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 29 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 59 79
Rank change year-on-year -20 +20 -16
Permanent jobs citing Machine Learning 104 126 179
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 1.66% 5.38% 3.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.28% 5.70% 3.73%
Number of salaries quoted 91 36 64
10th Percentile £38,750 £40,625 £43,750
25th Percentile £57,813 £54,375 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% +16.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £88,750 £94,715 £76,563
90th Percentile £110,000 £97,528 £101,250
North West median annual salary £67,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +12.50% +4.35% +4.55%

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 4,556 2,209 4,797
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 72.73% 94.28% 83.22%
Number of salaries quoted 3,612 1,269 3,556
10th Percentile £32,775 £29,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +4.76% -9.48%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,886 £68,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,164 £81,250
North West median annual salary £55,000 £51,564 £50,000
% change year-on-year +6.66% +3.13% -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 29 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Machine Learning in Manchester

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 6 (5.77%) Jupyter
2 5 (4.81%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.92%) Apache
Applications
1 7 (6.73%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.96%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 47 (45.19%) AWS
2 34 (32.69%) Azure
3 21 (20.19%) SaaS
4 19 (18.27%) GCP
5 10 (9.62%) Amazon S3
6 9 (8.65%) Cloud Computing
7 8 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
7 8 (7.69%) Serverless
8 6 (5.77%) Power Platform
8 6 (5.77%) Pulumi
9 4 (3.85%) Amazon Kinesis
9 4 (3.85%) Amazon SageMaker
10 3 (2.88%) Azure Data Factory
10 3 (2.88%) Datadog
10 3 (2.88%) GitHub
10 3 (2.88%) Microsoft Purview
10 3 (2.88%) Twilio
11 2 (1.92%) Azure AI
11 2 (1.92%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (1.92%) Cloud Functions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.88%) BGP
1 3 (2.88%) OSPF
1 3 (2.88%) TCP/IP
1 3 (2.88%) VLAN
2 2 (1.92%) IPFIX
2 2 (1.92%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (10.58%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (6.73%) Amazon Athena
2 7 (6.73%) Amazon Redshift
2 7 (6.73%) Big Data
3 5 (4.81%) SQL Server
4 3 (2.88%) Data Mining
4 3 (2.88%) MongoDB
4 3 (2.88%) Power BI
5 1 (0.96%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.96%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.96%) Data Vault
5 1 (0.96%) Delta Lake
5 1 (0.96%) Electronic Patient Records
5 1 (0.96%) InfluxDB
5 1 (0.96%) Looker
5 1 (0.96%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (8.65%) Git
2 6 (5.77%) Visual Studio Code
3 2 (1.92%) GitLab
3 2 (1.92%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.96%) Gemini Tracker
4 1 (0.96%) JIRA
4 1 (0.96%) MLflow
4 1 (0.96%) Mocha
General
1 26 (25.00%) Finance
2 15 (14.42%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (13.46%) Retail
4 13 (12.50%) Social Skills
5 9 (8.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 9 (8.65%) Manufacturing
5 9 (8.65%) Public Sector
6 6 (5.77%) Law
7 3 (2.88%) French Language
7 3 (2.88%) Games
7 3 (2.88%) Italian Language
7 3 (2.88%) Portuguese Language
7 3 (2.88%) Spanish Language
8 2 (1.92%) Advertising
8 2 (1.92%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.92%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.92%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.96%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.96%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.96%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (17.31%) Senior
2 17 (16.35%) Data Scientist
2 17 (16.35%) Senior Data Scientist
3 14 (13.46%) Lead
4 13 (12.50%) Data Engineer
5 11 (10.58%) Architect
6 8 (7.69%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 7 (6.73%) Lead Data Scientist
7 7 (6.73%) Security Engineer
8 6 (5.77%) Applications Engineer
8 6 (5.77%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
8 6 (5.77%) Graduate
8 6 (5.77%) Programmer
8 6 (5.77%) Trainee
8 6 (5.77%) Trainee Programmer
9 5 (4.81%) Engineering Manager
9 5 (4.81%) Principal Data Scientist
10 4 (3.85%) Cloud Security Architect
10 4 (3.85%) Cloud Security Engineer
10 4 (3.85%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (10.58%) scikit-learn
2 10 (9.62%) JWT
2 10 (9.62%) NumPy
2 10 (9.62%) OAuth
2 10 (9.62%) OpenID
2 10 (9.62%) Pandas
2 10 (9.62%) SAML
3 8 (7.69%) Kafka
3 8 (7.69%) LangChain
4 6 (5.77%) CSS
4 6 (5.77%) HTML
4 6 (5.77%) Hugging Face
4 6 (5.77%) Matplotlib
4 6 (5.77%) OAuth2
4 6 (5.77%) Streamlit
5 5 (4.81%) EDI
5 5 (4.81%) Spring
5 5 (4.81%) Spring Boot
6 4 (3.85%) .NET
6 4 (3.85%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 10 (9.62%) Algorithms
2 9 (8.65%) Cloud Native
2 9 (8.65%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (7.69%) AI Agents
4 6 (5.77%) Product Ownership
5 5 (4.81%) Life Science
6 4 (3.85%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (3.85%) Onboarding
7 3 (2.88%) Data Centre
7 3 (2.88%) IVR
8 2 (1.92%) Cyberattack
8 2 (1.92%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.92%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.92%) Low-Code
8 2 (1.92%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.96%) BBC
9 1 (0.96%) Culture of Ownership
9 1 (0.96%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.96%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.96%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.88%) Android
1 3 (2.88%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (73.08%) AI
2 40 (38.46%) Analytics
3 32 (30.77%) LLM
4 29 (27.88%) Data Science
5 26 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
6 24 (23.08%) CI/CD
7 20 (19.23%) Data Pipeline
8 18 (17.31%) Agile
8 18 (17.31%) Software Engineering
9 17 (16.35%) Data Privacy
9 17 (16.35%) Mentoring
10 16 (15.38%) Data Engineering
10 16 (15.38%) Fintech
11 15 (14.42%) Decision-Making
11 15 (14.42%) Generative AI
11 15 (14.42%) Roadmaps
11 15 (14.42%) Workflow
12 14 (13.46%) Continuous Improvement
12 14 (13.46%) Prompt Engineering
12 14 (13.46%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 57 (54.81%) Python
2 29 (27.88%) SQL
3 9 (8.65%) JavaScript
4 8 (7.69%) Java
5 4 (3.85%) Bash
5 4 (3.85%) Scala
6 3 (2.88%) TypeScript
7 2 (1.92%) Go
8 1 (0.96%) C#
Qualifications
1 9 (8.65%) Degree
2 6 (5.77%) AWS Certification
2 6 (5.77%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 6 (5.77%) DBS Check
2 6 (5.77%) Security Cleared
3 2 (1.92%) DV Cleared
3 2 (1.92%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.96%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (11.54%) Data Quality
2 4 (3.85%) GDPR
3 3 (2.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (2.88%) PCI DSS
3 3 (2.88%) QA
3 3 (2.88%) SLA
4 2 (1.92%) Accessibility
System Software
1 5 (4.81%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (8.65%) Kubernetes
1 9 (8.65%) Terraform
2 5 (4.81%) Grafana
3 4 (3.85%) Prometheus
4 3 (2.88%) Nagios
5 2 (1.92%) Istio
5 2 (1.92%) linkerd
5 2 (1.92%) Progress Chef
5 2 (1.92%) Puppet
6 1 (0.96%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 15 (14.42%) Microsoft
2 6 (5.77%) Databricks
3 4 (3.85%) Google
3 4 (3.85%) Oracle
4 2 (1.92%) OpenAI
5 1 (0.96%) Apple
5 1 (0.96%) Facebook
5 1 (0.96%) SAP
5 1 (0.96%) SolarWinds
5 1 (0.96%) Sony
5 1 (0.96%) Yahoo!