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 10 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 152 162
Rank change year-on-year +146 +10 -3
Permanent jobs citing AI 711 122 67
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 12.56% 1.38% 1.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.92% 1.69% 1.41%
Number of salaries quoted 117 60 31
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,625 £26,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £52,188 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £73,750 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.25% +13.46% +4.00%
75th Percentile £85,000 £96,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% - +7.14%

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 4,767 7,203 4,759
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 84.21% 81.50% 93.06%
Number of salaries quoted 3,052 3,191 3,640
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,000 £26,750
25th Percentile £32,500 £38,750 £36,479
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,500 £52,398 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.26% +4.80% -0.10%
75th Percentile £63,750 £66,808 £63,750
90th Percentile £78,786 £80,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

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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 10 November 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 10 November 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 +118 414 £65,000 - 178
East Midlands +118 295 £61,250 -27.94% 97
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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 9 (1.27%) Apache Spark
2 7 (0.98%) Apache
3 6 (0.84%) CMS
4 4 (0.56%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (0.56%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.14%) SAS
5 1 (0.14%) WordPress
Applications
1 305 (42.90%) Chatbot
2 4 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.42%) InDesign
4 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 18 (2.53%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.56%) Shopify
3 3 (0.42%) SAP Business One
4 1 (0.14%) Integrated Workplace Management System
4 1 (0.14%) Maximo
4 1 (0.14%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.14%) Odoo
Cloud Services
1 65 (9.14%) Azure
2 40 (5.63%) AWS
3 32 (4.50%) Cloud Computing
4 30 (4.22%) SaaS
5 19 (2.67%) Power Platform
6 13 (1.83%) GCP
7 10 (1.41%) Azure AI
7 10 (1.41%) Microsoft 365
7 10 (1.41%) PowerApps
8 8 (1.13%) Amazon S3
8 8 (1.13%) Dynamics 365
8 8 (1.13%) Power Automate
9 7 (0.98%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (0.84%) Amazon EKS
10 6 (0.84%) Amazon ELB
10 6 (0.84%) Azure Logic Apps
10 6 (0.84%) Microsoft Copilot
11 5 (0.70%) Azure Key Vault
11 5 (0.70%) Serverless
11 5 (0.70%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 31 (4.36%) Internet
2 3 (0.42%) Intranet
3 1 (0.14%) Bluetooth
3 1 (0.14%) PuTTY
3 1 (0.14%) UWB
3 1 (0.14%) Wideband
3 1 (0.14%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (1.97%) SQL Server
2 13 (1.83%) Power BI
3 8 (1.13%) Delta Lake
3 8 (1.13%) Metadata
4 7 (0.98%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (0.98%) DynamoDB
4 7 (0.98%) Spark SQL
5 6 (0.84%) NoSQL
5 6 (0.84%) Tableau
6 5 (0.70%) MongoDB
7 3 (0.42%) Big Data
7 3 (0.42%) MySQL
7 3 (0.42%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (0.42%) Power Query
7 3 (0.42%) Relational Database
7 3 (0.42%) Snowflake Schema
8 2 (0.28%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (0.28%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (0.28%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.28%) Hazelcast
Development Applications
1 9 (1.27%) Git
2 6 (0.84%) MLflow
3 2 (0.28%) GitLab
4 1 (0.14%) Babel
4 1 (0.14%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.14%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.14%) JIRA
4 1 (0.14%) JUnit
4 1 (0.14%) Mockito
4 1 (0.14%) Vite
4 1 (0.14%) webpack
General
1 203 (28.55%) Retail
2 176 (24.75%) Manufacturing
3 140 (19.69%) Analytical Skills
4 91 (12.80%) Social Skills
5 62 (8.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 38 (5.34%) Dutch Language
6 38 (5.34%) Finnish Language
6 38 (5.34%) Norwegian Language
7 37 (5.20%) Banking
8 29 (4.08%) Finance
9 26 (3.66%) Public Sector
10 21 (2.95%) Law
11 19 (2.67%) Catalan Language
12 15 (2.11%) Legal
12 15 (2.11%) Marketing
13 7 (0.98%) Agriculture
13 7 (0.98%) Financial Institution
13 7 (0.98%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (0.70%) Influencing Skills
14 5 (0.70%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 470 (66.10%) Trainer
2 46 (6.47%) Research Scientist
3 38 (5.34%) Architect
3 38 (5.34%) Content Editor
4 29 (4.08%) Developer
5 24 (3.38%) Lecturer
6 19 (2.67%) Biostatistician
7 13 (1.83%) Customer Support Specialist
7 13 (1.83%) Support Specialist
8 11 (1.55%) Coordinator
8 11 (1.55%) Solutions Architect
9 10 (1.41%) Data Engineer
9 10 (1.41%) Lead
10 9 (1.27%) Mathematician
11 8 (1.13%) Customer Service Representative
11 8 (1.13%) Senior
11 8 (1.13%) Software Developer
11 8 (1.13%) Software Engineer
12 6 (0.84%) Microsoft Specialist
12 6 (0.84%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (3.38%) HTML
2 10 (1.41%) PySpark
3 9 (1.27%) .NET
4 8 (1.13%) React
4 8 (1.13%) RESTful
5 7 (0.98%) PyTorch
5 7 (0.98%) TensorFlow
6 6 (0.84%) Keras
6 6 (0.84%) Lambda Expressions
6 6 (0.84%) Metaflow
6 6 (0.84%) NumPy
6 6 (0.84%) Pandas
6 6 (0.84%) scikit-learn
6 6 (0.84%) Spring
6 6 (0.84%) YAML
7 5 (0.70%) .NET Framework
7 5 (0.70%) AngularJS
7 5 (0.70%) CSS
7 5 (0.70%) Entity Framework
7 5 (0.70%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 173 (24.33%) Robotics
2 49 (6.89%) Molecular Biology
3 34 (4.78%) IoT
4 11 (1.55%) Cloud Native
4 11 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
5 10 (1.41%) Data Centre
5 10 (1.41%) Onboarding
6 9 (1.27%) AI Agents
7 8 (1.13%) Linux Command Line
7 8 (1.13%) Web Conferencing
8 7 (0.98%) Legacy Code
9 6 (0.84%) e-Learning
9 6 (0.84%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (0.84%) Microsoft Licensing
9 6 (0.84%) Product Ownership
10 5 (0.70%) Blog
11 4 (0.56%) Algorithms
11 4 (0.56%) Data Structures
11 4 (0.56%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (0.56%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 7 (0.98%) Unix
1 7 (0.98%) Windows
2 4 (0.56%) Linux
3 3 (0.42%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.28%) Mac OS X
5 1 (0.14%) OpenVMS
5 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 307 (43.18%) Conversational UI
2 272 (38.26%) Machine Learning
3 201 (28.27%) Problem-Solving
4 182 (25.60%) Generative AI
4 182 (25.60%) LLM
5 171 (24.05%) Red Team
6 155 (21.80%) Data Privacy
7 117 (16.46%) Chemistry
8 70 (9.85%) Biology
9 68 (9.56%) Biochemistry
10 54 (7.59%) User Experience
11 50 (7.03%) Cybersecurity
12 49 (6.89%) Biotechnology
12 49 (6.89%) Data Interpretation
12 49 (6.89%) Experimental Design
13 47 (6.61%) Analytics
14 45 (6.33%) Computer Science
14 45 (6.33%) Content Writing
15 44 (6.19%) Roadmaps
16 42 (5.91%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 75 (10.55%) Python
2 72 (10.13%) SQL
3 35 (4.92%) Java
4 33 (4.64%) JavaScript
5 31 (4.36%) C#
6 27 (3.80%) R
7 26 (3.66%) TypeScript
8 22 (3.09%) PHP
9 21 (2.95%) Ruby
10 20 (2.81%) C++
11 19 (2.67%) C
11 19 (2.67%) Dart
11 19 (2.67%) MATLAB
11 19 (2.67%) Rust
12 6 (0.84%) PowerShell
13 5 (0.70%) Bicep
14 3 (0.42%) VB
15 2 (0.28%) PL/SQL
16 1 (0.14%) Bash
16 1 (0.14%) PROC SQL
Qualifications
1 547 (76.93%) Degree
2 215 (30.24%) Master's Degree
2 215 (30.24%) PhD
3 31 (4.36%) Postgraduate
4 19 (2.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (1.69%) Security Cleared
6 11 (1.55%) SC Cleared
7 4 (0.56%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (0.56%) TOGAF Certification
8 2 (0.28%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.14%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.14%) CITP
9 1 (0.14%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.14%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (0.70%) QA
2 4 (0.56%) Data Quality
3 3 (0.42%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.14%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.14%) COBIT
4 1 (0.14%) GDPR
4 1 (0.14%) WCAG
System Software
1 10 (1.41%) Docker
2 1 (0.14%) Apache Flume
2 1 (0.14%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 14 (1.97%) Kubernetes
2 13 (1.83%) Terraform
3 6 (0.84%) Kubeflow
4 1 (0.14%) Argo
4 1 (0.14%) Grafana
4 1 (0.14%) Kibana
4 1 (0.14%) Kustomize
4 1 (0.14%) logstash
4 1 (0.14%) Oozie
Vendors
1 299 (42.05%) PayPal
2 191 (26.86%) Databricks
3 187 (26.30%) Adobe
4 176 (24.75%) Google
5 52 (7.31%) Microsoft
6 9 (1.27%) Apple
6 9 (1.27%) Palo Alto
7 7 (0.98%) OpenAI
8 6 (0.84%) UiPath
9 5 (0.70%) HubSpot
9 5 (0.70%) SAP
10 4 (0.56%) Cisco
10 4 (0.56%) Extreme Networks
10 4 (0.56%) Juniper
10 4 (0.56%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.28%) Automation Anywhere
12 1 (0.14%) Blue Prism
12 1 (0.14%) Informatica
12 1 (0.14%) Pardot
12 1 (0.14%) Planon