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

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 55 135
Rank change year-on-year +33 +80 -74
Permanent jobs citing Machine Learning 318 131 83
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 5.93% 5.85% 1.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.25% 6.12% 1.93%
Number of salaries quoted 59 40 72
10th Percentile £33,750 £41,125 £35,009
25th Percentile £58,750 £54,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £78,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.83% +30.83% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £97,528 £77,500
90th Percentile £123,000 £100,750 £101,131
North West median annual salary £67,500 £77,000 £56,250
% change year-on-year -12.34% +36.89% -6.25%

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 3,855 2,140 4,303
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 71.91% 95.58% 85.92%
Number of salaries quoted 2,777 1,297 3,426
10th Percentile £32,000 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,700 £40,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £54,700
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +5.12% -4.87%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,840 £69,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £92,200 £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 11 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 11 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 - -
Cheadle +1 9 - -
Wigan - 9 - - 1
Ashton-under-Lyne +4 8 - - 4
Bury +3 8 - -
Dukinfield +3 8 - -
Heywood +3 8 - -
Stalybridge +2 8 - -
Bolton - 8 - - 1
Oldham +6 7 - - 1
Sale +4 7 - -
Altrincham +1 7 - - 1
Littleborough - 7 - -
Salford - 7 - - 1
Rochdale - 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 (2.20%) Jupyter
2 2 (0.63%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.31%) Apache
Applications
1 6 (1.89%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 260 (81.76%) Cloud Computing
2 22 (6.92%) AWS
3 18 (5.66%) Azure
4 10 (3.14%) SaaS
5 8 (2.52%) GCP
5 8 (2.52%) Power Platform
6 7 (2.20%) Amazon S3
7 5 (1.57%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (1.57%) Serverless
8 3 (0.94%) Amazon Kinesis
8 3 (0.94%) Amazon SageMaker
9 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Purview
9 2 (0.63%) Pulumi
10 1 (0.31%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 250 (78.62%) Internet
2 1 (0.31%) BGP
2 1 (0.31%) OSPF
2 1 (0.31%) TCAP
2 1 (0.31%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.31%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (1.89%) Amazon Athena
2 4 (1.26%) Amazon Redshift
2 4 (1.26%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (0.94%) Power BI
4 2 (0.63%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.31%) Big Data
5 1 (0.31%) Data Mining
5 1 (0.31%) Data Vault
5 1 (0.31%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 6 (1.89%) Visual Studio Code
2 5 (1.57%) Git
3 1 (0.31%) GitLab
General
1 259 (81.45%) Social Skills
2 257 (80.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 251 (78.93%) Banking
4 21 (6.60%) Finance
5 11 (3.46%) Retail
6 10 (3.14%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (2.83%) Manufacturing
8 3 (0.94%) Advertising
8 3 (0.94%) French Language
8 3 (0.94%) Italian Language
8 3 (0.94%) Portuguese Language
8 3 (0.94%) Spanish Language
9 2 (0.63%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.31%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.31%) Law
10 1 (0.31%) Marketing
10 1 (0.31%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 186 (58.49%) Lecturer
2 15 (4.72%) Data Scientist
2 15 (4.72%) Senior Data Scientist
3 11 (3.46%) Lead
3 11 (3.46%) Senior
4 6 (1.89%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
4 6 (1.89%) Graduate
4 6 (1.89%) Lead Data Scientist
4 6 (1.89%) Programmer
4 6 (1.89%) Trainee
4 6 (1.89%) Trainee Programmer
5 5 (1.57%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 5 (1.57%) Engineering Manager
5 5 (1.57%) Principal Data Scientist
6 4 (1.26%) Architect
6 4 (1.26%) Data Engineer
6 4 (1.26%) Operations Engineer
6 4 (1.26%) Python Engineer
6 4 (1.26%) Senior Operations Engineer
7 3 (0.94%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (3.14%) NumPy
1 10 (3.14%) Pandas
2 9 (2.83%) scikit-learn
3 6 (1.89%) CSS
3 6 (1.89%) HTML
3 6 (1.89%) Hugging Face
3 6 (1.89%) Matplotlib
3 6 (1.89%) Streamlit
4 5 (1.57%) EDI
5 4 (1.26%) JWT
5 4 (1.26%) Kafka
5 4 (1.26%) OAuth
5 4 (1.26%) OpenID
5 4 (1.26%) PyTorch
5 4 (1.26%) SAML
5 4 (1.26%) TensorFlow
6 3 (0.94%) CSS3
6 3 (0.94%) HTML5
6 3 (0.94%) JSON
6 3 (0.94%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 250 (78.62%) IoT
2 10 (3.14%) Algorithms
3 7 (2.20%) Product Ownership
4 6 (1.89%) AI Agents
5 5 (1.57%) Cloud Native
6 4 (1.26%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (1.26%) Low-Code
7 3 (0.94%) Data Centre
7 3 (0.94%) Life Science
7 3 (0.94%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.63%) Cyberattack
8 2 (0.63%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.31%) Credit Risk
9 1 (0.31%) Distributed Computing
9 1 (0.31%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.31%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.31%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.94%) Android
1 3 (0.94%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 297 (93.40%) AI
2 253 (79.56%) Cybersecurity
2 253 (79.56%) Web Development
3 250 (78.62%) User Experience
4 26 (8.18%) Analytics
5 23 (7.23%) Data Science
6 16 (5.03%) LLM
7 15 (4.72%) Data Privacy
8 14 (4.40%) Visualisation
9 13 (4.09%) Problem-Solving
10 12 (3.77%) Roadmaps
10 12 (3.77%) Software Engineering
11 11 (3.46%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 10 (3.14%) Data Analytics
12 10 (3.14%) Fintech
12 10 (3.14%) Workflow
13 9 (2.83%) Agile
13 9 (2.83%) CI/CD
13 9 (2.83%) Continuous Improvement
13 9 (2.83%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 38 (11.95%) Python
2 15 (4.72%) SQL
3 7 (2.20%) Java
4 6 (1.89%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.31%) ANSI SQL
5 1 (0.31%) Bash
5 1 (0.31%) MATLAB
5 1 (0.31%) R
5 1 (0.31%) Scala
Qualifications
1 260 (81.76%) Degree
2 251 (78.93%) Master's Degree
2 251 (78.93%) PhD
3 250 (78.62%) Postgraduate
4 6 (1.89%) AWS Certification
4 6 (1.89%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 3 (0.94%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.31%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.31%) MBA
6 1 (0.31%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.31%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (1.26%) Data Quality
2 2 (0.63%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.31%) SLA
Systems Management
1 2 (0.63%) Kubernetes
1 2 (0.63%) Terraform
2 1 (0.31%) Grafana
2 1 (0.31%) Nagios
Vendors
1 15 (4.72%) Microsoft
2 3 (0.94%) Oracle
3 1 (0.31%) Databricks
3 1 (0.31%) SAP