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

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 89 45 45
Rank change year-on-year -44 0 +27
Permanent jobs citing Machine Learning 123 130 181
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 1.61% 5.48% 4.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.11% 6.15% 5.44%
Number of salaries quoted 81 39 37
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £35,092
25th Percentile £58,750 £52,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.52% +12.50% -7.79%
75th Percentile £100,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £118,750 £83,500 £88,300
North West median annual salary £75,000 £63,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +18.11% +10.43% -11.63%

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 5,834 2,115 3,325
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 76.16% 89.17% 84.22%
Number of salaries quoted 4,375 1,185 1,624
10th Percentile £32,500 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £33,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £85,000 £84,750
North West median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,055
% change year-on-year +10.00% -0.11% -8.99%

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 October 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 6 October 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 - 9 £100,000 - 9
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 (7.32%) Apache
2 7 (5.69%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (4.07%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (2.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.63%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.81%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.81%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
Cloud Services
1 60 (48.78%) AWS
2 38 (30.89%) Azure
3 23 (18.70%) GCP
3 23 (18.70%) SaaS
4 12 (9.76%) GitHub
5 9 (7.32%) Snowflake
6 8 (6.50%) Amazon S3
7 7 (5.69%) dbt
7 7 (5.69%) GitHub Copilot
8 6 (4.88%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (4.88%) Serverless
9 4 (3.25%) Amazon Kinesis
9 4 (3.25%) IaaS
9 4 (3.25%) PaaS
9 4 (3.25%) Power Platform
9 4 (3.25%) Twilio
9 4 (3.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 3 (2.44%) Cloud Functions
10 3 (2.44%) Datadog
10 3 (2.44%) Google Compute Engine
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.63%) BGP
1 2 (1.63%) IPFIX
1 2 (1.63%) OSPF
1 2 (1.63%) SNMP
1 2 (1.63%) TCP/IP
1 2 (1.63%) VLAN
2 1 (0.81%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (11.38%) Data Warehouse
2 8 (6.50%) Big Data
2 8 (6.50%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (5.69%) Amazon Redshift
3 7 (5.69%) DynamoDB
4 5 (4.07%) SQL Server
5 4 (3.25%) Amazon Athena
5 4 (3.25%) Data Mining
5 4 (3.25%) Electronic Patient Records
5 4 (3.25%) MongoDB
5 4 (3.25%) Power BI
6 2 (1.63%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (1.63%) Star Schema
6 2 (1.63%) Tableau
7 1 (0.81%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.81%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.81%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.81%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.81%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.81%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (5.69%) Git
2 4 (3.25%) GitLab
3 3 (2.44%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.63%) Mocha
5 1 (0.81%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.81%) Gemini Tracker
5 1 (0.81%) JIRA
5 1 (0.81%) MLflow
General
1 33 (26.83%) Social Skills
2 27 (21.95%) Finance
3 15 (12.20%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (12.20%) Public Sector
4 9 (7.32%) Law
5 6 (4.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (4.07%) Local Government
6 5 (4.07%) Retail
6 5 (4.07%) Social Housing
7 4 (3.25%) Health Technology
8 3 (2.44%) Games
9 2 (1.63%) Advertising
9 2 (1.63%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.63%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.81%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.81%) Banking
10 1 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.81%) Marketing
10 1 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.81%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 22 (17.89%) Data Engineer
1 22 (17.89%) Senior
2 18 (14.63%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 15 (12.20%) Software Engineer
4 13 (10.57%) Architect
5 12 (9.76%) Data Scientist
6 9 (7.32%) Lead
6 9 (7.32%) Machine Learning Engineer
7 8 (6.50%) Security Engineer
8 7 (5.69%) Senior Data Scientist
9 6 (4.88%) Applications Engineer
10 5 (4.07%) Chief Technology Officer
11 4 (3.25%) Account Manager
11 4 (3.25%) Cloud Architect
11 4 (3.25%) Cloud Engineer
11 4 (3.25%) Graduate
11 4 (3.25%) Healthcare Manager
11 4 (3.25%) Java Architect
11 4 (3.25%) Sales Manager
11 4 (3.25%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (9.76%) Terraform
2 10 (8.13%) JWT
2 10 (8.13%) OAuth
2 10 (8.13%) OpenID
2 10 (8.13%) SAML
3 8 (6.50%) Kafka
3 8 (6.50%) LangChain
4 6 (4.88%) OAuth2
4 6 (4.88%) Pulumi
5 5 (4.07%) React
5 5 (4.07%) RESTful
6 4 (3.25%) LlamaIndex
6 4 (3.25%) Spring
6 4 (3.25%) Spring Boot
7 3 (2.44%) Ajax
7 3 (2.44%) CSS
7 3 (2.44%) CSS3
7 3 (2.44%) HTML
7 3 (2.44%) HTML5
7 3 (2.44%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 18 (14.63%) Cloud Native
2 11 (8.94%) Onboarding
3 10 (8.13%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (6.50%) AI Agents
4 8 (6.50%) Product Ownership
5 6 (4.88%) Life Science
5 6 (4.88%) Management Information System
5 6 (4.88%) Social Media
6 5 (4.07%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (4.07%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (3.25%) BBC
7 4 (3.25%) IVR
7 4 (3.25%) NHS
8 3 (2.44%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.63%) Algorithms
9 2 (1.63%) Cyberattack
9 2 (1.63%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.63%) Private Cloud
9 2 (1.63%) Security Posture
10 1 (0.81%) Culture of Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (85.37%) AI
2 39 (31.71%) Data Science
3 35 (28.46%) Analytics
4 30 (24.39%) Software Engineering
5 29 (23.58%) Agile
5 29 (23.58%) Data Pipeline
6 27 (21.95%) Generative AI
7 26 (21.14%) LLM
8 25 (20.33%) Data Engineering
9 24 (19.51%) CI/CD
9 24 (19.51%) Problem-Solving
10 17 (13.82%) Roadmaps
11 16 (13.01%) ETL
12 15 (12.20%) Decision-Making
12 15 (12.20%) Mentoring
13 14 (11.38%) Data Modelling
14 13 (10.57%) Continuous Improvement
14 13 (10.57%) Customer Engagement
14 13 (10.57%) Data Integration
14 13 (10.57%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 53 (43.09%) Python
2 36 (29.27%) SQL
3 14 (11.38%) Java
4 10 (8.13%) JavaScript
5 7 (5.69%) TypeScript
6 6 (4.88%) Scala
7 4 (3.25%) Bash
7 4 (3.25%) Go
8 2 (1.63%) C#
8 2 (1.63%) R
9 1 (0.81%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.81%) Rust
Qualifications
1 21 (17.07%) Degree
2 13 (10.57%) Security Cleared
3 7 (5.69%) Master's Degree
4 6 (4.88%) DV Cleared
5 5 (4.07%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (3.25%) DBS Check
6 4 (3.25%) SC Cleared
7 2 (1.63%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.81%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (18.70%) Data Quality
2 5 (4.07%) GDPR
2 5 (4.07%) QA
3 4 (3.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (3.25%) PCI DSS
4 3 (2.44%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.63%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (5.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (8.94%) Kubernetes
2 5 (4.07%) Grafana
2 5 (4.07%) Prometheus
3 3 (2.44%) Istio
3 3 (2.44%) linkerd
3 3 (2.44%) Progress Chef
3 3 (2.44%) Puppet
4 2 (1.63%) Nagios
5 1 (0.81%) Ansible
5 1 (0.81%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 15 (12.20%) Databricks
2 8 (6.50%) Google
3 7 (5.69%) Microsoft
4 6 (4.88%) Oracle
5 2 (1.63%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.81%) Apple
6 1 (0.81%) Facebook
6 1 (0.81%) SolarWinds
6 1 (0.81%) Sony
6 1 (0.81%) Yahoo!
6 1 (0.81%) YouTube