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

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 25 56
Rank change year-on-year +14 +31 +13
Permanent jobs citing AI 529 241 207
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 8.26% 9.71% 3.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.26% 10.48% 4.70%
Number of salaries quoted 342 99 63
10th Percentile £42,625 £25,000 £32,218
25th Percentile £55,000 £30,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% +18.18% -15.38%
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £79,375
90th Percentile £107,500 £110,000 £100,150
North West median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% +9.09% -15.38%

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 4,698 2,299 4,400
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 73.39% 92.66% 82.78%
Number of salaries quoted 3,723 1,325 3,173
10th Percentile £33,500 £29,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £37,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -7.60%
75th Percentile £78,957 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £98,300 £87,650 £82,500
North West median annual salary £55,000 £50,055 £50,000
% change year-on-year +9.88% +0.11% -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 18 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 18 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 -4 15 £80,000 - 6
Cheadle - 11 £63,750 -
Bolton +26 8 £30,000 - 4
Ashton-under-Lyne - 7 £51,000 - 1
Stockport -6 3 £32,500 - 3
Bury - 3 £92,482 - 2
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 13 (2.46%) SharePoint
2 6 (1.13%) CMS
2 6 (1.13%) Jupyter
3 5 (0.95%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (0.95%) WordPress
4 2 (0.38%) IIS
4 2 (0.38%) nginx
5 1 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.19%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.19%) WebSphere
Applications
1 17 (3.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (2.08%) Chatbot
3 5 (0.95%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (2.27%) Cloudability
2 1 (0.19%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.19%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 143 (27.03%) Azure
2 128 (24.20%) AWS
3 60 (11.34%) Power Platform
4 55 (10.40%) SaaS
5 54 (10.21%) GCP
6 34 (6.43%) Azure AI
7 32 (6.05%) Serverless
8 27 (5.10%) GitHub
9 26 (4.91%) Microsoft 365
10 24 (4.54%) Microsoft Copilot
11 20 (3.78%) Anthropic Claude
12 19 (3.59%) Azure DevOps
13 16 (3.02%) GitHub Actions
14 14 (2.65%) PowerApps
15 12 (2.27%) AWS Lambda
16 10 (1.89%) Cloud Computing
16 10 (1.89%) Microsoft Purview
17 9 (1.70%) Amazon S3
17 9 (1.70%) Firebase
17 9 (1.70%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.51%) Firewall
2 6 (1.13%) VLAN
3 5 (0.95%) BGP
3 5 (0.95%) DNS
3 5 (0.95%) SAN
4 3 (0.57%) DKIM
4 3 (0.57%) DMARC
4 3 (0.57%) OSPF
4 3 (0.57%) PBX
4 3 (0.57%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.57%) Unified Communications
4 3 (0.57%) VoIP
4 3 (0.57%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (0.38%) DMZ
5 2 (0.38%) IPFIX
5 2 (0.38%) IPsec
5 2 (0.38%) Network Security
5 2 (0.38%) SD-WAN
5 2 (0.38%) SNMP
5 2 (0.38%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (6.99%) Power BI
2 24 (4.54%) Tableau
3 17 (3.21%) PostgreSQL
4 15 (2.84%) MongoDB
5 13 (2.46%) NoSQL
6 12 (2.27%) SQL Server
7 10 (1.89%) Relational Database
8 7 (1.32%) Data Warehouse
9 6 (1.13%) RDBMS
10 5 (0.95%) Big Data
10 5 (0.95%) MySQL
10 5 (0.95%) Pinecone
11 4 (0.76%) Data Lake
11 4 (0.76%) Data Mining
11 4 (0.76%) Electronic Patient Records
12 3 (0.57%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (0.57%) Redis
12 3 (0.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 3 (0.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 2 (0.38%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 21 (3.97%) Git
2 17 (3.21%) GitLab
3 14 (2.65%) Jenkins
4 13 (2.46%) Claude Code
5 12 (2.27%) Snyk
6 9 (1.70%) JUnit
6 9 (1.70%) Spock
7 6 (1.13%) Visual Studio Code
8 5 (0.95%) JIRA
8 5 (0.95%) Postman
9 4 (0.76%) Maven
9 4 (0.76%) Selenium
9 4 (0.76%) Vite
10 2 (0.38%) Terragrunt
10 2 (0.38%) XCUITest
11 1 (0.19%) Gemini Tracker
11 1 (0.19%) Gradle
11 1 (0.19%) MLflow
11 1 (0.19%) Mocha
11 1 (0.19%) Storybook
General
1 113 (21.36%) Social Skills
2 107 (20.23%) Finance
3 71 (13.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 53 (10.02%) Analytical Skills
5 34 (6.43%) Banking
5 34 (6.43%) Public Sector
6 17 (3.21%) Law
6 17 (3.21%) Retail
7 15 (2.84%) Organisational Skills
8 14 (2.65%) Marketing
9 11 (2.08%) Manufacturing
10 7 (1.32%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (0.95%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (0.95%) Telecoms
12 4 (0.76%) Health Technology
12 4 (0.76%) Legal
13 3 (0.57%) Billing
13 3 (0.57%) Games
13 3 (0.57%) Legal Technology
13 3 (0.57%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 154 (29.11%) Senior
2 61 (11.53%) Architect
3 54 (10.21%) Software Engineer
4 44 (8.32%) Analyst
5 41 (7.75%) Developer
6 30 (5.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 30 (5.67%) Python Engineer
7 26 (4.91%) Senior Developer
8 23 (4.35%) Senior Software Engineer
9 22 (4.16%) Solutions Architect
10 20 (3.78%) Data Analyst
10 20 (3.78%) Service Manager
11 19 (3.59%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
11 19 (3.59%) Senior Analyst
11 19 (3.59%) Senior Architect
12 18 (3.40%) Lead
12 18 (3.40%) Python Software Engineer
12 18 (3.40%) Security Architect
12 18 (3.40%) Senior Manager
13 17 (3.21%) Data Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (6.24%) React
2 24 (4.54%) Vue
3 23 (4.35%) CSS
3 23 (4.35%) HTML
4 22 (4.16%) Spring
5 21 (3.97%) .NET
5 21 (3.97%) FastAPI
6 19 (3.59%) Node.js
7 15 (2.84%) AngularJS
7 15 (2.84%) LangChain
8 13 (2.46%) OAuth
9 12 (2.27%) JWT
9 12 (2.27%) RESTful
10 11 (2.08%) Kafka
10 11 (2.08%) OpenID
10 11 (2.08%) SAML
10 11 (2.08%) Spring Boot
11 10 (1.89%) Flask
12 9 (1.70%) Django
12 9 (1.70%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 60 (11.34%) Cloud Native
2 38 (7.18%) AI Agents
3 36 (6.81%) Distributed Systems
4 33 (6.24%) Product Ownership
5 32 (6.05%) Onboarding
6 23 (4.35%) Data Centre
7 11 (2.08%) Private Cloud
7 11 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
8 10 (1.89%) Algorithms
8 10 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
9 9 (1.70%) Marketing Technology
10 8 (1.51%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 8 (1.51%) Management Information System
11 7 (1.32%) Analytical Mindset
11 7 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
12 6 (1.13%) Credit Risk
12 6 (1.13%) Life Science
12 6 (1.13%) Virtual Team
13 5 (0.95%) Social Media
14 4 (0.76%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 11 (2.08%) Windows
2 6 (1.13%) Linux
2 6 (1.13%) Windows Server
3 5 (0.95%) Apple iOS
4 4 (0.76%) Android
5 1 (0.19%) Unix
5 1 (0.19%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (22.87%) CI/CD
2 102 (19.28%) DevOps
3 96 (18.15%) Agile
4 93 (17.58%) Software Engineering
5 80 (15.12%) Analytics
5 80 (15.12%) Machine Learning
6 63 (11.91%) Problem-Solving
7 62 (11.72%) Roadmaps
8 61 (11.53%) Continuous Improvement
9 59 (11.15%) Cybersecurity
10 50 (9.45%) Decision-Making
11 48 (9.07%) LLM
11 48 (9.07%) Mentoring
11 48 (9.07%) Microservices
12 46 (8.70%) Observability
12 46 (8.70%) Stakeholder Management
13 44 (8.32%) Infrastructure as Code
14 43 (8.13%) Full-Stack Development
15 40 (7.56%) B2B
15 40 (7.56%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 155 (29.30%) Python
2 73 (13.80%) SQL
3 49 (9.26%) Java
4 46 (8.70%) JavaScript
5 43 (8.13%) TypeScript
6 23 (4.35%) C#
7 14 (2.65%) PowerShell
8 11 (2.08%) Go
9 9 (1.70%) Bash
10 8 (1.51%) Scala
11 7 (1.32%) Bicep
12 5 (0.95%) Groovy
13 4 (0.76%) Kotlin
14 3 (0.57%) C
14 3 (0.57%) C++
14 3 (0.57%) PHP
14 3 (0.57%) T-SQL
15 2 (0.38%) Swift
16 1 (0.19%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 46 (8.70%) Degree
2 27 (5.10%) Security Cleared
3 24 (4.54%) Azure Certification
4 18 (3.40%) AWS Certification
4 18 (3.40%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (2.65%) SC Cleared
6 12 (2.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 10 (1.89%) Master's Degree
8 6 (1.13%) ACCA
8 6 (1.13%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 6 (1.13%) CIMA
8 6 (1.13%) DV Cleared
9 5 (0.95%) DBS Check
10 4 (0.76%) MBA
11 2 (0.38%) CCIE
11 2 (0.38%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.38%) CSPO
11 2 (0.38%) HNC
11 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (3.78%) GDPR
2 17 (3.21%) Data Quality
2 17 (3.21%) GRC
3 15 (2.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 15 (2.84%) QA
4 12 (2.27%) SLA
5 10 (1.89%) PCI DSS
6 9 (1.70%) Accessibility
7 7 (1.32%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 6 (1.13%) NIST
9 5 (0.95%) WCAG
10 4 (0.76%) SOC 2
11 3 (0.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 2 (0.38%) GAAP
12 2 (0.38%) IFRS
13 1 (0.19%) Solvency II
System Software
1 38 (7.18%) Docker
2 15 (2.84%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (1.51%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.57%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.57%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 37 (6.99%) Kubernetes
1 37 (6.99%) Terraform
2 11 (2.08%) Grafana
3 8 (1.51%) Prometheus
4 3 (0.57%) cPanel
4 3 (0.57%) Nagios
4 3 (0.57%) Plesk
5 2 (0.38%) Ansible
5 2 (0.38%) Istio
5 2 (0.38%) linkerd
5 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Clustering
5 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.38%) Progress Chef
5 2 (0.38%) Puppet
5 2 (0.38%) SolarWinds Orion
6 1 (0.19%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 88 (16.64%) Microsoft
2 22 (4.16%) ServiceNow
3 17 (3.21%) Adobe
4 16 (3.02%) CrowdStrike
4 16 (3.02%) Splunk
5 14 (2.65%) Google
5 14 (2.65%) OpenAI
6 13 (2.46%) Apple
7 12 (2.27%) Palo Alto
7 12 (2.27%) Tenable
8 10 (1.89%) AppDynamics
9 9 (1.70%) Databricks
10 8 (1.51%) VMware
11 7 (1.32%) Oracle
12 5 (0.95%) Cisco
13 4 (0.76%) OneLogin
14 3 (0.57%) Acronis
14 3 (0.57%) Datto
14 3 (0.57%) Dynatrace
14 3 (0.57%) WatchGuard