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 13 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 89 41 46
Rank change year-on-year -48 +5 +24
Permanent jobs citing Machine Learning 128 132 177
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 1.67% 5.64% 4.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.18% 6.34% 5.41%
Number of salaries quoted 82 41 31
10th Percentile £42,625 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £58,750 £52,500 £48,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £67,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +25.93% - +3.74%
75th Percentile £100,000 £82,500 £81,875
90th Percentile £117,875 - £93,250
North West median annual salary £75,000 £64,250 £57,500
% change year-on-year +16.73% +11.74% -11.63%

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 5,869 2,082 3,271
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 76.50% 88.90% 84.68%
Number of salaries quoted 4,373 1,191 1,553
10th Percentile £32,750 £28,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £33,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,500 £52,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.35% -5.45% -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £69,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £85,000 £85,000
North West median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £51,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -2.91% -6.36%

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 13 October 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 13 October 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 - 10 £100,000 - 6
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 (7.03%) Apache
2 7 (5.47%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (3.91%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (2.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.56%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.78%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.78%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
Cloud Services
1 63 (49.22%) AWS
2 40 (31.25%) Azure
3 24 (18.75%) GCP
4 23 (17.97%) SaaS
5 12 (9.38%) GitHub
6 9 (7.03%) Amazon S3
6 9 (7.03%) Snowflake
7 8 (6.25%) dbt
8 7 (5.47%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (5.47%) GitHub Copilot
8 7 (5.47%) Serverless
9 5 (3.91%) Amazon Kinesis
9 5 (3.91%) Power Platform
10 4 (3.13%) IaaS
10 4 (3.13%) PaaS
10 4 (3.13%) Twilio
10 4 (3.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 3 (2.34%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (2.34%) Datadog
11 3 (2.34%) Google Compute Engine
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.56%) BGP
1 2 (1.56%) IPFIX
1 2 (1.56%) OSPF
1 2 (1.56%) SNMP
1 2 (1.56%) TCP/IP
1 2 (1.56%) VLAN
2 1 (0.78%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (10.94%) Data Warehouse
2 9 (7.03%) Big Data
3 8 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (5.47%) Amazon Redshift
4 7 (5.47%) DynamoDB
5 6 (4.69%) SQL Server
6 5 (3.91%) Amazon Athena
6 5 (3.91%) Power BI
7 4 (3.13%) Data Mining
7 4 (3.13%) Electronic Patient Records
7 4 (3.13%) MongoDB
8 2 (1.56%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (1.56%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (1.56%) Star Schema
8 2 (1.56%) Tableau
9 1 (0.78%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.78%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.78%) Looker
9 1 (0.78%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.78%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (5.47%) Git
2 4 (3.13%) GitLab
3 3 (2.34%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.56%) Mocha
5 1 (0.78%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.78%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.78%) Gemini Tracker
5 1 (0.78%) JIRA
5 1 (0.78%) MLflow
General
1 35 (27.34%) Social Skills
2 28 (21.88%) Finance
3 17 (13.28%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (11.72%) Public Sector
5 9 (7.03%) Law
6 6 (4.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (3.91%) Local Government
7 5 (3.91%) Retail
7 5 (3.91%) Social Housing
8 4 (3.13%) Health Technology
9 3 (2.34%) Games
10 2 (1.56%) Advertising
10 2 (1.56%) Banking
10 2 (1.56%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.56%) Retail Banking
10 2 (1.56%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.78%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.78%) Marketing
11 1 (0.78%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 23 (17.97%) Data Engineer
1 23 (17.97%) Senior
2 19 (14.84%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 17 (13.28%) Software Engineer
4 13 (10.16%) Architect
5 12 (9.38%) Data Scientist
6 10 (7.81%) Machine Learning Engineer
7 9 (7.03%) Lead
8 8 (6.25%) Security Engineer
9 6 (4.69%) Applications Engineer
9 6 (4.69%) Senior Data Scientist
10 5 (3.91%) Chief Technology Officer
10 5 (3.91%) Graduate
11 4 (3.13%) Account Manager
11 4 (3.13%) Cloud Architect
11 4 (3.13%) Cloud Engineer
11 4 (3.13%) Cloud Security Architect
11 4 (3.13%) Java Architect
11 4 (3.13%) Sales Manager
11 4 (3.13%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (10.16%) Terraform
2 10 (7.81%) JWT
2 10 (7.81%) OAuth
2 10 (7.81%) OpenID
2 10 (7.81%) SAML
3 8 (6.25%) Kafka
3 8 (6.25%) LangChain
4 6 (4.69%) OAuth2
4 6 (4.69%) Pulumi
5 5 (3.91%) React
5 5 (3.91%) RESTful
6 4 (3.13%) LlamaIndex
6 4 (3.13%) Spring
6 4 (3.13%) Spring Boot
7 3 (2.34%) Ajax
7 3 (2.34%) CSS
7 3 (2.34%) CSS3
7 3 (2.34%) HTML
7 3 (2.34%) HTML5
7 3 (2.34%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 19 (14.84%) Cloud Native
2 11 (8.59%) Onboarding
3 10 (7.81%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (7.03%) Product Ownership
5 8 (6.25%) AI Agents
6 6 (4.69%) Life Science
6 6 (4.69%) Management Information System
6 6 (4.69%) Social Media
7 5 (3.91%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (3.91%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (3.13%) BBC
8 4 (3.13%) IVR
8 4 (3.13%) NHS
9 3 (2.34%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (1.56%) Algorithms
10 2 (1.56%) Cyberattack
10 2 (1.56%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (1.56%) Mobile Banking
10 2 (1.56%) Private Cloud
10 2 (1.56%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (86.72%) AI
2 42 (32.81%) Data Science
3 37 (28.91%) Analytics
4 33 (25.78%) Software Engineering
5 29 (22.66%) Agile
5 29 (22.66%) Data Pipeline
6 28 (21.88%) Generative AI
7 27 (21.09%) Data Engineering
7 27 (21.09%) LLM
8 25 (19.53%) CI/CD
9 24 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
10 19 (14.84%) Roadmaps
11 16 (12.50%) Decision-Making
11 16 (12.50%) ETL
12 15 (11.72%) Data Modelling
12 15 (11.72%) Mentoring
13 14 (10.94%) Computer Science
13 14 (10.94%) Continuous Improvement
13 14 (10.94%) Infrastructure as Code
14 13 (10.16%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 59 (46.09%) Python
2 39 (30.47%) SQL
3 16 (12.50%) Java
4 10 (7.81%) JavaScript
5 9 (7.03%) TypeScript
6 7 (5.47%) Scala
7 5 (3.91%) Go
8 4 (3.13%) Bash
9 3 (2.34%) R
10 2 (1.56%) C#
10 2 (1.56%) Kotlin
10 2 (1.56%) Rust
Qualifications
1 22 (17.19%) Degree
2 13 (10.16%) Security Cleared
3 7 (5.47%) Master's Degree
4 6 (4.69%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (4.69%) DV Cleared
5 4 (3.13%) DBS Check
5 4 (3.13%) SC Cleared
6 2 (1.56%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.56%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (18.75%) Data Quality
2 5 (3.91%) GDPR
2 5 (3.91%) QA
3 4 (3.13%) Accessibility
3 4 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (3.13%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.56%) SLA
5 1 (0.78%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 7 (5.47%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (8.59%) Kubernetes
2 5 (3.91%) Grafana
2 5 (3.91%) Prometheus
3 3 (2.34%) Istio
3 3 (2.34%) linkerd
3 3 (2.34%) Progress Chef
3 3 (2.34%) Puppet
4 2 (1.56%) Nagios
5 1 (0.78%) Ansible
5 1 (0.78%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 15 (11.72%) Databricks
2 9 (7.03%) Google
3 7 (5.47%) Microsoft
4 6 (4.69%) Oracle
5 2 (1.56%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.78%) Apple
6 1 (0.78%) Facebook
6 1 (0.78%) SolarWinds
6 1 (0.78%) Sony
6 1 (0.78%) Yahoo!
6 1 (0.78%) YouTube