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

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 8 109
Rank change year-on-year -8 +101 +70
Permanent jobs citing AI 781 705 256
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 5.75% 12.47% 2.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.25% 14.60% 2.70%
Number of salaries quoted 397 115 147
10th Percentile £35,750 £35,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £47,000 £50,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £60,000 £58,700
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +2.21% +2.09%
75th Percentile £83,750 £73,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £89,500 £92,700
England median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +3.70% -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 9,463 4,829 9,474
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 69.69% 85.42% 78.66%
Number of salaries quoted 6,728 2,902 6,127
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £27,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £48,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.38% -4.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,063 £63,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,544 £77,500 £75,309
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 23 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 23 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 -5 497 £60,000 - 171
East Midlands -18 283 £52,500 -16.00% 85
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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 19 (2.43%) SharePoint
2 10 (1.28%) Jupyter
3 4 (0.51%) ArcGIS
4 3 (0.38%) Apache
4 3 (0.38%) CMS
4 3 (0.38%) Confluence
4 3 (0.38%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 3 (0.38%) WordPress
5 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.13%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.13%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.13%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.13%) IIS
6 1 (0.13%) nginx
Applications
1 180 (23.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (1.79%) Chatbot
3 10 (1.28%) Microsoft Office
4 8 (1.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (0.77%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.13%) LaTeX
6 1 (0.13%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.13%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 12 (1.54%) Cloudability
2 7 (0.90%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.51%) Sage 50
4 3 (0.38%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.26%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.26%) Shopify
6 1 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 1 (0.13%) Sage 200
6 1 (0.13%) SAP Business One
6 1 (0.13%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 353 (45.20%) Azure
2 246 (31.50%) Azure AI
3 232 (29.71%) Power Platform
4 88 (11.27%) AWS
5 52 (6.66%) SaaS
6 40 (5.12%) Microsoft Copilot
7 29 (3.71%) GCP
8 28 (3.59%) Microsoft 365
9 22 (2.82%) Serverless
10 17 (2.18%) Azure DevOps
11 16 (2.05%) Power Automate
12 13 (1.66%) Dynamics 365
13 12 (1.54%) GitHub
13 12 (1.54%) Microsoft Purview
13 12 (1.54%) PowerApps
14 10 (1.28%) Cloud Computing
14 10 (1.28%) Copilot Studio
15 9 (1.15%) Anthropic Claude
15 9 (1.15%) GitHub Copilot
15 9 (1.15%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.02%) DNS
1 8 (1.02%) Firewall
2 6 (0.77%) VPN
3 4 (0.51%) MQTT
4 3 (0.38%) Broadband
4 3 (0.38%) Wireless
5 2 (0.26%) DHCP
5 2 (0.26%) VLAN
5 2 (0.26%) VoIP
6 1 (0.13%) Diameter Protocol
6 1 (0.13%) IPFIX
6 1 (0.13%) Network Security
6 1 (0.13%) RTSP
6 1 (0.13%) SCTP
6 1 (0.13%) Software-Defined Radio
6 1 (0.13%) Unified Communications
6 1 (0.13%) UWB
6 1 (0.13%) VoLTE
6 1 (0.13%) WAN
6 1 (0.13%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 210 (26.89%) Power BI
2 177 (22.66%) Tableau
3 21 (2.69%) SQL Server
4 17 (2.18%) Azure SQL Database
5 16 (2.05%) MongoDB
6 12 (1.54%) Metadata
7 11 (1.41%) Data Lake
8 7 (0.90%) Data Warehouse
8 7 (0.90%) Redis
9 6 (0.77%) DynamoDB
10 5 (0.64%) Star Schema
11 4 (0.51%) Big Data
11 4 (0.51%) Power Query
11 4 (0.51%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 4 (0.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 3 (0.38%) Amazon RDS
12 3 (0.38%) Looker
12 3 (0.38%) MySQL
12 3 (0.38%) Semantic Layer
13 2 (0.26%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 10 (1.28%) Snyk
1 10 (1.28%) Visual Studio Code
2 7 (0.90%) Git
2 7 (0.90%) Maven
3 6 (0.77%) JUnit
3 6 (0.77%) Mockito
4 5 (0.64%) JIRA
4 5 (0.64%) Selenium
5 3 (0.38%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.26%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.26%) GitLab
6 2 (0.26%) Yeoman
7 1 (0.13%) Appium
7 1 (0.13%) Burp Suite
7 1 (0.13%) Gatling
7 1 (0.13%) IBM UrbanCode
7 1 (0.13%) Postman
7 1 (0.13%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.13%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.13%) Vite
General
1 347 (44.43%) Social Skills
2 150 (19.21%) Finance
3 75 (9.60%) Analytical Skills
4 64 (8.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 37 (4.74%) Legal
6 35 (4.48%) Law
6 35 (4.48%) Retail
7 28 (3.59%) Influencing Skills
7 28 (3.59%) Manufacturing
8 21 (2.69%) Marketing
9 20 (2.56%) Banking
10 19 (2.43%) Organisational Skills
11 16 (2.05%) Public Sector
12 9 (1.15%) Advertising
12 9 (1.15%) Automotive
13 7 (0.90%) Financial Institution
13 7 (0.90%) Social Housing
14 6 (0.77%) Japanese Language
15 5 (0.64%) Agriculture
15 5 (0.64%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 214 (27.40%) Analyst
2 169 (21.64%) Data Analyst
2 169 (21.64%) Junior
3 166 (21.25%) Junior Analyst
4 165 (21.13%) Junior Data Analyst
5 84 (10.76%) Senior
6 80 (10.24%) Developer
7 77 (9.86%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 70 (8.96%) Lead
9 52 (6.66%) Architect
10 25 (3.20%) Data Scientist
11 24 (3.07%) Business Analyst
11 24 (3.07%) Software Engineer
12 23 (2.94%) Accountant
12 23 (2.94%) Data Engineer
12 23 (2.94%) Systems Accountant
13 19 (2.43%) Consultant
14 17 (2.18%) Senior Analyst
15 16 (2.05%) Data Architect
15 16 (2.05%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (3.33%) .NET
2 25 (3.20%) React
3 17 (2.18%) ASP.NET
3 17 (2.18%) ASP.NET Core
4 14 (1.79%) HTML
5 13 (1.66%) .NET Core
5 13 (1.66%) REST
6 12 (1.54%) CSS
6 12 (1.54%) RESTful
6 12 (1.54%) scikit-learn
7 11 (1.41%) Matplotlib
8 10 (1.28%) Blazor
8 10 (1.28%) Hugging Face
8 10 (1.28%) ML.NET
8 10 (1.28%) Playwright
9 9 (1.15%) NumPy
9 9 (1.15%) Pandas
9 9 (1.15%) Spring
9 9 (1.15%) Streamlit
10 8 (1.02%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 22 (2.82%) Product Ownership
2 21 (2.69%) Cloud Native
3 15 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
4 12 (1.54%) Distributed Systems
4 12 (1.54%) Robotics
5 11 (1.41%) Algorithms
6 10 (1.28%) AI Agents
6 10 (1.28%) Data Centre
6 10 (1.28%) Driving Licence
6 10 (1.28%) Greenfield Project
6 10 (1.28%) Low-Code
6 10 (1.28%) Virtual Team
7 8 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
7 8 (1.02%) IoT
8 7 (0.90%) CSOC
8 7 (0.90%) Management Information System
9 6 (0.77%) Security Posture
10 5 (0.64%) Onboarding
10 5 (0.64%) Public Cloud
11 4 (0.51%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 18 (2.30%) Linux
2 13 (1.66%) Windows
3 8 (1.02%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.51%) VMS
5 2 (0.26%) Android
5 2 (0.26%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.13%) Alpine Linux
6 1 (0.13%) Kali Linux
6 1 (0.13%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.13%) Robot Operating System
6 1 (0.13%) Solaris
6 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 217 (27.78%) Business Intelligence
2 109 (13.96%) Analytics
3 90 (11.52%) Machine Learning
4 87 (11.14%) Agile
5 85 (10.88%) Problem-Solving
6 81 (10.37%) Continuous Improvement
7 78 (9.99%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
8 71 (9.09%) Roadmaps
9 70 (8.96%) Mentoring
10 68 (8.71%) CI/CD
10 68 (8.71%) Decision-Making
11 53 (6.79%) Stakeholder Management
12 51 (6.53%) LLM
13 49 (6.27%) Cybersecurity
14 44 (5.63%) Actionable Insight
14 44 (5.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 42 (5.38%) Data Governance
15 42 (5.38%) Data Science
16 41 (5.25%) Workflow
17 38 (4.87%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 320 (40.97%) Python
2 233 (29.83%) SQL
3 28 (3.59%) C#
4 27 (3.46%) JavaScript
5 18 (2.30%) TypeScript
6 14 (1.79%) PowerShell
7 11 (1.41%) Java
8 8 (1.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 7 (0.90%) Bash
10 6 (0.77%) PHP
10 6 (0.77%) PL/SQL
11 5 (0.64%) Kusto Query Language
12 4 (0.51%) R
13 3 (0.38%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.26%) C++
14 2 (0.26%) Go
15 1 (0.13%) JCL
15 1 (0.13%) MATLAB
15 1 (0.13%) Rust
15 1 (0.13%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 234 (29.96%) Azure Certification
2 49 (6.27%) Degree
3 39 (4.99%) Security Cleared
4 38 (4.87%) SC Cleared
5 22 (2.82%) AWS Certification
6 19 (2.43%) ACCA
6 19 (2.43%) CIMA
7 12 (1.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 10 (1.28%) Master's Degree
9 9 (1.15%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 7 (0.90%) SANS
11 6 (0.77%) Computer Science Degree
11 6 (0.77%) MOS
12 5 (0.64%) DV Cleared
13 4 (0.51%) BPSS Clearance
13 4 (0.51%) CISA
14 3 (0.38%) CIPD
14 3 (0.38%) PRINCE2 Certification
15 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Certification
15 2 (0.26%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (5.51%) Data Quality
2 28 (3.59%) QA
3 26 (3.33%) GDPR
4 16 (2.05%) GRC
5 14 (1.79%) Accessibility
6 9 (1.15%) SLA
7 7 (0.90%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 6 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 4 (0.51%) NIST
9 4 (0.51%) PMO
10 2 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.26%) WCAG
11 1 (0.13%) COBIT
11 1 (0.13%) GxP
11 1 (0.13%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.13%) ISO 9001
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 25 (3.20%) Docker
2 10 (1.28%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (0.77%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.26%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.13%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 25 (3.20%) Kubernetes
2 15 (1.92%) Terraform
3 5 (0.64%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (0.51%) Grafana
5 2 (0.26%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.13%) Ansible
6 1 (0.13%) HP Fortify
6 1 (0.13%) Nagios
6 1 (0.13%) Podman
6 1 (0.13%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.13%) Puppet
6 1 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 299 (38.28%) Microsoft
2 19 (2.43%) ServiceNow
3 15 (1.92%) Databricks
4 14 (1.79%) Adobe
5 12 (1.54%) Apple
5 12 (1.54%) OpenAI
6 11 (1.41%) CrowdStrike
6 11 (1.41%) Oracle
7 10 (1.28%) Palo Alto
7 10 (1.28%) SAP
7 10 (1.28%) Tenable
8 7 (0.90%) Foundry
9 6 (0.77%) Google
10 5 (0.64%) Aderant
10 5 (0.64%) ConnectWise
10 5 (0.64%) Facebook
10 5 (0.64%) Intapp
10 5 (0.64%) Sage
10 5 (0.64%) Salesforce
11 4 (0.51%) Xero