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 25 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 56 136
Rank change year-on-year +29 +80 -73
Permanent jobs citing Machine Learning 327 123 81
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 5.65% 5.72% 1.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.86% 5.97% 1.86%
Number of salaries quoted 73 32 70
10th Percentile £33,750 £40,125 £35,000
25th Percentile £58,750 £54,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +20.83% +4.35%
75th Percentile £88,750 £97,528 £74,688
90th Percentile £118,750 - £101,250
North West median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% +18.18% -4.35%

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 4,159 2,060 4,356
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 71.83% 95.86% 84.86%
Number of salaries quoted 3,051 1,164 3,459
10th Percentile £32,500 £30,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +9.52% -8.70%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,840 £68,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £93,750 £82,500
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 25 May 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 25 May 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 +8 20 - - 2
Wigan - 9 - - 5
Ashton-under-Lyne +4 8 - -
Bury +4 8 - - 2
Dukinfield +4 8 - -
Heywood +3 8 - -
Stalybridge +3 8 - -
Cheadle +2 8 - -
Bolton - 8 - - 4
Oldham +5 7 - -
Sale +5 7 - -
Altrincham +2 7 - - 3
Salford - 7 - - 3
Rochdale - 7 - -
Littleborough - 7 - -
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 7 (2.14%) Jupyter
2 3 (0.92%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.61%) Apache
Applications
1 7 (2.14%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 254 (77.68%) Cloud Computing
2 33 (10.09%) AWS
3 27 (8.26%) Azure
4 16 (4.89%) GCP
5 15 (4.59%) SaaS
6 9 (2.75%) Amazon S3
7 7 (2.14%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (2.14%) Power Platform
7 7 (2.14%) Serverless
8 4 (1.22%) Amazon Kinesis
8 4 (1.22%) Pulumi
9 3 (0.92%) Amazon SageMaker
10 2 (0.61%) Microsoft Purview
11 1 (0.31%) Cloud Functions
11 1 (0.31%) Datadog
11 1 (0.31%) Google Analytics
11 1 (0.31%) Google Compute Engine
11 1 (0.31%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 1 (0.31%) Google Tag Manager
11 1 (0.31%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 245 (74.92%) Internet
2 3 (0.92%) BGP
2 3 (0.92%) OSPF
2 3 (0.92%) TCP/IP
2 3 (0.92%) VLAN
3 2 (0.61%) IPFIX
3 2 (0.61%) SNMP
4 1 (0.31%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (2.14%) Amazon Athena
1 7 (2.14%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (1.83%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (0.92%) Big Data
4 2 (0.61%) Power BI
4 2 (0.61%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.31%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.31%) Data Mining
5 1 (0.31%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.31%) InfluxDB
5 1 (0.31%) Looker
Development Applications
1 6 (1.83%) Git
1 6 (1.83%) Visual Studio Code
2 1 (0.31%) GitLab
2 1 (0.31%) Jenkins
General
1 253 (77.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 253 (77.37%) Social Skills
2 245 (74.92%) Banking
3 23 (7.03%) Finance
4 11 (3.36%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (3.36%) Retail
5 9 (2.75%) Manufacturing
6 3 (0.92%) French Language
6 3 (0.92%) Italian Language
6 3 (0.92%) Law
6 3 (0.92%) Portuguese Language
6 3 (0.92%) Spanish Language
7 2 (0.61%) Advertising
7 2 (0.61%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (0.61%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.31%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.31%) Marketing
8 1 (0.31%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.31%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 186 (56.88%) Lecturer
2 15 (4.59%) Data Scientist
2 15 (4.59%) Senior Data Scientist
3 13 (3.98%) Senior
4 12 (3.67%) Lead
5 9 (2.75%) Architect
6 8 (2.45%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 7 (2.14%) Data Engineer
8 6 (1.83%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
8 6 (1.83%) Graduate
8 6 (1.83%) Lead Data Scientist
8 6 (1.83%) Programmer
8 6 (1.83%) Trainee
8 6 (1.83%) Trainee Programmer
9 5 (1.53%) Engineering Manager
9 5 (1.53%) Principal Data Scientist
9 5 (1.53%) Security Engineer
10 4 (1.22%) Applications Engineer
10 4 (1.22%) Cloud Architect
10 4 (1.22%) Cloud Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (3.06%) NumPy
1 10 (3.06%) Pandas
1 10 (3.06%) scikit-learn
2 8 (2.45%) JWT
2 8 (2.45%) Kafka
2 8 (2.45%) OAuth
2 8 (2.45%) OpenID
2 8 (2.45%) SAML
3 6 (1.83%) CSS
3 6 (1.83%) HTML
3 6 (1.83%) Hugging Face
3 6 (1.83%) Matplotlib
3 6 (1.83%) Streamlit
4 5 (1.53%) EDI
4 5 (1.53%) LangChain
4 5 (1.53%) PyTorch
4 5 (1.53%) Spring
4 5 (1.53%) Spring Boot
4 5 (1.53%) TensorFlow
5 4 (1.22%) LlamaIndex
Miscellaneous
1 245 (74.92%) IoT
2 10 (3.06%) Algorithms
3 8 (2.45%) AI Agents
3 8 (2.45%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (1.83%) Cloud Native
4 6 (1.83%) Product Ownership
5 5 (1.53%) Life Science
6 4 (1.22%) Low-Code
7 3 (0.92%) Data Centre
7 3 (0.92%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.61%) Cyberattack
8 2 (0.61%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (0.61%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.31%) Credit Risk
9 1 (0.31%) Distributed Computing
9 1 (0.31%) Freedom of Information
9 1 (0.31%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.31%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.31%) Market Risk
9 1 (0.31%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.92%) Android
1 3 (0.92%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 304 (92.97%) AI
2 248 (75.84%) Cybersecurity
2 248 (75.84%) Web Development
3 245 (74.92%) User Experience
4 31 (9.48%) Analytics
5 24 (7.34%) Data Science
6 21 (6.42%) LLM
7 17 (5.20%) Problem-Solving
8 15 (4.59%) Data Privacy
9 14 (4.28%) Fintech
9 14 (4.28%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 14 (4.28%) Visualisation
10 13 (3.98%) Roadmaps
10 13 (3.98%) Software Engineering
11 12 (3.67%) Data Pipeline
12 11 (3.36%) Agile
12 11 (3.36%) CI/CD
12 11 (3.36%) Prompt Engineering
12 11 (3.36%) Workflow
13 10 (3.06%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 47 (14.37%) Python
2 19 (5.81%) SQL
3 9 (2.75%) Java
4 6 (1.83%) JavaScript
5 3 (0.92%) Bash
6 2 (0.61%) Scala
7 1 (0.31%) Go
7 1 (0.31%) MATLAB
7 1 (0.31%) R
Qualifications
1 255 (77.98%) Degree
2 246 (75.23%) Master's Degree
2 246 (75.23%) PhD
3 245 (74.92%) Postgraduate
4 6 (1.83%) AWS Certification
4 6 (1.83%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 3 (0.92%) DBS Check
5 3 (0.92%) Security Cleared
6 2 (0.61%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.61%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.31%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.31%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.14%) Data Quality
2 3 (0.92%) SLA
3 2 (0.61%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.31%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (0.31%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (1.53%) Kubernetes
1 5 (1.53%) Terraform
2 4 (1.22%) Grafana
3 3 (0.92%) Nagios
3 3 (0.92%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.31%) Istio
4 1 (0.31%) linkerd
4 1 (0.31%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.31%) Puppet
4 1 (0.31%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 15 (4.59%) Microsoft
2 4 (1.22%) Oracle
3 2 (0.61%) Google
4 1 (0.31%) Databricks
4 1 (0.31%) SAP
4 1 (0.31%) SolarWinds