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 27 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 138 164
Rank change year-on-year +133 +26 -6
Permanent jobs citing AI 795 134 62
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 14.40% 1.51% 1.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.67% 1.87% 1.27%
Number of salaries quoted 101 65 26
10th Percentile £37,500 £41,000 £33,125
25th Percentile £52,000 £52,500 £46,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £96,250 £87,188
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
England median annual salary £72,213 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.72% - +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 4,769 7,177 4,898
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 86.36% 80.99% 93.21%
Number of salaries quoted 2,830 3,262 3,730
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,000 £26,977
25th Percentile £31,750 £38,000 £37,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,449 £50,250
Median % change year-on-year -14.20% +4.38% +0.50%
75th Percentile £63,688 £66,038 £64,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £79,590 £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 27 October 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 27 October 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 +124 449 £61,250 -9.26% 139
East Midlands +112 343 £65,000 -23.53% 94
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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 (1.26%) Apache Spark
2 7 (0.88%) Apache
3 6 (0.75%) CMS
4 4 (0.50%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.25%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.13%) SAS
6 1 (0.13%) WordPress
Applications
1 313 (39.37%) Chatbot
2 4 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.38%) InDesign
4 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 15 (1.89%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.50%) Shopify
3 3 (0.38%) SAP Business One
4 1 (0.13%) Integrated Workplace Management System
4 1 (0.13%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 62 (7.80%) Azure
2 43 (5.41%) AWS
3 31 (3.90%) SaaS
4 21 (2.64%) Power Platform
5 13 (1.64%) GCP
6 12 (1.51%) Azure AI
7 11 (1.38%) Azure DevOps
8 10 (1.26%) Power Automate
9 9 (1.13%) Azure Key Vault
9 9 (1.13%) Entra ID
9 9 (1.13%) Microsoft 365
10 8 (1.01%) Amazon S3
10 8 (1.01%) PowerApps
11 6 (0.75%) Amazon EKS
11 6 (0.75%) Amazon ELB
11 6 (0.75%) Dynamics 365
12 5 (0.63%) Azure Logic Apps
12 5 (0.63%) Azure Service Bus
12 5 (0.63%) Snowflake
13 4 (0.50%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.50%) DNS
1 4 (0.50%) Firewall
1 4 (0.50%) SD-WAN
1 4 (0.50%) VPN
1 4 (0.50%) WAN
2 3 (0.38%) Intranet
3 1 (0.13%) Bluetooth
3 1 (0.13%) PuTTY
3 1 (0.13%) UWB
3 1 (0.13%) Wideband
3 1 (0.13%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (2.01%) Power BI
2 13 (1.64%) SQL Server
3 8 (1.01%) Delta Lake
3 8 (1.01%) Metadata
4 7 (0.88%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (0.88%) DynamoDB
4 7 (0.88%) MySQL
4 7 (0.88%) Spark SQL
5 6 (0.75%) NoSQL
5 6 (0.75%) Tableau
6 5 (0.63%) MongoDB
7 4 (0.50%) Data Lake
8 3 (0.38%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (0.38%) Big Data
8 3 (0.38%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (0.38%) Power Query
8 3 (0.38%) Relational Database
8 3 (0.38%) Snowflake Schema
9 2 (0.25%) BigQuery
9 2 (0.25%) Hazelcast
Development Applications
1 13 (1.64%) Git
2 6 (0.75%) MLflow
3 4 (0.50%) JIRA
4 2 (0.25%) GitLab
5 1 (0.13%) Babel
5 1 (0.13%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.13%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.13%) JUnit
5 1 (0.13%) Mockito
5 1 (0.13%) Vite
5 1 (0.13%) webpack
General
1 318 (40.00%) Retail
2 289 (36.35%) Manufacturing
3 148 (18.62%) Analytical Skills
4 76 (9.56%) Dutch Language
4 76 (9.56%) Finnish Language
4 76 (9.56%) Norwegian Language
5 59 (7.42%) Social Skills
6 41 (5.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 29 (3.65%) Public Sector
8 28 (3.52%) Finance
9 20 (2.52%) Law
10 19 (2.39%) Catalan Language
11 14 (1.76%) Marketing
12 13 (1.64%) Legal
13 8 (1.01%) Financial Institution
14 7 (0.88%) Agriculture
14 7 (0.88%) Banking
15 6 (0.75%) Influencing Skills
16 5 (0.63%) Organisational Skills
16 5 (0.63%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 590 (74.21%) Trainer
2 46 (5.79%) Research Scientist
3 38 (4.78%) Content Editor
4 35 (4.40%) Architect
5 26 (3.27%) Developer
6 19 (2.39%) Biostatistician
7 13 (1.64%) Customer Support Specialist
7 13 (1.64%) Support Specialist
8 12 (1.51%) Consultant
8 12 (1.51%) Technical Consultant
9 11 (1.38%) Coordinator
9 11 (1.38%) Integration Consultant
9 11 (1.38%) Lead
9 11 (1.38%) Oracle Consultant
9 11 (1.38%) Oracle Technical Consultant
10 10 (1.26%) Data Engineer
11 9 (1.13%) Mathematician
12 8 (1.01%) Customer Service Representative
12 8 (1.01%) Software Developer
12 8 (1.01%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (3.02%) HTML
2 11 (1.38%) PySpark
3 10 (1.26%) React
4 8 (1.01%) .NET
4 8 (1.01%) RESTful
5 6 (0.75%) Keras
5 6 (0.75%) Lambda Expressions
5 6 (0.75%) Metaflow
5 6 (0.75%) NumPy
5 6 (0.75%) Pandas
5 6 (0.75%) PyTorch
5 6 (0.75%) scikit-learn
5 6 (0.75%) Spring
5 6 (0.75%) TensorFlow
5 6 (0.75%) YAML
6 5 (0.63%) .NET Framework
6 5 (0.63%) AngularJS
6 5 (0.63%) Blazor
6 5 (0.63%) Entity Framework
6 5 (0.63%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 287 (36.10%) Robotics
2 50 (6.29%) Molecular Biology
3 17 (2.14%) e-Learning
4 14 (1.76%) Data Centre
5 12 (1.51%) Hybrid Cloud
6 11 (1.38%) Cloud Native
7 10 (1.26%) Onboarding
8 9 (1.13%) AI Agents
8 9 (1.13%) Self-Motivation
9 8 (1.01%) Linux Command Line
9 8 (1.01%) Web Conferencing
10 7 (0.88%) Legacy Code
11 6 (0.75%) Legacy Systems
11 6 (0.75%) Microsoft Licensing
11 6 (0.75%) Product Ownership
12 5 (0.63%) Management Information System
12 5 (0.63%) NHS
13 4 (0.50%) Algorithms
13 4 (0.50%) Data Structures
13 4 (0.50%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.01%) Windows
2 7 (0.88%) Unix
3 5 (0.63%) Linux
4 4 (0.50%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.25%) Mac OS X
6 1 (0.13%) OpenVMS
6 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 353 (44.40%) Machine Learning
2 315 (39.62%) Conversational UI
3 305 (38.36%) Problem-Solving
4 295 (37.11%) Generative AI
5 294 (36.98%) LLM
6 285 (35.85%) Red Team
7 231 (29.06%) Data Privacy
8 127 (15.97%) Chemistry
9 73 (9.18%) Biology
10 69 (8.68%) Biochemistry
11 51 (6.42%) Analytics
12 50 (6.29%) Biotechnology
12 50 (6.29%) Data Interpretation
12 50 (6.29%) Experimental Design
13 49 (6.16%) Roadmaps
14 47 (5.91%) Computer Science
15 45 (5.66%) Agile
15 45 (5.66%) Content Writing
16 44 (5.53%) Mathematics
17 39 (4.91%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 75 (9.43%) SQL
2 66 (8.30%) Python
3 35 (4.40%) Java
4 33 (4.15%) C#
5 32 (4.03%) JavaScript
6 28 (3.52%) TypeScript
7 27 (3.40%) R
8 22 (2.77%) PHP
9 21 (2.64%) Ruby
10 20 (2.52%) C++
11 19 (2.39%) C
11 19 (2.39%) Dart
11 19 (2.39%) MATLAB
11 19 (2.39%) Rust
12 10 (1.26%) PowerShell
13 9 (1.13%) Bicep
14 3 (0.38%) VB
15 2 (0.25%) PL/SQL
16 1 (0.13%) Bash
16 1 (0.13%) PROC SQL
Qualifications
1 639 (80.38%) Degree
2 193 (24.28%) Master's Degree
2 193 (24.28%) PhD
3 20 (2.52%) Computer Science Degree
4 10 (1.26%) Security Cleared
5 9 (1.13%) SC Cleared
6 6 (0.75%) Azure Certification
7 4 (0.50%) DBS Check
7 4 (0.50%) TOGAF Certification
8 3 (0.38%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.25%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.25%) CITP
10 1 (0.13%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.13%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (0.88%) QA
2 3 (0.38%) Accessibility
2 3 (0.38%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.13%) COBIT
3 1 (0.13%) GDPR
3 1 (0.13%) WCAG
System Software
1 11 (1.38%) Docker
2 4 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.13%) Apache Flume
3 1 (0.13%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 14 (1.76%) Kubernetes
2 13 (1.64%) Terraform
3 6 (0.75%) Kubeflow
4 4 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.13%) Argo
5 1 (0.13%) Grafana
5 1 (0.13%) Kibana
5 1 (0.13%) Kustomize
5 1 (0.13%) logstash
5 1 (0.13%) Oozie
Vendors
1 307 (38.62%) Databricks
2 305 (38.36%) PayPal
3 301 (37.86%) Adobe
4 293 (36.86%) Google
5 45 (5.66%) Microsoft
6 12 (1.51%) Red Hat
7 11 (1.38%) IBM
7 11 (1.38%) Oracle
8 9 (1.13%) Apple
8 9 (1.13%) Palo Alto
9 6 (0.75%) OpenAI
10 5 (0.63%) HubSpot
10 5 (0.63%) UiPath
11 4 (0.50%) Cisco
11 4 (0.50%) Extreme Networks
11 4 (0.50%) Juniper
11 4 (0.50%) Meraki
11 4 (0.50%) Salesforce
11 4 (0.50%) SAP
12 2 (0.25%) Automation Anywhere