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 26 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 15 45
Rank change year-on-year +6 +30 +18
Permanent jobs citing AI 641 282 200
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 9.08% 11.27% 4.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.07% 12.44% 5.52%
Number of salaries quoted 373 105 55
10th Percentile £42,750 £25,000 £37,555
25th Percentile £53,750 £33,750 £46,250
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 £87,500
90th Percentile £104,750 £110,000 £99,050
North West median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £57,560
% change year-on-year +16.67% +4.24% -11.45%

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 5,310 2,266 3,624
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 75.20% 90.57% 81.70%
Number of salaries quoted 4,140 1,325 2,268
10th Percentile £32,978 £29,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £35,000 £41,719
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 £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 26 August 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 26 August 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 20 £80,000 +15.30% 2
Cheadle - 11 £63,750 -
Ashton-under-Lyne - 9 £51,000 - 1
Bolton +23 8 £30,000 -42.86% 6
Stockport -4 5 £51,250 - 2
Bury - 2 £92,482 - 2
Sale - 2 £62,500 -
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 (3.12%) SharePoint
2 8 (1.25%) Apache
2 8 (1.25%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (0.94%) CMS
4 5 (0.78%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (0.62%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 3 (0.47%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.47%) WordPress
7 2 (0.31%) Confluence
7 2 (0.31%) IIS
7 2 (0.31%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.31%) nginx
8 1 (0.16%) Apache Superset
8 1 (0.16%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.16%) WebSphere
Applications
1 21 (3.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.94%) Chatbot
3 4 (0.62%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.16%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 12 (1.87%) Cloudability
2 4 (0.62%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.16%) Odoo
4 1 (0.16%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 149 (23.24%) Azure
2 144 (22.46%) AWS
3 63 (9.83%) SaaS
4 62 (9.67%) Power Platform
5 60 (9.36%) GCP
6 36 (5.62%) GitHub
7 32 (4.99%) Microsoft 365
8 31 (4.84%) Serverless
9 29 (4.52%) Microsoft Copilot
10 28 (4.37%) Azure AI
11 24 (3.74%) Azure DevOps
12 20 (3.12%) Anthropic Claude
13 19 (2.96%) PowerApps
14 17 (2.65%) Snowflake
15 16 (2.50%) GitHub Actions
16 14 (2.18%) GitHub Copilot
16 14 (2.18%) PaaS
17 13 (2.03%) dbt
18 12 (1.87%) AWS Lambda
18 12 (1.87%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.25%) Firewall
2 6 (0.94%) VLAN
3 5 (0.78%) BGP
3 5 (0.78%) DNS
3 5 (0.78%) SAN
4 3 (0.47%) DKIM
4 3 (0.47%) DMARC
4 3 (0.47%) HTTP
4 3 (0.47%) OSPF
4 3 (0.47%) PBX
4 3 (0.47%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.47%) Unified Communications
4 3 (0.47%) VoIP
4 3 (0.47%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (0.31%) IPFIX
5 2 (0.31%) IPsec
5 2 (0.31%) Network Security
5 2 (0.31%) SD-WAN
5 2 (0.31%) SMS
5 2 (0.31%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (5.30%) Power BI
2 25 (3.90%) PostgreSQL
3 21 (3.28%) Tableau
4 16 (2.50%) MongoDB
5 15 (2.34%) NoSQL
5 15 (2.34%) SQL Server
6 13 (2.03%) Data Warehouse
7 12 (1.87%) Relational Database
8 9 (1.40%) DynamoDB
9 6 (0.94%) Azure SQL Database
9 6 (0.94%) RDBMS
10 5 (0.78%) Big Data
10 5 (0.78%) Pinecone
11 4 (0.62%) Amazon Redshift
11 4 (0.62%) BigQuery
11 4 (0.62%) Data Lake
11 4 (0.62%) Data Mining
11 4 (0.62%) Electronic Patient Records
11 4 (0.62%) MySQL
12 3 (0.47%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 31 (4.84%) Git
2 23 (3.59%) GitLab
3 18 (2.81%) Jenkins
4 14 (2.18%) JIRA
5 12 (1.87%) Claude Code
5 12 (1.87%) JUnit
5 12 (1.87%) Snyk
5 12 (1.87%) Spock
6 9 (1.40%) Maven
7 5 (0.78%) Postman
8 4 (0.62%) Selenium
8 4 (0.62%) Storybook
8 4 (0.62%) Vite
9 3 (0.47%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.47%) IntelliJ
9 3 (0.47%) RStudio
9 3 (0.47%) Visual Studio Code
10 2 (0.31%) Mocha
10 2 (0.31%) Terragrunt
11 1 (0.16%) Cypress.io
General
1 163 (25.43%) Social Skills
2 126 (19.66%) Finance
3 85 (13.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 76 (11.86%) Analytical Skills
5 41 (6.40%) Public Sector
6 32 (4.99%) Banking
7 28 (4.37%) Law
8 23 (3.59%) Influencing Skills
9 21 (3.28%) Marketing
10 18 (2.81%) Organisational Skills
11 12 (1.87%) Legal
12 11 (1.72%) Retail
13 8 (1.25%) Local Government
14 6 (0.94%) Manufacturing
14 6 (0.94%) Social Housing
15 5 (0.78%) Telecoms
16 4 (0.62%) Billing
16 4 (0.62%) Games
16 4 (0.62%) Presentation Skills
16 4 (0.62%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 173 (26.99%) Senior
2 79 (12.32%) Architect
3 58 (9.05%) Software Engineer
4 49 (7.64%) Analyst
5 48 (7.49%) Developer
6 38 (5.93%) Lead
7 36 (5.62%) Solutions Architect
8 31 (4.84%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 29 (4.52%) Python Engineer
10 28 (4.37%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
10 28 (4.37%) Senior Developer
11 27 (4.21%) Data Engineer
11 27 (4.21%) Senior Architect
12 25 (3.90%) Senior Software Engineer
13 24 (3.74%) Senior Manager
14 22 (3.43%) Consultant
14 22 (3.43%) Service Manager
15 21 (3.28%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 21 (3.28%) Senior Analyst
16 18 (2.81%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (6.08%) Terraform
2 35 (5.46%) React
3 25 (3.90%) Spring
4 23 (3.59%) Node.js
5 22 (3.43%) CSS
5 22 (3.43%) HTML
5 22 (3.43%) Vue
6 20 (3.12%) AngularJS
7 19 (2.96%) .NET
8 17 (2.65%) FastAPI
9 14 (2.18%) LangChain
10 13 (2.03%) OAuth
11 12 (1.87%) JWT
11 12 (1.87%) REST
12 11 (1.72%) Kafka
12 11 (1.72%) Microsoft Graph
12 11 (1.72%) OpenID
12 11 (1.72%) SAML
12 11 (1.72%) Spring Boot
13 10 (1.56%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 68 (10.61%) Cloud Native
2 49 (7.64%) AI Agents
3 42 (6.55%) Product Ownership
4 40 (6.24%) Distributed Systems
5 37 (5.77%) Onboarding
6 21 (3.28%) Self-Motivation
7 20 (3.12%) Data Centre
8 18 (2.81%) Management Information System
9 14 (2.18%) Private Cloud
10 12 (1.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 12 (1.87%) Social Media
11 11 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
11 11 (1.72%) Marketing Technology
12 8 (1.25%) Analytical Mindset
13 7 (1.09%) Data Structures
13 7 (1.09%) Greenfield Project
14 6 (0.94%) Credit Risk
14 6 (0.94%) Life Science
14 6 (0.94%) Virtual Team
15 5 (0.78%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 11 (1.72%) Windows
2 10 (1.56%) Linux
3 6 (0.94%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.47%) VMS
5 2 (0.31%) Unix
6 1 (0.16%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 134 (20.90%) Agile
2 131 (20.44%) CI/CD
3 118 (18.41%) DevOps
4 114 (17.78%) Software Engineering
5 96 (14.98%) Continuous Improvement
5 96 (14.98%) Machine Learning
6 90 (14.04%) Analytics
7 79 (12.32%) Decision-Making
8 78 (12.17%) Problem-Solving
9 75 (11.70%) Roadmaps
10 68 (10.61%) Stakeholder Management
11 65 (10.14%) Coaching
12 61 (9.52%) Cybersecurity
13 58 (9.05%) Mentoring
14 54 (8.42%) Microservices
15 52 (8.11%) Full-Stack Development
15 52 (8.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 51 (7.96%) Generative AI
17 50 (7.80%) Data Science
17 50 (7.80%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 160 (24.96%) Python
2 90 (14.04%) SQL
3 62 (9.67%) Java
4 58 (9.05%) JavaScript
5 53 (8.27%) TypeScript
6 26 (4.06%) C#
7 14 (2.18%) PowerShell
8 12 (1.87%) Go
9 10 (1.56%) Bash
9 10 (1.56%) Scala
10 7 (1.09%) Bicep
10 7 (1.09%) Groovy
11 5 (0.78%) C++
11 5 (0.78%) R
12 4 (0.62%) T-SQL
13 3 (0.47%) C
13 3 (0.47%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.47%) PHP
14 2 (0.31%) ABAP
15 1 (0.16%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 56 (8.74%) Degree
2 42 (6.55%) Security Cleared
3 20 (3.12%) SC Cleared
4 19 (2.96%) Azure Certification
5 18 (2.81%) Computer Science Degree
6 17 (2.65%) Master's Degree
7 13 (2.03%) DV Cleared
8 12 (1.87%) AWS Certification
8 12 (1.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 7 (1.09%) ACCA
10 6 (0.94%) CIMA
11 4 (0.62%) MBA
11 4 (0.62%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (0.47%) APMG
12 3 (0.47%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (0.47%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 2 (0.31%) Cisco Certification
13 2 (0.31%) CSPO
13 2 (0.31%) ITIL Certification
13 2 (0.31%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (6.24%) Data Quality
2 22 (3.43%) QA
3 20 (3.12%) Accessibility
3 20 (3.12%) GDPR
4 17 (2.65%) GRC
5 15 (2.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (1.87%) SLA
7 10 (1.56%) PCI DSS
8 7 (1.09%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 7 (1.09%) WCAG
9 6 (0.94%) NIST
10 4 (0.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 4 (0.62%) SOC 2
11 2 (0.31%) GAAP
11 2 (0.31%) IFRS
12 1 (0.16%) COSO
12 1 (0.16%) Solvency II
System Software
1 48 (7.49%) Docker
2 15 (2.34%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (1.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.47%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.47%) Ceph
4 3 (0.47%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 41 (6.40%) Kubernetes
2 12 (1.87%) Grafana
2 12 (1.87%) Prometheus
3 6 (0.94%) Ansible
3 6 (0.94%) Istio
4 3 (0.47%) Argo
4 3 (0.47%) Check_MK
4 3 (0.47%) cPanel
4 3 (0.47%) linkerd
4 3 (0.47%) Nagios
4 3 (0.47%) Plesk
4 3 (0.47%) Podman
4 3 (0.47%) Progress Chef
4 3 (0.47%) Puppet
5 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Clustering
5 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.31%) SolarWinds Orion
6 1 (0.16%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 1 (0.16%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 87 (13.57%) Microsoft
2 31 (4.84%) YouTube
3 21 (3.28%) ServiceNow
4 20 (3.12%) Adobe
5 19 (2.96%) Splunk
6 18 (2.81%) Databricks
6 18 (2.81%) Google
7 16 (2.50%) CrowdStrike
8 13 (2.03%) AppDynamics
8 13 (2.03%) Apple
9 12 (1.87%) OpenAI
9 12 (1.87%) Palo Alto
9 12 (1.87%) Tenable
10 11 (1.72%) Oracle
11 8 (1.25%) VMware
12 7 (1.09%) Salesforce
13 5 (0.78%) Cisco
14 4 (0.62%) SAP
15 3 (0.47%) Dell
15 3 (0.47%) Red Hat