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

6 months to
21 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 28 59
Rank change year-on-year +15 +31 +37
Permanent jobs citing AI 474 215 219
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 7.70% 9.44% 3.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.67% 9.92% 4.46%
Number of salaries quoted 315 84 77
10th Percentile £43,000 £25,000 £31,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £31,750 £35,092
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £68,750 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.45% +44.74% -26.92%
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £106,500 £110,000 £97,950
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 4,443 2,168 4,912
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 72.20% 95.17% 82.68%
Number of salaries quoted 3,518 1,236 3,672
10th Percentile £32,775 £29,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £53,330
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +3.13% -7.75%
75th Percentile £77,500 £74,258 £68,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £91,625 £80,392
North West median annual salary £55,000 £52,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.77% +4.00% -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 21 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 21 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 +23 8 £30,000 -
Salford -9 8 £80,000 - 11
Cheadle - 8 £63,750 -
Ashton-under-Lyne - 4 £51,000 - 4
Stockport -1 3 £32,500 - 7
Bury - 3 £92,482 - 2
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 (2.32%) SharePoint
2 6 (1.27%) CMS
2 6 (1.27%) Jupyter
3 5 (1.05%) WordPress
4 3 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.42%) IIS
5 2 (0.42%) nginx
6 1 (0.21%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.21%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 22 (4.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (2.32%) Chatbot
3 5 (1.05%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (0.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 12 (2.53%) Cloudability
2 1 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.21%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 134 (28.27%) Azure
2 119 (25.11%) AWS
3 54 (11.39%) Power Platform
4 50 (10.55%) GCP
5 47 (9.92%) SaaS
6 31 (6.54%) Azure AI
6 31 (6.54%) Serverless
7 23 (4.85%) GitHub
8 22 (4.64%) Microsoft 365
9 21 (4.43%) Microsoft Copilot
10 18 (3.80%) Anthropic Claude
11 17 (3.59%) Azure DevOps
12 12 (2.53%) GitHub Actions
13 11 (2.32%) Microsoft Purview
14 10 (2.11%) AWS Lambda
14 10 (2.11%) Cloud Computing
15 9 (1.90%) Amazon ECS
16 8 (1.69%) Amazon S3
16 8 (1.69%) ChatGPT
16 8 (1.69%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.27%) Firewall
1 6 (1.27%) VLAN
2 5 (1.05%) DNS
3 4 (0.84%) Unified Communications
3 4 (0.84%) VoIP
4 3 (0.63%) BGP
4 3 (0.63%) DKIM
4 3 (0.63%) DMARC
4 3 (0.63%) OSPF
4 3 (0.63%) PBX
4 3 (0.63%) SAN
4 3 (0.63%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.63%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (0.42%) IPFIX
5 2 (0.42%) Network Security
5 2 (0.42%) SNMP
6 1 (0.21%) HTTP
6 1 (0.21%) LTE
6 1 (0.21%) Telepresence
6 1 (0.21%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (7.81%) Power BI
2 25 (5.27%) Tableau
3 16 (3.38%) MongoDB
3 16 (3.38%) PostgreSQL
4 13 (2.74%) NoSQL
5 12 (2.53%) SQL Server
6 10 (2.11%) Relational Database
7 6 (1.27%) Data Warehouse
7 6 (1.27%) RDBMS
8 5 (1.05%) Big Data
8 5 (1.05%) MySQL
9 4 (0.84%) Data Lake
9 4 (0.84%) Pinecone
10 3 (0.63%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (0.63%) Redis
10 3 (0.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (0.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 2 (0.42%) Data Mining
11 2 (0.42%) DynamoDB
11 2 (0.42%) Looker
Development Applications
1 23 (4.85%) Git
2 14 (2.95%) GitLab
3 13 (2.74%) Claude Code
3 13 (2.74%) Jenkins
4 12 (2.53%) Snyk
5 7 (1.48%) JUnit
6 6 (1.27%) Spock
6 6 (1.27%) Visual Studio Code
7 4 (0.84%) Postman
7 4 (0.84%) Vite
8 3 (0.63%) JIRA
8 3 (0.63%) Selenium
9 2 (0.42%) Maven
9 2 (0.42%) Terragrunt
9 2 (0.42%) XCUITest
10 1 (0.21%) Gemini Tracker
10 1 (0.21%) Gradle
10 1 (0.21%) MLflow
10 1 (0.21%) Mocha
10 1 (0.21%) Xcode
General
1 98 (20.68%) Social Skills
2 95 (20.04%) Finance
3 73 (15.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 49 (10.34%) Analytical Skills
5 38 (8.02%) Banking
6 26 (5.49%) Public Sector
7 19 (4.01%) Retail
8 16 (3.38%) Law
9 15 (3.16%) Organisational Skills
10 13 (2.74%) Marketing
11 11 (2.32%) Manufacturing
12 6 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
12 6 (1.27%) Telecoms
13 5 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (0.84%) Local Government
15 3 (0.63%) Billing
15 3 (0.63%) French Language
15 3 (0.63%) Games
15 3 (0.63%) Italian Language
15 3 (0.63%) Portuguese Language
Job Titles
1 122 (25.74%) Senior
2 51 (10.76%) Software Engineer
3 49 (10.34%) Architect
4 48 (10.13%) Analyst
5 38 (8.02%) Developer
6 30 (6.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 29 (6.12%) Python Engineer
8 21 (4.43%) Data Analyst
8 21 (4.43%) Senior Developer
9 20 (4.22%) Lead
10 19 (4.01%) Senior Analyst
10 19 (4.01%) Service Manager
11 18 (3.80%) Security Architect
11 18 (3.80%) Senior Software Engineer
12 17 (3.59%) Cloud Architect
12 17 (3.59%) Cloud Security Architect
13 16 (3.38%) Junior
13 16 (3.38%) Junior Analyst
13 16 (3.38%) Junior Data Analyst
13 16 (3.38%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (6.33%) React
2 24 (5.06%) Vue
3 21 (4.43%) FastAPI
4 20 (4.22%) CSS
4 20 (4.22%) HTML
5 19 (4.01%) .NET
6 18 (3.80%) Node.js
6 18 (3.80%) Spring
7 15 (3.16%) LangChain
8 13 (2.74%) OAuth
9 12 (2.53%) JWT
9 12 (2.53%) Spring Boot
10 11 (2.32%) AngularJS
10 11 (2.32%) OpenID
10 11 (2.32%) REST
10 11 (2.32%) RESTful
10 11 (2.32%) SAML
11 9 (1.90%) Django
11 9 (1.90%) Kafka
11 9 (1.90%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 59 (12.45%) Cloud Native
2 33 (6.96%) AI Agents
3 32 (6.75%) Distributed Systems
3 32 (6.75%) Product Ownership
4 29 (6.12%) Onboarding
5 21 (4.43%) Data Centre
6 10 (2.11%) Algorithms
7 9 (1.90%) Self-Motivation
8 8 (1.69%) Private Cloud
9 7 (1.48%) Greenfield Project
9 7 (1.48%) Management Information System
10 6 (1.27%) Analytical Mindset
10 6 (1.27%) Credit Risk
10 6 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
10 6 (1.27%) Marketing Technology
11 5 (1.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 5 (1.05%) Life Science
11 5 (1.05%) Public Cloud
11 5 (1.05%) Social Media
11 5 (1.05%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (2.32%) Windows
2 6 (1.27%) Windows Server
3 5 (1.05%) Apple iOS
3 5 (1.05%) Linux
4 4 (0.84%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (22.57%) CI/CD
2 95 (20.04%) DevOps
3 83 (17.51%) Software Engineering
4 80 (16.88%) Agile
5 72 (15.19%) Analytics
6 71 (14.98%) Machine Learning
7 59 (12.45%) Cybersecurity
8 58 (12.24%) Problem-Solving
9 50 (10.55%) Continuous Improvement
10 47 (9.92%) Roadmaps
11 46 (9.70%) Decision-Making
12 44 (9.28%) LLM
13 43 (9.07%) Observability
14 42 (8.86%) Microservices
15 41 (8.65%) Mentoring
16 40 (8.44%) Infrastructure as Code
17 37 (7.81%) Event-Driven
18 36 (7.59%) Business Intelligence
18 36 (7.59%) Full-Stack Development
19 35 (7.38%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 146 (30.80%) Python
2 71 (14.98%) SQL
3 41 (8.65%) Java
4 40 (8.44%) TypeScript
5 35 (7.38%) JavaScript
6 19 (4.01%) C#
7 10 (2.11%) Go
7 10 (2.11%) PowerShell
8 9 (1.90%) Bash
9 5 (1.05%) Bicep
9 5 (1.05%) Scala
10 4 (0.84%) Groovy
11 3 (0.63%) C
11 3 (0.63%) C++
11 3 (0.63%) Kotlin
11 3 (0.63%) PHP
11 3 (0.63%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.42%) Swift
Qualifications
1 36 (7.59%) Degree
2 25 (5.27%) Azure Certification
3 22 (4.64%) Security Cleared
4 21 (4.43%) AWS Certification
5 13 (2.74%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (2.74%) SC Cleared
6 12 (2.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 6 (1.27%) ACCA
7 6 (1.27%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 6 (1.27%) CIMA
7 6 (1.27%) Master's Degree
8 5 (1.05%) DBS Check
9 4 (0.84%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.42%) CSPO
10 2 (0.42%) HNC
10 2 (0.42%) MBA
10 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 1 (0.21%) CISSP
11 1 (0.21%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (3.59%) GDPR
1 17 (3.59%) GRC
2 16 (3.38%) QA
3 15 (3.16%) Data Quality
4 13 (2.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (2.53%) SLA
6 8 (1.69%) Accessibility
6 8 (1.69%) PCI DSS
7 7 (1.48%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 6 (1.27%) NIST
9 4 (0.84%) SOC 2
9 4 (0.84%) WCAG
10 3 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.42%) GAAP
11 2 (0.42%) IFRS
12 1 (0.21%) Solvency II
System Software
1 34 (7.17%) Docker
2 15 (3.16%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (1.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.84%) Active Directory
5 3 (0.63%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 36 (7.59%) Kubernetes
2 33 (6.96%) Terraform
3 9 (1.90%) Grafana
4 8 (1.69%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.63%) cPanel
5 3 (0.63%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (0.63%) Nagios
5 3 (0.63%) Plesk
6 2 (0.42%) Istio
6 2 (0.42%) linkerd
6 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Clustering
6 2 (0.42%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.42%) Puppet
7 1 (0.21%) Cisco CUCM
7 1 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.21%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 85 (17.93%) Microsoft
2 21 (4.43%) ServiceNow
3 17 (3.59%) Adobe
4 16 (3.38%) Apple
4 16 (3.38%) CrowdStrike
5 13 (2.74%) Google
5 13 (2.74%) OpenAI
6 12 (2.53%) Palo Alto
6 12 (2.53%) Tenable
7 9 (1.90%) Splunk
8 8 (1.69%) Databricks
9 6 (1.27%) AppDynamics
9 6 (1.27%) Oracle
9 6 (1.27%) VMware
10 4 (0.84%) Cisco
10 4 (0.84%) OneLogin
11 3 (0.63%) Acronis
11 3 (0.63%) Datto
11 3 (0.63%) SonicWALL
11 3 (0.63%) WatchGuard