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

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 80 120
Rank change year-on-year +76 +40 +83
Permanent jobs citing AI 1,576 185 203
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 15.62% 3.61% 2.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 20.28% 3.94% 2.45%
Number of salaries quoted 170 99 171
10th Percentile £27,450 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £37,250 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% +18.18% -10.57%
75th Percentile £74,750 £80,625 £67,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £76,250
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -

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 7,773 4,698 8,297
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 77.03% 91.70% 84.08%
Number of salaries quoted 4,428 2,574 6,573
10th Percentile £28,250 £29,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,000 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £48,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +8.25% -7.62%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,625 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +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 18 March 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 March 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 +67 1,276 £55,000 -8.33% 121
East Midlands +57 311 £50,000 -23.08% 105
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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 15 (0.95%) SharePoint
2 9 (0.57%) Jupyter
3 3 (0.19%) ArcGIS
3 3 (0.19%) CMS
4 2 (0.13%) Apache
4 2 (0.13%) Confluence
4 2 (0.13%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.063%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.063%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (0.063%) SAS
5 1 (0.063%) WordPress
Applications
1 172 (10.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 145 (9.20%) Chatbot
3 12 (0.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.063%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (0.57%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.13%) SAP Business One
2 2 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.063%) Integrated Workplace Management System
3 1 (0.063%) Maximo
3 1 (0.063%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.063%) Odoo
3 1 (0.063%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 1,055 (66.94%) Cloud Computing
2 228 (14.47%) Azure
3 185 (11.74%) Power Platform
4 157 (9.96%) Azure AI
5 43 (2.73%) AWS
6 41 (2.60%) SaaS
7 17 (1.08%) Microsoft 365
8 14 (0.89%) Microsoft Copilot
9 12 (0.76%) Dynamics 365
9 12 (0.76%) Power Automate
9 12 (0.76%) PowerApps
10 11 (0.70%) GitHub
11 10 (0.63%) Azure DevOps
12 9 (0.57%) Figma
12 9 (0.57%) GitHub Copilot
13 8 (0.51%) Azure Data Factory
14 7 (0.44%) Entra ID
15 6 (0.38%) Copilot Studio
15 6 (0.38%) IaaS
15 6 (0.38%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1,045 (66.31%) Internet
2 4 (0.25%) Intranet
3 3 (0.19%) Broadband
4 1 (0.063%) DHCP
4 1 (0.063%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 169 (10.72%) Power BI
2 159 (10.09%) Tableau
3 13 (0.82%) SQL Server
4 5 (0.32%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (0.32%) Delta Lake
5 4 (0.25%) Data Mining
6 3 (0.19%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.13%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (0.13%) Metadata
8 1 (0.063%) Amazon QuickSight
8 1 (0.063%) Looker
8 1 (0.063%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.063%) MySQL
8 1 (0.063%) Pentaho
8 1 (0.063%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.063%) Redis
8 1 (0.063%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.063%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.063%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.063%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 9 (0.57%) Visual Studio Code
2 8 (0.51%) Visual Studio
3 4 (0.25%) Git
3 4 (0.25%) JIRA
4 3 (0.19%) Cypress.io
4 3 (0.19%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.13%) Selenium
6 1 (0.063%) Appium
6 1 (0.063%) Babel
6 1 (0.063%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.063%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.063%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.063%) Gatling
6 1 (0.063%) GitLab
6 1 (0.063%) JMeter
6 1 (0.063%) JUnit
6 1 (0.063%) LoadRunner
6 1 (0.063%) Mockito
6 1 (0.063%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.063%) webpack
General
1 1,257 (79.76%) Social Skills
2 1,078 (68.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1,047 (66.43%) Banking
4 80 (5.08%) Analytical Skills
5 55 (3.49%) Finance
6 37 (2.35%) Retail
7 32 (2.03%) Legal
8 27 (1.71%) Public Sector
9 21 (1.33%) Manufacturing
10 19 (1.21%) Law
11 8 (0.51%) Marketing
11 8 (0.51%) Organisational Skills
12 7 (0.44%) Automotive
13 5 (0.32%) Agriculture
14 4 (0.25%) Presentation Skills
15 3 (0.19%) Financial Institution
15 3 (0.19%) Influencing Skills
15 3 (0.19%) Japanese Language
16 2 (0.13%) Advertising
17 1 (0.063%) Games
Job Titles
1 783 (49.68%) Lecturer
2 166 (10.53%) Analyst
3 160 (10.15%) Junior
4 156 (9.90%) Data Analyst
5 154 (9.77%) Junior Analyst
5 154 (9.77%) Junior Data Analyst
6 134 (8.50%) Trainer
7 37 (2.35%) Developer
8 32 (2.03%) Research Scientist
9 23 (1.46%) Architect
10 20 (1.27%) Content Editor
11 18 (1.14%) Solutions Architect
12 16 (1.02%) Lead
13 15 (0.95%) Senior
14 11 (0.70%) Head of Engineering
15 10 (0.63%) Trainee
16 9 (0.57%) Alliance Manager
16 9 (0.57%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
16 9 (0.57%) Consultant
16 9 (0.57%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (1.21%) .NET
2 13 (0.82%) React
3 10 (0.63%) scikit-learn
4 9 (0.57%) Blazor
4 9 (0.57%) HTML
4 9 (0.57%) Hugging Face
4 9 (0.57%) Matplotlib
4 9 (0.57%) NumPy
4 9 (0.57%) Pandas
4 9 (0.57%) Streamlit
5 8 (0.51%) CSS
5 8 (0.51%) Material Design
5 8 (0.51%) WebAssembly
6 6 (0.38%) .NET Framework
6 6 (0.38%) PyTorch
6 6 (0.38%) RESTful
6 6 (0.38%) TensorFlow
7 5 (0.32%) AngularJS
7 5 (0.32%) ASP.NET
7 5 (0.32%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1,046 (66.37%) IoT
2 27 (1.71%) Molecular Biology
3 13 (0.82%) Algorithms
3 13 (0.82%) Product Ownership
4 10 (0.63%) Cloud Native
5 9 (0.57%) Blog
5 9 (0.57%) Public Cloud
6 8 (0.51%) Onboarding
7 7 (0.44%) Driving Licence
7 7 (0.44%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (0.25%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (0.25%) Low-Code
9 3 (0.19%) AI Agents
9 3 (0.19%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (0.19%) Legacy Code
9 3 (0.19%) Management Information System
9 3 (0.19%) Reference Data
9 3 (0.19%) Social Media
10 2 (0.13%) Robotics
10 2 (0.13%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 9 (0.57%) Windows
2 3 (0.19%) Linux
2 3 (0.19%) Windows Server
3 2 (0.13%) Mac OS X
3 2 (0.13%) Robot Operating System
4 1 (0.063%) Kali Linux
4 1 (0.063%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (0.063%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,099 (69.73%) Machine Learning
2 1,065 (67.58%) User Experience
3 1,060 (67.26%) Cybersecurity
4 1,047 (66.43%) Web Development
5 174 (11.04%) Business Intelligence
6 148 (9.39%) Conversational UI
7 49 (3.11%) Analytics
8 43 (2.73%) Customer Service
9 42 (2.66%) Chemistry
10 41 (2.60%) Agile
11 37 (2.35%) Problem-Solving
12 34 (2.16%) Roadmaps
13 27 (1.71%) Biochemistry
13 27 (1.71%) Biology
13 27 (1.71%) Biotechnology
13 27 (1.71%) Continuous Improvement
13 27 (1.71%) Data Interpretation
13 27 (1.71%) Experimental Design
14 25 (1.59%) CRM
15 23 (1.46%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 212 (13.45%) Python
2 186 (11.80%) SQL
3 21 (1.33%) JavaScript
4 19 (1.21%) C#
5 10 (0.63%) TypeScript
6 6 (0.38%) Java
7 3 (0.19%) C++
8 2 (0.13%) PHP
8 2 (0.13%) PowerShell
8 2 (0.13%) Ruby
9 1 (0.063%) Bash
9 1 (0.063%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.063%) JCL
9 1 (0.063%) R
Qualifications
1 1,210 (76.78%) Degree
2 1,126 (71.45%) Master's Degree
3 1,122 (71.19%) PhD
4 1,045 (66.31%) Postgraduate
5 155 (9.84%) Azure Certification
6 17 (1.08%) AWS Certification
7 9 (0.57%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 8 (0.51%) SC Cleared
8 8 (0.51%) Security Cleared
9 6 (0.38%) ACCA
9 6 (0.38%) CIMA
9 6 (0.38%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (0.25%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (0.25%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.19%) MOS
12 2 (0.13%) CISA
12 2 (0.13%) DBS Check
13 1 (0.063%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 1 (0.063%) CBAP
13 1 (0.063%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (0.95%) Accessibility
1 15 (0.95%) QA
2 13 (0.82%) GDPR
2 13 (0.82%) WCAG
3 9 (0.57%) Data Quality
4 4 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.13%) HIPAA
5 2 (0.13%) NIST
6 1 (0.063%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.063%) COBIT
6 1 (0.063%) GRC
6 1 (0.063%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.063%) SOC 2
System Software
1 8 (0.51%) Active Directory
2 6 (0.38%) Docker
3 1 (0.063%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.063%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (0.38%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.13%) Grafana
2 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.063%) Ansible
3 1 (0.063%) HP Fortify
3 1 (0.063%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 227 (14.40%) Microsoft
2 134 (8.50%) PayPal
3 18 (1.14%) Databricks
4 10 (0.63%) Adobe
5 8 (0.51%) Apple
6 6 (0.38%) OpenAI
6 6 (0.38%) SAP
7 5 (0.32%) ConnectWise
7 5 (0.32%) ServiceNow
8 4 (0.25%) Salesforce
9 3 (0.19%) ESRI
10 2 (0.13%) DocuSign
10 2 (0.13%) Google
10 2 (0.13%) Splunk
11 1 (0.063%) AppDynamics
11 1 (0.063%) Blue Prism
11 1 (0.063%) Facebook
11 1 (0.063%) Foundry
11 1 (0.063%) Palantir
11 1 (0.063%) Veracode