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 16 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 79 121
Rank change year-on-year +75 +42 +81
Permanent jobs citing AI 1,581 182 201
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 15.73% 3.54% 2.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 20.39% 3.84% 2.42%
Number of salaries quoted 167 98 171
10th Percentile £27,300 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £37,750 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% +18.18% -11.29%
75th Percentile £76,250 £84,688 £67,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £76,250
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +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 7,753 4,738 8,291
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 77.14% 92.07% 84.16%
Number of salaries quoted 4,411 2,593 6,567
10th Percentile £28,250 £29,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,250 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £48,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +8.25% -7.62%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,625 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +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 16 March 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 16 March 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 +69 1,279 £55,000 -8.33% 95
East Midlands +60 313 £50,000 -23.08% 96
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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 15 (0.95%) SharePoint
2 9 (0.57%) Jupyter
3 3 (0.19%) ArcGIS
3 3 (0.19%) CMS
4 2 (0.13%) Apache
4 2 (0.13%) Confluence
4 2 (0.13%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.063%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.063%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (0.063%) SAS
5 1 (0.063%) WordPress
Applications
1 171 (10.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 153 (9.68%) Chatbot
3 11 (0.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.063%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (0.57%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.13%) Integrated Workplace Management System
2 2 (0.13%) SAP Business One
2 2 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.063%) Maximo
3 1 (0.063%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.063%) Odoo
3 1 (0.063%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 1,054 (66.67%) Cloud Computing
2 227 (14.36%) Azure
3 184 (11.64%) Power Platform
4 157 (9.93%) Azure AI
5 43 (2.72%) AWS
6 42 (2.66%) SaaS
7 17 (1.08%) Microsoft 365
8 13 (0.82%) Microsoft Copilot
9 12 (0.76%) Dynamics 365
9 12 (0.76%) PowerApps
10 11 (0.70%) GitHub
10 11 (0.70%) Power Automate
11 10 (0.63%) Azure DevOps
12 9 (0.57%) Figma
12 9 (0.57%) GitHub Copilot
13 8 (0.51%) Azure Data Factory
14 7 (0.44%) Entra ID
15 6 (0.38%) Copilot Studio
15 6 (0.38%) IaaS
15 6 (0.38%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1,045 (66.10%) Internet
2 4 (0.25%) Intranet
3 3 (0.19%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 168 (10.63%) Power BI
2 159 (10.06%) Tableau
3 13 (0.82%) SQL Server
4 5 (0.32%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (0.32%) Delta Lake
5 4 (0.25%) Data Mining
6 3 (0.19%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.13%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (0.13%) Metadata
8 1 (0.063%) Amazon QuickSight
8 1 (0.063%) Looker
8 1 (0.063%) MySQL
8 1 (0.063%) Neo4j
8 1 (0.063%) Pentaho
8 1 (0.063%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.063%) Redis
8 1 (0.063%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.063%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.063%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.063%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 9 (0.57%) Visual Studio Code
2 8 (0.51%) Visual Studio
3 4 (0.25%) Git
3 4 (0.25%) JIRA
4 3 (0.19%) Cypress.io
4 3 (0.19%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.13%) Selenium
6 1 (0.063%) Appium
6 1 (0.063%) Babel
6 1 (0.063%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.063%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.063%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.063%) Gatling
6 1 (0.063%) GitLab
6 1 (0.063%) JMeter
6 1 (0.063%) JUnit
6 1 (0.063%) LoadRunner
6 1 (0.063%) Mockito
6 1 (0.063%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.063%) webpack
General
1 1,255 (79.38%) Social Skills
2 1,079 (68.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1,047 (66.22%) Banking
4 79 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
5 55 (3.48%) Finance
6 37 (2.34%) Retail
7 32 (2.02%) Legal
8 28 (1.77%) Public Sector
9 21 (1.33%) Manufacturing
10 18 (1.14%) Law
11 8 (0.51%) Marketing
11 8 (0.51%) Organisational Skills
12 7 (0.44%) Automotive
13 5 (0.32%) Agriculture
14 4 (0.25%) Presentation Skills
15 3 (0.19%) Financial Institution
15 3 (0.19%) Influencing Skills
15 3 (0.19%) Japanese Language
16 2 (0.13%) Advertising
17 1 (0.063%) Games
Job Titles
1 783 (49.53%) Lecturer
2 165 (10.44%) Analyst
3 160 (10.12%) Junior
4 155 (9.80%) Data Analyst
5 154 (9.74%) Junior Analyst
5 154 (9.74%) Junior Data Analyst
6 142 (8.98%) Trainer
7 37 (2.34%) Developer
7 37 (2.34%) Research Scientist
8 23 (1.45%) Architect
9 20 (1.27%) Content Editor
10 18 (1.14%) Solutions Architect
11 17 (1.08%) Lead
12 15 (0.95%) Senior
13 11 (0.70%) Head of Engineering
14 10 (0.63%) Trainee
15 9 (0.57%) Alliance Manager
15 9 (0.57%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
15 9 (0.57%) Data Engineer
16 8 (0.51%) Customer Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (1.20%) .NET
2 13 (0.82%) React
3 10 (0.63%) scikit-learn
4 9 (0.57%) Blazor
4 9 (0.57%) HTML
4 9 (0.57%) Hugging Face
4 9 (0.57%) Matplotlib
4 9 (0.57%) NumPy
4 9 (0.57%) Pandas
4 9 (0.57%) Streamlit
5 8 (0.51%) CSS
5 8 (0.51%) Material Design
5 8 (0.51%) WebAssembly
6 6 (0.38%) .NET Framework
6 6 (0.38%) PyTorch
6 6 (0.38%) RESTful
6 6 (0.38%) TensorFlow
7 5 (0.32%) AngularJS
7 5 (0.32%) ASP.NET
7 5 (0.32%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1,047 (66.22%) IoT
2 35 (2.21%) Molecular Biology
3 13 (0.82%) Algorithms
4 12 (0.76%) Product Ownership
5 10 (0.63%) Cloud Native
6 9 (0.57%) Blog
6 9 (0.57%) Public Cloud
7 8 (0.51%) Onboarding
8 7 (0.44%) Driving Licence
8 7 (0.44%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (0.32%) Low-Code
10 4 (0.25%) AI Agents
10 4 (0.25%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (0.19%) Greenfield Project
11 3 (0.19%) Management Information System
11 3 (0.19%) Reference Data
11 3 (0.19%) Social Media
12 2 (0.13%) Embedded Systems
12 2 (0.13%) Robotics
12 2 (0.13%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 8 (0.51%) Windows
2 3 (0.19%) Linux
3 2 (0.13%) Mac OS X
3 2 (0.13%) Robot Operating System
3 2 (0.13%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.063%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,100 (69.58%) Machine Learning
2 1,066 (67.43%) User Experience
3 1,060 (67.05%) Cybersecurity
4 1,047 (66.22%) Web Development
5 175 (11.07%) Business Intelligence
6 156 (9.87%) Conversational UI
7 50 (3.16%) Analytics
8 42 (2.66%) Chemistry
8 42 (2.66%) Customer Service
9 41 (2.59%) Agile
10 35 (2.21%) Biochemistry
10 35 (2.21%) Biology
10 35 (2.21%) Biotechnology
10 35 (2.21%) Data Interpretation
10 35 (2.21%) Experimental Design
10 35 (2.21%) Problem-Solving
10 35 (2.21%) Roadmaps
11 28 (1.77%) Continuous Improvement
12 25 (1.58%) CRM
13 23 (1.45%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 213 (13.47%) Python
2 186 (11.76%) SQL
3 21 (1.33%) JavaScript
4 19 (1.20%) C#
5 10 (0.63%) TypeScript
6 6 (0.38%) Java
7 3 (0.19%) C++
8 2 (0.13%) PHP
8 2 (0.13%) Ruby
9 1 (0.063%) Bash
9 1 (0.063%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.063%) JCL
9 1 (0.063%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.063%) R
Qualifications
1 1,217 (76.98%) Degree
2 1,134 (71.73%) Master's Degree
3 1,130 (71.47%) PhD
4 1,045 (66.10%) Postgraduate
5 155 (9.80%) Azure Certification
6 17 (1.08%) AWS Certification
7 9 (0.57%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 9 (0.57%) SC Cleared
7 9 (0.57%) Security Cleared
8 6 (0.38%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (0.32%) ACCA
9 5 (0.32%) CIMA
10 4 (0.25%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (0.19%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.19%) MOS
12 2 (0.13%) CISA
12 2 (0.13%) DBS Check
13 1 (0.063%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 1 (0.063%) CISM
13 1 (0.063%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (1.01%) Accessibility
2 15 (0.95%) QA
3 13 (0.82%) WCAG
4 12 (0.76%) GDPR
5 9 (0.57%) Data Quality
6 4 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.13%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.13%) NIST
8 1 (0.063%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.063%) COBIT
8 1 (0.063%) GRC
8 1 (0.063%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.063%) SOC 2
System Software
1 7 (0.44%) Active Directory
2 6 (0.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (0.44%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.19%) Grafana
3 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.063%) Ansible
4 1 (0.063%) Argo
4 1 (0.063%) HP Fortify
4 1 (0.063%) Kustomize
4 1 (0.063%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 226 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 142 (8.98%) PayPal
3 18 (1.14%) Databricks
4 10 (0.63%) Adobe
5 8 (0.51%) Apple
6 6 (0.38%) OpenAI
6 6 (0.38%) SAP
6 6 (0.38%) ServiceNow
7 5 (0.32%) ConnectWise
7 5 (0.32%) Salesforce
8 3 (0.19%) ESRI
9 2 (0.13%) DocuSign
9 2 (0.13%) Google
9 2 (0.13%) Planon
9 2 (0.13%) Splunk
10 1 (0.063%) Blue Prism
10 1 (0.063%) Denodo
10 1 (0.063%) Oracle
10 1 (0.063%) UiPath
10 1 (0.063%) Veracode