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

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 26 57
Rank change year-on-year +14 +31 +41
Permanent jobs citing AI 477 218 214
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 7.68% 9.47% 3.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.57% 9.98% 4.48%
Number of salaries quoted 318 88 73
10th Percentile £42,125 £25,000 £31,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £30,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £65,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% +30.00% -23.08%
75th Percentile £100,000 £94,083 £72,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £110,000 £100,150
North West median annual salary £70,000 £64,438 £47,500
% change year-on-year +8.63% +35.66% -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 4,513 2,185 4,777
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 72.65% 94.92% 83.19%
Number of salaries quoted 3,576 1,243 3,548
10th Percentile £32,500 £29,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +4.76% -9.48%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,886 £68,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £91,164 £81,250
North West median annual salary £55,000 £51,763 £50,000
% change year-on-year +6.25% +3.53% -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 27 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 27 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
Salford -6 11 £80,000 - 9
Cheadle - 9 £63,750 -
Bolton +24 8 £30,000 - 1
Ashton-under-Lyne - 5 £51,000 -
Stockport 0 3 £32,500 - 4
Bury - 3 £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 11 (2.31%) SharePoint
2 6 (1.26%) CMS
2 6 (1.26%) Jupyter
3 5 (1.05%) WordPress
4 4 (0.84%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.42%) IIS
5 2 (0.42%) nginx
6 1 (0.21%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 19 (3.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (2.31%) Chatbot
3 5 (1.05%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (2.52%) Cloudability
2 1 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.21%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 134 (28.09%) Azure
2 118 (24.74%) AWS
3 56 (11.74%) Power Platform
4 51 (10.69%) GCP
5 48 (10.06%) SaaS
6 33 (6.92%) Serverless
7 32 (6.71%) Azure AI
8 25 (5.24%) GitHub
9 23 (4.82%) Microsoft 365
10 22 (4.61%) Microsoft Copilot
11 19 (3.98%) Anthropic Claude
12 18 (3.77%) Azure DevOps
13 14 (2.94%) GitHub Actions
14 12 (2.52%) AWS Lambda
15 10 (2.10%) Cloud Computing
15 10 (2.10%) Microsoft Purview
15 10 (2.10%) PowerApps
16 9 (1.89%) Amazon ECS
16 9 (1.89%) Amazon S3
17 8 (1.68%) ChatGPT
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.47%) Firewall
2 6 (1.26%) VLAN
3 5 (1.05%) DNS
4 4 (0.84%) SAN
5 3 (0.63%) BGP
5 3 (0.63%) DKIM
5 3 (0.63%) DMARC
5 3 (0.63%) OSPF
5 3 (0.63%) PBX
5 3 (0.63%) TCP/IP
5 3 (0.63%) Unified Communications
5 3 (0.63%) VoIP
5 3 (0.63%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (0.42%) IPFIX
6 2 (0.42%) Network Security
6 2 (0.42%) SNMP
7 1 (0.21%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (7.76%) Power BI
2 25 (5.24%) Tableau
3 16 (3.35%) PostgreSQL
4 15 (3.14%) MongoDB
5 12 (2.52%) NoSQL
5 12 (2.52%) SQL Server
6 10 (2.10%) Relational Database
7 7 (1.47%) Data Warehouse
8 6 (1.26%) RDBMS
9 5 (1.05%) Big Data
9 5 (1.05%) MySQL
9 5 (1.05%) Pinecone
10 4 (0.84%) Data Lake
11 3 (0.63%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (0.63%) Data Mining
11 3 (0.63%) Redis
11 3 (0.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (0.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 2 (0.42%) DynamoDB
12 2 (0.42%) Looker
Development Applications
1 23 (4.82%) Git
2 14 (2.94%) GitLab
2 14 (2.94%) Jenkins
3 13 (2.73%) Claude Code
4 12 (2.52%) Snyk
5 6 (1.26%) JUnit
5 6 (1.26%) Spock
5 6 (1.26%) Visual Studio Code
6 5 (1.05%) Postman
7 4 (0.84%) Selenium
7 4 (0.84%) Vite
8 2 (0.42%) JIRA
8 2 (0.42%) Maven
8 2 (0.42%) Terragrunt
8 2 (0.42%) XCUITest
9 1 (0.21%) Gemini Tracker
9 1 (0.21%) Gradle
9 1 (0.21%) MLflow
9 1 (0.21%) Mocha
9 1 (0.21%) Xcode
General
1 96 (20.13%) Social Skills
2 92 (19.29%) Finance
3 69 (14.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 47 (9.85%) Analytical Skills
5 34 (7.13%) Banking
6 29 (6.08%) Public Sector
7 19 (3.98%) Retail
8 16 (3.35%) Law
9 15 (3.14%) Organisational Skills
10 13 (2.73%) Marketing
11 11 (2.31%) Manufacturing
12 6 (1.26%) Influencing Skills
13 5 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (1.05%) Telecoms
14 4 (0.84%) Local Government
15 3 (0.63%) Billing
15 3 (0.63%) French Language
15 3 (0.63%) Italian Language
15 3 (0.63%) Portuguese Language
15 3 (0.63%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 128 (26.83%) Senior
2 51 (10.69%) Architect
2 51 (10.69%) Software Engineer
3 45 (9.43%) Analyst
4 39 (8.18%) Developer
5 31 (6.50%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 28 (5.87%) Python Engineer
7 23 (4.82%) Senior Developer
8 21 (4.40%) Data Analyst
9 19 (3.98%) Lead
9 19 (3.98%) Senior Analyst
9 19 (3.98%) Service Manager
10 18 (3.77%) Security Architect
10 18 (3.77%) Senior Software Engineer
10 18 (3.77%) Solutions Architect
11 17 (3.56%) Cloud Architect
11 17 (3.56%) Cloud Security Architect
11 17 (3.56%) Senior Architect
12 16 (3.35%) Data Manager
12 16 (3.35%) Junior Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (6.29%) React
2 24 (5.03%) Vue
3 21 (4.40%) FastAPI
4 20 (4.19%) CSS
4 20 (4.19%) HTML
5 19 (3.98%) .NET
6 18 (3.77%) Node.js
6 18 (3.77%) Spring
7 15 (3.14%) LangChain
8 13 (2.73%) OAuth
9 12 (2.52%) JWT
9 12 (2.52%) Spring Boot
10 11 (2.31%) OpenID
10 11 (2.31%) RESTful
10 11 (2.31%) SAML
11 10 (2.10%) AngularJS
11 10 (2.10%) REST
12 9 (1.89%) Flask
12 9 (1.89%) Kafka
12 9 (1.89%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 58 (12.16%) Cloud Native
2 35 (7.34%) AI Agents
3 32 (6.71%) Product Ownership
4 31 (6.50%) Distributed Systems
5 27 (5.66%) Onboarding
6 21 (4.40%) Data Centre
7 10 (2.10%) Algorithms
8 9 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
9 8 (1.68%) Private Cloud
10 7 (1.47%) Greenfield Project
10 7 (1.47%) Management Information System
11 6 (1.26%) Credit Risk
11 6 (1.26%) Enterprise Software
11 6 (1.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 6 (1.26%) Marketing Technology
11 6 (1.26%) Virtual Team
12 5 (1.05%) Analytical Mindset
12 5 (1.05%) Life Science
12 5 (1.05%) Social Media
13 4 (0.84%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 11 (2.31%) Windows
2 6 (1.26%) Windows Server
3 5 (1.05%) Apple iOS
3 5 (1.05%) Linux
4 4 (0.84%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (22.64%) CI/CD
2 94 (19.71%) DevOps
3 84 (17.61%) Software Engineering
4 82 (17.19%) Agile
5 75 (15.72%) Machine Learning
6 74 (15.51%) Analytics
7 58 (12.16%) Problem-Solving
8 56 (11.74%) Cybersecurity
9 53 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
10 50 (10.48%) Roadmaps
11 46 (9.64%) Decision-Making
11 46 (9.64%) LLM
12 45 (9.43%) Mentoring
13 42 (8.81%) Infrastructure as Code
13 42 (8.81%) Observability
14 41 (8.60%) Microservices
15 37 (7.76%) Generative AI
16 36 (7.55%) Business Intelligence
16 36 (7.55%) Event-Driven
17 35 (7.34%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 147 (30.82%) Python
2 71 (14.88%) SQL
3 40 (8.39%) Java
4 39 (8.18%) TypeScript
5 35 (7.34%) JavaScript
6 21 (4.40%) C#
7 11 (2.31%) Go
7 11 (2.31%) PowerShell
8 9 (1.89%) Bash
9 6 (1.26%) Bicep
10 5 (1.05%) Scala
11 4 (0.84%) Groovy
11 4 (0.84%) Kotlin
12 3 (0.63%) C
12 3 (0.63%) C++
12 3 (0.63%) PHP
12 3 (0.63%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.42%) Swift
Qualifications
1 35 (7.34%) Degree
2 25 (5.24%) Azure Certification
3 23 (4.82%) Security Cleared
4 18 (3.77%) AWS Certification
5 13 (2.73%) SC Cleared
6 12 (2.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 12 (2.52%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (1.26%) ACCA
7 6 (1.26%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 6 (1.26%) CIMA
7 6 (1.26%) 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%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (3.77%) GDPR
2 17 (3.56%) GRC
3 16 (3.35%) Data Quality
4 15 (3.14%) QA
5 14 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (2.52%) SLA
7 9 (1.89%) PCI DSS
8 8 (1.68%) Accessibility
9 7 (1.47%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 6 (1.26%) NIST
11 4 (0.84%) SOC 2
11 4 (0.84%) WCAG
12 3 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 2 (0.42%) GAAP
13 2 (0.42%) IFRS
14 1 (0.21%) Solvency II
System Software
1 35 (7.34%) Docker
2 15 (3.14%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (1.47%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.63%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.63%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 37 (7.76%) Kubernetes
2 34 (7.13%) Terraform
3 9 (1.89%) Grafana
4 8 (1.68%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.63%) cPanel
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%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.42%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.42%) Puppet
7 1 (0.21%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 84 (17.61%) Microsoft
2 21 (4.40%) ServiceNow
3 16 (3.35%) CrowdStrike
4 14 (2.94%) Adobe
5 13 (2.73%) Apple
5 13 (2.73%) Google
5 13 (2.73%) OpenAI
6 12 (2.52%) Palo Alto
6 12 (2.52%) Tenable
7 9 (1.89%) Splunk
8 8 (1.68%) Databricks
9 7 (1.47%) VMware
10 6 (1.26%) AppDynamics
10 6 (1.26%) Oracle
11 4 (0.84%) OneLogin
12 3 (0.63%) Acronis
12 3 (0.63%) Datto
12 3 (0.63%) Dynatrace
12 3 (0.63%) NETGEAR
12 3 (0.63%) Veeam