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

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 7 105
Rank change year-on-year -10 +98 +69
Permanent jobs citing AI 841 755 221
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 5.42% 13.47% 2.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.76% 15.71% 2.78%
Number of salaries quoted 448 104 98
10th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £35,350
25th Percentile £46,688 £49,688 £52,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,563 £87,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £104,500 £98,250
England median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% -6.67% -0.07%

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 10,835 4,807 7,941
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 69.84% 85.75% 78.68%
Number of salaries quoted 7,699 2,882 4,021
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £29,000
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 £63,438 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £77,500
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 18 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 18 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 -8 573 £62,500 +5.24% 497
East Midlands -21 268 £52,500 -19.23% 284
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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 42 (4.99%) SharePoint
2 11 (1.31%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (1.07%) Apache
4 8 (0.95%) IIS
4 8 (0.95%) nginx
5 7 (0.83%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 5 (0.59%) CMS
7 4 (0.48%) WordPress
8 2 (0.24%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.24%) Confluence
9 1 (0.12%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.12%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.12%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.12%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.12%) SAS
Applications
1 90 (10.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (1.31%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (0.95%) Chatbot
4 6 (0.71%) Spreadsheet
5 5 (0.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.24%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.12%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.12%) Adobe Premiere
7 1 (0.12%) InDesign
7 1 (0.12%) LaTeX
7 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.12%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.12%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 12 (1.43%) Cloudability
2 9 (1.07%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.71%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.48%) Sage 50
4 4 (0.48%) Shopify
5 3 (0.36%) Dynamics NAV
5 3 (0.36%) 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 Cash Management
7 1 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.12%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.12%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.12%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 1 (0.12%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 1 (0.12%) Sage 200
7 1 (0.12%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 309 (36.74%) Azure
2 176 (20.93%) Power Platform
3 157 (18.67%) Azure AI
4 92 (10.94%) AWS
5 60 (7.13%) SaaS
6 56 (6.66%) Microsoft 365
6 56 (6.66%) Microsoft Copilot
7 36 (4.28%) Power Automate
8 35 (4.16%) Azure DevOps
8 35 (4.16%) Serverless
9 31 (3.69%) GCP
10 24 (2.85%) Dynamics 365
11 20 (2.38%) GitHub
12 17 (2.02%) Entra ID
13 15 (1.78%) Azure Functions
13 15 (1.78%) PowerApps
14 12 (1.43%) Copilot Studio
14 12 (1.43%) GitHub Copilot
15 10 (1.19%) Microsoft Purview
16 9 (1.07%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 19 (2.26%) Firewall
2 18 (2.14%) DNS
3 10 (1.19%) VPN
4 7 (0.83%) Internet
5 5 (0.59%) DHCP
6 4 (0.48%) MQTT
6 4 (0.48%) Network Security
7 3 (0.36%) HTTP
7 3 (0.36%) Wireless
8 2 (0.24%) VLAN
8 2 (0.24%) VoIP
9 1 (0.12%) Bluetooth
9 1 (0.12%) LAN
9 1 (0.12%) RTSP
9 1 (0.12%) SCTP
9 1 (0.12%) SMS
9 1 (0.12%) SNMP
9 1 (0.12%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.12%) UWB
9 1 (0.12%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 149 (17.72%) Power BI
2 95 (11.30%) Tableau
3 34 (4.04%) SQL Server
4 20 (2.38%) MongoDB
5 19 (2.26%) Data Lake
6 18 (2.14%) Azure SQL Database
7 13 (1.55%) Metadata
8 12 (1.43%) Data Warehouse
9 9 (1.07%) Big Data
10 7 (0.83%) Power Query
10 7 (0.83%) Redis
11 6 (0.71%) DynamoDB
11 6 (0.71%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 6 (0.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 5 (0.59%) Data Mining
12 5 (0.59%) Delta Lake
12 5 (0.59%) Oracle BI EE
12 5 (0.59%) QlikView
12 5 (0.59%) Relational Database
12 5 (0.59%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 23 (2.73%) Git
2 15 (1.78%) JIRA
3 12 (1.43%) Maven
4 10 (1.19%) JUnit
4 10 (1.19%) Mockito
4 10 (1.19%) Snyk
5 4 (0.48%) Selenium
6 3 (0.36%) Jenkins
6 3 (0.36%) Octopus Deploy
6 3 (0.36%) Visual Studio Code
7 2 (0.24%) Ant
7 2 (0.24%) Apache Ivy
7 2 (0.24%) IBM UrbanCode
7 2 (0.24%) Yeoman
8 1 (0.12%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.12%) JMeter
8 1 (0.12%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.12%) NUnit
8 1 (0.12%) Postman
8 1 (0.12%) SonarQube
General
1 321 (38.17%) Social Skills
2 204 (24.26%) Finance
3 94 (11.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 83 (9.87%) Analytical Skills
5 43 (5.11%) Influencing Skills
6 42 (4.99%) Public Sector
7 40 (4.76%) Marketing
8 38 (4.52%) Legal
9 30 (3.57%) Manufacturing
10 29 (3.45%) Law
11 28 (3.33%) Retail
12 25 (2.97%) Organisational Skills
13 22 (2.62%) Banking
14 14 (1.66%) Presentation Skills
15 13 (1.55%) Advertising
16 7 (0.83%) Automotive
17 6 (0.71%) Social Housing
17 6 (0.71%) Telecoms
18 5 (0.59%) Financial Institution
19 4 (0.48%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 132 (15.70%) Analyst
2 125 (14.86%) Senior
3 105 (12.49%) Developer
4 90 (10.70%) Lead
5 81 (9.63%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 79 (9.39%) Data Analyst
6 79 (9.39%) Junior
7 78 (9.27%) Junior Analyst
8 77 (9.16%) Junior Data Analyst
9 68 (8.09%) Architect
10 37 (4.40%) Software Engineer
11 34 (4.04%) Data Engineer
12 29 (3.45%) Business Analyst
13 25 (2.97%) Senior Developer
14 22 (2.62%) Data Scientist
15 21 (2.50%) Consultant
16 20 (2.38%) Senior Analyst
16 20 (2.38%) Solutions Architect
17 17 (2.02%) IT Manager
18 16 (1.90%) Systems Accountant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (3.69%) .NET
2 29 (3.45%) React
3 26 (3.09%) REST
4 21 (2.50%) Terraform
5 16 (1.90%) ASP.NET
5 16 (1.90%) ASP.NET Core
6 13 (1.55%) Spring
7 12 (1.43%) .NET Core
7 12 (1.43%) HTML
7 12 (1.43%) Playwright
8 11 (1.31%) PyTorch
8 11 (1.31%) RESTful
8 11 (1.31%) TensorFlow
9 10 (1.19%) CSS
9 10 (1.19%) JSON
9 10 (1.19%) XML
10 9 (1.07%) ML.NET
10 9 (1.07%) PySpark
11 8 (0.95%) Blazor
11 8 (0.95%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 34 (4.04%) Self-Motivation
2 26 (3.09%) Cloud Native
2 26 (3.09%) Management Information System
2 26 (3.09%) Onboarding
3 21 (2.50%) Product Ownership
4 14 (1.66%) AI Agents
4 14 (1.66%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (1.66%) Driving Licence
4 14 (1.66%) Virtual Team
5 13 (1.55%) Data Centre
5 13 (1.55%) Greenfield Project
6 11 (1.31%) Low-Code
6 11 (1.31%) Robotics
7 10 (1.19%) IoT
7 10 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
8 9 (1.07%) Public Cloud
8 9 (1.07%) Security Posture
8 9 (1.07%) Taxonomies
9 8 (0.95%) BYOD
9 8 (0.95%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 34 (4.04%) Linux
2 23 (2.73%) Windows
3 20 (2.38%) Windows Server
4 9 (1.07%) Ubuntu
5 4 (0.48%) Android
5 4 (0.48%) VMS
6 2 (0.24%) Solaris
7 1 (0.12%) Alpine Linux
7 1 (0.12%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 156 (18.55%) Business Intelligence
2 144 (17.12%) Continuous Improvement
3 135 (16.05%) Agile
4 133 (15.81%) Analytics
5 116 (13.79%) Mentoring
6 99 (11.77%) Problem-Solving
7 97 (11.53%) Decision-Making
8 94 (11.18%) CI/CD
9 93 (11.06%) Stakeholder Management
10 90 (10.70%) Roadmaps
11 88 (10.46%) Machine Learning
12 72 (8.56%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
13 69 (8.20%) Cybersecurity
14 67 (7.97%) Coaching
15 59 (7.02%) LLM
16 58 (6.90%) DevOps
17 57 (6.78%) Software Engineering
18 54 (6.42%) ERP
19 49 (5.83%) Stakeholder Engagement
20 46 (5.47%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 231 (27.47%) Python
2 169 (20.10%) SQL
3 41 (4.88%) JavaScript
4 40 (4.76%) C#
5 23 (2.73%) PowerShell
6 21 (2.50%) TypeScript
7 19 (2.26%) Java
8 13 (1.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 11 (1.31%) Bash
9 11 (1.31%) PL/SQL
10 10 (1.19%) 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
1 157 (18.67%) Azure Certification
2 77 (9.16%) Security Cleared
3 71 (8.44%) SC Cleared
4 67 (7.97%) Degree
5 17 (2.02%) Microsoft Certification
6 16 (1.90%) ACCA
6 16 (1.90%) CIMA
7 14 (1.66%) AWS Certification
8 12 (1.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 11 (1.31%) DV Cleared
10 10 (1.19%) BPSS Clearance
11 9 (1.07%) Computer Science Degree
12 7 (0.83%) Master's Degree
12 7 (0.83%) SANS
12 7 (0.83%) TOGAF Certification
13 4 (0.48%) CBAP
13 4 (0.48%) CISM
13 4 (0.48%) CISSP
13 4 (0.48%) PMI Certification
14 3 (0.36%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (6.42%) Data Quality
2 33 (3.92%) Accessibility
3 29 (3.45%) QA
4 28 (3.33%) GDPR
5 20 (2.38%) SLA
6 17 (2.02%) GRC
7 13 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 9 (1.07%) WCAG
9 7 (0.83%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 7 (0.83%) PMO
10 4 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 4 (0.48%) ISO 9001
10 4 (0.48%) NCSC
11 2 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.24%) NIST
11 2 (0.24%) PCI DSS
12 1 (0.12%) GxP
12 1 (0.12%) JTAG
12 1 (0.12%) PSD2
System Software
1 33 (3.92%) Docker
2 14 (1.66%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (1.19%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (0.95%) Active Directory
5 6 (0.71%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 33 (3.92%) Kubernetes
2 13 (1.55%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (0.36%) Ansible
4 2 (0.24%) Bosun
4 2 (0.24%) Grafana
4 2 (0.24%) Progress Chef
4 2 (0.24%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.24%) Puppet
4 2 (0.24%) SCCM
4 2 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.12%) Data Guard
5 1 (0.12%) Nagios
5 1 (0.12%) Podman
Vendors
1 257 (30.56%) Microsoft
2 27 (3.21%) ServiceNow
3 19 (2.26%) Databricks
4 17 (2.02%) Oracle
5 14 (1.66%) Adobe
5 14 (1.66%) Apple
5 14 (1.66%) Google
5 14 (1.66%) VMware
6 13 (1.55%) SAP
7 12 (1.43%) YouTube
8 11 (1.31%) CrowdStrike
8 11 (1.31%) OpenAI
9 10 (1.19%) Palo Alto
9 10 (1.19%) Tenable
10 8 (0.95%) Citrix
10 8 (0.95%) SonicWALL
11 7 (0.83%) Foundry
12 6 (0.71%) Cisco
12 6 (0.71%) HubSpot
13 5 (0.59%) Intapp