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 12 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 45 47
Rank change year-on-year -35 +2 +32
Permanent jobs citing Machine Learning 119 126 179
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 1.62% 5.24% 4.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.15% 5.86% 5.32%
Number of salaries quoted 87 33 37
10th Percentile £43,250 £46,250 £35,092
25th Percentile £58,750 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £95,000 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £119,250 £86,500 £85,000
North West median annual salary £75,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +25.00% - -7.74%

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 5,539 2,151 3,367
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 75.59% 89.48% 82.50%
Number of salaries quoted 4,265 1,232 1,835
10th Percentile £32,000 £29,050 £30,400
25th Percentile £45,000 £35,000 £41,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £86,250 £83,750
North West median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,309
% change year-on-year +10.00% -0.61% -8.53%

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 12 September 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 12 September 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
Salford - 6 £100,000 - 5
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 9 (7.56%) Apache
2 7 (5.88%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (4.20%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (2.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.68%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.84%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.84%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
Cloud Services
1 60 (50.42%) AWS
2 35 (29.41%) Azure
3 24 (20.17%) SaaS
4 22 (18.49%) GCP
5 12 (10.08%) GitHub
6 11 (9.24%) Amazon S3
7 9 (7.56%) AWS Lambda
7 9 (7.56%) Serverless
7 9 (7.56%) Snowflake
8 7 (5.88%) dbt
8 7 (5.88%) GitHub Copilot
9 4 (3.36%) Amazon Kinesis
9 4 (3.36%) Amazon SageMaker
9 4 (3.36%) IaaS
9 4 (3.36%) PaaS
9 4 (3.36%) Power Platform
9 4 (3.36%) Twilio
9 4 (3.36%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 3 (2.52%) Datadog
10 3 (2.52%) Google Compute Engine
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.52%) BGP
1 3 (2.52%) OSPF
1 3 (2.52%) TCP/IP
1 3 (2.52%) VLAN
2 2 (1.68%) IPFIX
2 2 (1.68%) SNMP
3 1 (0.84%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (11.76%) Data Warehouse
2 8 (6.72%) Big Data
2 8 (6.72%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (5.88%) Amazon Athena
3 7 (5.88%) Amazon Redshift
3 7 (5.88%) DynamoDB
4 5 (4.20%) SQL Server
5 4 (3.36%) Data Mining
5 4 (3.36%) Electronic Patient Records
5 4 (3.36%) MongoDB
5 4 (3.36%) Power BI
6 2 (1.68%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (1.68%) Star Schema
6 2 (1.68%) Tableau
7 1 (0.84%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.84%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.84%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.84%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.84%) InfluxDB
7 1 (0.84%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (5.88%) Git
2 4 (3.36%) GitLab
3 3 (2.52%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.68%) Mocha
5 1 (0.84%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.84%) Gemini Tracker
5 1 (0.84%) JIRA
5 1 (0.84%) MLflow
General
1 30 (25.21%) Social Skills
2 24 (20.17%) Finance
3 15 (12.61%) Public Sector
4 14 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (8.40%) Law
6 6 (5.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (4.20%) Local Government
7 5 (4.20%) Retail
7 5 (4.20%) Social Housing
8 4 (3.36%) Health Technology
9 3 (2.52%) Games
10 2 (1.68%) Advertising
10 2 (1.68%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.68%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.84%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.84%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.84%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.84%) Marketing
11 1 (0.84%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.84%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 22 (18.49%) Senior
2 18 (15.13%) Data Engineer
3 17 (14.29%) Data Scientist
4 14 (11.76%) Lead
5 13 (10.92%) Architect
6 12 (10.08%) Senior Data Scientist
7 9 (7.56%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 8 (6.72%) Software Engineer
9 7 (5.88%) Lead Data Scientist
9 7 (5.88%) Security Engineer
10 6 (5.04%) Applications Engineer
11 5 (4.20%) Chief Technology Officer
12 4 (3.36%) Account Manager
12 4 (3.36%) Cloud Architect
12 4 (3.36%) Cloud Security Architect
12 4 (3.36%) Cloud Security Engineer
12 4 (3.36%) Healthcare Manager
12 4 (3.36%) Java Architect
12 4 (3.36%) Sales Manager
12 4 (3.36%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (10.08%) Terraform
2 10 (8.40%) JWT
2 10 (8.40%) OAuth
2 10 (8.40%) OpenID
2 10 (8.40%) SAML
3 8 (6.72%) Kafka
3 8 (6.72%) LangChain
4 6 (5.04%) OAuth2
4 6 (5.04%) Pulumi
5 5 (4.20%) React
5 5 (4.20%) RESTful
5 5 (4.20%) scikit-learn
6 4 (3.36%) LlamaIndex
6 4 (3.36%) NumPy
6 4 (3.36%) Pandas
6 4 (3.36%) Spring
6 4 (3.36%) Spring Boot
7 3 (2.52%) Ajax
7 3 (2.52%) gRPC
7 3 (2.52%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 18 (15.13%) Cloud Native
2 11 (9.24%) Onboarding
3 9 (7.56%) AI Agents
3 9 (7.56%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (6.72%) Product Ownership
5 6 (5.04%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (5.04%) Life Science
5 6 (5.04%) Management Information System
5 6 (5.04%) Social Media
6 5 (4.20%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (3.36%) IVR
7 4 (3.36%) NHS
8 3 (2.52%) BBC
8 3 (2.52%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.68%) Cyberattack
9 2 (1.68%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.68%) Private Cloud
10 1 (0.84%) Culture of Ownership
10 1 (0.84%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.84%) Freedom of Information
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (80.67%) AI
2 41 (34.45%) Data Science
3 34 (28.57%) Analytics
4 29 (24.37%) Agile
4 29 (24.37%) Data Pipeline
5 26 (21.85%) Generative AI
6 25 (21.01%) Data Engineering
6 25 (21.01%) LLM
7 24 (20.17%) CI/CD
7 24 (20.17%) Software Engineering
8 20 (16.81%) Problem-Solving
9 18 (15.13%) Mentoring
9 18 (15.13%) Roadmaps
10 16 (13.45%) ETL
10 16 (13.45%) Fintech
11 15 (12.61%) Decision-Making
12 14 (11.76%) Continuous Improvement
12 14 (11.76%) Data Modelling
12 14 (11.76%) Use Case
13 13 (10.92%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 52 (43.70%) Python
2 36 (30.25%) SQL
3 12 (10.08%) Java
4 10 (8.40%) JavaScript
5 6 (5.04%) Scala
5 6 (5.04%) TypeScript
6 4 (3.36%) Bash
7 3 (2.52%) Go
8 2 (1.68%) C#
8 2 (1.68%) R
Qualifications
1 18 (15.13%) Degree
2 13 (10.92%) Security Cleared
3 7 (5.88%) Master's Degree
4 6 (5.04%) DV Cleared
5 4 (3.36%) DBS Check
5 4 (3.36%) SC Cleared
6 2 (1.68%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.84%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (19.33%) Data Quality
2 5 (4.20%) GDPR
2 5 (4.20%) QA
3 4 (3.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (3.36%) PCI DSS
4 3 (2.52%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.52%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (5.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (9.24%) Kubernetes
2 6 (5.04%) Grafana
3 5 (4.20%) Prometheus
4 3 (2.52%) Istio
4 3 (2.52%) linkerd
4 3 (2.52%) Nagios
4 3 (2.52%) Progress Chef
4 3 (2.52%) Puppet
5 1 (0.84%) Ansible
5 1 (0.84%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 15 (12.61%) Databricks
2 7 (5.88%) Google
3 6 (5.04%) Microsoft
3 6 (5.04%) Oracle
4 2 (1.68%) OpenAI
5 1 (0.84%) Apple
5 1 (0.84%) Facebook
5 1 (0.84%) SolarWinds
5 1 (0.84%) Sony
5 1 (0.84%) Yahoo!
5 1 (0.84%) YouTube