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

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 8 111
Rank change year-on-year -8 +103 +62
Permanent jobs citing AI 799 707 243
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 5.80% 12.39% 2.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.31% 14.52% 2.70%
Number of salaries quoted 403 115 136
10th Percentile £36,250 £38,500 £34,375
25th Percentile £47,000 £50,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £60,000 £59,350
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +1.10% -8.69%
75th Percentile £83,750 £74,375 £72,813
90th Percentile £100,000 £90,000 £93,750
England median annual salary £70,150 £70,000 £71,991
% change year-on-year +0.21% -2.77% -4.01%

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 9,615 4,870 8,995
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 69.79% 85.38% 78.42%
Number of salaries quoted 6,846 2,941 5,693
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,000 £63,750 £63,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,772
England median annual salary £60,000 £56,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +6.19% +2.73% -11.29%

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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 28 July 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 28 July 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 -5 511 £60,000 - 170
East Midlands -15 287 £52,500 -16.00% 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 21 (2.63%) SharePoint
2 9 (1.13%) Jupyter
3 5 (0.63%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 4 (0.50%) Apache
4 4 (0.50%) ArcGIS
4 4 (0.50%) CMS
4 4 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.38%) Confluence
5 3 (0.38%) WordPress
6 2 (0.25%) IIS
6 2 (0.25%) nginx
7 1 (0.13%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.13%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.13%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 180 (22.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (1.63%) Chatbot
3 10 (1.25%) Microsoft Office
4 8 (1.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (0.75%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.13%) LaTeX
6 1 (0.13%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.13%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 12 (1.50%) Cloudability
2 7 (0.88%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.50%) Sage 50
4 3 (0.38%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (0.38%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.25%) SAP Business One
5 2 (0.25%) Shopify
6 1 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 1 (0.13%) Sage 200
6 1 (0.13%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 361 (45.18%) Azure
2 246 (30.79%) Azure AI
3 236 (29.54%) Power Platform
4 91 (11.39%) AWS
5 52 (6.51%) SaaS
6 41 (5.13%) Microsoft Copilot
7 32 (4.01%) Microsoft 365
8 29 (3.63%) GCP
9 23 (2.88%) Serverless
10 19 (2.38%) Azure DevOps
11 18 (2.25%) Power Automate
12 14 (1.75%) Dynamics 365
13 12 (1.50%) GitHub
13 12 (1.50%) PowerApps
14 11 (1.38%) Microsoft Purview
15 9 (1.13%) Anthropic Claude
15 9 (1.13%) Cloud Computing
15 9 (1.13%) Copilot Studio
15 9 (1.13%) GitHub Copilot
15 9 (1.13%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.13%) DNS
1 9 (1.13%) Firewall
2 6 (0.75%) VPN
3 4 (0.50%) MQTT
4 3 (0.38%) Broadband
4 3 (0.38%) Wireless
5 2 (0.25%) DHCP
5 2 (0.25%) HTTP
5 2 (0.25%) VLAN
5 2 (0.25%) VoIP
6 1 (0.13%) FTP
6 1 (0.13%) LAN
6 1 (0.13%) Network Security
6 1 (0.13%) RTSP
6 1 (0.13%) SCTP
6 1 (0.13%) SNMP
6 1 (0.13%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.13%) Unified Communications
6 1 (0.13%) UWB
6 1 (0.13%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 214 (26.78%) Power BI
2 178 (22.28%) Tableau
3 23 (2.88%) SQL Server
4 17 (2.13%) Azure SQL Database
5 16 (2.00%) MongoDB
6 12 (1.50%) Data Lake
6 12 (1.50%) Metadata
7 8 (1.00%) Data Warehouse
8 7 (0.88%) Redis
9 6 (0.75%) DynamoDB
10 5 (0.63%) Power Query
10 5 (0.63%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 5 (0.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 5 (0.63%) Star Schema
11 4 (0.50%) Big Data
12 3 (0.38%) Amazon RDS
12 3 (0.38%) Looker
12 3 (0.38%) MySQL
12 3 (0.38%) Relational Database
12 3 (0.38%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 10 (1.25%) Snyk
2 9 (1.13%) Git
2 9 (1.13%) Maven
2 9 (1.13%) Visual Studio Code
3 8 (1.00%) JIRA
3 8 (1.00%) JUnit
3 8 (1.00%) Mockito
4 5 (0.63%) Selenium
5 3 (0.38%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.25%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.25%) GitLab
6 2 (0.25%) Yeoman
7 1 (0.13%) Ant
7 1 (0.13%) Apache Ivy
7 1 (0.13%) Appium
7 1 (0.13%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.13%) JMeter
7 1 (0.13%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.13%) NUnit
7 1 (0.13%) SonarQube
General
1 350 (43.80%) Social Skills
2 164 (20.53%) Finance
3 79 (9.89%) Analytical Skills
4 65 (8.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 38 (4.76%) Legal
6 35 (4.38%) Law
6 35 (4.38%) Retail
7 28 (3.50%) Influencing Skills
7 28 (3.50%) Manufacturing
8 22 (2.75%) Marketing
9 20 (2.50%) Banking
10 19 (2.38%) Organisational Skills
11 17 (2.13%) Public Sector
12 10 (1.25%) Automotive
13 9 (1.13%) Advertising
14 7 (0.88%) Financial Institution
14 7 (0.88%) Social Housing
15 6 (0.75%) Japanese Language
16 5 (0.63%) Games
16 5 (0.63%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 217 (27.16%) Analyst
2 169 (21.15%) Data Analyst
2 169 (21.15%) Junior
3 166 (20.78%) Junior Analyst
4 165 (20.65%) Junior Data Analyst
5 92 (11.51%) Senior
6 86 (10.76%) Developer
7 77 (9.64%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 71 (8.89%) Lead
9 53 (6.63%) Architect
10 26 (3.25%) Business Analyst
11 25 (3.13%) Data Scientist
11 25 (3.13%) Software Engineer
12 24 (3.00%) Accountant
12 24 (3.00%) Data Engineer
12 24 (3.00%) Systems Accountant
13 21 (2.63%) Consultant
14 19 (2.38%) Senior Analyst
15 16 (2.00%) Data Architect
15 16 (2.00%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (3.63%) React
2 26 (3.25%) .NET
3 18 (2.25%) REST
4 17 (2.13%) ASP.NET
4 17 (2.13%) ASP.NET Core
5 14 (1.75%) HTML
6 13 (1.63%) .NET Core
7 12 (1.50%) CSS
7 12 (1.50%) Playwright
7 12 (1.50%) RESTful
8 11 (1.38%) scikit-learn
8 11 (1.38%) Spring
9 10 (1.25%) Matplotlib
9 10 (1.25%) ML.NET
10 9 (1.13%) .NET Framework
10 9 (1.13%) Blazor
10 9 (1.13%) Hugging Face
11 8 (1.00%) Kafka
11 8 (1.00%) Pandas
11 8 (1.00%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 22 (2.75%) Product Ownership
2 21 (2.63%) Cloud Native
3 18 (2.25%) Self-Motivation
4 12 (1.50%) Distributed Systems
5 11 (1.38%) AI Agents
5 11 (1.38%) Driving Licence
5 11 (1.38%) Low-Code
5 11 (1.38%) Robotics
6 10 (1.25%) Data Centre
6 10 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
6 10 (1.25%) Virtual Team
7 9 (1.13%) Algorithms
7 9 (1.13%) Management Information System
8 8 (1.00%) Enterprise Software
8 8 (1.00%) IoT
9 7 (0.88%) CSOC
9 7 (0.88%) Security Posture
10 6 (0.75%) Onboarding
11 5 (0.63%) Public Cloud
12 4 (0.50%) BYOD
Operating Systems
1 21 (2.63%) Linux
2 14 (1.75%) Windows
3 9 (1.13%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.50%) VMS
5 3 (0.38%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.25%) Android
7 1 (0.13%) Alpine Linux
7 1 (0.13%) Kali Linux
7 1 (0.13%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.13%) Solaris
7 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 221 (27.66%) Business Intelligence
2 111 (13.89%) Analytics
3 94 (11.76%) Agile
4 90 (11.26%) Machine Learning
4 90 (11.26%) Problem-Solving
5 88 (11.01%) Continuous Improvement
6 77 (9.64%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
7 76 (9.51%) Mentoring
8 72 (9.01%) CI/CD
9 70 (8.76%) Roadmaps
10 66 (8.26%) Decision-Making
11 55 (6.88%) LLM
12 54 (6.76%) Stakeholder Management
13 50 (6.26%) Cybersecurity
14 44 (5.51%) Actionable Insight
15 43 (5.38%) Data Governance
15 43 (5.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 42 (5.26%) Data Science
17 41 (5.13%) Workflow
18 38 (4.76%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 319 (39.92%) Python
2 239 (29.91%) SQL
3 31 (3.88%) JavaScript
4 28 (3.50%) C#
5 20 (2.50%) TypeScript
6 15 (1.88%) PowerShell
7 13 (1.63%) Java
8 10 (1.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 9 (1.13%) Bash
10 8 (1.00%) PL/SQL
11 6 (0.75%) PHP
12 5 (0.63%) Kusto Query Language
13 4 (0.50%) R
13 4 (0.50%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.25%) Go
15 1 (0.13%) C
15 1 (0.13%) C++
15 1 (0.13%) JCL
15 1 (0.13%) Rust
15 1 (0.13%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 234 (29.29%) Azure Certification
2 49 (6.13%) Degree
3 45 (5.63%) Security Cleared
4 44 (5.51%) SC Cleared
5 21 (2.63%) AWS Certification
6 19 (2.38%) ACCA
6 19 (2.38%) CIMA
7 12 (1.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 9 (1.13%) Master's Degree
9 8 (1.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 7 (0.88%) SANS
11 6 (0.75%) Computer Science Degree
11 6 (0.75%) DV Cleared
11 6 (0.75%) MOS
12 5 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
13 4 (0.50%) CISA
14 3 (0.38%) CBAP
14 3 (0.38%) CIPD
14 3 (0.38%) PMI Certification
14 3 (0.38%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (5.38%) Data Quality
2 30 (3.75%) QA
3 25 (3.13%) GDPR
4 17 (2.13%) Accessibility
5 16 (2.00%) GRC
6 11 (1.38%) SLA
7 7 (0.88%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 7 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.50%) NIST
8 4 (0.50%) PMO
9 2 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (0.25%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.13%) COBIT
10 1 (0.13%) GxP
10 1 (0.13%) JTAG
10 1 (0.13%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.13%) PSD2
10 1 (0.13%) WCAG
System Software
1 27 (3.38%) Docker
2 10 (1.25%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (0.75%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.38%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.13%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 27 (3.38%) Kubernetes
2 15 (1.88%) Terraform
3 5 (0.63%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (0.50%) Grafana
5 2 (0.25%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.13%) Ansible
6 1 (0.13%) HP Fortify
6 1 (0.13%) Nagios
6 1 (0.13%) Podman
6 1 (0.13%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.13%) Puppet
6 1 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 305 (38.17%) Microsoft
2 20 (2.50%) ServiceNow
3 16 (2.00%) Databricks
4 14 (1.75%) Adobe
5 13 (1.63%) Oracle
6 12 (1.50%) Apple
6 12 (1.50%) OpenAI
7 11 (1.38%) CrowdStrike
7 11 (1.38%) SAP
8 10 (1.25%) Palo Alto
8 10 (1.25%) Tenable
9 7 (0.88%) Foundry
10 6 (0.75%) Google
11 5 (0.63%) Aderant
11 5 (0.63%) ConnectWise
11 5 (0.63%) Facebook
11 5 (0.63%) Intapp
11 5 (0.63%) Sage
11 5 (0.63%) Salesforce
12 4 (0.50%) Xero