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 2 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 91 104
Rank change year-on-year +81 +13 -61
Permanent jobs citing Machine Learning 460 50 102
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 10.41% 2.47% 2.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.15% 2.59% 2.54%
Number of salaries quoted 50 38 66
10th Percentile £32,000 £38,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £52,813 £45,000 £46,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £78,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.20% +30.83% -
75th Percentile £80,938 £97,528 £90,000
90th Percentile £122,750 £100,000 £101,250
North West median annual salary £65,000 £77,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -15.58% +28.33% -

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 3,250 1,929 4,013
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 73.58% 95.31% 87.16%
Number of salaries quoted 2,207 1,247 3,253
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,800 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,822 £82,500
North West median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -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 2 April 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 2 April 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 - - 2
Cheadle - 14 - -
Bury +3 13 - - 1
Ashton-under-Lyne - 13 - -
Bolton - 13 - -
Dukinfield - 13 - -
Salford - 13 - - 2
Stalybridge - 13 - -
Oldham +5 12 - - 1
Rochdale - 12 - -
Heywood - 12 - -
Littleborough - 12 - -
Altrincham - 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 7 (1.52%) Jupyter
2 2 (0.43%) Apache Solr
3 1 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.22%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 7 (1.52%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.65%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 413 (89.78%) Cloud Computing
2 15 (3.26%) Azure
3 14 (3.04%) AWS
4 7 (1.52%) Power Platform
5 4 (0.87%) GCP
5 4 (0.87%) SaaS
6 3 (0.65%) Amazon SageMaker
7 2 (0.43%) Amazon S3
7 2 (0.43%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (0.43%) Serverless
7 2 (0.43%) Snowflake
8 1 (0.22%) Amazon Bedrock
8 1 (0.22%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 1 (0.22%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 402 (87.39%) Internet
2 1 (0.22%) BGP
2 1 (0.22%) OSPF
2 1 (0.22%) TCAP
2 1 (0.22%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.22%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.43%) Amazon Athena
1 2 (0.43%) Data Vault
1 2 (0.43%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (0.43%) Power BI
1 2 (0.43%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.22%) Data Mining
2 1 (0.22%) DocumentDB
2 1 (0.22%) Hadoop
2 1 (0.22%) MongoDB
2 1 (0.22%) MySQL
2 1 (0.22%) Neo4j
2 1 (0.22%) NoSQL
2 1 (0.22%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 6 (1.30%) Git
1 6 (1.30%) Visual Studio Code
2 2 (0.43%) GitLab
General
1 413 (89.78%) Social Skills
2 407 (88.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 404 (87.83%) Banking
4 18 (3.91%) Finance
5 11 (2.39%) Retail
6 10 (2.17%) Manufacturing
7 7 (1.52%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (0.65%) Billing
8 3 (0.65%) French Language
8 3 (0.65%) Games
8 3 (0.65%) Italian Language
8 3 (0.65%) Marketing
8 3 (0.65%) Portuguese Language
8 3 (0.65%) Spanish Language
9 2 (0.43%) Investment Banking
9 2 (0.43%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.22%) Advertising
10 1 (0.22%) Law
10 1 (0.22%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.22%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 314 (68.26%) Lecturer
2 11 (2.39%) Data Scientist
2 11 (2.39%) Senior Data Scientist
3 9 (1.96%) Senior
4 8 (1.74%) Lead
5 6 (1.30%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
5 6 (1.30%) Programmer
5 6 (1.30%) Trainee
5 6 (1.30%) Trainee Programmer
6 5 (1.09%) Engineering Manager
6 5 (1.09%) Principal Data Scientist
7 4 (0.87%) Consultant
7 4 (0.87%) Lead Data Scientist
7 4 (0.87%) Operations Engineer
7 4 (0.87%) Product Manager
7 4 (0.87%) Python Engineer
7 4 (0.87%) Senior Operations Engineer
8 3 (0.65%) Developer
8 3 (0.65%) Graduate
8 3 (0.65%) Recruitment Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (1.96%) Pandas
1 9 (1.96%) scikit-learn
2 8 (1.74%) NumPy
3 6 (1.30%) Hugging Face
3 6 (1.30%) Matplotlib
3 6 (1.30%) Streamlit
4 5 (1.09%) EDI
4 5 (1.09%) PyTorch
4 5 (1.09%) TensorFlow
5 3 (0.65%) .NET
5 3 (0.65%) CSS
5 3 (0.65%) HTML
6 2 (0.43%) REST
7 1 (0.22%) gRPC
7 1 (0.22%) Node.js
7 1 (0.22%) PySpark
7 1 (0.22%) React
7 1 (0.22%) Spring
7 1 (0.22%) Spring Boot
7 1 (0.22%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 402 (87.39%) IoT
2 10 (2.17%) Algorithms
3 8 (1.74%) Product Ownership
4 7 (1.52%) Cloud Native
5 4 (0.87%) AI Agents
5 4 (0.87%) Low-Code
6 3 (0.65%) Data Centre
6 3 (0.65%) Onboarding
7 2 (0.43%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.22%) Credit Risk
8 1 (0.22%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.22%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.22%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.65%) Android
1 3 (0.65%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.22%) Linux
2 1 (0.22%) Windows
2 1 (0.22%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 447 (97.17%) AI
2 405 (88.04%) Cybersecurity
3 402 (87.39%) User Experience
3 402 (87.39%) Web Development
4 21 (4.57%) Analytics
5 19 (4.13%) Data Science
6 15 (3.26%) Data Privacy
7 14 (3.04%) Visualisation
8 12 (2.61%) Roadmaps
9 11 (2.39%) LLM
9 11 (2.39%) Software Engineering
9 11 (2.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 10 (2.17%) Problem-Solving
10 10 (2.17%) Workflow
11 9 (1.96%) Agile
11 9 (1.96%) Business Strategy
11 9 (1.96%) CI/CD
11 9 (1.96%) Continuous Improvement
11 9 (1.96%) Open Source
11 9 (1.96%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 31 (6.74%) Python
2 9 (1.96%) SQL
3 4 (0.87%) JavaScript
4 2 (0.43%) ANSI SQL
4 2 (0.43%) Java
5 1 (0.22%) Bash
5 1 (0.22%) MATLAB
5 1 (0.22%) PHP
5 1 (0.22%) R
Qualifications
1 407 (88.48%) Degree
2 403 (87.61%) Master's Degree
2 403 (87.61%) PhD
3 402 (87.39%) Postgraduate
4 6 (1.30%) AWS Certification
4 6 (1.30%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 3 (0.65%) DBS Check
6 2 (0.43%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.43%) SC Cleared
6 2 (0.43%) Security Cleared
7 1 (0.22%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.22%) Data Quality
1 1 (0.22%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (0.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (0.22%) Ansible
1 1 (0.22%) Grafana
1 1 (0.22%) Nagios
Vendors
1 16 (3.48%) Microsoft
2 2 (0.43%) Oracle
2 2 (0.43%) SAP
3 1 (0.22%) Databricks