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 18 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 98 97
Rank change year-on-year +88 -1 -51
Permanent jobs citing Machine Learning 459 53 107
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 11.35% 2.44% 2.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.25% 2.55% 2.77%
Number of salaries quoted 51 39 69
10th Percentile £32,000 £39,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £43,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £80,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.88% +33.33% -0.97%
75th Percentile £82,500 £97,528 £90,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £100,500 £101,250
North West median annual salary £62,500 £77,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -18.83% +40.00% -8.33%

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 3,010 2,081 3,861
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 74.41% 95.85% 88.01%
Number of salaries quoted 1,988 1,257 3,159
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,000 £30,125
25th Percentile £41,000 £41,250 £41,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,840 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £82,500
North West median annual salary £50,000 £54,793 £50,000
% change year-on-year -8.75% +9.59% -9.09%

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 18 March 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 18 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
Stockport - 33 - - 1
Wigan - 14 - - 2
Cheadle - 14 - -
Dukinfield - 13 - -
Ashton-under-Lyne - 13 - -
Bolton - 13 - - 2
Bury - 13 - - 2
Salford - 13 - -
Stalybridge - 13 - -
Oldham +5 12 - - 1
Rochdale - 12 - -
Heywood - 12 - -
Littleborough - 12 - -
Altrincham - 12 - -
Sale - 11 - -
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 7 (1.53%) Jupyter
2 2 (0.44%) Apache Solr
3 1 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.22%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 7 (1.53%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.65%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 414 (90.20%) Cloud Computing
2 17 (3.70%) AWS
3 15 (3.27%) Azure
4 9 (1.96%) Power Platform
5 4 (0.87%) GCP
5 4 (0.87%) Snowflake
6 3 (0.65%) Amazon Bedrock
6 3 (0.65%) Amazon S3
6 3 (0.65%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (0.65%) SaaS
6 3 (0.65%) Serverless
7 2 (0.44%) Amazon EMR
7 2 (0.44%) Amazon SageMaker
8 1 (0.22%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 1 (0.22%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 402 (87.58%) Internet
2 1 (0.22%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (1.31%) SQL Server
2 4 (0.87%) Power BI
3 3 (0.65%) Data Vault
4 2 (0.44%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (0.44%) Apache Iceberg
4 2 (0.44%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (0.44%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.22%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (0.22%) Data Mining
5 1 (0.22%) DocumentDB
5 1 (0.22%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.22%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.22%) MySQL
5 1 (0.22%) Neo4j
5 1 (0.22%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.22%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 6 (1.31%) Git
1 6 (1.31%) Visual Studio Code
2 4 (0.87%) GitLab
General
1 415 (90.41%) Social Skills
2 407 (88.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 405 (88.24%) Banking
4 16 (3.49%) Finance
5 11 (2.40%) Retail
6 9 (1.96%) Manufacturing
7 6 (1.31%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (0.65%) Advertising
8 3 (0.65%) Billing
8 3 (0.65%) French Language
8 3 (0.65%) Games
8 3 (0.65%) Investment Banking
8 3 (0.65%) Italian Language
8 3 (0.65%) Marketing
8 3 (0.65%) Portuguese Language
8 3 (0.65%) Public Sector
8 3 (0.65%) Spanish Language
9 2 (0.44%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.22%) Electronics
10 1 (0.22%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 314 (68.41%) Lecturer
2 7 (1.53%) Data Scientist
2 7 (1.53%) Senior
2 7 (1.53%) Senior Data Scientist
3 6 (1.31%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
3 6 (1.31%) Lead
3 6 (1.31%) Programmer
3 6 (1.31%) Trainee
3 6 (1.31%) Trainee Programmer
4 5 (1.09%) Developer
4 5 (1.09%) Principal Data Scientist
5 4 (0.87%) Consultant
5 4 (0.87%) Operations Engineer
5 4 (0.87%) Python Engineer
5 4 (0.87%) Senior Operations Engineer
5 4 (0.87%) Snowflake Developer
6 3 (0.65%) Data Engineer
6 3 (0.65%) Engineering Manager
6 3 (0.65%) Product Manager
6 3 (0.65%) Recruitment Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (1.74%) Pandas
1 8 (1.74%) scikit-learn
2 7 (1.53%) NumPy
3 6 (1.31%) Hugging Face
3 6 (1.31%) Matplotlib
3 6 (1.31%) Streamlit
4 5 (1.09%) EDI
4 5 (1.09%) PyTorch
4 5 (1.09%) TensorFlow
5 3 (0.65%) .NET
5 3 (0.65%) CSS
5 3 (0.65%) HTML
5 3 (0.65%) PySpark
6 2 (0.44%) A2A Protocol
6 2 (0.44%) REST
7 1 (0.22%) Node.js
7 1 (0.22%) Snowpark
7 1 (0.22%) Spring
7 1 (0.22%) Spring Boot
7 1 (0.22%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 402 (87.58%) IoT
2 11 (2.40%) Cloud Native
3 10 (2.18%) Algorithms
4 9 (1.96%) Product Ownership
5 5 (1.09%) AI Agents
6 4 (0.87%) Low-Code
7 3 (0.65%) Data Centre
7 3 (0.65%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.44%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.22%) Credit Risk
9 1 (0.22%) Distributed Computing
9 1 (0.22%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.22%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.22%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.65%) Android
1 3 (0.65%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.22%) Linux
2 1 (0.22%) Windows
2 1 (0.22%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 446 (97.17%) AI
2 405 (88.24%) Cybersecurity
3 402 (87.58%) User Experience
3 402 (87.58%) Web Development
4 24 (5.23%) Analytics
5 18 (3.92%) Data Science
6 15 (3.27%) Data Privacy
7 14 (3.05%) Visualisation
8 12 (2.61%) Problem-Solving
9 11 (2.40%) Agile
9 11 (2.40%) LLM
9 11 (2.40%) Roadmaps
9 11 (2.40%) Software Engineering
10 10 (2.18%) Data Governance
10 10 (2.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 10 (2.18%) Workflow
11 9 (1.96%) Business Strategy
11 9 (1.96%) CI/CD
11 9 (1.96%) Open Source
11 9 (1.96%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 34 (7.41%) Python
2 12 (2.61%) SQL
3 4 (0.87%) ANSI SQL
3 4 (0.87%) JavaScript
4 2 (0.44%) Java
5 1 (0.22%) Bash
5 1 (0.22%) MATLAB
5 1 (0.22%) PHP
5 1 (0.22%) R
Qualifications
1 407 (88.67%) Degree
2 403 (87.80%) Master's Degree
2 403 (87.80%) PhD
3 402 (87.58%) Postgraduate
4 6 (1.31%) AWS Certification
4 6 (1.31%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 3 (0.65%) DBS Check
6 2 (0.44%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.44%) SC Cleared
6 2 (0.44%) Security Cleared
7 1 (0.22%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (0.65%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (0.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (0.22%) Ansible
Vendors
1 16 (3.49%) Microsoft
2 4 (0.87%) Oracle
3 2 (0.44%) SAP
4 1 (0.22%) Databricks