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 16 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 47 67
Rank change year-on-year +10 +20 +25
Permanent jobs citing Machine Learning 133 173 98
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 5.81% 4.51% 3.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.56% 5.31% 4.01%
Number of salaries quoted 42 27 79
10th Percentile £42,875 £44,000 £42,488
25th Percentile £51,375 £50,625 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,250 £70,000 £65,066
Median % change year-on-year -5.36% +7.58% +0.10%
75th Percentile £82,500 £84,375 £85,625
90th Percentile - £93,250 £96,539
North West median annual salary £64,250 £57,560 £65,066
% change year-on-year +11.62% -11.54% +0.10%

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 2,027 3,258 2,443
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 88.52% 84.91% 94.80%
Number of salaries quoted 1,192 1,528 1,997
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £35,150
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,000 £43,800
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £69,850 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £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 16 October 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 16 October 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
Stockport +1 6 - - 2
Oldham -6 6 - -
Heywood - 6 - -
Altrincham - 6 - - 2
Cheadle - 6 - - 1
Dukinfield -3 5 - -
Ashton-under-Lyne -3 5 - - 2
Sale -3 5 - -
Stalybridge - 5 - -
Bury - 5 - - 2
Bolton +6 1 £55,000 +18.28% 12
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 2 (1.50%) Apache Solr
1 2 (1.50%) SAS
2 1 (0.75%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.75%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 4 (3.01%) Chatbot
2 2 (1.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.50%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 104 (78.20%) AWS
2 93 (69.92%) Azure
3 89 (66.92%) GCP
4 11 (8.27%) Power Platform
5 6 (4.51%) Amazon Bedrock
6 5 (3.76%) Snowflake
7 4 (3.01%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (2.26%) Amazon S3
8 3 (2.26%) GitHub
8 3 (2.26%) Serverless
9 2 (1.50%) Amazon EMR
9 2 (1.50%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (1.50%) Azure Machine Learning
9 2 (1.50%) Supabase
9 2 (1.50%) Vercel
10 1 (0.75%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (0.75%) Amazon ELB
10 1 (0.75%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 1 (0.75%) GitHub Copilot
10 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (8.27%) Power BI
2 6 (4.51%) SQL Server
3 4 (3.01%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (2.26%) Data Vault
4 3 (2.26%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (2.26%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (2.26%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 2 (1.50%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (1.50%) Apache Iceberg
5 2 (1.50%) MySQL
5 2 (1.50%) Tableau
6 1 (0.75%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.75%) Big Data
6 1 (0.75%) Data Mining
6 1 (0.75%) Delta Lake
6 1 (0.75%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.75%) Metadata
6 1 (0.75%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.75%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.75%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 4 (3.01%) Git
1 4 (3.01%) GitLab
2 3 (2.26%) MLflow
3 2 (1.50%) ER Studio
4 1 (0.75%) RStudio
General
1 83 (62.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 16 (12.03%) Social Skills
3 14 (10.53%) Finance
4 9 (6.77%) Public Sector
5 5 (3.76%) Marketing
6 4 (3.01%) Advertising
7 3 (2.26%) Banking
7 3 (2.26%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.50%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.50%) Billing
8 2 (1.50%) Games
8 2 (1.50%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.50%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.75%) Electronics
9 1 (0.75%) Law
9 1 (0.75%) Legal
9 1 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.75%) Retail
Job Titles
1 86 (64.66%) Senior
2 83 (62.41%) Software Engineer
3 82 (61.65%) Senior Software Engineer
4 12 (9.02%) Developer
5 6 (4.51%) Architect
5 6 (4.51%) AWS Architect
5 6 (4.51%) AWS Solution Architect
5 6 (4.51%) Data Scientist
5 6 (4.51%) Solutions Architect
6 5 (3.76%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 4 (3.01%) Automation Engineer
7 4 (3.01%) Snowflake Developer
8 3 (2.26%) Analyst
8 3 (2.26%) Data Engineer
8 3 (2.26%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 3 (2.26%) Full-Stack Developer
8 3 (2.26%) Machine Learning Engineer
9 2 (1.50%) Data Modeller
9 2 (1.50%) SAS Modeller
9 2 (1.50%) Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (66.17%) Node.js
2 83 (62.41%) .NET
3 7 (5.26%) TensorFlow
4 6 (4.51%) React
4 6 (4.51%) scikit-learn
5 5 (3.76%) CSS
5 5 (3.76%) PySpark
5 5 (3.76%) PyTorch
6 4 (3.01%) Tailwind CSS
7 3 (2.26%) Pandas
7 3 (2.26%) REST
7 3 (2.26%) RESTful
8 2 (1.50%) CSS3
8 2 (1.50%) Express.js
8 2 (1.50%) HTML
8 2 (1.50%) HTML5
8 2 (1.50%) Next.js
8 2 (1.50%) pytest
8 2 (1.50%) WebSockets
8 2 (1.50%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 83 (62.41%) Linux Command Line
1 83 (62.41%) Self-Motivation
2 82 (61.65%) Cyberattack
3 10 (7.52%) AI Agents
4 9 (6.77%) Cloud Native
5 4 (3.01%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.50%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.50%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.75%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (0.75%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (0.75%) Driving Licence
7 1 (0.75%) IoT
7 1 (0.75%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.75%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.75%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.75%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (0.75%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (0.75%) Smart Energy
7 1 (0.75%) Smart Meter
7 1 (0.75%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 84 (63.16%) Linux
2 3 (2.26%) Windows
3 2 (1.50%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.75%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (69.92%) Agile
2 91 (68.42%) User Experience
3 89 (66.92%) Software Engineering
4 87 (65.41%) Mentoring
5 83 (62.41%) Data Engineering
5 83 (62.41%) Microservices
6 82 (61.65%) Cloud Security
6 82 (61.65%) Scrum
6 82 (61.65%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 34 (25.56%) AI
8 22 (16.54%) Analytics
9 18 (13.53%) Data Science
10 14 (10.53%) Business Intelligence
11 11 (8.27%) Problem-Solving
12 9 (6.77%) Data Modelling
13 8 (6.02%) Predictive Analytics
13 8 (6.02%) Statistics
14 7 (5.26%) Data Pipeline
15 5 (3.76%) CI/CD
15 5 (3.76%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 114 (85.71%) Python
2 86 (64.66%) JavaScript
3 84 (63.16%) Java
4 83 (62.41%) C++
4 83 (62.41%) Go
5 82 (61.65%) Rust
6 21 (15.79%) SQL
7 4 (3.01%) ANSI SQL
8 3 (2.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 3 (2.26%) R
8 3 (2.26%) T-SQL
9 2 (1.50%) PHP
10 1 (0.75%) C#
10 1 (0.75%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 84 (63.16%) Security Cleared
2 83 (62.41%) DV Cleared
3 82 (61.65%) AWS Certification
3 82 (61.65%) AWS Certified Developer
3 82 (61.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 4 (3.01%) Degree
5 3 (2.26%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.50%) PhD
6 2 (1.50%) Postgraduate
6 2 (1.50%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.75%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.75%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.26%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.50%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.50%) GDPR
System Software
1 7 (5.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (3.76%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.50%) Ansible
2 2 (1.50%) Terraform
3 1 (0.75%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 5 (3.76%) Databricks
2 4 (3.01%) Genesys
2 4 (3.01%) Microsoft
2 4 (3.01%) Oracle
2 4 (3.01%) ServiceNow
3 3 (2.26%) Google
4 1 (0.75%) Cognos
4 1 (0.75%) OpenAI
4 1 (0.75%) SAP