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

6 months to
6 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 28 55
Rank change year-on-year +19 +27 +45
Permanent jobs citing AI 505 205 215
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 8.49% 9.18% 3.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.95% 9.60% 4.62%
Number of salaries quoted 285 81 77
10th Percentile £45,000 £25,000 £31,500
25th Percentile £57,001 £33,750 £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 £72,500
90th Percentile £106,500 £110,000 £101,250
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 4,225 2,135 4,653
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 71.01% 95.57% 83.70%
Number of salaries quoted 3,267 1,206 3,536
10th Percentile £33,000 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +9.52% -8.94%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £93,750 £81,250
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 6 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 6 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
Bolton +27 9 £30,000 - 5
Stockport +6 9 £32,500 - 2
Salford -6 9 £80,000 - 9
Cheadle - 6 £63,750 -
Bury - 5 £92,482 - 4
Ashton-under-Lyne - 4 £51,000 - 7
Wigan -1 3 - - 3
Rochdale -2 2 - - 1
Sale - 2 - -
Stalybridge - 2 - -
Altrincham - 2 - - 13
Dukinfield - 2 - -
Heywood - 2 - - 1
Littleborough - 2 - -
Oldham - 1 - - 7
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 (1.98%) SharePoint
2 6 (1.19%) Jupyter
3 5 (0.99%) CMS
3 5 (0.99%) WordPress
4 3 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.40%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.40%) IIS
6 1 (0.20%) nginx
Applications
1 27 (5.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (2.18%) Chatbot
3 7 (1.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.99%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (2.38%) Cloudability
2 1 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 128 (25.35%) Azure
2 105 (20.79%) AWS
3 80 (15.84%) Cloud Computing
4 54 (10.69%) Power Platform
5 45 (8.91%) GCP
6 38 (7.52%) SaaS
7 29 (5.74%) Azure AI
8 27 (5.35%) Serverless
9 19 (3.76%) Microsoft 365
10 18 (3.56%) GitHub
11 15 (2.97%) Microsoft Copilot
12 14 (2.77%) Azure DevOps
12 14 (2.77%) Microsoft Purview
13 12 (2.38%) Anthropic Claude
14 10 (1.98%) GitHub Actions
15 8 (1.58%) Amazon ECS
16 7 (1.39%) Azure Monitor
16 7 (1.39%) ChatGPT
16 7 (1.39%) Entra ID
16 7 (1.39%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 70 (13.86%) Internet
2 8 (1.58%) Unified Communications
2 8 (1.58%) VoIP
3 6 (1.19%) Telepresence
3 6 (1.19%) WebEx
4 5 (0.99%) Firewall
4 5 (0.99%) VLAN
5 4 (0.79%) DNS
6 3 (0.59%) BGP
6 3 (0.59%) OSPF
6 3 (0.59%) SAN
6 3 (0.59%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.40%) DKIM
7 2 (0.40%) DMARC
7 2 (0.40%) IPFIX
7 2 (0.40%) PBX
7 2 (0.40%) SNMP
7 2 (0.40%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.20%) HTTP
8 1 (0.20%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (7.33%) Power BI
2 26 (5.15%) Tableau
3 12 (2.38%) MongoDB
4 11 (2.18%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (2.18%) SQL Server
5 9 (1.78%) Relational Database
6 8 (1.58%) NoSQL
7 4 (0.79%) Big Data
7 4 (0.79%) Data Lake
7 4 (0.79%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (0.79%) RDBMS
8 3 (0.59%) MySQL
8 3 (0.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (0.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (0.40%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (0.40%) DynamoDB
9 2 (0.40%) Hadoop
9 2 (0.40%) Looker
10 1 (0.20%) Data Vault
10 1 (0.20%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 16 (3.17%) Git
2 12 (2.38%) Snyk
3 9 (1.78%) GitLab
3 9 (1.78%) Jenkins
4 8 (1.58%) Claude Code
5 6 (1.19%) Visual Studio Code
6 5 (0.99%) JUnit
7 4 (0.79%) Spock
8 3 (0.59%) JIRA
9 2 (0.40%) Maven
9 2 (0.40%) Postman
9 2 (0.40%) Selenium
9 2 (0.40%) Terragrunt
9 2 (0.40%) Vite
9 2 (0.40%) XCUITest
10 1 (0.20%) Gemini Tracker
10 1 (0.20%) MLflow
General
1 160 (31.68%) Social Skills
2 149 (29.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 108 (21.39%) Banking
4 87 (17.23%) Finance
5 48 (9.50%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (3.56%) Retail
7 16 (3.17%) Public Sector
8 15 (2.97%) Law
9 13 (2.57%) Organisational Skills
10 10 (1.98%) Manufacturing
10 10 (1.98%) Marketing
10 10 (1.98%) Telecoms
11 5 (0.99%) Legal
12 4 (0.79%) Local Government
13 3 (0.59%) French Language
13 3 (0.59%) Games
13 3 (0.59%) Italian Language
13 3 (0.59%) Portuguese Language
13 3 (0.59%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.59%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 110 (21.78%) Senior
2 58 (11.49%) Lecturer
3 53 (10.50%) Analyst
4 42 (8.32%) Architect
5 41 (8.12%) Software Engineer
6 31 (6.14%) Python Engineer
7 28 (5.54%) Developer
8 25 (4.95%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 22 (4.36%) Data Analyst
10 21 (4.16%) Lead
11 19 (3.76%) Senior Analyst
12 18 (3.56%) Security Architect
13 17 (3.37%) Cloud Architect
13 17 (3.37%) Cloud Security Architect
13 17 (3.37%) Junior
13 17 (3.37%) Junior Analyst
13 17 (3.37%) Junior Data Analyst
13 17 (3.37%) Service Manager
14 16 (3.17%) Senior Developer
14 16 (3.17%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (4.16%) React
2 18 (3.56%) Vue
3 17 (3.37%) FastAPI
3 17 (3.37%) HTML
4 16 (3.17%) CSS
5 15 (2.97%) Node.js
5 15 (2.97%) Spring
6 13 (2.57%) .NET
7 12 (2.38%) JWT
7 12 (2.38%) OAuth
8 11 (2.18%) LangChain
8 11 (2.18%) Spring Boot
9 10 (1.98%) OpenID
9 10 (1.98%) SAML
10 9 (1.78%) Django
11 8 (1.58%) AngularJS
11 8 (1.58%) OAuth2
11 8 (1.58%) REST
11 8 (1.58%) RESTful
12 7 (1.39%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 70 (13.86%) IoT
2 48 (9.50%) Cloud Native
3 30 (5.94%) Onboarding
4 25 (4.95%) AI Agents
5 24 (4.75%) Distributed Systems
5 24 (4.75%) Product Ownership
6 22 (4.36%) Data Centre
7 10 (1.98%) Algorithms
8 9 (1.78%) Public Cloud
9 7 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
9 7 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
9 7 (1.39%) Management Information System
9 7 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
10 6 (1.19%) Analytical Mindset
10 6 (1.19%) Private Cloud
11 5 (0.99%) Life Science
12 4 (0.79%) Credit Risk
12 4 (0.79%) Cyber Threat
12 4 (0.79%) Marketing Technology
12 4 (0.79%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 10 (1.98%) Windows
2 5 (0.99%) Apple iOS
2 5 (0.99%) Windows Server
3 4 (0.79%) Android
3 4 (0.79%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 134 (26.53%) Machine Learning
2 130 (25.74%) Cybersecurity
3 92 (18.22%) User Experience
4 89 (17.62%) CI/CD
5 84 (16.63%) DevOps
6 74 (14.65%) Web Development
7 66 (13.07%) Software Engineering
8 62 (12.28%) Agile
9 60 (11.88%) Analytics
10 54 (10.69%) Problem-Solving
11 40 (7.92%) Continuous Improvement
11 40 (7.92%) Decision-Making
12 37 (7.33%) Event-Driven
12 37 (7.33%) Roadmaps
13 36 (7.13%) Business Intelligence
13 36 (7.13%) LLM
14 35 (6.93%) Infrastructure as Code
15 34 (6.73%) Observability
16 33 (6.53%) Mentoring
17 32 (6.34%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 137 (27.13%) Python
2 61 (12.08%) SQL
3 36 (7.13%) Java
4 25 (4.95%) TypeScript
5 22 (4.36%) JavaScript
6 10 (1.98%) C#
6 10 (1.98%) PowerShell
7 8 (1.58%) Bash
8 6 (1.19%) Go
9 5 (0.99%) Bicep
10 4 (0.79%) Groovy
10 4 (0.79%) Scala
11 3 (0.59%) C
11 3 (0.59%) C++
11 3 (0.59%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.40%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.40%) PHP
12 2 (0.40%) Swift
Qualifications
1 102 (20.20%) Degree
2 72 (14.26%) Master's Degree
3 70 (13.86%) PhD
3 70 (13.86%) Postgraduate
4 26 (5.15%) Azure Certification
5 25 (4.95%) AWS Certification
6 16 (3.17%) Security Cleared
7 12 (2.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 10 (1.98%) Computer Science Degree
9 9 (1.78%) SC Cleared
10 6 (1.19%) ACCA
10 6 (1.19%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 6 (1.19%) CIMA
11 5 (0.99%) DBS Check
12 4 (0.79%) DV Cleared
13 2 (0.40%) HNC
13 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Certification
14 1 (0.20%) CISSP
14 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 1 (0.20%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (3.37%) GRC
2 13 (2.57%) Data Quality
2 13 (2.57%) GDPR
2 13 (2.57%) QA
3 8 (1.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (1.39%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 7 (1.39%) SLA
5 6 (1.19%) NIST
6 5 (0.99%) Accessibility
7 4 (0.79%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.79%) SOC 2
8 3 (0.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.40%) GAAP
9 2 (0.40%) IFRS
9 2 (0.40%) WCAG
10 1 (0.20%) Solvency II
System Software
1 26 (5.15%) Docker
2 15 (2.97%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (1.39%) Active Directory
4 5 (0.99%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.40%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 30 (5.94%) Terraform
2 29 (5.74%) Kubernetes
3 8 (1.58%) Grafana
4 7 (1.39%) Prometheus
5 6 (1.19%) Cisco CUCM
5 6 (1.19%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (0.59%) Nagios
8 2 (0.40%) cPanel
8 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Clustering
8 2 (0.40%) Plesk
9 1 (0.20%) Istio
9 1 (0.20%) linkerd
9 1 (0.20%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.20%) Puppet
9 1 (0.20%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 85 (16.83%) Microsoft
2 20 (3.96%) ServiceNow
3 19 (3.76%) Adobe
3 19 (3.76%) Apple
4 16 (3.17%) CrowdStrike
5 12 (2.38%) Palo Alto
5 12 (2.38%) Tenable
6 11 (2.18%) Google
7 10 (1.98%) Oracle
8 9 (1.78%) OpenAI
8 9 (1.78%) Splunk
9 8 (1.58%) Databricks
10 7 (1.39%) Cisco
11 5 (0.99%) VMware
12 4 (0.79%) AppDynamics
12 4 (0.79%) HighQ
12 4 (0.79%) New Relic
12 4 (0.79%) OneLogin
12 4 (0.79%) Salesforce
13 2 (0.40%) Datto