Artificial Intelligence Engineering Job Trends in the West Midlands

AI Engineering
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Artificial Intelligence Engineering skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 179 191 -
Rank change year-on-year +12 - -
Permanent jobs citing Artificial Intelligence Engineering 8 1 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.12% 0.028% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.030% -
Number of salaries quoted 8 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £33,750 £105,000 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £110,000 -
Median % change year-on-year -65.91% - -
75th Percentile £41,250 £115,000 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £37,500 £97,500 £62,783
% change year-on-year -61.54% +55.30% -26.14%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Midlands

Artificial Intelligence Engineering 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 West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 5,126 3,332 5,256
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 77.90% 93.20% 85.27%
Number of salaries quoted 2,820 1,714 4,188
10th Percentile £29,975 £31,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £39,000 £41,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £68,000 £68,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%

Artificial Intelligence Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Artificial Intelligence Engineering relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Artificial Intelligence Engineering job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Artificial Intelligence Engineering
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Artificial Intelligence Engineering.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Artificial Intelligence Engineering

Artificial Intelligence Engineering
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Artificial Intelligence Engineering within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 12 March 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
Birmingham +11 6 £37,500 -65.91% 2
Coventry - 1 £37,500 - 2
Wolverhampton - 1 £37,500 - 2
Artificial Intelligence Engineering
England

Artificial Intelligence Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West 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 8 (100.00%) Jupyter
Applications
1 8 (100.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) AWS
1 8 (100.00%) Cloud Computing
Development Applications
1 8 (100.00%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 8 (100.00%) Finance
1 8 (100.00%) Manufacturing
1 8 (100.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (87.50%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
1 7 (87.50%) Programmer
1 7 (87.50%) Trainee
1 7 (87.50%) Trainee Programmer
2 1 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Junior
2 1 (12.50%) Junior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (100.00%) Hugging Face
1 8 (100.00%) Matplotlib
1 8 (100.00%) NumPy
1 8 (100.00%) Pandas
1 8 (100.00%) scikit-learn
1 8 (100.00%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 8 (100.00%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) AI
1 8 (100.00%) Conversational UI
1 8 (100.00%) Customer Service
1 8 (100.00%) Data Privacy
1 8 (100.00%) LLM
1 8 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 8 (100.00%) Neural Network
1 8 (100.00%) OO
1 8 (100.00%) OOP
1 8 (100.00%) Prompt Engineering
1 8 (100.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
1 8 (100.00%) Sentiment Analysis
1 8 (100.00%) Visualisation
1 8 (100.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 8 (100.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) Microsoft