AI Job Trends in Sale

AI
Manchester > Sale

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Sale requiring AI skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing AI 2 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Sale 15.38% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 18.18% - -
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £58,750 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 - -
75th Percentile £66,250 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Manchester median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +7.69% -3.70% +3.85%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Sale

AI 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 Sale.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11 14 20
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Sale 84.62% 87.50% 86.96%
Number of salaries quoted 10 0 8
10th Percentile £16,100 - £22,550
25th Percentile £22,388 - £26,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 - £29,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +20.83%
75th Percentile £65,000 - £57,188
90th Percentile £66,250 - £75,000
Manchester median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%

AI
Job Vacancy Trend in Sale

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing AI relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Sale.

AI job vacancy trend in Sale

AI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sale 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 (100.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (100.00%) Power Platform
1 2 (100.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Azure SQL Database
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Lead
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Business Continuity
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) Digital Innovation
1 2 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) IT Strategy
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 2 (100.00%) Strategic Roadmap
1 2 (100.00%) Technology Strategy
1 2 (100.00%) Technology Transformation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL Certification
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft