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

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 57 73
Rank change year-on-year -26 +16 -15
Permanent jobs citing Machine Learning 91 125 182
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 1.51% 5.51% 3.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.12% 5.78% 3.79%
Number of salaries quoted 82 36 67
10th Percentile £34,250 £40,625 £35,000
25th Percentile £58,750 £55,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,750 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.36% +16.67% -
75th Percentile £88,750 £94,715 £70,625
90th Percentile £109,375 £97,528 £101,250
North West median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% +18.18% -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 4,283 2,164 4,797
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 71.23% 95.33% 83.04%
Number of salaries quoted 3,384 1,222 3,602
10th Percentile £32,913 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,043 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.01% +4.84% -9.19%
75th Percentile £76,250 £75,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £96,250 £92,500 £80,944
North West median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -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 12 June 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 (6.59%) Jupyter
2 2 (2.20%) Apache
2 2 (2.20%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 7 (7.69%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (1.10%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 40 (43.96%) AWS
2 31 (34.07%) Azure
3 19 (20.88%) GCP
4 17 (18.68%) SaaS
5 9 (9.89%) Amazon S3
5 9 (9.89%) Cloud Computing
6 7 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
6 7 (7.69%) Power Platform
6 7 (7.69%) Serverless
7 6 (6.59%) Pulumi
8 4 (4.40%) Amazon Kinesis
9 3 (3.30%) Amazon SageMaker
9 3 (3.30%) Microsoft Purview
10 2 (2.20%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (2.20%) Datadog
10 2 (2.20%) GitHub
11 1 (1.10%) AWS Data Pipeline
11 1 (1.10%) Google Compute Engine
11 1 (1.10%) Google Tag Manager
11 1 (1.10%) Twilio
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.30%) BGP
1 3 (3.30%) OSPF
1 3 (3.30%) TCP/IP
1 3 (3.30%) VLAN
2 2 (2.20%) IPFIX
2 2 (2.20%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (9.89%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (7.69%) Amazon Athena
3 6 (6.59%) Amazon Redshift
4 5 (5.49%) Big Data
5 3 (3.30%) Power BI
6 2 (2.20%) MongoDB
6 2 (2.20%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.10%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.10%) BigQuery
7 1 (1.10%) Data Mining
7 1 (1.10%) Data Vault
7 1 (1.10%) Delta Lake
7 1 (1.10%) InfluxDB
7 1 (1.10%) Looker
7 1 (1.10%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (7.69%) Git
2 6 (6.59%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (1.10%) Gemini Tracker
3 1 (1.10%) GitLab
3 1 (1.10%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.10%) JIRA
3 1 (1.10%) MLflow
General
1 25 (27.47%) Finance
2 12 (13.19%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (12.09%) Retail
4 9 (9.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 9 (9.89%) Manufacturing
4 9 (9.89%) Social Skills
5 3 (3.30%) French Language
5 3 (3.30%) Italian Language
5 3 (3.30%) Law
5 3 (3.30%) Portuguese Language
5 3 (3.30%) Public Sector
5 3 (3.30%) Spanish Language
6 2 (2.20%) Advertising
6 2 (2.20%) Financial Institution
6 2 (2.20%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (2.20%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.10%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (17.58%) Data Scientist
1 16 (17.58%) Senior Data Scientist
2 14 (15.38%) Senior
3 12 (13.19%) Lead
4 11 (12.09%) Architect
5 10 (10.99%) Data Engineer
6 8 (8.79%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 7 (7.69%) Security Engineer
8 6 (6.59%) Applications Engineer
8 6 (6.59%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
8 6 (6.59%) Graduate
8 6 (6.59%) Lead Data Scientist
8 6 (6.59%) Programmer
8 6 (6.59%) Trainee
8 6 (6.59%) Trainee Programmer
9 5 (5.49%) Engineering Manager
9 5 (5.49%) Principal Data Scientist
10 4 (4.40%) Java Architect
10 4 (4.40%) Operations Engineer
10 4 (4.40%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (10.99%) JWT
1 10 (10.99%) NumPy
1 10 (10.99%) OAuth
1 10 (10.99%) OpenID
1 10 (10.99%) SAML
1 10 (10.99%) scikit-learn
2 9 (9.89%) Pandas
3 8 (8.79%) Kafka
4 7 (7.69%) LangChain
5 6 (6.59%) CSS
5 6 (6.59%) HTML
5 6 (6.59%) Hugging Face
5 6 (6.59%) Matplotlib
5 6 (6.59%) OAuth2
5 6 (6.59%) Streamlit
6 5 (5.49%) EDI
6 5 (5.49%) Spring
6 5 (5.49%) Spring Boot
7 4 (4.40%) .NET
7 4 (4.40%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 10 (10.99%) Algorithms
2 9 (9.89%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (7.69%) AI Agents
3 7 (7.69%) Cloud Native
4 6 (6.59%) Product Ownership
5 5 (5.49%) Life Science
6 3 (3.30%) Data Centre
6 3 (3.30%) Low-Code
6 3 (3.30%) Onboarding
7 2 (2.20%) Cyberattack
7 2 (2.20%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (2.20%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (2.20%) Private Cloud
8 1 (1.10%) BBC
8 1 (1.10%) Data Structures
8 1 (1.10%) Freedom of Information
8 1 (1.10%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (1.10%) IVR
8 1 (1.10%) Management Information System
8 1 (1.10%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.30%) Android
1 3 (3.30%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (73.63%) AI
2 33 (36.26%) Analytics
3 28 (30.77%) LLM
4 24 (26.37%) Data Science
5 20 (21.98%) Problem-Solving
6 16 (17.58%) CI/CD
6 16 (17.58%) Fintech
7 15 (16.48%) Data Privacy
8 14 (15.38%) Agile
8 14 (15.38%) Data Pipeline
8 14 (15.38%) Software Engineering
8 14 (15.38%) Visualisation
9 13 (14.29%) Generative AI
9 13 (14.29%) Prompt Engineering
9 13 (14.29%) Roadmaps
9 13 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 12 (13.19%) Platform Engineering
11 11 (12.09%) Data Governance
11 11 (12.09%) Mentoring
11 11 (12.09%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 50 (54.95%) Python
2 23 (25.27%) SQL
3 8 (8.79%) Java
3 8 (8.79%) JavaScript
4 3 (3.30%) Bash
4 3 (3.30%) Scala
5 1 (1.10%) C#
5 1 (1.10%) Go
5 1 (1.10%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (9.89%) Degree
2 6 (6.59%) AWS Certification
2 6 (6.59%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 4 (4.40%) Security Cleared
4 3 (3.30%) DBS Check
5 2 (2.20%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.20%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (10.99%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.30%) SLA
3 2 (2.20%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.20%) GDPR
4 1 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.10%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (3.30%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (8.79%) Terraform
2 7 (7.69%) Kubernetes
3 4 (4.40%) Grafana
4 3 (3.30%) Nagios
4 3 (3.30%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.10%) Istio
5 1 (1.10%) linkerd
5 1 (1.10%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.10%) Puppet
5 1 (1.10%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 16 (17.58%) Microsoft
2 4 (4.40%) Oracle
3 3 (3.30%) Google
4 2 (2.20%) Databricks
5 1 (1.10%) Apple
5 1 (1.10%) Facebook
5 1 (1.10%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.10%) SAP
5 1 (1.10%) SolarWinds
5 1 (1.10%) Sony
5 1 (1.10%) Yahoo!