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

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 8 100
Rank change year-on-year -9 +92 +68
Permanent jobs citing AI 827 750 242
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 5.56% 12.85% 2.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.98% 15.18% 2.96%
Number of salaries quoted 437 112 125
10th Percentile £36,150 £37,750 £34,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £49,688 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,527 £60,000 £62,250
Median % change year-on-year -0.79% -3.61% -11.07%
75th Percentile £80,000 £74,063 £85,000
90th Percentile £98,500 £99,750 £96,250
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 10,363 4,941 8,176
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 69.71% 84.68% 77.85%
Number of salaries quoted 7,402 2,965 4,642
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £28,119
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £35,700
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 £64,108
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 31 August 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 31 August 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 -5 553 £60,358 +0.60% 221
East Midlands -18 274 £52,500 -19.23% 131
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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 32 (3.87%) SharePoint
2 9 (1.09%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (0.97%) Apache
4 7 (0.85%) IIS
4 7 (0.85%) nginx
4 7 (0.85%) 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
1 123 (14.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (1.33%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (0.97%) Chatbot
4 6 (0.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.73%) 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 (1.45%) Cloudability
2 6 (0.73%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.48%) Sage 50
3 4 (0.48%) Shopify
4 3 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.36%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (0.36%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.24%) Integrated Workplace Management System
5 2 (0.24%) SAP Business One
5 2 (0.24%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.12%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.12%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 1 (0.12%) Sage 200
6 1 (0.12%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 320 (38.69%) Azure
2 195 (23.58%) Power Platform
3 191 (23.10%) Azure AI
4 88 (10.64%) AWS
5 57 (6.89%) SaaS
6 52 (6.29%) Microsoft Copilot
7 48 (5.80%) Microsoft 365
8 30 (3.63%) Power Automate
9 29 (3.51%) GCP
10 28 (3.39%) Serverless
11 26 (3.14%) Azure DevOps
12 19 (2.30%) Dynamics 365
13 16 (1.93%) GitHub
14 15 (1.81%) PowerApps
15 14 (1.69%) Entra ID
16 12 (1.45%) GitHub Copilot
17 10 (1.21%) Copilot Studio
17 10 (1.21%) Microsoft Purview
18 9 (1.09%) Azure Functions
18 9 (1.09%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 16 (1.93%) DNS
1 16 (1.93%) Firewall
2 8 (0.97%) VPN
3 4 (0.48%) DHCP
3 4 (0.48%) MQTT
3 4 (0.48%) Network Security
4 3 (0.36%) HTTP
4 3 (0.36%) Internet
4 3 (0.36%) Wireless
5 2 (0.24%) VLAN
5 2 (0.24%) VoIP
6 1 (0.12%) Bluetooth
6 1 (0.12%) Broadband
6 1 (0.12%) LAN
6 1 (0.12%) RTSP
6 1 (0.12%) SCTP
6 1 (0.12%) SMS
6 1 (0.12%) Unified Communications
6 1 (0.12%) UWB
6 1 (0.12%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 171 (20.68%) Power BI
2 126 (15.24%) Tableau
3 23 (2.78%) SQL Server
4 18 (2.18%) MongoDB
5 17 (2.06%) Azure SQL Database
6 16 (1.93%) Data Lake
7 13 (1.57%) Metadata
8 11 (1.33%) Data Warehouse
9 7 (0.85%) Big Data
9 7 (0.85%) Power Query
9 7 (0.85%) Redis
10 6 (0.73%) DynamoDB
10 6 (0.73%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 6 (0.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 5 (0.60%) Relational Database
11 5 (0.60%) Star Schema
12 4 (0.48%) Data Mining
13 3 (0.36%) MySQL
13 3 (0.36%) QlikView
13 3 (0.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 15 (1.81%) Git
2 13 (1.57%) JIRA
3 12 (1.45%) Maven
4 10 (1.21%) JUnit
4 10 (1.21%) Mockito
4 10 (1.21%) Snyk
5 6 (0.73%) Selenium
5 6 (0.73%) 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%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.24%) Yeoman
8 1 (0.12%) NUnit
General
1 328 (39.66%) Social Skills
2 199 (24.06%) Finance
3 82 (9.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 79 (9.55%) Analytical Skills
5 36 (4.35%) Influencing Skills
6 35 (4.23%) Legal
7 32 (3.87%) Marketing
8 30 (3.63%) Law
9 29 (3.51%) Public Sector
9 29 (3.51%) Retail
10 28 (3.39%) Manufacturing
11 22 (2.66%) Organisational Skills
12 20 (2.42%) Banking
13 12 (1.45%) Presentation Skills
14 11 (1.33%) Advertising
15 7 (0.85%) Automotive
16 6 (0.73%) Social Housing
16 6 (0.73%) Telecoms
17 5 (0.60%) Financial Institution
17 5 (0.60%) Games
Job Titles
1 166 (20.07%) Analyst
2 115 (13.91%) Senior
3 114 (13.78%) Junior
4 113 (13.66%) Data Analyst
5 111 (13.42%) Junior Analyst
6 110 (13.30%) Junior Data Analyst
7 102 (12.33%) Developer
8 81 (9.79%) Lead
9 78 (9.43%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 62 (7.50%) Architect
11 30 (3.63%) Business Analyst
11 30 (3.63%) Software Engineer
12 26 (3.14%) Data Engineer
13 24 (2.90%) Accountant
13 24 (2.90%) Systems Accountant
14 22 (2.66%) Consultant
14 22 (2.66%) Data Scientist
14 22 (2.66%) Senior Developer
15 20 (2.42%) Senior Analyst
16 17 (2.06%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (3.63%) React
2 26 (3.14%) .NET
3 24 (2.90%) REST
4 18 (2.18%) Terraform
5 17 (2.06%) ASP.NET
5 17 (2.06%) ASP.NET Core
6 14 (1.69%) Playwright
7 13 (1.57%) .NET Core
7 13 (1.57%) Spring
8 12 (1.45%) HTML
9 10 (1.21%) CSS
9 10 (1.21%) ML.NET
9 10 (1.21%) RESTful
10 9 (1.09%) Blazor
10 9 (1.09%) PyTorch
10 9 (1.09%) TensorFlow
11 8 (0.97%) Kafka
12 7 (0.85%) .NET Framework
12 7 (0.85%) Entity Framework
13 6 (0.73%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 31 (3.75%) Self-Motivation
2 23 (2.78%) Cloud Native
3 22 (2.66%) Onboarding
3 22 (2.66%) Product Ownership
4 15 (1.81%) Management Information System
5 14 (1.69%) AI Agents
6 13 (1.57%) Data Centre
6 13 (1.57%) Greenfield Project
7 12 (1.45%) Low-Code
8 11 (1.33%) Distributed Systems
8 11 (1.33%) Driving Licence
8 11 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
8 11 (1.33%) Robotics
8 11 (1.33%) Virtual Team
9 9 (1.09%) IoT
9 9 (1.09%) Security Posture
10 8 (0.97%) BYOD
11 7 (0.85%) CSOC
11 7 (0.85%) Public Cloud
12 6 (0.73%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 31 (3.75%) Linux
2 21 (2.54%) Windows
3 18 (2.18%) Windows Server
4 8 (0.97%) 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
1 174 (21.04%) Business Intelligence
2 119 (14.39%) Agile
3 118 (14.27%) Continuous Improvement
4 116 (14.03%) Analytics
5 98 (11.85%) Problem-Solving
6 92 (11.12%) Mentoring
7 90 (10.88%) Decision-Making
8 88 (10.64%) Machine Learning
9 82 (9.92%) CI/CD
10 77 (9.31%) Roadmaps
11 74 (8.95%) Stakeholder Management
12 72 (8.71%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
13 61 (7.38%) Cybersecurity
14 59 (7.13%) LLM
15 48 (5.80%) ERP
15 48 (5.80%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 47 (5.68%) Coaching
17 45 (5.44%) DevOps
18 44 (5.32%) Software Engineering
19 43 (5.20%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 261 (31.56%) Python
2 191 (23.10%) SQL
3 34 (4.11%) JavaScript
4 30 (3.63%) C#
5 23 (2.78%) PowerShell
6 22 (2.66%) TypeScript
7 19 (2.30%) Java
8 13 (1.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 10 (1.21%) Bash
9 10 (1.21%) PL/SQL
10 8 (0.97%) R
11 6 (0.73%) PHP
12 5 (0.60%) Kusto Query Language
12 5 (0.60%) T-SQL
13 3 (0.36%) C++
14 2 (0.24%) Go
15 1 (0.12%) C
15 1 (0.12%) JCL
15 1 (0.12%) Rust
15 1 (0.12%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 184 (22.25%) Azure Certification
2 67 (8.10%) Security Cleared
3 63 (7.62%) SC Cleared
4 60 (7.26%) Degree
5 17 (2.06%) ACCA
5 17 (2.06%) AWS Certification
5 17 (2.06%) CIMA
6 12 (1.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 10 (1.21%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (1.21%) Microsoft Certification
8 9 (1.09%) DV Cleared
9 8 (0.97%) BPSS Clearance
10 7 (0.85%) Master's Degree
10 7 (0.85%) SANS
11 4 (0.48%) CBAP
11 4 (0.48%) PMI Certification
12 3 (0.36%) CIPD
12 3 (0.36%) CISA
12 3 (0.36%) IIBA
12 3 (0.36%) MOS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (5.56%) Data Quality
2 29 (3.51%) QA
3 26 (3.14%) Accessibility
4 21 (2.54%) GDPR
5 17 (2.06%) GRC
5 17 (2.06%) SLA
6 11 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (0.85%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 5 (0.60%) PMO
9 4 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
9 4 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 4 (0.48%) ISO 9001
10 3 (0.36%) WCAG
11 2 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.24%) NCSC
11 2 (0.24%) NIST
12 1 (0.12%) GxP
12 1 (0.12%) JTAG
12 1 (0.12%) PCI DSS
12 1 (0.12%) PSD2
System Software
1 32 (3.87%) Docker
2 12 (1.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (1.21%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (0.85%) Active Directory
5 5 (0.60%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 32 (3.87%) Kubernetes
2 11 (1.33%) 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
1 270 (32.65%) Microsoft
2 23 (2.78%) ServiceNow
3 17 (2.06%) Databricks
4 15 (1.81%) Adobe
4 15 (1.81%) Oracle
5 12 (1.45%) Apple
5 12 (1.45%) SAP
5 12 (1.45%) VMware
6 11 (1.33%) CrowdStrike
7 10 (1.21%) OpenAI
7 10 (1.21%) Palo Alto
7 10 (1.21%) Tenable
8 7 (0.85%) Citrix
8 7 (0.85%) Foundry
8 7 (0.85%) Google
8 7 (0.85%) Salesforce
8 7 (0.85%) SonicWALL
8 7 (0.85%) YouTube
9 6 (0.73%) HubSpot
10 5 (0.60%) Facebook