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

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 60 70
Rank change year-on-year -21 +10 -16
Permanent jobs citing Machine Learning 109 129 176
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 1.72% 5.20% 3.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.34% 5.59% 3.84%
Number of salaries quoted 92 37 60
10th Percentile £39,125 £40,750 £45,550
25th Percentile £58,594 £52,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +16.67% -
75th Percentile £91,250 £97,528 £77,500
90th Percentile £117,875 - £101,250
North West median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% - -

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 4,653 2,307 4,579
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 73.25% 92.95% 83.10%
Number of salaries quoted 3,689 1,326 3,345
10th Percentile £33,500 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £38,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +1.85% -8.86%
75th Percentile £78,750 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £89,375 £82,500
North West median annual salary £55,000 £50,055 £50,000
% change year-on-year +9.88% +0.11% -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 11 July 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 (5.50%) Jupyter
2 5 (4.59%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.83%) Apache
Applications
1 7 (6.42%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.92%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 51 (46.79%) AWS
2 32 (29.36%) Azure
3 24 (22.02%) SaaS
4 19 (17.43%) GCP
5 10 (9.17%) Amazon S3
6 9 (8.26%) Cloud Computing
7 8 (7.34%) AWS Lambda
7 8 (7.34%) Serverless
8 6 (5.50%) Pulumi
9 5 (4.59%) Power Platform
10 4 (3.67%) Amazon Kinesis
10 4 (3.67%) Amazon SageMaker
10 4 (3.67%) Twilio
11 3 (2.75%) Azure Data Factory
11 3 (2.75%) Datadog
11 3 (2.75%) GitHub
11 3 (2.75%) IaaS
11 3 (2.75%) Microsoft Purview
11 3 (2.75%) PaaS
12 2 (1.83%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.75%) BGP
1 3 (2.75%) OSPF
1 3 (2.75%) TCP/IP
1 3 (2.75%) VLAN
2 2 (1.83%) IPFIX
2 2 (1.83%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (10.09%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (6.42%) Amazon Athena
2 7 (6.42%) Amazon Redshift
2 7 (6.42%) Big Data
3 5 (4.59%) SQL Server
4 4 (3.67%) Data Mining
5 3 (2.75%) Electronic Patient Records
5 3 (2.75%) MongoDB
5 3 (2.75%) Power BI
6 1 (0.92%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.92%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.92%) Data Vault
6 1 (0.92%) Delta Lake
6 1 (0.92%) InfluxDB
6 1 (0.92%) Looker
6 1 (0.92%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (7.34%) Git
2 6 (5.50%) Visual Studio Code
3 2 (1.83%) GitLab
3 2 (1.83%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.92%) Gemini Tracker
4 1 (0.92%) JIRA
4 1 (0.92%) MLflow
4 1 (0.92%) Mocha
General
1 28 (25.69%) Finance
2 17 (15.60%) Social Skills
3 15 (13.76%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (11.93%) Retail
5 12 (11.01%) Public Sector
6 9 (8.26%) Manufacturing
7 8 (7.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (5.50%) Law
9 3 (2.75%) French Language
9 3 (2.75%) Games
9 3 (2.75%) Health Technology
9 3 (2.75%) Italian Language
9 3 (2.75%) Portuguese Language
9 3 (2.75%) Spanish Language
10 2 (1.83%) Advertising
10 2 (1.83%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.83%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.83%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.92%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.92%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (19.27%) Senior
2 17 (15.60%) Data Scientist
3 16 (14.68%) Senior Data Scientist
4 13 (11.93%) Data Engineer
4 13 (11.93%) Lead
5 11 (10.09%) Architect
6 8 (7.34%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 7 (6.42%) Lead Data Scientist
7 7 (6.42%) Security Engineer
8 6 (5.50%) Applications Engineer
8 6 (5.50%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
8 6 (5.50%) Graduate
8 6 (5.50%) Programmer
8 6 (5.50%) Trainee
8 6 (5.50%) Trainee Programmer
9 5 (4.59%) Chief Technology Officer
9 5 (4.59%) Engineering Manager
10 4 (3.67%) Java Architect
10 4 (3.67%) Security Architect
10 4 (3.67%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (10.09%) scikit-learn
2 10 (9.17%) JWT
2 10 (9.17%) NumPy
2 10 (9.17%) OAuth
2 10 (9.17%) OpenID
2 10 (9.17%) Pandas
2 10 (9.17%) SAML
3 8 (7.34%) Kafka
3 8 (7.34%) LangChain
4 6 (5.50%) CSS
4 6 (5.50%) HTML
4 6 (5.50%) Hugging Face
4 6 (5.50%) Matplotlib
4 6 (5.50%) OAuth2
4 6 (5.50%) Streamlit
5 5 (4.59%) Spring
5 5 (4.59%) Spring Boot
6 4 (3.67%) .NET
6 4 (3.67%) React
6 4 (3.67%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 10 (9.17%) Algorithms
1 10 (9.17%) Cloud Native
2 9 (8.26%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (7.34%) AI Agents
4 6 (5.50%) Enterprise Software
4 6 (5.50%) Onboarding
5 5 (4.59%) Life Science
5 5 (4.59%) Product Ownership
6 4 (3.67%) IVR
7 3 (2.75%) Data Centre
7 3 (2.75%) NHS
8 2 (1.83%) Cyberattack
8 2 (1.83%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.83%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.83%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.92%) BBC
9 1 (0.92%) Culture of Ownership
9 1 (0.92%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.92%) Low-Code
9 1 (0.92%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.75%) Android
1 3 (2.75%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (74.31%) AI
2 40 (36.70%) Analytics
3 33 (30.28%) LLM
4 29 (26.61%) Data Science
5 26 (23.85%) CI/CD
6 25 (22.94%) Problem-Solving
7 20 (18.35%) Data Pipeline
8 19 (17.43%) Software Engineering
9 18 (16.51%) Agile
9 18 (16.51%) Mentoring
10 17 (15.60%) Generative AI
10 17 (15.60%) Roadmaps
11 16 (14.68%) Data Engineering
11 16 (14.68%) Data Privacy
11 16 (14.68%) Fintech
12 15 (13.76%) Decision-Making
12 15 (13.76%) Workflow
13 14 (12.84%) Continuous Improvement
13 14 (12.84%) Prompt Engineering
14 13 (11.93%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 58 (53.21%) Python
2 29 (26.61%) SQL
3 11 (10.09%) Java
4 9 (8.26%) JavaScript
5 5 (4.59%) Scala
6 4 (3.67%) Bash
6 4 (3.67%) TypeScript
7 2 (1.83%) Go
8 1 (0.92%) C#
Qualifications
1 11 (10.09%) Degree
2 7 (6.42%) Security Cleared
3 6 (5.50%) AWS Certification
3 6 (5.50%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 6 (5.50%) DBS Check
4 3 (2.75%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.83%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.83%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.92%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (11.01%) Data Quality
2 5 (4.59%) GDPR
3 4 (3.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (3.67%) PCI DSS
4 3 (2.75%) QA
4 3 (2.75%) SLA
5 2 (1.83%) Accessibility
System Software
1 5 (4.59%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (8.26%) Kubernetes
1 9 (8.26%) Terraform
2 5 (4.59%) Grafana
3 4 (3.67%) Prometheus
4 3 (2.75%) Nagios
5 2 (1.83%) Istio
5 2 (1.83%) linkerd
5 2 (1.83%) Progress Chef
5 2 (1.83%) Puppet
6 1 (0.92%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 13 (11.93%) Microsoft
2 6 (5.50%) Databricks
3 4 (3.67%) Google
3 4 (3.67%) Oracle
4 2 (1.83%) OpenAI
5 1 (0.92%) Apple
5 1 (0.92%) Facebook
5 1 (0.92%) SAP
5 1 (0.92%) SolarWinds
5 1 (0.92%) Sony
5 1 (0.92%) Yahoo!