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 12 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 26 55
Rank change year-on-year +11 +29 +41
Permanent jobs citing AI 449 210 222
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 7.47% 9.25% 3.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.48% 9.70% 4.63%
Number of salaries quoted 300 84 76
10th Percentile £42,375 £25,000 £31,500
25th Percentile £55,938 £33,438 £35,092
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,500 £70,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.43% +47.37% -26.92%
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £105,250 £110,000 £98,500
North West median annual salary £72,500 £65,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +11.54% +36.84% -26.92%

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 4,283 2,164 4,797
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 71.23% 95.33% 83.04%
Number of salaries quoted 3,384 1,222 3,602
10th Percentile £32,913 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,043 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.01% +4.84% -9.19%
75th Percentile £76,250 £75,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £96,250 £92,500 £80,944
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 12 June 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 12 June 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 8 £80,000 - 7
Bolton +23 7 £30,000 - 1
Cheadle - 4 £63,750 - 1
Stockport -2 3 £32,500 - 4
Bury - 3 £92,482 - 2
Ashton-under-Lyne - 3 £51,000 - 5
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 (2.45%) SharePoint
2 6 (1.34%) CMS
2 6 (1.34%) Jupyter
3 5 (1.11%) WordPress
4 3 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.45%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.45%) IIS
5 2 (0.45%) nginx
6 1 (0.22%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 24 (5.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (2.45%) Chatbot
3 5 (1.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (1.11%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (2.67%) Cloudability
2 1 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 133 (29.62%) Azure
2 110 (24.50%) AWS
3 54 (12.03%) Power Platform
4 46 (10.24%) GCP
5 43 (9.58%) SaaS
6 29 (6.46%) Azure AI
7 28 (6.24%) Serverless
8 21 (4.68%) GitHub
8 21 (4.68%) Microsoft 365
9 18 (4.01%) Microsoft Copilot
10 17 (3.79%) Azure DevOps
11 13 (2.90%) Microsoft Purview
12 12 (2.67%) Anthropic Claude
13 11 (2.45%) GitHub Actions
14 10 (2.23%) Cloud Computing
15 8 (1.78%) Amazon ECS
16 7 (1.56%) AWS Lambda
16 7 (1.56%) ChatGPT
17 6 (1.34%) Azure Monitor
17 6 (1.34%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.34%) Unified Communications
1 6 (1.34%) VoIP
2 5 (1.11%) Firewall
2 5 (1.11%) VLAN
3 4 (0.89%) DNS
3 4 (0.89%) Telepresence
3 4 (0.89%) WebEx
4 3 (0.67%) BGP
4 3 (0.67%) OSPF
4 3 (0.67%) SAN
4 3 (0.67%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.45%) DKIM
5 2 (0.45%) DMARC
5 2 (0.45%) IPFIX
5 2 (0.45%) PBX
5 2 (0.45%) SNMP
5 2 (0.45%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.22%) HTTP
6 1 (0.22%) LTE
6 1 (0.22%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (8.24%) Power BI
2 25 (5.57%) Tableau
3 15 (3.34%) MongoDB
4 14 (3.12%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (2.45%) NoSQL
5 11 (2.45%) SQL Server
6 9 (2.00%) Relational Database
7 5 (1.11%) Big Data
7 5 (1.11%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (0.89%) Data Lake
8 4 (0.89%) MySQL
8 4 (0.89%) RDBMS
9 3 (0.67%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (0.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (0.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 2 (0.45%) DynamoDB
10 2 (0.45%) Hadoop
10 2 (0.45%) Looker
10 2 (0.45%) Pinecone
10 2 (0.45%) Redis
Development Applications
1 19 (4.23%) Git
2 12 (2.67%) Snyk
3 11 (2.45%) GitLab
3 11 (2.45%) Jenkins
4 9 (2.00%) Claude Code
5 6 (1.34%) Visual Studio Code
6 5 (1.11%) JUnit
7 4 (0.89%) Spock
7 4 (0.89%) Vite
8 3 (0.67%) JIRA
9 2 (0.45%) Maven
9 2 (0.45%) Postman
9 2 (0.45%) Selenium
9 2 (0.45%) Terragrunt
9 2 (0.45%) XCUITest
10 1 (0.22%) Gemini Tracker
10 1 (0.22%) Gradle
10 1 (0.22%) MLflow
10 1 (0.22%) Xcode
General
1 91 (20.27%) Social Skills
2 85 (18.93%) Finance
3 75 (16.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 48 (10.69%) Analytical Skills
5 37 (8.24%) Banking
6 20 (4.45%) Public Sector
7 19 (4.23%) Retail
8 14 (3.12%) Law
8 14 (3.12%) Organisational Skills
9 11 (2.45%) Manufacturing
9 11 (2.45%) Marketing
10 8 (1.78%) Telecoms
11 4 (0.89%) Legal
11 4 (0.89%) Local Government
12 3 (0.67%) French Language
12 3 (0.67%) Games
12 3 (0.67%) Italian Language
12 3 (0.67%) Portuguese Language
12 3 (0.67%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (0.67%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 113 (25.17%) Senior
2 50 (11.14%) Analyst
3 47 (10.47%) Software Engineer
4 44 (9.80%) Architect
5 33 (7.35%) Developer
6 30 (6.68%) Python Engineer
7 28 (6.24%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 21 (4.68%) Data Analyst
8 21 (4.68%) Lead
9 19 (4.23%) Senior Analyst
10 18 (4.01%) Security Architect
10 18 (4.01%) Senior Developer
11 17 (3.79%) Cloud Architect
11 17 (3.79%) Cloud Security Architect
11 17 (3.79%) Senior Software Engineer
11 17 (3.79%) Service Manager
12 16 (3.56%) Junior
12 16 (3.56%) Junior Analyst
12 16 (3.56%) Junior Data Analyst
13 15 (3.34%) Data Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (6.01%) React
2 19 (4.23%) CSS
2 19 (4.23%) FastAPI
2 19 (4.23%) HTML
2 19 (4.23%) Vue
3 17 (3.79%) .NET
4 16 (3.56%) Node.js
5 15 (3.34%) Spring
6 13 (2.90%) LangChain
7 12 (2.67%) JWT
7 12 (2.67%) OAuth
8 11 (2.45%) OpenID
8 11 (2.45%) SAML
8 11 (2.45%) Spring Boot
9 10 (2.23%) REST
10 9 (2.00%) Django
10 9 (2.00%) RESTful
11 8 (1.78%) AngularJS
11 8 (1.78%) OAuth2
12 7 (1.56%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 53 (11.80%) Cloud Native
2 28 (6.24%) AI Agents
3 27 (6.01%) Distributed Systems
3 27 (6.01%) Onboarding
4 25 (5.57%) Product Ownership
5 21 (4.68%) Data Centre
6 10 (2.23%) Algorithms
7 8 (1.78%) Self-Motivation
8 7 (1.56%) Enterprise Software
8 7 (1.56%) Greenfield Project
8 7 (1.56%) Management Information System
8 7 (1.56%) Public Cloud
9 6 (1.34%) Analytical Mindset
9 6 (1.34%) Private Cloud
10 5 (1.11%) Credit Risk
10 5 (1.11%) Life Science
10 5 (1.11%) Marketing Technology
10 5 (1.11%) Social Media
11 4 (0.89%) Cyber Threat
11 4 (0.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 10 (2.23%) Windows
2 5 (1.11%) Apple iOS
2 5 (1.11%) Linux
2 5 (1.11%) Windows Server
3 4 (0.89%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (21.38%) CI/CD
2 90 (20.04%) DevOps
3 74 (16.48%) Software Engineering
4 71 (15.81%) Agile
5 67 (14.92%) Analytics
5 67 (14.92%) Machine Learning
6 58 (12.92%) Cybersecurity
7 57 (12.69%) Problem-Solving
8 44 (9.80%) Continuous Improvement
9 42 (9.35%) Decision-Making
10 40 (8.91%) LLM
11 39 (8.69%) Roadmaps
12 38 (8.46%) Infrastructure as Code
12 38 (8.46%) Observability
13 37 (8.24%) Event-Driven
13 37 (8.24%) Mentoring
14 36 (8.02%) Business Intelligence
15 34 (7.57%) Microservices
16 32 (7.13%) Generative AI
17 31 (6.90%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 143 (31.85%) Python
2 66 (14.70%) SQL
3 38 (8.46%) Java
4 29 (6.46%) TypeScript
5 28 (6.24%) JavaScript
6 16 (3.56%) C#
7 10 (2.23%) PowerShell
8 8 (1.78%) Bash
8 8 (1.78%) Go
9 5 (1.11%) Bicep
10 4 (0.89%) Groovy
10 4 (0.89%) Scala
11 3 (0.67%) C
11 3 (0.67%) C++
11 3 (0.67%) PHP
11 3 (0.67%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.45%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.45%) Swift
Qualifications
1 33 (7.35%) Degree
2 25 (5.57%) Azure Certification
3 23 (5.12%) AWS Certification
4 19 (4.23%) Security Cleared
5 12 (2.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 11 (2.45%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (2.45%) SC Cleared
7 6 (1.34%) ACCA
7 6 (1.34%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 6 (1.34%) CIMA
8 5 (1.11%) DBS Check
9 4 (0.89%) DV Cleared
10 3 (0.67%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.45%) HNC
11 2 (0.45%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.22%) CISM
12 1 (0.22%) CISSP
12 1 (0.22%) MBA
12 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 1 (0.22%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (3.79%) GRC
2 15 (3.34%) GDPR
3 14 (3.12%) Data Quality
3 14 (3.12%) QA
4 10 (2.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 9 (2.00%) SLA
6 7 (1.56%) Accessibility
6 7 (1.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 6 (1.34%) NIST
7 6 (1.34%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.89%) SOC 2
9 3 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 3 (0.67%) WCAG
10 2 (0.45%) GAAP
10 2 (0.45%) IFRS
11 1 (0.22%) Solvency II
System Software
1 28 (6.24%) Docker
2 15 (3.34%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (1.34%) Active Directory
4 5 (1.11%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.45%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 32 (7.13%) Kubernetes
1 32 (7.13%) Terraform
2 8 (1.78%) Grafana
3 7 (1.56%) Prometheus
4 5 (1.11%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (0.89%) Cisco CUCM
6 3 (0.67%) Nagios
6 3 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.45%) cPanel
7 2 (0.45%) Microsoft Clustering
7 2 (0.45%) Plesk
8 1 (0.22%) Istio
8 1 (0.22%) linkerd
8 1 (0.22%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.22%) Puppet
8 1 (0.22%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 85 (18.93%) Microsoft
2 19 (4.23%) ServiceNow
3 18 (4.01%) Adobe
3 18 (4.01%) Apple
4 16 (3.56%) CrowdStrike
5 12 (2.67%) Google
5 12 (2.67%) Palo Alto
5 12 (2.67%) Tenable
6 11 (2.45%) OpenAI
7 9 (2.00%) Oracle
8 8 (1.78%) Databricks
8 8 (1.78%) Splunk
9 6 (1.34%) Cisco
10 5 (1.11%) VMware
11 4 (0.89%) AppDynamics
11 4 (0.89%) OneLogin
11 4 (0.89%) Salesforce
12 3 (0.67%) HighQ
12 3 (0.67%) New Relic
13 2 (0.45%) Acronis