Smart City Job Trends in Manchester

Smart Cities
North West > Manchester

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Smart City in permanent job vacancies in Manchester. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Smart City over the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 131 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Smart City 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.034% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.091% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 - -
75th Percentile £57,500 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median annual salary £55,000 - -

All Generic Skills
Manchester

Smart City falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,094 967 941
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 37.50% 36.26% 37.19%
Number of salaries quoted 507 448 730
10th Percentile £26,250 £32,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £33,125 £41,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £71,369
90th Percentile £88,000 £86,250 £85,000
North West median annual salary £50,000 £52,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% -

Smart City
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Smart City job vacancy trend in Manchester

Smart City
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Smart City.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Smart City

Smart City
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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Wi-Fi
General
1 1 (100.00%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) C# Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Mid Level C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Signage
1 1 (100.00%) IoT
1 1 (100.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#