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 8 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 36 53
Rank change year-on-year +33 +17 +59
Permanent jobs citing AI 701 164 206
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 13.16% 7.58% 4.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 18.16% 7.93% 4.83%
Number of salaries quoted 228 79 74
10th Percentile £31,175 £25,250 £31,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £45,000 £35,092
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +57.89% -23.54%
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £89,375
90th Percentile £105,750 £111,000 £100,894
North West median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -3.45% +52.63% -20.83%

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 3,861 2,068 4,267
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 72.47% 95.52% 85.98%
Number of salaries quoted 2,716 1,281 3,406
10th Percentile £31,500 £31,375 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,840 £69,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £92,000 £82,500
North West median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -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 8 May 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 8 May 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
Stockport +11 30 £32,500 - 5
Bolton - 16 £30,000 - 5
Salford 0 15 £70,000 - 6
Bury - 13 £92,482 - 3
Wigan +4 12 - - 2
Cheadle - 12 - -
Dukinfield - 11 - -
Ashton-under-Lyne - 11 - - 8
Oldham +9 10 - - 2
Rochdale +1 10 - -
Altrincham - 10 - - 4
Heywood - 10 - - 1
Littleborough - 10 - -
Stalybridge - 10 - -
Sale - 9 - -
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 10 (1.43%) SharePoint
2 7 (1.00%) Jupyter
3 6 (0.86%) CMS
4 5 (0.71%) WordPress
5 3 (0.43%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 34 (4.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (1.71%) Chatbot
3 9 (1.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.71%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 11 (1.57%) Cloudability
2 1 (0.14%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.14%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 342 (48.79%) Cloud Computing
2 103 (14.69%) Azure
3 76 (10.84%) AWS
4 51 (7.28%) Power Platform
5 33 (4.71%) Azure AI
6 32 (4.56%) SaaS
7 28 (3.99%) GCP
8 20 (2.85%) Serverless
9 15 (2.14%) Microsoft 365
10 12 (1.71%) Microsoft Purview
11 11 (1.57%) GitHub
12 9 (1.28%) Azure Monitor
12 9 (1.28%) Entra ID
12 9 (1.28%) Microsoft Copilot
13 8 (1.14%) Anthropic Claude
13 8 (1.14%) OneDrive
14 6 (0.86%) Azure DevOps
14 6 (0.86%) ChatGPT
15 5 (0.71%) GitHub Actions
15 5 (0.71%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 332 (47.36%) Internet
2 6 (0.86%) Telepresence
2 6 (0.86%) Unified Communications
2 6 (0.86%) VoIP
2 6 (0.86%) WebEx
3 3 (0.43%) HTTP
4 1 (0.14%) BGP
4 1 (0.14%) Firewall
4 1 (0.14%) LTE
4 1 (0.14%) Network Security
4 1 (0.14%) OSPF
4 1 (0.14%) SAN
4 1 (0.14%) TCAP
4 1 (0.14%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.14%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (4.56%) Power BI
2 23 (3.28%) Tableau
3 11 (1.57%) MongoDB
4 9 (1.28%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (0.86%) NoSQL
6 4 (0.57%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (0.57%) SQL Server
7 3 (0.43%) Data Lake
7 3 (0.43%) Hadoop
7 3 (0.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (0.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (0.29%) Big Data
8 2 (0.29%) DynamoDB
8 2 (0.29%) Metadata
8 2 (0.29%) MySQL
8 2 (0.29%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.14%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.14%) Data Mining
9 1 (0.14%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 12 (1.71%) Git
2 9 (1.28%) Snyk
3 7 (1.00%) Claude Code
4 6 (0.86%) Visual Studio Code
5 5 (0.71%) Jenkins
5 5 (0.71%) JUnit
6 4 (0.57%) GitLab
6 4 (0.57%) JIRA
7 2 (0.29%) Spock
7 2 (0.29%) Vite
7 2 (0.29%) XCUITest
8 1 (0.14%) Maven
8 1 (0.14%) Postman
8 1 (0.14%) Selenium
General
1 425 (60.63%) Social Skills
2 419 (59.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 366 (52.21%) Banking
4 77 (10.98%) Finance
5 53 (7.56%) Analytical Skills
6 20 (2.85%) Public Sector
7 17 (2.43%) Retail
8 14 (2.00%) Marketing
9 11 (1.57%) Organisational Skills
10 9 (1.28%) Manufacturing
11 7 (1.00%) Law
12 6 (0.86%) Legal
12 6 (0.86%) Telecoms
13 5 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (0.57%) Local Government
15 3 (0.43%) French Language
15 3 (0.43%) Italian Language
15 3 (0.43%) Portuguese Language
15 3 (0.43%) Spanish Language
16 2 (0.29%) Games
Job Titles
1 250 (35.66%) Lecturer
2 83 (11.84%) Senior
3 53 (7.56%) Analyst
4 32 (4.56%) Software Engineer
5 28 (3.99%) Python Engineer
6 24 (3.42%) Architect
6 24 (3.42%) Data Analyst
7 21 (3.00%) Junior
7 21 (3.00%) Junior Analyst
7 21 (3.00%) Junior Data Analyst
8 19 (2.71%) Developer
9 18 (2.57%) Lead
9 18 (2.57%) Senior Analyst
10 16 (2.28%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 15 (2.14%) Service Manager
12 13 (1.85%) Senior Software Engineer
13 11 (1.57%) Cloud Architect
13 11 (1.57%) Cloud Security Architect
13 11 (1.57%) Consultant
13 11 (1.57%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (2.28%) HTML
2 15 (2.14%) CSS
2 15 (2.14%) React
3 12 (1.71%) Node.js
3 12 (1.71%) Spring
4 11 (1.57%) FastAPI
5 10 (1.43%) .NET
5 10 (1.43%) Spring Boot
6 9 (1.28%) AngularJS
7 8 (1.14%) Django
7 8 (1.14%) REST
7 8 (1.14%) Vue
8 7 (1.00%) NumPy
8 7 (1.00%) Pandas
8 7 (1.00%) RESTful
9 6 (0.86%) Hugging Face
9 6 (0.86%) Matplotlib
9 6 (0.86%) scikit-learn
9 6 (0.86%) Streamlit
10 5 (0.71%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 332 (47.36%) IoT
2 35 (4.99%) Cloud Native
3 27 (3.85%) Onboarding
4 19 (2.71%) Data Centre
4 19 (2.71%) Product Ownership
5 16 (2.28%) AI Agents
6 15 (2.14%) Distributed Systems
7 13 (1.85%) Blog
8 10 (1.43%) Algorithms
8 10 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
9 9 (1.28%) Public Cloud
10 7 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
11 6 (0.86%) Analytical Mindset
12 5 (0.71%) Low-Code
13 4 (0.57%) Cyber Threat
13 4 (0.57%) Marketing Technology
13 4 (0.57%) Social Media
13 4 (0.57%) Taxonomies
14 3 (0.43%) Greenfield Project
14 3 (0.43%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (0.71%) Apple iOS
2 4 (0.57%) Android
2 4 (0.57%) Windows
3 2 (0.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 386 (55.06%) Cybersecurity
2 377 (53.78%) Machine Learning
3 357 (50.93%) User Experience
4 334 (47.65%) Web Development
5 68 (9.70%) DevOps
6 59 (8.42%) CI/CD
7 57 (8.13%) Agile
8 50 (7.13%) Problem-Solving
9 49 (6.99%) Software Engineering
10 47 (6.70%) Analytics
11 35 (4.99%) Continuous Improvement
11 35 (4.99%) Cost Optimisation
12 33 (4.71%) Roadmaps
13 32 (4.56%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 31 (4.42%) Business Intelligence
15 30 (4.28%) B2B
16 29 (4.14%) Technology Transformation
16 29 (4.14%) Visualisation
17 28 (3.99%) Decision-Making
17 28 (3.99%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 109 (15.55%) Python
2 47 (6.70%) SQL
3 30 (4.28%) Java
4 17 (2.43%) TypeScript
5 16 (2.28%) JavaScript
6 6 (0.86%) PowerShell
7 5 (0.71%) Bash
8 4 (0.57%) C#
9 3 (0.43%) Bicep
9 3 (0.43%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.29%) C
10 2 (0.29%) C++
10 2 (0.29%) Groovy
10 2 (0.29%) Scala
10 2 (0.29%) Swift
11 1 (0.14%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.14%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.14%) PHP
11 1 (0.14%) R
Qualifications
1 378 (53.92%) Degree
2 337 (48.07%) Master's Degree
3 336 (47.93%) PhD
4 332 (47.36%) Postgraduate
5 28 (3.99%) Azure Certification
6 26 (3.71%) AWS Certification
7 13 (1.85%) Security Cleared
8 11 (1.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 9 (1.28%) Computer Science Degree
10 8 (1.14%) SC Cleared
11 6 (0.86%) ACCA
11 6 (0.86%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 6 (0.86%) CIMA
12 5 (0.71%) DBS Check
13 3 (0.43%) DV Cleared
13 3 (0.43%) PMP
14 1 (0.14%) HNC
14 1 (0.14%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (2.00%) GRC
2 11 (1.57%) QA
3 9 (1.28%) Data Quality
4 6 (0.86%) GDPR
4 6 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.57%) Accessibility
5 4 (0.57%) PCI DSS
5 4 (0.57%) SOC 2
6 2 (0.29%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (0.29%) GAAP
6 2 (0.29%) IFRS
6 2 (0.29%) NIST
6 2 (0.29%) SLA
7 1 (0.14%) Solvency II
7 1 (0.14%) WCAG
System Software
1 18 (2.57%) Docker
2 10 (1.43%) Virtual Machines
3 9 (1.28%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 16 (2.28%) Kubernetes
2 15 (2.14%) Terraform
3 8 (1.14%) Microsoft Intune
3 8 (1.14%) Single Sign-On
4 6 (0.86%) Cisco CUCM
5 4 (0.57%) Grafana
6 3 (0.43%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.14%) Nagios
Vendors
1 83 (11.84%) Microsoft
2 20 (2.85%) Adobe
2 20 (2.85%) Apple
3 16 (2.28%) ServiceNow
4 13 (1.85%) CrowdStrike
5 10 (1.43%) Splunk
6 9 (1.28%) Palo Alto
6 9 (1.28%) Tenable
7 8 (1.14%) New Relic
7 8 (1.14%) Oracle
8 7 (1.00%) Google
9 6 (0.86%) Cisco
9 6 (0.86%) Databricks
10 5 (0.71%) OpenAI
11 4 (0.57%) OneLogin
12 3 (0.43%) PayPal
12 3 (0.43%) Salesforce
13 2 (0.29%) AppDynamics
14 1 (0.14%) SAP
14 1 (0.14%) VMware