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

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 25 53
Rank change year-on-year +11 +28 +23
Permanent jobs citing AI 508 232 217
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 8.04% 9.42% 3.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.96% 10.10% 4.67%
Number of salaries quoted 330 95 71
10th Percentile £42,375 £25,000 £31,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £30,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £65,000 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% +27.45% -21.54%
75th Percentile £100,000 £93,778 £75,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £110,000 £101,250
North West median annual salary £70,000 £58,000 £51,750
% change year-on-year +20.69% +12.08% -20.38%

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 4,633 2,297 4,649
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 73.30% 93.26% 83.32%
Number of salaries quoted 3,674 1,324 3,404
10th Percentile £33,575 £30,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £38,750 £40,988
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £52,830
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +4.11% -8.91%
75th Percentile £78,750 £73,563 £68,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £82,000
North West median annual salary £55,000 £50,890 £50,000
% change year-on-year +8.08% +1.78% -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 9 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 9 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 -5 13 £80,000 - 17
Cheadle - 10 £63,750 -
Bolton +22 8 £30,000 - 3
Ashton-under-Lyne - 5 £51,000 - 1
Stockport -4 3 £32,500 - 2
Bury - 3 £92,482 - 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 (2.17%) SharePoint
2 6 (1.18%) CMS
2 6 (1.18%) Jupyter
3 5 (0.98%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (0.98%) WordPress
4 2 (0.39%) IIS
4 2 (0.39%) nginx
5 1 (0.20%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 18 (3.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (2.17%) Chatbot
3 5 (0.98%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (2.36%) Cloudability
2 1 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 141 (27.76%) Azure
2 125 (24.61%) AWS
3 57 (11.22%) Power Platform
4 54 (10.63%) GCP
5 52 (10.24%) SaaS
6 34 (6.69%) Azure AI
7 33 (6.50%) Serverless
8 26 (5.12%) GitHub
9 24 (4.72%) Microsoft 365
10 22 (4.33%) Microsoft Copilot
11 21 (4.13%) Anthropic Claude
12 19 (3.74%) Azure DevOps
13 15 (2.95%) GitHub Actions
14 12 (2.36%) AWS Lambda
15 11 (2.17%) PowerApps
16 10 (1.97%) Cloud Computing
16 10 (1.97%) Microsoft Purview
17 9 (1.77%) Amazon ECS
17 9 (1.77%) Amazon S3
18 8 (1.57%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.57%) Firewall
2 6 (1.18%) VLAN
3 5 (0.98%) BGP
3 5 (0.98%) DNS
3 5 (0.98%) SAN
4 3 (0.59%) DKIM
4 3 (0.59%) DMARC
4 3 (0.59%) OSPF
4 3 (0.59%) PBX
4 3 (0.59%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.59%) Unified Communications
4 3 (0.59%) VoIP
4 3 (0.59%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (0.39%) DMZ
5 2 (0.39%) IPFIX
5 2 (0.39%) IPsec
5 2 (0.39%) Network Security
5 2 (0.39%) SD-WAN
5 2 (0.39%) SNMP
5 2 (0.39%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (7.28%) Power BI
2 25 (4.92%) Tableau
3 17 (3.35%) PostgreSQL
4 16 (3.15%) MongoDB
5 13 (2.56%) NoSQL
6 12 (2.36%) SQL Server
7 10 (1.97%) Relational Database
8 7 (1.38%) Data Warehouse
9 6 (1.18%) RDBMS
10 5 (0.98%) Big Data
10 5 (0.98%) MySQL
10 5 (0.98%) Pinecone
11 4 (0.79%) Data Lake
11 4 (0.79%) Data Mining
12 3 (0.59%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (0.59%) Electronic Patient Records
12 3 (0.59%) Redis
12 3 (0.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 3 (0.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 2 (0.39%) Looker
Development Applications
1 24 (4.72%) Git
2 16 (3.15%) GitLab
3 14 (2.76%) Jenkins
4 13 (2.56%) Claude Code
5 12 (2.36%) Snyk
6 8 (1.57%) JUnit
6 8 (1.57%) Spock
7 6 (1.18%) Visual Studio Code
8 5 (0.98%) Postman
9 4 (0.79%) JIRA
9 4 (0.79%) Selenium
9 4 (0.79%) Vite
10 3 (0.59%) Maven
11 2 (0.39%) Terragrunt
11 2 (0.39%) XCUITest
12 1 (0.20%) Gemini Tracker
12 1 (0.20%) Gradle
12 1 (0.20%) IntelliJ
12 1 (0.20%) MLflow
12 1 (0.20%) Xcode
General
1 107 (21.06%) Social Skills
2 104 (20.47%) Finance
3 71 (13.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 49 (9.65%) Analytical Skills
5 35 (6.89%) Banking
6 33 (6.50%) Public Sector
7 19 (3.74%) Retail
8 17 (3.35%) Law
9 15 (2.95%) Organisational Skills
10 13 (2.56%) Marketing
11 11 (2.17%) Manufacturing
12 6 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
13 5 (0.98%) Telecoms
14 4 (0.79%) Presentation Skills
15 3 (0.59%) French Language
15 3 (0.59%) Games
15 3 (0.59%) Health Technology
15 3 (0.59%) Italian Language
15 3 (0.59%) Legal
15 3 (0.59%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 142 (27.95%) Senior
2 57 (11.22%) Architect
3 52 (10.24%) Software Engineer
4 44 (8.66%) Analyst
5 37 (7.28%) Developer
6 31 (6.10%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 28 (5.51%) Python Engineer
8 23 (4.53%) Senior Developer
9 21 (4.13%) Data Analyst
10 20 (3.94%) Service Manager
10 20 (3.94%) Solutions Architect
11 19 (3.74%) Senior Analyst
11 19 (3.74%) Senior Software Engineer
12 18 (3.54%) Lead
12 18 (3.54%) Security Architect
12 18 (3.54%) Senior Architect
13 17 (3.35%) Cloud Architect
13 17 (3.35%) Cloud Security Architect
13 17 (3.35%) Data Manager
13 17 (3.35%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (6.50%) React
2 25 (4.92%) Vue
3 22 (4.33%) FastAPI
3 22 (4.33%) Spring
4 20 (3.94%) .NET
4 20 (3.94%) CSS
4 20 (3.94%) HTML
5 18 (3.54%) Node.js
6 15 (2.95%) LangChain
7 14 (2.76%) AngularJS
8 13 (2.56%) OAuth
9 12 (2.36%) JWT
9 12 (2.36%) RESTful
9 12 (2.36%) Spring Boot
10 11 (2.17%) OpenID
10 11 (2.17%) SAML
11 10 (1.97%) Django
11 10 (1.97%) Flask
11 10 (1.97%) Kafka
11 10 (1.97%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 61 (12.01%) Cloud Native
2 38 (7.48%) AI Agents
3 33 (6.50%) Distributed Systems
3 33 (6.50%) Product Ownership
4 32 (6.30%) Onboarding
5 23 (4.53%) Data Centre
6 10 (1.97%) Algorithms
6 10 (1.97%) Private Cloud
6 10 (1.97%) Self-Motivation
7 8 (1.57%) Enterprise Software
8 7 (1.38%) Greenfield Project
8 7 (1.38%) Management Information System
8 7 (1.38%) Marketing Technology
9 6 (1.18%) Credit Risk
9 6 (1.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 6 (1.18%) Virtual Team
10 5 (0.98%) Analytical Mindset
10 5 (0.98%) Life Science
10 5 (0.98%) Social Media
11 4 (0.79%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 11 (2.17%) Windows
2 6 (1.18%) Windows Server
3 5 (0.98%) Apple iOS
3 5 (0.98%) Linux
4 4 (0.79%) Android
5 1 (0.20%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (22.64%) CI/CD
2 99 (19.49%) DevOps
3 90 (17.72%) Agile
4 88 (17.32%) Software Engineering
5 81 (15.94%) Machine Learning
6 78 (15.35%) Analytics
7 61 (12.01%) Problem-Solving
8 57 (11.22%) Cybersecurity
8 57 (11.22%) Roadmaps
9 56 (11.02%) Continuous Improvement
10 50 (9.84%) LLM
11 48 (9.45%) Decision-Making
12 47 (9.25%) Mentoring
13 46 (9.06%) Microservices
14 45 (8.86%) Infrastructure as Code
15 44 (8.66%) Observability
16 40 (7.87%) Full-Stack Development
16 40 (7.87%) Generative AI
16 40 (7.87%) Stakeholder Management
17 37 (7.28%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 154 (30.31%) Python
2 72 (14.17%) SQL
3 47 (9.25%) Java
4 41 (8.07%) TypeScript
5 39 (7.68%) JavaScript
6 21 (4.13%) C#
7 12 (2.36%) PowerShell
8 11 (2.17%) Go
9 9 (1.77%) Bash
10 7 (1.38%) Bicep
10 7 (1.38%) Scala
11 5 (0.98%) Groovy
12 4 (0.79%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.59%) C
13 3 (0.59%) C++
13 3 (0.59%) PHP
13 3 (0.59%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.39%) Swift
Qualifications
1 42 (8.27%) Degree
2 25 (4.92%) Azure Certification
2 25 (4.92%) Security Cleared
3 18 (3.54%) AWS Certification
4 17 (3.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (2.76%) SC Cleared
6 12 (2.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 9 (1.77%) Master's Degree
8 6 (1.18%) ACCA
8 6 (1.18%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 6 (1.18%) CIMA
9 5 (0.98%) DBS Check
9 5 (0.98%) DV Cleared
10 3 (0.59%) MBA
11 2 (0.39%) CCIE
11 2 (0.39%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.39%) CSPO
11 2 (0.39%) HNC
11 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (3.74%) GDPR
2 17 (3.35%) GRC
3 16 (3.15%) Data Quality
4 15 (2.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 15 (2.95%) QA
5 12 (2.36%) SLA
6 10 (1.97%) PCI DSS
7 8 (1.57%) Accessibility
8 7 (1.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 6 (1.18%) NIST
10 4 (0.79%) SOC 2
10 4 (0.79%) WCAG
11 3 (0.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 2 (0.39%) GAAP
12 2 (0.39%) IFRS
13 1 (0.20%) Solvency II
System Software
1 38 (7.48%) Docker
2 15 (2.95%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (1.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.59%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.59%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 38 (7.48%) Kubernetes
2 37 (7.28%) Terraform
3 9 (1.77%) Grafana
4 8 (1.57%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.59%) cPanel
5 3 (0.59%) Nagios
5 3 (0.59%) Plesk
6 2 (0.39%) Ansible
6 2 (0.39%) Istio
6 2 (0.39%) linkerd
6 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Clustering
6 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.39%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.39%) Puppet
6 2 (0.39%) SolarWinds Orion
7 1 (0.20%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 85 (16.73%) Microsoft
2 21 (4.13%) ServiceNow
3 16 (3.15%) CrowdStrike
4 15 (2.95%) Adobe
5 14 (2.76%) Google
5 14 (2.76%) OpenAI
6 13 (2.56%) Apple
6 13 (2.56%) Splunk
7 12 (2.36%) Palo Alto
7 12 (2.36%) Tenable
8 9 (1.77%) Databricks
9 8 (1.57%) AppDynamics
9 8 (1.57%) VMware
10 6 (1.18%) Oracle
11 5 (0.98%) Cisco
12 4 (0.79%) OneLogin
13 3 (0.59%) Acronis
13 3 (0.59%) Datto
13 3 (0.59%) Dynatrace
13 3 (0.59%) Salesforce