Machine Learning Jobs in the North West

Machine Learning (ML)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring Machine Learning skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Machine Learning over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 88 187 92
Rank change year-on-year +99 -95 +15
Permanent jobs citing Machine Learning 296 105 276
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 3.77% 1.01% 3.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.94% 1.25% 3.85%
Number of salaries quoted 45 89 72
10th Percentile £38,650 £35,000 £37,875
25th Percentile £42,500 £43,750 £48,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £55,000 £58,750
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -6.38% -2.08%
75th Percentile £97,528 £65,000 £75,000
90th Percentile - £92,670 £84,500
England median annual salary £80,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% - -6.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

Machine Learning 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 7,516 8,426 7,175
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 95.78% 80.99% 95.42%
Number of salaries quoted 3,815 6,336 3,833
10th Percentile £25,480 £27,500 £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 £81,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Machine Learning
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Machine Learning in the North West

Machine Learning
Salary Trend in the North West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Machine Learning in the North West.

Salary trend for Machine Learning in the North West

Machine Learning
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Machine Learning in the North West over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Machine Learning in the North West

Machine Learning
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 Machine Learning within the North West region over the 6 months to 31 May 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 +86 126 £72,500 +20.83% 158
Lancashire -4 72 £45,000 -5.63% 61
Merseyside +69 51 £38,000 -7.88% 6
Cheshire +35 46 £57,500 +64.29% 18
Cumbria -71 1 - -
Machine Learning
England

Machine Learning
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 5 (1.69%) Apache Spark
2 2 (0.68%) Confluence
2 2 (0.68%) SAS
3 1 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 200 (67.57%) AWS
2 197 (66.55%) Azure
3 191 (64.53%) GCP
4 14 (4.73%) Azure Machine Learning
5 8 (2.70%) Power Platform
6 4 (1.35%) AWS IoT
6 4 (1.35%) Cloud Computing
6 4 (1.35%) Serverless
7 3 (1.01%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (1.01%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (1.01%) Snowflake
8 2 (0.68%) Amazon EMR
8 2 (0.68%) Amazon SageMaker
8 2 (0.68%) AWS Fargate
8 2 (0.68%) AWS KMS
8 2 (0.68%) GitHub
9 1 (0.34%) Azure Functions
9 1 (0.34%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (0.34%) dbt
9 1 (0.34%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.35%) LoRaWAN
2 3 (1.01%) Broadband
2 3 (1.01%) Internet
3 1 (0.34%) Firewall
3 1 (0.34%) VLAN
3 1 (0.34%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (3.38%) Cloud Spanner
2 8 (2.70%) Power BI
3 6 (2.03%) Big Data
3 6 (2.03%) Tableau
4 5 (1.69%) NoSQL
5 4 (1.35%) TimescaleDB
6 3 (1.01%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.68%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (0.68%) Hadoop
7 2 (0.68%) MySQL
7 2 (0.68%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 1 (0.34%) GIS
8 1 (0.34%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.34%) Neo4j
8 1 (0.34%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.34%) TigerGraph
Development Applications
1 9 (3.04%) Git
2 2 (0.68%) ER Studio
2 2 (0.68%) JIRA
3 1 (0.34%) GitLab
3 1 (0.34%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.34%) MLflow
3 1 (0.34%) RStudio
General
1 173 (58.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 69 (23.31%) Manufacturing
3 63 (21.28%) Retail
4 22 (7.43%) Finance
5 20 (6.76%) Analytical Skills
6 17 (5.74%) Social Skills
7 16 (5.41%) Banking
7 16 (5.41%) Dutch Language
7 16 (5.41%) Finnish Language
7 16 (5.41%) Norwegian Language
8 5 (1.69%) Marketing
9 4 (1.35%) Catalan Language
10 2 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.68%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.34%) Aviation
11 1 (0.34%) Legal
11 1 (0.34%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.34%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 192 (64.86%) Senior
2 187 (63.18%) Software Engineer
3 185 (62.50%) Senior Software Engineer
4 62 (20.95%) Trainer
5 13 (4.39%) Data Scientist
6 7 (2.36%) Lead
6 7 (2.36%) Machine Learning Engineer
7 4 (1.35%) Architect
8 3 (1.01%) Junior
9 2 (0.68%) Analyst
9 2 (0.68%) Data Analyst
9 2 (0.68%) Data Modeller
9 2 (0.68%) Developer
9 2 (0.68%) DevOps Engineer
9 2 (0.68%) Enterprise Architect
9 2 (0.68%) Finance Modeller
9 2 (0.68%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
9 2 (0.68%) Junior Software Engineer
9 2 (0.68%) Lead Architect
9 2 (0.68%) Lead Enterprise Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 187 (63.18%) Node.js
2 173 (58.45%) .NET
3 18 (6.08%) React
3 18 (6.08%) RESTful
4 10 (3.38%) Spring Boot
5 9 (3.04%) TensorFlow
6 7 (2.36%) HTML
6 7 (2.36%) NestJS
6 7 (2.36%) PyTorch
6 7 (2.36%) scikit-learn
7 4 (1.35%) CSS
7 4 (1.35%) Keras
8 3 (1.01%) Kafka
9 2 (0.68%) Elastic Stack
9 2 (0.68%) Playwright
9 2 (0.68%) React Native
10 1 (0.34%) Next.js
10 1 (0.34%) NLTK
10 1 (0.34%) Seaborn
10 1 (0.34%) SpaCy
Miscellaneous
1 176 (59.46%) Self-Motivation
2 172 (58.11%) Cyberattack
2 172 (58.11%) Linux Command Line
3 60 (20.27%) Robotics
4 22 (7.43%) Algorithms
5 13 (4.39%) Public Cloud
6 10 (3.38%) IoT
7 7 (2.36%) Renewable Energy
8 4 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (0.68%) Data Centre
10 1 (0.34%) AI Agents
10 1 (0.34%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (0.34%) Blog
10 1 (0.34%) CUDA
10 1 (0.34%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.34%) Driving Licence
10 1 (0.34%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.34%) Mobile App
10 1 (0.34%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.34%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 174 (58.78%) Linux
2 1 (0.34%) CentOS
2 1 (0.34%) Debian
2 1 (0.34%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 194 (65.54%) Software Engineering
2 190 (64.19%) Agile
2 190 (64.19%) Mentoring
3 179 (60.47%) User Experience
4 176 (59.46%) Scrum
5 174 (58.78%) Cloud Security
5 174 (58.78%) Data Engineering
6 173 (58.45%) Microservices
7 172 (58.11%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 90 (30.41%) Problem-Solving
9 85 (28.72%) Artificial Intelligence
10 67 (22.64%) LLM
11 63 (21.28%) Generative AI
12 60 (20.27%) Red Team
13 49 (16.55%) Data Privacy
14 31 (10.47%) Data Science
15 17 (5.74%) Analytics
15 17 (5.74%) Visualisation
16 15 (5.07%) CI/CD
17 14 (4.73%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 209 (70.61%) Python
2 192 (64.86%) JavaScript
3 190 (64.19%) Java
4 178 (60.14%) C++
5 176 (59.46%) Rust
6 172 (58.11%) Go
7 25 (8.45%) SQL
8 24 (8.11%) TypeScript
9 12 (4.05%) R
10 8 (2.70%) PHP
11 6 (2.03%) MATLAB
12 4 (1.35%) C
12 4 (1.35%) C#
12 4 (1.35%) Dart
12 4 (1.35%) Ruby
13 2 (0.68%) Bash
13 2 (0.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (0.68%) PowerShell
13 2 (0.68%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.34%) Julia
Qualifications
1 172 (58.11%) AWS Certification
1 172 (58.11%) AWS Certified Developer
1 172 (58.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 172 (58.11%) DV Cleared
1 172 (58.11%) Security Cleared
2 79 (26.69%) Degree
3 8 (2.70%) Master's Degree
4 7 (2.36%) PhD
5 6 (2.03%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (2.70%) Accessibility
2 4 (1.35%) GDPR
3 3 (1.01%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.68%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 2 (0.68%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.68%) QA
System Software
1 19 (6.42%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (4.39%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.68%) Grafana
2 2 (0.68%) Kibana
2 2 (0.68%) Prometheus
2 2 (0.68%) Terraform
3 1 (0.34%) Ansible
3 1 (0.34%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 74 (25.00%) Google
2 63 (21.28%) Databricks
3 60 (20.27%) Adobe
4 2 (0.68%) Microsoft