Linux
7 1 (0.12%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 160 (19.00%) Business Intelligence
2 138 (16.39%) Continuous Improvement
3 132 (15.68%) Agile
4 126 (14.96%) Analytics
5 107 (12.71%) Mentoring
6 99 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
7 97 (11.52%) Decision-Making
8 95 (11.28%) Machine Learning
9 91 (10.81%) CI/CD
10 88 (10.45%) Roadmaps
11 84 (9.98%) Stakeholder Management
12 73 (8.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
13 66 (7.84%) Cybersecurity
14 61 (7.24%) Coaching
14 61 (7.24%) LLM
15 54 (6.41%) Software Engineering
16 52 (6.18%) DevOps
17 51 (6.06%) ERP
18 50 (5.94%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 46 (5.46%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 242 (28.74%) Python
2 173 (20.55%) SQL
3 37 (4.39%) JavaScript
4 34 (4.04%) C#
5 24 (2.85%) PowerShell
6 22 (2.61%) TypeScript
7 21 (2.49%) Java
8 13 (1.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 11 (1.31%) Bash
9 11 (1.31%) PL/SQL
10 10 (1.19%) R
11 6 (0.71%) PHP
12 5 (0.59%) C++
12 5 (0.59%) Kusto Query Language
12 5 (0.59%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.24%) Go
14 1 (0.12%) C
14 1 (0.12%) MATLAB
14 1 (0.12%) Rust
14 1 (0.12%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 165 (19.60%) Azure Certification
2 76 (9.03%) Security Cleared
3 70 (8.31%) SC Cleared
4 66 (7.84%) Degree
5 17 (2.02%) ACCA
5 17 (2.02%) AWS Certification
5 17 (2.02%) CIMA
6 14 (1.66%) Microsoft Certification
7 12 (1.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 11 (1.31%) DV Cleared
9 10 (1.19%) BPSS Clearance
9 10 (1.19%) Computer Science Degree
10 8 (0.95%) Master's Degree
11 7 (0.83%) SANS
12 6 (0.71%) TOGAF Certification
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 50 (5.94%) Data Quality
2 31 (3.68%) QA
3 30 (3.56%) Accessibility
4 25 (2.97%) GDPR
5 19 (2.26%) SLA
6 17 (2.02%) GRC
7 13 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 7 (0.83%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 7 (0.83%) PMO
9 6 (0.71%) WCAG
10 4 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 4 (0.48%) ISO 9001
10 4 (0.48%) NCSC
11 2 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.24%) NIST
12 1 (0.12%) GxP
12 1 (0.12%) JTAG
12 1 (0.12%) PCI DSS
12 1 (0.12%) PSD2
System Software
1 34 (4.04%) Docker
2 14 (1.66%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (1.19%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (0.95%) Active Directory
5 6 (0.71%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 34 (4.04%) Kubernetes
2 12 (1.43%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (0.36%) Grafana
4 2 (0.24%) Ansible
4 2 (0.24%) Bosun
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%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.12%) Nagios
5 1 (0.12%) Podman
Vendors
1 259 (30.76%) Microsoft
2 26 (3.09%) ServiceNow
3 19 (2.26%) Databricks
4 16 (1.90%) Oracle
5 15 (1.78%) Adobe
6 14 (1.66%) VMware
7 13 (1.54%) Apple
8 11 (1.31%) CrowdStrike
8 11 (1.31%) SAP
8 11 (1.31%) YouTube
9 10 (1.19%) OpenAI
9 10 (1.19%) Palo Alto
9 10 (1.19%) Tenable
10 8 (0.95%) Citrix
10 8 (0.95%) Google
10 8 (0.95%) SonicWALL
11 7 (0.83%) Foundry
11 7 (0.83%) Salesforce
12 6 (0.71%) HubSpot
13 5 (0.59%) Facebook