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

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 27 59
Rank change year-on-year +13 +32 +41
Permanent jobs citing AI 474 215 215
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 7.64% 9.39% 3.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.58% 9.89% 4.43%
Number of salaries quoted 319 84 73
10th Percentile £42,250 £25,000 £31,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £31,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £68,750 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.45% +37.50% -23.08%
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £110,000 £100,150
North West median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +7.69% +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 4,481 2,174 4,854
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 72.23% 94.93% 82.76%
Number of salaries quoted 3,549 1,238 3,617
10th Percentile £32,500 £29,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +4.76% -9.48%
75th Percentile £77,500 £74,258 £68,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £91,475 £80,000
North West median annual salary £55,000 £52,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.77% +4.00% -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 24 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 24 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 -9 10 £80,000 - 10
Cheadle - 9 £63,750 -
Bolton +23 8 £30,000 - 1
Ashton-under-Lyne - 4 £51,000 - 3
Stockport -1 3 £32,500 - 5
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 11 (2.32%) SharePoint
2 6 (1.27%) CMS
2 6 (1.27%) Jupyter
3 5 (1.05%) WordPress
4 3 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.42%) IIS
5 2 (0.42%) nginx
6 1 (0.21%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.21%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 19 (4.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (2.32%) Chatbot
3 5 (1.05%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (2.53%) Cloudability
2 1 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.21%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 134 (28.27%) Azure
2 119 (25.11%) AWS
3 55 (11.60%) Power Platform
4 52 (10.97%) GCP
5 48 (10.13%) SaaS
6 33 (6.96%) Serverless
7 32 (6.75%) Azure AI
8 24 (5.06%) GitHub
9 22 (4.64%) Microsoft 365
10 21 (4.43%) Microsoft Copilot
11 19 (4.01%) Anthropic Claude
12 17 (3.59%) Azure DevOps
13 13 (2.74%) GitHub Actions
14 12 (2.53%) AWS Lambda
15 11 (2.32%) Microsoft Purview
16 10 (2.11%) Cloud Computing
17 9 (1.90%) Amazon ECS
17 9 (1.90%) Amazon S3
17 9 (1.90%) PowerApps
18 8 (1.69%) ChatGPT
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.27%) Firewall
1 6 (1.27%) VLAN
2 5 (1.05%) DNS
3 3 (0.63%) BGP
3 3 (0.63%) DKIM
3 3 (0.63%) DMARC
3 3 (0.63%) OSPF
3 3 (0.63%) PBX
3 3 (0.63%) SAN
3 3 (0.63%) TCP/IP
3 3 (0.63%) Unified Communications
3 3 (0.63%) VoIP
3 3 (0.63%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.42%) IPFIX
4 2 (0.42%) Network Security
4 2 (0.42%) SNMP
5 1 (0.21%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (7.81%) Power BI
2 25 (5.27%) Tableau
3 16 (3.38%) PostgreSQL
4 15 (3.16%) MongoDB
5 12 (2.53%) NoSQL
5 12 (2.53%) SQL Server
6 10 (2.11%) Relational Database
7 6 (1.27%) Data Warehouse
7 6 (1.27%) RDBMS
8 5 (1.05%) Big Data
8 5 (1.05%) MySQL
8 5 (1.05%) Pinecone
9 4 (0.84%) Data Lake
10 3 (0.63%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (0.63%) Data Mining
10 3 (0.63%) Redis
10 3 (0.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (0.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 2 (0.42%) DynamoDB
11 2 (0.42%) Looker
Development Applications
1 23 (4.85%) Git
2 14 (2.95%) GitLab
2 14 (2.95%) Jenkins
3 13 (2.74%) Claude Code
4 12 (2.53%) Snyk
5 6 (1.27%) JUnit
5 6 (1.27%) Spock
5 6 (1.27%) Visual Studio Code
6 5 (1.05%) Postman
7 4 (0.84%) Selenium
7 4 (0.84%) Vite
8 2 (0.42%) JIRA
8 2 (0.42%) Maven
8 2 (0.42%) Terragrunt
8 2 (0.42%) XCUITest
9 1 (0.21%) Gemini Tracker
9 1 (0.21%) Gradle
9 1 (0.21%) MLflow
9 1 (0.21%) Mocha
9 1 (0.21%) Xcode
General
1 97 (20.46%) Social Skills
2 91 (19.20%) Finance
3 70 (14.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 48 (10.13%) Analytical Skills
5 35 (7.38%) Banking
6 27 (5.70%) Public Sector
7 19 (4.01%) Retail
8 16 (3.38%) Law
9 15 (3.16%) Organisational Skills
10 13 (2.74%) Marketing
11 11 (2.32%) Manufacturing
12 6 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
13 5 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (1.05%) Telecoms
14 4 (0.84%) Local Government
15 3 (0.63%) Billing
15 3 (0.63%) French Language
15 3 (0.63%) Italian Language
15 3 (0.63%) Portuguese Language
15 3 (0.63%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 125 (26.37%) Senior
2 52 (10.97%) Software Engineer
3 49 (10.34%) Architect
4 45 (9.49%) Analyst
5 39 (8.23%) Developer
6 31 (6.54%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 29 (6.12%) Python Engineer
8 22 (4.64%) Senior Developer
9 21 (4.43%) Data Analyst
10 19 (4.01%) Lead
10 19 (4.01%) Senior Analyst
10 19 (4.01%) Service Manager
11 18 (3.80%) Security Architect
11 18 (3.80%) Senior Software Engineer
12 17 (3.59%) Cloud Architect
12 17 (3.59%) Cloud Security Architect
13 16 (3.38%) Junior Analyst
13 16 (3.38%) Junior Data Analyst
13 16 (3.38%) Senior Architect
13 16 (3.38%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (6.33%) React
2 24 (5.06%) Vue
3 21 (4.43%) FastAPI
4 19 (4.01%) .NET
4 19 (4.01%) CSS
4 19 (4.01%) HTML
5 18 (3.80%) Node.js
5 18 (3.80%) Spring
6 15 (3.16%) LangChain
7 13 (2.74%) OAuth
8 12 (2.53%) JWT
8 12 (2.53%) Spring Boot
9 11 (2.32%) OpenID
9 11 (2.32%) RESTful
9 11 (2.32%) SAML
10 10 (2.11%) AngularJS
10 10 (2.11%) REST
11 9 (1.90%) Flask
11 9 (1.90%) Kafka
11 9 (1.90%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 59 (12.45%) Cloud Native
2 35 (7.38%) AI Agents
3 32 (6.75%) Product Ownership
4 31 (6.54%) Distributed Systems
5 26 (5.49%) Onboarding
6 21 (4.43%) Data Centre
7 10 (2.11%) Algorithms
8 9 (1.90%) Self-Motivation
9 8 (1.69%) Private Cloud
10 7 (1.48%) Greenfield Project
10 7 (1.48%) Management Information System
11 6 (1.27%) Analytical Mindset
11 6 (1.27%) Credit Risk
11 6 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
11 6 (1.27%) Marketing Technology
11 6 (1.27%) Virtual Team
12 5 (1.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 5 (1.05%) Life Science
12 5 (1.05%) Social Media
13 4 (0.84%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 11 (2.32%) Windows
2 6 (1.27%) Windows Server
3 5 (1.05%) Apple iOS
3 5 (1.05%) Linux
4 4 (0.84%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (22.78%) CI/CD
2 95 (20.04%) DevOps
3 85 (17.93%) Software Engineering
4 82 (17.30%) Agile
5 73 (15.40%) Machine Learning
6 72 (15.19%) Analytics
7 58 (12.24%) Problem-Solving
8 56 (11.81%) Cybersecurity
9 52 (10.97%) Continuous Improvement
10 49 (10.34%) Roadmaps
11 46 (9.70%) Decision-Making
12 45 (9.49%) LLM
12 45 (9.49%) Mentoring
13 43 (9.07%) Observability
14 41 (8.65%) Infrastructure as Code
14 41 (8.65%) Microservices
15 37 (7.81%) Event-Driven
16 36 (7.59%) Business Intelligence
17 35 (7.38%) Full-Stack Development
17 35 (7.38%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 147 (31.01%) Python
2 71 (14.98%) SQL
3 42 (8.86%) Java
4 39 (8.23%) TypeScript
5 34 (7.17%) JavaScript
6 20 (4.22%) C#
7 11 (2.32%) Go
8 10 (2.11%) PowerShell
9 9 (1.90%) Bash
10 6 (1.27%) Scala
11 5 (1.05%) Bicep
12 4 (0.84%) Groovy
12 4 (0.84%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.63%) C
13 3 (0.63%) C++
13 3 (0.63%) PHP
13 3 (0.63%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.42%) Swift
Qualifications
1 36 (7.59%) Degree
2 25 (5.27%) Azure Certification
3 22 (4.64%) Security Cleared
4 18 (3.80%) AWS Certification
5 13 (2.74%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (2.74%) SC Cleared
6 12 (2.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 6 (1.27%) ACCA
7 6 (1.27%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 6 (1.27%) CIMA
7 6 (1.27%) Master's Degree
8 5 (1.05%) DBS Check
9 4 (0.84%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.42%) CSPO
10 2 (0.42%) HNC
10 2 (0.42%) MBA
10 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 1 (0.21%) CISSP
11 1 (0.21%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (3.80%) GDPR
2 17 (3.59%) GRC
3 15 (3.16%) Data Quality
3 15 (3.16%) QA
4 14 (2.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (2.53%) SLA
6 9 (1.90%) PCI DSS
7 8 (1.69%) Accessibility
8 7 (1.48%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 6 (1.27%) NIST
10 4 (0.84%) SOC 2
10 4 (0.84%) WCAG
11 3 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 2 (0.42%) GAAP
12 2 (0.42%) IFRS
13 1 (0.21%) Solvency II
System Software
1 35 (7.38%) Docker
2 15 (3.16%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (1.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.84%) Active Directory
5 3 (0.63%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 37 (7.81%) Kubernetes
2 34 (7.17%) Terraform
3 9 (1.90%) Grafana
4 8 (1.69%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.63%) cPanel
5 3 (0.63%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (0.63%) Nagios
5 3 (0.63%) Plesk
6 2 (0.42%) Istio
6 2 (0.42%) linkerd
6 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Clustering
6 2 (0.42%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.42%) Puppet
7 1 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.21%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 84 (17.72%) Microsoft
2 21 (4.43%) ServiceNow
3 16 (3.38%) CrowdStrike
4 14 (2.95%) Adobe
5 13 (2.74%) Apple
5 13 (2.74%) Google
5 13 (2.74%) OpenAI
6 12 (2.53%) Palo Alto
6 12 (2.53%) Tenable
7 10 (2.11%) Splunk
8 8 (1.69%) Databricks
9 6 (1.27%) AppDynamics
9 6 (1.27%) Oracle
9 6 (1.27%) VMware
10 4 (0.84%) OneLogin
11 3 (0.63%) Cisco
11 3 (0.63%) Datto
11 3 (0.63%) Dynatrace
11 3 (0.63%) Salesforce
11 3 (0.63%) WatchGuard