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 19 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 100 82
Rank change year-on-year +92 -18 -35
Permanent jobs citing Machine Learning 456 50 103
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 12.90% 2.01% 2.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.98% 2.11% 3.18%
Number of salaries quoted 48 33 66
10th Percentile £32,000 £42,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,418 £85,253 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.96% +42.09% -
75th Percentile £82,500 £97,528 £85,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £100,000 £100,064
North West median annual salary £61,418 £85,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -27.74% +54.55% -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 2,686 2,366 3,240
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 75.96% 95.06% 89.31%
Number of salaries quoted 1,701 1,181 2,681
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,500 £29,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.35%
75th Percentile £72,500 £74,144 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £82,500
North West median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -8.90%

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 19 February 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 19 February 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 - -
Wigan - 14 - - 3
Bolton - 14 £55,000 - 1
Cheadle - 14 - -
Dukinfield - 13 - -
Bury - 13 - - 1
Ashton-under-Lyne - 13 - -
Salford - 13 - - 4
Stalybridge - 13 - -
Oldham +5 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 6 (1.32%) 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
Cloud Services
1 413 (90.57%) Cloud Computing
2 20 (4.39%) AWS
3 16 (3.51%) Azure
4 9 (1.97%) Power Platform
5 6 (1.32%) Amazon Bedrock
6 4 (0.88%) GCP
6 4 (0.88%) Snowflake
7 3 (0.66%) SaaS
8 2 (0.44%) Amazon EMR
8 2 (0.44%) Amazon S3
8 2 (0.44%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (0.44%) Serverless
9 1 (0.22%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 1 (0.22%) Amazon SageMaker
9 1 (0.22%) dbt
9 1 (0.22%) Microsoft 365
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
3 3 (0.66%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (0.66%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (0.44%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (0.44%) Apache Iceberg
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
2 5 (1.10%) Visual Studio Code
3 4 (0.88%) GitLab
General
1 415 (91.01%) Social Skills
2 407 (89.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 405 (88.82%) Banking
4 13 (2.85%) Finance
5 10 (2.19%) Retail
6 6 (1.32%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (1.32%) Manufacturing
6 6 (1.32%) Public Sector
7 4 (0.88%) Marketing
8 3 (0.66%) Advertising
8 3 (0.66%) Billing
8 3 (0.66%) French Language
8 3 (0.66%) Games
8 3 (0.66%) Investment Banking
8 3 (0.66%) Italian Language
8 3 (0.66%) Portuguese Language
8 3 (0.66%) Spanish Language
9 1 (0.22%) Electronics
9 1 (0.22%) Law
9 1 (0.22%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 314 (68.86%) Lecturer
2 8 (1.75%) Data Scientist
3 5 (1.10%) Architect
3 5 (1.10%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
3 5 (1.10%) AWS Architect
3 5 (1.10%) AWS Solution Architect
3 5 (1.10%) Developer
3 5 (1.10%) Lead
3 5 (1.10%) Principal Data Scientist
3 5 (1.10%) Programmer
3 5 (1.10%) Senior Data Scientist
3 5 (1.10%) Solutions Architect
3 5 (1.10%) Trainee
3 5 (1.10%) Trainee Programmer
4 4 (0.88%) Consultant
4 4 (0.88%) Data Engineer
4 4 (0.88%) Senior
4 4 (0.88%) Snowflake Developer
5 3 (0.66%) Graduate
5 3 (0.66%) Recruitment Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.32%) Pandas
1 6 (1.32%) scikit-learn
2 5 (1.10%) A2A Protocol
2 5 (1.10%) EDI
2 5 (1.10%) Hugging Face
2 5 (1.10%) Matplotlib
2 5 (1.10%) NumPy
2 5 (1.10%) PySpark
2 5 (1.10%) PyTorch
2 5 (1.10%) Streamlit
2 5 (1.10%) TensorFlow
3 3 (0.66%) .NET
3 3 (0.66%) CSS
3 3 (0.66%) HTML
4 2 (0.44%) REST
5 1 (0.22%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.22%) Node.js
5 1 (0.22%) React
5 1 (0.22%) Snowpark
5 1 (0.22%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 402 (88.16%) IoT
2 14 (3.07%) Cloud Native
3 8 (1.75%) AI Agents
3 8 (1.75%) Algorithms
3 8 (1.75%) Product Ownership
4 5 (1.10%) Low-Code
5 3 (0.66%) Data Centre
5 3 (0.66%) Onboarding
6 2 (0.44%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.22%) Credit Risk
7 1 (0.22%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (0.22%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (0.22%) Market Risk
7 1 (0.22%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (0.22%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.22%) Smart Energy
7 1 (0.22%) Smart Meter
7 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
2 406 (89.04%) Cybersecurity
3 403 (88.38%) User Experience
4 402 (88.16%) Web Development
5 23 (5.04%) Analytics
6 17 (3.73%) Data Science
7 14 (3.07%) Data Privacy
7 14 (3.07%) Problem-Solving
8 13 (2.85%) Visualisation
9 11 (2.41%) LLM
10 10 (2.19%) Agile
10 10 (2.19%) Data Governance
10 10 (2.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 10 (2.19%) Workflow
11 9 (1.97%) Business Strategy
11 9 (1.97%) Data Pipeline
11 9 (1.97%) Open Source
11 9 (1.97%) Roadmaps
11 9 (1.97%) Software Engineering
12 8 (1.75%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 32 (7.02%) Python
2 15 (3.29%) SQL
3 4 (0.88%) ANSI SQL
3 4 (0.88%) JavaScript
4 2 (0.44%) Java
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 5 (1.10%) AWS Certification
4 5 (1.10%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 4 (0.88%) DBS Check
6 3 (0.66%) SC Cleared
6 3 (0.66%) Security Cleared
7 2 (0.44%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.22%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (1.10%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (0.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (0.22%) Ansible
Vendors
1 15 (3.29%) Microsoft
2 4 (0.88%) Oracle
3 1 (0.22%) Cognos
3 1 (0.22%) Databricks
3 1 (0.22%) Genesys
3 1 (0.22%) SAP
3 1 (0.22%) ServiceNow