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

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 8 106
Rank change year-on-year -9 +98 +68
Permanent jobs citing AI 811 704 237
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 5.77% 12.32% 2.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.26% 14.46% 2.73%
Number of salaries quoted 417 114 131
10th Percentile £35,750 £38,250 £33,750
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% -9.69%
75th Percentile £83,750 £73,500 £73,125
90th Percentile £100,000 £90,000 £93,750
England median annual salary £70,752 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +1.07% -3.45% -3.33%

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 9,824 4,869 8,668
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 69.92% 85.18% 78.02%
Number of salaries quoted 6,997 2,963 5,407
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,968 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,250 £63,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £76,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -11.41%

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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 1 August 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 1 August 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 -5 526 £60,000 - 225
East Midlands -15 284 £52,500 -16.00% 100
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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 23 (2.84%) SharePoint
2 9 (1.11%) Jupyter
3 6 (0.74%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 5 (0.62%) Apache
4 5 (0.62%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (0.49%) ArcGIS
5 4 (0.49%) CMS
5 4 (0.49%) WordPress
6 3 (0.37%) Confluence
6 3 (0.37%) IIS
6 3 (0.37%) nginx
7 1 (0.12%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.12%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.12%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 169 (20.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (1.60%) Chatbot
3 10 (1.23%) Microsoft Office
4 8 (0.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (0.74%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.12%) LaTeX
6 1 (0.12%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.12%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 12 (1.48%) Cloudability
2 7 (0.86%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.49%) Sage 50
3 4 (0.49%) Shopify
4 3 (0.37%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (0.37%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.25%) SAP Business One
6 1 (0.12%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.12%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.12%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 1 (0.12%) Sage 200
6 1 (0.12%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 354 (43.65%) Azure
2 235 (28.98%) Azure AI
3 230 (28.36%) Power Platform
4 94 (11.59%) AWS
5 55 (6.78%) SaaS
6 44 (5.43%) Microsoft Copilot
7 35 (4.32%) Microsoft 365
8 29 (3.58%) GCP
9 24 (2.96%) Serverless
10 21 (2.59%) Power Automate
11 20 (2.47%) Azure DevOps
12 16 (1.97%) Dynamics 365
13 14 (1.73%) PowerApps
14 12 (1.48%) GitHub
15 11 (1.36%) Microsoft Purview
16 10 (1.23%) Entra ID
17 9 (1.11%) Cloud Computing
17 9 (1.11%) Copilot Studio
17 9 (1.11%) GitHub Copilot
17 9 (1.11%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.23%) DNS
1 10 (1.23%) Firewall
2 6 (0.74%) VPN
3 4 (0.49%) MQTT
4 3 (0.37%) Wireless
5 2 (0.25%) Broadband
5 2 (0.25%) DHCP
5 2 (0.25%) HTTP
5 2 (0.25%) VLAN
5 2 (0.25%) VoIP
6 1 (0.12%) Bluetooth
6 1 (0.12%) LAN
6 1 (0.12%) Network Security
6 1 (0.12%) RTSP
6 1 (0.12%) SCTP
6 1 (0.12%) SMS
6 1 (0.12%) SNMP
6 1 (0.12%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.12%) Unified Communications
6 1 (0.12%) UWB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 206 (25.40%) Power BI
2 167 (20.59%) Tableau
3 23 (2.84%) SQL Server
4 17 (2.10%) Azure SQL Database
5 16 (1.97%) MongoDB
6 12 (1.48%) Data Lake
6 12 (1.48%) Metadata
7 8 (0.99%) Data Warehouse
8 7 (0.86%) Redis
9 6 (0.74%) DynamoDB
10 5 (0.62%) Power Query
10 5 (0.62%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 5 (0.62%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 5 (0.62%) Star Schema
11 4 (0.49%) Big Data
12 3 (0.37%) Amazon RDS
12 3 (0.37%) Looker
12 3 (0.37%) MySQL
12 3 (0.37%) Relational Database
12 3 (0.37%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 10 (1.23%) Maven
1 10 (1.23%) Snyk
1 10 (1.23%) Visual Studio Code
2 9 (1.11%) Git
2 9 (1.11%) JIRA
2 9 (1.11%) JUnit
2 9 (1.11%) Mockito
3 5 (0.62%) Selenium
4 3 (0.37%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.25%) Cypress.io
5 2 (0.25%) GitLab
5 2 (0.25%) Yeoman
6 1 (0.12%) Ant
6 1 (0.12%) Apache Ivy
6 1 (0.12%) Appium
6 1 (0.12%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.12%) JMeter
6 1 (0.12%) LoadRunner
6 1 (0.12%) NUnit
6 1 (0.12%) SonarQube
General
1 345 (42.54%) Social Skills
2 178 (21.95%) Finance
3 81 (9.99%) Analytical Skills
4 65 (8.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 38 (4.69%) Legal
6 36 (4.44%) Retail
7 34 (4.19%) Law
8 30 (3.70%) Manufacturing
9 29 (3.58%) Influencing Skills
10 26 (3.21%) Marketing
11 20 (2.47%) Banking
11 20 (2.47%) Organisational Skills
12 19 (2.34%) Public Sector
13 10 (1.23%) Advertising
13 10 (1.23%) Automotive
14 8 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
15 7 (0.86%) Financial Institution
15 7 (0.86%) Social Housing
16 6 (0.74%) Telecoms
17 5 (0.62%) Games
Job Titles
1 207 (25.52%) Analyst
2 158 (19.48%) Data Analyst
2 158 (19.48%) Junior
3 155 (19.11%) Junior Analyst
4 154 (18.99%) Junior Data Analyst
5 99 (12.21%) Senior
6 91 (11.22%) Developer
7 77 (9.49%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 73 (9.00%) Lead
9 55 (6.78%) Architect
10 27 (3.33%) Data Scientist
11 26 (3.21%) Business Analyst
11 26 (3.21%) Software Engineer
12 24 (2.96%) Accountant
12 24 (2.96%) Systems Accountant
13 23 (2.84%) Data Engineer
14 22 (2.71%) Consultant
15 20 (2.47%) Senior Analyst
16 19 (2.34%) Senior Developer
17 16 (1.97%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (4.07%) React
2 26 (3.21%) .NET
3 21 (2.59%) REST
4 17 (2.10%) ASP.NET
4 17 (2.10%) ASP.NET Core
5 14 (1.73%) HTML
5 14 (1.73%) Playwright
6 13 (1.60%) .NET Core
7 12 (1.48%) CSS
7 12 (1.48%) RESTful
7 12 (1.48%) Spring
8 11 (1.36%) scikit-learn
9 10 (1.23%) Matplotlib
9 10 (1.23%) ML.NET
10 9 (1.11%) .NET Framework
10 9 (1.11%) Blazor
10 9 (1.11%) Hugging Face
11 8 (0.99%) Kafka
11 8 (0.99%) Pandas
11 8 (0.99%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 22 (2.71%) Product Ownership
1 22 (2.71%) Self-Motivation
2 20 (2.47%) Cloud Native
3 12 (1.48%) AI Agents
3 12 (1.48%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (1.48%) Driving Licence
3 12 (1.48%) Greenfield Project
3 12 (1.48%) Low-Code
4 11 (1.36%) Robotics
5 10 (1.23%) Data Centre
5 10 (1.23%) Onboarding
5 10 (1.23%) Virtual Team
6 9 (1.11%) Algorithms
6 9 (1.11%) Management Information System
7 8 (0.99%) Enterprise Software
7 8 (0.99%) IoT
8 7 (0.86%) CSOC
8 7 (0.86%) Security Posture
9 6 (0.74%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (0.62%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 23 (2.84%) Linux
2 16 (1.97%) Windows
3 11 (1.36%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.49%) Ubuntu
4 4 (0.49%) VMS
5 2 (0.25%) Android
6 1 (0.12%) Alpine Linux
6 1 (0.12%) Kali Linux
6 1 (0.12%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.12%) Solaris
6 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 213 (26.26%) Business Intelligence
2 116 (14.30%) Analytics
3 101 (12.45%) Agile
4 93 (11.47%) Continuous Improvement
4 93 (11.47%) Problem-Solving
5 91 (11.22%) Machine Learning
6 79 (9.74%) Mentoring
7 77 (9.49%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
8 73 (9.00%) CI/CD
8 73 (9.00%) Decision-Making
9 70 (8.63%) Roadmaps
10 58 (7.15%) LLM
11 56 (6.91%) Stakeholder Management
12 53 (6.54%) Cybersecurity
13 45 (5.55%) Data Science
13 45 (5.55%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 43 (5.30%) Actionable Insight
14 43 (5.30%) Data Governance
14 43 (5.30%) Workflow
15 39 (4.81%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 306 (37.73%) Python
2 229 (28.24%) SQL
3 34 (4.19%) JavaScript
4 28 (3.45%) C#
5 22 (2.71%) TypeScript
6 17 (2.10%) PowerShell
7 14 (1.73%) Java
8 10 (1.23%) Bash
8 10 (1.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 9 (1.11%) PL/SQL
10 7 (0.86%) PHP
11 5 (0.62%) Kusto Query Language
12 4 (0.49%) R
12 4 (0.49%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.25%) Go
14 1 (0.12%) C
14 1 (0.12%) C++
14 1 (0.12%) JCL
14 1 (0.12%) Rust
14 1 (0.12%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 224 (27.62%) Azure Certification
2 51 (6.29%) Degree
2 51 (6.29%) Security Cleared
3 49 (6.04%) SC Cleared
4 21 (2.59%) AWS Certification
5 19 (2.34%) ACCA
5 19 (2.34%) CIMA
6 12 (1.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 9 (1.11%) Master's Degree
8 8 (0.99%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 7 (0.86%) DV Cleared
9 7 (0.86%) SANS
10 6 (0.74%) Computer Science Degree
11 5 (0.62%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (0.62%) Microsoft Certification
11 5 (0.62%) MOS
12 4 (0.49%) CISA
13 3 (0.37%) CBAP
13 3 (0.37%) PMI Certification
13 3 (0.37%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (5.18%) Data Quality
2 33 (4.07%) QA
3 24 (2.96%) GDPR
4 21 (2.59%) Accessibility
5 16 (1.97%) GRC
6 12 (1.48%) SLA
7 8 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 7 (0.86%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 4 (0.49%) NIST
9 4 (0.49%) PMO
10 2 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 2 (0.25%) ISO 9001
11 1 (0.12%) COBIT
11 1 (0.12%) GxP
11 1 (0.12%) JTAG
11 1 (0.12%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.12%) PSD2
11 1 (0.12%) WCAG
System Software
1 28 (3.45%) Docker
2 10 (1.23%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (0.86%) Active Directory
4 5 (0.62%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.25%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 28 (3.45%) Kubernetes
2 15 (1.85%) Terraform
3 6 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (0.49%) Grafana
5 2 (0.25%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.12%) Ansible
6 1 (0.12%) HP Fortify
6 1 (0.12%) Nagios
6 1 (0.12%) Podman
6 1 (0.12%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.12%) Puppet
6 1 (0.12%) SCCM
6 1 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 302 (37.24%) Microsoft
2 22 (2.71%) ServiceNow
3 15 (1.85%) Databricks
4 14 (1.73%) Adobe
4 14 (1.73%) Oracle
5 12 (1.48%) Apple
5 12 (1.48%) OpenAI
6 11 (1.36%) CrowdStrike
6 11 (1.36%) SAP
7 10 (1.23%) Palo Alto
7 10 (1.23%) Tenable
8 8 (0.99%) Google
9 7 (0.86%) Foundry
10 5 (0.62%) Aderant
10 5 (0.62%) ConnectWise
10 5 (0.62%) Facebook
10 5 (0.62%) Intapp
10 5 (0.62%) Sage
10 5 (0.62%) Salesforce
10 5 (0.62%) VMware