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

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 14 49
Rank change year-on-year +5 +35 +6
Permanent jobs citing AI 697 294 167
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 9.48% 12.33% 4.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.57% 13.78% 4.99%
Number of salaries quoted 376 95 35
10th Percentile £41,250 £24,742 £41,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £41,875 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,250 £62,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.00% -7.41% +3.85%
75th Percentile £100,000 £88,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £101,250 £110,000 £93,250
North West median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +16.67% +4.35% -11.54%

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 5,547 2,133 3,344
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 75.42% 89.47% 82.49%
Number of salaries quoted 4,269 1,213 1,813
10th Percentile £32,000 £29,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £34,750 £40,988
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £86,250 £83,425
North West median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -0.99% -8.18%

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 14 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 14 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 -8 23 £85,000 +22.51% 27
Cheadle - 11 £63,750 - 1
Bolton +13 9 £33,750 -35.71% 15
Ashton-under-Lyne - 9 £51,000 - 4
Stockport -10 3 £70,000 - 6
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 23 (3.30%) SharePoint
2 8 (1.15%) Apache
2 8 (1.15%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (0.72%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (0.57%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 4 (0.57%) CMS
5 3 (0.43%) Confluence
5 3 (0.43%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.29%) IIS
6 2 (0.29%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.29%) nginx
7 1 (0.14%) Apache Superset
7 1 (0.14%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.14%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.14%) WordPress
Applications
1 21 (3.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.86%) Chatbot
3 4 (0.57%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.29%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 12 (1.72%) Cloudability
2 6 (0.86%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.43%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.29%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.14%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
5 1 (0.14%) Odoo
5 1 (0.14%) SAP PSCD
5 1 (0.14%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 149 (21.38%) Azure
2 145 (20.80%) AWS
3 66 (9.47%) Power Platform
4 61 (8.75%) GCP
5 58 (8.32%) SaaS
6 36 (5.16%) GitHub
7 31 (4.45%) Serverless
8 30 (4.30%) Microsoft 365
9 26 (3.73%) Azure AI
9 26 (3.73%) Microsoft Copilot
10 24 (3.44%) Azure DevOps
11 21 (3.01%) PowerApps
12 18 (2.58%) Anthropic Claude
13 17 (2.44%) GitHub Actions
13 17 (2.44%) Snowflake
14 14 (2.01%) PaaS
15 13 (1.87%) dbt
15 13 (1.87%) GitHub Copilot
15 13 (1.87%) Power Automate
16 12 (1.72%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.29%) Firewall
2 6 (0.86%) VLAN
3 5 (0.72%) BGP
3 5 (0.72%) DNS
3 5 (0.72%) SAN
3 5 (0.72%) SMS
4 3 (0.43%) DKIM
4 3 (0.43%) DMARC
4 3 (0.43%) HTTP
4 3 (0.43%) Network Security
4 3 (0.43%) OSPF
4 3 (0.43%) PBX
4 3 (0.43%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.43%) Unified Communications
4 3 (0.43%) VoIP
4 3 (0.43%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (0.29%) DMZ
5 2 (0.29%) IPFIX
5 2 (0.29%) SNMP
5 2 (0.29%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (5.88%) Power BI
2 25 (3.59%) PostgreSQL
3 19 (2.73%) Tableau
4 17 (2.44%) NoSQL
5 16 (2.30%) MongoDB
6 15 (2.15%) SQL Server
7 14 (2.01%) Data Warehouse
8 12 (1.72%) Relational Database
9 10 (1.43%) DynamoDB
10 6 (0.86%) Azure SQL Database
10 6 (0.86%) Big Data
10 6 (0.86%) RDBMS
11 5 (0.72%) Chroma
11 5 (0.72%) Data Lake
11 5 (0.72%) Electronic Patient Records
11 5 (0.72%) Metadata
11 5 (0.72%) MySQL
11 5 (0.72%) Pinecone
12 4 (0.57%) BigQuery
12 4 (0.57%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 32 (4.59%) Git
2 26 (3.73%) GitLab
3 19 (2.73%) Jenkins
4 17 (2.44%) JIRA
5 13 (1.87%) JUnit
5 13 (1.87%) Spock
6 12 (1.72%) Snyk
7 11 (1.58%) Maven
8 10 (1.43%) Claude Code
9 5 (0.72%) Postman
10 4 (0.57%) IntelliJ
10 4 (0.57%) Storybook
10 4 (0.57%) Vite
11 3 (0.43%) Bitbucket
11 3 (0.43%) RStudio
11 3 (0.43%) Selenium
11 3 (0.43%) Visual Studio Code
12 2 (0.29%) Mocha
12 2 (0.29%) Terragrunt
13 1 (0.14%) Gemini Tracker
General
1 183 (26.26%) Social Skills
2 153 (21.95%) Finance
3 95 (13.63%) Analytical Skills
4 86 (12.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 47 (6.74%) Public Sector
6 39 (5.60%) Banking
7 32 (4.59%) Law
8 28 (4.02%) Influencing Skills
9 23 (3.30%) Marketing
10 19 (2.73%) Organisational Skills
11 13 (1.87%) Legal
12 11 (1.58%) Retail
13 8 (1.15%) Local Government
14 7 (1.00%) Publishing
15 6 (0.86%) Social Housing
16 5 (0.72%) Telecoms
17 4 (0.57%) Billing
17 4 (0.57%) Games
17 4 (0.57%) Health Technology
17 4 (0.57%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 181 (25.97%) Senior
2 84 (12.05%) Architect
3 65 (9.33%) Software Engineer
4 52 (7.46%) Developer
5 51 (7.32%) Analyst
6 42 (6.03%) Lead
7 40 (5.74%) Solutions Architect
8 32 (4.59%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 31 (4.45%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
10 29 (4.16%) Senior Software Engineer
11 28 (4.02%) Data Engineer
11 28 (4.02%) Python Engineer
12 27 (3.87%) Senior Architect
13 26 (3.73%) Senior Manager
14 25 (3.59%) Senior Developer
15 24 (3.44%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 23 (3.30%) Consultant
17 22 (3.16%) Service Manager
18 21 (3.01%) Senior Analyst
19 18 (2.58%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (6.17%) Terraform
2 38 (5.45%) React
3 28 (4.02%) Spring
4 25 (3.59%) Vue
5 22 (3.16%) AngularJS
6 21 (3.01%) Node.js
7 20 (2.87%) CSS
8 19 (2.73%) HTML
9 18 (2.58%) .NET
10 17 (2.44%) FastAPI
11 15 (2.15%) Kafka
12 14 (2.01%) LangChain
13 13 (1.87%) OAuth
13 13 (1.87%) REST
13 13 (1.87%) Spring Boot
14 12 (1.72%) JWT
15 11 (1.58%) Microsoft Graph
15 11 (1.58%) OpenID
15 11 (1.58%) SAML
16 10 (1.43%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 70 (10.04%) Cloud Native
2 56 (8.03%) AI Agents
3 46 (6.60%) Product Ownership
4 40 (5.74%) Distributed Systems
5 34 (4.88%) Onboarding
6 26 (3.73%) Self-Motivation
7 25 (3.59%) Management Information System
8 21 (3.01%) Data Centre
9 16 (2.30%) Private Cloud
10 14 (2.01%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 14 (2.01%) Marketing Technology
11 11 (1.58%) Social Media
12 10 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
13 8 (1.15%) Analytical Mindset
13 8 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
14 7 (1.00%) Cyber Threat
14 7 (1.00%) Data Structures
15 6 (0.86%) Credit Risk
15 6 (0.86%) Life Science
15 6 (0.86%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 12 (1.72%) Windows
2 11 (1.58%) Linux
3 6 (0.86%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.57%) VMS
5 3 (0.43%) Unix
6 1 (0.14%) AIX
6 1 (0.14%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 144 (20.66%) Agile
2 136 (19.51%) CI/CD
3 125 (17.93%) Continuous Improvement
4 123 (17.65%) Software Engineering
5 122 (17.50%) DevOps
6 97 (13.92%) Problem-Solving
7 96 (13.77%) Analytics
7 96 (13.77%) Machine Learning
8 89 (12.77%) Decision-Making
9 88 (12.63%) Coaching
10 84 (12.05%) Stakeholder Management
11 76 (10.90%) Roadmaps
12 72 (10.33%) Customer Service
13 71 (10.19%) Mentoring
14 69 (9.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 64 (9.18%) Cybersecurity
16 58 (8.32%) Full-Stack Development
16 58 (8.32%) Generative AI
17 57 (8.18%) Microservices
18 55 (7.89%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 161 (23.10%) Python
2 98 (14.06%) SQL
3 65 (9.33%) Java
4 60 (8.61%) TypeScript
5 59 (8.46%) JavaScript
6 25 (3.59%) C#
7 15 (2.15%) PowerShell
8 12 (1.72%) Go
9 11 (1.58%) Scala
10 9 (1.29%) Bash
11 8 (1.15%) Groovy
12 7 (1.00%) Bicep
13 5 (0.72%) C++
13 5 (0.72%) R
14 4 (0.57%) T-SQL
15 3 (0.43%) ABAP
15 3 (0.43%) C
15 3 (0.43%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.43%) PHP
16 2 (0.29%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 64 (9.18%) Degree
2 53 (7.60%) Security Cleared
3 26 (3.73%) SC Cleared
4 19 (2.73%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (2.44%) Azure Certification
5 17 (2.44%) DV Cleared
5 17 (2.44%) Master's Degree
6 12 (1.72%) AWS Certification
6 12 (1.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 9 (1.29%) ACCA
8 6 (0.86%) CIMA
9 5 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (0.57%) CISM
10 4 (0.57%) CISSP
10 4 (0.57%) ITIL Certification
10 4 (0.57%) MBA
11 3 (0.43%) APMG
11 3 (0.43%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (0.43%) CISA
11 3 (0.43%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (7.17%) Data Quality
2 26 (3.73%) Accessibility
3 20 (2.87%) GDPR
3 20 (2.87%) QA
4 16 (2.30%) GRC
4 16 (2.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (1.72%) SLA
6 10 (1.43%) PCI DSS
7 9 (1.29%) NIST
8 7 (1.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 7 (1.00%) WCAG
9 6 (0.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 4 (0.57%) SOC 2
11 3 (0.43%) COSO
12 2 (0.29%) GAAP
12 2 (0.29%) IFRS
12 2 (0.29%) NIST 800
13 1 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials
13 1 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 1 (0.14%) PMO
System Software
1 52 (7.46%) Docker
2 15 (2.15%) Virtual Machines
3 9 (1.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.57%) Active Directory
5 3 (0.43%) Ceph
5 3 (0.43%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 46 (6.60%) Kubernetes
2 13 (1.87%) Grafana
2 13 (1.87%) Prometheus
3 7 (1.00%) Ansible
4 6 (0.86%) Istio
5 3 (0.43%) Argo
5 3 (0.43%) Check_MK
5 3 (0.43%) cPanel
5 3 (0.43%) linkerd
5 3 (0.43%) Nagios
5 3 (0.43%) Plesk
5 3 (0.43%) Podman
5 3 (0.43%) Progress Chef
5 3 (0.43%) Puppet
6 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Clustering
6 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.29%) SolarWinds Orion
7 1 (0.14%) SCCM
7 1 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.14%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 87 (12.48%) Microsoft
2 53 (7.60%) YouTube
3 22 (3.16%) ServiceNow
4 20 (2.87%) Adobe
4 20 (2.87%) Splunk
5 19 (2.73%) Databricks
6 16 (2.30%) CrowdStrike
6 16 (2.30%) Google
7 15 (2.15%) Oracle
8 14 (2.01%) AppDynamics
9 13 (1.87%) Apple
10 12 (1.72%) OpenAI
10 12 (1.72%) Palo Alto
10 12 (1.72%) Tenable
11 10 (1.43%) Salesforce
12 9 (1.29%) VMware
13 6 (0.86%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
13 6 (0.86%) SAP
14 5 (0.72%) Cisco
15 4 (0.57%) Dell