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

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 6 116
Rank change year-on-year -11 +110 +54
Permanent jobs citing AI 829 785 199
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 5.28% 13.98% 2.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.56% 16.27% 2.52%
Number of salaries quoted 444 104 92
10th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £35,700
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,938 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -4.00% -18.03%
75th Percentile £80,000 £73,938 £93,750
90th Percentile £96,750 £107,500 £102,250
England median annual salary £74,830 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +6.90% -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 10,964 4,826 7,886
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 69.84% 85.96% 79.31%
Number of salaries quoted 7,784 2,862 3,839
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £58,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -5.98% -6.40%

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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 25 September 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 25 September 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 -8 565 £62,500 +4.99% 561
East Midlands -21 264 £52,500 -19.23% 268
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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 42 (5.07%) SharePoint
2 11 (1.33%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (1.09%) Apache
4 8 (0.97%) IIS
4 8 (0.97%) nginx
5 7 (0.84%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 5 (0.60%) CMS
7 4 (0.48%) WordPress
8 2 (0.24%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.24%) Confluence
9 1 (0.12%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.12%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.12%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.12%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.12%) SAS
Applications
1 70 (8.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (1.33%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (1.09%) Chatbot
4 6 (0.72%) Spreadsheet
5 5 (0.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.24%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.12%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.12%) Adobe Premiere
7 1 (0.12%) InDesign
7 1 (0.12%) LaTeX
7 1 (0.12%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.12%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 12 (1.45%) Cloudability
2 10 (1.21%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.60%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.48%) Sage 50
4 4 (0.48%) Shopify
5 3 (0.36%) Dynamics NAV
5 3 (0.36%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.24%) Integrated Workplace Management System
6 2 (0.24%) SAP Business One
6 2 (0.24%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.12%) Oracle Cash Management
7 1 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.12%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.12%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.12%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 1 (0.12%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 1 (0.12%) Sage 200
7 1 (0.12%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 287 (34.62%) Azure
2 154 (18.58%) Power Platform
3 135 (16.28%) Azure AI
4 92 (11.10%) AWS
5 61 (7.36%) SaaS
6 58 (7.00%) Microsoft Copilot
7 57 (6.88%) Microsoft 365
8 36 (4.34%) Azure DevOps
8 36 (4.34%) Power Automate
9 35 (4.22%) Serverless
10 30 (3.62%) GCP
11 26 (3.14%) Dynamics 365
12 21 (2.53%) GitHub
13 17 (2.05%) Entra ID
14 16 (1.93%) PowerApps
15 15 (1.81%) Azure Functions
16 13 (1.57%) Copilot Studio
17 12 (1.45%) GitHub Copilot
18 9 (1.09%) Microsoft Purview
19 8 (0.97%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 19 (2.29%) Firewall
2 18 (2.17%) DNS
3 10 (1.21%) VPN
4 9 (1.09%) Internet
5 5 (0.60%) DHCP
6 4 (0.48%) MQTT
6 4 (0.48%) Network Security
7 3 (0.36%) HTTP
7 3 (0.36%) Wireless
8 2 (0.24%) VLAN
8 2 (0.24%) VoIP
9 1 (0.12%) Diameter Protocol
9 1 (0.12%) Intelligent Network
9 1 (0.12%) IPFIX
9 1 (0.12%) RTSP
9 1 (0.12%) SCTP
9 1 (0.12%) Software-Defined Radio
9 1 (0.12%) UWB
9 1 (0.12%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (0.12%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 128 (15.44%) Power BI
2 73 (8.81%) Tableau
3 34 (4.10%) SQL Server
4 20 (2.41%) MongoDB
5 19 (2.29%) Data Lake
6 18 (2.17%) Azure SQL Database
7 13 (1.57%) Data Warehouse
8 12 (1.45%) Metadata
9 9 (1.09%) Big Data
10 7 (0.84%) Power Query
10 7 (0.84%) Redis
11 6 (0.72%) Delta Lake
11 6 (0.72%) DynamoDB
11 6 (0.72%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 6 (0.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 5 (0.60%) Data Mining
12 5 (0.60%) Oracle BI EE
12 5 (0.60%) QlikView
12 5 (0.60%) Relational Database
12 5 (0.60%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 24 (2.90%) Git
2 16 (1.93%) JIRA
3 12 (1.45%) Maven
4 10 (1.21%) JUnit
4 10 (1.21%) Mockito
4 10 (1.21%) Snyk
5 4 (0.48%) Jenkins
5 4 (0.48%) Octopus Deploy
6 3 (0.36%) Visual Studio Code
7 2 (0.24%) Ant
7 2 (0.24%) Apache Ivy
7 2 (0.24%) GitLab
7 2 (0.24%) IBM UrbanCode
7 2 (0.24%) Selenium
7 2 (0.24%) Yeoman
8 1 (0.12%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.12%) JMeter
8 1 (0.12%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.12%) NUnit
8 1 (0.12%) SonarQube
General
1 308 (37.15%) Social Skills
2 204 (24.61%) Finance
3 97 (11.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 85 (10.25%) Analytical Skills
5 46 (5.55%) Public Sector
6 45 (5.43%) Marketing
7 41 (4.95%) Influencing Skills
8 38 (4.58%) Legal
9 28 (3.38%) Law
10 27 (3.26%) Retail
11 26 (3.14%) Manufacturing
11 26 (3.14%) Organisational Skills
12 22 (2.65%) Banking
13 16 (1.93%) Advertising
14 15 (1.81%) Presentation Skills
15 7 (0.84%) Automotive
16 6 (0.72%) Social Housing
16 6 (0.72%) Telecoms
17 5 (0.60%) Financial Institution
17 5 (0.60%) Games
Job Titles
1 127 (15.32%) Senior
2 110 (13.27%) Analyst
3 106 (12.79%) Developer
4 88 (10.62%) Lead
5 83 (10.01%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 69 (8.32%) Architect
7 57 (6.88%) Data Analyst
7 57 (6.88%) Junior
8 56 (6.76%) Junior Analyst
9 55 (6.63%) Junior Data Analyst
10 41 (4.95%) Software Engineer
11 36 (4.34%) Data Engineer
12 29 (3.50%) Business Analyst
13 25 (3.02%) Senior Developer
14 22 (2.65%) Data Scientist
15 21 (2.53%) Consultant
15 21 (2.53%) Solutions Architect
16 20 (2.41%) Senior Analyst
17 18 (2.17%) Principal Engineer
18 17 (2.05%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (3.86%) .NET
2 29 (3.50%) React
3 26 (3.14%) REST
4 21 (2.53%) Terraform
5 16 (1.93%) ASP.NET
5 16 (1.93%) ASP.NET Core
6 13 (1.57%) Spring
7 12 (1.45%) .NET Core
8 11 (1.33%) HTML
8 11 (1.33%) PySpark
8 11 (1.33%) PyTorch
8 11 (1.33%) RESTful
8 11 (1.33%) TensorFlow
9 10 (1.21%) CSS
9 10 (1.21%) JSON
9 10 (1.21%) Playwright
9 10 (1.21%) XML
10 9 (1.09%) ML.NET
11 8 (0.97%) Blazor
11 8 (0.97%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 34 (4.10%) Self-Motivation
2 27 (3.26%) Cloud Native
2 27 (3.26%) Management Information System
2 27 (3.26%) Onboarding
3 22 (2.65%) Product Ownership
4 18 (2.17%) AI Agents
5 15 (1.81%) Driving Licence
6 14 (1.69%) Distributed Systems
6 14 (1.69%) Virtual Team
7 13 (1.57%) Data Centre
8 12 (1.45%) Greenfield Project
9 10 (1.21%) IoT
9 10 (1.21%) Legacy Systems
9 10 (1.21%) Low-Code
9 10 (1.21%) Public Cloud
10 9 (1.09%) Security Posture
10 9 (1.09%) Social Media
10 9 (1.09%) Taxonomies
11 8 (0.97%) BYOD
11 8 (0.97%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 34 (4.10%) Linux
2 23 (2.77%) Windows
3 20 (2.41%) Windows Server
4 9 (1.09%) Ubuntu
5 4 (0.48%) Android
5 4 (0.48%) VMS
6 2 (0.24%) Solaris
7 1 (0.12%) Alpine Linux
7 1 (0.12%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 147 (17.73%) Continuous Improvement
2 137 (16.53%) Analytics
3 136 (16.41%) Business Intelligence
4 135 (16.28%) Agile
5 119 (14.35%) Mentoring
6 101 (12.18%) Problem-Solving
7 96 (11.58%) Decision-Making
8 95 (11.46%) Stakeholder Management
9 94 (11.34%) CI/CD
10 88 (10.62%) Machine Learning
11 87 (10.49%) Roadmaps
12 73 (8.81%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
13 71 (8.56%) Cybersecurity
14 68 (8.20%) Coaching
15 63 (7.60%) Software Engineering
16 60 (7.24%) DevOps
17 59 (7.12%) LLM
18 53 (6.39%) ERP
19 49 (5.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
20 47 (5.67%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 212 (25.57%) Python
2 147 (17.73%) SQL
3 41 (4.95%) C#
3 41 (4.95%) JavaScript
4 23 (2.77%) PowerShell
5 21 (2.53%) TypeScript
6 19 (2.29%) Java
7 13 (1.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 11 (1.33%) Bash
8 11 (1.33%) PL/SQL
9 10 (1.21%) R
10 6 (0.72%) PHP
11 5 (0.60%) C++
11 5 (0.60%) Kusto Query Language
11 5 (0.60%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.24%) Go
13 1 (0.12%) C
13 1 (0.12%) MATLAB
13 1 (0.12%) Rust
13 1 (0.12%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 135 (16.28%) Azure Certification
2 78 (9.41%) Security Cleared
3 72 (8.69%) SC Cleared
4 68 (8.20%) Degree
5 18 (2.17%) Microsoft Certification
6 16 (1.93%) ACCA
7 15 (1.81%) CIMA
8 14 (1.69%) AWS Certification
9 12 (1.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 11 (1.33%) DV Cleared
11 10 (1.21%) BPSS Clearance
12 9 (1.09%) Computer Science Degree
13 8 (0.97%) TOGAF Certification
14 7 (0.84%) SANS
15 5 (0.60%) Master's Degree
16 4 (0.48%) CBAP
16 4 (0.48%) CISM
16 4 (0.48%) CISSP
16 4 (0.48%) PMI Certification
17 3 (0.36%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (6.51%) Data Quality
2 32 (3.86%) Accessibility
3 28 (3.38%) GDPR
3 28 (3.38%) QA
4 20 (2.41%) SLA
5 17 (2.05%) GRC
6 13 (1.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 9 (1.09%) WCAG
8 7 (0.84%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 7 (0.84%) PMO
9 4 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
9 4 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 4 (0.48%) ISO 9001
9 4 (0.48%) NCSC
10 3 (0.36%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.24%) NIST
12 1 (0.12%) ISO 19650
12 1 (0.12%) JTAG
12 1 (0.12%) PSD2
System Software
1 33 (3.98%) Docker
2 14 (1.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (1.21%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (0.97%) Active Directory
5 6 (0.72%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 33 (3.98%) Kubernetes
2 13 (1.57%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (0.36%) Ansible
4 2 (0.24%) Bosun
4 2 (0.24%) Grafana
4 2 (0.24%) Progress Chef
4 2 (0.24%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.24%) Puppet
4 2 (0.24%) SCCM
4 2 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.12%) Data Guard
5 1 (0.12%) Nagios
5 1 (0.12%) Podman
Vendors
1 242 (29.19%) Microsoft
2 27 (3.26%) ServiceNow
3 18 (2.17%) Oracle
4 17 (2.05%) Databricks
5 16 (1.93%) Google
6 14 (1.69%) Adobe
6 14 (1.69%) Apple
6 14 (1.69%) VMware
7 13 (1.57%) SAP
8 12 (1.45%) YouTube
9 11 (1.33%) CrowdStrike
10 10 (1.21%) OpenAI
10 10 (1.21%) Palo Alto
10 10 (1.21%) Tenable
11 8 (0.97%) Citrix
11 8 (0.97%) SonicWALL
12 7 (0.84%) Cisco
12 7 (0.84%) Foundry
13 6 (0.72%) HubSpot
14 5 (0.60%) Intapp