AI Job Trends in Manchester

AI
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring AI skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 17 44
Rank change year-on-year +7 +27 +15
Permanent jobs citing AI 603 267 209
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 8.74% 10.70% 4.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.69% 11.76% 5.79%
Number of salaries quoted 371 99 55
10th Percentile £42,500 £25,000 £37,555
25th Percentile £53,750 £33,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -3.70% +3.85%
75th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £105,000 £110,000 £99,050
North West median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +16.67% +4.35% -11.54%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 5,157 2,271 3,607
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 74.75% 90.99% 81.92%
Number of salaries quoted 4,045 1,317 2,329
10th Percentile £33,000 £29,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £35,500 £41,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £69,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £87,500 £83,500
North West median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £51,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -1.96% -7.27%

AI
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

AI job vacancy trend in Manchester

AI
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing AI.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing AI

AI
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing AI in Manchester over the 6 months to 17 August 2026.

Salary histogram for AI in Manchester

AI
Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing AI within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 17 August 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
Salford -4 18 £80,000 +15.30% 7
Cheadle - 11 £63,750 -
Ashton-under-Lyne - 9 £51,000 - 2
Bolton +24 8 £30,000 - 7
Stockport -2 5 £51,250 - 2
Bury - 3 £92,482 - 3
Sale - 2 £62,500 - 1
AI
North West

AI
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 18 (2.99%) SharePoint
2 7 (1.16%) Apache
2 7 (1.16%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (1.00%) CMS
4 5 (0.83%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (0.66%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 3 (0.50%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.50%) WordPress
7 2 (0.33%) Confluence
7 2 (0.33%) IIS
7 2 (0.33%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.33%) nginx
8 1 (0.17%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.17%) WebSphere
Applications
1 18 (2.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.33%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.17%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 12 (1.99%) Cloudability
2 2 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.17%) Odoo
3 1 (0.17%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 151 (25.04%) Azure
2 147 (24.38%) AWS
3 62 (10.28%) Power Platform
3 62 (10.28%) SaaS
4 61 (10.12%) GCP
5 36 (5.97%) GitHub
6 32 (5.31%) Serverless
7 30 (4.98%) Azure AI
7 30 (4.98%) Microsoft 365
8 29 (4.81%) Microsoft Copilot
9 24 (3.98%) Azure DevOps
10 20 (3.32%) Anthropic Claude
11 17 (2.82%) PowerApps
11 17 (2.82%) Snowflake
12 16 (2.65%) GitHub Actions
13 14 (2.32%) GitHub Copilot
14 13 (2.16%) PaaS
15 12 (1.99%) AWS Lambda
15 12 (1.99%) dbt
15 12 (1.99%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.33%) Firewall
2 6 (1.00%) VLAN
3 5 (0.83%) BGP
3 5 (0.83%) DNS
3 5 (0.83%) SAN
4 3 (0.50%) DKIM
4 3 (0.50%) DMARC
4 3 (0.50%) HTTP
4 3 (0.50%) OSPF
4 3 (0.50%) PBX
4 3 (0.50%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.50%) Unified Communications
4 3 (0.50%) VoIP
4 3 (0.50%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (0.33%) IPFIX
5 2 (0.33%) IPsec
5 2 (0.33%) Network Security
5 2 (0.33%) SD-WAN
5 2 (0.33%) SNMP
5 2 (0.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (5.64%) Power BI
2 26 (4.31%) PostgreSQL
3 23 (3.81%) Tableau
4 17 (2.82%) MongoDB
5 15 (2.49%) SQL Server
6 14 (2.32%) NoSQL
7 12 (1.99%) Data Warehouse
7 12 (1.99%) Relational Database
8 9 (1.49%) DynamoDB
9 6 (1.00%) Azure SQL Database
9 6 (1.00%) RDBMS
10 5 (0.83%) Big Data
10 5 (0.83%) Pinecone
11 4 (0.66%) Amazon Redshift
11 4 (0.66%) BigQuery
11 4 (0.66%) Data Lake
11 4 (0.66%) Data Mining
11 4 (0.66%) Electronic Patient Records
11 4 (0.66%) MySQL
12 3 (0.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 31 (5.14%) Git
2 21 (3.48%) GitLab
3 18 (2.99%) Jenkins
4 13 (2.16%) Claude Code
5 12 (1.99%) JIRA
5 12 (1.99%) Snyk
6 11 (1.82%) JUnit
6 11 (1.82%) Spock
7 8 (1.33%) Maven
8 5 (0.83%) Postman
8 5 (0.83%) Visual Studio Code
9 4 (0.66%) Selenium
9 4 (0.66%) Storybook
9 4 (0.66%) Vite
10 3 (0.50%) Bitbucket
11 2 (0.33%) IntelliJ
11 2 (0.33%) Mocha
11 2 (0.33%) Terragrunt
11 2 (0.33%) XCUITest
12 1 (0.17%) MLflow
General
1 146 (24.21%) Social Skills
2 116 (19.24%) Finance
3 80 (13.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 62 (10.28%) Analytical Skills
5 36 (5.97%) Public Sector
6 27 (4.48%) Banking
7 26 (4.31%) Law
8 19 (3.15%) Marketing
9 16 (2.65%) Organisational Skills
10 13 (2.16%) Influencing Skills
10 13 (2.16%) Retail
11 8 (1.33%) Local Government
11 8 (1.33%) Manufacturing
12 7 (1.16%) Legal
13 6 (1.00%) Social Housing
14 5 (0.83%) Telecoms
15 4 (0.66%) Billing
15 4 (0.66%) Games
15 4 (0.66%) Presentation Skills
15 4 (0.66%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 173 (28.69%) Senior
2 71 (11.77%) Architect
3 58 (9.62%) Software Engineer
4 50 (8.29%) Developer
5 47 (7.79%) Analyst
6 31 (5.14%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 31 (5.14%) Solutions Architect
7 30 (4.98%) Python Engineer
7 30 (4.98%) Senior Developer
8 28 (4.64%) Lead
9 27 (4.48%) Data Engineer
10 26 (4.31%) Senior Architect
10 26 (4.31%) Senior Software Engineer
11 24 (3.98%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
12 22 (3.65%) Senior Manager
13 20 (3.32%) Senior Analyst
14 19 (3.15%) Data Analyst
14 19 (3.15%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 19 (3.15%) Service Manager
15 18 (2.99%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (5.80%) React
2 24 (3.98%) Spring
3 22 (3.65%) CSS
3 22 (3.65%) HTML
3 22 (3.65%) Node.js
3 22 (3.65%) Vue
4 19 (3.15%) .NET
4 19 (3.15%) AngularJS
4 19 (3.15%) FastAPI
5 15 (2.49%) LangChain
6 13 (2.16%) OAuth
7 12 (1.99%) JWT
7 12 (1.99%) REST
8 11 (1.82%) Kafka
8 11 (1.82%) Microsoft Graph
8 11 (1.82%) OpenID
8 11 (1.82%) SAML
8 11 (1.82%) Spring Boot
9 10 (1.66%) Next.js
9 10 (1.66%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 70 (11.61%) Cloud Native
2 46 (7.63%) AI Agents
3 42 (6.97%) Product Ownership
4 38 (6.30%) Distributed Systems
5 35 (5.80%) Onboarding
6 21 (3.48%) Self-Motivation
7 20 (3.32%) Data Centre
8 14 (2.32%) Management Information System
9 13 (2.16%) Private Cloud
9 13 (2.16%) Social Media
10 11 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
10 11 (1.82%) Marketing Technology
11 10 (1.66%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 8 (1.33%) Analytical Mindset
13 7 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
14 6 (1.00%) Credit Risk
14 6 (1.00%) Data Structures
14 6 (1.00%) Life Science
14 6 (1.00%) Virtual Team
15 5 (0.83%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 11 (1.82%) Windows
2 10 (1.66%) Linux
3 6 (1.00%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.33%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.33%) Unix
4 2 (0.33%) VMS
5 1 (0.17%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 132 (21.89%) CI/CD
2 127 (21.06%) Agile
3 115 (19.07%) DevOps
4 110 (18.24%) Software Engineering
5 97 (16.09%) Machine Learning
6 83 (13.76%) Analytics
7 82 (13.60%) Continuous Improvement
8 72 (11.94%) Roadmaps
9 70 (11.61%) Problem-Solving
10 64 (10.61%) Decision-Making
11 62 (10.28%) Cybersecurity
11 62 (10.28%) Stakeholder Management
12 56 (9.29%) Mentoring
13 53 (8.79%) Microservices
14 49 (8.13%) Full-Stack Development
14 49 (8.13%) LLM
14 49 (8.13%) Observability
15 47 (7.79%) Data Science
15 47 (7.79%) Generative AI
16 46 (7.63%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 164 (27.20%) Python
2 89 (14.76%) SQL
3 60 (9.95%) Java
4 57 (9.45%) JavaScript
5 51 (8.46%) TypeScript
6 26 (4.31%) C#
7 14 (2.32%) PowerShell
8 12 (1.99%) Go
9 10 (1.66%) Bash
9 10 (1.66%) Scala
10 7 (1.16%) Bicep
11 6 (1.00%) Groovy
12 5 (0.83%) C++
13 4 (0.66%) Kotlin
13 4 (0.66%) T-SQL
14 3 (0.50%) C
14 3 (0.50%) PHP
15 2 (0.33%) R
15 2 (0.33%) Swift
16 1 (0.17%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 49 (8.13%) Degree
2 39 (6.47%) Security Cleared
3 21 (3.48%) Azure Certification
4 20 (3.32%) SC Cleared
5 17 (2.82%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (2.82%) Master's Degree
6 14 (2.32%) AWS Certification
7 13 (2.16%) DV Cleared
8 12 (1.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 6 (1.00%) ACCA
9 6 (1.00%) CIMA
10 4 (0.66%) MBA
10 4 (0.66%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.50%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.33%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 2 (0.33%) CCIE
12 2 (0.33%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.33%) HNC
12 2 (0.33%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (5.31%) Data Quality
2 20 (3.32%) GDPR
3 17 (2.82%) Accessibility
3 17 (2.82%) GRC
3 17 (2.82%) QA
4 15 (2.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (1.99%) SLA
6 10 (1.66%) PCI DSS
7 7 (1.16%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 7 (1.16%) WCAG
8 6 (1.00%) NIST
9 4 (0.66%) SOC 2
10 3 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.33%) GAAP
11 2 (0.33%) IFRS
12 1 (0.17%) Solvency II
System Software
1 48 (7.96%) Docker
2 15 (2.49%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (1.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.50%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.50%) Ceph
4 3 (0.50%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 42 (6.97%) Kubernetes
2 39 (6.47%) Terraform
3 12 (1.99%) Grafana
3 12 (1.99%) Prometheus
4 6 (1.00%) Ansible
4 6 (1.00%) Istio
5 3 (0.50%) Argo
5 3 (0.50%) Check_MK
5 3 (0.50%) cPanel
5 3 (0.50%) linkerd
5 3 (0.50%) Nagios
5 3 (0.50%) Plesk
5 3 (0.50%) Podman
5 3 (0.50%) Progress Chef
5 3 (0.50%) Puppet
6 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Clustering
6 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.33%) SolarWinds Orion
7 1 (0.17%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 88 (14.59%) Microsoft
2 22 (3.65%) ServiceNow
3 20 (3.32%) Adobe
4 18 (2.99%) Databricks
4 18 (2.99%) Splunk
5 16 (2.65%) CrowdStrike
5 16 (2.65%) Google
6 13 (2.16%) Apple
7 12 (1.99%) AppDynamics
7 12 (1.99%) OpenAI
7 12 (1.99%) Palo Alto
7 12 (1.99%) Tenable
8 10 (1.66%) Oracle
9 8 (1.33%) VMware
10 7 (1.16%) YouTube
11 5 (0.83%) Cisco
11 5 (0.83%) Salesforce
12 3 (0.50%) Dell
12 3 (0.50%) HubSpot
12 3 (0.50%) Red Hat