Operations Research Job Trends in Manchester

Operations Research (or Operational Research)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Operations Research skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 159 147 -
Rank change year-on-year -12 - -
Permanent jobs citing Operations Research 5 2 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.095% 0.095% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.099% -
Number of salaries quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £59,617 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,418 - -
75th Percentile £63,220 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median annual salary £61,418 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Manchester

Operations Research 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 3,825 2,017 4,249
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 72.68% 95.37% 86.33%
Number of salaries quoted 2,625 1,289 3,404
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £54,700
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +5.12% -4.87%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,840 £69,914
90th Percentile £95,000 £91,250 £82,500
North West median annual salary £55,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.77% +6.00% -9.09%

Operations Research
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Operations Research job vacancy trend in Manchester

Operations Research
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Operations Research.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Operations Research

Operations Research
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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
Development Applications
1 5 (100.00%) Git
General
1 5 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 5 (100.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Data Scientist
1 5 (100.00%) Principal Data Scientist
1 5 (100.00%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (100.00%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) AI
1 5 (100.00%) Analytics
1 5 (100.00%) Business Strategy
1 5 (100.00%) Creative Problem-Solving
1 5 (100.00%) Data Analysis
1 5 (100.00%) Data Analytics
1 5 (100.00%) Data Privacy
1 5 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 5 (100.00%) Data Science
1 5 (100.00%) Data Strategy
1 5 (100.00%) Data Visualisation
1 5 (100.00%) Exploratory Data Analysis
1 5 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 5 (100.00%) Natural Language Processing
1 5 (100.00%) Open Source
1 5 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 5 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 5 (100.00%) Statistical Analysis
1 5 (100.00%) Statistics
1 5 (100.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Python
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft