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

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 8 99
Rank change year-on-year -8 +91 +66
Permanent jobs citing AI 826 745 244
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 5.61% 12.81% 2.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.04% 15.11% 2.92%
Number of salaries quoted 436 112 130
10th Percentile £36,000 £40,125 £33,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £42,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,250 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.25% - -14.29%
75th Percentile £80,313 £75,313 £78,438
90th Percentile £98,750 £99,750 £96,250
England median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.57% -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 10,270 4,929 8,346
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 69.76% 84.72% 77.41%
Number of salaries quoted 7,339 2,953 4,917
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £28,119
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £35,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,640 £63,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £76,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £56,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -1.79% -10.40%

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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 26 August 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 26 August 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 -5 552 £60,000 - 126
East Midlands -19 274 £52,500 -19.23% 63
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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 27 (3.27%) SharePoint
2 7 (0.85%) Apache
2 7 (0.85%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (0.85%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 6 (0.73%) IIS
3 6 (0.73%) nginx
4 5 (0.61%) CMS
4 5 (0.61%) Jupyter
5 4 (0.48%) WordPress
6 3 (0.36%) Confluence
7 2 (0.24%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.12%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.12%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.12%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.12%) SAS
Applications
1 125 (15.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (1.33%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (0.97%) Chatbot
3 8 (0.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.73%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.24%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.12%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.12%) Adobe Premiere
6 1 (0.12%) InDesign
6 1 (0.12%) LaTeX
6 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.12%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.12%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 12 (1.45%) Cloudability
2 6 (0.73%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.48%) Sage 50
3 4 (0.48%) Shopify
4 3 (0.36%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (0.36%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.24%) Integrated Workplace Management System
5 2 (0.24%) SAP Business One
5 2 (0.24%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.12%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.12%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.12%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 1 (0.12%) Sage 200
6 1 (0.12%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 318 (38.50%) Azure
2 193 (23.37%) Power Platform
3 191 (23.12%) Azure AI
4 88 (10.65%) AWS
5 60 (7.26%) SaaS
6 49 (5.93%) Microsoft Copilot
7 45 (5.45%) Microsoft 365
8 29 (3.51%) GCP
9 26 (3.15%) Power Automate
9 26 (3.15%) Serverless
10 23 (2.78%) Azure DevOps
11 17 (2.06%) Dynamics 365
12 15 (1.82%) GitHub
12 15 (1.82%) PowerApps
13 12 (1.45%) GitHub Copilot
14 11 (1.33%) Entra ID
15 10 (1.21%) Microsoft Purview
16 9 (1.09%) Anthropic Claude
16 9 (1.09%) Copilot Studio
16 9 (1.09%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 14 (1.69%) DNS
1 14 (1.69%) Firewall
2 7 (0.85%) VPN
3 4 (0.48%) MQTT
3 4 (0.48%) Network Security
4 3 (0.36%) DHCP
4 3 (0.36%) HTTP
4 3 (0.36%) Internet
4 3 (0.36%) Wireless
5 2 (0.24%) VLAN
5 2 (0.24%) VoIP
6 1 (0.12%) Bluetooth
6 1 (0.12%) Broadband
6 1 (0.12%) LAN
6 1 (0.12%) RTSP
6 1 (0.12%) SCTP
6 1 (0.12%) SMS
6 1 (0.12%) Unified Communications
6 1 (0.12%) UWB
6 1 (0.12%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 171 (20.70%) Power BI
2 126 (15.25%) Tableau
3 22 (2.66%) SQL Server
4 18 (2.18%) MongoDB
5 17 (2.06%) Azure SQL Database
6 16 (1.94%) Data Lake
7 13 (1.57%) Metadata
8 11 (1.33%) Data Warehouse
9 8 (0.97%) Redis
10 7 (0.85%) Big Data
10 7 (0.85%) Power Query
11 6 (0.73%) DynamoDB
11 6 (0.73%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 6 (0.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 5 (0.61%) Relational Database
12 5 (0.61%) Star Schema
13 4 (0.48%) Data Mining
14 3 (0.36%) MySQL
14 3 (0.36%) QlikView
14 3 (0.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 13 (1.57%) JIRA
2 12 (1.45%) Git
2 12 (1.45%) Maven
3 10 (1.21%) JUnit
3 10 (1.21%) Mockito
3 10 (1.21%) Snyk
4 7 (0.85%) Visual Studio Code
5 6 (0.73%) Selenium
6 4 (0.48%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.24%) Ant
7 2 (0.24%) Apache Ivy
7 2 (0.24%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.24%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.24%) GitLab
7 2 (0.24%) IBM UrbanCode
7 2 (0.24%) JMeter
7 2 (0.24%) LoadRunner
7 2 (0.24%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.24%) Yeoman
8 1 (0.12%) NUnit
General
1 324 (39.23%) Social Skills
2 199 (24.09%) Finance
3 81 (9.81%) Analytical Skills
4 80 (9.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 37 (4.48%) Legal
6 36 (4.36%) Influencing Skills
7 33 (4.00%) Retail
8 32 (3.87%) Marketing
9 30 (3.63%) Law
9 30 (3.63%) Manufacturing
10 27 (3.27%) Public Sector
11 23 (2.78%) Organisational Skills
12 19 (2.30%) Banking
13 12 (1.45%) Presentation Skills
14 11 (1.33%) Advertising
15 8 (0.97%) Automotive
16 6 (0.73%) Social Housing
16 6 (0.73%) Telecoms
17 5 (0.61%) Financial Institution
17 5 (0.61%) Games
Job Titles
1 166 (20.10%) Analyst
2 114 (13.80%) Junior
3 113 (13.68%) Data Analyst
3 113 (13.68%) Senior
4 111 (13.44%) Junior Analyst
5 110 (13.32%) Junior Data Analyst
6 101 (12.23%) Developer
7 81 (9.81%) Lead
8 79 (9.56%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 62 (7.51%) Architect
10 30 (3.63%) Business Analyst
10 30 (3.63%) Software Engineer
11 25 (3.03%) Data Engineer
12 24 (2.91%) Accountant
12 24 (2.91%) Data Scientist
12 24 (2.91%) Systems Accountant
13 23 (2.78%) Consultant
14 21 (2.54%) Senior Developer
15 20 (2.42%) Senior Analyst
16 17 (2.06%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (3.63%) React
2 27 (3.27%) .NET
3 24 (2.91%) REST
4 17 (2.06%) ASP.NET
4 17 (2.06%) ASP.NET Core
4 17 (2.06%) Terraform
5 14 (1.69%) Playwright
6 13 (1.57%) .NET Core
6 13 (1.57%) Spring
7 12 (1.45%) HTML
8 11 (1.33%) RESTful
9 10 (1.21%) CSS
9 10 (1.21%) ML.NET
10 9 (1.09%) Blazor
10 9 (1.09%) PyTorch
10 9 (1.09%) TensorFlow
11 8 (0.97%) .NET Framework
11 8 (0.97%) Kafka
12 7 (0.85%) Entity Framework
12 7 (0.85%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 31 (3.75%) Self-Motivation
2 23 (2.78%) Product Ownership
3 22 (2.66%) Cloud Native
4 20 (2.42%) Onboarding
5 14 (1.69%) AI Agents
6 13 (1.57%) Data Centre
6 13 (1.57%) Greenfield Project
7 12 (1.45%) Low-Code
7 12 (1.45%) Management Information System
8 11 (1.33%) Distributed Systems
8 11 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
8 11 (1.33%) Robotics
9 10 (1.21%) Driving Licence
9 10 (1.21%) Virtual Team
10 9 (1.09%) IoT
10 9 (1.09%) Security Posture
11 8 (0.97%) BYOD
11 8 (0.97%) Public Cloud
12 7 (0.85%) CSOC
13 6 (0.73%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 29 (3.51%) Linux
2 19 (2.30%) Windows
3 16 (1.94%) Windows Server
4 7 (0.85%) Ubuntu
5 4 (0.48%) VMS
6 2 (0.24%) Android
6 2 (0.24%) Solaris
7 1 (0.12%) Alpine Linux
7 1 (0.12%) Kali Linux
7 1 (0.12%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 175 (21.19%) Business Intelligence
2 117 (14.16%) Agile
2 117 (14.16%) Analytics
3 114 (13.80%) Continuous Improvement
4 98 (11.86%) Problem-Solving
5 89 (10.77%) Decision-Making
5 89 (10.77%) Mentoring
6 88 (10.65%) Machine Learning
7 79 (9.56%) CI/CD
8 73 (8.84%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
8 73 (8.84%) Roadmaps
9 72 (8.72%) Stakeholder Management
10 60 (7.26%) Cybersecurity
10 60 (7.26%) LLM
11 49 (5.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 47 (5.69%) Coaching
12 47 (5.69%) ERP
13 43 (5.21%) Data Governance
13 43 (5.21%) Data Science
14 42 (5.08%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 262 (31.72%) Python
2 190 (23.00%) SQL
3 32 (3.87%) JavaScript
4 29 (3.51%) C#
5 22 (2.66%) TypeScript
6 21 (2.54%) PowerShell
7 19 (2.30%) Java
8 13 (1.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 10 (1.21%) Bash
9 10 (1.21%) PL/SQL
10 8 (0.97%) R
11 6 (0.73%) PHP
12 5 (0.61%) Kusto Query Language
12 5 (0.61%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.24%) C++
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
1 183 (22.15%) Azure Certification
2 66 (7.99%) Security Cleared
3 62 (7.51%) SC Cleared
4 59 (7.14%) Degree
5 18 (2.18%) ACCA
5 18 (2.18%) AWS Certification
5 18 (2.18%) CIMA
6 12 (1.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 10 (1.21%) Computer Science Degree
8 9 (1.09%) DV Cleared
9 8 (0.97%) BPSS Clearance
10 7 (0.85%) Master's Degree
10 7 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
10 7 (0.85%) SANS
11 4 (0.48%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 4 (0.48%) CBAP
11 4 (0.48%) PMI Certification
12 3 (0.36%) CIPD
12 3 (0.36%) IIBA
12 3 (0.36%) MOS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (5.45%) Data Quality
2 29 (3.51%) QA
3 24 (2.91%) Accessibility
4 19 (2.30%) GDPR
5 17 (2.06%) GRC
6 16 (1.94%) SLA
7 11 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 7 (0.85%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 5 (0.61%) PMO
10 4 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 4 (0.48%) ISO 9001
11 2 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.24%) NCSC
11 2 (0.24%) NIST
12 1 (0.12%) GxP
12 1 (0.12%) JTAG
12 1 (0.12%) PCI DSS
12 1 (0.12%) PSD2
12 1 (0.12%) WCAG
System Software
1 31 (3.75%) Docker
2 10 (1.21%) Virtual Machines
2 10 (1.21%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (0.73%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.48%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 31 (3.75%) Kubernetes
2 10 (1.21%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (0.36%) Grafana
4 2 (0.24%) Ansible
4 2 (0.24%) Progress Chef
4 2 (0.24%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.24%) Puppet
4 2 (0.24%) SCCM
5 1 (0.12%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.12%) Nagios
5 1 (0.12%) Podman
Vendors
1 266 (32.20%) Microsoft
2 24 (2.91%) ServiceNow
3 17 (2.06%) Databricks
4 15 (1.82%) Adobe
4 15 (1.82%) Oracle
5 12 (1.45%) Apple
5 12 (1.45%) SAP
6 11 (1.33%) CrowdStrike
6 11 (1.33%) OpenAI
7 10 (1.21%) Palo Alto
7 10 (1.21%) Tenable
7 10 (1.21%) VMware
8 7 (0.85%) Foundry
8 7 (0.85%) Google
8 7 (0.85%) Salesforce
8 7 (0.85%) YouTube
9 6 (0.73%) Citrix
9 6 (0.73%) SonicWALL
10 5 (0.61%) Intapp
10 5 (0.61%) Sage