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 14 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 105 84
Rank change year-on-year +98 -21 -36
Permanent jobs citing Machine Learning 457 50 104
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 13.29% 1.98% 2.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.40% 2.09% 3.21%
Number of salaries quoted 49 32 68
10th Percentile £32,000 £42,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,418 £85,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.74% +41.67% -
75th Percentile £82,500 £97,528 £85,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £100,000 £100,064
North West median annual salary £61,418 £80,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -23.23% +45.45% -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 2,626 2,397 3,240
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 76.38% 94.93% 89.35%
Number of salaries quoted 1,655 1,179 2,694
10th Percentile £28,500 £34,400 £29,750
25th Percentile £38,750 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.35%
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,886 £70,000
90th Percentile £89,800 £87,500 £82,500
North West median annual salary £50,000 £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 14 February 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 14 February 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 - -
Wigan - 14 - - 1
Bolton - 14 £55,000 -
Cheadle - 14 - -
Dukinfield - 13 - -
Bury - 13 - -
Ashton-under-Lyne - 13 - -
Salford - 13 - - 4
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 5 (1.09%) Jupyter
2 3 (0.66%) Apache Solr
3 1 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.22%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 6 (1.31%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.66%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 412 (90.15%) Cloud Computing
2 20 (4.38%) AWS
3 17 (3.72%) Azure
4 9 (1.97%) Power Platform
5 6 (1.31%) Amazon Bedrock
6 4 (0.88%) GCP
6 4 (0.88%) Snowflake
7 3 (0.66%) SaaS
8 2 (0.44%) Amazon EMR
8 2 (0.44%) Amazon S3
8 2 (0.44%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (0.44%) Serverless
9 1 (0.22%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 1 (0.22%) Amazon SageMaker
9 1 (0.22%) dbt
9 1 (0.22%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 402 (87.96%) Internet
2 1 (0.22%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (1.31%) SQL Server
2 5 (1.09%) Power BI
3 4 (0.88%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (0.66%) Data Vault
4 3 (0.66%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (0.44%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (0.44%) Apache Iceberg
5 2 (0.44%) MySQL
6 1 (0.22%) Data Mining
6 1 (0.22%) DocumentDB
6 1 (0.22%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.22%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.22%) Neo4j
6 1 (0.22%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.22%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.22%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 7 (1.53%) Git
2 4 (0.88%) GitLab
2 4 (0.88%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 416 (91.03%) Social Skills
2 407 (89.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 405 (88.62%) Banking
4 12 (2.63%) Finance
5 9 (1.97%) Retail
6 7 (1.53%) Public Sector
7 6 (1.31%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (1.09%) Manufacturing
9 4 (0.88%) Marketing
10 3 (0.66%) Advertising
10 3 (0.66%) Billing
10 3 (0.66%) French Language
10 3 (0.66%) Games
10 3 (0.66%) Investment Banking
10 3 (0.66%) Italian Language
10 3 (0.66%) Portuguese Language
10 3 (0.66%) Spanish Language
11 1 (0.22%) Electronics
11 1 (0.22%) Law
11 1 (0.22%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 314 (68.71%) Lecturer
2 8 (1.75%) Data Scientist
3 7 (1.53%) Developer
4 5 (1.09%) Architect
4 5 (1.09%) AWS Architect
4 5 (1.09%) AWS Solution Architect
4 5 (1.09%) Lead
4 5 (1.09%) Principal Data Scientist
4 5 (1.09%) Senior Data Scientist
4 5 (1.09%) Solutions Architect
5 4 (0.88%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
5 4 (0.88%) Consultant
5 4 (0.88%) Data Engineer
5 4 (0.88%) Programmer
5 4 (0.88%) Senior
5 4 (0.88%) Snowflake Developer
5 4 (0.88%) Trainee
5 4 (0.88%) Trainee Programmer
6 3 (0.66%) Graduate
6 3 (0.66%) Recruitment Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.09%) A2A Protocol
1 5 (1.09%) EDI
1 5 (1.09%) Pandas
1 5 (1.09%) PySpark
1 5 (1.09%) PyTorch
1 5 (1.09%) scikit-learn
1 5 (1.09%) TensorFlow
2 4 (0.88%) CSS
2 4 (0.88%) Hugging Face
2 4 (0.88%) Matplotlib
2 4 (0.88%) NumPy
2 4 (0.88%) Streamlit
3 3 (0.66%) .NET
3 3 (0.66%) HTML
3 3 (0.66%) Node.js
3 3 (0.66%) REST
4 2 (0.44%) React
5 1 (0.22%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.22%) Spring Boot
5 1 (0.22%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 402 (87.96%) IoT
2 14 (3.06%) Cloud Native
3 8 (1.75%) AI Agents
3 8 (1.75%) Product Ownership
4 7 (1.53%) Algorithms
5 5 (1.09%) Low-Code
6 3 (0.66%) Data Centre
6 3 (0.66%) Onboarding
7 2 (0.44%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.22%) Credit Risk
8 1 (0.22%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (0.22%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.22%) Market Risk
8 1 (0.22%) Security Operations Centre
8 1 (0.22%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.22%) Smart Energy
8 1 (0.22%) Smart Meter
8 1 (0.22%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.66%) Android
1 3 (0.66%) Apple iOS
1 3 (0.66%) Windows
2 2 (0.44%) Linux
2 2 (0.44%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 446 (97.59%) AI
2 406 (88.84%) Cybersecurity
3 404 (88.40%) User Experience
4 402 (87.96%) Web Development
5 23 (5.03%) Analytics
6 17 (3.72%) Data Science
7 15 (3.28%) Problem-Solving
8 13 (2.84%) Data Privacy
9 12 (2.63%) Visualisation
10 11 (2.41%) Agile
11 10 (2.19%) Data Governance
11 10 (2.19%) LLM
11 10 (2.19%) Software Engineering
11 10 (2.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 9 (1.97%) Business Strategy
12 9 (1.97%) Data Pipeline
12 9 (1.97%) Open Source
12 9 (1.97%) Roadmaps
12 9 (1.97%) Test Automation
12 9 (1.97%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 33 (7.22%) Python
2 15 (3.28%) SQL
3 5 (1.09%) JavaScript
4 4 (0.88%) ANSI SQL
5 2 (0.44%) Java
5 2 (0.44%) PHP
6 1 (0.22%) MATLAB
6 1 (0.22%) R
Qualifications
1 407 (89.06%) Degree
2 403 (88.18%) Master's Degree
2 403 (88.18%) PhD
3 402 (87.96%) Postgraduate
4 4 (0.88%) AWS Certification
4 4 (0.88%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 4 (0.88%) DBS Check
5 3 (0.66%) SC Cleared
5 3 (0.66%) Security Cleared
6 2 (0.44%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.22%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (1.09%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (0.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (0.44%) Ansible
Vendors
1 15 (3.28%) Microsoft
2 4 (0.88%) Oracle
3 1 (0.22%) Cognos
3 1 (0.22%) Databricks
3 1 (0.22%) Genesys
3 1 (0.22%) SAP
3 1 (0.22%) ServiceNow