AI Job Trends in Shropshire

AI
West Midlands > Shropshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Shropshire requiring AI skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 17 -
Rank change year-on-year +8 - -
Permanent jobs citing AI 42 7 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Shropshire 15.56% 5.26% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.44% 6.67% -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - -
West Midlands median annual salary £65,000 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +13.04% -11.54% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Shropshire

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 Shropshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 216 105 71
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Shropshire 80.00% 78.95% 77.17%
Number of salaries quoted 128 48 60
10th Percentile £26,750 £35,500 £31,025
25th Percentile £34,280 £38,438 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,250 £51,250 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.61% +4.59% -6.67%
75th Percentile £55,625 £64,063 £55,313
90th Percentile £63,250 £76,125 £72,500
West Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.76%

AI
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing AI relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Shropshire.

AI job vacancy trend in Shropshire

AI
Salary Trend in Shropshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Shropshire citing AI.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Shropshire citing AI

AI
Job Locations in Shropshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing AI within the Shropshire region over the 6 months to 27 December 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
Telford -1 1 - - 79
AI
West Midlands

AI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Shropshire 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 1 (2.38%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 41 (97.62%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 41 (97.62%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.38%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 1 (2.38%) Git
1 1 (2.38%) Jenkins
1 1 (2.38%) JIRA
General
1 41 (97.62%) Banking
1 41 (97.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 41 (97.62%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 30 (71.43%) Lecturer
2 1 (2.38%) Data Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 41 (97.62%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (97.62%) Cybersecurity
1 41 (97.62%) Machine Learning
1 41 (97.62%) User Experience
1 41 (97.62%) Web Development
2 1 (2.38%) Analytics
2 1 (2.38%) Business Analytics
2 1 (2.38%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (2.38%) CI/CD
2 1 (2.38%) Computer Science
2 1 (2.38%) Data Engineering
2 1 (2.38%) Data Integration
2 1 (2.38%) Data Modelling
2 1 (2.38%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (2.38%) Data Virtualisation
2 1 (2.38%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (2.38%) DevOps
2 1 (2.38%) ETL
2 1 (2.38%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (2.38%) Scrum
2 1 (2.38%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (2.38%) SQL
Qualifications
1 42 (100.00%) Degree
2 41 (97.62%) Master's Degree
2 41 (97.62%) PhD
2 41 (97.62%) Postgraduate
3 1 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.38%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (2.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.38%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (2.38%) Denodo
1 1 (2.38%) Oracle
1 1 (2.38%) Talend