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 5 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 50 46
Rank change year-on-year -33 -4 +43
Permanent jobs citing Machine Learning 117 126 183
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 1.63% 5.23% 4.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.16% 5.84% 5.42%
Number of salaries quoted 87 33 40
10th Percentile £43,250 £43,250 £35,092
25th Percentile £58,750 £52,500 £50,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% +8.33% -7.74%
75th Percentile £95,000 £82,500 £77,813
90th Percentile £119,250 £86,500 £85,825
North West median annual salary £75,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +25.00% - -7.79%

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 5,417 2,159 3,376
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 75.33% 89.70% 81.80%
Number of salaries quoted 4,198 1,248 1,943
10th Percentile £32,500 £28,925 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £34,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,104 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.48% -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £87,500 £83,500
North West median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,803
% change year-on-year +10.00% -1.58% -7.63%

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 5 September 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 5 September 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 - - 5
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 9 (7.69%) Apache
2 7 (5.98%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (4.27%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (2.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.71%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.85%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 59 (50.43%) AWS
2 34 (29.06%) Azure
3 24 (20.51%) SaaS
4 22 (18.80%) GCP
5 12 (10.26%) GitHub
6 10 (8.55%) Amazon S3
7 9 (7.69%) Snowflake
8 8 (6.84%) AWS Lambda
8 8 (6.84%) Serverless
9 7 (5.98%) dbt
9 7 (5.98%) GitHub Copilot
10 4 (3.42%) Amazon Kinesis
10 4 (3.42%) Amazon SageMaker
10 4 (3.42%) IaaS
10 4 (3.42%) PaaS
10 4 (3.42%) Power Platform
10 4 (3.42%) Twilio
11 3 (2.56%) Datadog
11 3 (2.56%) Google Compute Engine
11 3 (2.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.56%) BGP
1 3 (2.56%) OSPF
1 3 (2.56%) TCP/IP
1 3 (2.56%) VLAN
2 2 (1.71%) IPFIX
2 2 (1.71%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
2 8 (6.84%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (5.98%) Amazon Athena
3 7 (5.98%) Amazon Redshift
3 7 (5.98%) Big Data
3 7 (5.98%) DynamoDB
4 5 (4.27%) SQL Server
5 4 (3.42%) Data Mining
5 4 (3.42%) Electronic Patient Records
5 4 (3.42%) MongoDB
5 4 (3.42%) Power BI
6 2 (1.71%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (1.71%) Star Schema
6 2 (1.71%) Tableau
7 1 (0.85%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.85%) Data Vault
7 1 (0.85%) Delta Lake
7 1 (0.85%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.85%) InfluxDB
7 1 (0.85%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (5.98%) Git
2 4 (3.42%) GitLab
3 3 (2.56%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.71%) Mocha
5 1 (0.85%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.85%) Gemini Tracker
5 1 (0.85%) JIRA
5 1 (0.85%) MLflow
General
1 29 (24.79%) Social Skills
2 23 (19.66%) Finance
3 14 (11.97%) Public Sector
4 13 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (8.55%) Law
6 6 (5.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (4.27%) Local Government
7 5 (4.27%) Retail
7 5 (4.27%) Social Housing
8 4 (3.42%) Health Technology
9 3 (2.56%) Games
10 2 (1.71%) Advertising
10 2 (1.71%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.71%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.71%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.85%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.85%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.85%) Marketing
11 1 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 22 (18.80%) Senior
2 17 (14.53%) Data Engineer
2 17 (14.53%) Data Scientist
3 13 (11.11%) Architect
4 12 (10.26%) Lead
4 12 (10.26%) Senior Data Scientist
5 9 (7.69%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 8 (6.84%) Software Engineer
7 7 (5.98%) Lead Data Scientist
7 7 (5.98%) Security Engineer
8 6 (5.13%) Applications Engineer
9 5 (4.27%) Chief Technology Officer
9 5 (4.27%) Engineering Manager
10 4 (3.42%) Account Manager
10 4 (3.42%) Cloud Architect
10 4 (3.42%) Cloud Engineer
10 4 (3.42%) Java Architect
10 4 (3.42%) Sales Account Manager
10 4 (3.42%) Sales Manager
10 4 (3.42%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (9.40%) Terraform
2 10 (8.55%) JWT
2 10 (8.55%) OAuth
2 10 (8.55%) OpenID
2 10 (8.55%) SAML
3 8 (6.84%) Kafka
3 8 (6.84%) LangChain
4 6 (5.13%) OAuth2
4 6 (5.13%) Pulumi
5 5 (4.27%) React
5 5 (4.27%) RESTful
5 5 (4.27%) scikit-learn
6 4 (3.42%) LlamaIndex
6 4 (3.42%) NumPy
6 4 (3.42%) Pandas
6 4 (3.42%) Spring
6 4 (3.42%) Spring Boot
7 3 (2.56%) Ajax
7 3 (2.56%) HTML
7 3 (2.56%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 17 (14.53%) Cloud Native
2 11 (9.40%) Onboarding
3 9 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (6.84%) AI Agents
4 8 (6.84%) Product Ownership
5 6 (5.13%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (5.13%) Life Science
5 6 (5.13%) Social Media
6 5 (4.27%) Management Information System
6 5 (4.27%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (3.42%) IVR
7 4 (3.42%) NHS
8 3 (2.56%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.71%) Cyberattack
9 2 (1.71%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.71%) Private Cloud
10 1 (0.85%) BBC
10 1 (0.85%) Culture of Ownership
10 1 (0.85%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.85%) Freedom of Information
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (80.34%) AI
2 40 (34.19%) Data Science
3 32 (27.35%) Analytics
4 28 (23.93%) Agile
4 28 (23.93%) Data Pipeline
5 25 (21.37%) CI/CD
5 25 (21.37%) Generative AI
6 24 (20.51%) Data Engineering
6 24 (20.51%) LLM
6 24 (20.51%) Software Engineering
7 20 (17.09%) Problem-Solving
8 18 (15.38%) Roadmaps
9 17 (14.53%) Mentoring
10 16 (13.68%) Fintech
11 15 (12.82%) ETL
12 14 (11.97%) Collaborative Culture
12 14 (11.97%) Continuous Improvement
12 14 (11.97%) Data Modelling
12 14 (11.97%) Decision-Making
12 14 (11.97%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 52 (44.44%) Python
2 36 (30.77%) SQL
3 12 (10.26%) Java
4 10 (8.55%) JavaScript
5 6 (5.13%) Scala
5 6 (5.13%) TypeScript
6 4 (3.42%) Bash
7 3 (2.56%) Go
8 2 (1.71%) C#
8 2 (1.71%) R
Qualifications
1 17 (14.53%) Degree
2 12 (10.26%) Security Cleared
3 7 (5.98%) Master's Degree
4 6 (5.13%) DV Cleared
5 3 (2.56%) DBS Check
5 3 (2.56%) SC Cleared
6 2 (1.71%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (17.95%) Data Quality
2 5 (4.27%) GDPR
2 5 (4.27%) QA
3 4 (3.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (3.42%) PCI DSS
4 3 (2.56%) SLA
5 2 (1.71%) Accessibility
System Software
1 7 (5.98%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (9.40%) Kubernetes
2 6 (5.13%) Grafana
3 5 (4.27%) Prometheus
4 3 (2.56%) Istio
4 3 (2.56%) linkerd
4 3 (2.56%) Nagios
4 3 (2.56%) Progress Chef
4 3 (2.56%) Puppet
5 1 (0.85%) Ansible
5 1 (0.85%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 14 (11.97%) Databricks
2 7 (5.98%) Google
3 6 (5.13%) Microsoft
3 6 (5.13%) Oracle
4 2 (1.71%) OpenAI
5 1 (0.85%) Apple
5 1 (0.85%) Facebook
5 1 (0.85%) SolarWinds
5 1 (0.85%) Sony
5 1 (0.85%) Yahoo!