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 12 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 131 140
Rank change year-on-year +128 +9 +41
Permanent jobs citing AI 1,257 148 84
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 17.63% 1.88% 1.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 21.33% 2.17% 1.88%
Number of salaries quoted 119 84 40
10th Percentile £26,400 £37,500 £31,200
25th Percentile £41,875 £46,875 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.79% +11.54% +3.17%
75th Percentile £85,000 £96,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
England median annual salary £72,500 £77,500 £76,383
% change year-on-year -6.45% +1.46% +9.12%

All Process and 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 5,893 6,808 4,480
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 82.67% 86.29% 92.66%
Number of salaries quoted 3,389 3,056 3,520
10th Percentile £27,250 £31,000 £26,500
25th Percentile £32,656 £38,750 £36,376
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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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 12 December 2025.

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 12 December 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 +114 994 £65,000 +4.00% 884
East Midlands +96 269 £57,500 -32.35% 708
AI
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 8 (0.64%) Apache Spark
2 7 (0.56%) CMS
2 7 (0.56%) SharePoint
3 5 (0.40%) Apache
4 3 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.16%) SAS
5 2 (0.16%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.080%) WordPress
Applications
1 268 (21.32%) Chatbot
2 48 (3.82%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.32%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.24%) InDesign
5 1 (0.080%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.080%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 17 (1.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.24%) SAP Business One
2 3 (0.24%) Shopify
3 1 (0.080%) Integrated Workplace Management System
3 1 (0.080%) Maximo
3 1 (0.080%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.080%) Odoo
Cloud Services
1 757 (60.22%) Cloud Computing
2 107 (8.51%) Azure
3 63 (5.01%) Power Platform
4 53 (4.22%) Azure AI
5 39 (3.10%) AWS
6 30 (2.39%) SaaS
7 14 (1.11%) Microsoft 365
8 13 (1.03%) GCP
9 10 (0.80%) Dynamics 365
9 10 (0.80%) PowerApps
10 9 (0.72%) Power Automate
11 8 (0.64%) Amazon S3
11 8 (0.64%) Azure DevOps
12 7 (0.56%) Amazon EKS
12 7 (0.56%) Microsoft Copilot
13 6 (0.48%) Amazon ELB
13 6 (0.48%) Entra ID
13 6 (0.48%) Serverless
14 5 (0.40%) Azure Data Factory
14 5 (0.40%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 757 (60.22%) Internet
2 5 (0.40%) Intranet
3 1 (0.080%) Bluetooth
3 1 (0.080%) PuTTY
3 1 (0.080%) UWB
3 1 (0.080%) Wideband
3 1 (0.080%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (4.38%) Power BI
2 50 (3.98%) Tableau
3 13 (1.03%) SQL Server
4 10 (0.80%) Delta Lake
5 8 (0.64%) Metadata
6 7 (0.56%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (0.56%) DynamoDB
6 7 (0.56%) Spark SQL
7 3 (0.24%) Big Data
7 3 (0.24%) MongoDB
7 3 (0.24%) MySQL
7 3 (0.24%) NoSQL
7 3 (0.24%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (0.16%) Data Mining
8 2 (0.16%) Neo4j
8 2 (0.16%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.16%) Snowflake Schema
9 1 (0.080%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.080%) Hazelcast
9 1 (0.080%) Impala
Development Applications
1 8 (0.64%) Git
2 7 (0.56%) MLflow
3 2 (0.16%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.080%) Babel
4 1 (0.080%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.080%) GitLab
4 1 (0.080%) JIRA
4 1 (0.080%) JUnit
4 1 (0.080%) Mockito
4 1 (0.080%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.080%) Vite
4 1 (0.080%) webpack
General
1 854 (67.94%) Social Skills
2 794 (63.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 761 (60.54%) Banking
4 102 (8.11%) Analytical Skills
5 30 (2.39%) Retail
6 29 (2.31%) Public Sector
7 25 (1.99%) Finance
8 16 (1.27%) Law
9 15 (1.19%) Legal
10 14 (1.11%) Marketing
11 6 (0.48%) Agriculture
12 5 (0.40%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (0.32%) Manufacturing
14 3 (0.24%) Automotive
14 3 (0.24%) Financial Institution
14 3 (0.24%) Presentation Skills
15 2 (0.16%) Advertising
15 2 (0.16%) Back Office
15 2 (0.16%) Influencing Skills
16 1 (0.080%) Games
Job Titles
1 538 (42.80%) Lecturer
2 263 (20.92%) Trainer
3 48 (3.82%) Junior
4 46 (3.66%) Analyst
5 44 (3.50%) Data Analyst
5 44 (3.50%) Junior Analyst
5 44 (3.50%) Junior Data Analyst
5 44 (3.50%) Research Scientist
6 43 (3.42%) Architect
7 35 (2.78%) Content Editor
8 26 (2.07%) Developer
9 16 (1.27%) Biostatistician
9 16 (1.27%) Solutions Architect
10 11 (0.88%) Customer Support Specialist
10 11 (0.88%) Support Specialist
11 10 (0.80%) Data Engineer
12 9 (0.72%) Coordinator
13 8 (0.64%) Customer Service Representative
13 8 (0.64%) Lead
13 8 (0.64%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (0.88%) PySpark
2 10 (0.80%) .NET
3 8 (0.64%) PyTorch
3 8 (0.64%) RESTful
3 8 (0.64%) TensorFlow
4 7 (0.56%) HTML
4 7 (0.56%) scikit-learn
5 6 (0.48%) CSS
5 6 (0.48%) Keras
5 6 (0.48%) Lambda Expressions
5 6 (0.48%) Metaflow
5 6 (0.48%) NumPy
5 6 (0.48%) Pandas
5 6 (0.48%) React
5 6 (0.48%) YAML
6 5 (0.40%) .NET Framework
7 4 (0.32%) Blazor
7 4 (0.32%) Spring
8 3 (0.24%) ASP.NET
8 3 (0.24%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 759 (60.38%) IoT
2 46 (3.66%) Molecular Biology
3 13 (1.03%) Cloud Native
4 10 (0.80%) Data Centre
5 9 (0.72%) AI Agents
5 9 (0.72%) Blog
6 8 (0.64%) Linux Command Line
6 8 (0.64%) Onboarding
6 8 (0.64%) Web Conferencing
7 7 (0.56%) Self-Motivation
8 6 (0.48%) Microsoft Licensing
9 5 (0.40%) Legacy Code
9 5 (0.40%) Product Ownership
10 4 (0.32%) Algorithms
10 4 (0.32%) e-Learning
11 3 (0.24%) Animation
11 3 (0.24%) Graphic Design
11 3 (0.24%) Learning Management System
11 3 (0.24%) Management Information System
11 3 (0.24%) Video Editing
Operating Systems
1 10 (0.80%) Windows
2 7 (0.56%) Unix
3 4 (0.32%) Linux
4 3 (0.24%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.16%) Mac OS X
6 1 (0.080%) OpenVMS
6 1 (0.080%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 805 (64.04%) Machine Learning
2 781 (62.13%) User Experience
3 776 (61.73%) Cybersecurity
4 761 (60.54%) Web Development
5 271 (21.56%) Conversational UI
6 83 (6.60%) Chemistry
7 57 (4.53%) Business Intelligence
8 46 (3.66%) Biochemistry
8 46 (3.66%) Biology
8 46 (3.66%) Biotechnology
8 46 (3.66%) Data Interpretation
8 46 (3.66%) Experimental Design
9 45 (3.58%) Customer Service
10 42 (3.34%) Content Writing
11 40 (3.18%) Roadmaps
12 39 (3.10%) Analytics
13 36 (2.86%) Agile
14 31 (2.47%) Mathematics
15 29 (2.31%) CRM
15 29 (2.31%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 100 (7.96%) Python
2 89 (7.08%) SQL
3 15 (1.19%) Java
3 15 (1.19%) JavaScript
4 9 (0.72%) C#
5 8 (0.64%) R
6 5 (0.40%) TypeScript
7 3 (0.24%) Bicep
7 3 (0.24%) PHP
7 3 (0.24%) PowerShell
8 2 (0.16%) C++
8 2 (0.16%) Ruby
9 1 (0.080%) Bash
9 1 (0.080%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.080%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.080%) PROC SQL
9 1 (0.080%) VB
Qualifications
1 1,050 (83.53%) Degree
2 915 (72.79%) Master's Degree
3 914 (72.71%) PhD
4 757 (60.22%) Postgraduate
5 46 (3.66%) Azure Certification
6 11 (0.88%) SC Cleared
6 11 (0.88%) Security Cleared
7 4 (0.32%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (0.32%) TOGAF Certification
8 2 (0.16%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.16%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.16%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.080%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.080%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.080%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (0.48%) Accessibility
1 6 (0.48%) QA
2 5 (0.40%) Data Quality
3 4 (0.32%) WCAG
4 1 (0.080%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.080%) COBIT
4 1 (0.080%) GDPR
System Software
1 11 (0.88%) Docker
2 3 (0.24%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.080%) Apache Flume
3 1 (0.080%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 15 (1.19%) Kubernetes
2 11 (0.88%) Terraform
3 6 (0.48%) Kubeflow
4 1 (0.080%) Ansible
4 1 (0.080%) Argo
4 1 (0.080%) Grafana
4 1 (0.080%) Kibana
4 1 (0.080%) Kustomize
4 1 (0.080%) logstash
4 1 (0.080%) Oozie
Vendors
1 263 (20.92%) PayPal
2 100 (7.96%) Microsoft
3 21 (1.67%) Databricks
4 17 (1.35%) Adobe
5 10 (0.80%) Apple
6 9 (0.72%) Palo Alto
7 6 (0.48%) OpenAI
8 5 (0.40%) HubSpot
8 5 (0.40%) SAP
8 5 (0.40%) UiPath
9 4 (0.32%) Cisco
9 4 (0.32%) Extreme Networks
9 4 (0.32%) Juniper
9 4 (0.32%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.16%) Automation Anywhere
10 2 (0.16%) Google
11 1 (0.080%) Informatica
11 1 (0.080%) MicroStrategy
11 1 (0.080%) Oracle
11 1 (0.080%) Red Hat