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

6 months to
7 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 8 103
Rank change year-on-year -7 +95 +78
Permanent jobs citing AI 748 690 300
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 5.74% 12.70% 2.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.23% 14.69% 2.79%
Number of salaries quoted 370 112 187
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £46,563 £48,125 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £59,625 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.76% +3.70% -
75th Percentile £79,578 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,750 £90,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £66,340 £70,000
% change year-on-year +5.52% -5.23% -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 9,087 4,698 10,765
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 69.74% 86.49% 79.21%
Number of salaries quoted 6,445 2,765 7,320
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £48,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.25% +2.11% -9.52%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £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 7 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 7 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 -5 469 £57,500 - 207
East Midlands -15 278 £52,500 -14.29% 113
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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 (2.14%) SharePoint
2 9 (1.20%) Jupyter
3 3 (0.40%) ArcGIS
3 3 (0.40%) CMS
3 3 (0.40%) Confluence
4 2 (0.27%) Apache
4 2 (0.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (0.27%) 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 (25.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (1.60%) Chatbot
3 11 (1.47%) Microsoft Office
4 7 (0.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (0.80%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.13%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.13%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 12 (1.60%) Cloudability
2 7 (0.94%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.53%) Sage 50
4 3 (0.40%) NetSuite
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
1 353 (47.19%) Azure
2 256 (34.22%) Azure AI
3 235 (31.42%) Power Platform
4 79 (10.56%) AWS
5 52 (6.95%) SaaS
6 34 (4.55%) Microsoft Copilot
7 25 (3.34%) GCP
8 22 (2.94%) Microsoft 365
9 21 (2.81%) Serverless
10 16 (2.14%) Azure DevOps
11 14 (1.87%) Power Automate
12 12 (1.60%) GitHub
12 12 (1.60%) Microsoft Purview
13 11 (1.47%) PowerApps
14 10 (1.34%) Cloud Computing
14 10 (1.34%) Copilot Studio
14 10 (1.34%) GitHub Copilot
15 9 (1.20%) Anthropic Claude
15 9 (1.20%) Dynamics 365
15 9 (1.20%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.94%) DNS
2 6 (0.80%) Firewall
3 5 (0.67%) VPN
4 4 (0.53%) MQTT
5 3 (0.40%) Broadband
6 2 (0.27%) DHCP
6 2 (0.27%) VLAN
6 2 (0.27%) VoIP
6 2 (0.27%) Wireless
7 1 (0.13%) FTP
7 1 (0.13%) HTTP
7 1 (0.13%) Network Security
7 1 (0.13%) RTSP
7 1 (0.13%) SCTP
7 1 (0.13%) SNMP
7 1 (0.13%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.13%) Unified Communications
7 1 (0.13%) UWB
7 1 (0.13%) WAN
7 1 (0.13%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 217 (29.01%) Power BI
2 187 (25.00%) Tableau
3 22 (2.94%) SQL Server
4 17 (2.27%) Azure SQL Database
5 16 (2.14%) MongoDB
6 12 (1.60%) Metadata
7 10 (1.34%) Data Lake
8 7 (0.94%) Data Warehouse
8 7 (0.94%) Redis
9 6 (0.80%) DynamoDB
10 5 (0.67%) 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 (0.27%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 10 (1.34%) Snyk
2 9 (1.20%) Visual Studio Code
3 6 (0.80%) JIRA
4 5 (0.67%) Git
4 5 (0.67%) JUnit
4 5 (0.67%) Maven
4 5 (0.67%) Mockito
4 5 (0.67%) Selenium
5 2 (0.27%) Cypress.io
5 2 (0.27%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.27%) Yeoman
6 1 (0.13%) Appium
6 1 (0.13%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.13%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.13%) Gatling
6 1 (0.13%) GitLab
6 1 (0.13%) Postman
6 1 (0.13%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.13%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.13%) Vite
General
1 337 (45.05%) Social Skills
2 133 (17.78%) Finance
3 67 (8.96%) Analytical Skills
4 60 (8.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 38 (5.08%) Legal
6 34 (4.55%) Retail
7 33 (4.41%) Law
8 27 (3.61%) Manufacturing
9 25 (3.34%) Influencing Skills
10 20 (2.67%) Banking
11 18 (2.41%) Marketing
11 18 (2.41%) Organisational Skills
12 17 (2.27%) Public Sector
13 9 (1.20%) Advertising
14 8 (1.07%) Automotive
15 7 (0.94%) Social Housing
16 6 (0.80%) Financial Institution
16 6 (0.80%) Japanese Language
17 5 (0.67%) Agriculture
17 5 (0.67%) Games
Job Titles
1 225 (30.08%) Analyst
2 180 (24.06%) Data Analyst
3 179 (23.93%) Junior
4 177 (23.66%) Junior Analyst
5 176 (23.53%) Junior Data Analyst
6 81 (10.83%) Developer
7 76 (10.16%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 76 (10.16%) Senior
8 64 (8.56%) Lead
9 46 (6.15%) Architect
10 24 (3.21%) Business Analyst
10 24 (3.21%) Data Scientist
11 23 (3.07%) Accountant
11 23 (3.07%) Data Engineer
11 23 (3.07%) Systems Accountant
12 20 (2.67%) Software Engineer
13 17 (2.27%) Senior Analyst
14 16 (2.14%) Data Architect
15 15 (2.01%) Software Developer
15 15 (2.01%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (3.74%) .NET
2 23 (3.07%) React
3 18 (2.41%) ASP.NET
4 17 (2.27%) ASP.NET Core
5 14 (1.87%) HTML
6 13 (1.74%) .NET Core
7 12 (1.60%) CSS
8 11 (1.47%) Blazor
8 11 (1.47%) RESTful
8 11 (1.47%) scikit-learn
9 10 (1.34%) Hugging Face
9 10 (1.34%) Matplotlib
9 10 (1.34%) ML.NET
9 10 (1.34%) REST
10 9 (1.20%) .NET Framework
10 9 (1.20%) NumPy
10 9 (1.20%) Pandas
10 9 (1.20%) Playwright
10 9 (1.20%) Streamlit
11 7 (0.94%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 22 (2.94%) Product Ownership
2 17 (2.27%) Cloud Native
3 13 (1.74%) Robotics
4 12 (1.60%) Algorithms
5 11 (1.47%) Distributed Systems
5 11 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
6 10 (1.34%) Data Centre
6 10 (1.34%) Driving Licence
6 10 (1.34%) Low-Code
6 10 (1.34%) Virtual Team
7 9 (1.20%) AI Agents
8 8 (1.07%) Greenfield Project
8 8 (1.07%) IoT
9 7 (0.94%) CSOC
9 7 (0.94%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (0.67%) Management Information System
10 5 (0.67%) Mobile App
10 5 (0.67%) Public Cloud
10 5 (0.67%) Security Posture
11 4 (0.53%) Augmented Reality
Operating Systems
1 12 (1.60%) Linux
2 10 (1.34%) Windows
3 6 (0.80%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.53%) VMS
5 2 (0.27%) Android
5 2 (0.27%) 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
1 224 (29.95%) Business Intelligence
2 101 (13.50%) Analytics
3 83 (11.10%) Machine Learning
4 78 (10.43%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
5 75 (10.03%) Agile
5 75 (10.03%) Problem-Solving
6 70 (9.36%) Continuous Improvement
7 66 (8.82%) Roadmaps
8 64 (8.56%) Mentoring
9 61 (8.16%) CI/CD
9 61 (8.16%) Decision-Making
10 47 (6.28%) LLM
11 43 (5.75%) Actionable Insight
12 42 (5.61%) Cybersecurity
13 41 (5.48%) Stakeholder Management
14 39 (5.21%) Data Governance
15 38 (5.08%) Validation
15 38 (5.08%) Workflow
16 36 (4.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 35 (4.68%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 325 (43.45%) Python
2 240 (32.09%) SQL
3 30 (4.01%) C#
4 25 (3.34%) JavaScript
5 17 (2.27%) TypeScript
6 9 (1.20%) PowerShell
7 8 (1.07%) Java
8 7 (0.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 6 (0.80%) Bash
9 6 (0.80%) PHP
10 5 (0.67%) Kusto Query Language
10 5 (0.67%) PL/SQL
11 4 (0.53%) R
12 3 (0.40%) C++
12 3 (0.40%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.27%) Go
14 1 (0.13%) C
14 1 (0.13%) JCL
14 1 (0.13%) Rust
14 1 (0.13%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 243 (32.49%) Azure Certification
2 47 (6.28%) Degree
3 34 (4.55%) Security Cleared
4 33 (4.41%) SC Cleared
5 21 (2.81%) AWS Certification
6 19 (2.54%) ACCA
6 19 (2.54%) CIMA
7 12 (1.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 10 (1.34%) Master's Degree
9 9 (1.20%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 7 (0.94%) SANS
11 6 (0.80%) Computer Science Degree
11 6 (0.80%) MOS
12 5 (0.67%) 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 (0.27%) CBAP
15 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (5.75%) Data Quality
2 26 (3.48%) GDPR
3 24 (3.21%) QA
4 15 (2.01%) Accessibility
5 14 (1.87%) GRC
6 7 (0.94%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 5 (0.67%) SLA
8 4 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.53%) PMO
8 4 (0.53%) WCAG
9 3 (0.40%) NIST
10 2 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.13%) COBIT
11 1 (0.13%) GxP
11 1 (0.13%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.13%) ISO 19650
11 1 (0.13%) JTAG
11 1 (0.13%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.13%) PSD2
11 1 (0.13%) SOC 2
System Software
1 22 (2.94%) Docker
2 10 (1.34%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (0.80%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.13%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.13%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 21 (2.81%) Kubernetes
2 12 (1.60%) Terraform
3 4 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (0.40%) Grafana
5 1 (0.13%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.13%) Nagios
5 1 (0.13%) Podman
5 1 (0.13%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 297 (39.71%) Microsoft
2 18 (2.41%) ServiceNow
3 15 (2.01%) Databricks
4 14 (1.87%) Adobe
5 12 (1.60%) Apple
5 12 (1.60%) OpenAI
6 10 (1.34%) CrowdStrike
6 10 (1.34%) Oracle
6 10 (1.34%) Palo Alto
6 10 (1.34%) Tenable
7 9 (1.20%) SAP
8 6 (0.80%) Foundry
9 5 (0.67%) Aderant
9 5 (0.67%) ConnectWise
9 5 (0.67%) Facebook
9 5 (0.67%) Google
9 5 (0.67%) Intapp
9 5 (0.67%) Sage
9 5 (0.67%) Salesforce
10 4 (0.53%) HighQ