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 3 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 27 59
Rank change year-on-year +13 +32 +30
Permanent jobs citing AI 494 216 214
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 7.86% 9.01% 3.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.75% 9.61% 4.47%
Number of salaries quoted 326 89 73
10th Percentile £41,875 £25,000 £31,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £30,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £65,000 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% +27.45% -21.54%
75th Percentile £100,000 £93,778 £73,750
90th Percentile £110,000 £110,000 £100,150
North West median annual salary £70,000 £61,938 £50,000
% change year-on-year +13.02% +23.88% -23.08%

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 4,596 2,248 4,787
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 73.10% 93.78% 83.21%
Number of salaries quoted 3,641 1,300 3,542
10th Percentile £32,775 £29,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £38,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +4.76% -9.48%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £81,250
North West median annual salary £55,000 £51,564 £50,000
% change year-on-year +6.66% +3.13% -9.09%

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 3 July 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 3 July 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 -2 12 £80,000 - 15
Cheadle - 9 £63,750 - 2
Bolton +23 8 £30,000 - 9
Ashton-under-Lyne - 5 £51,000 - 12
Stockport -2 3 £32,500 - 2
Bury - 3 £92,482 - 8
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 11 (2.23%) SharePoint
2 6 (1.21%) CMS
2 6 (1.21%) Jupyter
3 5 (1.01%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (1.01%) WordPress
4 2 (0.40%) IIS
4 2 (0.40%) nginx
5 1 (0.20%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 19 (3.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (2.23%) Chatbot
3 5 (1.01%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (2.43%) Cloudability
2 1 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 138 (27.94%) Azure
2 122 (24.70%) AWS
3 57 (11.54%) Power Platform
4 52 (10.53%) GCP
5 50 (10.12%) SaaS
6 33 (6.68%) Azure AI
6 33 (6.68%) Serverless
7 26 (5.26%) GitHub
8 24 (4.86%) Microsoft 365
9 22 (4.45%) Microsoft Copilot
10 20 (4.05%) Anthropic Claude
11 19 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
12 15 (3.04%) GitHub Actions
13 12 (2.43%) AWS Lambda
14 10 (2.02%) Cloud Computing
14 10 (2.02%) Microsoft Purview
14 10 (2.02%) PowerApps
15 9 (1.82%) Amazon ECS
15 9 (1.82%) Amazon S3
16 8 (1.62%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.62%) Firewall
2 6 (1.21%) VLAN
3 5 (1.01%) DNS
3 5 (1.01%) SAN
4 4 (0.81%) BGP
5 3 (0.61%) DKIM
5 3 (0.61%) DMARC
5 3 (0.61%) OSPF
5 3 (0.61%) PBX
5 3 (0.61%) TCP/IP
5 3 (0.61%) Unified Communications
5 3 (0.61%) VoIP
5 3 (0.61%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (0.40%) IPFIX
6 2 (0.40%) Network Security
6 2 (0.40%) SNMP
7 1 (0.20%) DMZ
7 1 (0.20%) IPsec
7 1 (0.20%) LTE
7 1 (0.20%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (7.49%) Power BI
2 25 (5.06%) Tableau
3 16 (3.24%) PostgreSQL
4 15 (3.04%) MongoDB
5 12 (2.43%) NoSQL
5 12 (2.43%) SQL Server
6 10 (2.02%) Relational Database
7 7 (1.42%) Data Warehouse
8 6 (1.21%) RDBMS
9 5 (1.01%) Big Data
9 5 (1.01%) MySQL
9 5 (1.01%) Pinecone
10 4 (0.81%) Data Lake
10 4 (0.81%) Data Mining
11 3 (0.61%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (0.61%) Redis
11 3 (0.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (0.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 2 (0.40%) DynamoDB
12 2 (0.40%) Looker
Development Applications
1 23 (4.66%) Git
2 14 (2.83%) GitLab
2 14 (2.83%) Jenkins
3 13 (2.63%) Claude Code
4 12 (2.43%) Snyk
5 6 (1.21%) JUnit
5 6 (1.21%) Spock
5 6 (1.21%) Visual Studio Code
6 5 (1.01%) Postman
7 4 (0.81%) Selenium
7 4 (0.81%) Vite
8 3 (0.61%) JIRA
9 2 (0.40%) Maven
9 2 (0.40%) Terragrunt
9 2 (0.40%) XCUITest
10 1 (0.20%) Gemini Tracker
10 1 (0.20%) Gradle
10 1 (0.20%) MLflow
10 1 (0.20%) Mocha
10 1 (0.20%) Xcode
General
1 102 (20.65%) Social Skills
2 98 (19.84%) Finance
3 69 (13.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 49 (9.92%) Analytical Skills
5 35 (7.09%) Banking
6 30 (6.07%) Public Sector
7 19 (3.85%) Retail
8 16 (3.24%) Law
9 15 (3.04%) Organisational Skills
10 13 (2.63%) Marketing
11 11 (2.23%) Manufacturing
12 6 (1.21%) Influencing Skills
13 5 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (1.01%) Telecoms
14 3 (0.61%) Billing
14 3 (0.61%) French Language
14 3 (0.61%) Games
14 3 (0.61%) Italian Language
14 3 (0.61%) Portuguese Language
14 3 (0.61%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 135 (27.33%) Senior
2 55 (11.13%) Architect
3 52 (10.53%) Software Engineer
4 45 (9.11%) Analyst
5 38 (7.69%) Developer
6 32 (6.48%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 28 (5.67%) Python Engineer
8 23 (4.66%) Senior Developer
9 21 (4.25%) Data Analyst
10 20 (4.05%) Service Manager
10 20 (4.05%) Solutions Architect
11 19 (3.85%) Lead
11 19 (3.85%) Senior Analyst
12 18 (3.64%) Security Architect
12 18 (3.64%) Senior Architect
12 18 (3.64%) Senior Software Engineer
13 17 (3.44%) Cloud Architect
13 17 (3.44%) Cloud Security Architect
13 17 (3.44%) Data Manager
14 16 (3.24%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (6.28%) React
2 24 (4.86%) Vue
3 21 (4.25%) FastAPI
4 20 (4.05%) .NET
4 20 (4.05%) CSS
4 20 (4.05%) HTML
5 19 (3.85%) Spring
6 18 (3.64%) Node.js
7 15 (3.04%) LangChain
8 13 (2.63%) OAuth
9 12 (2.43%) JWT
9 12 (2.43%) Spring Boot
10 11 (2.23%) AngularJS
10 11 (2.23%) OpenID
10 11 (2.23%) RESTful
10 11 (2.23%) SAML
11 10 (2.02%) Kafka
11 10 (2.02%) REST
12 9 (1.82%) Flask
12 9 (1.82%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 60 (12.15%) Cloud Native
2 38 (7.69%) AI Agents
3 32 (6.48%) Product Ownership
4 31 (6.28%) Distributed Systems
5 28 (5.67%) Onboarding
6 22 (4.45%) Data Centre
7 10 (2.02%) Algorithms
8 9 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
9 8 (1.62%) Private Cloud
10 7 (1.42%) Greenfield Project
10 7 (1.42%) Management Information System
10 7 (1.42%) Marketing Technology
11 6 (1.21%) Credit Risk
11 6 (1.21%) Enterprise Software
11 6 (1.21%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 6 (1.21%) Virtual Team
12 5 (1.01%) Analytical Mindset
12 5 (1.01%) Life Science
12 5 (1.01%) Social Media
13 4 (0.81%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 11 (2.23%) Windows
2 6 (1.21%) Windows Server
3 5 (1.01%) Apple iOS
3 5 (1.01%) Linux
4 4 (0.81%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (22.47%) CI/CD
2 96 (19.43%) DevOps
3 86 (17.41%) Agile
3 86 (17.41%) Software Engineering
4 79 (15.99%) Machine Learning
5 77 (15.59%) Analytics
6 60 (12.15%) Problem-Solving
7 56 (11.34%) Cybersecurity
8 55 (11.13%) Continuous Improvement
9 53 (10.73%) Roadmaps
10 48 (9.72%) LLM
10 48 (9.72%) Mentoring
11 47 (9.51%) Decision-Making
12 44 (8.91%) Infrastructure as Code
13 43 (8.70%) Microservices
14 42 (8.50%) Observability
15 38 (7.69%) Generative AI
16 37 (7.49%) Event-Driven
16 37 (7.49%) Workflow
17 36 (7.29%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 153 (30.97%) Python
2 71 (14.37%) SQL
3 43 (8.70%) Java
4 40 (8.10%) TypeScript
5 36 (7.29%) JavaScript
6 21 (4.25%) C#
7 12 (2.43%) PowerShell
8 11 (2.23%) Go
9 9 (1.82%) Bash
10 7 (1.42%) Bicep
11 6 (1.21%) Scala
12 4 (0.81%) Groovy
12 4 (0.81%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.61%) C
13 3 (0.61%) C++
13 3 (0.61%) PHP
13 3 (0.61%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.40%) Swift
Qualifications
1 39 (7.89%) Degree
2 25 (5.06%) Azure Certification
3 23 (4.66%) Security Cleared
4 18 (3.64%) AWS Certification
5 15 (3.04%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (2.63%) SC Cleared
7 12 (2.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 8 (1.62%) Master's Degree
9 6 (1.21%) ACCA
9 6 (1.21%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 6 (1.21%) CIMA
10 5 (1.01%) DBS Check
11 4 (0.81%) DV Cleared
12 3 (0.61%) MBA
13 2 (0.40%) CSPO
13 2 (0.40%) HNC
13 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 1 (0.20%) CCIE
14 1 (0.20%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (3.85%) GDPR
2 17 (3.44%) GRC
3 16 (3.24%) Data Quality
4 15 (3.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 15 (3.04%) QA
5 12 (2.43%) SLA
6 10 (2.02%) PCI DSS
7 8 (1.62%) Accessibility
8 7 (1.42%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 6 (1.21%) NIST
10 4 (0.81%) SOC 2
10 4 (0.81%) WCAG
11 3 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 2 (0.40%) GAAP
12 2 (0.40%) IFRS
13 1 (0.20%) Solvency II
System Software
1 35 (7.09%) Docker
2 15 (3.04%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (1.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.61%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.61%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 37 (7.49%) Kubernetes
2 36 (7.29%) Terraform
3 9 (1.82%) Grafana
4 8 (1.62%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.61%) cPanel
5 3 (0.61%) Nagios
5 3 (0.61%) Plesk
6 2 (0.40%) Istio
6 2 (0.40%) linkerd
6 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Clustering
6 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.40%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.40%) Puppet
7 1 (0.20%) Ansible
7 1 (0.20%) SolarWinds Orion
7 1 (0.20%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 84 (17.00%) Microsoft
2 21 (4.25%) ServiceNow
3 16 (3.24%) CrowdStrike
4 15 (3.04%) Adobe
5 13 (2.63%) Apple
5 13 (2.63%) Google
5 13 (2.63%) OpenAI
6 12 (2.43%) Palo Alto
6 12 (2.43%) Tenable
7 10 (2.02%) Splunk
8 9 (1.82%) Databricks
9 8 (1.62%) VMware
10 6 (1.21%) AppDynamics
10 6 (1.21%) Oracle
11 4 (0.81%) Cisco
11 4 (0.81%) OneLogin
12 3 (0.61%) Acronis
12 3 (0.61%) Datto
12 3 (0.61%) Dynatrace
12 3 (0.61%) Salesforce