MBA Job Trends in Manchester

Master of Business Administration (MBA)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Manchester with a requirement for MBA qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 129 150 -
Rank change year-on-year +21 - -
Permanent jobs citing MBA 6 5 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.22% 0.18% -
As % of the Qualifications category 0.61% 0.53% -
Number of salaries quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £72,500 £97,500 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £105,000 -
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% - -
75th Percentile £77,500 £112,500 -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median annual salary £75,000 £69,315 -
% change year-on-year +8.20% - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Manchester

MBA falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in Manchester.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 990 942 553
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 35.82% 34.34% 24.37%
Number of salaries quoted 329 393 381
10th Percentile £24,500 £30,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £28,500 £40,500 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £69,750 £68,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £84,000 £81,250 £82,500
North West median annual salary £47,683 £50,055 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.74% -4.66% -3.94%

MBA
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing MBA relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

MBA job vacancy trend in Manchester

MBA
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing MBA.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing MBA

MBA
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 1 (16.67%) Apache Spark
1 1 (16.67%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) Azure
2 3 (50.00%) AWS
3 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
3 1 (16.67%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Cisco IPT
1 1 (16.67%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (16.67%) Data Lake
1 1 (16.67%) Data Mining
1 1 (16.67%) Hadoop
1 1 (16.67%) Power BI
1 1 (16.67%) Tableau
General
1 3 (50.00%) Finance
1 3 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Law
3 1 (16.67%) Legal
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture Director
2 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Lead
2 1 (16.67%) Senior
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Pandas
1 1 (16.67%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (16.67%) Credit Risk
1 1 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (16.67%) Distributed Computing
1 1 (16.67%) Market Risk
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) ERP
2 3 (50.00%) ArchiMate
2 3 (50.00%) Business Strategy
2 3 (50.00%) Digital Strategy
2 3 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 3 (50.00%) ITIL
2 3 (50.00%) Lean Six Sigma
2 3 (50.00%) Migration
2 3 (50.00%) Six Sigma
2 3 (50.00%) TOGAF
3 2 (33.33%) AI
3 2 (33.33%) Financial Modelling
4 1 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (16.67%) Computer Science
4 1 (16.67%) Economics
4 1 (16.67%) Mathematics
4 1 (16.67%) Risk Management
4 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (16.67%) Use Case
4 1 (16.67%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Java
1 1 (16.67%) MATLAB
1 1 (16.67%) Python
1 1 (16.67%) R
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (100.00%) Degree
1 6 (100.00%) Master's Degree
2 3 (50.00%) AWS Certification
2 3 (50.00%) Azure Certification
2 3 (50.00%) TOGAF Certification
3 1 (16.67%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) GDPR
1 1 (16.67%) PERC
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Adaptive Insights
1 1 (16.67%) Anaplan
1 1 (16.67%) Ariba
1 1 (16.67%) SAP