Artificial Intelligence Job Trends in Manchester

Artificial Intelligence (AI)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Artificial Intelligence skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 49 56
Rank change year-on-year +36 +7 +64
Permanent jobs citing Artificial Intelligence 294 167 148
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 12.46% 4.14% 5.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.93% 5.02% 5.47%
Number of salaries quoted 95 35 95
10th Percentile £24,742 £41,750 £47,500
25th Percentile £41,875 £48,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +3.85% +10.64%
75th Percentile £88,750 £82,500 £84,056
90th Percentile £110,000 £93,250 £84,622
North West median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -11.54% +23.81%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

Artificial Intelligence 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 2,111 3,327 2,707
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 89.49% 82.41% 94.92%
Number of salaries quoted 1,196 1,788 2,110
10th Percentile £29,500 £30,700 £35,000
25th Percentile £34,750 £41,188 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,625 £83,575 £84,056
North West median annual salary £50,000 £50,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -0.99% -8.18% +4.76%

Artificial Intelligence
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings citing Artificial Intelligence as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for Artificial Intelligence in Manchester

Artificial Intelligence
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Artificial Intelligence.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Artificial Intelligence in Manchester over the 6 months to 15 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Artificial Intelligence in Manchester

Artificial Intelligence
Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Artificial Intelligence within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 15 September 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
Stockport +4 14 - - 11
Salford +8 9 £69,384 - 5
Wigan - 5 - - 3
Rochdale -1 4 - -
Bolton -12 2 £52,500 +12.90% 23
Oldham - 1 £65,000 - 2
Artificial Intelligence
North West

Artificial Intelligence
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 (1.70%) CMS
2 4 (1.36%) Apache
2 4 (1.36%) Apache Solr
2 4 (1.36%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.68%) Confluence
3 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.68%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 112 (38.10%) Chatbot
2 5 (1.70%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 29 (9.86%) AWS
2 24 (8.16%) Azure
3 13 (4.42%) Power Platform
4 9 (3.06%) Microsoft 365
5 8 (2.72%) GCP
6 6 (2.04%) AWS CloudFormation
6 6 (2.04%) Microsoft Copilot
7 5 (1.70%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (1.70%) Power Automate
7 5 (1.70%) SaaS
8 4 (1.36%) Amazon Bedrock
8 4 (1.36%) Azure Monitor
8 4 (1.36%) GitHub
8 4 (1.36%) Serverless
9 3 (1.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (1.02%) Amazon EMR
9 3 (1.02%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (1.02%) Cloudflare
9 3 (1.02%) Copilot Studio
10 2 (0.68%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.34%) Cisco IPT
1 1 (0.34%) DNS
1 1 (0.34%) Firewall
1 1 (0.34%) HTTP
1 1 (0.34%) Network Security
1 1 (0.34%) SD-WAN
1 1 (0.34%) VPN
1 1 (0.34%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (6.46%) MySQL
2 11 (3.74%) Power BI
3 8 (2.72%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (2.04%) MongoDB
5 5 (1.70%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (1.70%) NoSQL
5 5 (1.70%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (1.70%) Tableau
6 4 (1.36%) Big Data
7 3 (1.02%) Amazon Athena
7 3 (1.02%) Looker
7 3 (1.02%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 2 (0.68%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.34%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.34%) Delta Lake
9 1 (0.34%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.34%) Metadata
9 1 (0.34%) Neo4j
9 1 (0.34%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.34%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 11 (3.74%) Git
2 4 (1.36%) JIRA
3 3 (1.02%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.68%) MLflow
5 1 (0.34%) JUnit
General
1 68 (23.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 65 (22.11%) Analytical Skills
3 60 (20.41%) Social Skills
4 36 (12.24%) Finance
5 22 (7.48%) Marketing
6 13 (4.42%) Banking
7 10 (3.40%) Law
7 10 (3.40%) Organisational Skills
8 9 (3.06%) Public Sector
9 7 (2.38%) Aerospace
10 6 (2.04%) Legal
11 5 (1.70%) Manufacturing
11 5 (1.70%) Retail
12 3 (1.02%) Games
12 3 (1.02%) Private Banking
13 2 (0.68%) Advertising
13 2 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
14 1 (0.34%) Agriculture
14 1 (0.34%) Influencing Skills
14 1 (0.34%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 109 (37.07%) Trainer
2 23 (7.82%) Senior
3 20 (6.80%) Microsoft Specialist
4 17 (5.78%) Developer
5 14 (4.76%) Architect
6 12 (4.08%) Cisco Specialist
6 12 (4.08%) Software Engineer
7 10 (3.40%) Analyst
7 10 (3.40%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 10 (3.40%) Sales Executive
8 9 (3.06%) Senior Software Engineer
9 8 (2.72%) IT Sales Executive
10 7 (2.38%) Data Engineer
10 7 (2.38%) Technical Manager
11 6 (2.04%) Communications Manager
11 6 (2.04%) Head of AI
11 6 (2.04%) Head of Digital
11 6 (2.04%) Head of IT
11 6 (2.04%) Head of Support
11 6 (2.04%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (5.78%) React
2 8 (2.72%) CSS
3 7 (2.38%) .NET
4 6 (2.04%) HTML
4 6 (2.04%) Node.js
4 6 (2.04%) RESTful
5 4 (1.36%) Next.js
5 4 (1.36%) REST
5 4 (1.36%) Tailwind CSS
5 4 (1.36%) TensorFlow
6 3 (1.02%) .NET Framework
6 3 (1.02%) PyTorch
6 3 (1.02%) scikit-learn
6 3 (1.02%) Spring
6 3 (1.02%) Spring Boot
6 3 (1.02%) Vue
7 2 (0.68%) CSS3
7 2 (0.68%) Software Packaging
7 2 (0.68%) Web Services
7 2 (0.68%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 21 (7.14%) AI Agents
2 12 (4.08%) Data Centre
3 11 (3.74%) Cloud Native
4 9 (3.06%) Greenfield Project
5 6 (2.04%) Microsoft Licensing
6 5 (1.70%) Algorithms
7 3 (1.02%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (0.68%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (0.68%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (0.68%) Derivative
8 2 (0.68%) Equities
8 2 (0.68%) Fixed Income
8 2 (0.68%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (0.68%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (0.68%) Low-Code
8 2 (0.68%) Marketing Technology
8 2 (0.68%) NHS
8 2 (0.68%) Online Games
8 2 (0.68%) Product Ownership
8 2 (0.68%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.36%) Linux
1 4 (1.36%) Windows
1 4 (1.36%) Windows Server
2 1 (0.34%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (38.10%) Conversational UI
2 47 (15.99%) Chemistry
3 34 (11.56%) Analytics
4 26 (8.84%) Customer Service
4 26 (8.84%) Machine Learning
4 26 (8.84%) Mathematics
5 24 (8.16%) Agile
5 24 (8.16%) Roadmaps
6 21 (7.14%) Computer Science
6 21 (7.14%) Customer Engagement
6 21 (7.14%) Software Engineering
7 19 (6.46%) Continuous Improvement
7 19 (6.46%) CRM
7 19 (6.46%) Generative AI
7 19 (6.46%) User Experience
8 18 (6.12%) CI/CD
8 18 (6.12%) Statistics
9 17 (5.78%) Problem-Solving
9 17 (5.78%) Software Licensing
9 17 (5.78%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 33 (11.22%) Python
2 25 (8.50%) SQL
3 17 (5.78%) Java
4 13 (4.42%) TypeScript
5 12 (4.08%) JavaScript
6 10 (3.40%) C#
7 5 (1.70%) PowerShell
8 4 (1.36%) Go
9 3 (1.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 3 (1.02%) Scala
9 3 (1.02%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.68%) PHP
10 2 (0.68%) VBA
11 1 (0.34%) Bash
11 1 (0.34%) Bicep
11 1 (0.34%) C++
11 1 (0.34%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 155 (52.72%) Degree
2 77 (26.19%) Master's Degree
3 75 (25.51%) PhD
4 4 (1.36%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.02%) SC Cleared
5 3 (1.02%) Security Cleared
6 2 (0.68%) CBAP
6 2 (0.68%) MCP
6 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.34%) APMG
7 1 (0.34%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.34%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.34%) MBA
7 1 (0.34%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (1.36%) Data Quality
1 4 (1.36%) GDPR
2 3 (1.02%) QA
3 1 (0.34%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.34%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.34%) ITGC
3 1 (0.34%) NCSC
3 1 (0.34%) NIST
3 1 (0.34%) P3O
3 1 (0.34%) PERC
3 1 (0.34%) PMO
System Software
1 17 (5.78%) Docker
2 3 (1.02%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (3.74%) Kubernetes
2 9 (3.06%) Terraform
3 3 (1.02%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.34%) Ansible
4 1 (0.34%) Kubeflow
4 1 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 108 (36.73%) PayPal
2 63 (21.43%) Microsoft
3 27 (9.18%) Cisco
4 14 (4.76%) Google
5 12 (4.08%) Dell
6 11 (3.74%) Adobe
6 11 (3.74%) Apple
7 9 (3.06%) Palo Alto
8 8 (2.72%) VMware
9 6 (2.04%) Databricks
10 5 (1.70%) ServiceNow
11 4 (1.36%) Genesys
12 3 (1.02%) Foundry
13 2 (0.68%) Alteryx
13 2 (0.68%) Bloomberg
13 2 (0.68%) Hotjar
13 2 (0.68%) UiPath
14 1 (0.34%) Moogsoft
14 1 (0.34%) OpenAI
14 1 (0.34%) Revolut