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

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 9 101
Rank change year-on-year -8 +92 +76
Permanent jobs citing AI 823 704 238
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 5.83% 12.27% 2.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.34% 14.41% 2.83%
Number of salaries quoted 424 114 129
10th Percentile £35,375 £38,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £46,938 £50,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,250 £60,000 £58,700
Median % change year-on-year -4.58% +2.21% -9.69%
75th Percentile £83,750 £72,688 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £89,625 £93,750
England median annual salary £71,121 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +1.60% -3.45% -3.33%

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 9,865 4,886 8,421
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 69.92% 85.17% 77.86%
Number of salaries quoted 7,017 2,978 5,162
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,968 £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 £66,450 £63,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £76,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +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 4 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 4 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 -4 536 £60,000 - 311
East Midlands -16 286 £52,500 -16.00% 121
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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 23 (2.79%) SharePoint
2 8 (0.97%) Jupyter
3 6 (0.73%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 5 (0.61%) Apache
4 5 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (0.49%) ArcGIS
5 4 (0.49%) CMS
5 4 (0.49%) WordPress
6 3 (0.36%) Confluence
6 3 (0.36%) IIS
6 3 (0.36%) nginx
7 1 (0.12%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.12%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.12%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 169 (20.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (1.46%) Chatbot
3 10 (1.22%) Microsoft Office
4 8 (0.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (0.73%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.12%) LaTeX
6 1 (0.12%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.12%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 12 (1.46%) Cloudability
2 7 (0.85%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.49%) Sage 50
3 4 (0.49%) Shopify
4 3 (0.36%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (0.36%) NetSuite
4 3 (0.36%) SAP Business One
5 1 (0.12%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.12%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.12%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.12%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.12%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 358 (43.50%) Azure
2 235 (28.55%) Azure AI
3 231 (28.07%) Power Platform
4 94 (11.42%) AWS
5 55 (6.68%) SaaS
6 43 (5.22%) Microsoft Copilot
7 36 (4.37%) Microsoft 365
8 29 (3.52%) GCP
9 25 (3.04%) Serverless
10 22 (2.67%) Azure DevOps
11 21 (2.55%) Power Automate
12 15 (1.82%) Dynamics 365
13 14 (1.70%) PowerApps
14 13 (1.58%) GitHub
15 10 (1.22%) GitHub Copilot
15 10 (1.22%) Microsoft Purview
15 10 (1.22%) Snowflake
16 9 (1.09%) Anthropic Claude
16 9 (1.09%) Entra ID
17 8 (0.97%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.22%) DNS
1 10 (1.22%) Firewall
2 6 (0.73%) VPN
3 4 (0.49%) MQTT
4 3 (0.36%) Network Security
4 3 (0.36%) Wireless
5 2 (0.24%) Broadband
5 2 (0.24%) DHCP
5 2 (0.24%) HTTP
5 2 (0.24%) VLAN
5 2 (0.24%) VoIP
6 1 (0.12%) Bluetooth
6 1 (0.12%) FTP
6 1 (0.12%) LAN
6 1 (0.12%) RTP
6 1 (0.12%) SMS
6 1 (0.12%) SNMP
6 1 (0.12%) SS7
6 1 (0.12%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.12%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 208 (25.27%) Power BI
2 167 (20.29%) Tableau
3 24 (2.92%) SQL Server
4 17 (2.07%) Azure SQL Database
5 16 (1.94%) MongoDB
6 12 (1.46%) Data Lake
6 12 (1.46%) Metadata
7 8 (0.97%) Data Warehouse
7 8 (0.97%) Redis
8 6 (0.73%) DynamoDB
9 5 (0.61%) Power Query
9 5 (0.61%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 5 (0.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 5 (0.61%) Star Schema
10 4 (0.49%) Big Data
11 3 (0.36%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (0.36%) Looker
11 3 (0.36%) MySQL
11 3 (0.36%) Relational Database
11 3 (0.36%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 11 (1.34%) Git
2 10 (1.22%) JIRA
2 10 (1.22%) Maven
2 10 (1.22%) Snyk
3 9 (1.09%) JUnit
3 9 (1.09%) Mockito
3 9 (1.09%) Visual Studio Code
4 5 (0.61%) Selenium
5 3 (0.36%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.24%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.24%) GitLab
6 2 (0.24%) Yeoman
7 1 (0.12%) Ant
7 1 (0.12%) Apache Ivy
7 1 (0.12%) Appium
7 1 (0.12%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.12%) JMeter
7 1 (0.12%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.12%) NUnit
7 1 (0.12%) SonarQube
General
1 347 (42.16%) Social Skills
2 183 (22.24%) Finance
3 81 (9.84%) Analytical Skills
4 67 (8.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 37 (4.50%) Legal
6 35 (4.25%) Retail
7 34 (4.13%) Law
8 30 (3.65%) Manufacturing
9 29 (3.52%) Influencing Skills
10 26 (3.16%) Marketing
11 20 (2.43%) Banking
11 20 (2.43%) Organisational Skills
11 20 (2.43%) Public Sector
12 10 (1.22%) Advertising
12 10 (1.22%) Automotive
13 8 (0.97%) Presentation Skills
14 7 (0.85%) Financial Institution
14 7 (0.85%) Social Housing
15 6 (0.73%) Telecoms
16 5 (0.61%) Games
Job Titles
1 208 (25.27%) Analyst
2 158 (19.20%) Data Analyst
2 158 (19.20%) Junior
3 155 (18.83%) Junior Analyst
4 154 (18.71%) Junior Data Analyst
5 101 (12.27%) Senior
6 92 (11.18%) Developer
7 77 (9.36%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 75 (9.11%) Lead
9 56 (6.80%) Architect
10 28 (3.40%) Software Engineer
11 27 (3.28%) Business Analyst
11 27 (3.28%) Data Scientist
12 24 (2.92%) Accountant
12 24 (2.92%) Data Engineer
12 24 (2.92%) Systems Accountant
13 22 (2.67%) Consultant
14 20 (2.43%) Senior Analyst
15 19 (2.31%) Senior Developer
16 16 (1.94%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (4.01%) React
2 26 (3.16%) .NET
3 22 (2.67%) REST
4 17 (2.07%) ASP.NET
4 17 (2.07%) ASP.NET Core
5 14 (1.70%) HTML
5 14 (1.70%) Playwright
6 13 (1.58%) .NET Core
7 12 (1.46%) CSS
7 12 (1.46%) RESTful
7 12 (1.46%) Spring
8 10 (1.22%) ML.NET
8 10 (1.22%) scikit-learn
9 9 (1.09%) .NET Framework
9 9 (1.09%) Blazor
9 9 (1.09%) Matplotlib
10 8 (0.97%) Hugging Face
10 8 (0.97%) Kafka
11 7 (0.85%) Pandas
11 7 (0.85%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 23 (2.79%) Product Ownership
1 23 (2.79%) Self-Motivation
2 20 (2.43%) Cloud Native
3 12 (1.46%) AI Agents
3 12 (1.46%) Data Centre
3 12 (1.46%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (1.46%) Driving Licence
3 12 (1.46%) Greenfield Project
4 11 (1.34%) Low-Code
4 11 (1.34%) Robotics
5 10 (1.22%) Management Information System
5 10 (1.22%) Onboarding
5 10 (1.22%) Virtual Team
6 8 (0.97%) Algorithms
6 8 (0.97%) Enterprise Software
6 8 (0.97%) IoT
6 8 (0.97%) Security Posture
7 7 (0.85%) CSOC
8 6 (0.73%) BYOD
8 6 (0.73%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 23 (2.79%) Linux
2 16 (1.94%) Windows
3 11 (1.34%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.49%) Ubuntu
4 4 (0.49%) VMS
5 2 (0.24%) Android
6 1 (0.12%) Alpine Linux
6 1 (0.12%) Kali Linux
6 1 (0.12%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.12%) Solaris
6 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 214 (26.00%) Business Intelligence
2 115 (13.97%) Analytics
3 103 (12.52%) Agile
4 97 (11.79%) Continuous Improvement
5 95 (11.54%) Problem-Solving
6 91 (11.06%) Machine Learning
7 79 (9.60%) Mentoring
8 76 (9.23%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
9 74 (8.99%) CI/CD
10 72 (8.75%) Decision-Making
11 69 (8.38%) Roadmaps
12 58 (7.05%) LLM
12 58 (7.05%) Stakeholder Management
13 55 (6.68%) Cybersecurity
14 45 (5.47%) Data Science
15 44 (5.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 43 (5.22%) Actionable Insight
17 42 (5.10%) Data Governance
17 42 (5.10%) Software Engineering
17 42 (5.10%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 305 (37.06%) Python
2 231 (28.07%) SQL
3 35 (4.25%) JavaScript
4 28 (3.40%) C#
5 23 (2.79%) TypeScript
6 17 (2.07%) PowerShell
7 14 (1.70%) Java
8 10 (1.22%) Bash
8 10 (1.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 9 (1.09%) PL/SQL
10 7 (0.85%) PHP
11 5 (0.61%) Kusto Query Language
11 5 (0.61%) T-SQL
12 4 (0.49%) R
13 2 (0.24%) Go
14 1 (0.12%) C
14 1 (0.12%) C++
14 1 (0.12%) JCL
14 1 (0.12%) Rust
14 1 (0.12%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 224 (27.22%) Azure Certification
2 53 (6.44%) Degree
3 52 (6.32%) Security Cleared
4 50 (6.08%) SC Cleared
5 20 (2.43%) AWS Certification
6 19 (2.31%) ACCA
6 19 (2.31%) CIMA
7 12 (1.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 8 (0.97%) Computer Science Degree
8 8 (0.97%) DV Cleared
8 8 (0.97%) Master's Degree
9 7 (0.85%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 7 (0.85%) SANS
10 6 (0.73%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (0.61%) Microsoft Certification
11 5 (0.61%) MOS
12 4 (0.49%) CISA
13 3 (0.36%) CBAP
13 3 (0.36%) CIPD
13 3 (0.36%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (5.10%) Data Quality
2 32 (3.89%) QA
3 23 (2.79%) GDPR
4 22 (2.67%) Accessibility
5 16 (1.94%) GRC
6 12 (1.46%) SLA
7 10 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 7 (0.85%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 4 (0.49%) NIST
9 4 (0.49%) PMO
10 3 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 3 (0.36%) ISO 9001
11 2 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.12%) COBIT
12 1 (0.12%) GxP
12 1 (0.12%) PCI DSS
12 1 (0.12%) PSD2
12 1 (0.12%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.12%) WCAG
System Software
1 28 (3.40%) Docker
2 10 (1.22%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (0.73%) Active Directory
4 5 (0.61%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.24%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 28 (3.40%) Kubernetes
2 15 (1.82%) Terraform
3 7 (0.85%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (0.49%) Grafana
5 2 (0.24%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.12%) Ansible
6 1 (0.12%) HP Fortify
6 1 (0.12%) Nagios
6 1 (0.12%) Podman
6 1 (0.12%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.12%) Puppet
6 1 (0.12%) SCCM
Vendors
1 304 (36.94%) Microsoft
2 21 (2.55%) ServiceNow
3 15 (1.82%) Databricks
4 14 (1.70%) Adobe
4 14 (1.70%) Oracle
5 12 (1.46%) Apple
5 12 (1.46%) OpenAI
5 12 (1.46%) SAP
6 11 (1.34%) CrowdStrike
7 10 (1.22%) Palo Alto
7 10 (1.22%) Tenable
8 7 (0.85%) Foundry
8 7 (0.85%) Google
9 5 (0.61%) Aderant
9 5 (0.61%) ConnectWise
9 5 (0.61%) Facebook
9 5 (0.61%) Intapp
9 5 (0.61%) Sage
9 5 (0.61%) VMware
10 4 (0.49%) Xero