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

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 8 101
Rank change year-on-year -8 +93 +85
Permanent jobs citing AI 737 686 307
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 5.73% 13.10% 2.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.24% 15.02% 2.81%
Number of salaries quoted 359 111 194
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £46,500 £47,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £59,250 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.17% +3.04% -2.13%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £67,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £89,250
England median annual salary £70,000 £66,340 £70,000
% change year-on-year +5.52% -5.23% -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 8,946 4,568 10,911
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 69.57% 87.26% 79.15%
Number of salaries quoted 6,314 2,669 7,448
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,700 £26,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £48,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.25% +2.11% -9.52%
75th Percentile £67,438 £63,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
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 1 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 1 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 -5 462 £55,000 -4.35% 218
East Midlands -13 274 £52,500 -12.50% 126
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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 16 (2.17%) SharePoint
2 9 (1.22%) Jupyter
3 3 (0.41%) ArcGIS
3 3 (0.41%) CMS
3 3 (0.41%) Confluence
4 2 (0.27%) Apache
4 2 (0.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (0.27%) WordPress
5 1 (0.14%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.14%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.14%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 191 (25.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (1.63%) Chatbot
3 11 (1.49%) Microsoft Office
4 7 (0.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (0.81%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.14%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.14%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 12 (1.63%) Cloudability
2 7 (0.95%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.54%) Sage 50
4 3 (0.41%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.14%) Integrated Workplace Management System
5 1 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.14%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.14%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.14%) SAP Business One
5 1 (0.14%) SAP EHS
5 1 (0.14%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 355 (48.17%) Azure
2 255 (34.60%) Azure AI
3 233 (31.61%) Power Platform
4 79 (10.72%) AWS
5 51 (6.92%) SaaS
6 33 (4.48%) Microsoft Copilot
7 25 (3.39%) GCP
8 22 (2.99%) Microsoft 365
9 21 (2.85%) Serverless
10 16 (2.17%) Azure DevOps
11 14 (1.90%) Power Automate
12 12 (1.63%) GitHub
12 12 (1.63%) Microsoft Purview
13 11 (1.49%) PowerApps
14 10 (1.36%) Cloud Computing
14 10 (1.36%) Copilot Studio
14 10 (1.36%) GitHub Copilot
15 9 (1.22%) Anthropic Claude
15 9 (1.22%) Snowflake
16 8 (1.09%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.95%) DNS
2 6 (0.81%) Firewall
3 5 (0.68%) VPN
4 4 (0.54%) MQTT
5 3 (0.41%) Broadband
6 2 (0.27%) DHCP
6 2 (0.27%) VLAN
6 2 (0.27%) VoIP
7 1 (0.14%) FTP
7 1 (0.14%) HTTP
7 1 (0.14%) LAN
7 1 (0.14%) Network Security
7 1 (0.14%) RTP
7 1 (0.14%) SCTP
7 1 (0.14%) SMS
7 1 (0.14%) SNMP
7 1 (0.14%) SS7
7 1 (0.14%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.14%) Unified Communications
7 1 (0.14%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 215 (29.17%) Power BI
2 187 (25.37%) Tableau
3 23 (3.12%) SQL Server
4 16 (2.17%) Azure SQL Database
5 15 (2.04%) MongoDB
6 11 (1.49%) Metadata
7 9 (1.22%) Data Lake
8 7 (0.95%) Data Warehouse
8 7 (0.95%) Redis
9 6 (0.81%) DynamoDB
10 5 (0.68%) Star Schema
11 4 (0.54%) Big Data
11 4 (0.54%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 4 (0.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 3 (0.41%) Amazon RDS
12 3 (0.41%) Looker
12 3 (0.41%) MySQL
12 3 (0.41%) Power Query
12 3 (0.41%) Semantic Layer
13 2 (0.27%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 10 (1.36%) Snyk
2 9 (1.22%) Visual Studio Code
3 6 (0.81%) JIRA
4 5 (0.68%) JUnit
4 5 (0.68%) Maven
4 5 (0.68%) Mockito
4 5 (0.68%) Selenium
5 4 (0.54%) Git
6 3 (0.41%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.27%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.27%) Yeoman
8 1 (0.14%) Appium
8 1 (0.14%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.14%) Burp Suite
8 1 (0.14%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.14%) Jenkins
8 1 (0.14%) JMeter
8 1 (0.14%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.14%) NUnit
8 1 (0.14%) SonarQube
General
1 332 (45.05%) Social Skills
2 131 (17.77%) Finance
3 65 (8.82%) Analytical Skills
4 58 (7.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 37 (5.02%) Legal
6 32 (4.34%) Law
6 32 (4.34%) Retail
7 26 (3.53%) Manufacturing
8 25 (3.39%) Influencing Skills
9 20 (2.71%) Banking
10 17 (2.31%) Organisational Skills
10 17 (2.31%) Public Sector
11 16 (2.17%) Marketing
12 8 (1.09%) Automotive
13 7 (0.95%) Advertising
13 7 (0.95%) Social Housing
14 6 (0.81%) Financial Institution
14 6 (0.81%) Japanese Language
15 5 (0.68%) Agriculture
15 5 (0.68%) Games
Job Titles
1 224 (30.39%) Analyst
2 180 (24.42%) Data Analyst
3 179 (24.29%) Junior
4 177 (24.02%) Junior Analyst
5 176 (23.88%) Junior Data Analyst
6 80 (10.85%) Developer
7 76 (10.31%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 75 (10.18%) Senior
9 61 (8.28%) Lead
10 42 (5.70%) Architect
11 24 (3.26%) Data Engineer
12 23 (3.12%) Business Analyst
12 23 (3.12%) Data Scientist
13 22 (2.99%) Accountant
13 22 (2.99%) Systems Accountant
14 20 (2.71%) Software Engineer
15 17 (2.31%) Senior Analyst
16 15 (2.04%) Data Architect
16 15 (2.04%) Technical Leader
17 14 (1.90%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (3.80%) .NET
2 23 (3.12%) React
3 17 (2.31%) ASP.NET
4 16 (2.17%) ASP.NET Core
5 13 (1.76%) HTML
6 12 (1.63%) .NET Core
7 11 (1.49%) Blazor
7 11 (1.49%) CSS
7 11 (1.49%) RESTful
7 11 (1.49%) scikit-learn
8 10 (1.36%) Hugging Face
8 10 (1.36%) Matplotlib
8 10 (1.36%) REST
9 9 (1.22%) .NET Framework
9 9 (1.22%) ML.NET
9 9 (1.22%) NumPy
9 9 (1.22%) Pandas
9 9 (1.22%) Playwright
9 9 (1.22%) Streamlit
10 7 (0.95%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 22 (2.99%) Product Ownership
2 17 (2.31%) Cloud Native
3 13 (1.76%) Robotics
4 12 (1.63%) Algorithms
5 11 (1.49%) Distributed Systems
5 11 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
6 10 (1.36%) Data Centre
6 10 (1.36%) Driving Licence
6 10 (1.36%) Low-Code
6 10 (1.36%) Virtual Team
7 9 (1.22%) AI Agents
8 8 (1.09%) Greenfield Project
8 8 (1.09%) IoT
9 7 (0.95%) CSOC
10 6 (0.81%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (0.68%) Management Information System
11 5 (0.68%) Mobile App
11 5 (0.68%) Public Cloud
11 5 (0.68%) Security Posture
12 4 (0.54%) Augmented Reality
Operating Systems
1 11 (1.49%) Linux
2 10 (1.36%) Windows
3 6 (0.81%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.54%) VMS
5 2 (0.27%) Android
5 2 (0.27%) Robot Operating System
6 1 (0.14%) Alpine Linux
6 1 (0.14%) Kali Linux
6 1 (0.14%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.14%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 222 (30.12%) Business Intelligence
2 100 (13.57%) Analytics
3 81 (10.99%) Machine Learning
4 78 (10.58%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
5 74 (10.04%) Problem-Solving
6 73 (9.91%) Agile
7 68 (9.23%) Continuous Improvement
8 64 (8.68%) Roadmaps
9 62 (8.41%) Mentoring
10 60 (8.14%) CI/CD
11 59 (8.01%) Decision-Making
12 45 (6.11%) LLM
13 42 (5.70%) Actionable Insight
14 40 (5.43%) Cybersecurity
15 38 (5.16%) Data Governance
15 38 (5.16%) Validation
16 37 (5.02%) Stakeholder Management
16 37 (5.02%) Workflow
17 35 (4.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 34 (4.61%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 326 (44.23%) Python
2 240 (32.56%) SQL
3 30 (4.07%) C#
4 25 (3.39%) JavaScript
5 17 (2.31%) TypeScript
6 9 (1.22%) PowerShell
7 8 (1.09%) Java
8 7 (0.95%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 6 (0.81%) Bash
9 6 (0.81%) PHP
10 5 (0.68%) Kusto Query Language
10 5 (0.68%) PL/SQL
11 4 (0.54%) R
12 3 (0.41%) C++
12 3 (0.41%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.27%) Go
14 1 (0.14%) JCL
14 1 (0.14%) MATLAB
14 1 (0.14%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 243 (32.97%) Azure Certification
2 45 (6.11%) Degree
3 32 (4.34%) Security Cleared
4 31 (4.21%) SC Cleared
5 21 (2.85%) AWS Certification
6 19 (2.58%) ACCA
6 19 (2.58%) CIMA
7 12 (1.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 9 (1.22%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 9 (1.22%) Master's Degree
9 7 (0.95%) SANS
10 6 (0.81%) MOS
11 5 (0.68%) CISA
11 5 (0.68%) Computer Science Degree
12 4 (0.54%) DV Cleared
13 3 (0.41%) BPSS Clearance
13 3 (0.41%) CIPD
13 3 (0.41%) PRINCE2 Certification
14 2 (0.27%) PhD
14 2 (0.27%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (5.56%) Data Quality
2 26 (3.53%) GDPR
3 23 (3.12%) QA
4 16 (2.17%) Accessibility
5 13 (1.76%) GRC
6 7 (0.95%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 5 (0.68%) SLA
7 5 (0.68%) WCAG
8 4 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.54%) PMO
9 3 (0.41%) NIST
10 2 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.14%) COBIT
11 1 (0.14%) GxP
11 1 (0.14%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.14%) ISO 19650
11 1 (0.14%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.14%) PSD2
11 1 (0.14%) SOC 2
System Software
1 21 (2.85%) Docker
2 10 (1.36%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (0.81%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.14%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 20 (2.71%) Kubernetes
2 12 (1.63%) Terraform
3 4 (0.54%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (0.41%) Grafana
5 1 (0.14%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.14%) Nagios
5 1 (0.14%) Podman
5 1 (0.14%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 294 (39.89%) Microsoft
2 18 (2.44%) ServiceNow
3 17 (2.31%) Databricks
4 14 (1.90%) Adobe
5 12 (1.63%) Apple
6 11 (1.49%) OpenAI
7 10 (1.36%) CrowdStrike
7 10 (1.36%) Oracle
7 10 (1.36%) Palo Alto
7 10 (1.36%) Tenable
8 9 (1.22%) SAP
9 6 (0.81%) Foundry
10 5 (0.68%) Aderant
10 5 (0.68%) ConnectWise
10 5 (0.68%) Google
10 5 (0.68%) Intapp
10 5 (0.68%) Sage
10 5 (0.68%) Salesforce
11 4 (0.54%) HighQ
11 4 (0.54%) Xero