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

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 7 103
Rank change year-on-year -10 +96 +65
Permanent jobs citing AI 834 740 230
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 5.56% 12.99% 2.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.99% 15.36% 2.92%
Number of salaries quoted 447 106 112
10th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £46,500 £48,750 £52,300
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £62,375
Median % change year-on-year - -3.81% -10.89%
75th Percentile £80,000 £70,938 £87,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £97,375
England median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.57% -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 10,440 4,819 7,888
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 69.65% 84.59% 77.47%
Number of salaries quoted 7,460 2,876 4,345
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £28,371
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,000 £36,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £76,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -8.00%

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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 5 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 5 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 -5 562 £62,000 +3.33% 286
East Midlands -19 272 £52,500 -19.23% 189
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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 35 (4.20%) SharePoint
2 9 (1.08%) Apache
2 9 (1.08%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (0.96%) IIS
3 8 (0.96%) nginx
4 7 (0.84%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 5 (0.60%) CMS
6 4 (0.48%) Jupyter
6 4 (0.48%) WordPress
7 3 (0.36%) Confluence
8 1 (0.12%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.12%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.12%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.12%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.12%) SAS
Applications
1 112 (13.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (1.32%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (0.96%) Chatbot
4 6 (0.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.72%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.24%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.12%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.12%) Adobe Premiere
6 1 (0.12%) InDesign
6 1 (0.12%) LaTeX
6 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.12%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.12%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 12 (1.44%) Cloudability
2 6 (0.72%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
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 ERP
7 1 (0.12%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 1 (0.12%) Sage 200
7 1 (0.12%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 315 (37.77%) Azure
2 189 (22.66%) Power Platform
3 180 (21.58%) Azure AI
4 91 (10.91%) AWS
5 58 (6.95%) SaaS
6 53 (6.35%) Microsoft Copilot
7 51 (6.12%) Microsoft 365
8 33 (3.96%) Power Automate
9 30 (3.60%) Serverless
10 29 (3.48%) Azure DevOps
10 29 (3.48%) GCP
11 21 (2.52%) Dynamics 365
12 17 (2.04%) GitHub
13 15 (1.80%) Entra ID
13 15 (1.80%) PowerApps
14 12 (1.44%) GitHub Copilot
15 11 (1.32%) Azure Functions
16 10 (1.20%) Copilot Studio
16 10 (1.20%) Microsoft Purview
17 9 (1.08%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 17 (2.04%) DNS
1 17 (2.04%) Firewall
2 8 (0.96%) VPN
3 4 (0.48%) DHCP
3 4 (0.48%) Internet
3 4 (0.48%) MQTT
3 4 (0.48%) Network Security
4 3 (0.36%) HTTP
4 3 (0.36%) Wireless
5 2 (0.24%) VLAN
5 2 (0.24%) VoIP
6 1 (0.12%) Diameter Protocol
6 1 (0.12%) Intelligent Network
6 1 (0.12%) IPFIX
6 1 (0.12%) SNMP
6 1 (0.12%) Software-Defined Radio
6 1 (0.12%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.12%) UWB
6 1 (0.12%) WAN
6 1 (0.12%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 163 (19.54%) Power BI
2 116 (13.91%) Tableau
3 25 (3.00%) SQL Server
4 18 (2.16%) MongoDB
5 17 (2.04%) Azure SQL Database
5 17 (2.04%) Data Lake
6 13 (1.56%) Metadata
7 11 (1.32%) Data Warehouse
8 8 (0.96%) Big Data
9 7 (0.84%) Power Query
9 7 (0.84%) Redis
10 6 (0.72%) DynamoDB
10 6 (0.72%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 6 (0.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 5 (0.60%) Data Mining
11 5 (0.60%) Relational Database
11 5 (0.60%) Star Schema
12 4 (0.48%) Oracle BI EE
12 4 (0.48%) QlikView
13 3 (0.36%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 18 (2.16%) Git
2 13 (1.56%) JIRA
3 12 (1.44%) Maven
4 10 (1.20%) JUnit
4 10 (1.20%) Mockito
4 10 (1.20%) Snyk
5 6 (0.72%) Selenium
5 6 (0.72%) Visual Studio Code
6 4 (0.48%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.24%) Ant
7 2 (0.24%) Apache Ivy
7 2 (0.24%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.24%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.24%) GitLab
7 2 (0.24%) IBM UrbanCode
7 2 (0.24%) JMeter
7 2 (0.24%) LoadRunner
7 2 (0.24%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (0.24%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.24%) Yeoman
General
1 325 (38.97%) Social Skills
2 200 (23.98%) Finance
3 87 (10.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 80 (9.59%) Analytical Skills
5 39 (4.68%) Influencing Skills
6 37 (4.44%) Legal
7 34 (4.08%) Public Sector
8 32 (3.84%) Marketing
9 31 (3.72%) Law
10 29 (3.48%) Retail
11 28 (3.36%) Manufacturing
12 22 (2.64%) Banking
13 21 (2.52%) Organisational Skills
14 12 (1.44%) Presentation Skills
15 11 (1.32%) Advertising
16 7 (0.84%) Automotive
17 6 (0.72%) Social Housing
17 6 (0.72%) Telecoms
18 5 (0.60%) Financial Institution
18 5 (0.60%) Games
Job Titles
1 155 (18.59%) Analyst
2 117 (14.03%) Senior
3 106 (12.71%) Developer
4 103 (12.35%) Junior
5 102 (12.23%) Data Analyst
6 100 (11.99%) Junior Analyst
7 99 (11.87%) Junior Data Analyst
8 85 (10.19%) Lead
9 78 (9.35%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 66 (7.91%) Architect
11 32 (3.84%) Software Engineer
12 30 (3.60%) Business Analyst
13 27 (3.24%) Data Engineer
14 23 (2.76%) Accountant
14 23 (2.76%) Senior Developer
14 23 (2.76%) Systems Accountant
15 22 (2.64%) Consultant
15 22 (2.64%) Data Scientist
16 20 (2.40%) Senior Analyst
17 18 (2.16%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (3.60%) React
2 26 (3.12%) .NET
3 24 (2.88%) REST
4 19 (2.28%) Terraform
5 17 (2.04%) ASP.NET
5 17 (2.04%) ASP.NET Core
6 14 (1.68%) Playwright
7 13 (1.56%) .NET Core
7 13 (1.56%) Spring
8 12 (1.44%) HTML
9 10 (1.20%) CSS
9 10 (1.20%) ML.NET
9 10 (1.20%) PyTorch
9 10 (1.20%) RESTful
9 10 (1.20%) TensorFlow
10 9 (1.08%) Blazor
11 8 (0.96%) Kafka
12 7 (0.84%) .NET Framework
12 7 (0.84%) Entity Framework
13 6 (0.72%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 34 (4.08%) Self-Motivation
2 25 (3.00%) Cloud Native
3 22 (2.64%) Onboarding
3 22 (2.64%) Product Ownership
4 18 (2.16%) Management Information System
5 14 (1.68%) AI Agents
6 13 (1.56%) Data Centre
6 13 (1.56%) Greenfield Project
7 12 (1.44%) Low-Code
7 12 (1.44%) Virtual Team
8 11 (1.32%) Distributed Systems
8 11 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
8 11 (1.32%) Robotics
9 10 (1.20%) Driving Licence
9 10 (1.20%) IoT
10 9 (1.08%) Security Posture
11 8 (0.96%) Algorithms
11 8 (0.96%) BYOD
11 8 (0.96%) Public Cloud
12 7 (0.84%) CSOC
Operating Systems
1 33 (3.96%) Linux
2 22 (2.64%) Windows
3 19 (2.28%) Windows Server
4 9 (1.08%) Ubuntu
5 4 (0.48%) VMS
6 2 (0.24%) Android
6 2 (0.24%) Solaris
7 1 (0.12%) Alpine Linux
7 1 (0.12%) Kali Linux
7 1 (0.12%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 167 (20.02%) Business Intelligence
2 129 (15.47%) Continuous Improvement
3 125 (14.99%) Agile
4 120 (14.39%) Analytics
5 98 (11.75%) Problem-Solving
6 97 (11.63%) Decision-Making
6 97 (11.63%) Mentoring
7 94 (11.27%) Machine Learning
8 86 (10.31%) CI/CD
9 83 (9.95%) Roadmaps
10 79 (9.47%) Stakeholder Management
11 72 (8.63%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
12 63 (7.55%) Cybersecurity
13 61 (7.31%) LLM
14 52 (6.24%) Coaching
15 50 (6.00%) DevOps
15 50 (6.00%) Software Engineering
15 50 (6.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 49 (5.88%) ERP
17 45 (5.40%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 251 (30.10%) Python
2 181 (21.70%) SQL
3 36 (4.32%) JavaScript
4 32 (3.84%) C#
5 24 (2.88%) PowerShell
6 22 (2.64%) TypeScript
7 20 (2.40%) Java
8 13 (1.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 10 (1.20%) Bash
9 10 (1.20%) PL/SQL
10 9 (1.08%) R
11 6 (0.72%) PHP
12 5 (0.60%) C++
12 5 (0.60%) Kusto Query Language
12 5 (0.60%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.24%) Go
14 1 (0.12%) C
14 1 (0.12%) JCL
14 1 (0.12%) Rust
14 1 (0.12%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 175 (20.98%) Azure Certification
2 71 (8.51%) Security Cleared
3 66 (7.91%) SC Cleared
4 64 (7.67%) Degree
5 17 (2.04%) ACCA
5 17 (2.04%) AWS Certification
5 17 (2.04%) CIMA
6 12 (1.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 12 (1.44%) Microsoft Certification
7 10 (1.20%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (1.20%) DV Cleared
8 9 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
9 8 (0.96%) Master's Degree
10 7 (0.84%) SANS
11 5 (0.60%) TOGAF Certification
12 4 (0.48%) CBAP
12 4 (0.48%) PMI Certification
13 3 (0.36%) CIPD
13 3 (0.36%) CISA
13 3 (0.36%) MOS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (5.76%) Data Quality
2 31 (3.72%) QA
3 29 (3.48%) Accessibility
4 25 (3.00%) GDPR
5 18 (2.16%) SLA
6 17 (2.04%) GRC
7 12 (1.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 7 (0.84%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 7 (0.84%) PMO
9 5 (0.60%) WCAG
10 4 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 4 (0.48%) ISO 9001
11 3 (0.36%) NCSC
12 2 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.24%) NIST
13 1 (0.12%) GxP
13 1 (0.12%) JTAG
13 1 (0.12%) PCI DSS
13 1 (0.12%) PSD2
System Software
1 33 (3.96%) Docker
2 13 (1.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (1.20%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (0.84%) Active Directory
5 5 (0.60%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 33 (3.96%) Kubernetes
2 11 (1.32%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (0.36%) Grafana
4 2 (0.24%) Ansible
4 2 (0.24%) Progress Chef
4 2 (0.24%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.24%) Puppet
4 2 (0.24%) SCCM
5 1 (0.12%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.12%) Nagios
5 1 (0.12%) Podman
Vendors
1 263 (31.53%) Microsoft
2 23 (2.76%) ServiceNow
3 18 (2.16%) Databricks
4 15 (1.80%) Adobe
4 15 (1.80%) Oracle
5 13 (1.56%) VMware
6 12 (1.44%) Apple
6 12 (1.44%) SAP
7 11 (1.32%) CrowdStrike
7 11 (1.32%) YouTube
8 10 (1.20%) OpenAI
8 10 (1.20%) Palo Alto
8 10 (1.20%) Tenable
9 8 (0.96%) Citrix
9 8 (0.96%) Google
9 8 (0.96%) SonicWALL
10 7 (0.84%) Foundry
10 7 (0.84%) Salesforce
11 6 (0.72%) HubSpot
12 5 (0.60%) Sage