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 11 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 21 42
Rank change year-on-year +10 +21 +25
Permanent jobs citing AI 587 248 221
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 8.58% 9.96% 4.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.53% 10.92% 6.02%
Number of salaries quoted 366 99 55
10th Percentile £38,750 £25,000 £37,555
25th Percentile £52,500 £33,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% - +3.85%
75th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £106,250 £110,000 £99,050
North West median annual salary £67,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +12.50% +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 5,089 2,272 3,674
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 74.37% 91.21% 82.08%
Number of salaries quoted 4,008 1,315 2,394
10th Percentile £33,000 £29,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £36,250 £42,037
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 £69,950
90th Percentile £97,500 £87,500 £83,750
North West median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -4.55%

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 11 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 11 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 -5 17 £80,000 - 12
Cheadle - 11 £63,750 - 1
Ashton-under-Lyne - 9 £51,000 - 2
Bolton +23 8 £30,000 - 8
Stockport -4 3 £32,500 - 7
Bury - 3 £92,482 -
Sale - 1 £62,500 -
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 16 (2.73%) SharePoint
2 6 (1.02%) Apache
2 6 (1.02%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (1.02%) CMS
3 5 (0.85%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (0.68%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 3 (0.51%) Jupyter
5 3 (0.51%) OpenStack
5 3 (0.51%) WordPress
6 2 (0.34%) IIS
6 2 (0.34%) nginx
7 1 (0.17%) Confluence
7 1 (0.17%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.17%) WebSphere
Applications
1 18 (3.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.53%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.17%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 12 (2.04%) Cloudability
2 2 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.17%) Odoo
3 1 (0.17%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.17%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 149 (25.38%) Azure
2 144 (24.53%) AWS
3 62 (10.56%) Power Platform
4 61 (10.39%) GCP
5 60 (10.22%) SaaS
6 35 (5.96%) GitHub
7 32 (5.45%) Serverless
8 31 (5.28%) Azure AI
9 29 (4.94%) Microsoft Copilot
10 28 (4.77%) Microsoft 365
11 24 (4.09%) Azure DevOps
12 20 (3.41%) Anthropic Claude
13 17 (2.90%) PowerApps
14 16 (2.73%) GitHub Actions
14 16 (2.73%) Snowflake
15 13 (2.21%) GitHub Copilot
16 12 (2.04%) AWS Lambda
16 12 (2.04%) Power Automate
17 11 (1.87%) dbt
17 11 (1.87%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.36%) Firewall
2 6 (1.02%) VLAN
3 5 (0.85%) BGP
3 5 (0.85%) DNS
3 5 (0.85%) SAN
4 3 (0.51%) DKIM
4 3 (0.51%) DMARC
4 3 (0.51%) HTTP
4 3 (0.51%) OSPF
4 3 (0.51%) PBX
4 3 (0.51%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.51%) Unified Communications
4 3 (0.51%) VoIP
4 3 (0.51%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (0.34%) DMZ
5 2 (0.34%) IPFIX
5 2 (0.34%) IPsec
5 2 (0.34%) Network Security
5 2 (0.34%) SD-WAN
5 2 (0.34%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (5.96%) Power BI
2 25 (4.26%) PostgreSQL
3 24 (4.09%) Tableau
4 18 (3.07%) MongoDB
5 15 (2.56%) NoSQL
5 15 (2.56%) SQL Server
6 12 (2.04%) Data Warehouse
7 11 (1.87%) Relational Database
8 8 (1.36%) DynamoDB
9 6 (1.02%) RDBMS
10 5 (0.85%) Azure SQL Database
10 5 (0.85%) Big Data
10 5 (0.85%) Pinecone
11 4 (0.68%) Amazon Redshift
11 4 (0.68%) BigQuery
11 4 (0.68%) Data Lake
11 4 (0.68%) Data Mining
11 4 (0.68%) Electronic Patient Records
11 4 (0.68%) MySQL
12 3 (0.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 30 (5.11%) Git
2 20 (3.41%) GitLab
3 18 (3.07%) Jenkins
4 13 (2.21%) Claude Code
5 12 (2.04%) Snyk
6 11 (1.87%) JUnit
6 11 (1.87%) Spock
7 9 (1.53%) JIRA
8 8 (1.36%) Maven
9 6 (1.02%) Visual Studio Code
10 5 (0.85%) Postman
11 4 (0.68%) Selenium
11 4 (0.68%) Storybook
11 4 (0.68%) Vite
12 3 (0.51%) Bitbucket
13 2 (0.34%) IntelliJ
13 2 (0.34%) Terragrunt
13 2 (0.34%) XCUITest
14 1 (0.17%) Gemini Tracker
14 1 (0.17%) MLflow
General
1 141 (24.02%) Social Skills
2 112 (19.08%) Finance
3 79 (13.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 58 (9.88%) Analytical Skills
5 33 (5.62%) Public Sector
6 27 (4.60%) Banking
7 25 (4.26%) Law
8 18 (3.07%) Marketing
9 15 (2.56%) Organisational Skills
10 14 (2.39%) Retail
11 11 (1.87%) Influencing Skills
12 9 (1.53%) Manufacturing
13 8 (1.36%) Local Government
14 6 (1.02%) Social Housing
15 5 (0.85%) Legal
15 5 (0.85%) Telecoms
16 4 (0.68%) Billing
16 4 (0.68%) Health Technology
16 4 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
16 4 (0.68%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 172 (29.30%) Senior
2 68 (11.58%) Architect
3 58 (9.88%) Software Engineer
4 50 (8.52%) Developer
5 46 (7.84%) Analyst
6 31 (5.28%) Python Engineer
7 30 (5.11%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 30 (5.11%) Senior Developer
8 29 (4.94%) Solutions Architect
9 26 (4.43%) Data Engineer
9 26 (4.43%) Senior Software Engineer
10 25 (4.26%) Senior Architect
11 23 (3.92%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
12 22 (3.75%) Lead
13 21 (3.58%) Senior Manager
14 20 (3.41%) Data Analyst
15 19 (3.24%) Python Software Engineer
15 19 (3.24%) Senior Analyst
16 18 (3.07%) Security Architect
16 18 (3.07%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (5.96%) React
2 24 (4.09%) Spring
3 23 (3.92%) Vue
4 22 (3.75%) CSS
4 22 (3.75%) HTML
4 22 (3.75%) Node.js
5 20 (3.41%) FastAPI
6 19 (3.24%) .NET
6 19 (3.24%) AngularJS
7 15 (2.56%) LangChain
8 13 (2.21%) OAuth
9 12 (2.04%) JWT
10 11 (1.87%) Kafka
10 11 (1.87%) Microsoft Graph
10 11 (1.87%) OpenID
10 11 (1.87%) RESTful
10 11 (1.87%) SAML
10 11 (1.87%) Spring Boot
11 10 (1.70%) REST
12 9 (1.53%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 69 (11.75%) Cloud Native
2 46 (7.84%) AI Agents
3 39 (6.64%) Product Ownership
4 38 (6.47%) Distributed Systems
5 34 (5.79%) Onboarding
6 20 (3.41%) Data Centre
6 20 (3.41%) Self-Motivation
7 13 (2.21%) Management Information System
7 13 (2.21%) Private Cloud
7 13 (2.21%) Social Media
8 11 (1.87%) Enterprise Software
8 11 (1.87%) Marketing Technology
9 10 (1.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 8 (1.36%) Analytical Mindset
11 7 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
12 6 (1.02%) Credit Risk
12 6 (1.02%) Data Structures
12 6 (1.02%) Life Science
12 6 (1.02%) Virtual Team
13 5 (0.85%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 10 (1.70%) Windows
2 9 (1.53%) Linux
3 6 (1.02%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.34%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.34%) VMS
5 1 (0.17%) Android
5 1 (0.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 133 (22.66%) CI/CD
2 120 (20.44%) Agile
3 114 (19.42%) DevOps
4 107 (18.23%) Software Engineering
5 94 (16.01%) Machine Learning
6 82 (13.97%) Analytics
7 74 (12.61%) Continuous Improvement
8 68 (11.58%) Roadmaps
9 64 (10.90%) Problem-Solving
10 61 (10.39%) Cybersecurity
11 59 (10.05%) Decision-Making
12 58 (9.88%) Stakeholder Management
13 55 (9.37%) Mentoring
14 52 (8.86%) Microservices
15 50 (8.52%) LLM
16 49 (8.35%) Observability
17 47 (8.01%) Full-Stack Development
18 46 (7.84%) Data Science
19 45 (7.67%) Generative AI
19 45 (7.67%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 165 (28.11%) Python
2 87 (14.82%) SQL
3 58 (9.88%) Java
4 54 (9.20%) JavaScript
5 50 (8.52%) TypeScript
6 26 (4.43%) C#
7 14 (2.39%) PowerShell
8 12 (2.04%) Go
9 10 (1.70%) Bash
9 10 (1.70%) Scala
10 7 (1.19%) Bicep
11 6 (1.02%) Groovy
12 4 (0.68%) C++
12 4 (0.68%) Kotlin
12 4 (0.68%) T-SQL
13 3 (0.51%) C
13 3 (0.51%) PHP
14 2 (0.34%) R
14 2 (0.34%) Swift
15 1 (0.17%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 48 (8.18%) Degree
2 34 (5.79%) Security Cleared
3 22 (3.75%) Azure Certification
4 18 (3.07%) Computer Science Degree
4 18 (3.07%) SC Cleared
5 16 (2.73%) Master's Degree
6 15 (2.56%) AWS Certification
7 12 (2.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 12 (2.04%) DV Cleared
8 6 (1.02%) ACCA
8 6 (1.02%) CIMA
9 4 (0.68%) MBA
9 4 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.51%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 3 (0.51%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.34%) CCIE
11 2 (0.34%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.34%) CSPO
11 2 (0.34%) HNC
11 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (4.94%) Data Quality
2 20 (3.41%) GDPR
3 17 (2.90%) GRC
4 16 (2.73%) Accessibility
4 16 (2.73%) QA
5 15 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (2.04%) SLA
7 10 (1.70%) PCI DSS
8 7 (1.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 7 (1.19%) WCAG
9 6 (1.02%) NIST
10 4 (0.68%) SOC 2
11 3 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 2 (0.34%) GAAP
12 2 (0.34%) IFRS
13 1 (0.17%) Solvency II
System Software
1 47 (8.01%) Docker
2 15 (2.56%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (1.36%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.51%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.51%) Ceph
4 3 (0.51%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 41 (6.98%) Kubernetes
2 38 (6.47%) Terraform
3 12 (2.04%) Grafana
3 12 (2.04%) Prometheus
4 6 (1.02%) Istio
5 5 (0.85%) Ansible
6 3 (0.51%) Argo
6 3 (0.51%) Check_MK
6 3 (0.51%) cPanel
6 3 (0.51%) linkerd
6 3 (0.51%) Nagios
6 3 (0.51%) Plesk
6 3 (0.51%) Podman
6 3 (0.51%) Progress Chef
6 3 (0.51%) Puppet
7 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Clustering
7 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.34%) SolarWinds Orion
8 1 (0.17%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 87 (14.82%) Microsoft
2 22 (3.75%) ServiceNow
3 20 (3.41%) Adobe
4 18 (3.07%) Splunk
5 17 (2.90%) Databricks
6 16 (2.73%) CrowdStrike
6 16 (2.73%) Google
7 13 (2.21%) Apple
8 12 (2.04%) AppDynamics
8 12 (2.04%) OpenAI
8 12 (2.04%) Palo Alto
8 12 (2.04%) Tenable
9 10 (1.70%) Oracle
10 8 (1.36%) VMware
11 5 (0.85%) Cisco
12 3 (0.51%) Acronis
12 3 (0.51%) Dell
12 3 (0.51%) HubSpot
12 3 (0.51%) Red Hat
12 3 (0.51%) Salesforce