Trainee Job Trends in Manchester

Trainee
North West > Manchester

The median Trainee salary in Manchester is £30,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 10 February 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 149 177
Rank change year-on-year +87 +28 -148
Permanent jobs requiring a Trainee 83 6 4
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 2.48% 0.24% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.76% 0.25% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 81 2 2
10th Percentile £19,750 £29,288 -
25th Percentile £28,250 £30,656 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,500 £36,125 £32,092
Median % change year-on-year -15.57% +12.57% +18.31%
75th Percentile £33,250 £40,906 -
90th Percentile £45,000 £41,863 -
North West median annual salary £30,500 £36,125 £22,628
% change year-on-year -15.57% +59.65% -16.58%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Manchester

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Manchester. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Manchester with a recognized job title 3,003 2,385 3,409
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.88% 94.08% 94.72%
Number of salaries quoted 1,992 1,185 2,853
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £29,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -0.90%
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £88,975 £87,500 £82,500
North West median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%

Trainee
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Trainee' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Trainee job vacancy trend in Manchester

Trainee
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for Trainee job vacancies in Manchester.

Salary distribution trend for Trainee job vacancies in Manchester

Trainee
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Trainee in Manchester over the 6 months to 10 February 2026.

Salary histogram for Trainee in Manchester

Trainee
Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Trainee within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 10 February 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
Bolton - 2 £31,500 - 1
Wigan - 1 - - 5
Trainee
North West

Trainee Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester

For the 6 months to 10 February 2026, Trainee job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Manchester region featuring Trainee in the job title.

1 39 (46.99%) Microsoft
1 39 (46.99%) Python
2 37 (44.58%) Mentoring
3 35 (42.17%) Cybersecurity
4 26 (31.33%) Business Analysis
5 25 (30.12%) AWS
5 25 (30.12%) AWS Certification
5 25 (30.12%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 25 (30.12%) Project Management
6 23 (27.71%) Azure
6 23 (27.71%) Azure Certification
6 23 (27.71%) CSS
6 23 (27.71%) Git
6 23 (27.71%) GitHub
6 23 (27.71%) HTML
6 23 (27.71%) Internet
6 23 (27.71%) JavaScript
6 23 (27.71%) Microsoft Certification
7 14 (16.87%) Analytics
7 14 (16.87%) CEH
7 14 (16.87%) CompTIA Security+
7 14 (16.87%) Data Analysis
7 14 (16.87%) Data Analytics
7 14 (16.87%) Data Mining
7 14 (16.87%) Ethical Hacking
7 14 (16.87%) Line Management
7 14 (16.87%) Microsoft Excel
7 14 (16.87%) SQL
7 14 (16.87%) Tableau
8 13 (15.66%) A+ Certification

Trainee Skill Set
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 2 (2.41%) Jupyter
1 2 (2.41%) WordPress
Applications
1 14 (16.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.41%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 25 (30.12%) AWS
2 23 (27.71%) Azure
2 23 (27.71%) GitHub
3 2 (2.41%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 23 (27.71%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (16.87%) Data Mining
1 14 (16.87%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 23 (27.71%) Git
2 2 (2.41%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 39 (46.99%) Multimedia
2 28 (33.73%) Finance
3 14 (16.87%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (2.41%) Manufacturing
4 2 (2.41%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (27.71%) CSS
1 23 (27.71%) HTML
2 2 (2.41%) Hugging Face
2 2 (2.41%) Matplotlib
2 2 (2.41%) NumPy
2 2 (2.41%) Pandas
2 2 (2.41%) scikit-learn
2 2 (2.41%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.43%) Augmented Reality
1 7 (8.43%) Onboarding
1 7 (8.43%) Virtual Reality
2 2 (2.41%) Algorithms
2 2 (2.41%) Driving Licence
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (44.58%) Mentoring
2 35 (42.17%) Cybersecurity
3 26 (31.33%) Business Analysis
4 25 (30.12%) Project Management
5 14 (16.87%) Analytics
5 14 (16.87%) Data Analysis
5 14 (16.87%) Data Analytics
5 14 (16.87%) Ethical Hacking
5 14 (16.87%) Line Management
6 11 (13.25%) Change Management
6 11 (13.25%) Problem-Solving
7 9 (10.84%) Customer Service
8 2 (2.41%) AI
8 2 (2.41%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
8 2 (2.41%) Conversational UI
8 2 (2.41%) LLM
8 2 (2.41%) Prompt Engineering
8 2 (2.41%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
8 2 (2.41%) Sentiment Analysis
8 2 (2.41%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 39 (46.99%) Python
2 23 (27.71%) JavaScript
3 14 (16.87%) SQL
4 12 (14.46%) R
Qualifications
1 25 (30.12%) AWS Certification
1 25 (30.12%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 23 (27.71%) Azure Certification
2 23 (27.71%) Microsoft Certification
3 14 (16.87%) CEH
3 14 (16.87%) CompTIA Security+
4 13 (15.66%) A+ Certification
4 13 (15.66%) Network+ Certification
5 11 (13.25%) Degree
6 1 (1.20%) CompTIA CySA+
Vendors
1 39 (46.99%) Microsoft
2 2 (2.41%) Fortinet
2 2 (2.41%) Fujitsu
2 2 (2.41%) Virgin Media