MBA Job Trends in the North West

Master of Business Administration (MBA)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for MBA qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 173 192 195
Rank change year-on-year +19 +3 +118
Permanent jobs citing MBA 6 15 2
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.095% 0.30% 0.044%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.21% 0.75% 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 1 9 0
10th Percentile - £64,044 -
25th Percentile £72,500 £64,923 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £69,315 -
Median % change year-on-year +8.20% - -
75th Percentile £77,500 £112,500 -
90th Percentile - £113,800 -
England median annual salary £75,000 £69,315 £80,000
% change year-on-year +8.20% -13.36% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
North West

MBA falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in the North West.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 2,793 2,010 1,054
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 44.03% 39.89% 23.41%
Number of salaries quoted 688 872 701
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,000 £29,500
25th Percentile £29,000 £40,000 £38,734
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £50,055 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.11% -4.66% -4.55%
75th Percentile £60,000 £64,010 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -

MBA
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing MBA relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North West.

MBA job vacancy trend in the North West

MBA
Salary Trend in the North West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing MBA.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing MBA

MBA
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 MBA within the North West region over the 6 months to 13 January 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
Manchester +25 6 £75,000 -28.57%
MBA
England

MBA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 1 (16.67%) Apache Spark
1 1 (16.67%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) Azure
2 3 (50.00%) AWS
3 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
3 1 (16.67%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Cisco IPT
1 1 (16.67%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (16.67%) Data Lake
1 1 (16.67%) Data Mining
1 1 (16.67%) Hadoop
1 1 (16.67%) Power BI
1 1 (16.67%) Tableau
General
1 3 (50.00%) Finance
1 3 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Law
3 1 (16.67%) Legal
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture Director
2 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Lead
2 1 (16.67%) Senior
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Pandas
1 1 (16.67%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (16.67%) Credit Risk
1 1 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (16.67%) Distributed Computing
1 1 (16.67%) Market Risk
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) ERP
2 3 (50.00%) ArchiMate
2 3 (50.00%) Business Strategy
2 3 (50.00%) Digital Strategy
2 3 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 3 (50.00%) ITIL
2 3 (50.00%) Lean Six Sigma
2 3 (50.00%) Migration
2 3 (50.00%) Six Sigma
2 3 (50.00%) TOGAF
3 2 (33.33%) AI
3 2 (33.33%) Financial Modelling
4 1 (16.67%) Analytics
4 1 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (16.67%) Data Modelling
4 1 (16.67%) Data Privacy
4 1 (16.67%) Economics
4 1 (16.67%) Risk Management
4 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (16.67%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Java
1 1 (16.67%) MATLAB
1 1 (16.67%) Python
1 1 (16.67%) R
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (100.00%) Degree
1 6 (100.00%) Master's Degree
2 3 (50.00%) AWS Certification
2 3 (50.00%) Azure Certification
2 3 (50.00%) TOGAF Certification
3 1 (16.67%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) GDPR
1 1 (16.67%) PERC
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Adaptive Insights
1 1 (16.67%) Anaplan
1 1 (16.67%) Ariba
1 1 (16.67%) SAP