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

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 7 98
Rank change year-on-year -10 +91 +73
Permanent jobs citing AI 830 743 241
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 5.59% 12.83% 2.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.01% 15.16% 2.96%
Number of salaries quoted 444 110 123
10th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £34,000
25th Percentile £46,500 £48,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -14.29%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,688 £86,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,750 £96,250
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 10,363 4,902 8,146
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 69.78% 84.65% 77.86%
Number of salaries quoted 7,416 2,937 4,585
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £28,119
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £35,700
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 £64,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £76,250
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 3 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 3 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 -5 559 £62,000 +3.33% 363
East Midlands -20 271 £52,500 -19.23% 239
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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 34 (4.10%) SharePoint
2 9 (1.08%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (0.96%) Apache
4 7 (0.84%) IIS
4 7 (0.84%) nginx
4 7 (0.84%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 5 (0.60%) CMS
6 4 (0.48%) Jupyter
6 4 (0.48%) WordPress
7 3 (0.36%) 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%) SAS
Applications
1 112 (13.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (1.33%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (0.96%) Chatbot
4 6 (0.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.72%) 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 (1.45%) Cloudability
2 6 (0.72%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.48%) Sage 50
4 4 (0.48%) Shopify
5 3 (0.36%) Dynamics NAV
5 3 (0.36%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.24%) Integrated Workplace Management System
6 2 (0.24%) SAP Business One
6 2 (0.24%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.12%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.12%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 1 (0.12%) Sage 200
7 1 (0.12%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 314 (37.83%) Azure
2 189 (22.77%) Power Platform
3 180 (21.69%) Azure AI
4 91 (10.96%) AWS
5 58 (6.99%) SaaS
6 52 (6.27%) Microsoft Copilot
7 50 (6.02%) Microsoft 365
8 32 (3.86%) Power Automate
9 30 (3.61%) Serverless
10 29 (3.49%) GCP
11 28 (3.37%) Azure DevOps
12 21 (2.53%) Dynamics 365
13 16 (1.93%) GitHub
14 15 (1.81%) PowerApps
15 14 (1.69%) Entra ID
16 12 (1.45%) GitHub Copilot
17 11 (1.33%) Azure Functions
18 10 (1.20%) Copilot Studio
18 10 (1.20%) Microsoft Purview
19 9 (1.08%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 16 (1.93%) DNS
1 16 (1.93%) Firewall
2 8 (0.96%) VPN
3 4 (0.48%) DHCP
3 4 (0.48%) Internet
3 4 (0.48%) MQTT
3 4 (0.48%) Network Security
4 3 (0.36%) HTTP
4 3 (0.36%) Wireless
5 2 (0.24%) VLAN
5 2 (0.24%) VoIP
6 1 (0.12%) Bluetooth
6 1 (0.12%) Broadband
6 1 (0.12%) LAN
6 1 (0.12%) RTSP
6 1 (0.12%) SCTP
6 1 (0.12%) SMS
6 1 (0.12%) Unified Communications
6 1 (0.12%) UWB
6 1 (0.12%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 163 (19.64%) Power BI
2 116 (13.98%) Tableau
3 25 (3.01%) SQL Server
4 18 (2.17%) MongoDB
5 17 (2.05%) Azure SQL Database
5 17 (2.05%) Data Lake
6 13 (1.57%) Metadata
7 11 (1.33%) Data Warehouse
8 8 (0.96%) Big Data
9 7 (0.84%) Power Query
9 7 (0.84%) Redis
10 6 (0.72%) DynamoDB
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%) Relational Database
11 5 (0.60%) Star Schema
12 4 (0.48%) Oracle BI EE
12 4 (0.48%) QlikView
13 3 (0.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 17 (2.05%) Git
2 13 (1.57%) JIRA
3 12 (1.45%) Maven
4 10 (1.20%) JUnit
4 10 (1.20%) Mockito
4 10 (1.20%) Snyk
5 6 (0.72%) Selenium
5 6 (0.72%) 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%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.24%) Yeoman
8 1 (0.12%) NUnit
General
1 324 (39.04%) Social Skills
2 201 (24.22%) Finance
3 85 (10.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 80 (9.64%) Analytical Skills
5 37 (4.46%) Influencing Skills
6 36 (4.34%) Legal
7 32 (3.86%) Marketing
7 32 (3.86%) Public Sector
8 30 (3.61%) Law
9 29 (3.49%) Retail
10 28 (3.37%) Manufacturing
11 22 (2.65%) Banking
11 22 (2.65%) Organisational Skills
12 12 (1.45%) Presentation Skills
13 11 (1.33%) Advertising
14 7 (0.84%) Automotive
15 6 (0.72%) Social Housing
15 6 (0.72%) Telecoms
16 5 (0.60%) Financial Institution
16 5 (0.60%) Games
Job Titles
1 155 (18.67%) Analyst
2 117 (14.10%) Senior
3 105 (12.65%) Developer
4 103 (12.41%) Junior
5 102 (12.29%) Data Analyst
6 100 (12.05%) Junior Analyst
7 99 (11.93%) Junior Data Analyst
8 84 (10.12%) Lead
9 78 (9.40%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 65 (7.83%) Architect
11 31 (3.73%) Software Engineer
12 30 (3.61%) Business Analyst
13 26 (3.13%) Data Engineer
14 24 (2.89%) Accountant
14 24 (2.89%) Systems Accountant
15 23 (2.77%) Senior Developer
16 22 (2.65%) Consultant
16 22 (2.65%) Data Scientist
17 20 (2.41%) Senior Analyst
18 18 (2.17%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (3.61%) React
2 26 (3.13%) .NET
3 24 (2.89%) REST
4 19 (2.29%) Terraform
5 17 (2.05%) ASP.NET
5 17 (2.05%) ASP.NET Core
6 14 (1.69%) Playwright
7 13 (1.57%) .NET Core
7 13 (1.57%) Spring
8 12 (1.45%) HTML
9 10 (1.20%) CSS
9 10 (1.20%) ML.NET
9 10 (1.20%) PyTorch
9 10 (1.20%) RESTful
9 10 (1.20%) TensorFlow
10 9 (1.08%) Blazor
11 8 (0.96%) Kafka
12 7 (0.84%) .NET Framework
12 7 (0.84%) Entity Framework
13 6 (0.72%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 34 (4.10%) Self-Motivation
2 23 (2.77%) Cloud Native
3 22 (2.65%) Onboarding
3 22 (2.65%) Product Ownership
4 18 (2.17%) Management Information System
5 14 (1.69%) AI Agents
6 13 (1.57%) Data Centre
6 13 (1.57%) Greenfield Project
7 12 (1.45%) Low-Code
7 12 (1.45%) Virtual Team
8 11 (1.33%) Distributed Systems
8 11 (1.33%) Driving Licence
8 11 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
8 11 (1.33%) Robotics
9 10 (1.20%) IoT
10 9 (1.08%) Security Posture
11 8 (0.96%) BYOD
11 8 (0.96%) Public Cloud
12 7 (0.84%) Algorithms
12 7 (0.84%) CSOC
Operating Systems
1 32 (3.86%) Linux
2 21 (2.53%) Windows
3 18 (2.17%) Windows Server
4 8 (0.96%) Ubuntu
5 4 (0.48%) VMS
6 2 (0.24%) Android
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
1 167 (20.12%) Business Intelligence
2 125 (15.06%) Continuous Improvement
3 124 (14.94%) Agile
4 118 (14.22%) Analytics
5 99 (11.93%) Problem-Solving
6 96 (11.57%) Mentoring
7 94 (11.33%) Decision-Making
8 92 (11.08%) Machine Learning
9 84 (10.12%) CI/CD
10 82 (9.88%) Roadmaps
11 77 (9.28%) Stakeholder Management
12 72 (8.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
13 62 (7.47%) Cybersecurity
14 60 (7.23%) LLM
15 52 (6.27%) Coaching
16 50 (6.02%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 49 (5.90%) ERP
18 48 (5.78%) DevOps
18 48 (5.78%) Software Engineering
19 45 (5.42%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 250 (30.12%) Python
2 180 (21.69%) SQL
3 36 (4.34%) JavaScript
4 32 (3.86%) C#
5 23 (2.77%) PowerShell
6 22 (2.65%) TypeScript
7 20 (2.41%) Java
8 13 (1.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 10 (1.20%) Bash
9 10 (1.20%) PL/SQL
10 9 (1.08%) R
11 6 (0.72%) PHP
12 5 (0.60%) Kusto Query Language
12 5 (0.60%) T-SQL
13 4 (0.48%) C++
14 2 (0.24%) Go
15 1 (0.12%) C
15 1 (0.12%) JCL
15 1 (0.12%) Rust
15 1 (0.12%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 175 (21.08%) Azure Certification
2 69 (8.31%) Security Cleared
3 65 (7.83%) SC Cleared
4 64 (7.71%) Degree
5 17 (2.05%) ACCA
5 17 (2.05%) AWS Certification
5 17 (2.05%) CIMA
6 12 (1.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 12 (1.45%) Microsoft Certification
7 10 (1.20%) Computer Science Degree
8 9 (1.08%) DV Cleared
9 8 (0.96%) BPSS Clearance
9 8 (0.96%) Master's Degree
10 7 (0.84%) SANS
11 4 (0.48%) CBAP
11 4 (0.48%) PMI Certification
11 4 (0.48%) TOGAF Certification
12 3 (0.36%) CISA
12 3 (0.36%) IIBA
12 3 (0.36%) MOS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (5.66%) Data Quality
2 30 (3.61%) QA
3 29 (3.49%) Accessibility
4 25 (3.01%) GDPR
5 17 (2.05%) GRC
5 17 (2.05%) SLA
6 11 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (0.84%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 7 (0.84%) PMO
8 5 (0.60%) WCAG
9 4 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
9 4 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 4 (0.48%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.24%) NCSC
10 2 (0.24%) NIST
11 1 (0.12%) GxP
11 1 (0.12%) JTAG
11 1 (0.12%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.12%) PSD2
System Software
1 33 (3.98%) Docker
2 12 (1.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (1.20%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (0.84%) Active Directory
5 5 (0.60%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 33 (3.98%) Kubernetes
2 11 (1.33%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (0.36%) Grafana
4 2 (0.24%) Ansible
4 2 (0.24%) Progress Chef
4 2 (0.24%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.24%) Puppet
4 2 (0.24%) SCCM
5 1 (0.12%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.12%) Nagios
5 1 (0.12%) Podman
Vendors
1 262 (31.57%) Microsoft
2 23 (2.77%) ServiceNow
3 18 (2.17%) Databricks
4 15 (1.81%) Adobe
4 15 (1.81%) Oracle
5 12 (1.45%) Apple
5 12 (1.45%) SAP
5 12 (1.45%) VMware
6 11 (1.33%) CrowdStrike
6 11 (1.33%) YouTube
7 10 (1.20%) OpenAI
7 10 (1.20%) Palo Alto
7 10 (1.20%) Tenable
8 8 (0.96%) Google
9 7 (0.84%) Citrix
9 7 (0.84%) Foundry
9 7 (0.84%) Salesforce
9 7 (0.84%) SonicWALL
10 6 (0.72%) HubSpot
11 5 (0.60%) Facebook