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

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 86 54
Rank change year-on-year +77 -32 +11
Permanent jobs citing Machine Learning 450 74 112
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 16.16% 2.73% 4.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 20.06% 2.93% 5.18%
Number of salaries quoted 42 27 70
10th Percentile £32,000 £42,500 £42,297
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £82,500 £65,066
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +26.80% +0.10%
75th Percentile £82,500 £93,250 £85,938
90th Percentile £122,500 £101,000 £100,064
North West median annual salary £67,500 £77,000 £60,249
% change year-on-year -12.34% +27.80% -4.12%

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 2,243 2,529 2,161
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 80.57% 93.42% 92.11%
Number of salaries quoted 1,321 1,178 1,722
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £33,772
25th Percentile £35,500 £40,000 £43,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £72,433
90th Percentile £87,500 £86,250 £84,964
North West median annual salary £50,000 £52,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% -3.70% -1.82%

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 4 January 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 4 January 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 - - 14
Wigan - 14 - - 2
Bolton - 14 £55,000 - 15
Cheadle - 14 - -
Dukinfield - 13 - -
Bury - 13 - - 3
Ashton-under-Lyne - 13 - -
Salford - 13 - -
Stalybridge - 13 - -
Oldham +6 12 - -
Rochdale - 12 - -
Altrincham - 12 - - 2
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 3 (0.67%) Apache Solr
2 1 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.22%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.22%) Jupyter
Applications
1 5 (1.11%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.67%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 407 (90.44%) Cloud Computing
2 18 (4.00%) AWS
3 11 (2.44%) Azure
4 10 (2.22%) Power Platform
5 7 (1.56%) Amazon Bedrock
6 6 (1.33%) Snowflake
7 4 (0.89%) GCP
8 3 (0.67%) SaaS
8 3 (0.67%) Serverless
9 2 (0.44%) Amazon EMR
9 2 (0.44%) Amazon S3
9 2 (0.44%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (0.22%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 1 (0.22%) Amazon SageMaker
10 1 (0.22%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 1 (0.22%) dbt
10 1 (0.22%) GitHub
10 1 (0.22%) GitHub Copilot
10 1 (0.22%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 402 (89.33%) Internet
2 1 (0.22%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (1.78%) Power BI
1 8 (1.78%) SQL Server
2 5 (1.11%) Data Vault
3 4 (0.89%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (0.67%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (0.44%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (0.44%) Apache Iceberg
5 2 (0.44%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.44%) MySQL
5 2 (0.44%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (0.22%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.22%) Data Mining
6 1 (0.22%) DocumentDB
6 1 (0.22%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.22%) Neo4j
6 1 (0.22%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.22%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.22%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 6 (1.33%) GitLab
2 2 (0.44%) Git
General
1 414 (92.00%) Social Skills
2 407 (90.44%) Banking
3 402 (89.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 10 (2.22%) Finance
5 9 (2.00%) Public Sector
6 5 (1.11%) Investment Banking
7 4 (0.89%) Advertising
7 4 (0.89%) Marketing
8 3 (0.67%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (0.67%) Billing
8 3 (0.67%) Games
9 1 (0.22%) Electronics
9 1 (0.22%) Law
9 1 (0.22%) Legal
9 1 (0.22%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.22%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 314 (69.78%) Lecturer
2 10 (2.22%) Developer
3 6 (1.33%) Architect
3 6 (1.33%) AWS Architect
3 6 (1.33%) AWS Solution Architect
3 6 (1.33%) Snowflake Developer
3 6 (1.33%) Solutions Architect
4 4 (0.89%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 4 (0.89%) Automation Engineer
4 4 (0.89%) Consultant
4 4 (0.89%) Data Engineer
5 3 (0.67%) Data Scientist
5 3 (0.67%) Lead
5 3 (0.67%) Recruitment Consultant
5 3 (0.67%) Senior
6 2 (0.44%) AWS Data Engineer
6 2 (0.44%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (0.44%) Backend Developer
6 2 (0.44%) Integration Developer
6 2 (0.44%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (0.89%) Node.js
1 4 (0.89%) PySpark
1 4 (0.89%) REST
2 3 (0.67%) PyTorch
2 3 (0.67%) React
2 3 (0.67%) Snowpark
2 3 (0.67%) TensorFlow
3 2 (0.44%) CSS
3 2 (0.44%) Tailwind CSS
3 2 (0.44%) WebSockets
4 1 (0.22%) .NET
4 1 (0.22%) .NET Framework
4 1 (0.22%) AngularJS
4 1 (0.22%) ASP.NET
4 1 (0.22%) ASP.NET MVC
4 1 (0.22%) Blazor
4 1 (0.22%) Entity Framework
4 1 (0.22%) Pandas
4 1 (0.22%) scikit-learn
4 1 (0.22%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 402 (89.33%) IoT
2 13 (2.89%) Cloud Native
3 12 (2.67%) AI Agents
4 6 (1.33%) Product Ownership
5 3 (0.67%) Low-Code
6 2 (0.44%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.22%) Credit Risk
7 1 (0.22%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (0.22%) Distributed Architecture
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 (0.67%) Windows
2 2 (0.44%) Linux
2 2 (0.44%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 439 (97.56%) AI
2 408 (90.67%) User Experience
3 403 (89.56%) Cybersecurity
4 402 (89.33%) Web Development
5 17 (3.78%) Analytics
6 15 (3.33%) Data Science
7 11 (2.44%) Business Intelligence
8 10 (2.22%) Agile
9 9 (2.00%) Data Governance
10 8 (1.78%) Data Modelling
10 8 (1.78%) Data Pipeline
10 8 (1.78%) Predictive Analytics
10 8 (1.78%) Software Engineering
11 7 (1.56%) Problem-Solving
11 7 (1.56%) Roadmaps
12 5 (1.11%) CI/CD
12 5 (1.11%) Collaborative Culture
12 5 (1.11%) Conversational UI
12 5 (1.11%) Decision-Making
12 5 (1.11%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 23 (5.11%) Python
2 14 (3.11%) SQL
3 6 (1.33%) ANSI SQL
4 2 (0.44%) Java
4 2 (0.44%) JavaScript
4 2 (0.44%) PHP
5 1 (0.22%) C#
5 1 (0.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (0.22%) MATLAB
5 1 (0.22%) R
5 1 (0.22%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 403 (89.56%) Degree
1 403 (89.56%) Master's Degree
1 403 (89.56%) PhD
2 402 (89.33%) Postgraduate
3 2 (0.44%) SC Cleared
3 2 (0.44%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.22%) DBS Check
4 1 (0.22%) DV Cleared
4 1 (0.22%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (1.11%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (0.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (0.44%) Ansible
1 2 (0.44%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (1.33%) Oracle
2 4 (0.89%) Genesys
2 4 (0.89%) Microsoft
2 4 (0.89%) ServiceNow
3 1 (0.22%) Cognos
3 1 (0.22%) Databricks
3 1 (0.22%) SAP