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

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 97 97
Rank change year-on-year +87 0 -54
Permanent jobs citing Machine Learning 456 53 108
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 11.77% 2.36% 2.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.79% 2.46% 2.86%
Number of salaries quoted 48 39 70
10th Percentile £32,000 £39,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,063 £43,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,418 £80,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.23% +33.33% -
75th Percentile £81,563 £97,528 £90,000
90th Percentile £123,250 £100,000 £101,250
North West median annual salary £61,418 £77,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -20.24% +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 2,887 2,152 3,780
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 74.50% 95.86% 88.36%
Number of salaries quoted 1,888 1,230 3,125
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,625 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £73,750 £75,704 £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 9 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 9 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
Bolton - 14 £55,000 - 5
Cheadle - 14 - -
Dukinfield - 13 - -
Bury - 13 - -
Ashton-under-Lyne - 13 - -
Salford - 13 - - 1
Stalybridge - 13 - -
Oldham +4 12 - - 1
Rochdale - 12 - -
Altrincham - 12 - -
Heywood - 12 - -
Littleborough - 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 (1.54%) Jupyter
2 2 (0.44%) Apache Solr
3 1 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.22%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 7 (1.54%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.66%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 414 (90.79%) Cloud Computing
2 17 (3.73%) AWS
3 16 (3.51%) Azure
4 10 (2.19%) Power Platform
5 4 (0.88%) Amazon Bedrock
5 4 (0.88%) GCP
5 4 (0.88%) Snowflake
6 3 (0.66%) SaaS
7 2 (0.44%) Amazon EMR
7 2 (0.44%) Amazon S3
7 2 (0.44%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (0.44%) Serverless
8 1 (0.22%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 1 (0.22%) Amazon SageMaker
8 1 (0.22%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 402 (88.16%) Internet
2 1 (0.22%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (1.32%) SQL Server
2 5 (1.10%) Power BI
3 3 (0.66%) 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%) 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%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.22%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 6 (1.32%) Git
1 6 (1.32%) Visual Studio Code
2 4 (0.88%) GitLab
General
1 415 (91.01%) Social Skills
2 407 (89.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 405 (88.82%) Banking
4 14 (3.07%) Finance
5 11 (2.41%) Retail
6 9 (1.97%) Manufacturing
7 5 (1.10%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (0.88%) Public Sector
9 3 (0.66%) Advertising
9 3 (0.66%) Billing
9 3 (0.66%) French Language
9 3 (0.66%) Games
9 3 (0.66%) Investment Banking
9 3 (0.66%) Italian Language
9 3 (0.66%) Marketing
9 3 (0.66%) Portuguese Language
9 3 (0.66%) Spanish Language
10 1 (0.22%) Electronics
10 1 (0.22%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.22%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 314 (68.86%) Lecturer
2 7 (1.54%) Senior
3 6 (1.32%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
3 6 (1.32%) Data Scientist
3 6 (1.32%) Programmer
3 6 (1.32%) Trainee
3 6 (1.32%) Trainee Programmer
4 5 (1.10%) Developer
4 5 (1.10%) Principal Data Scientist
4 5 (1.10%) Senior Data Scientist
5 4 (0.88%) Consultant
5 4 (0.88%) Lead
5 4 (0.88%) Operations Engineer
5 4 (0.88%) Python Engineer
5 4 (0.88%) Senior Operations Engineer
5 4 (0.88%) Snowflake Developer
6 3 (0.66%) AWS Architect
6 3 (0.66%) Product Manager
6 3 (0.66%) Recruitment Consultant
6 3 (0.66%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (1.54%) Pandas
1 7 (1.54%) scikit-learn
2 6 (1.32%) Hugging Face
2 6 (1.32%) Matplotlib
2 6 (1.32%) NumPy
2 6 (1.32%) Streamlit
3 5 (1.10%) EDI
3 5 (1.10%) PyTorch
3 5 (1.10%) TensorFlow
4 3 (0.66%) .NET
4 3 (0.66%) A2A Protocol
4 3 (0.66%) CSS
4 3 (0.66%) HTML
4 3 (0.66%) PySpark
5 2 (0.44%) REST
6 1 (0.22%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.22%) React
6 1 (0.22%) Spring
6 1 (0.22%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.22%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 402 (88.16%) IoT
2 12 (2.63%) Cloud Native
3 10 (2.19%) Algorithms
4 9 (1.97%) Product Ownership
5 6 (1.32%) AI Agents
6 4 (0.88%) Low-Code
7 3 (0.66%) Data Centre
7 3 (0.66%) 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
9 1 (0.22%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.66%) Android
1 3 (0.66%) Apple iOS
2 2 (0.44%) Windows
3 1 (0.22%) Linux
3 1 (0.22%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 445 (97.59%) AI
2 405 (88.82%) Cybersecurity
3 402 (88.16%) User Experience
3 402 (88.16%) Web Development
4 25 (5.48%) Analytics
5 17 (3.73%) Data Science
6 15 (3.29%) Data Privacy
7 14 (3.07%) Visualisation
8 13 (2.85%) Problem-Solving
9 12 (2.63%) LLM
10 11 (2.41%) Agile
10 11 (2.41%) Roadmaps
11 10 (2.19%) Data Governance
11 10 (2.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 10 (2.19%) Workflow
12 9 (1.97%) Business Strategy
12 9 (1.97%) Generative AI
12 9 (1.97%) Open Source
12 9 (1.97%) Software Engineering
13 8 (1.75%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 34 (7.46%) Python
2 12 (2.63%) SQL
3 4 (0.88%) ANSI SQL
3 4 (0.88%) 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 (89.25%) Degree
2 403 (88.38%) Master's Degree
2 403 (88.38%) PhD
3 402 (88.16%) Postgraduate
4 6 (1.32%) AWS Certification
4 6 (1.32%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 4 (0.88%) 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 (0.66%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (0.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (0.22%) Ansible
Vendors
1 16 (3.51%) Microsoft
2 4 (0.88%) Oracle
3 2 (0.44%) SAP
4 1 (0.22%) Cognos
4 1 (0.22%) Databricks