Artificial Intelligence Job Trends in the Midlands

Artificial Intelligence (AI)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Artificial Intelligence skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 106 162
Rank change year-on-year +99 +56 +1
Permanent jobs citing Artificial Intelligence 755 219 72
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 13.46% 2.17% 1.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.70% 2.77% 1.36%
Number of salaries quoted 103 98 32
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,350 £37,075
25th Percentile £49,375 £52,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -3.85% +8.33%
75th Percentile £72,625 £87,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £105,500 £98,250 £100,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £75,100
% change year-on-year -6.67% -0.13% +7.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

Artificial Intelligence 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 4,808 7,918 5,310
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 85.73% 78.61% 94.13%
Number of salaries quoted 2,883 4,035 3,831
10th Percentile £27,000 £28,893 £27,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £37,954
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,500 £65,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £62,400
% change year-on-year -4.35% -7.85% +4.00%

Artificial Intelligence
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing Artificial Intelligence as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Artificial Intelligence in the Midlands

Artificial Intelligence
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Artificial Intelligence.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Artificial Intelligence in the Midlands over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Artificial Intelligence in the Midlands

Artificial Intelligence
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 Artificial Intelligence within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 18 September 2025. 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 +108 407 £59,527 -4.76% 106
East Midlands +73 343 £65,000 +17.65% 65
Artificial Intelligence
England

Artificial Intelligence
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 12 (1.59%) Apache Spark
2 6 (0.79%) Apache
2 6 (0.79%) CMS
3 4 (0.53%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.26%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.26%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.13%) SAS
Applications
1 247 (32.72%) Chatbot
2 4 (0.53%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.40%) InDesign
4 1 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (1.32%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.79%) Dynamics AX
3 4 (0.53%) Shopify
4 2 (0.26%) SAP Business One
5 1 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.13%) Integrated Workplace Management System
Cloud Services
1 60 (7.95%) Azure
2 40 (5.30%) AWS
3 30 (3.97%) Power Platform
4 28 (3.71%) SaaS
5 17 (2.25%) GCP
6 12 (1.59%) Azure AI
7 10 (1.32%) Microsoft 365
8 9 (1.19%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (1.19%) Azure Key Vault
8 9 (1.19%) Entra ID
8 9 (1.19%) Snowflake
9 8 (1.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 7 (0.93%) Amazon S3
10 7 (0.93%) Power Automate
11 6 (0.79%) Amazon EKS
11 6 (0.79%) Amazon ELB
11 6 (0.79%) ChatGPT
12 5 (0.66%) PowerApps
13 4 (0.53%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 4 (0.53%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.06%) DNS
2 6 (0.79%) Firewall
3 5 (0.66%) VPN
4 4 (0.53%) DHCP
4 4 (0.53%) SD-WAN
4 4 (0.53%) TCP/IP
4 4 (0.53%) WAN
5 2 (0.26%) Intranet
5 2 (0.26%) SAN
5 2 (0.26%) Skype
6 1 (0.13%) 5G
6 1 (0.13%) Bluetooth
6 1 (0.13%) Internet
6 1 (0.13%) LoRaWAN
6 1 (0.13%) Modbus
6 1 (0.13%) MQTT
6 1 (0.13%) PuTTY
6 1 (0.13%) UWB
6 1 (0.13%) Wideband
6 1 (0.13%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (3.58%) Power BI
2 22 (2.91%) SQL Server
3 13 (1.72%) NoSQL
4 10 (1.32%) MySQL
5 8 (1.06%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (1.06%) Metadata
5 8 (1.06%) MongoDB
6 7 (0.93%) Amazon Redshift
6 7 (0.93%) Delta Lake
6 7 (0.93%) DynamoDB
6 7 (0.93%) Spark SQL
7 6 (0.79%) BigQuery
7 6 (0.79%) Tableau
8 5 (0.66%) Relational Database
9 4 (0.53%) Big Data
9 4 (0.53%) Data Lake
9 4 (0.53%) RDBMS
10 3 (0.40%) Power Query
10 3 (0.40%) Snowflake Schema
11 2 (0.26%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 15 (1.99%) Git
2 6 (0.79%) MLflow
3 4 (0.53%) JIRA
4 2 (0.26%) GitLab
General
1 315 (41.72%) Retail
2 293 (38.81%) Manufacturing
3 136 (18.01%) Analytical Skills
4 76 (10.07%) Dutch Language
4 76 (10.07%) Finnish Language
4 76 (10.07%) Norwegian Language
5 67 (8.87%) Social Skills
6 52 (6.89%) Finance
7 42 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 31 (4.11%) Public Sector
9 26 (3.44%) Law
10 19 (2.52%) Catalan Language
10 19 (2.52%) Marketing
11 15 (1.99%) Telecoms
12 10 (1.32%) Legal
13 8 (1.06%) Financial Institution
14 7 (0.93%) Agriculture
14 7 (0.93%) Banking
14 7 (0.93%) Games
15 6 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 524 (69.40%) Trainer
2 36 (4.77%) Architect
3 35 (4.64%) Developer
4 21 (2.78%) Research Scientist
5 20 (2.65%) Biostatistician
6 18 (2.38%) Content Editor
7 16 (2.12%) Consultant
8 15 (1.99%) Integration Consultant
8 15 (1.99%) Lead
8 15 (1.99%) Oracle Consultant
8 15 (1.99%) Oracle Technical Consultant
8 15 (1.99%) Technical Consultant
9 14 (1.85%) Senior
10 13 (1.72%) Mathematician
11 10 (1.32%) Data Engineer
11 10 (1.32%) Database Developer
11 10 (1.32%) Full-Stack Developer
11 10 (1.32%) Risk Manager
11 10 (1.32%) SQL Database Developer
11 10 (1.32%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (2.78%) HTML
2 11 (1.46%) PySpark
2 11 (1.46%) Spring
3 8 (1.06%) RESTful
4 6 (0.79%) .NET
4 6 (0.79%) Keras
4 6 (0.79%) Lambda Expressions
4 6 (0.79%) Metaflow
4 6 (0.79%) NumPy
4 6 (0.79%) Pandas
4 6 (0.79%) PyTorch
4 6 (0.79%) React
4 6 (0.79%) scikit-learn
4 6 (0.79%) Spring Boot
4 6 (0.79%) TensorFlow
4 6 (0.79%) Web Services
4 6 (0.79%) YAML
5 5 (0.66%) .NET Framework
5 5 (0.66%) Blazor
5 5 (0.66%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 300 (39.74%) Robotics
2 28 (3.71%) Molecular Biology
3 21 (2.78%) e-Learning
4 19 (2.52%) Hybrid Cloud
5 14 (1.85%) Data Centre
6 13 (1.72%) Blockchain
6 13 (1.72%) Management Information System
7 11 (1.46%) Cloud Native
7 11 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
8 10 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
8 10 (1.32%) Onboarding
9 8 (1.06%) AI Agents
9 8 (1.06%) Data Structures
9 8 (1.06%) Product Ownership
10 7 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
11 6 (0.79%) Legacy Code
11 6 (0.79%) Linux Command Line
11 6 (0.79%) Microsoft Licensing
12 5 (0.66%) IoT
12 5 (0.66%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 12 (1.59%) Windows
2 8 (1.06%) Windows Server
3 7 (0.93%) Unix
4 6 (0.79%) Linux
5 3 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.26%) Windows Server 2003
6 2 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.13%) OpenVMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 350 (46.36%) Machine Learning
2 315 (41.72%) Problem-Solving
3 293 (38.81%) Generative AI
4 290 (38.41%) LLM
5 285 (37.75%) Red Team
6 247 (32.72%) Conversational UI
7 231 (30.60%) Data Privacy
8 106 (14.04%) Chemistry
9 71 (9.40%) Mathematics
10 67 (8.87%) Analytics
11 61 (8.08%) Computer Science
12 55 (7.28%) Agile
13 52 (6.89%) Biology
14 48 (6.36%) Physics
15 47 (6.23%) Biochemistry
16 46 (6.09%) Roadmaps
17 39 (5.17%) Mentoring
18 38 (5.03%) Coaching
19 35 (4.64%) Data Analytics
20 31 (4.11%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 86 (11.39%) SQL
2 58 (7.68%) Python
3 42 (5.56%) Java
4 31 (4.11%) C#
5 27 (3.58%) R
6 26 (3.44%) JavaScript
7 24 (3.18%) TypeScript
8 21 (2.78%) PHP
9 20 (2.65%) C++
10 19 (2.52%) C
10 19 (2.52%) Dart
10 19 (2.52%) MATLAB
10 19 (2.52%) Ruby
10 19 (2.52%) Rust
11 12 (1.59%) PowerShell
12 10 (1.32%) T-SQL
13 9 (1.19%) Bicep
14 3 (0.40%) Bash
14 3 (0.40%) VB
15 2 (0.26%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 577 (76.42%) Degree
2 178 (23.58%) Master's Degree
2 178 (23.58%) PhD
3 22 (2.91%) Computer Science Degree
4 14 (1.85%) DBS Check
5 11 (1.46%) Security Cleared
6 6 (0.79%) CISA
6 6 (0.79%) DV Cleared
6 6 (0.79%) ISACA
7 5 (0.66%) Azure Certification
7 5 (0.66%) SC Cleared
8 4 (0.53%) TOGAF Certification
9 2 (0.26%) CITP
9 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.13%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.13%) CCNA
10 1 (0.13%) CISSP
10 1 (0.13%) Network+ Certification
10 1 (0.13%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.13%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (1.72%) ITGC
2 7 (0.93%) QA
3 3 (0.40%) PMBOK
4 2 (0.26%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.26%) SLA
5 1 (0.13%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.13%) COBIT
5 1 (0.13%) NCSC
System Software
1 11 (1.46%) Docker
2 4 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (0.40%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.26%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.26%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.13%) Apache Flume
5 1 (0.13%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 13 (1.72%) Kubernetes
1 13 (1.72%) Terraform
2 6 (0.79%) Kubeflow
3 4 (0.53%) SCOM
3 4 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.26%) Ansible
4 2 (0.26%) Progress Chef
4 2 (0.26%) Puppet
4 2 (0.26%) SCCM
4 2 (0.26%) SCOrch
4 2 (0.26%) SCSM
5 1 (0.13%) Argo
5 1 (0.13%) Grafana
5 1 (0.13%) Kibana
5 1 (0.13%) Kustomize
5 1 (0.13%) logstash
5 1 (0.13%) Oozie
Vendors
1 301 (39.87%) Databricks
2 300 (39.74%) Adobe
3 298 (39.47%) Google
4 239 (31.66%) PayPal
5 48 (6.36%) Microsoft
6 21 (2.78%) Oracle
7 18 (2.38%) Red Hat
8 15 (1.99%) IBM
9 9 (1.19%) Apple
9 9 (1.19%) Palo Alto
9 9 (1.19%) SAP
10 7 (0.93%) Salesforce
11 5 (0.66%) Cisco
11 5 (0.66%) OpenAI
11 5 (0.66%) UiPath
12 4 (0.53%) Extreme Networks
12 4 (0.53%) HubSpot
12 4 (0.53%) Juniper
12 4 (0.53%) Meraki
13 3 (0.40%) ServiceNow