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 20 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 60 74
Rank change year-on-year -21 +14 -25
Permanent jobs citing Machine Learning 106 130 170
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 1.64% 5.20% 3.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.24% 5.62% 3.92%
Number of salaries quoted 88 38 55
10th Percentile £37,250 £40,875 £46,250
25th Percentile £58,594 £53,125 £48,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +16.67% -
75th Percentile £92,188 £96,590 £77,500
90th Percentile £119,125 £97,528 £101,250
North West median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% - -

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 4,732 2,314 4,340
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 73.36% 92.60% 82.70%
Number of salaries quoted 3,743 1,334 3,108
10th Percentile £33,500 £29,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -7.60%
75th Percentile £78,853 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £87,500 £82,500
North West median annual salary £55,000 £50,055 £50,000
% change year-on-year +9.88% +0.11% -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 20 July 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 (5.66%) Jupyter
2 5 (4.72%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.89%) Apache
Applications
1 7 (6.60%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.94%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 52 (49.06%) AWS
2 29 (27.36%) Azure
3 25 (23.58%) SaaS
4 19 (17.92%) GCP
5 10 (9.43%) Amazon S3
6 8 (7.55%) AWS Lambda
6 8 (7.55%) Cloud Computing
6 8 (7.55%) Serverless
7 6 (5.66%) Pulumi
8 5 (4.72%) Power Platform
9 4 (3.77%) Amazon Kinesis
9 4 (3.77%) Amazon SageMaker
9 4 (3.77%) IaaS
9 4 (3.77%) PaaS
9 4 (3.77%) Twilio
10 3 (2.83%) Azure Data Factory
10 3 (2.83%) Datadog
10 3 (2.83%) GitHub
10 3 (2.83%) Microsoft Purview
11 2 (1.89%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.83%) BGP
1 3 (2.83%) OSPF
1 3 (2.83%) TCP/IP
1 3 (2.83%) VLAN
2 2 (1.89%) IPFIX
2 2 (1.89%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (10.38%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (6.60%) Amazon Athena
2 7 (6.60%) Amazon Redshift
2 7 (6.60%) Big Data
3 5 (4.72%) SQL Server
4 4 (3.77%) Data Mining
4 4 (3.77%) Electronic Patient Records
5 3 (2.83%) MongoDB
5 3 (2.83%) Power BI
6 1 (0.94%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.94%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.94%) Data Vault
6 1 (0.94%) Delta Lake
6 1 (0.94%) InfluxDB
6 1 (0.94%) Looker
6 1 (0.94%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (5.66%) Visual Studio Code
2 5 (4.72%) Git
3 2 (1.89%) GitLab
3 2 (1.89%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.94%) Gemini Tracker
4 1 (0.94%) JIRA
4 1 (0.94%) MLflow
4 1 (0.94%) Mocha
General
1 28 (26.42%) Finance
2 17 (16.04%) Social Skills
3 14 (13.21%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (12.26%) Public Sector
5 11 (10.38%) Retail
6 9 (8.49%) Manufacturing
7 6 (5.66%) Law
8 5 (4.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (3.77%) Health Technology
10 3 (2.83%) Games
11 2 (1.89%) Advertising
11 2 (1.89%) Financial Institution
11 2 (1.89%) French Language
11 2 (1.89%) Italian Language
11 2 (1.89%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.89%) Portuguese Language
11 2 (1.89%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (1.89%) Spanish Language
11 2 (1.89%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.94%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 22 (20.75%) Senior
2 14 (13.21%) Data Scientist
3 13 (12.26%) Data Engineer
3 13 (12.26%) Lead
3 13 (12.26%) Senior Data Scientist
4 11 (10.38%) Architect
5 8 (7.55%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 7 (6.60%) Lead Data Scientist
6 7 (6.60%) Security Engineer
7 6 (5.66%) Applications Engineer
7 6 (5.66%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
7 6 (5.66%) Programmer
7 6 (5.66%) Trainee
7 6 (5.66%) Trainee Programmer
8 5 (4.72%) Chief Technology Officer
8 5 (4.72%) Engineering Manager
8 5 (4.72%) Graduate
9 4 (3.77%) Account Manager
9 4 (3.77%) Operations Engineer
9 4 (3.77%) Sales Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (10.38%) scikit-learn
2 10 (9.43%) JWT
2 10 (9.43%) NumPy
2 10 (9.43%) OAuth
2 10 (9.43%) OpenID
2 10 (9.43%) Pandas
2 10 (9.43%) SAML
3 8 (7.55%) Kafka
3 8 (7.55%) LangChain
4 6 (5.66%) Hugging Face
4 6 (5.66%) Matplotlib
4 6 (5.66%) OAuth2
4 6 (5.66%) Streamlit
5 5 (4.72%) CSS
5 5 (4.72%) HTML
6 4 (3.77%) LlamaIndex
6 4 (3.77%) RESTful
6 4 (3.77%) Spring
6 4 (3.77%) Spring Boot
7 3 (2.83%) React
Miscellaneous
1 9 (8.49%) Algorithms
1 9 (8.49%) Cloud Native
1 9 (8.49%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (7.55%) AI Agents
3 7 (6.60%) Enterprise Software
4 6 (5.66%) Life Science
4 6 (5.66%) Onboarding
5 4 (3.77%) IVR
5 4 (3.77%) NHS
6 2 (1.89%) Cyberattack
6 2 (1.89%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.89%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.89%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.89%) Private Cloud
6 2 (1.89%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.94%) BBC
7 1 (0.94%) Culture of Ownership
7 1 (0.94%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.94%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.94%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.89%) Android
1 2 (1.89%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (73.58%) AI
2 38 (35.85%) Analytics
3 30 (28.30%) LLM
4 27 (25.47%) Data Science
5 25 (23.58%) CI/CD
6 21 (19.81%) Problem-Solving
7 20 (18.87%) Data Pipeline
8 19 (17.92%) Roadmaps
9 17 (16.04%) Agile
9 17 (16.04%) Mentoring
9 17 (16.04%) Software Engineering
10 16 (15.09%) Data Engineering
10 16 (15.09%) Fintech
11 15 (14.15%) Decision-Making
11 15 (14.15%) Generative AI
12 14 (13.21%) Continuous Improvement
12 14 (13.21%) Prompt Engineering
12 14 (13.21%) Use Case
12 14 (13.21%) Workflow
13 13 (12.26%) Data Privacy
Programming Languages
1 54 (50.94%) Python
2 28 (26.42%) SQL
3 10 (9.43%) Java
4 8 (7.55%) JavaScript
5 5 (4.72%) Scala
6 4 (3.77%) Bash
6 4 (3.77%) TypeScript
7 2 (1.89%) Go
8 1 (0.94%) C#
Qualifications
1 11 (10.38%) Degree
2 6 (5.66%) AWS Certification
2 6 (5.66%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 6 (5.66%) Security Cleared
3 5 (4.72%) DBS Check
4 2 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.89%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.94%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.94%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (11.32%) Data Quality
2 5 (4.72%) GDPR
3 4 (3.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (3.77%) PCI DSS
4 3 (2.83%) QA
4 3 (2.83%) SLA
5 2 (1.89%) Accessibility
System Software
1 5 (4.72%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (8.49%) Kubernetes
1 9 (8.49%) Terraform
2 5 (4.72%) Grafana
3 4 (3.77%) Prometheus
4 3 (2.83%) Nagios
5 2 (1.89%) Istio
5 2 (1.89%) linkerd
5 2 (1.89%) Progress Chef
5 2 (1.89%) Puppet
6 1 (0.94%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 10 (9.43%) Microsoft
2 6 (5.66%) Databricks
3 4 (3.77%) Google
3 4 (3.77%) Oracle
4 2 (1.89%) OpenAI
5 1 (0.94%) Apple
5 1 (0.94%) Facebook
5 1 (0.94%) SAP
5 1 (0.94%) SolarWinds
5 1 (0.94%) Sony
5 1 (0.94%) Yahoo!