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 3 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 8 96
Rank change year-on-year +5 +88 +106
Permanent jobs citing AI 1,687 633 317
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 12.74% 12.71% 2.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.60% 14.20% 3.08%
Number of salaries quoted 306 105 204
10th Percentile £35,000 £35,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £46,500 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £56,156
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +2.39% -6.41%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £99,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +3.70% -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 9,583 4,458 10,282
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 72.37% 89.52% 79.46%
Number of salaries quoted 5,859 2,439 7,471
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £39,979 £32,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £49,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.08% +3.16% -9.52%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £62,437
90th Percentile £82,500 £75,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £58,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% +5.45% -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 3 June 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 3 June 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 +7 1,348 £55,000 -4.35% 191
East Midlands -10 350 £52,500 -8.70% 106
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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 11 (0.65%) SharePoint
2 9 (0.53%) Jupyter
3 3 (0.18%) ArcGIS
3 3 (0.18%) Confluence
4 2 (0.12%) CMS
4 2 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.059%) Apache
5 1 (0.059%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.059%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.059%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.059%) WordPress
Applications
1 222 (13.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (0.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 12 (0.71%) Microsoft Office
4 11 (0.65%) Chatbot
5 5 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.059%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.059%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 12 (0.71%) Cloudability
2 7 (0.41%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.24%) Sage 50
4 3 (0.18%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.059%) Integrated Workplace Management System
5 1 (0.059%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.059%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.059%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.059%) SAP Business One
5 1 (0.059%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 983 (58.27%) Cloud Computing
2 363 (21.52%) Azure
3 269 (15.95%) Azure AI
4 244 (14.46%) Power Platform
5 82 (4.86%) AWS
6 41 (2.43%) SaaS
7 24 (1.42%) Microsoft 365
7 24 (1.42%) Microsoft Copilot
8 21 (1.24%) GCP
9 20 (1.19%) Serverless
10 13 (0.77%) Microsoft Purview
11 11 (0.65%) GitHub
12 10 (0.59%) Azure DevOps
13 9 (0.53%) Figma
13 9 (0.53%) GitHub Copilot
14 8 (0.47%) Power Automate
14 8 (0.47%) PowerApps
14 8 (0.47%) Snowflake
15 7 (0.41%) Anthropic Claude
16 6 (0.36%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 973 (57.68%) Internet
2 7 (0.41%) DNS
3 6 (0.36%) Firewall
4 5 (0.30%) VPN
5 4 (0.24%) MQTT
6 3 (0.18%) Broadband
7 2 (0.12%) DHCP
7 2 (0.12%) VLAN
8 1 (0.059%) Diameter Protocol
8 1 (0.059%) FTP
8 1 (0.059%) HTTP
8 1 (0.059%) IPFIX
8 1 (0.059%) Network Security
8 1 (0.059%) SCTP
8 1 (0.059%) SNMP
8 1 (0.059%) Software-Defined Radio
8 1 (0.059%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.059%) Unified Communications
8 1 (0.059%) VoLTE
8 1 (0.059%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 231 (13.69%) Power BI
2 209 (12.39%) Tableau
3 18 (1.07%) SQL Server
4 12 (0.71%) MongoDB
5 8 (0.47%) Azure SQL Database
5 8 (0.47%) Data Lake
5 8 (0.47%) Metadata
6 7 (0.41%) Redis
7 6 (0.36%) DynamoDB
8 5 (0.30%) Star Schema
9 4 (0.24%) Big Data
10 3 (0.18%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (0.18%) Looker
10 3 (0.18%) Power Query
10 3 (0.18%) Semantic Layer
11 2 (0.12%) Data Mining
11 2 (0.12%) Delta Lake
11 2 (0.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 1 (0.059%) Amazon Redshift
12 1 (0.059%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 10 (0.59%) Snyk
2 9 (0.53%) Visual Studio Code
3 7 (0.41%) Visual Studio
4 6 (0.36%) JIRA
5 5 (0.30%) JUnit
5 5 (0.30%) Maven
5 5 (0.30%) Mockito
5 5 (0.30%) Selenium
6 3 (0.18%) Git
7 2 (0.12%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.059%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.059%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.059%) Gatling
8 1 (0.059%) Jenkins
8 1 (0.059%) JMeter
8 1 (0.059%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.059%) Postman
8 1 (0.059%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.059%) Vite
8 1 (0.059%) Yeoman
General
1 1,325 (78.54%) Social Skills
2 1,039 (61.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 993 (58.86%) Banking
4 121 (7.17%) Finance
5 68 (4.03%) Analytical Skills
6 38 (2.25%) Legal
7 31 (1.84%) Retail
8 30 (1.78%) Law
9 24 (1.42%) Manufacturing
10 22 (1.30%) Influencing Skills
11 14 (0.83%) Public Sector
12 12 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
13 11 (0.65%) Marketing
14 8 (0.47%) Automotive
15 7 (0.41%) Social Housing
16 6 (0.36%) Financial Institution
16 6 (0.36%) Japanese Language
17 5 (0.30%) Agriculture
18 3 (0.18%) Advertising
18 3 (0.18%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 735 (43.57%) Lecturer
2 252 (14.94%) Analyst
3 201 (11.91%) Data Analyst
3 201 (11.91%) Junior
4 199 (11.80%) Junior Analyst
5 198 (11.74%) Junior Data Analyst
6 73 (4.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 68 (4.03%) Senior
8 67 (3.97%) Developer
9 45 (2.67%) Lead
10 34 (2.02%) Architect
11 23 (1.36%) Business Analyst
12 21 (1.24%) Accountant
12 21 (1.24%) Data Scientist
12 21 (1.24%) Systems Accountant
13 19 (1.13%) Data Engineer
14 17 (1.01%) Senior Analyst
15 16 (0.95%) Software Engineer
16 14 (0.83%) Software Developer
16 14 (0.83%) Statistician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (1.48%) .NET
2 23 (1.36%) React
3 11 (0.65%) ASP.NET
3 11 (0.65%) Blazor
3 11 (0.65%) RESTful
4 10 (0.59%) ASP.NET Core
4 10 (0.59%) Hugging Face
4 10 (0.59%) REST
5 9 (0.53%) .NET Framework
5 9 (0.53%) Matplotlib
5 9 (0.53%) NumPy
5 9 (0.53%) Pandas
5 9 (0.53%) Playwright
5 9 (0.53%) scikit-learn
5 9 (0.53%) Streamlit
6 8 (0.47%) HTML
7 7 (0.41%) Kafka
7 7 (0.41%) Material Design
7 7 (0.41%) WebAssembly
8 6 (0.36%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 981 (58.15%) IoT
2 26 (1.54%) Product Ownership
3 14 (0.83%) Cloud Native
4 13 (0.77%) Public Cloud
5 12 (0.71%) Algorithms
5 12 (0.71%) Robotics
6 11 (0.65%) Data Centre
7 10 (0.59%) Distributed Systems
7 10 (0.59%) Driving Licence
7 10 (0.59%) Onboarding
8 8 (0.47%) Greenfield Project
8 8 (0.47%) Virtual Team
9 7 (0.41%) Enterprise Software
9 7 (0.41%) Low-Code
9 7 (0.41%) Self-Motivation
10 6 (0.36%) CSOC
11 5 (0.30%) Management Information System
11 5 (0.30%) Mobile App
12 4 (0.24%) AI Agents
12 4 (0.24%) Augmented Reality
Operating Systems
1 11 (0.65%) Linux
1 11 (0.65%) Windows
2 6 (0.36%) Windows Server
3 4 (0.24%) VMS
4 2 (0.12%) Android
4 2 (0.12%) Robot Operating System
5 1 (0.059%) Alpine Linux
5 1 (0.059%) Kali Linux
5 1 (0.059%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.059%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.059%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.059%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,047 (62.06%) Machine Learning
2 1,019 (60.40%) Cybersecurity
3 988 (58.57%) User Experience
4 973 (57.68%) Web Development
5 235 (13.93%) Business Intelligence
6 78 (4.62%) Analytics
6 78 (4.62%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
7 68 (4.03%) Agile
8 66 (3.91%) Problem-Solving
9 60 (3.56%) Continuous Improvement
10 56 (3.32%) Roadmaps
11 55 (3.26%) Mentoring
12 53 (3.14%) CI/CD
13 42 (2.49%) Decision-Making
14 39 (2.31%) LLM
15 38 (2.25%) Actionable Insight
15 38 (2.25%) Validation
16 34 (2.02%) Risk Management
17 32 (1.90%) Data Science
17 32 (1.90%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 351 (20.81%) Python
2 248 (14.70%) SQL
3 27 (1.60%) C#
3 27 (1.60%) JavaScript
4 18 (1.07%) TypeScript
5 9 (0.53%) PowerShell
6 8 (0.47%) Java
7 7 (0.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 6 (0.36%) Bash
8 6 (0.36%) PHP
9 5 (0.30%) PL/SQL
10 4 (0.24%) Kusto Query Language
10 4 (0.24%) R
11 3 (0.18%) C++
12 2 (0.12%) Go
12 2 (0.12%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.059%) JCL
13 1 (0.059%) MATLAB
13 1 (0.059%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 1,016 (60.23%) Degree
2 982 (58.21%) Master's Degree
3 975 (57.79%) PhD
4 973 (57.68%) Postgraduate
5 265 (15.71%) Azure Certification
6 29 (1.72%) AWS Certification
7 27 (1.60%) SC Cleared
7 27 (1.60%) Security Cleared
8 18 (1.07%) ACCA
8 18 (1.07%) CIMA
9 12 (0.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 9 (0.53%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 6 (0.36%) Computer Science Degree
11 6 (0.36%) MOS
11 6 (0.36%) SANS
12 5 (0.30%) CISA
13 4 (0.24%) DV Cleared
14 3 (0.18%) BPSS Clearance
14 3 (0.18%) Microsoft Certification
14 3 (0.18%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (2.07%) Data Quality
2 25 (1.48%) GDPR
3 21 (1.24%) QA
4 19 (1.13%) Accessibility
5 11 (0.65%) GRC
6 9 (0.53%) WCAG
7 7 (0.41%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 5 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.30%) SLA
9 4 (0.24%) PMO
10 3 (0.18%) NIST
11 2 (0.12%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.059%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.059%) COBIT
12 1 (0.059%) GxP
12 1 (0.059%) ISO 19650
12 1 (0.059%) PCI DSS
12 1 (0.059%) PSD2
12 1 (0.059%) SOC 2
System Software
1 15 (0.89%) Docker
2 10 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (0.41%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.059%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.059%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 15 (0.89%) Kubernetes
2 12 (0.71%) Terraform
3 5 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (0.18%) Grafana
5 1 (0.059%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.059%) Nagios
5 1 (0.059%) Podman
5 1 (0.059%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.059%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 310 (18.38%) Microsoft
2 22 (1.30%) Adobe
3 20 (1.19%) Apple
4 18 (1.07%) ServiceNow
5 16 (0.95%) Databricks
6 10 (0.59%) CrowdStrike
6 10 (0.59%) Palo Alto
6 10 (0.59%) Tenable
7 9 (0.53%) OpenAI
7 9 (0.53%) Oracle
7 9 (0.53%) SAP
8 5 (0.30%) Aderant
8 5 (0.30%) ConnectWise
8 5 (0.30%) Intapp
8 5 (0.30%) Sage
8 5 (0.30%) Salesforce
9 4 (0.24%) Google
9 4 (0.24%) Xero
10 3 (0.18%) ESRI
11 2 (0.12%) DocuSign