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

6 months to
26 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 40 87
Rank change year-on-year +36 +47 +121
Permanent jobs citing AI 1,673 270 315
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 13.37% 5.51% 2.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 18.25% 6.19% 3.34%
Number of salaries quoted 225 115 204
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £73,750 £77,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £78,375
England median annual salary £71,000 £73,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -2.74% +4.29% -

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 9,165 4,364 9,437
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 73.22% 88.99% 82.25%
Number of salaries quoted 5,423 2,608 7,117
10th Percentile £28,500 £27,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,189 £34,571
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £66,250 £65,000 £61,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £59,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -1.67% +9.09% -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 26 April 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 26 April 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 +37 1,304 £52,250 -9.13% 134
East Midlands +29 380 £52,500 -16.00% 111
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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 14 (0.84%) SharePoint
2 9 (0.54%) Jupyter
3 3 (0.18%) ArcGIS
3 3 (0.18%) CMS
4 2 (0.12%) Confluence
4 2 (0.12%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.060%) Apache
5 1 (0.060%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.060%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.060%) SAS
Applications
1 250 (14.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (1.02%) Chatbot
3 13 (0.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.30%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.060%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (0.36%) Cloudability
1 6 (0.36%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.18%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.060%) Integrated Workplace Management System
4 1 (0.060%) Odoo
4 1 (0.060%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.060%) SAP Business One
4 1 (0.060%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 1,055 (63.06%) Cloud Computing
2 372 (22.24%) Azure
3 300 (17.93%) Azure AI
4 265 (15.84%) Power Platform
5 48 (2.87%) AWS
6 36 (2.15%) SaaS
7 23 (1.37%) Microsoft 365
8 20 (1.20%) Microsoft Copilot
9 14 (0.84%) GCP
10 10 (0.60%) GitHub
10 10 (0.60%) Power Automate
10 10 (0.60%) PowerApps
10 10 (0.60%) Serverless
11 9 (0.54%) Dynamics 365
11 9 (0.54%) Entra ID
11 9 (0.54%) Figma
11 9 (0.54%) GitHub Copilot
12 8 (0.48%) Azure DevOps
13 7 (0.42%) Azure Data Factory
14 6 (0.36%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1,045 (62.46%) Internet
2 5 (0.30%) DNS
3 4 (0.24%) Firewall
4 3 (0.18%) Broadband
4 3 (0.18%) Intranet
4 3 (0.18%) VPN
5 2 (0.12%) DHCP
5 2 (0.12%) MQTT
6 1 (0.060%) Network Security
6 1 (0.060%) SMS
6 1 (0.060%) VLAN
6 1 (0.060%) WireGuard
6 1 (0.060%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 249 (14.88%) Power BI
2 237 (14.17%) Tableau
3 12 (0.72%) SQL Server
4 6 (0.36%) Data Lake
5 4 (0.24%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (0.24%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (0.24%) Delta Lake
5 4 (0.24%) Metadata
6 3 (0.18%) Data Mining
6 3 (0.18%) Looker
6 3 (0.18%) MongoDB
6 3 (0.18%) Redis
7 1 (0.060%) Amazon QuickSight
7 1 (0.060%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.060%) Pentaho
7 1 (0.060%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.060%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.060%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 9 (0.54%) Visual Studio Code
2 8 (0.48%) Visual Studio
3 7 (0.42%) Snyk
4 5 (0.30%) Selenium
5 4 (0.24%) JIRA
6 3 (0.18%) Git
7 2 (0.12%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.12%) Jenkins
8 1 (0.060%) Appium
8 1 (0.060%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.060%) Burp Suite
8 1 (0.060%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.060%) Gatling
8 1 (0.060%) GitLab
8 1 (0.060%) JMeter
8 1 (0.060%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.060%) Postman
8 1 (0.060%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.060%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.060%) Yeoman
General
1 1,408 (84.16%) Social Skills
2 1,099 (65.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1,053 (62.94%) Banking
4 81 (4.84%) Finance
5 62 (3.71%) Analytical Skills
6 33 (1.97%) Legal
7 24 (1.43%) Manufacturing
7 24 (1.43%) Public Sector
7 24 (1.43%) Retail
8 22 (1.32%) Law
9 13 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
10 12 (0.72%) Marketing
11 9 (0.54%) Automotive
12 8 (0.48%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (0.30%) Agriculture
14 4 (0.24%) Financial Institution
14 4 (0.24%) Japanese Language
14 4 (0.24%) Presentation Skills
15 1 (0.060%) Local Government
15 1 (0.060%) Military
Job Titles
1 783 (46.80%) Lecturer
2 265 (15.84%) Analyst
3 237 (14.17%) Junior
4 234 (13.99%) Data Analyst
5 231 (13.81%) Junior Analyst
5 231 (13.81%) Junior Data Analyst
6 69 (4.12%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 45 (2.69%) Senior
8 35 (2.09%) Developer
9 32 (1.91%) Architect
10 27 (1.61%) Lead
11 17 (1.02%) Accountant
11 17 (1.02%) Solutions Architect
11 17 (1.02%) Systems Accountant
12 13 (0.78%) Data Engineer
13 12 (0.72%) Business Analyst
14 11 (0.66%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
14 11 (0.66%) Data Scientist
14 11 (0.66%) Senior Analyst
15 10 (0.60%) Head of Engineering
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (1.02%) .NET
2 10 (0.60%) scikit-learn
3 9 (0.54%) Blazor
3 9 (0.54%) Hugging Face
3 9 (0.54%) Matplotlib
3 9 (0.54%) NumPy
3 9 (0.54%) Pandas
3 9 (0.54%) React
3 9 (0.54%) Streamlit
4 8 (0.48%) Material Design
4 8 (0.48%) WebAssembly
5 7 (0.42%) HTML
6 6 (0.36%) .NET Framework
6 6 (0.36%) CSS
6 6 (0.36%) PyTorch
6 6 (0.36%) TensorFlow
7 5 (0.30%) Playwright
8 4 (0.24%) AngularJS
8 4 (0.24%) PySpark
8 4 (0.24%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1,048 (62.64%) IoT
2 15 (0.90%) Product Ownership
3 12 (0.72%) Algorithms
4 11 (0.66%) Public Cloud
5 9 (0.54%) Onboarding
6 8 (0.48%) Cloud Native
6 8 (0.48%) Data Centre
6 8 (0.48%) Driving Licence
6 8 (0.48%) Enterprise Software
6 8 (0.48%) Robotics
7 7 (0.42%) Blog
8 6 (0.36%) CSOC
8 6 (0.36%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (0.36%) Self-Motivation
8 6 (0.36%) Virtual Team
9 5 (0.30%) Low-Code
10 4 (0.24%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (0.24%) Security Posture
11 3 (0.18%) AI Agents
11 3 (0.18%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 12 (0.72%) Windows
2 4 (0.24%) Linux
2 4 (0.24%) Windows Server
3 2 (0.12%) Robot Operating System
3 2 (0.12%) VMS
4 1 (0.060%) Kali Linux
4 1 (0.060%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.060%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.060%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (0.060%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,101 (65.81%) Machine Learning
2 1,080 (64.55%) Cybersecurity
3 1,062 (63.48%) User Experience
4 1,047 (62.58%) Web Development
5 256 (15.30%) Business Intelligence
6 75 (4.48%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
7 56 (3.35%) Analytics
8 44 (2.63%) Agile
8 44 (2.63%) Problem-Solving
9 41 (2.45%) Continuous Improvement
10 38 (2.27%) Roadmaps
11 29 (1.73%) Decision-Making
12 26 (1.55%) Mentoring
13 24 (1.43%) Customer Service
13 24 (1.43%) LLM
14 22 (1.32%) Actionable Insight
14 22 (1.32%) CI/CD
14 22 (1.32%) CRM
15 21 (1.26%) Validation
15 21 (1.26%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 363 (21.70%) Python
2 266 (15.90%) SQL
3 16 (0.96%) C#
4 15 (0.90%) JavaScript
5 6 (0.36%) TypeScript
6 5 (0.30%) PowerShell
7 4 (0.24%) Kusto Query Language
8 3 (0.18%) C++
8 3 (0.18%) Java
9 1 (0.060%) Bash
9 1 (0.060%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.060%) JCL
9 1 (0.060%) PHP
9 1 (0.060%) R
Qualifications
1 1,085 (64.85%) Degree
2 1,058 (63.24%) Master's Degree
3 1,050 (62.76%) PhD
4 1,045 (62.46%) Postgraduate
5 298 (17.81%) Azure Certification
6 23 (1.37%) AWS Certification
7 14 (0.84%) ACCA
7 14 (0.84%) CIMA
8 12 (0.72%) SC Cleared
8 12 (0.72%) Security Cleared
9 9 (0.54%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 7 (0.42%) Computer Science Degree
11 6 (0.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 6 (0.36%) SANS
12 4 (0.24%) MOS
13 3 (0.18%) CISA
13 3 (0.18%) DBS Check
13 3 (0.18%) Microsoft Certification
14 2 (0.12%) BPSS Clearance
14 2 (0.12%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (0.96%) Accessibility
1 16 (0.96%) GDPR
1 16 (0.96%) QA
2 15 (0.90%) Data Quality
3 12 (0.72%) WCAG
4 8 (0.48%) GRC
5 5 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.18%) NIST
6 3 (0.18%) SLA
7 2 (0.12%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.12%) PMO
8 1 (0.060%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.060%) COBIT
8 1 (0.060%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.060%) PSD2
8 1 (0.060%) SOC 2
System Software
1 10 (0.60%) Active Directory
2 7 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (0.36%) Docker
4 1 (0.060%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.060%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (0.36%) Kubernetes
2 4 (0.24%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (0.12%) Grafana
4 1 (0.060%) Ansible
4 1 (0.060%) HP Fortify
4 1 (0.060%) Podman
4 1 (0.060%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.060%) Terraform
Vendors
1 322 (19.25%) Microsoft
2 17 (1.02%) Databricks
3 15 (0.90%) Adobe
4 14 (0.84%) Apple
5 11 (0.66%) ServiceNow
6 9 (0.54%) SAP
7 8 (0.48%) OpenAI
8 7 (0.42%) CrowdStrike
8 7 (0.42%) Palo Alto
8 7 (0.42%) Tenable
9 6 (0.36%) PayPal
10 5 (0.30%) ConnectWise
10 5 (0.30%) Salesforce
11 3 (0.18%) ESRI
11 3 (0.18%) Oracle
12 2 (0.12%) DocuSign
12 2 (0.12%) Google
12 2 (0.12%) Splunk
13 1 (0.060%) Denodo
13 1 (0.060%) UiPath