Digital Engineering Job Trends in Manchester

Digital Engineering
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Digital Engineering skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 175 153 210
Rank change year-on-year -22 +57 -115
Permanent jobs citing Digital Engineering 2 4 4
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.034% 0.19% 0.078%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.048% 0.20% 0.092%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £28,775 - -
25th Percentile £32,938 - £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,750 - £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -39.47%
75th Percentile £52,438 - £63,750
90th Percentile £57,725 - -
North West median annual salary £57,500 - £40,000
% change year-on-year - - -52.94%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Manchester

Digital 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 Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,208 2,045 4,365
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 71.97% 95.87% 84.68%
Number of salaries quoted 3,097 1,143 3,461
10th Percentile £32,835 £30,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +9.52% -8.70%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,840 £68,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £93,750 £82,000
North West median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -9.09%

Digital Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Digital Engineering relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Digital Engineering job vacancy trend in Manchester

Digital Engineering
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Digital Engineering.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Digital Engineering

Digital Engineering
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Digital Engineering in Manchester over the 6 months to 27 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Digital Engineering in Manchester

Digital Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Functions
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
1 1 (50.00%) Google Compute Engine
1 1 (50.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) GCP Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Recruitment Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) AI
1 1 (50.00%) Architectural Design
1 1 (50.00%) AutoML
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Clean Code
1 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (50.00%) Identity Management
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (50.00%) Observability
1 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Proactive Monitoring
1 1 (50.00%) SDLC
1 1 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) Go
1 1 (50.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Grafana
1 1 (50.00%) Istio
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) linkerd
1 1 (50.00%) Progress Chef
1 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (50.00%) Puppet
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Google