Machine Learning Job Trends in Manchester

Machine Learning (ML)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Machine Learning skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 57 51
Rank change year-on-year -25 -6 +47
Permanent jobs citing Machine Learning 121 128 192
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 1.79% 5.12% 4.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.40% 5.60% 5.25%
Number of salaries quoted 94 34 51
10th Percentile £37,000 £41,250 £45,750
25th Percentile £58,281 £53,125 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £66,250 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.21% +10.42% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £119,625 £97,528 £101,250
North West median annual salary £72,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +20.83% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Manchester

Machine Learning 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 5,032 2,287 3,658
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 74.26% 91.44% 81.98%
Number of salaries quoted 3,956 1,328 2,409
10th Percentile £32,888 £29,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £87,500 £83,750
North West median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -4.55%

Machine Learning
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Machine Learning job vacancy trend in Manchester

Machine Learning
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Machine Learning.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Machine Learning

Machine Learning
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Machine Learning in Manchester over the 6 months to 8 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Machine Learning in Manchester

Machine Learning
Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Machine Learning within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 8 August 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
Salford - 3 - - 3
Machine Learning
North West

Machine Learning
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:

Application Platforms
1 8 (6.61%) Apache
2 6 (4.96%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (4.13%) Apache Spark
4 4 (3.31%) Jupyter
Applications
1 5 (4.13%) Chatbot
2 2 (1.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.65%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.83%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 61 (50.41%) AWS
2 33 (27.27%) Azure
3 25 (20.66%) SaaS
4 22 (18.18%) GCP
5 11 (9.09%) GitHub
6 10 (8.26%) Amazon S3
7 8 (6.61%) AWS Lambda
7 8 (6.61%) Serverless
7 8 (6.61%) Snowflake
8 6 (4.96%) dbt
8 6 (4.96%) GitHub Copilot
8 6 (4.96%) Pulumi
9 4 (3.31%) Amazon Kinesis
9 4 (3.31%) Amazon SageMaker
9 4 (3.31%) Cloud Computing
9 4 (3.31%) IaaS
9 4 (3.31%) PaaS
9 4 (3.31%) Power Platform
9 4 (3.31%) Twilio
10 3 (2.48%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.48%) BGP
1 3 (2.48%) OSPF
1 3 (2.48%) TCP/IP
1 3 (2.48%) VLAN
2 2 (1.65%) IPFIX
2 2 (1.65%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (10.74%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (5.79%) Amazon Athena
2 7 (5.79%) Amazon Redshift
2 7 (5.79%) Big Data
3 6 (4.96%) DynamoDB
3 6 (4.96%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (4.13%) SQL Server
5 4 (3.31%) Data Mining
5 4 (3.31%) Electronic Patient Records
5 4 (3.31%) MongoDB
6 3 (2.48%) Power BI
7 2 (1.65%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (1.65%) Star Schema
8 1 (0.83%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.83%) Data Vault
8 1 (0.83%) Delta Lake
8 1 (0.83%) InfluxDB
8 1 (0.83%) Looker
8 1 (0.83%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (5.79%) Git
2 4 (3.31%) Visual Studio Code
3 3 (2.48%) GitLab
3 3 (2.48%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.83%) Gemini Tracker
4 1 (0.83%) JIRA
4 1 (0.83%) MLflow
4 1 (0.83%) Mocha
General
1 28 (23.14%) Social Skills
2 26 (21.49%) Finance
3 14 (11.57%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (10.74%) Public Sector
5 10 (8.26%) Law
6 8 (6.61%) Retail
7 7 (5.79%) Manufacturing
8 6 (4.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (4.13%) Local Government
9 5 (4.13%) Social Housing
10 4 (3.31%) Health Technology
11 3 (2.48%) Games
12 2 (1.65%) Advertising
12 2 (1.65%) Financial Institution
12 2 (1.65%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (1.65%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (1.65%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.83%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 25 (20.66%) Senior
2 16 (13.22%) Data Engineer
2 16 (13.22%) Data Scientist
3 13 (10.74%) Architect
4 12 (9.92%) Lead
4 12 (9.92%) Senior Data Scientist
5 8 (6.61%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 7 (5.79%) Lead Data Scientist
6 7 (5.79%) Security Engineer
6 7 (5.79%) Software Engineer
7 6 (4.96%) Applications Engineer
8 5 (4.13%) Chief Technology Officer
8 5 (4.13%) Engineering Manager
9 4 (3.31%) Account Manager
9 4 (3.31%) Java Architect
9 4 (3.31%) Programmer
9 4 (3.31%) Sales Manager
9 4 (3.31%) Security Architect
9 4 (3.31%) Trainee
9 4 (3.31%) Trainee Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (8.26%) JWT
1 10 (8.26%) OAuth
1 10 (8.26%) OpenID
1 10 (8.26%) SAML
2 9 (7.44%) scikit-learn
3 8 (6.61%) Kafka
3 8 (6.61%) LangChain
3 8 (6.61%) NumPy
3 8 (6.61%) Pandas
4 6 (4.96%) OAuth2
5 5 (4.13%) RESTful
6 4 (3.31%) Hugging Face
6 4 (3.31%) LlamaIndex
6 4 (3.31%) Matplotlib
6 4 (3.31%) React
6 4 (3.31%) Spring
6 4 (3.31%) Spring Boot
6 4 (3.31%) Streamlit
7 3 (2.48%) Ajax
7 3 (2.48%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 16 (13.22%) Cloud Native
2 11 (9.09%) Onboarding
3 9 (7.44%) AI Agents
3 9 (7.44%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (5.79%) Enterprise Software
4 7 (5.79%) Product Ownership
5 6 (4.96%) Life Science
5 6 (4.96%) Management Information System
5 6 (4.96%) Social Media
6 5 (4.13%) Algorithms
6 5 (4.13%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (3.31%) IVR
7 4 (3.31%) NHS
8 3 (2.48%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.65%) Cyberattack
9 2 (1.65%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.65%) Private Cloud
10 1 (0.83%) BBC
10 1 (0.83%) Culture of Ownership
10 1 (0.83%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (77.69%) AI
2 38 (31.40%) Data Science
3 36 (29.75%) Analytics
4 28 (23.14%) LLM
5 26 (21.49%) Agile
5 26 (21.49%) Data Pipeline
6 24 (19.83%) CI/CD
7 23 (19.01%) Data Engineering
7 23 (19.01%) Generative AI
7 23 (19.01%) Software Engineering
8 20 (16.53%) Problem-Solving
9 19 (15.70%) Roadmaps
10 17 (14.05%) Mentoring
11 16 (13.22%) Decision-Making
11 16 (13.22%) Fintech
12 15 (12.40%) Use Case
13 14 (11.57%) ETL
13 14 (11.57%) Prompt Engineering
14 13 (10.74%) Collaborative Culture
14 13 (10.74%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 59 (48.76%) Python
2 34 (28.10%) SQL
3 11 (9.09%) Java
4 9 (7.44%) JavaScript
5 6 (4.96%) Scala
6 5 (4.13%) Bash
6 5 (4.13%) TypeScript
7 3 (2.48%) Go
8 2 (1.65%) C#
8 2 (1.65%) R
Qualifications
1 16 (13.22%) Degree
2 9 (7.44%) Security Cleared
3 6 (4.96%) Master's Degree
4 5 (4.13%) DV Cleared
5 4 (3.31%) AWS Certification
5 4 (3.31%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 3 (2.48%) DBS Check
7 2 (1.65%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.83%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.83%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (16.53%) Data Quality
2 5 (4.13%) GDPR
2 5 (4.13%) QA
3 4 (3.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (3.31%) PCI DSS
4 3 (2.48%) SLA
5 2 (1.65%) Accessibility
System Software
1 6 (4.96%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (8.26%) Kubernetes
1 10 (8.26%) Terraform
2 6 (4.96%) Grafana
3 5 (4.13%) Prometheus
4 3 (2.48%) Istio
4 3 (2.48%) linkerd
4 3 (2.48%) Nagios
4 3 (2.48%) Progress Chef
4 3 (2.48%) Puppet
5 1 (0.83%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 13 (10.74%) Databricks
2 9 (7.44%) Microsoft
3 7 (5.79%) Google
4 6 (4.96%) Oracle
5 2 (1.65%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.83%) Apple
6 1 (0.83%) Facebook
6 1 (0.83%) SAP
6 1 (0.83%) SolarWinds
6 1 (0.83%) Sony
6 1 (0.83%) Yahoo!