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 24 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 52 49
Rank change year-on-year -28 -3 +41
Permanent jobs citing Machine Learning 121 129 197
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 1.72% 5.16% 4.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.29% 5.69% 5.43%
Number of salaries quoted 92 36 54
10th Percentile £43,750 £41,250 £45,225
25th Percentile £58,750 £50,125 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +29.17% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £95,000 £75,313 £78,438
90th Percentile £119,875 £85,000 £98,850
North West median annual salary £75,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +25.00% - -7.79%

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 5,282 2,269 3,625
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 75.11% 90.72% 81.74%
Number of salaries quoted 4,134 1,319 2,273
10th Percentile £33,500 £29,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £35,500 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £87,500 £82,420
North West median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £51,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -1.96% -7.27%

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 24 August 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 24 August 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 - 3 - - 3
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 (7.44%) Apache
2 7 (5.79%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (4.13%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (2.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.65%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.83%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.83%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 59 (48.76%) AWS
2 34 (28.10%) Azure
3 25 (20.66%) SaaS
4 22 (18.18%) GCP
5 12 (9.92%) GitHub
6 10 (8.26%) Amazon S3
7 9 (7.44%) Snowflake
8 8 (6.61%) AWS Lambda
8 8 (6.61%) Serverless
9 7 (5.79%) dbt
9 7 (5.79%) GitHub Copilot
10 5 (4.13%) Power Platform
11 4 (3.31%) Amazon Kinesis
11 4 (3.31%) Amazon SageMaker
11 4 (3.31%) IaaS
11 4 (3.31%) PaaS
11 4 (3.31%) Twilio
12 3 (2.48%) Datadog
12 3 (2.48%) Google Compute Engine
12 3 (2.48%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.48%) BGP
1 3 (2.48%) OSPF
1 3 (2.48%) TCP/IP
1 3 (2.48%) VLAN
2 2 (1.65%) IPFIX
2 2 (1.65%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (10.74%) Data Warehouse
2 8 (6.61%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (5.79%) Amazon Athena
3 7 (5.79%) Amazon Redshift
3 7 (5.79%) Big Data
3 7 (5.79%) DynamoDB
4 5 (4.13%) SQL Server
5 4 (3.31%) Data Mining
5 4 (3.31%) Electronic Patient Records
5 4 (3.31%) MongoDB
5 4 (3.31%) Power BI
6 2 (1.65%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (1.65%) Star Schema
6 2 (1.65%) Tableau
7 1 (0.83%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.83%) Data Vault
7 1 (0.83%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.83%) InfluxDB
7 1 (0.83%) Looker
7 1 (0.83%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (5.79%) Git
2 4 (3.31%) GitLab
3 3 (2.48%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.65%) Mocha
5 1 (0.83%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.83%) Gemini Tracker
5 1 (0.83%) JIRA
5 1 (0.83%) MLflow
General
1 30 (24.79%) Social Skills
2 23 (19.01%) Finance
3 14 (11.57%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (11.57%) Public Sector
4 10 (8.26%) Law
5 6 (4.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (4.13%) Local Government
6 5 (4.13%) Retail
6 5 (4.13%) Social Housing
7 4 (3.31%) Health Technology
8 3 (2.48%) Games
8 3 (2.48%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.65%) Advertising
9 2 (1.65%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.65%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.65%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.65%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.83%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.83%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 24 (19.83%) Senior
2 17 (14.05%) Data Engineer
2 17 (14.05%) Data Scientist
3 13 (10.74%) Architect
4 12 (9.92%) Lead
4 12 (9.92%) Senior Data Scientist
5 10 (8.26%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 8 (6.61%) Software Engineer
7 7 (5.79%) Lead Data Scientist
7 7 (5.79%) Security Engineer
8 6 (4.96%) Applications Engineer
9 5 (4.13%) Chief Technology Officer
9 5 (4.13%) Engineering Manager
10 4 (3.31%) Account Manager
10 4 (3.31%) Cloud Architect
10 4 (3.31%) Cloud Security Architect
10 4 (3.31%) Cloud Security Engineer
10 4 (3.31%) Java Architect
10 4 (3.31%) Sales Manager
10 4 (3.31%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (9.09%) Terraform
2 10 (8.26%) JWT
2 10 (8.26%) OAuth
2 10 (8.26%) OpenID
2 10 (8.26%) SAML
3 8 (6.61%) Kafka
3 8 (6.61%) LangChain
4 6 (4.96%) OAuth2
4 6 (4.96%) Pulumi
5 5 (4.13%) React
5 5 (4.13%) RESTful
5 5 (4.13%) scikit-learn
6 4 (3.31%) LlamaIndex
6 4 (3.31%) NumPy
6 4 (3.31%) Pandas
6 4 (3.31%) Spring
6 4 (3.31%) Spring Boot
7 3 (2.48%) CSS
7 3 (2.48%) CSS3
7 3 (2.48%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 17 (14.05%) Cloud Native
2 11 (9.09%) Onboarding
3 9 (7.44%) AI Agents
3 9 (7.44%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (7.44%) Product Ownership
4 7 (5.79%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (4.96%) Life Science
5 6 (4.96%) Management Information System
5 6 (4.96%) Social Media
6 5 (4.13%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (3.31%) IVR
7 4 (3.31%) NHS
8 3 (2.48%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.65%) Cyberattack
9 2 (1.65%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.65%) Private Cloud
10 1 (0.83%) Algorithms
10 1 (0.83%) Culture of Ownership
10 1 (0.83%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.83%) Freedom of Information
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (79.34%) AI
2 42 (34.71%) Data Science
3 35 (28.93%) Analytics
4 29 (23.97%) Agile
5 28 (23.14%) Data Pipeline
6 26 (21.49%) Generative AI
7 24 (19.83%) CI/CD
7 24 (19.83%) Data Engineering
7 24 (19.83%) LLM
7 24 (19.83%) Software Engineering
8 20 (16.53%) Problem-Solving
8 20 (16.53%) Roadmaps
9 17 (14.05%) Mentoring
10 16 (13.22%) Decision-Making
10 16 (13.22%) Fintech
11 15 (12.40%) ETL
11 15 (12.40%) Use Case
12 14 (11.57%) Collaborative Culture
12 14 (11.57%) Continuous Improvement
12 14 (11.57%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 55 (45.45%) Python
2 36 (29.75%) SQL
3 12 (9.92%) Java
4 10 (8.26%) JavaScript
5 6 (4.96%) Scala
5 6 (4.96%) TypeScript
6 5 (4.13%) Bash
7 3 (2.48%) Go
8 2 (1.65%) C#
8 2 (1.65%) R
Qualifications
1 17 (14.05%) Degree
2 12 (9.92%) Security Cleared
3 7 (5.79%) Master's Degree
4 6 (4.96%) DV Cleared
5 3 (2.48%) DBS Check
5 3 (2.48%) SC Cleared
6 2 (1.65%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.83%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (17.36%) Data Quality
2 5 (4.13%) GDPR
2 5 (4.13%) QA
3 4 (3.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (3.31%) PCI DSS
4 3 (2.48%) SLA
5 2 (1.65%) Accessibility
System Software
1 7 (5.79%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (9.09%) Kubernetes
2 6 (4.96%) Grafana
3 5 (4.13%) Prometheus
4 3 (2.48%) Istio
4 3 (2.48%) linkerd
4 3 (2.48%) Nagios
4 3 (2.48%) Progress Chef
4 3 (2.48%) Puppet
5 1 (0.83%) Ansible
5 1 (0.83%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 14 (11.57%) Databricks
2 7 (5.79%) Google
3 6 (4.96%) Oracle
4 5 (4.13%) Microsoft
5 2 (1.65%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.83%) Apple
6 1 (0.83%) Facebook
6 1 (0.83%) SAP
6 1 (0.83%) SolarWinds
6 1 (0.83%) Sony
6 1 (0.83%) Yahoo!