Artificial Intelligence Jobs in Manchester

Artificial Intelligence (AI)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Manchester requiring Artificial Intelligence skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Artificial Intelligence over the 6 months leading up to 12 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 51 118
Rank change year-on-year +14 +67 +4
Permanent jobs citing Artificial Intelligence 172 221 146
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 7.57% 4.25% 2.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.95% 4.92% 3.10%
Number of salaries quoted 84 76 64
10th Percentile £25,094 £31,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £35,092 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,750 £48,750 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +51.28% -25.00% +8.33%
75th Percentile £95,000 £91,438 £75,625
90th Percentile £113,500 £101,250 £77,715
North West median annual salary £72,500 £47,500 £61,750
% change year-on-year +52.63% -23.08% +12.27%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

Artificial Intelligence 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 Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,164 4,491 4,715
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 95.25% 86.35% 96.58%
Number of salaries quoted 1,309 3,425 2,533
10th Percentile £31,000 £30,000 £32,550
25th Percentile £40,040 £41,250 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £76,250 £69,914 £72,500
90th Percentile £92,000 £82,500 £83,750
North West median annual salary £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%

Artificial Intelligence
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings citing Artificial Intelligence as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for Artificial Intelligence in Manchester

Artificial Intelligence
Salary Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Artificial Intelligence in Manchester.

Salary trend for Artificial Intelligence in Manchester

Artificial Intelligence
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Artificial Intelligence in Manchester over the 6 months to 12 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Artificial Intelligence in Manchester

Artificial Intelligence
Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Artificial Intelligence within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 12 May 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
Stockport -8 3 - - 11
Salford -2 2 - - 9
Rochdale -4 1 - - 2
Oldham - 1 £65,000 - 2
Wigan - 1 - - 7
Artificial Intelligence
North West

Artificial Intelligence
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (2.91%) Apache Spark
2 4 (2.33%) Confluence
3 3 (1.74%) Apache
4 2 (1.16%) CMS
5 1 (0.58%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.58%) SharePoint
Applications
1 28 (16.28%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.58%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 35 (20.35%) Power Platform
2 21 (12.21%) AWS
2 21 (12.21%) Azure
3 15 (8.72%) GCP
4 5 (2.91%) Amazon EMR
4 5 (2.91%) SaaS
5 4 (2.33%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (2.33%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (2.33%) Azure Machine Learning
5 4 (2.33%) Cloud Composer
5 4 (2.33%) Microsoft Copilot
6 3 (1.74%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (1.74%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (1.74%) Power Automate
6 3 (1.74%) Serverless
6 3 (1.74%) Snowflake
7 2 (1.16%) AWS KMS
7 2 (1.16%) Entra ID
7 2 (1.16%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (1.16%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.58%) DNS
1 1 (0.58%) Firewall
1 1 (0.58%) SD-WAN
1 1 (0.58%) VPN
1 1 (0.58%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (19.19%) Power BI
2 4 (2.33%) BigQuery
2 4 (2.33%) MySQL
3 3 (1.74%) Amazon Athena
3 3 (1.74%) Big Data
4 2 (1.16%) Cloud Spanner
4 2 (1.16%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (1.16%) Metadata
4 2 (1.16%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 2 (1.16%) Tableau
5 1 (0.58%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.58%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.58%) GIS
5 1 (0.58%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.58%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (6.98%) Git
2 4 (2.33%) JIRA
3 1 (0.58%) GitLab
3 1 (0.58%) Storybook
General
1 57 (33.14%) Social Skills
2 39 (22.67%) Finance
3 35 (20.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 34 (19.77%) Banking
5 30 (17.44%) Organisational Skills
6 21 (12.21%) Analytical Skills
7 11 (6.40%) Law
8 10 (5.81%) Legal
9 5 (2.91%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (2.33%) Aerospace
10 4 (2.33%) Marketing
10 4 (2.33%) Retail
11 3 (1.74%) Public Sector
12 2 (1.16%) Games
12 2 (1.16%) Manufacturing
12 2 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (1.16%) Tech for Good
13 1 (0.58%) Agriculture
13 1 (0.58%) Aviation
13 1 (0.58%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 32 (18.60%) Analyst
2 30 (17.44%) Digital Analyst
3 29 (16.86%) Trainer
4 22 (12.79%) Lead
5 17 (9.88%) Senior
6 10 (5.81%) Architect
7 6 (3.49%) Data Engineer
7 6 (3.49%) Graduate
7 6 (3.49%) Head of AI
7 6 (3.49%) Head of Digital
7 6 (3.49%) Head of IT
7 6 (3.49%) Head of Support
7 6 (3.49%) IT Support
7 6 (3.49%) Solutions Architect
8 5 (2.91%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 5 (2.91%) Gen AI Engineer
8 5 (2.91%) Machine Learning Engineer
9 4 (2.33%) AWS Engineer
9 4 (2.33%) Sales Representative
9 4 (2.33%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (6.98%) Software Packaging
2 11 (6.40%) React
3 8 (4.65%) Node.js
4 7 (4.07%) Playwright
4 7 (4.07%) Spring Boot
4 7 (4.07%) TensorFlow
5 6 (3.49%) PyTorch
6 5 (2.91%) scikit-learn
6 5 (2.91%) Spring
7 4 (2.33%) .NET
7 4 (2.33%) Vue
8 3 (1.74%) Keras
9 2 (1.16%) .NET Core
9 2 (1.16%) Kafka
9 2 (1.16%) RESTful
10 1 (0.58%) GraphQL
10 1 (0.58%) JSON
10 1 (0.58%) Next.js
10 1 (0.58%) Redux
10 1 (0.58%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 14 (8.14%) Algorithms
2 4 (2.33%) Analytical Mindset
2 4 (2.33%) Greenfield Project
2 4 (2.33%) NHS
2 4 (2.33%) Product Ownership
2 4 (2.33%) Public Cloud
3 3 (1.74%) Onboarding
4 2 (1.16%) AI Agents
4 2 (1.16%) Blog
4 2 (1.16%) IoT
4 2 (1.16%) Learning Management System
4 2 (1.16%) Operational Technology
4 2 (1.16%) Robotics
4 2 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (1.16%) Social Media
5 1 (0.58%) Credit Risk
5 1 (0.58%) Data Centre
5 1 (0.58%) Legacy Code
5 1 (0.58%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.58%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.58%) Linux
1 1 (0.58%) Robot Operating System
1 1 (0.58%) Windows
1 1 (0.58%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (32.56%) Agile
2 46 (26.74%) Analytics
3 38 (22.09%) Data Analytics
4 36 (20.93%) Software Engineering
5 33 (19.19%) Business Intelligence
6 31 (18.02%) Technology Transformation
7 30 (17.44%) Project Delivery
7 30 (17.44%) Time Management
8 28 (16.28%) Conversational UI
8 28 (16.28%) Digital Strategy
9 23 (13.37%) Mathematics
9 23 (13.37%) Problem-Solving
10 22 (12.79%) Machine Learning
11 20 (11.63%) Mentoring
12 19 (11.05%) Generative AI
13 17 (9.88%) Cybersecurity
14 16 (9.30%) Decision-Making
15 14 (8.14%) Coaching
15 14 (8.14%) Continuous Improvement
15 14 (8.14%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 28 (16.28%) Python
2 13 (7.56%) Java
3 12 (6.98%) SQL
4 11 (6.40%) JavaScript
5 10 (5.81%) TypeScript
6 8 (4.65%) C#
7 7 (4.07%) Go
8 3 (1.74%) PowerShell
8 3 (1.74%) Scala
9 2 (1.16%) C++
9 2 (1.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (1.16%) R
9 2 (1.16%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.58%) Bicep
10 1 (0.58%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 81 (47.09%) Degree
2 27 (15.70%) Master's Degree
3 26 (15.12%) PhD
4 2 (1.16%) Azure Certification
4 2 (1.16%) CBAP
4 2 (1.16%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.16%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.16%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.58%) APMG
5 1 (0.58%) CRISC
5 1 (0.58%) DBS Check
5 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.07%) Data Quality
2 3 (1.74%) QA
3 2 (1.16%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 2 (1.16%) GDPR
3 2 (1.16%) ITGC
3 2 (1.16%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.58%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.58%) COBIT
4 1 (0.58%) GRC
4 1 (0.58%) P3O
4 1 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (1.74%) Docker
2 1 (0.58%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (2.33%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.74%) Terraform
3 1 (0.58%) Ansible
3 1 (0.58%) Grafana
3 1 (0.58%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 28 (16.28%) Alteryx
1 28 (16.28%) PayPal
2 15 (8.72%) Google
3 10 (5.81%) Microsoft
4 4 (2.33%) Revolut
5 3 (1.74%) Cisco
5 3 (1.74%) Databricks
6 2 (1.16%) Dell
6 2 (1.16%) Facebook
6 2 (1.16%) VMware
7 1 (0.58%) IBM
7 1 (0.58%) Meraki
7 1 (0.58%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.58%) SAP