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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 46 45 81
Rank change year-on-year -1 +36 +20
Permanent jobs citing Machine Learning 124 180 97
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 5.26% 4.46% 3.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.87% 5.41% 3.58%
Number of salaries quoted 32 37 75
10th Percentile £46,250 £35,092 £42,463
25th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £65,066
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -7.79% -3.61%
75th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £85,625
90th Percentile - £85,000 £95,923
North West median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,066
% change year-on-year - -7.79% +4.10%

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 2,111 3,327 2,707
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 89.49% 82.41% 94.92%
Number of salaries quoted 1,196 1,788 2,110
10th Percentile £29,500 £30,700 £35,000
25th Percentile £34,750 £41,188 £43,750
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 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,625 £83,575 £84,056
North West median annual salary £50,000 £50,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -0.99% -8.18% +4.76%

Machine Learning
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings citing Machine Learning as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for Machine Learning 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 15 September 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 15 September 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 +3 6 - - 4
Oldham -4 6 - -
Heywood - 6 - -
Altrincham - 6 - - 2
Bury - 6 £60,000 - 1
Cheadle - 6 - -
Ashton-under-Lyne -3 5 - - 1
Dukinfield -4 5 - -
Sale -4 5 - -
Stalybridge - 5 - -
Machine Learning
North West

Machine Learning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (1.61%) SAS
2 1 (0.81%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.81%) Apache Solr
2 1 (0.81%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 4 (3.23%) Chatbot
2 2 (1.61%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 99 (79.84%) AWS
2 90 (72.58%) Azure
3 89 (71.77%) GCP
4 8 (6.45%) Power Platform
5 4 (3.23%) Amazon Bedrock
5 4 (3.23%) GitHub
6 3 (2.42%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (2.42%) Snowflake
7 2 (1.61%) Azure Machine Learning
7 2 (1.61%) Supabase
7 2 (1.61%) Vercel
8 1 (0.81%) Amazon ELB
8 1 (0.81%) Amazon S3
8 1 (0.81%) dbt
8 1 (0.81%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (0.81%) GitHub Copilot
8 1 (0.81%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Copilot
8 1 (0.81%) SaaS
8 1 (0.81%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.81%) Firewall
1 1 (0.81%) VLAN
1 1 (0.81%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (6.45%) Power BI
2 3 (2.42%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (2.42%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 2 (1.61%) Big Data
3 2 (1.61%) Data Vault
3 2 (1.61%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (1.61%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (1.61%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.61%) Tableau
4 1 (0.81%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (0.81%) Data Mining
4 1 (0.81%) Delta Lake
4 1 (0.81%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.81%) Metadata
4 1 (0.81%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.81%) MySQL
4 1 (0.81%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (0.81%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 3 (2.42%) Git
1 3 (2.42%) GitLab
1 3 (2.42%) MLflow
2 2 (1.61%) ER Studio
3 1 (0.81%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.81%) RStudio
General
1 83 (66.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 14 (11.29%) Social Skills
3 11 (8.87%) Finance
4 6 (4.84%) Public Sector
5 4 (3.23%) Marketing
6 2 (1.61%) Advertising
6 2 (1.61%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.61%) Banking
6 2 (1.61%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.81%) Law
7 1 (0.81%) Legal
7 1 (0.81%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.81%) Retail
7 1 (0.81%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 86 (69.35%) Senior
2 83 (66.94%) Software Engineer
3 82 (66.13%) Senior Software Engineer
4 9 (7.26%) Developer
5 5 (4.03%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 5 (4.03%) Data Scientist
6 4 (3.23%) Architect
6 4 (3.23%) Automation Engineer
6 4 (3.23%) AWS Architect
6 4 (3.23%) AWS Solution Architect
6 4 (3.23%) Solutions Architect
7 3 (2.42%) Analyst
7 3 (2.42%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 3 (2.42%) Full-Stack Developer
7 3 (2.42%) Lead
7 3 (2.42%) Machine Learning Engineer
8 2 (1.61%) Finance Modeller
8 2 (1.61%) SAS Modeller
8 2 (1.61%) Snowflake Developer
8 2 (1.61%) Statistical Modeller
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (70.16%) Node.js
2 83 (66.94%) .NET
3 6 (4.84%) React
3 6 (4.84%) TensorFlow
4 5 (4.03%) CSS
4 5 (4.03%) scikit-learn
5 4 (3.23%) PyTorch
5 4 (3.23%) Tailwind CSS
6 3 (2.42%) Pandas
6 3 (2.42%) PySpark
6 3 (2.42%) REST
6 3 (2.42%) RESTful
7 2 (1.61%) CSS3
7 2 (1.61%) Elastic Stack
7 2 (1.61%) Express.js
7 2 (1.61%) HTML
7 2 (1.61%) HTML5
7 2 (1.61%) pytest
7 2 (1.61%) WebSockets
7 2 (1.61%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 83 (66.94%) Linux Command Line
1 83 (66.94%) Self-Motivation
2 82 (66.13%) Cyberattack
3 8 (6.45%) AI Agents
4 5 (4.03%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.42%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.61%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.61%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.81%) CUDA
7 1 (0.81%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (0.81%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (0.81%) Driving Licence
7 1 (0.81%) IoT
7 1 (0.81%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.81%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.81%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.81%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (0.81%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (0.81%) Smart Energy
7 1 (0.81%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 85 (68.55%) Linux
2 1 (0.81%) CentOS
2 1 (0.81%) Debian
2 1 (0.81%) Ubuntu
2 1 (0.81%) Unix
2 1 (0.81%) Windows
2 1 (0.81%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (74.19%) Agile
2 91 (73.39%) User Experience
3 88 (70.97%) Software Engineering
4 85 (68.55%) Mentoring
5 84 (67.74%) Microservices
6 83 (66.94%) Data Engineering
7 82 (66.13%) Cloud Security
7 82 (66.13%) Scrum
7 82 (66.13%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 26 (20.97%) Artificial Intelligence
9 17 (13.71%) Analytics
10 12 (9.68%) Data Science
11 9 (7.26%) Problem-Solving
12 8 (6.45%) Business Intelligence
12 8 (6.45%) Predictive Analytics
13 7 (5.65%) Data Modelling
13 7 (5.65%) Statistics
14 6 (4.84%) CI/CD
15 5 (4.03%) Actionable Insight
16 4 (3.23%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 109 (87.90%) Python
2 85 (68.55%) JavaScript
3 84 (67.74%) Java
4 83 (66.94%) C++
4 83 (66.94%) Go
5 82 (66.13%) Rust
6 16 (12.90%) SQL
7 3 (2.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 3 (2.42%) R
7 3 (2.42%) T-SQL
8 2 (1.61%) ANSI SQL
8 2 (1.61%) Bash
8 2 (1.61%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.81%) C#
9 1 (0.81%) PHP
9 1 (0.81%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 83 (66.94%) Security Cleared
2 82 (66.13%) AWS Certification
2 82 (66.13%) AWS Certified Developer
2 82 (66.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 82 (66.13%) DV Cleared
3 5 (4.03%) Degree
4 3 (2.42%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.61%) PhD
5 2 (1.61%) Postgraduate
6 1 (0.81%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.81%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.03%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.61%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.61%) GDPR
3 1 (0.81%) QA
System Software
1 8 (6.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (5.65%) Kubernetes
2 4 (3.23%) Terraform
3 2 (1.61%) Ansible
3 2 (1.61%) Grafana
3 2 (1.61%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.81%) Kubeflow
4 1 (0.81%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 5 (4.03%) Databricks
2 4 (3.23%) Genesys
2 4 (3.23%) ServiceNow
3 3 (2.42%) Google
3 3 (2.42%) Microsoft
4 2 (1.61%) Oracle
5 1 (0.81%) OpenAI