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

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 111 132
Rank change year-on-year +108 +21 +57
Permanent jobs citing AI 1,517 154 92
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 19.34% 2.40% 1.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 23.78% 2.66% 1.93%
Number of salaries quoted 120 80 75
10th Percentile £26,700 £37,500 £33,500
25th Percentile £42,166 £42,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +18.18% -15.38%
75th Percentile £88,063 £96,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £85,569
England median annual salary £72,500 £77,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.45% +3.33% +7.14%

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 6,380 5,787 4,755
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 81.35% 90.15% 86.55%
Number of salaries quoted 3,536 2,533 3,914
10th Percentile £28,080 £31,250 £26,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £63,438
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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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 9 January 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 9 January 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 +96 1,256 £65,000 +13.04% 183
East Midlands +84 271 £42,500 -44.81% 315
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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 8 (0.53%) SharePoint
2 7 (0.46%) CMS
3 4 (0.26%) Apache
4 2 (0.13%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.066%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.066%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.066%) SAS
5 1 (0.066%) WordPress
Applications
1 217 (14.30%) Chatbot
2 68 (4.48%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (0.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.33%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.20%) InDesign
6 1 (0.066%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 16 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.20%) SAP Business One
2 3 (0.20%) Shopify
3 1 (0.066%) Integrated Workplace Management System
3 1 (0.066%) Maximo
3 1 (0.066%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.066%) Odoo
Cloud Services
1 1,045 (68.89%) Cloud Computing
2 123 (8.11%) Azure
3 76 (5.01%) Power Platform
4 64 (4.22%) Azure AI
5 40 (2.64%) AWS
6 33 (2.18%) SaaS
7 11 (0.73%) Microsoft 365
7 11 (0.73%) PowerApps
8 10 (0.66%) Dynamics 365
8 10 (0.66%) GCP
8 10 (0.66%) Power Automate
9 9 (0.59%) Microsoft Copilot
10 8 (0.53%) GitHub
11 7 (0.46%) Azure DevOps
12 6 (0.40%) Azure Data Factory
12 6 (0.40%) Figma
12 6 (0.40%) GitHub Copilot
12 6 (0.40%) Serverless
13 5 (0.33%) Azure Logic Apps
13 5 (0.33%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1,045 (68.89%) Internet
2 5 (0.33%) Intranet
3 1 (0.066%) Bluetooth
3 1 (0.066%) UWB
3 1 (0.066%) Wideband
3 1 (0.066%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (4.35%) Power BI
2 61 (4.02%) Tableau
3 11 (0.73%) SQL Server
4 6 (0.40%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (0.33%) Delta Lake
6 3 (0.20%) Data Mining
7 2 (0.13%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.13%) MySQL
7 2 (0.13%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.066%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.066%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.066%) Neo4j
8 1 (0.066%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.066%) Pentaho
8 1 (0.066%) Power Query
8 1 (0.066%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.066%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (0.066%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 6 (0.40%) Visual Studio
2 5 (0.33%) Git
3 2 (0.13%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.066%) Babel
4 1 (0.066%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.066%) JIRA
4 1 (0.066%) JUnit
4 1 (0.066%) MLflow
4 1 (0.066%) Mockito
4 1 (0.066%) Vite
4 1 (0.066%) webpack
General
1 1,144 (75.41%) Social Skills
2 1,088 (71.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1,047 (69.02%) Banking
4 87 (5.74%) Analytical Skills
5 28 (1.85%) Retail
6 25 (1.65%) Finance
6 25 (1.65%) Public Sector
7 16 (1.05%) Legal
8 14 (0.92%) Marketing
9 13 (0.86%) Law
10 5 (0.33%) Manufacturing
10 5 (0.33%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (0.26%) Agriculture
12 3 (0.20%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.13%) Automotive
13 2 (0.13%) Back Office
14 1 (0.066%) Advertising
14 1 (0.066%) Brand Awareness
14 1 (0.066%) Games
Job Titles
1 783 (51.62%) Lecturer
2 216 (14.24%) Trainer
3 64 (4.22%) Analyst
4 59 (3.89%) Junior
5 55 (3.63%) Data Analyst
5 55 (3.63%) Junior Analyst
5 55 (3.63%) Junior Data Analyst
6 40 (2.64%) Research Scientist
7 36 (2.37%) Architect
8 32 (2.11%) Content Editor
9 30 (1.98%) Developer
10 16 (1.05%) Solutions Architect
11 10 (0.66%) Customer Support Specialist
11 10 (0.66%) Data Engineer
11 10 (0.66%) Lead
11 10 (0.66%) Support Specialist
12 9 (0.59%) Alliance Manager
12 9 (0.59%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
12 9 (0.59%) Biostatistician
12 9 (0.59%) Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (0.86%) .NET
2 8 (0.53%) RESTful
3 7 (0.46%) Blazor
3 7 (0.46%) HTML
4 6 (0.40%) CSS
4 6 (0.40%) Material Design
4 6 (0.40%) WebAssembly
5 5 (0.33%) PySpark
5 5 (0.33%) React
6 3 (0.20%) .NET Framework
6 3 (0.20%) ASP.NET
6 3 (0.20%) jQuery
6 3 (0.20%) Laravel
6 3 (0.20%) Spring
6 3 (0.20%) Spring Boot
7 2 (0.13%) AngularJS
7 2 (0.13%) EDI
7 2 (0.13%) Razor View Engine
7 2 (0.13%) Ruby on Rails
7 2 (0.13%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1,046 (68.95%) IoT
2 39 (2.57%) Molecular Biology
3 12 (0.79%) Cloud Native
4 10 (0.66%) Onboarding
5 9 (0.59%) AI Agents
5 9 (0.59%) Blog
5 9 (0.59%) Data Centre
5 9 (0.59%) Product Ownership
6 8 (0.53%) Public Cloud
6 8 (0.53%) Web Conferencing
7 6 (0.40%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (0.26%) Algorithms
8 4 (0.26%) e-Learning
8 4 (0.26%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (0.26%) Legacy Code
8 4 (0.26%) Reference Data
9 3 (0.20%) Animation
9 3 (0.20%) Graphic Design
9 3 (0.20%) Low-Code
9 3 (0.20%) Video Editing
Operating Systems
1 8 (0.53%) Windows
2 4 (0.26%) Linux
3 3 (0.20%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.13%) Mac OS X
5 1 (0.066%) OpenVMS
5 1 (0.066%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,087 (71.65%) Machine Learning
2 1,071 (70.60%) User Experience
3 1,068 (70.40%) Cybersecurity
4 1,047 (69.02%) Web Development
5 220 (14.50%) Conversational UI
6 68 (4.48%) Business Intelligence
7 65 (4.28%) Chemistry
8 41 (2.70%) Customer Service
9 39 (2.57%) Biochemistry
9 39 (2.57%) Biology
9 39 (2.57%) Biotechnology
9 39 (2.57%) Data Interpretation
9 39 (2.57%) Experimental Design
10 38 (2.50%) Content Writing
11 36 (2.37%) Agile
11 36 (2.37%) Analytics
12 33 (2.18%) CRM
13 31 (2.04%) Problem-Solving
13 31 (2.04%) Roadmaps
14 23 (1.52%) Business Development
Programming Languages
1 109 (7.19%) Python
2 93 (6.13%) SQL
3 18 (1.19%) JavaScript
4 13 (0.86%) Java
5 12 (0.79%) C#
6 7 (0.46%) R
7 6 (0.40%) TypeScript
8 3 (0.20%) PHP
9 2 (0.13%) C++
9 2 (0.13%) Ruby
10 1 (0.066%) Bicep
10 1 (0.066%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.066%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1,287 (84.84%) Degree
2 1,164 (76.73%) Master's Degree
3 1,163 (76.66%) PhD
4 1,045 (68.89%) Postgraduate
5 56 (3.69%) Azure Certification
6 9 (0.59%) SC Cleared
6 9 (0.59%) Security Cleared
7 8 (0.53%) AWS Certification
8 4 (0.26%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.20%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (0.13%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.066%) CISA
11 1 (0.066%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.066%) Six Sigma Green Belt
11 1 (0.066%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (0.73%) Accessibility
2 9 (0.59%) WCAG
3 6 (0.40%) QA
4 4 (0.26%) Data Quality
4 4 (0.26%) GDPR
5 1 (0.066%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.066%) COBIT
5 1 (0.066%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.066%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 5 (0.33%) Docker
2 4 (0.26%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (0.40%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.066%) Ansible
2 1 (0.066%) Argo
2 1 (0.066%) Grafana
2 1 (0.066%) Kustomize
2 1 (0.066%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.066%) Terraform
Vendors
1 216 (14.24%) PayPal
2 112 (7.38%) Microsoft
3 22 (1.45%) Adobe
4 15 (0.99%) Apple
4 15 (0.99%) Databricks
5 7 (0.46%) Palo Alto
6 6 (0.40%) OpenAI
7 5 (0.33%) HubSpot
7 5 (0.33%) UiPath
8 4 (0.26%) Cisco
8 4 (0.26%) Salesforce
8 4 (0.26%) SAP
9 2 (0.13%) Automation Anywhere
9 2 (0.13%) Google
10 1 (0.066%) DocuSign
10 1 (0.066%) Extreme Networks
10 1 (0.066%) Palantir
10 1 (0.066%) Pardot
10 1 (0.066%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.066%) Talend