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

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 23 45
Rank change year-on-year +13 +22 +21
Permanent jobs citing AI 557 249 216
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 8.46% 9.89% 4.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.45% 10.77% 5.56%
Number of salaries quoted 351 103 55
10th Percentile £38,750 £25,000 £43,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £33,125 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £67,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.41% - +3.85%
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £110,000 £101,250
North West median annual salary £68,750 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +14.58% +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 4,866 2,313 3,884
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 73.91% 91.90% 82.31%
Number of salaries quoted 3,829 1,344 2,658
10th Percentile £33,700 £29,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £37,031 £41,500
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 £68,750
90th Percentile £98,800 £87,500 £82,500
North West median annual salary £55,000 £50,055 £51,364
% change year-on-year +9.88% -2.55% -6.61%

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 30 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 30 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 - 8
Cheadle - 11 £63,750 -
Ashton-under-Lyne - 8 £51,000 - 1
Bolton +21 7 £30,000 - 3
Stockport -5 3 £32,500 - 3
Bury - 3 £92,482 - 3
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 15 (2.69%) SharePoint
2 6 (1.08%) CMS
2 6 (1.08%) Jupyter
3 5 (0.90%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (0.72%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 4 (0.72%) WordPress
5 3 (0.54%) Apache
5 3 (0.54%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.54%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.36%) IIS
6 2 (0.36%) nginx
7 1 (0.18%) Confluence
7 1 (0.18%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.18%) WebSphere
Applications
1 19 (3.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (2.15%) Chatbot
3 4 (0.72%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.18%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 12 (2.15%) Cloudability
2 3 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.18%) Odoo
3 1 (0.18%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.18%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 145 (26.03%) Azure
2 141 (25.31%) AWS
3 64 (11.49%) Power Platform
4 59 (10.59%) GCP
5 56 (10.05%) SaaS
6 32 (5.75%) Azure AI
6 32 (5.75%) Serverless
7 31 (5.57%) GitHub
8 27 (4.85%) Microsoft 365
9 26 (4.67%) Microsoft Copilot
10 22 (3.95%) Azure DevOps
11 20 (3.59%) Anthropic Claude
12 17 (3.05%) PowerApps
13 16 (2.87%) GitHub Actions
14 12 (2.15%) AWS Lambda
14 12 (2.15%) Power Automate
14 12 (2.15%) Snowflake
15 11 (1.97%) PaaS
16 10 (1.80%) GitHub Copilot
16 10 (1.80%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.44%) Firewall
2 6 (1.08%) VLAN
3 5 (0.90%) BGP
3 5 (0.90%) DNS
3 5 (0.90%) SAN
4 3 (0.54%) DKIM
4 3 (0.54%) DMARC
4 3 (0.54%) OSPF
4 3 (0.54%) PBX
4 3 (0.54%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.54%) Unified Communications
4 3 (0.54%) VoIP
4 3 (0.54%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (0.36%) DMZ
5 2 (0.36%) HTTP
5 2 (0.36%) IPFIX
5 2 (0.36%) IPsec
5 2 (0.36%) Network Security
5 2 (0.36%) SD-WAN
5 2 (0.36%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (6.82%) Power BI
2 25 (4.49%) Tableau
3 21 (3.77%) PostgreSQL
4 17 (3.05%) MongoDB
5 16 (2.87%) SQL Server
6 15 (2.69%) NoSQL
7 11 (1.97%) Data Warehouse
7 11 (1.97%) Relational Database
8 6 (1.08%) RDBMS
9 5 (0.90%) Big Data
9 5 (0.90%) DynamoDB
9 5 (0.90%) MySQL
9 5 (0.90%) Pinecone
10 4 (0.72%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (0.72%) BigQuery
10 4 (0.72%) Data Lake
10 4 (0.72%) Data Mining
10 4 (0.72%) Electronic Patient Records
11 3 (0.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (0.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 27 (4.85%) Git
2 18 (3.23%) GitLab
2 18 (3.23%) Jenkins
3 13 (2.33%) Claude Code
4 12 (2.15%) Snyk
5 9 (1.62%) JUnit
5 9 (1.62%) Spock
5 9 (1.62%) Visual Studio Code
6 8 (1.44%) JIRA
7 7 (1.26%) Maven
8 5 (0.90%) Postman
9 4 (0.72%) Selenium
9 4 (0.72%) Storybook
9 4 (0.72%) Vite
10 3 (0.54%) Bitbucket
11 2 (0.36%) Terragrunt
11 2 (0.36%) XCUITest
12 1 (0.18%) Gemini Tracker
12 1 (0.18%) Gradle
12 1 (0.18%) MLflow
General
1 130 (23.34%) Social Skills
2 111 (19.93%) Finance
3 75 (13.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 56 (10.05%) Analytical Skills
5 32 (5.75%) Public Sector
6 31 (5.57%) Banking
7 21 (3.77%) Law
8 16 (2.87%) Marketing
8 16 (2.87%) Retail
9 15 (2.69%) Organisational Skills
10 11 (1.97%) Manufacturing
11 9 (1.62%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (0.90%) Local Government
12 5 (0.90%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (0.90%) Telecoms
13 4 (0.72%) Health Technology
13 4 (0.72%) Legal
13 4 (0.72%) Publishing
14 3 (0.54%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (0.54%) Legal Technology
Job Titles
1 163 (29.26%) Senior
2 64 (11.49%) Architect
3 57 (10.23%) Software Engineer
4 48 (8.62%) Analyst
5 46 (8.26%) Developer
6 31 (5.57%) Python Engineer
7 30 (5.39%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 29 (5.21%) Senior Developer
9 25 (4.49%) Senior Software Engineer
9 25 (4.49%) Solutions Architect
10 22 (3.95%) Data Engineer
10 22 (3.95%) Senior Architect
11 21 (3.77%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
11 21 (3.77%) Data Analyst
12 19 (3.41%) Lead
12 19 (3.41%) Python Software Engineer
12 19 (3.41%) Senior Analyst
13 18 (3.23%) Consultant
13 18 (3.23%) Security Architect
13 18 (3.23%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (5.92%) React
2 23 (4.13%) CSS
2 23 (4.13%) HTML
2 23 (4.13%) Vue
3 22 (3.95%) Node.js
3 22 (3.95%) Spring
4 20 (3.59%) FastAPI
5 18 (3.23%) .NET
5 18 (3.23%) AngularJS
6 15 (2.69%) LangChain
7 13 (2.33%) OAuth
8 12 (2.15%) JWT
9 11 (1.97%) Kafka
9 11 (1.97%) OpenID
9 11 (1.97%) RESTful
9 11 (1.97%) SAML
9 11 (1.97%) Spring Boot
10 10 (1.80%) Microsoft Graph
11 9 (1.62%) Flask
11 9 (1.62%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 64 (11.49%) Cloud Native
2 41 (7.36%) AI Agents
3 36 (6.46%) Distributed Systems
4 34 (6.10%) Product Ownership
5 30 (5.39%) Onboarding
6 20 (3.59%) Data Centre
7 17 (3.05%) Self-Motivation
8 11 (1.97%) Private Cloud
9 10 (1.80%) Enterprise Software
9 10 (1.80%) Management Information System
9 10 (1.80%) Marketing Technology
10 9 (1.62%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 8 (1.44%) Analytical Mindset
11 8 (1.44%) Social Media
12 7 (1.26%) Algorithms
12 7 (1.26%) Greenfield Project
13 6 (1.08%) Credit Risk
13 6 (1.08%) Life Science
13 6 (1.08%) Virtual Team
14 5 (0.90%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 10 (1.80%) Windows
2 9 (1.62%) Linux
3 6 (1.08%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.36%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.18%) Android
5 1 (0.18%) Unix
5 1 (0.18%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 129 (23.16%) CI/CD
2 111 (19.93%) Agile
3 108 (19.39%) DevOps
4 99 (17.77%) Software Engineering
5 87 (15.62%) Machine Learning
6 77 (13.82%) Analytics
7 69 (12.39%) Continuous Improvement
8 64 (11.49%) Roadmaps
9 60 (10.77%) Problem-Solving
10 58 (10.41%) Cybersecurity
11 56 (10.05%) Decision-Making
12 52 (9.34%) Mentoring
13 51 (9.16%) Stakeholder Management
14 49 (8.80%) Microservices
15 48 (8.62%) LLM
16 47 (8.44%) Observability
17 45 (8.08%) Infrastructure as Code
18 44 (7.90%) Full-Stack Development
19 41 (7.36%) B2B
19 41 (7.36%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 165 (29.62%) Python
2 80 (14.36%) SQL
3 55 (9.87%) Java
4 49 (8.80%) JavaScript
5 48 (8.62%) TypeScript
6 24 (4.31%) C#
7 14 (2.51%) PowerShell
8 12 (2.15%) Go
9 10 (1.80%) Bash
9 10 (1.80%) Scala
10 7 (1.26%) Bicep
11 5 (0.90%) Groovy
12 4 (0.72%) Kotlin
12 4 (0.72%) T-SQL
13 3 (0.54%) C
13 3 (0.54%) C++
13 3 (0.54%) PHP
14 2 (0.36%) Swift
15 1 (0.18%) R
15 1 (0.18%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 45 (8.08%) Degree
2 30 (5.39%) Security Cleared
3 24 (4.31%) Azure Certification
4 18 (3.23%) AWS Certification
4 18 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (2.87%) SC Cleared
6 13 (2.33%) Master's Degree
7 12 (2.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 10 (1.80%) DV Cleared
9 6 (1.08%) ACCA
9 6 (1.08%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 6 (1.08%) CIMA
10 4 (0.72%) MBA
10 4 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.36%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.36%) CCIE
11 2 (0.36%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.36%) CSPO
11 2 (0.36%) HNC
11 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (4.31%) Data Quality
2 18 (3.23%) GDPR
3 17 (3.05%) GRC
4 16 (2.87%) QA
5 15 (2.69%) Accessibility
5 15 (2.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (2.15%) SLA
7 10 (1.80%) PCI DSS
8 7 (1.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 7 (1.26%) WCAG
9 6 (1.08%) NIST
10 4 (0.72%) SOC 2
11 3 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 2 (0.36%) GAAP
12 2 (0.36%) IFRS
13 1 (0.18%) Solvency II
System Software
1 44 (7.90%) Docker
2 15 (2.69%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (1.44%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.54%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.54%) Ceph
4 3 (0.54%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 40 (7.18%) Kubernetes
2 38 (6.82%) Terraform
3 12 (2.15%) Grafana
3 12 (2.15%) Prometheus
4 6 (1.08%) Istio
5 5 (0.90%) Ansible
6 3 (0.54%) Argo
6 3 (0.54%) Check_MK
6 3 (0.54%) cPanel
6 3 (0.54%) linkerd
6 3 (0.54%) Nagios
6 3 (0.54%) Plesk
6 3 (0.54%) Podman
6 3 (0.54%) Progress Chef
6 3 (0.54%) Puppet
7 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Clustering
7 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.36%) SolarWinds Orion
8 1 (0.18%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 89 (15.98%) Microsoft
2 22 (3.95%) ServiceNow
3 20 (3.59%) Adobe
4 16 (2.87%) CrowdStrike
4 16 (2.87%) Splunk
5 15 (2.69%) Google
6 13 (2.33%) Apple
6 13 (2.33%) Databricks
7 12 (2.15%) OpenAI
7 12 (2.15%) Palo Alto
7 12 (2.15%) Tenable
8 10 (1.80%) AppDynamics
9 9 (1.62%) Oracle
10 8 (1.44%) VMware
11 5 (0.90%) Cisco
12 3 (0.54%) Acronis
12 3 (0.54%) Dell
12 3 (0.54%) NETGEAR
12 3 (0.54%) Red Hat
12 3 (0.54%) Salesforce