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 5 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 132 142
Rank change year-on-year +128 +10 +43
Permanent jobs citing AI 914 148 82
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 13.64% 1.83% 1.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.67% 2.13% 1.84%
Number of salaries quoted 121 83 40
10th Percentile £27,000 £37,500 £31,200
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.79% +11.54% +3.17%
75th Percentile £85,000 £96,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
England median annual salary £72,500 £77,500 £76,383
% change year-on-year -6.45% +1.46% +9.12%

All Process and 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 5,482 6,950 4,447
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 81.82% 86.04% 92.72%
Number of salaries quoted 3,382 3,096 3,482
10th Percentile £27,000 £31,000 £26,500
25th Percentile £32,656 £38,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% -4.27%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £76,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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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 5 December 2025.

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 5 December 2025. 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 +108 679 £65,000 +4.00% 272
East Midlands +88 237 £57,500 -32.35% 177
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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 8 (0.88%) Apache Spark
2 7 (0.77%) CMS
2 7 (0.77%) SharePoint
3 5 (0.55%) Apache
4 3 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.22%) SAS
5 2 (0.22%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.11%) WordPress
Applications
1 268 (29.32%) Chatbot
2 37 (4.05%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.44%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.33%) InDesign
5 1 (0.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 18 (1.97%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.33%) SAP Business One
2 3 (0.33%) Shopify
3 1 (0.11%) Integrated Workplace Management System
3 1 (0.11%) Maximo
3 1 (0.11%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.11%) Odoo
Cloud Services
1 420 (45.95%) Cloud Computing
2 98 (10.72%) Azure
3 52 (5.69%) Power Platform
4 42 (4.60%) Azure AI
5 39 (4.27%) AWS
6 31 (3.39%) SaaS
7 14 (1.53%) Microsoft 365
8 13 (1.42%) GCP
9 10 (1.09%) Dynamics 365
9 10 (1.09%) PowerApps
10 9 (0.98%) Azure DevOps
10 9 (0.98%) Power Automate
11 8 (0.88%) Amazon S3
12 7 (0.77%) Amazon EKS
12 7 (0.77%) Entra ID
12 7 (0.77%) Microsoft Copilot
13 6 (0.66%) Amazon ELB
13 6 (0.66%) Serverless
14 5 (0.55%) Azure Data Factory
14 5 (0.55%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 420 (45.95%) Internet
2 5 (0.55%) Intranet
3 1 (0.11%) Bluetooth
3 1 (0.11%) PuTTY
3 1 (0.11%) UWB
3 1 (0.11%) Wideband
3 1 (0.11%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (4.81%) Power BI
2 39 (4.27%) Tableau
3 14 (1.53%) SQL Server
4 10 (1.09%) Delta Lake
5 8 (0.88%) Metadata
6 7 (0.77%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (0.77%) DynamoDB
6 7 (0.77%) Spark SQL
7 3 (0.33%) Big Data
7 3 (0.33%) MongoDB
7 3 (0.33%) MySQL
7 3 (0.33%) NoSQL
7 3 (0.33%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (0.22%) Data Mining
8 2 (0.22%) Neo4j
8 2 (0.22%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.22%) Snowflake Schema
9 1 (0.11%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.11%) HBase
9 1 (0.11%) Impala
Development Applications
1 8 (0.88%) Git
2 7 (0.77%) MLflow
3 2 (0.22%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.11%) Babel
4 1 (0.11%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.11%) GitLab
4 1 (0.11%) JIRA
4 1 (0.11%) JUnit
4 1 (0.11%) Mockito
4 1 (0.11%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.11%) Vite
4 1 (0.11%) webpack
General
1 509 (55.69%) Social Skills
2 457 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 424 (46.39%) Banking
4 105 (11.49%) Analytical Skills
5 31 (3.39%) Retail
6 30 (3.28%) Public Sector
7 28 (3.06%) Finance
8 17 (1.86%) Marketing
9 16 (1.75%) Law
9 16 (1.75%) Legal
10 6 (0.66%) Agriculture
10 6 (0.66%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (0.55%) Manufacturing
11 5 (0.55%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (0.33%) Automotive
12 3 (0.33%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.22%) Advertising
13 2 (0.22%) Back Office
13 2 (0.22%) Influencing Skills
14 1 (0.11%) Games
Job Titles
1 293 (32.06%) Lecturer
2 263 (28.77%) Trainer
3 44 (4.81%) Research Scientist
4 43 (4.70%) Architect
5 37 (4.05%) Junior
6 35 (3.83%) Analyst
6 35 (3.83%) Content Editor
7 33 (3.61%) Data Analyst
7 33 (3.61%) Junior Analyst
7 33 (3.61%) Junior Data Analyst
8 27 (2.95%) Developer
9 16 (1.75%) Biostatistician
9 16 (1.75%) Solutions Architect
10 11 (1.20%) Customer Support Specialist
10 11 (1.20%) Support Specialist
11 10 (1.09%) Data Engineer
12 9 (0.98%) Coordinator
13 8 (0.88%) Customer Service Representative
13 8 (0.88%) Lead
13 8 (0.88%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (1.20%) .NET
1 11 (1.20%) PySpark
2 8 (0.88%) PyTorch
2 8 (0.88%) RESTful
2 8 (0.88%) TensorFlow
3 7 (0.77%) HTML
3 7 (0.77%) scikit-learn
4 6 (0.66%) .NET Framework
4 6 (0.66%) CSS
4 6 (0.66%) Keras
4 6 (0.66%) Lambda Expressions
4 6 (0.66%) Metaflow
4 6 (0.66%) NumPy
4 6 (0.66%) Pandas
4 6 (0.66%) React
4 6 (0.66%) YAML
5 5 (0.55%) Blazor
6 4 (0.44%) Entity Framework
6 4 (0.44%) Spring
7 3 (0.33%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 422 (46.17%) IoT
2 46 (5.03%) Molecular Biology
3 13 (1.42%) Cloud Native
4 10 (1.09%) Data Centre
4 10 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
5 9 (0.98%) AI Agents
5 9 (0.98%) Blog
5 9 (0.98%) Onboarding
6 8 (0.88%) Linux Command Line
6 8 (0.88%) Web Conferencing
7 6 (0.66%) Microsoft Licensing
8 5 (0.55%) Legacy Code
8 5 (0.55%) Product Ownership
9 4 (0.44%) Algorithms
9 4 (0.44%) e-Learning
10 3 (0.33%) Animation
10 3 (0.33%) Graphic Design
10 3 (0.33%) Learning Management System
10 3 (0.33%) Management Information System
10 3 (0.33%) Video Editing
Operating Systems
1 10 (1.09%) Windows
2 7 (0.77%) Unix
3 4 (0.44%) Linux
4 3 (0.33%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.22%) Mac OS X
6 1 (0.11%) OpenVMS
6 1 (0.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 469 (51.31%) Machine Learning
2 445 (48.69%) User Experience
3 439 (48.03%) Cybersecurity
4 424 (46.39%) Web Development
5 271 (29.65%) Conversational UI
6 83 (9.08%) Chemistry
7 46 (5.03%) Biochemistry
7 46 (5.03%) Biology
7 46 (5.03%) Biotechnology
7 46 (5.03%) Business Intelligence
7 46 (5.03%) Data Interpretation
7 46 (5.03%) Experimental Design
8 45 (4.92%) Customer Service
9 42 (4.60%) Content Writing
10 40 (4.38%) Roadmaps
11 39 (4.27%) Agile
11 39 (4.27%) Analytics
12 31 (3.39%) Mathematics
13 30 (3.28%) CRM
13 30 (3.28%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 90 (9.85%) Python
2 80 (8.75%) SQL
3 15 (1.64%) Java
3 15 (1.64%) JavaScript
4 10 (1.09%) C#
5 8 (0.88%) R
6 5 (0.55%) TypeScript
7 4 (0.44%) Bicep
7 4 (0.44%) PowerShell
8 3 (0.33%) PHP
9 2 (0.22%) C++
9 2 (0.22%) Ruby
9 2 (0.22%) VB
10 1 (0.11%) Bash
10 1 (0.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.11%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.11%) PROC SQL
Qualifications
1 713 (78.01%) Degree
2 578 (63.24%) Master's Degree
3 577 (63.13%) PhD
4 420 (45.95%) Postgraduate
5 35 (3.83%) Azure Certification
6 11 (1.20%) SC Cleared
6 11 (1.20%) Security Cleared
7 4 (0.44%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (0.44%) TOGAF Certification
8 2 (0.22%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.22%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.22%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.11%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.11%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (0.66%) Accessibility
1 6 (0.66%) QA
2 5 (0.55%) Data Quality
3 4 (0.44%) WCAG
4 1 (0.11%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.11%) COBIT
4 1 (0.11%) GDPR
System Software
1 11 (1.20%) Docker
2 3 (0.33%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.11%) Apache Flume
3 1 (0.11%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 15 (1.64%) Kubernetes
2 12 (1.31%) Terraform
3 6 (0.66%) Kubeflow
4 1 (0.11%) Ansible
4 1 (0.11%) Argo
4 1 (0.11%) Grafana
4 1 (0.11%) Kibana
4 1 (0.11%) Kustomize
4 1 (0.11%) logstash
4 1 (0.11%) Oozie
Vendors
1 263 (28.77%) PayPal
2 90 (9.85%) Microsoft
3 21 (2.30%) Databricks
4 17 (1.86%) Adobe
5 10 (1.09%) Apple
6 9 (0.98%) Palo Alto
7 6 (0.66%) OpenAI
8 5 (0.55%) HubSpot
8 5 (0.55%) SAP
8 5 (0.55%) UiPath
9 4 (0.44%) Cisco
9 4 (0.44%) Extreme Networks
9 4 (0.44%) Juniper
9 4 (0.44%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.22%) Automation Anywhere
10 2 (0.22%) Google
11 1 (0.11%) Denodo
11 1 (0.11%) Informatica
11 1 (0.11%) MicroStrategy
11 1 (0.11%) Planon