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

6 months to
12 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 4 110
Rank change year-on-year -14 +106 +53
Permanent jobs citing AI 816 832 191
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 5.22% 15.01% 2.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.37% 17.28% 2.53%
Number of salaries quoted 438 92 79
10th Percentile £36,000 £37,625 £39,500
25th Percentile £45,188 £52,375 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £61,250 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% -5.77% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £94,375
90th Percentile £97,500 £106,500 £110,000
England median annual salary £72,500 £72,463 £75,000
% change year-on-year +0.05% -3.38% -

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 11,065 4,815 7,536
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 70.75% 86.85% 80.52%
Number of salaries quoted 7,812 2,803 3,480
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £39,500 £32,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,281 £45,390 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.77% -9.22% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -1.32%

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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 October 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 12 October 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 -8 535 £65,000 +8.33% 492
East Midlands -22 281 £60,000 -7.69% 278
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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 44 (5.39%) SharePoint
2 17 (2.08%) CMS
3 11 (1.35%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (1.10%) Apache
5 8 (0.98%) IIS
5 8 (0.98%) nginx
6 7 (0.86%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 5 (0.61%) WordPress
8 2 (0.25%) Confluence
8 2 (0.25%) SAS
9 1 (0.12%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.12%) Apache Spark
9 1 (0.12%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.12%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.12%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 44 (5.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (1.47%) Chatbot
3 11 (1.35%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (0.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.61%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.25%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.12%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.12%) Adobe Premiere
6 1 (0.12%) Elementor
6 1 (0.12%) InDesign
6 1 (0.12%) LaTeX
6 1 (0.12%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.12%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 12 (1.47%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (1.23%) Cloudability
3 4 (0.49%) Sage 50
3 4 (0.49%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.49%) Shopify
4 3 (0.37%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (0.37%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.25%) Integrated Workplace Management System
5 2 (0.25%) Sage 200
5 2 (0.25%) SAP Business One
5 2 (0.25%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.12%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.12%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.12%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.12%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 1 (0.12%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.12%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 208 (25.49%) Azure
2 131 (16.05%) Power Platform
3 98 (12.01%) SaaS
4 91 (11.15%) AWS
5 59 (7.23%) Microsoft Copilot
6 58 (7.11%) Azure AI
6 58 (7.11%) Microsoft 365
7 36 (4.41%) Azure DevOps
8 35 (4.29%) Power Automate
9 32 (3.92%) Dynamics 365
10 31 (3.80%) Serverless
11 28 (3.43%) GCP
12 24 (2.94%) GitHub
13 16 (1.96%) Entra ID
13 16 (1.96%) PowerApps
14 15 (1.84%) Azure Functions
15 14 (1.72%) Copilot Studio
15 14 (1.72%) GitHub Copilot
16 11 (1.35%) iPaaS
17 9 (1.10%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 20 (2.45%) Firewall
2 18 (2.21%) DNS
3 12 (1.47%) Internet
4 10 (1.23%) VPN
5 4 (0.49%) DHCP
5 4 (0.49%) MQTT
5 4 (0.49%) VoIP
6 3 (0.37%) HTTP
6 3 (0.37%) Network Security
6 3 (0.37%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.25%) Broadband
7 2 (0.25%) VLAN
7 2 (0.25%) Wireless
8 1 (0.12%) RTSP
8 1 (0.12%) SCTP
8 1 (0.12%) Software-Defined Radio
8 1 (0.12%) Unified Communications
8 1 (0.12%) UWB
8 1 (0.12%) VoLTE
8 1 (0.12%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 105 (12.87%) Power BI
2 48 (5.88%) Tableau
3 34 (4.17%) SQL Server
4 20 (2.45%) MongoDB
5 19 (2.33%) Data Lake
6 18 (2.21%) Azure SQL Database
7 14 (1.72%) Data Warehouse
7 14 (1.72%) Metadata
8 13 (1.59%) Big Data
9 8 (0.98%) Power Query
10 6 (0.74%) Delta Lake
10 6 (0.74%) Redis
10 6 (0.74%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 6 (0.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 5 (0.61%) DynamoDB
11 5 (0.61%) Oracle BI EE
11 5 (0.61%) QlikView
11 5 (0.61%) Relational Database
11 5 (0.61%) Semantic Layer
11 5 (0.61%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 25 (3.06%) Git
2 16 (1.96%) JIRA
3 12 (1.47%) Maven
4 10 (1.23%) JUnit
4 10 (1.23%) Mockito
5 6 (0.74%) Snyk
6 4 (0.49%) Jenkins
6 4 (0.49%) Octopus Deploy
7 3 (0.37%) GitLab
7 3 (0.37%) Visual Studio Code
8 2 (0.25%) Ant
8 2 (0.25%) Apache Ivy
8 2 (0.25%) IBM UrbanCode
8 2 (0.25%) Yeoman
9 1 (0.12%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.12%) JMeter
9 1 (0.12%) LoadRunner
9 1 (0.12%) NUnit
9 1 (0.12%) Selenium
9 1 (0.12%) SonarQube
General
1 270 (33.09%) Social Skills
2 248 (30.39%) Finance
3 149 (18.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 106 (12.99%) Marketing
5 97 (11.89%) Analytical Skills
6 47 (5.76%) Influencing Skills
7 45 (5.51%) Public Sector
8 41 (5.02%) Legal
9 38 (4.66%) Retail
10 28 (3.43%) Manufacturing
10 28 (3.43%) Presentation Skills
11 26 (3.19%) Law
11 26 (3.19%) Organisational Skills
12 20 (2.45%) Banking
13 19 (2.33%) Advertising
14 12 (1.47%) Telecoms
15 9 (1.10%) French Language
16 7 (0.86%) Automotive
17 6 (0.74%) Electronics
17 6 (0.74%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 120 (14.71%) Senior
2 108 (13.24%) Developer
3 91 (11.15%) Lead
4 70 (8.58%) Analyst
4 70 (8.58%) Architect
5 43 (5.27%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 42 (5.15%) Software Engineer
7 36 (4.41%) Data Engineer
8 33 (4.04%) Consultant
9 30 (3.68%) Sales Executive
10 25 (3.06%) Account Executive
10 25 (3.06%) Business Analyst
10 25 (3.06%) Data Scientist
10 25 (3.06%) Junior
10 25 (3.06%) Senior Developer
11 24 (2.94%) Data Analyst
11 24 (2.94%) Solutions Architect
12 23 (2.82%) Junior Analyst
12 23 (2.82%) Principal Engineer
13 22 (2.70%) Junior Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (4.41%) REST
2 33 (4.04%) .NET
3 29 (3.55%) React
4 21 (2.57%) Terraform
5 20 (2.45%) CSS
6 16 (1.96%) ASP.NET
6 16 (1.96%) ASP.NET Core
7 13 (1.59%) Spring
7 13 (1.59%) XML
8 12 (1.47%) .NET Core
8 12 (1.47%) HTML
8 12 (1.47%) PySpark
9 11 (1.35%) JSON
9 11 (1.35%) PyTorch
9 11 (1.35%) TensorFlow
10 10 (1.23%) Middleware
10 10 (1.23%) RESTful
11 9 (1.10%) JWT
11 9 (1.10%) OAuth
11 9 (1.10%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 87 (10.66%) Onboarding
2 43 (5.27%) Self-Motivation
3 32 (3.92%) Management Information System
3 32 (3.92%) Marketing Technology
4 31 (3.80%) Cloud Native
5 27 (3.31%) AI Agents
6 20 (2.45%) Product Ownership
7 19 (2.33%) Virtual Team
8 15 (1.84%) Driving Licence
9 14 (1.72%) Distributed Systems
10 12 (1.47%) Social Media
11 11 (1.35%) Greenfield Project
12 10 (1.23%) IoT
12 10 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
12 10 (1.23%) Low-Code
12 10 (1.23%) Public Cloud
12 10 (1.23%) Taxonomies
13 9 (1.10%) Data Centre
13 9 (1.10%) Enterprise Software
14 8 (0.98%) BYOD
Operating Systems
1 35 (4.29%) Linux
2 26 (3.19%) Windows
3 22 (2.70%) Windows Server
4 9 (1.10%) Ubuntu
5 4 (0.49%) Android
5 4 (0.49%) VMS
6 3 (0.37%) macOS
7 2 (0.25%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.25%) Solaris
8 1 (0.12%) Alpine Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 161 (19.73%) Analytics
2 158 (19.36%) Continuous Improvement
3 132 (16.18%) Agile
4 124 (15.20%) Stakeholder Management
5 123 (15.07%) Mentoring
6 116 (14.22%) Business Intelligence
7 109 (13.36%) Problem-Solving
8 107 (13.11%) Roadmaps
9 104 (12.75%) Decision-Making
10 92 (11.27%) CI/CD
11 86 (10.54%) Machine Learning
12 80 (9.80%) Coaching
13 76 (9.31%) SEO
14 71 (8.70%) Software Engineering
15 70 (8.58%) Digital Marketing
16 66 (8.09%) Content Marketing
17 64 (7.84%) Cybersecurity
18 63 (7.72%) DevOps
18 63 (7.72%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 56 (6.86%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 145 (17.77%) Python
2 121 (14.83%) SQL
3 52 (6.37%) JavaScript
4 42 (5.15%) C#
5 24 (2.94%) PowerShell
6 21 (2.57%) TypeScript
7 19 (2.33%) Java
8 14 (1.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 11 (1.35%) Bash
9 11 (1.35%) PL/SQL
9 11 (1.35%) R
10 7 (0.86%) PHP
11 5 (0.61%) C++
11 5 (0.61%) T-SQL
12 3 (0.37%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (0.25%) Go
14 1 (0.12%) MATLAB
14 1 (0.12%) Rust
14 1 (0.12%) VB.NET
14 1 (0.12%) VBA
Qualifications
1 93 (11.40%) Degree
2 74 (9.07%) Security Cleared
3 68 (8.33%) SC Cleared
4 62 (7.60%) Azure Certification
5 24 (2.94%) Master's Degree
6 20 (2.45%) Microsoft Certification
7 17 (2.08%) ACCA
8 16 (1.96%) CIMA
9 13 (1.59%) AWS Certification
10 11 (1.35%) DV Cleared
11 10 (1.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 10 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
11 10 (1.23%) TOGAF Certification
12 9 (1.10%) Computer Science Degree
13 4 (0.49%) CBAP
13 4 (0.49%) CISM
13 4 (0.49%) CISSP
13 4 (0.49%) PMI Certification
13 4 (0.49%) SANS
14 3 (0.37%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (7.23%) Data Quality
2 33 (4.04%) Accessibility
3 29 (3.55%) QA
4 28 (3.43%) GDPR
5 19 (2.33%) SLA
6 14 (1.72%) GRC
7 13 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 9 (1.10%) WCAG
9 7 (0.86%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 6 (0.74%) PMO
11 5 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials
11 5 (0.61%) NCSC
12 4 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 4 (0.49%) ISO 9001
13 3 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
13 3 (0.37%) NIST
13 3 (0.37%) PCI DSS
14 1 (0.12%) GxP
14 1 (0.12%) ISO 19650
14 1 (0.12%) JTAG
System Software
1 35 (4.29%) Docker
2 14 (1.72%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (0.86%) Active Directory
4 6 (0.74%) Hyper-V
4 6 (0.74%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 34 (4.17%) Kubernetes
2 15 (1.84%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (0.37%) Ansible
4 2 (0.25%) Bosun
4 2 (0.25%) Grafana
4 2 (0.25%) Progress Chef
4 2 (0.25%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.25%) Puppet
4 2 (0.25%) SCCM
4 2 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.12%) Data Guard
5 1 (0.12%) Nagios
5 1 (0.12%) Podman
Vendors
1 218 (26.72%) Microsoft
2 43 (5.27%) TikTok
3 42 (5.15%) Samsung
4 33 (4.04%) Salesforce
5 27 (3.31%) ServiceNow
6 24 (2.94%) Adobe
7 23 (2.82%) Google
7 23 (2.82%) Oracle
8 17 (2.08%) SAP
9 16 (1.96%) Databricks
10 14 (1.72%) VMware
10 14 (1.72%) YouTube
11 13 (1.59%) Apple
12 10 (1.23%) OpenAI
13 8 (0.98%) Botify
13 8 (0.98%) Citrix
13 8 (0.98%) SonicWALL
14 7 (0.86%) CrowdStrike
14 7 (0.86%) Foundry
14 7 (0.86%) HubSpot