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

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 93 130
Rank change year-on-year +90 +37 +88
Permanent jobs citing AI 1,530 175 159
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 17.20% 2.96% 1.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 21.83% 3.21% 2.21%
Number of salaries quoted 131 84 132
10th Percentile £27,000 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £39,957 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% -10.57%
75th Percentile £80,000 £95,313 £67,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £77,375
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 7,010 5,452 7,198
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 78.79% 92.08% 85.88%
Number of salaries quoted 3,946 2,434 5,841
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £39,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £49,532
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.99% -5.65%
75th Percentile £65,000 £66,863 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -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 February 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 February 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 +83 1,251 £59,527 +1.32% 109
East Midlands +69 290 £50,000 -23.08% 75
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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 10 (0.65%) SharePoint
2 5 (0.33%) CMS
3 4 (0.26%) Apache
4 3 (0.20%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.13%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.065%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.065%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.065%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.065%) SAS
6 1 (0.065%) WordPress
Applications
1 176 (11.50%) Chatbot
2 124 (8.10%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.39%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.065%) InDesign
5 1 (0.065%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 15 (0.98%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.20%) SAP Business One
3 2 (0.13%) Integrated Workplace Management System
3 2 (0.13%) Shopify
4 1 (0.065%) Maximo
4 1 (0.065%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.065%) Odoo
4 1 (0.065%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 1,048 (68.50%) Cloud Computing
2 181 (11.83%) Azure
3 135 (8.82%) Power Platform
4 114 (7.45%) Azure AI
5 38 (2.48%) AWS
6 36 (2.35%) SaaS
7 13 (0.85%) Microsoft 365
7 13 (0.85%) Microsoft Copilot
8 12 (0.78%) Dynamics 365
8 12 (0.78%) PowerApps
9 11 (0.72%) Power Automate
10 10 (0.65%) GitHub
11 9 (0.59%) Azure Data Factory
11 9 (0.59%) Azure DevOps
12 8 (0.52%) Entra ID
12 8 (0.52%) Figma
12 8 (0.52%) GitHub Copilot
13 6 (0.39%) Copilot Studio
13 6 (0.39%) GCP
14 5 (0.33%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1,045 (68.30%) Internet
2 5 (0.33%) Intranet
3 2 (0.13%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 122 (7.97%) Power BI
2 116 (7.58%) Tableau
3 14 (0.92%) SQL Server
4 7 (0.46%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (0.39%) Delta Lake
6 3 (0.20%) Data Mining
7 2 (0.13%) Metadata
8 1 (0.065%) Amazon QuickSight
8 1 (0.065%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.065%) Looker
8 1 (0.065%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.065%) MySQL
8 1 (0.065%) Neo4j
8 1 (0.065%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.065%) Pentaho
8 1 (0.065%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.065%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.065%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (0.065%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.065%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 8 (0.52%) Visual Studio
2 4 (0.26%) Git
3 3 (0.20%) JIRA
3 3 (0.20%) Visual Studio Code
4 2 (0.13%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.065%) Babel
5 1 (0.065%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.065%) JUnit
5 1 (0.065%) MLflow
5 1 (0.065%) Mockito
5 1 (0.065%) Vite
5 1 (0.065%) webpack
General
1 1,206 (78.82%) Social Skills
2 1,079 (70.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1,047 (68.43%) Banking
4 87 (5.69%) Analytical Skills
5 28 (1.83%) Finance
6 26 (1.70%) Retail
7 25 (1.63%) Public Sector
8 22 (1.44%) Legal
9 15 (0.98%) Law
10 9 (0.59%) Manufacturing
10 9 (0.59%) Marketing
11 4 (0.26%) Automotive
11 4 (0.26%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (0.26%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (0.20%) Agriculture
13 2 (0.13%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.13%) Japanese Language
14 1 (0.065%) Advertising
14 1 (0.065%) Back Office
14 1 (0.065%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 783 (51.18%) Lecturer
2 172 (11.24%) Trainer
3 122 (7.97%) Analyst
4 114 (7.45%) Junior
5 111 (7.25%) Data Analyst
6 110 (7.19%) Junior Analyst
6 110 (7.19%) Junior Data Analyst
7 38 (2.48%) Research Scientist
8 32 (2.09%) Developer
9 24 (1.57%) Content Editor
10 23 (1.50%) Architect
11 17 (1.11%) Solutions Architect
12 12 (0.78%) Senior
13 11 (0.72%) Data Engineer
13 11 (0.72%) Lead
14 9 (0.59%) Alliance Manager
14 9 (0.59%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
14 9 (0.59%) Designer
14 9 (0.59%) Head of Engineering
15 8 (0.52%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (1.11%) .NET
2 9 (0.59%) Blazor
3 8 (0.52%) Material Design
3 8 (0.52%) React
3 8 (0.52%) WebAssembly
4 7 (0.46%) HTML
5 6 (0.39%) CSS
5 6 (0.39%) PySpark
5 6 (0.39%) PyTorch
5 6 (0.39%) RESTful
5 6 (0.39%) TensorFlow
6 5 (0.33%) .NET Framework
7 4 (0.26%) AngularJS
7 4 (0.26%) ASP.NET
7 4 (0.26%) scikit-learn
8 3 (0.20%) Laravel
8 3 (0.20%) Matplotlib
8 3 (0.20%) NumPy
8 3 (0.20%) Razor View Engine
8 3 (0.20%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1,047 (68.43%) IoT
2 37 (2.42%) Molecular Biology
3 12 (0.78%) Cloud Native
4 11 (0.72%) Product Ownership
5 9 (0.59%) Blog
5 9 (0.59%) Onboarding
6 8 (0.52%) Public Cloud
7 7 (0.46%) Algorithms
8 6 (0.39%) AI Agents
8 6 (0.39%) Self-Motivation
8 6 (0.39%) Web Conferencing
9 5 (0.33%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (0.26%) Legacy Code
10 4 (0.26%) Low-Code
10 4 (0.26%) Reference Data
11 2 (0.13%) Lidar
11 2 (0.13%) Management Information System
11 2 (0.13%) Robotics
11 2 (0.13%) Self-Driving Car
11 2 (0.13%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 8 (0.52%) Windows
2 3 (0.20%) Windows Server
3 2 (0.13%) Linux
3 2 (0.13%) Mac OS X
3 2 (0.13%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,091 (71.31%) Machine Learning
2 1,071 (70.00%) User Experience
3 1,060 (69.28%) Cybersecurity
4 1,047 (68.43%) Web Development
5 179 (11.70%) Conversational UI
6 126 (8.24%) Business Intelligence
7 59 (3.86%) Chemistry
8 40 (2.61%) Agile
9 37 (2.42%) Biochemistry
9 37 (2.42%) Biology
9 37 (2.42%) Biotechnology
9 37 (2.42%) Data Interpretation
9 37 (2.42%) Experimental Design
10 36 (2.35%) Analytics
10 36 (2.35%) Customer Service
11 32 (2.09%) CRM
12 29 (1.90%) Roadmaps
13 27 (1.76%) Content Writing
13 27 (1.76%) Problem-Solving
14 23 (1.50%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 163 (10.65%) Python
2 146 (9.54%) SQL
3 19 (1.24%) JavaScript
4 16 (1.05%) C#
5 7 (0.46%) Java
5 7 (0.46%) TypeScript
6 3 (0.20%) C++
6 3 (0.20%) PHP
6 3 (0.20%) R
7 2 (0.13%) PowerShell
7 2 (0.13%) Ruby
8 1 (0.065%) Bash
8 1 (0.065%) Bicep
8 1 (0.065%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 1,240 (81.05%) Degree
2 1,151 (75.23%) Master's Degree
3 1,149 (75.10%) PhD
4 1,045 (68.30%) Postgraduate
5 111 (7.25%) Azure Certification
6 11 (0.72%) AWS Certification
7 10 (0.65%) SC Cleared
7 10 (0.65%) Security Cleared
8 5 (0.33%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (0.26%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (0.20%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 3 (0.20%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.13%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.13%) MOS
12 1 (0.065%) CBAP
12 1 (0.065%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.065%) PMP
12 1 (0.065%) PRINCE2 Certification
12 1 (0.065%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 1 (0.065%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (0.92%) Accessibility
2 12 (0.78%) WCAG
3 10 (0.65%) GDPR
3 10 (0.65%) QA
4 6 (0.39%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.13%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.065%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.065%) COBIT
7 1 (0.065%) GRC
7 1 (0.065%) NIST
System Software
1 6 (0.39%) Active Directory
2 4 (0.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (0.39%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.13%) Grafana
2 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.065%) Ansible
3 1 (0.065%) Argo
3 1 (0.065%) Kustomize
3 1 (0.065%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.065%) Terraform
Vendors
1 172 (11.24%) PayPal
2 168 (10.98%) Microsoft
3 17 (1.11%) Databricks
4 12 (0.78%) Adobe
5 8 (0.52%) Apple
6 6 (0.39%) OpenAI
7 5 (0.33%) HubSpot
7 5 (0.33%) Salesforce
7 5 (0.33%) SAP
8 3 (0.20%) ServiceNow
8 3 (0.20%) UiPath
9 2 (0.13%) ConnectWise
9 2 (0.13%) DocuSign
9 2 (0.13%) Google
9 2 (0.13%) Planon
10 1 (0.065%) Blue Prism
10 1 (0.065%) Cisco
10 1 (0.065%) Foundry
10 1 (0.065%) Oracle
10 1 (0.065%) Pardot