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

6 months to
9 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 7 104
Rank change year-on-year -10 +97 +66
Permanent jobs citing AI 848 742 220
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 5.59% 13.02% 2.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.00% 15.34% 2.82%
Number of salaries quoted 448 106 99
10th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £35,400
25th Percentile £46,688 £48,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.00% -13.79%
75th Percentile £80,000 £70,938 £87,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £98,000
England median annual salary £74,000 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +5.71% -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 10,596 4,837 7,814
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 69.82% 84.86% 77.72%
Number of salaries quoted 7,552 2,895 4,114
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £28,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £36,250
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 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £76,500
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 9 September 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 September 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 -5 572 £62,250 +3.75% 353
East Midlands -19 276 £52,500 -19.23% 221
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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 38 (4.48%) SharePoint
2 10 (1.18%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (1.06%) Apache
4 8 (0.94%) IIS
4 8 (0.94%) nginx
5 7 (0.83%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 5 (0.59%) CMS
7 4 (0.47%) Confluence
7 4 (0.47%) Jupyter
7 4 (0.47%) WordPress
8 2 (0.24%) Apache Spark
9 1 (0.12%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.12%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.12%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.12%) SAS
Applications
1 112 (13.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (1.30%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (1.18%) Chatbot
4 6 (0.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.71%) 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 (1.42%) Cloudability
2 6 (0.71%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.59%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.47%) Sage 50
4 4 (0.47%) Shopify
5 3 (0.35%) Dynamics NAV
5 3 (0.35%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.24%) Integrated Workplace Management System
6 2 (0.24%) SAP Business One
6 2 (0.24%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.12%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.12%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 1 (0.12%) Sage 200
7 1 (0.12%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 320 (37.74%) Azure
2 193 (22.76%) Power Platform
3 180 (21.23%) Azure AI
4 94 (11.08%) AWS
5 58 (6.84%) SaaS
6 55 (6.49%) Microsoft Copilot
7 54 (6.37%) Microsoft 365
8 33 (3.89%) Power Automate
9 31 (3.66%) Serverless
10 30 (3.54%) Azure DevOps
11 29 (3.42%) GCP
12 21 (2.48%) Dynamics 365
13 18 (2.12%) GitHub
14 16 (1.89%) Entra ID
14 16 (1.89%) PowerApps
15 12 (1.42%) Copilot Studio
15 12 (1.42%) GitHub Copilot
16 11 (1.30%) Azure Functions
17 10 (1.18%) Microsoft Purview
18 9 (1.06%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 18 (2.12%) DNS
1 18 (2.12%) Firewall
2 9 (1.06%) VPN
3 5 (0.59%) DHCP
4 4 (0.47%) Internet
4 4 (0.47%) MQTT
4 4 (0.47%) Network Security
5 3 (0.35%) HTTP
5 3 (0.35%) Wireless
6 2 (0.24%) VLAN
6 2 (0.24%) VoIP
7 1 (0.12%) Bluetooth
7 1 (0.12%) Broadband
7 1 (0.12%) LAN
7 1 (0.12%) RTSP
7 1 (0.12%) SCTP
7 1 (0.12%) SMS
7 1 (0.12%) Unified Communications
7 1 (0.12%) UWB
7 1 (0.12%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 167 (19.69%) Power BI
2 117 (13.80%) Tableau
3 26 (3.07%) SQL Server
4 19 (2.24%) Data Lake
4 19 (2.24%) MongoDB
5 18 (2.12%) Azure SQL Database
6 13 (1.53%) Metadata
7 11 (1.30%) Data Warehouse
8 9 (1.06%) Big Data
9 7 (0.83%) Power Query
9 7 (0.83%) Redis
10 6 (0.71%) Data Mining
10 6 (0.71%) DynamoDB
10 6 (0.71%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 6 (0.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 5 (0.59%) Oracle BI EE
11 5 (0.59%) QlikView
11 5 (0.59%) Relational Database
11 5 (0.59%) Star Schema
12 3 (0.35%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 18 (2.12%) Git
2 14 (1.65%) JIRA
3 12 (1.42%) Maven
4 10 (1.18%) JUnit
4 10 (1.18%) Mockito
4 10 (1.18%) Snyk
5 6 (0.71%) Selenium
5 6 (0.71%) Visual Studio Code
6 4 (0.47%) 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%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (0.24%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.24%) Yeoman
General
1 329 (38.80%) Social Skills
2 205 (24.17%) Finance
3 87 (10.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 82 (9.67%) Analytical Skills
5 41 (4.83%) Influencing Skills
6 38 (4.48%) Legal
7 35 (4.13%) Public Sector
8 32 (3.77%) Marketing
9 31 (3.66%) Law
10 29 (3.42%) Manufacturing
10 29 (3.42%) Retail
11 22 (2.59%) Banking
11 22 (2.59%) Organisational Skills
12 12 (1.42%) Presentation Skills
13 11 (1.30%) Advertising
14 6 (0.71%) Automotive
14 6 (0.71%) Social Housing
14 6 (0.71%) Telecoms
15 5 (0.59%) Financial Institution
15 5 (0.59%) Games
Job Titles
1 155 (18.28%) Analyst
2 119 (14.03%) Senior
3 106 (12.50%) Developer
4 103 (12.15%) Junior
5 102 (12.03%) Data Analyst
6 100 (11.79%) Junior Analyst
7 99 (11.67%) Junior Data Analyst
8 88 (10.38%) Lead
9 79 (9.32%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 68 (8.02%) Architect
11 33 (3.89%) Software Engineer
12 30 (3.54%) Business Analyst
13 29 (3.42%) Data Engineer
14 23 (2.71%) Senior Developer
15 22 (2.59%) Accountant
15 22 (2.59%) Data Scientist
15 22 (2.59%) Systems Accountant
16 21 (2.48%) Consultant
17 20 (2.36%) Senior Analyst
18 19 (2.24%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (3.54%) React
2 27 (3.18%) .NET
3 25 (2.95%) REST
4 20 (2.36%) Terraform
5 17 (2.00%) ASP.NET
5 17 (2.00%) ASP.NET Core
6 14 (1.65%) Playwright
7 13 (1.53%) .NET Core
7 13 (1.53%) HTML
7 13 (1.53%) Spring
8 11 (1.30%) CSS
8 11 (1.30%) PyTorch
8 11 (1.30%) TensorFlow
9 10 (1.18%) ML.NET
9 10 (1.18%) RESTful
10 9 (1.06%) Blazor
11 8 (0.94%) Kafka
12 7 (0.83%) .NET Framework
12 7 (0.83%) Entity Framework
13 6 (0.71%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 34 (4.01%) Self-Motivation
2 25 (2.95%) Cloud Native
3 24 (2.83%) Onboarding
4 22 (2.59%) Product Ownership
5 19 (2.24%) Management Information System
6 14 (1.65%) AI Agents
7 13 (1.53%) Data Centre
7 13 (1.53%) Driving Licence
7 13 (1.53%) Greenfield Project
8 12 (1.42%) Distributed Systems
8 12 (1.42%) Low-Code
8 12 (1.42%) Virtual Team
9 11 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
9 11 (1.30%) Robotics
10 10 (1.18%) IoT
11 9 (1.06%) Public Cloud
11 9 (1.06%) Security Posture
12 8 (0.94%) Algorithms
12 8 (0.94%) BYOD
13 7 (0.83%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 34 (4.01%) Linux
2 23 (2.71%) Windows
3 20 (2.36%) Windows Server
4 9 (1.06%) Ubuntu
5 4 (0.47%) VMS
6 3 (0.35%) Android
7 2 (0.24%) Solaris
8 1 (0.12%) Alpine Linux
8 1 (0.12%) Kali Linux
8 1 (0.12%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 171 (20.17%) Business Intelligence
2 136 (16.04%) Continuous Improvement
3 130 (15.33%) Agile
4 126 (14.86%) Analytics
5 105 (12.38%) Mentoring
6 98 (11.56%) Problem-Solving
7 97 (11.44%) Decision-Making
8 95 (11.20%) Machine Learning
9 90 (10.61%) CI/CD
10 88 (10.38%) Roadmaps
11 83 (9.79%) Stakeholder Management
12 73 (8.61%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
13 65 (7.67%) Cybersecurity
14 61 (7.19%) LLM
15 59 (6.96%) Coaching
16 53 (6.25%) Software Engineering
17 52 (6.13%) DevOps
18 51 (6.01%) ERP
19 50 (5.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
20 46 (5.42%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 253 (29.83%) Python
2 183 (21.58%) SQL
3 37 (4.36%) JavaScript
4 33 (3.89%) C#
5 24 (2.83%) PowerShell
6 22 (2.59%) TypeScript
7 21 (2.48%) Java
8 13 (1.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 11 (1.30%) Bash
10 10 (1.18%) PL/SQL
10 10 (1.18%) R
11 6 (0.71%) PHP
12 5 (0.59%) C++
12 5 (0.59%) Kusto Query Language
12 5 (0.59%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.24%) Go
14 1 (0.12%) C
14 1 (0.12%) MATLAB
14 1 (0.12%) Rust
14 1 (0.12%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 176 (20.75%) Azure Certification
2 74 (8.73%) Security Cleared
3 69 (8.14%) SC Cleared
4 66 (7.78%) Degree
5 17 (2.00%) ACCA
5 17 (2.00%) AWS Certification
5 17 (2.00%) CIMA
6 14 (1.65%) Microsoft Certification
7 12 (1.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 10 (1.18%) Computer Science Degree
8 10 (1.18%) DV Cleared
9 9 (1.06%) BPSS Clearance
10 8 (0.94%) Master's Degree
11 7 (0.83%) SANS
12 6 (0.71%) TOGAF Certification
13 4 (0.47%) CBAP
13 4 (0.47%) PMI Certification
14 3 (0.35%) CISA
14 3 (0.35%) CISM
14 3 (0.35%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (6.01%) Data Quality
2 31 (3.66%) QA
3 30 (3.54%) Accessibility
4 25 (2.95%) GDPR
5 19 (2.24%) SLA
6 17 (2.00%) GRC
7 12 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 7 (0.83%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 7 (0.83%) PMO
9 6 (0.71%) WCAG
10 4 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 4 (0.47%) ISO 9001
11 3 (0.35%) NCSC
12 2 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.24%) NIST
13 1 (0.12%) GxP
13 1 (0.12%) JTAG
13 1 (0.12%) PCI DSS
13 1 (0.12%) PSD2
System Software
1 34 (4.01%) Docker
2 14 (1.65%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (1.18%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (0.94%) Active Directory
5 6 (0.71%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 34 (4.01%) Kubernetes
2 12 (1.42%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (0.35%) 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%) Bosun
5 1 (0.12%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.12%) Nagios
5 1 (0.12%) Podman
5 1 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 269 (31.72%) Microsoft
2 25 (2.95%) ServiceNow
3 20 (2.36%) Databricks
4 15 (1.77%) Adobe
4 15 (1.77%) Oracle
5 14 (1.65%) VMware
6 12 (1.42%) Apple
6 12 (1.42%) SAP
7 11 (1.30%) CrowdStrike
7 11 (1.30%) YouTube
8 10 (1.18%) OpenAI
8 10 (1.18%) Palo Alto
8 10 (1.18%) Tenable
9 8 (0.94%) Citrix
9 8 (0.94%) Google
9 8 (0.94%) SonicWALL
10 7 (0.83%) Foundry
10 7 (0.83%) Salesforce
11 6 (0.71%) HubSpot
12 5 (0.59%) Facebook