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 6 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 46 58
Rank change year-on-year -13 +12 -1
Permanent jobs citing Machine Learning 82 177 118
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 3.47% 4.85% 4.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.08% 5.69% 5.21%
Number of salaries quoted 44 28 76
10th Percentile £34,775 £42,500 £46,306
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,125 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,250 £70,000 £69,447
Median % change year-on-year -5.36% +0.80% +6.84%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £87,419
90th Percentile £86,000 £95,275 £96,539
North West median annual salary £65,000 £57,530 £69,447
% change year-on-year +12.99% -17.16% +6.84%

All Process and 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 2,010 3,108 2,267
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 84.95% 85.22% 94.62%
Number of salaries quoted 1,277 1,417 1,856
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £55,000 £59,778
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% -7.99% +8.69%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,500 £85,000 £84,056
North West median annual salary £50,000 £52,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% +4.76%

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 6 November 2025.

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 6 November 2025. 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
Dukinfield -1 2 - -
Ashton-under-Lyne -2 2 - - 15
Sale -3 2 - -
Oldham -4 2 - - 2
Stockport -5 2 - - 1
Stalybridge - 2 - -
Altrincham - 2 - - 12
Bury - 2 - - 14
Cheadle - 2 - - 1
Heywood - 2 - -
Bolton +10 1 £55,000 +18.28% 36
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 3 (3.66%) Apache Solr
2 2 (2.44%) SAS
3 1 (1.22%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.22%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 5 (6.10%) Chatbot
2 3 (3.66%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (1.22%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 52 (63.41%) AWS
2 41 (50.00%) Azure
3 37 (45.12%) GCP
4 8 (9.76%) Power Platform
5 7 (8.54%) Amazon Bedrock
6 4 (4.88%) Cloud Computing
6 4 (4.88%) Snowflake
7 3 (3.66%) Amazon S3
7 3 (3.66%) GitHub
7 3 (3.66%) Serverless
8 2 (2.44%) Amazon EMR
8 2 (2.44%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (2.44%) Azure Machine Learning
8 2 (2.44%) Supabase
8 2 (2.44%) Vercel
9 1 (1.22%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (1.22%) Amazon ELB
9 1 (1.22%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 1 (1.22%) dbt
9 1 (1.22%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (9.76%) Power BI
2 6 (7.32%) SQL Server
3 4 (4.88%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (4.88%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (3.66%) Data Vault
4 3 (3.66%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (2.44%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (2.44%) Apache Iceberg
5 2 (2.44%) MongoDB
5 2 (2.44%) MySQL
6 1 (1.22%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (1.22%) Big Data
6 1 (1.22%) Data Mining
6 1 (1.22%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.22%) Neo4j
6 1 (1.22%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.22%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.22%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (1.22%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (1.22%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (4.88%) Git
1 4 (4.88%) GitLab
2 3 (3.66%) MLflow
3 2 (2.44%) ER Studio
4 1 (1.22%) RStudio
General
1 30 (36.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 17 (20.73%) Social Skills
3 13 (15.85%) Finance
4 9 (10.98%) Public Sector
5 5 (6.10%) Marketing
6 4 (4.88%) Advertising
7 3 (3.66%) Banking
7 3 (3.66%) Billing
7 3 (3.66%) Games
7 3 (3.66%) Investment Banking
8 2 (2.44%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (1.22%) Electronics
9 1 (1.22%) Law
9 1 (1.22%) Legal
9 1 (1.22%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.22%) Retail
9 1 (1.22%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 32 (39.02%) Senior
2 30 (36.59%) Software Engineer
3 29 (35.37%) Senior Software Engineer
4 11 (13.41%) Developer
5 6 (7.32%) Architect
5 6 (7.32%) AWS Architect
5 6 (7.32%) AWS Solution Architect
5 6 (7.32%) Data Scientist
5 6 (7.32%) Solutions Architect
6 5 (6.10%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 4 (4.88%) Automation Engineer
7 4 (4.88%) Data Engineer
7 4 (4.88%) Snowflake Developer
8 3 (3.66%) Consultant
8 3 (3.66%) Full-Stack Developer
8 3 (3.66%) Machine Learning Engineer
9 2 (2.44%) AWS Engineer
9 2 (2.44%) Recruitment Consultant
9 2 (2.44%) SAS Modeller
9 2 (2.44%) Statistical Modeller
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (42.68%) Node.js
2 30 (36.59%) .NET
3 7 (8.54%) TensorFlow
4 6 (7.32%) scikit-learn
5 5 (6.10%) PySpark
5 5 (6.10%) PyTorch
5 5 (6.10%) React
6 4 (4.88%) CSS
6 4 (4.88%) Tailwind CSS
7 3 (3.66%) Pandas
7 3 (3.66%) REST
8 2 (2.44%) CSS3
8 2 (2.44%) Express.js
8 2 (2.44%) HTML
8 2 (2.44%) HTML5
8 2 (2.44%) Next.js
8 2 (2.44%) pytest
8 2 (2.44%) RESTful
8 2 (2.44%) Snowpark
8 2 (2.44%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 30 (36.59%) Linux Command Line
1 30 (36.59%) Self-Motivation
2 29 (35.37%) Cyberattack
3 11 (13.41%) Cloud Native
4 10 (12.20%) AI Agents
5 4 (4.88%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.44%) Algorithms
6 2 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.22%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (1.22%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (1.22%) Driving Licence
7 1 (1.22%) Low-Code
7 1 (1.22%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.22%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.22%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (1.22%) Smart Energy
7 1 (1.22%) Smart Meter
7 1 (1.22%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 31 (37.80%) Linux
2 3 (3.66%) Windows
3 2 (2.44%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.22%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (47.56%) Agile
2 38 (46.34%) AI
2 38 (46.34%) Software Engineering
3 37 (45.12%) User Experience
4 34 (41.46%) Mentoring
5 31 (37.80%) Data Engineering
6 30 (36.59%) Microservices
6 30 (36.59%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 29 (35.37%) Cloud Security
7 29 (35.37%) Scrum
8 20 (24.39%) Analytics
9 19 (23.17%) Data Science
10 11 (13.41%) Business Intelligence
10 11 (13.41%) Problem-Solving
11 8 (9.76%) Data Pipeline
11 8 (9.76%) Statistics
12 7 (8.54%) Data Modelling
12 7 (8.54%) Predictive Analytics
13 6 (7.32%) CI/CD
13 6 (7.32%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 58 (70.73%) Python
2 33 (40.24%) JavaScript
3 31 (37.80%) Java
4 30 (36.59%) C++
4 30 (36.59%) Go
5 29 (35.37%) Rust
6 18 (21.95%) SQL
7 4 (4.88%) ANSI SQL
8 3 (3.66%) R
9 2 (2.44%) PHP
10 1 (1.22%) C#
10 1 (1.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (1.22%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 31 (37.80%) Security Cleared
2 30 (36.59%) DV Cleared
3 29 (35.37%) AWS Certification
3 29 (35.37%) AWS Certified Developer
3 29 (35.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 4 (4.88%) Degree
5 3 (3.66%) Master's Degree
6 2 (2.44%) PhD
6 2 (2.44%) Postgraduate
6 2 (2.44%) SC Cleared
7 1 (1.22%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.22%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.54%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.44%) GDPR
3 1 (1.22%) Accessibility
System Software
1 6 (7.32%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (6.10%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.44%) Ansible
2 2 (2.44%) Terraform
3 1 (1.22%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 4 (4.88%) Genesys
1 4 (4.88%) Microsoft
1 4 (4.88%) Oracle
1 4 (4.88%) ServiceNow
2 3 (3.66%) Databricks
2 3 (3.66%) Google
3 1 (1.22%) Cognos
3 1 (1.22%) OpenAI
3 1 (1.22%) SAP