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

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 56 66
Rank change year-on-year -24 +10 -16
Permanent jobs citing Machine Learning 107 128 176
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 1.65% 5.13% 3.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.24% 5.56% 4.37%
Number of salaries quoted 90 36 53
10th Percentile £36,675 £40,625 -
25th Percentile £57,656 £54,375 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +16.67% -2.04%
75th Percentile £91,250 £94,715 £77,500
90th Percentile £118,875 £97,528 £101,250
North West median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% - -4.00%

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 4,772 2,301 4,026
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 73.62% 92.19% 82.52%
Number of salaries quoted 3,770 1,330 2,811
10th Percentile £33,450 £29,750 £31,000
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 £79,938 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £97,600 £87,808 £82,500
North West median annual salary £55,000 £50,055 £50,500
% change year-on-year +9.88% -0.88% -8.18%

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 25 July 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 25 July 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 - 1 - - 1
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 6 (5.61%) Jupyter
2 5 (4.67%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.87%) Apache
Applications
1 7 (6.54%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.93%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 54 (50.47%) AWS
2 29 (27.10%) Azure
3 25 (23.36%) SaaS
4 20 (18.69%) GCP
5 10 (9.35%) Amazon S3
6 8 (7.48%) AWS Lambda
6 8 (7.48%) Serverless
7 6 (5.61%) Cloud Computing
7 6 (5.61%) Pulumi
8 5 (4.67%) Power Platform
9 4 (3.74%) Amazon Kinesis
9 4 (3.74%) Amazon SageMaker
9 4 (3.74%) IaaS
9 4 (3.74%) PaaS
9 4 (3.74%) Twilio
10 3 (2.80%) Azure Data Factory
10 3 (2.80%) Datadog
10 3 (2.80%) GitHub
10 3 (2.80%) Google Compute Engine
10 3 (2.80%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.80%) BGP
1 3 (2.80%) OSPF
1 3 (2.80%) TCP/IP
1 3 (2.80%) VLAN
2 2 (1.87%) IPFIX
2 2 (1.87%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (10.28%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (6.54%) Amazon Athena
2 7 (6.54%) Amazon Redshift
2 7 (6.54%) Big Data
3 5 (4.67%) SQL Server
4 4 (3.74%) Data Mining
4 4 (3.74%) Electronic Patient Records
5 3 (2.80%) MongoDB
5 3 (2.80%) Power BI
6 1 (0.93%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.93%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.93%) Data Vault
6 1 (0.93%) Delta Lake
6 1 (0.93%) InfluxDB
6 1 (0.93%) Looker
6 1 (0.93%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (5.61%) Visual Studio Code
2 5 (4.67%) Git
3 3 (2.80%) GitLab
3 3 (2.80%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.93%) Gemini Tracker
4 1 (0.93%) JIRA
4 1 (0.93%) MLflow
4 1 (0.93%) Mocha
General
1 28 (26.17%) Finance
2 17 (15.89%) Social Skills
3 13 (12.15%) Public Sector
4 12 (11.21%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (9.35%) Retail
6 9 (8.41%) Manufacturing
7 6 (5.61%) Law
8 4 (3.74%) Health Technology
8 4 (3.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (2.80%) Games
10 2 (1.87%) Advertising
10 2 (1.87%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.87%) Local Government
10 2 (1.87%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.87%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.87%) Social Housing
10 2 (1.87%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 22 (20.56%) Senior
2 14 (13.08%) Data Engineer
3 13 (12.15%) Data Scientist
3 13 (12.15%) Lead
4 12 (11.21%) Senior Data Scientist
5 11 (10.28%) Architect
6 8 (7.48%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 7 (6.54%) Lead Data Scientist
7 7 (6.54%) Security Engineer
8 6 (5.61%) Applications Engineer
8 6 (5.61%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
8 6 (5.61%) Programmer
8 6 (5.61%) Trainee
8 6 (5.61%) Trainee Programmer
9 5 (4.67%) Chief Technology Officer
9 5 (4.67%) Engineering Manager
10 4 (3.74%) Account Manager
10 4 (3.74%) Java Architect
10 4 (3.74%) Sales Manager
10 4 (3.74%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (10.28%) scikit-learn
2 10 (9.35%) JWT
2 10 (9.35%) NumPy
2 10 (9.35%) OAuth
2 10 (9.35%) OpenID
2 10 (9.35%) Pandas
2 10 (9.35%) SAML
3 8 (7.48%) Kafka
3 8 (7.48%) LangChain
4 6 (5.61%) Hugging Face
4 6 (5.61%) Matplotlib
4 6 (5.61%) OAuth2
4 6 (5.61%) Streamlit
5 4 (3.74%) LlamaIndex
5 4 (3.74%) RESTful
5 4 (3.74%) Spring
5 4 (3.74%) Spring Boot
6 3 (2.80%) Ajax
6 3 (2.80%) HTML
6 3 (2.80%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 9 (8.41%) AI Agents
1 9 (8.41%) Cloud Native
1 9 (8.41%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (6.54%) Algorithms
2 7 (6.54%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (5.61%) Life Science
3 6 (5.61%) Onboarding
4 4 (3.74%) IVR
4 4 (3.74%) NHS
5 3 (2.80%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (2.80%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.80%) Social Media
6 2 (1.87%) Cyberattack
6 2 (1.87%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.87%) Private Cloud
6 2 (1.87%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.93%) Culture of Ownership
7 1 (0.93%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.93%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.93%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (73.83%) AI
2 35 (32.71%) Analytics
3 30 (28.04%) LLM
4 28 (26.17%) Data Science
5 24 (22.43%) CI/CD
6 21 (19.63%) Data Pipeline
7 19 (17.76%) Roadmaps
8 18 (16.82%) Problem-Solving
9 17 (15.89%) Agile
9 17 (15.89%) Data Engineering
10 16 (14.95%) Decision-Making
10 16 (14.95%) Fintech
10 16 (14.95%) Software Engineering
11 15 (14.02%) Mentoring
11 15 (14.02%) Use Case
12 14 (13.08%) Continuous Improvement
12 14 (13.08%) Generative AI
12 14 (13.08%) Prompt Engineering
13 13 (12.15%) Collaborative Culture
13 13 (12.15%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 52 (48.60%) Python
2 26 (24.30%) SQL
3 10 (9.35%) Java
4 6 (5.61%) JavaScript
5 5 (4.67%) Bash
5 5 (4.67%) Scala
6 4 (3.74%) TypeScript
7 3 (2.80%) Go
8 1 (0.93%) C#
Qualifications
1 9 (8.41%) Degree
2 6 (5.61%) AWS Certification
2 6 (5.61%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 6 (5.61%) Security Cleared
3 3 (2.80%) DBS Check
4 2 (1.87%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.87%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.93%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (11.21%) Data Quality
2 5 (4.67%) GDPR
3 4 (3.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (3.74%) PCI DSS
4 3 (2.80%) QA
4 3 (2.80%) SLA
5 2 (1.87%) Accessibility
System Software
1 6 (5.61%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (9.35%) Kubernetes
1 10 (9.35%) Terraform
2 6 (5.61%) Grafana
3 5 (4.67%) Prometheus
4 3 (2.80%) Istio
4 3 (2.80%) linkerd
4 3 (2.80%) Nagios
4 3 (2.80%) Progress Chef
4 3 (2.80%) Puppet
5 1 (0.93%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 9 (8.41%) Microsoft
2 6 (5.61%) Databricks
3 5 (4.67%) Google
4 4 (3.74%) Oracle
5 2 (1.87%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.93%) Apple
6 1 (0.93%) Facebook
6 1 (0.93%) SAP
6 1 (0.93%) SolarWinds
6 1 (0.93%) Sony
6 1 (0.93%) Yahoo!