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 2 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 15 48
Rank change year-on-year +5 +33 +11
Permanent jobs citing AI 656 283 188
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 9.21% 11.51% 4.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.24% 12.79% 5.32%
Number of salaries quoted 370 102 44
10th Percentile £39,875 £25,000 £36,939
25th Percentile £52,500 £34,750 £50,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -11.11% +3.85%
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £85,625
90th Percentile £102,850 £110,000 £95,750
North West median annual salary £67,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +12.50% - -7.69%

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 5,361 2,213 3,533
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 75.26% 90.00% 82.03%
Number of salaries quoted 4,162 1,302 2,117
10th Percentile £32,500 £29,050 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £35,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £54,285 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -1.30% -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £71,404 £69,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £87,500 £82,500
North West median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £51,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -1.96% -7.27%

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 2 September 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 2 September 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 20 £80,000 +15.30% 19
Cheadle - 11 £63,750 - 1
Ashton-under-Lyne - 9 £51,000 - 4
Bolton +24 8 £30,000 -42.86% 18
Stockport -4 5 £51,250 - 2
Sale - 2 £62,500 -
Bury - 1 £92,482 - 1
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 20 (3.05%) SharePoint
2 8 (1.22%) Apache
2 8 (1.22%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (0.76%) CMS
3 5 (0.76%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (0.61%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 3 (0.46%) Confluence
5 3 (0.46%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.30%) IIS
6 2 (0.30%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.30%) nginx
6 2 (0.30%) WordPress
7 1 (0.15%) Apache Superset
7 1 (0.15%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.15%) WebSphere
Applications
1 20 (3.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.91%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.30%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 12 (1.83%) Cloudability
2 5 (0.76%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.15%) Odoo
4 1 (0.15%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.15%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 148 (22.56%) Azure
2 143 (21.80%) AWS
3 62 (9.45%) Power Platform
4 61 (9.30%) SaaS
5 60 (9.15%) GCP
6 35 (5.34%) GitHub
7 32 (4.88%) Microsoft 365
8 29 (4.42%) Serverless
9 28 (4.27%) Microsoft Copilot
10 27 (4.12%) Azure AI
11 24 (3.66%) Azure DevOps
12 20 (3.05%) PowerApps
13 19 (2.90%) Anthropic Claude
14 17 (2.59%) Snowflake
15 16 (2.44%) GitHub Actions
16 14 (2.13%) PaaS
17 13 (1.98%) dbt
17 13 (1.98%) GitHub Copilot
17 13 (1.98%) Power Automate
18 10 (1.52%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.22%) Firewall
2 6 (0.91%) VLAN
3 5 (0.76%) BGP
3 5 (0.76%) DNS
3 5 (0.76%) SAN
4 3 (0.46%) DKIM
4 3 (0.46%) DMARC
4 3 (0.46%) HTTP
4 3 (0.46%) OSPF
4 3 (0.46%) PBX
4 3 (0.46%) SMS
4 3 (0.46%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.46%) Unified Communications
4 3 (0.46%) VoIP
4 3 (0.46%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (0.30%) IPFIX
5 2 (0.30%) IPsec
5 2 (0.30%) Network Security
5 2 (0.30%) SNMP
5 2 (0.30%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (5.34%) Power BI
2 25 (3.81%) PostgreSQL
3 20 (3.05%) Tableau
4 16 (2.44%) MongoDB
5 15 (2.29%) NoSQL
5 15 (2.29%) SQL Server
6 13 (1.98%) Data Warehouse
7 12 (1.83%) Relational Database
8 9 (1.37%) DynamoDB
9 6 (0.91%) Azure SQL Database
9 6 (0.91%) RDBMS
10 5 (0.76%) Big Data
10 5 (0.76%) Chroma
10 5 (0.76%) Electronic Patient Records
10 5 (0.76%) MySQL
10 5 (0.76%) Pinecone
11 4 (0.61%) Amazon Redshift
11 4 (0.61%) BigQuery
11 4 (0.61%) Data Lake
11 4 (0.61%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 32 (4.88%) Git
2 26 (3.96%) GitLab
3 19 (2.90%) Jenkins
4 16 (2.44%) JIRA
5 13 (1.98%) JUnit
5 13 (1.98%) Spock
6 12 (1.83%) Snyk
7 11 (1.68%) Claude Code
7 11 (1.68%) Maven
8 5 (0.76%) Postman
9 4 (0.61%) IntelliJ
9 4 (0.61%) Selenium
9 4 (0.61%) Storybook
9 4 (0.61%) Vite
10 3 (0.46%) Bitbucket
10 3 (0.46%) RStudio
10 3 (0.46%) Visual Studio Code
11 2 (0.30%) Mocha
11 2 (0.30%) Terragrunt
12 1 (0.15%) MLflow
General
1 171 (26.07%) Social Skills
2 134 (20.43%) Finance
3 85 (12.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 82 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
5 43 (6.55%) Public Sector
6 33 (5.03%) Banking
7 30 (4.57%) Law
8 25 (3.81%) Influencing Skills
9 22 (3.35%) Marketing
10 17 (2.59%) Organisational Skills
11 13 (1.98%) Legal
12 11 (1.68%) Retail
13 8 (1.22%) Local Government
14 6 (0.91%) Social Housing
15 5 (0.76%) Manufacturing
15 5 (0.76%) Publishing
15 5 (0.76%) Telecoms
16 4 (0.61%) Billing
16 4 (0.61%) Games
16 4 (0.61%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 175 (26.68%) Senior
2 81 (12.35%) Architect
3 60 (9.15%) Software Engineer
4 51 (7.77%) Analyst
5 49 (7.47%) Developer
6 39 (5.95%) Lead
7 37 (5.64%) Solutions Architect
8 30 (4.57%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 29 (4.42%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
9 29 (4.42%) Python Engineer
10 27 (4.12%) Data Engineer
10 27 (4.12%) Senior Architect
10 27 (4.12%) Senior Software Engineer
11 26 (3.96%) Senior Developer
12 25 (3.81%) Senior Manager
13 22 (3.35%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 22 (3.35%) Senior Analyst
13 22 (3.35%) Service Manager
14 21 (3.20%) Consultant
15 18 (2.74%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (6.10%) Terraform
2 38 (5.79%) React
3 26 (3.96%) Spring
4 24 (3.66%) Vue
5 22 (3.35%) AngularJS
6 21 (3.20%) CSS
6 21 (3.20%) HTML
6 21 (3.20%) Node.js
7 19 (2.90%) .NET
8 17 (2.59%) FastAPI
9 14 (2.13%) LangChain
10 13 (1.98%) Kafka
10 13 (1.98%) OAuth
10 13 (1.98%) REST
11 12 (1.83%) JWT
12 11 (1.68%) Microsoft Graph
12 11 (1.68%) OpenID
12 11 (1.68%) SAML
12 11 (1.68%) Spring Boot
13 10 (1.52%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 70 (10.67%) Cloud Native
2 50 (7.62%) AI Agents
3 44 (6.71%) Product Ownership
4 41 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
5 36 (5.49%) Onboarding
6 25 (3.81%) Self-Motivation
7 20 (3.05%) Data Centre
8 19 (2.90%) Management Information System
9 15 (2.29%) Private Cloud
10 13 (1.98%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 12 (1.83%) Marketing Technology
12 11 (1.68%) Social Media
13 10 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
14 8 (1.22%) Analytical Mindset
14 8 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
15 7 (1.07%) Data Structures
16 6 (0.91%) Credit Risk
16 6 (0.91%) Life Science
16 6 (0.91%) Virtual Team
17 5 (0.76%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 12 (1.83%) Windows
2 11 (1.68%) Linux
3 6 (0.91%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.61%) VMS
5 3 (0.46%) Unix
6 1 (0.15%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 141 (21.49%) Agile
2 134 (20.43%) CI/CD
3 120 (18.29%) DevOps
4 116 (17.68%) Software Engineering
5 108 (16.46%) Continuous Improvement
6 95 (14.48%) Machine Learning
7 88 (13.41%) Analytics
8 86 (13.11%) Problem-Solving
9 82 (12.50%) Decision-Making
10 76 (11.59%) Stakeholder Management
11 75 (11.43%) Roadmaps
12 72 (10.98%) Coaching
13 63 (9.60%) Mentoring
14 62 (9.45%) Cybersecurity
15 57 (8.69%) Customer Service
15 57 (8.69%) Microservices
15 57 (8.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 54 (8.23%) Full-Stack Development
17 53 (8.08%) Generative AI
18 52 (7.93%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 158 (24.09%) Python
2 92 (14.02%) SQL
3 62 (9.45%) Java
4 59 (8.99%) JavaScript
5 55 (8.38%) TypeScript
6 26 (3.96%) C#
7 15 (2.29%) PowerShell
8 12 (1.83%) Go
9 10 (1.52%) Scala
10 9 (1.37%) Bash
11 8 (1.22%) Groovy
12 7 (1.07%) Bicep
13 5 (0.76%) C++
13 5 (0.76%) R
14 4 (0.61%) T-SQL
15 3 (0.46%) C
15 3 (0.46%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.46%) PHP
16 2 (0.30%) ABAP
16 2 (0.30%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 59 (8.99%) Degree
2 45 (6.86%) Security Cleared
3 20 (3.05%) SC Cleared
4 19 (2.90%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (2.74%) Azure Certification
6 17 (2.59%) Master's Degree
7 16 (2.44%) DV Cleared
8 12 (1.83%) AWS Certification
8 12 (1.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 7 (1.07%) ACCA
10 6 (0.91%) CIMA
11 5 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.61%) MBA
13 3 (0.46%) APMG
13 3 (0.46%) BPSS Clearance
13 3 (0.46%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 2 (0.30%) Cisco Certification
14 2 (0.30%) CSPO
14 2 (0.30%) ITIL Certification
14 2 (0.30%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (6.25%) Data Quality
2 21 (3.20%) Accessibility
2 21 (3.20%) QA
3 20 (3.05%) GDPR
4 17 (2.59%) GRC
5 15 (2.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (1.83%) SLA
7 10 (1.52%) PCI DSS
8 7 (1.07%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 7 (1.07%) WCAG
9 6 (0.91%) NIST
10 4 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 4 (0.61%) SOC 2
11 2 (0.30%) GAAP
11 2 (0.30%) IFRS
12 1 (0.15%) COSO
12 1 (0.15%) Solvency II
System Software
1 51 (7.77%) Docker
2 15 (2.29%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (1.22%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.61%) Active Directory
5 3 (0.46%) Ceph
5 3 (0.46%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 44 (6.71%) Kubernetes
2 12 (1.83%) Grafana
2 12 (1.83%) Prometheus
3 7 (1.07%) Ansible
4 6 (0.91%) Istio
5 3 (0.46%) Argo
5 3 (0.46%) Check_MK
5 3 (0.46%) cPanel
5 3 (0.46%) linkerd
5 3 (0.46%) Nagios
5 3 (0.46%) Plesk
5 3 (0.46%) Podman
5 3 (0.46%) Progress Chef
5 3 (0.46%) Puppet
6 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Clustering
6 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.30%) SolarWinds Orion
7 1 (0.15%) SCCM
7 1 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.15%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 86 (13.11%) Microsoft
2 39 (5.95%) YouTube
3 21 (3.20%) ServiceNow
4 20 (3.05%) Adobe
4 20 (3.05%) Splunk
5 18 (2.74%) Databricks
6 17 (2.59%) Google
7 16 (2.44%) CrowdStrike
8 14 (2.13%) AppDynamics
9 13 (1.98%) Apple
10 12 (1.83%) OpenAI
10 12 (1.83%) Oracle
10 12 (1.83%) Palo Alto
10 12 (1.83%) Tenable
11 8 (1.22%) Salesforce
11 8 (1.22%) VMware
12 5 (0.76%) Cisco
12 5 (0.76%) SAP
13 4 (0.61%) Mistral
13 4 (0.61%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud