Artificial Intelligence Jobs in the North West

Artificial Intelligence (AI)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring Artificial Intelligence skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Artificial Intelligence over the 6 months leading up to 6 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 68 127
Rank change year-on-year -5 +59 -18
Permanent jobs citing Artificial Intelligence 358 332 207
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 4.55% 3.03% 2.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.76% 3.77% 2.98%
Number of salaries quoted 98 146 78
10th Percentile £25,000 £32,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £38,438 £35,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £47,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +36.84% -26.92% +13.54%
75th Percentile £93,771 £70,000 £76,875
90th Percentile £110,000 £95,375 £81,217
England median annual salary £67,037 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -4.23% -6.67% +7.14%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

Artificial Intelligence 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 the North West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 7,521 8,815 6,949
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 95.64% 80.52% 95.57%
Number of salaries quoted 3,836 6,443 3,806
10th Percentile £25,396 £27,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £61,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £76,840 £80,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Artificial Intelligence
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Artificial Intelligence as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Artificial Intelligence in the North West

Artificial Intelligence
Salary Trend in the North West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Artificial Intelligence in the North West.

Salary trend for Artificial Intelligence in the North West

Artificial Intelligence
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Artificial Intelligence in the North West over the 6 months to 6 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Artificial Intelligence in the North West

Artificial Intelligence
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Artificial Intelligence within the North West region over the 6 months to 6 June 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
Manchester +20 206 £70,000 +47.37% 429
Merseyside +42 97 £57,500 +43.75% 45
Cheshire +1 32 £52,500 +50.00% 87
Lancashire -52 20 - - 22
Cumbria -64 2 - - 3
Artificial Intelligence
England

Artificial Intelligence
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 7 (1.96%) Confluence
2 4 (1.12%) Apache Spark
3 3 (0.84%) Apache
4 2 (0.56%) CMS
4 2 (0.56%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.28%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.28%) IIS
Applications
1 102 (28.49%) Chatbot
2 7 (1.96%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.56%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.28%) Magento
1 1 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 51 (14.25%) Power Platform
2 31 (8.66%) Azure
3 23 (6.42%) AWS
4 16 (4.47%) GCP
5 5 (1.40%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (1.40%) Power Automate
6 4 (1.12%) Amazon EMR
6 4 (1.12%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (1.12%) Azure Machine Learning
6 4 (1.12%) Cloud Composer
6 4 (1.12%) Cloud Computing
6 4 (1.12%) Serverless
7 3 (0.84%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (0.84%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (0.84%) Azure Service Bus
7 3 (0.84%) Entra ID
7 3 (0.84%) GitHub
7 3 (0.84%) Microsoft Copilot
7 3 (0.84%) PowerApps
7 3 (0.84%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.96%) Broadband
2 2 (0.56%) DNS
2 2 (0.56%) Firewall
2 2 (0.56%) Internet
2 2 (0.56%) SD-WAN
2 2 (0.56%) VPN
2 2 (0.56%) WAN
3 1 (0.28%) ADSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (13.97%) Power BI
2 8 (2.23%) MySQL
3 6 (1.68%) SQL Server
4 4 (1.12%) BigQuery
4 4 (1.12%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (1.12%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (0.84%) Amazon Athena
5 3 (0.84%) Big Data
5 3 (0.84%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (0.84%) Looker
6 2 (0.56%) Cloud Spanner
6 2 (0.56%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.56%) GIS
6 2 (0.56%) Metadata
6 2 (0.56%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.56%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.56%) Redis
6 2 (0.56%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.56%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 2 (0.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 15 (4.19%) Git
2 10 (2.79%) JIRA
3 1 (0.28%) GitLab
General
1 84 (23.46%) Social Skills
2 73 (20.39%) Analytical Skills
3 65 (18.16%) Retail
4 62 (17.32%) Manufacturing
5 55 (15.36%) Finance
6 54 (15.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 41 (11.45%) Organisational Skills
8 36 (10.06%) Banking
9 16 (4.47%) Dutch Language
9 16 (4.47%) Finnish Language
9 16 (4.47%) Norwegian Language
10 14 (3.91%) Marketing
11 13 (3.63%) Law
12 9 (2.51%) Legal
13 6 (1.68%) Aerospace
13 6 (1.68%) Public Sector
14 5 (1.40%) Games
15 4 (1.12%) Catalan Language
16 3 (0.84%) Advertising
16 3 (0.84%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 162 (45.25%) Trainer
2 47 (13.13%) Analyst
3 38 (10.61%) Digital Analyst
4 25 (6.98%) Senior
5 21 (5.87%) Graduate
6 18 (5.03%) Lead
7 17 (4.75%) Graduate Analyst
8 12 (3.35%) Developer
9 10 (2.79%) Cisco Specialist
10 9 (2.51%) Architect
11 6 (1.68%) Data Engineer
11 6 (1.68%) Head of AI
11 6 (1.68%) Head of Digital
11 6 (1.68%) Head of IT
11 6 (1.68%) Head of Support
11 6 (1.68%) IT Support
11 6 (1.68%) Senior Software Engineer
11 6 (1.68%) Software Engineer
12 5 (1.40%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 5 (1.40%) Gen AI Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (4.47%) React
2 12 (3.35%) Software Packaging
3 10 (2.79%) Node.js
4 8 (2.23%) TensorFlow
5 7 (1.96%) HTML
5 7 (1.96%) Playwright
5 7 (1.96%) PyTorch
5 7 (1.96%) Spring Boot
6 6 (1.68%) scikit-learn
7 5 (1.40%) .NET
7 5 (1.40%) RESTful
7 5 (1.40%) Spring
8 4 (1.12%) GraphQL
8 4 (1.12%) Keras
8 4 (1.12%) Next.js
8 4 (1.12%) Vue
9 3 (0.84%) CSS
9 3 (0.84%) Middleware
9 3 (0.84%) Unity (Game Engine)
9 3 (0.84%) WebGL
Miscellaneous
1 60 (16.76%) Robotics
2 13 (3.63%) Algorithms
3 6 (1.68%) Product Ownership
4 5 (1.40%) AI Agents
4 5 (1.40%) Greenfield Project
4 5 (1.40%) NHS
5 4 (1.12%) Analytical Mindset
5 4 (1.12%) Public Cloud
6 3 (0.84%) Animation
6 3 (0.84%) Blog
6 3 (0.84%) Embedded Systems
6 3 (0.84%) IoT
6 3 (0.84%) Onboarding
7 2 (0.56%) Data Centre
7 2 (0.56%) Housing Association
7 2 (0.56%) Management Information System
7 2 (0.56%) Operational Technology
7 2 (0.56%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (0.56%) Social Media
8 1 (0.28%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.56%) Windows
2 1 (0.28%) Linux
2 1 (0.28%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (28.77%) Conversational UI
2 101 (28.21%) Problem-Solving
3 85 (23.74%) Machine Learning
4 78 (21.79%) Generative AI
5 75 (20.95%) Agile
6 70 (19.55%) LLM
7 65 (18.16%) Analytics
8 60 (16.76%) Red Team
9 53 (14.80%) Chemistry
10 51 (14.25%) Data Privacy
11 49 (13.69%) Business Intelligence
12 48 (13.41%) Data Analytics
13 43 (12.01%) Project Delivery
14 39 (10.89%) Technology Transformation
15 38 (10.61%) Time Management
16 37 (10.34%) Mathematics
17 36 (10.06%) Digital Strategy
17 36 (10.06%) Software Engineering
18 28 (7.82%) Computer Science
18 28 (7.82%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 33 (9.22%) Python
2 30 (8.38%) SQL
3 20 (5.59%) Java
3 20 (5.59%) JavaScript
4 17 (4.75%) TypeScript
5 11 (3.07%) C#
6 8 (2.23%) R
7 7 (1.96%) C++
7 7 (1.96%) Go
8 5 (1.40%) PHP
8 5 (1.40%) T-SQL
9 4 (1.12%) C
9 4 (1.12%) Dart
9 4 (1.12%) MATLAB
9 4 (1.12%) PowerShell
9 4 (1.12%) Ruby
9 4 (1.12%) Rust
10 3 (0.84%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 3 (0.84%) HLSL
10 3 (0.84%) Scala
Qualifications
1 225 (62.85%) Degree
2 81 (22.63%) Master's Degree
3 80 (22.35%) PhD
4 7 (1.96%) DBS Check
5 6 (1.68%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (0.84%) Azure Certification
6 3 (0.84%) Security Cleared
7 2 (0.56%) CBAP
8 1 (0.28%) APMG
8 1 (0.28%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.28%) CRISC
8 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.28%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (1.96%) Data Quality
2 6 (1.68%) GDPR
3 5 (1.40%) QA
4 2 (0.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 2 (0.56%) ITGC
5 1 (0.28%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.28%) COBIT
5 1 (0.28%) P3O
5 1 (0.28%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.28%) PMO
5 1 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 6 (1.68%) Docker
2 2 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.28%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (1.68%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.84%) Terraform
3 2 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.28%) Ansible
4 1 (0.28%) Grafana
4 1 (0.28%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 101 (28.21%) PayPal
2 78 (21.79%) Google
3 64 (17.88%) Databricks
4 60 (16.76%) Adobe
5 37 (10.34%) Alteryx
6 20 (5.59%) Microsoft
7 15 (4.19%) Cisco
8 5 (1.40%) Dell
8 5 (1.40%) VMware
9 4 (1.12%) Revolut
10 3 (0.84%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.56%) Apple
11 2 (0.56%) Facebook
11 2 (0.56%) Meraki
11 2 (0.56%) SAP
12 1 (0.28%) Hotjar
12 1 (0.28%) Informatica
12 1 (0.28%) Oracle
12 1 (0.28%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 1 (0.28%) Talend