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 16 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 42 57
Rank change year-on-year +23 +15 +1
Permanent jobs citing Machine Learning 211 175 122
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 8.73% 4.83% 5.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.26% 5.63% 5.37%
Number of salaries quoted 45 26 79
10th Percentile £32,000 £42,500 £46,306
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £69,447
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +0.80% +6.84%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £87,419
90th Percentile £99,500 £96,625 £103,051
North West median annual salary £65,000 £67,250 £69,447
% change year-on-year -3.35% -3.16% +9.37%

All Process and 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 2,057 3,110 2,271
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 85.07% 85.84% 94.63%
Number of salaries quoted 1,283 1,415 1,840
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £34,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,125 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £59,556
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -7.65% +8.28%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £84,900 £84,777
North West median annual salary £50,000 £52,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% +4.76%

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 16 November 2025.

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 16 November 2025. 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 +4 13 - - 1
Salford +7 6 - - 2
Bolton - 6 £55,000 - 12
Cheadle - 6 - -
Dukinfield 0 5 - -
Oldham 0 5 - - 2
Ashton-under-Lyne 0 5 - - 11
Altrincham - 5 - - 11
Bury - 5 - - 11
Rochdale - 5 - -
Stalybridge - 5 - -
Wigan - 5 - - 2
Littleborough - 5 - -
Sale +1 4 - -
Heywood - 4 - -
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 3 (1.42%) Apache Solr
2 2 (0.95%) SAS
3 1 (0.47%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.47%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 5 (2.37%) Chatbot
2 3 (1.42%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 162 (76.78%) Cloud Computing
2 23 (10.90%) AWS
3 12 (5.69%) Azure
4 9 (4.27%) Power Platform
5 8 (3.79%) GCP
6 7 (3.32%) Amazon Bedrock
7 6 (2.84%) Snowflake
8 3 (1.42%) Amazon S3
8 3 (1.42%) GitHub
8 3 (1.42%) Serverless
9 2 (0.95%) Amazon EMR
9 2 (0.95%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (0.95%) SaaS
9 2 (0.95%) Supabase
9 2 (0.95%) Vercel
10 1 (0.47%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (0.47%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 1 (0.47%) Amazon SageMaker
10 1 (0.47%) GitHub Copilot
10 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 157 (74.41%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (4.27%) Power BI
2 8 (3.79%) SQL Server
3 5 (2.37%) Data Vault
4 4 (1.90%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (1.90%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (1.42%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (0.95%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (0.95%) Apache Iceberg
6 2 (0.95%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.95%) MySQL
6 2 (0.95%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (0.47%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.47%) Big Data
7 1 (0.47%) Delta Lake
7 1 (0.47%) DocumentDB
7 1 (0.47%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.47%) Metadata
7 1 (0.47%) Neo4j
7 1 (0.47%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.47%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 6 (2.84%) GitLab
2 4 (1.90%) Git
3 2 (0.95%) ER Studio
3 2 (0.95%) MLflow
4 1 (0.47%) RStudio
General
1 172 (81.52%) Social Skills
2 162 (76.78%) Banking
3 157 (74.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 15 (7.11%) Finance
5 9 (4.27%) Public Sector
6 5 (2.37%) Advertising
6 5 (2.37%) Investment Banking
6 5 (2.37%) Marketing
7 3 (1.42%) Billing
7 3 (1.42%) Games
8 2 (0.95%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (0.47%) Electronics
9 1 (0.47%) Law
9 1 (0.47%) Legal
9 1 (0.47%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.47%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 128 (60.66%) Lecturer
2 13 (6.16%) Developer
3 6 (2.84%) Architect
3 6 (2.84%) AWS Architect
3 6 (2.84%) AWS Solution Architect
3 6 (2.84%) Snowflake Developer
3 6 (2.84%) Solutions Architect
4 5 (2.37%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 5 (2.37%) Data Scientist
5 4 (1.90%) Automation Engineer
5 4 (1.90%) Consultant
5 4 (1.90%) Data Engineer
6 3 (1.42%) Full-Stack Developer
6 3 (1.42%) Recruitment Consultant
7 2 (0.95%) AWS Engineer
7 2 (0.95%) Finance Modeller
7 2 (0.95%) Integration Developer
7 2 (0.95%) Machine Learning Engineer
7 2 (0.95%) SAS Modeller
7 2 (0.95%) Statistical Modeller
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.84%) Node.js
2 5 (2.37%) PySpark
2 5 (2.37%) React
2 5 (2.37%) scikit-learn
2 5 (2.37%) TensorFlow
3 4 (1.90%) CSS
3 4 (1.90%) PyTorch
3 4 (1.90%) Tailwind CSS
4 3 (1.42%) Pandas
4 3 (1.42%) REST
4 3 (1.42%) Snowpark
5 2 (0.95%) CSS3
5 2 (0.95%) Express.js
5 2 (0.95%) HTML
5 2 (0.95%) HTML5
5 2 (0.95%) Next.js
5 2 (0.95%) pytest
5 2 (0.95%) RESTful
5 2 (0.95%) WebSockets
5 2 (0.95%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 157 (74.41%) IoT
2 12 (5.69%) Cloud Native
3 11 (5.21%) AI Agents
4 6 (2.84%) Product Ownership
5 2 (0.95%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.47%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.47%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (0.47%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (0.47%) Driving Licence
6 1 (0.47%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (0.47%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.47%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.47%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (0.47%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.47%) Smart Energy
6 1 (0.47%) Smart Meter
6 1 (0.47%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.42%) Windows
2 2 (0.95%) Linux
2 2 (0.95%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.47%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 195 (92.42%) AI
2 165 (78.20%) User Experience
3 158 (74.88%) Cybersecurity
3 158 (74.88%) Web Development
4 19 (9.00%) Analytics
5 18 (8.53%) Data Science
6 12 (5.69%) Business Intelligence
7 11 (5.21%) Problem-Solving
8 9 (4.27%) Agile
8 9 (4.27%) Data Modelling
8 9 (4.27%) Data Pipeline
8 9 (4.27%) Software Engineering
9 8 (3.79%) Statistics
10 7 (3.32%) CI/CD
10 7 (3.32%) Data Governance
10 7 (3.32%) Data Management
11 6 (2.84%) Decision-Making
11 6 (2.84%) Predictive Analytics
12 5 (2.37%) Conversational UI
12 5 (2.37%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 28 (13.27%) Python
2 18 (8.53%) SQL
3 6 (2.84%) ANSI SQL
4 4 (1.90%) JavaScript
5 2 (0.95%) Java
5 2 (0.95%) PHP
5 2 (0.95%) R
6 1 (0.47%) C#
6 1 (0.47%) C++
6 1 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.47%) Go
6 1 (0.47%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 159 (75.36%) Postgraduate
2 157 (74.41%) Degree
2 157 (74.41%) Master's Degree
2 157 (74.41%) PhD
3 2 (0.95%) SC Cleared
3 2 (0.95%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.47%) DBS Check
4 1 (0.47%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.32%) Data Quality
2 2 (0.95%) GDPR
System Software
1 6 (2.84%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (2.37%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.95%) Ansible
2 2 (0.95%) Terraform
3 1 (0.47%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 6 (2.84%) Oracle
2 4 (1.90%) Genesys
2 4 (1.90%) Microsoft
2 4 (1.90%) ServiceNow
3 3 (1.42%) Databricks
3 3 (1.42%) Google
4 1 (0.47%) Cognos
4 1 (0.47%) OpenAI
4 1 (0.47%) SAP