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

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 11 86
Rank change year-on-year +7 +75 +123
Permanent jobs citing AI 1,692 610 318
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 12.84% 11.87% 2.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.77% 13.25% 3.28%
Number of salaries quoted 287 105 205
10th Percentile £34,900 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,360 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £57,311
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +0.33% -6.81%
75th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £97,000 £100,000 £82,603
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 9,523 4,605 9,687
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 72.26% 89.59% 81.24%
Number of salaries quoted 5,804 2,552 7,185
10th Percentile £29,750 £27,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £39,959 £33,750 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £62,374
90th Percentile £82,500 £75,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +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 20 May 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 20 May 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 +8 1,360 £52,500 -8.70% 231
East Midlands -9 343 £52,500 -8.70% 165
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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 10 (0.59%) SharePoint
2 9 (0.53%) Jupyter
3 3 (0.18%) ArcGIS
3 3 (0.18%) Confluence
4 1 (0.059%) Apache
4 1 (0.059%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.059%) CMS
4 1 (0.059%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.059%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 243 (14.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (0.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 11 (0.65%) Chatbot
4 10 (0.59%) Microsoft Office
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 3 (0.18%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.18%) Sage 50
4 1 (0.059%) Integrated Workplace Management System
4 1 (0.059%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.059%) Sage 200
4 1 (0.059%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.059%) SAP Business One
4 1 (0.059%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 997 (58.92%) Cloud Computing
2 381 (22.52%) Azure
3 290 (17.14%) Azure AI
4 263 (15.54%) Power Platform
5 74 (4.37%) AWS
6 40 (2.36%) SaaS
7 27 (1.60%) Microsoft 365
8 24 (1.42%) Microsoft Copilot
9 22 (1.30%) GCP
10 16 (0.95%) Serverless
11 13 (0.77%) Azure DevOps
12 12 (0.71%) GitHub
13 11 (0.65%) Microsoft Purview
14 10 (0.59%) Figma
14 10 (0.59%) GitHub Copilot
15 9 (0.53%) Entra ID
16 7 (0.41%) Anthropic Claude
16 7 (0.41%) Power Automate
16 7 (0.41%) PowerApps
16 7 (0.41%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 987 (58.33%) Internet
2 7 (0.41%) DNS
3 6 (0.35%) 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%) BGP
8 1 (0.059%) Intranet
8 1 (0.059%) IPFIX
8 1 (0.059%) Network Security
8 1 (0.059%) OSPF
8 1 (0.059%) SMS
8 1 (0.059%) SNMP
8 1 (0.059%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.059%) WireGuard
8 1 (0.059%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 248 (14.66%) Power BI
2 230 (13.59%) Tableau
3 16 (0.95%) SQL Server
4 11 (0.65%) MongoDB
5 8 (0.47%) Azure SQL Database
5 8 (0.47%) Data Lake
6 7 (0.41%) Metadata
6 7 (0.41%) Redis
7 4 (0.24%) Big Data
7 4 (0.24%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (0.24%) DynamoDB
7 4 (0.24%) Star Schema
8 3 (0.18%) Data Mining
8 3 (0.18%) Delta Lake
8 3 (0.18%) Looker
9 2 (0.12%) Power Query
9 2 (0.12%) Semantic Layer
10 1 (0.059%) Amazon QuickSight
10 1 (0.059%) EDMS
10 1 (0.059%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 10 (0.59%) Snyk
2 9 (0.53%) Visual Studio Code
3 8 (0.47%) Visual Studio
4 6 (0.35%) JIRA
5 5 (0.30%) Selenium
6 3 (0.18%) JUnit
6 3 (0.18%) Maven
6 3 (0.18%) Mockito
7 2 (0.12%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.12%) Git
8 1 (0.059%) Appium
8 1 (0.059%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.059%) Burp Suite
8 1 (0.059%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.059%) GitLab
8 1 (0.059%) Jenkins
8 1 (0.059%) JMeter
8 1 (0.059%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.059%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.059%) Yeoman
General
1 1,352 (79.91%) Social Skills
2 1,056 (62.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 998 (58.98%) Banking
4 107 (6.32%) Finance
5 70 (4.14%) Analytical Skills
6 39 (2.30%) Legal
7 30 (1.77%) Law
8 29 (1.71%) Retail
9 24 (1.42%) Manufacturing
10 19 (1.12%) Influencing Skills
11 16 (0.95%) Public Sector
12 11 (0.65%) Marketing
13 10 (0.59%) Organisational Skills
14 7 (0.41%) Automotive
15 6 (0.35%) Financial Institution
15 6 (0.35%) Japanese Language
16 5 (0.30%) Agriculture
16 5 (0.30%) Social Housing
17 2 (0.12%) Advertising
18 1 (0.059%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 735 (43.44%) Lecturer
2 272 (16.08%) Analyst
3 225 (13.30%) Junior
4 223 (13.18%) Data Analyst
5 221 (13.06%) Junior Analyst
6 220 (13.00%) Junior Data Analyst
7 72 (4.26%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 64 (3.78%) Senior
9 50 (2.96%) Developer
10 37 (2.19%) Architect
11 36 (2.13%) Lead
12 22 (1.30%) Business Analyst
13 20 (1.18%) Accountant
13 20 (1.18%) Systems Accountant
14 17 (1.00%) Data Engineer
14 17 (1.00%) Senior Analyst
15 13 (0.77%) Solutions Architect
16 12 (0.71%) Consultant
16 12 (0.71%) Data Architect
16 12 (0.71%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (1.42%) .NET
2 19 (1.12%) React
3 11 (0.65%) Blazor
4 10 (0.59%) RESTful
4 10 (0.59%) scikit-learn
5 9 (0.53%) ASP.NET
5 9 (0.53%) Hugging Face
5 9 (0.53%) Matplotlib
5 9 (0.53%) NumPy
5 9 (0.53%) Pandas
5 9 (0.53%) Playwright
5 9 (0.53%) Streamlit
6 8 (0.47%) .NET Framework
6 8 (0.47%) ASP.NET Core
6 8 (0.47%) Material Design
6 8 (0.47%) REST
6 8 (0.47%) WebAssembly
7 7 (0.41%) HTML
8 6 (0.35%) AngularJS
8 6 (0.35%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 993 (58.69%) IoT
2 25 (1.48%) 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%) Driving Licence
8 9 (0.53%) Onboarding
9 8 (0.47%) Enterprise Software
10 7 (0.41%) Distributed Systems
10 7 (0.41%) Greenfield Project
10 7 (0.41%) Low-Code
10 7 (0.41%) Virtual Team
11 6 (0.35%) CSOC
11 6 (0.35%) Self-Motivation
12 5 (0.30%) Mobile App
13 4 (0.24%) Augmented Reality
13 4 (0.24%) Management Information System
13 4 (0.24%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 14 (0.83%) Windows
2 9 (0.53%) Linux
3 6 (0.35%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.24%) VMS
5 2 (0.12%) Android
5 2 (0.12%) Robot Operating System
6 1 (0.059%) Kali Linux
6 1 (0.059%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.059%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.059%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.059%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,052 (62.17%) Machine Learning
2 1,031 (60.93%) Cybersecurity
3 1,003 (59.28%) User Experience
4 987 (58.33%) Web Development
5 252 (14.89%) Business Intelligence
6 76 (4.49%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
7 70 (4.14%) Analytics
8 63 (3.72%) Agile
9 60 (3.55%) Problem-Solving
10 52 (3.07%) Continuous Improvement
11 46 (2.72%) Mentoring
11 46 (2.72%) Roadmaps
12 44 (2.60%) CI/CD
13 37 (2.19%) Decision-Making
14 32 (1.89%) LLM
15 31 (1.83%) Data Governance
16 30 (1.77%) Workflow
17 28 (1.65%) Validation
18 27 (1.60%) Data Protection
18 27 (1.60%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 360 (21.28%) Python
2 263 (15.54%) SQL
3 24 (1.42%) C#
4 23 (1.36%) JavaScript
5 15 (0.89%) TypeScript
6 8 (0.47%) PowerShell
7 7 (0.41%) Java
8 5 (0.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 4 (0.24%) Bash
9 4 (0.24%) Kusto Query Language
9 4 (0.24%) R
10 3 (0.18%) C++
10 3 (0.18%) PHP
10 3 (0.18%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.059%) Go
11 1 (0.059%) JCL
11 1 (0.059%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 1,031 (60.93%) Degree
2 997 (58.92%) Master's Degree
3 989 (58.45%) PhD
4 987 (58.33%) Postgraduate
5 287 (16.96%) Azure Certification
6 29 (1.71%) AWS Certification
7 24 (1.42%) SC Cleared
7 24 (1.42%) Security Cleared
8 17 (1.00%) ACCA
8 17 (1.00%) CIMA
9 12 (0.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 9 (0.53%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 7 (0.41%) Computer Science Degree
12 6 (0.35%) MOS
12 6 (0.35%) SANS
13 5 (0.30%) CISA
14 4 (0.24%) DV Cleared
15 3 (0.18%) BPSS Clearance
15 3 (0.18%) Microsoft Certification
16 2 (0.12%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (1.83%) Data Quality
2 23 (1.36%) GDPR
3 21 (1.24%) QA
4 20 (1.18%) Accessibility
5 11 (0.65%) GRC
6 10 (0.59%) WCAG
7 5 (0.30%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 5 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.30%) SLA
8 3 (0.18%) NIST
8 3 (0.18%) PMO
9 2 (0.12%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.059%) COBIT
10 1 (0.059%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.059%) PSD2
10 1 (0.059%) SOC 2
System Software
1 12 (0.71%) Docker
2 10 (0.59%) Active Directory
2 10 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.059%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.059%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (0.77%) Kubernetes
2 9 (0.53%) Terraform
3 5 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (0.18%) Grafana
5 1 (0.059%) Ansible
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
1 332 (19.62%) Microsoft
2 22 (1.30%) Adobe
3 20 (1.18%) Apple
4 17 (1.00%) Databricks
4 17 (1.00%) ServiceNow
5 10 (0.59%) CrowdStrike
5 10 (0.59%) Palo Alto
5 10 (0.59%) Tenable
6 9 (0.53%) OpenAI
6 9 (0.53%) SAP
7 7 (0.41%) Oracle
8 5 (0.30%) Aderant
8 5 (0.30%) ConnectWise
8 5 (0.30%) Intapp
8 5 (0.30%) Salesforce
9 4 (0.24%) Google
9 4 (0.24%) Sage
10 3 (0.18%) ESRI
10 3 (0.18%) Xero
11 2 (0.12%) IFS