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

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 65 103
Rank change year-on-year +62 +38 +107
Permanent jobs citing AI 1,526 193 246
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 13.97% 4.00% 2.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 18.50% 4.43% 2.80%
Number of salaries quoted 189 106 187
10th Percentile £27,500 £37,500 £34,500
25th Percentile £40,500 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.80% +13.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £74,000 £77,000 £66,375
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £71,028 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -5.30% +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 8,248 4,359 8,799
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 75.49% 90.29% 82.80%
Number of salaries quoted 4,821 2,579 6,874
10th Percentile £28,250 £28,822 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £34,518
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% -9.52%
75th Percentile £65,640 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £56,875 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -5.21% +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 2 April 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 2 April 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 +61 1,229 £52,500 -12.50% 110
East Midlands +44 308 £50,000 -23.08% 103
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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 16 (1.05%) SharePoint
2 9 (0.59%) Jupyter
3 3 (0.20%) ArcGIS
3 3 (0.20%) CMS
4 2 (0.13%) Confluence
4 2 (0.13%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.066%) Apache
5 1 (0.066%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.066%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.066%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (0.066%) SAS
5 1 (0.066%) WordPress
Applications
1 205 (13.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (1.11%) Chatbot
3 12 (0.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.066%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (0.59%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.066%) Integrated Workplace Management System
3 1 (0.066%) Maximo
3 1 (0.066%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.066%) Odoo
3 1 (0.066%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.066%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 1,055 (69.13%) Cloud Computing
2 284 (18.61%) Azure
3 220 (14.42%) Power Platform
4 212 (13.89%) Azure AI
5 42 (2.75%) AWS
6 40 (2.62%) SaaS
7 18 (1.18%) Microsoft 365
8 16 (1.05%) Microsoft Copilot
9 12 (0.79%) Dynamics 365
9 12 (0.79%) Power Automate
9 12 (0.79%) PowerApps
10 11 (0.72%) GitHub
11 10 (0.66%) Azure DevOps
12 9 (0.59%) Figma
12 9 (0.59%) GitHub Copilot
13 8 (0.52%) Azure Data Factory
14 7 (0.46%) Entra ID
14 7 (0.46%) GCP
15 6 (0.39%) IaaS
15 6 (0.39%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1,045 (68.48%) Internet
2 3 (0.20%) Broadband
2 3 (0.20%) Intranet
3 1 (0.066%) DHCP
3 1 (0.066%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 203 (13.30%) Power BI
2 192 (12.58%) Tableau
3 12 (0.79%) SQL Server
4 5 (0.33%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (0.33%) Delta Lake
5 4 (0.26%) Data Lake
5 4 (0.26%) Data Mining
6 3 (0.20%) Metadata
7 2 (0.13%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (0.13%) Redis
8 1 (0.066%) Amazon QuickSight
8 1 (0.066%) Looker
8 1 (0.066%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.066%) MySQL
8 1 (0.066%) Pentaho
8 1 (0.066%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.066%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.066%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.066%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.066%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 9 (0.59%) Visual Studio Code
2 8 (0.52%) Visual Studio
3 4 (0.26%) JIRA
3 4 (0.26%) Selenium
4 3 (0.20%) Cypress.io
4 3 (0.20%) Git
4 3 (0.20%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.066%) Appium
5 1 (0.066%) Babel
5 1 (0.066%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.066%) Burp Suite
5 1 (0.066%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.066%) Gatling
5 1 (0.066%) GitLab
5 1 (0.066%) JMeter
5 1 (0.066%) JUnit
5 1 (0.066%) LoadRunner
5 1 (0.066%) Mockito
5 1 (0.066%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.066%) webpack
General
1 1,312 (85.98%) Social Skills
2 1,078 (70.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1,048 (68.68%) Banking
4 66 (4.33%) Finance
5 50 (3.28%) Analytical Skills
6 33 (2.16%) Legal
7 26 (1.70%) Public Sector
8 25 (1.64%) Manufacturing
9 23 (1.51%) Retail
10 22 (1.44%) Law
11 9 (0.59%) Marketing
12 8 (0.52%) Automotive
12 8 (0.52%) Influencing Skills
12 8 (0.52%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (0.33%) Agriculture
14 4 (0.26%) Presentation Skills
15 3 (0.20%) Financial Institution
15 3 (0.20%) Japanese Language
16 2 (0.13%) Advertising
17 1 (0.066%) Games
Job Titles
1 783 (51.31%) Lecturer
2 201 (13.17%) Analyst
3 193 (12.65%) Junior
4 189 (12.39%) Data Analyst
5 187 (12.25%) Junior Analyst
5 187 (12.25%) Junior Data Analyst
6 36 (2.36%) Developer
7 24 (1.57%) Architect
7 24 (1.57%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 23 (1.51%) Senior
9 21 (1.38%) Lead
10 18 (1.18%) Solutions Architect
11 13 (0.85%) Accountant
11 13 (0.85%) Systems Accountant
12 11 (0.72%) Data Engineer
12 11 (0.72%) Head of Engineering
13 10 (0.66%) Trainee
14 9 (0.59%) Alliance Manager
14 9 (0.59%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
14 9 (0.59%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (1.18%) .NET
2 12 (0.79%) React
3 10 (0.66%) scikit-learn
4 9 (0.59%) Blazor
4 9 (0.59%) HTML
4 9 (0.59%) Hugging Face
4 9 (0.59%) Matplotlib
4 9 (0.59%) NumPy
4 9 (0.59%) Pandas
4 9 (0.59%) Streamlit
5 8 (0.52%) Material Design
5 8 (0.52%) WebAssembly
6 7 (0.46%) CSS
7 6 (0.39%) .NET Framework
7 6 (0.39%) PyTorch
7 6 (0.39%) RESTful
7 6 (0.39%) TensorFlow
8 5 (0.33%) ASP.NET
8 5 (0.33%) PySpark
9 4 (0.26%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 1,046 (68.55%) IoT
2 14 (0.92%) Product Ownership
3 13 (0.85%) Algorithms
4 10 (0.66%) Public Cloud
5 9 (0.59%) Blog
5 9 (0.59%) Cloud Native
6 8 (0.52%) Onboarding
7 7 (0.46%) Driving Licence
7 7 (0.46%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (0.39%) Robotics
9 5 (0.33%) Low-Code
10 4 (0.26%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (0.26%) Greenfield Project
11 3 (0.20%) AI Agents
11 3 (0.20%) Management Information System
11 3 (0.20%) Reference Data
11 3 (0.20%) Social Media
11 3 (0.20%) Virtual Team
12 2 (0.13%) Self-Driving Car
12 2 (0.13%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (0.52%) Windows
2 2 (0.13%) Linux
2 2 (0.13%) Robot Operating System
2 2 (0.13%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.066%) Kali Linux
3 1 (0.066%) Mac OS X
3 1 (0.066%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (0.066%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,100 (72.08%) Machine Learning
2 1,063 (69.66%) User Experience
3 1,059 (69.40%) Cybersecurity
4 1,047 (68.61%) Web Development
5 208 (13.63%) Business Intelligence
6 57 (3.74%) Analytics
7 41 (2.69%) Agile
8 39 (2.56%) Problem-Solving
9 35 (2.29%) Roadmaps
10 31 (2.03%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
11 29 (1.90%) Continuous Improvement
12 28 (1.83%) Decision-Making
13 25 (1.64%) CRM
14 24 (1.57%) Customer Service
15 22 (1.44%) Data Science
16 20 (1.31%) Conversational UI
16 20 (1.31%) LLM
16 20 (1.31%) Mentoring
16 20 (1.31%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 19 (1.25%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 267 (17.50%) Python
2 220 (14.42%) SQL
3 19 (1.25%) JavaScript
4 18 (1.18%) C#
5 8 (0.52%) TypeScript
6 5 (0.33%) Java
7 3 (0.20%) C++
8 2 (0.13%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.066%) Bash
9 1 (0.066%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.066%) JCL
9 1 (0.066%) PHP
9 1 (0.066%) R
9 1 (0.066%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1,085 (71.10%) Degree
2 1,057 (69.27%) Master's Degree
3 1,050 (68.81%) PhD
4 1,045 (68.48%) Postgraduate
5 211 (13.83%) Azure Certification
6 17 (1.11%) AWS Certification
7 10 (0.66%) ACCA
7 10 (0.66%) CIMA
8 9 (0.59%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 8 (0.52%) SC Cleared
9 8 (0.52%) Security Cleared
10 6 (0.39%) Computer Science Degree
11 4 (0.26%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (0.26%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (0.20%) MOS
13 2 (0.13%) CISA
13 2 (0.13%) DBS Check
14 1 (0.066%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 1 (0.066%) CBAP
14 1 (0.066%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (1.11%) Accessibility
2 15 (0.98%) QA
3 14 (0.92%) GDPR
4 13 (0.85%) Data Quality
4 13 (0.85%) WCAG
5 4 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.13%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.13%) NIST
7 1 (0.066%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.066%) COBIT
7 1 (0.066%) GRC
7 1 (0.066%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.066%) PMO
7 1 (0.066%) SOC 2
System Software
1 8 (0.52%) Active Directory
2 6 (0.39%) Docker
3 1 (0.066%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.066%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (0.33%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.13%) Grafana
2 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.066%) Ansible
3 1 (0.066%) HP Fortify
3 1 (0.066%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 261 (17.10%) Microsoft
2 19 (1.25%) Databricks
3 10 (0.66%) Adobe
4 8 (0.52%) Apple
5 7 (0.46%) OpenAI
6 6 (0.39%) PayPal
6 6 (0.39%) SAP
7 5 (0.33%) ConnectWise
7 5 (0.33%) Salesforce
7 5 (0.33%) ServiceNow
8 3 (0.20%) ESRI
9 2 (0.13%) DocuSign
9 2 (0.13%) Google
9 2 (0.13%) Splunk
10 1 (0.066%) AppDynamics
10 1 (0.066%) Blue Prism
10 1 (0.066%) Facebook
10 1 (0.066%) Foundry
10 1 (0.066%) Palantir
10 1 (0.066%) Veracode