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

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 22 42
Rank change year-on-year +13 +20 +22
Permanent jobs citing AI 566 249 215
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 8.50% 9.89% 4.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.49% 10.78% 5.81%
Number of salaries quoted 356 104 54
10th Percentile £37,875 £25,000 £41,625
25th Percentile £53,750 £33,438 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £68,750 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.45% +1.85% +3.85%
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £86,875
90th Percentile £107,500 £110,000 £99,600
North West median annual salary £68,750 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +14.58% +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 4,927 2,309 3,700
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 74.01% 91.70% 81.82%
Number of salaries quoted 3,878 1,342 2,480
10th Percentile £32,775 £29,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £36,250 £42,000
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 £70,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £87,500 £83,750
North West median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -4.55%

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 2 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 2 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 -4 16 £80,000 - 9
Cheadle - 11 £63,750 - 1
Bolton +23 8 £30,000 - 7
Ashton-under-Lyne - 8 £51,000 - 1
Stockport -6 3 £32,500 - 3
Bury - 3 £92,482 - 4
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 14 (2.47%) SharePoint
2 6 (1.06%) CMS
3 5 (0.88%) Jupyter
3 5 (0.88%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (0.71%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 4 (0.71%) WordPress
5 3 (0.53%) Apache
5 3 (0.53%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.53%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.35%) IIS
6 2 (0.35%) nginx
7 1 (0.18%) Confluence
7 1 (0.18%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.18%) WebSphere
Applications
1 19 (3.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (1.94%) Chatbot
3 4 (0.71%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.18%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 12 (2.12%) Cloudability
2 2 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.18%) Odoo
3 1 (0.18%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.18%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 147 (25.97%) Azure
2 143 (25.27%) AWS
3 62 (10.95%) Power Platform
4 61 (10.78%) GCP
5 57 (10.07%) SaaS
6 32 (5.65%) Azure AI
6 32 (5.65%) GitHub
6 32 (5.65%) Serverless
7 27 (4.77%) Microsoft Copilot
8 26 (4.59%) Microsoft 365
9 23 (4.06%) Azure DevOps
10 20 (3.53%) Anthropic Claude
11 16 (2.83%) GitHub Actions
11 16 (2.83%) PowerApps
12 12 (2.12%) AWS Lambda
12 12 (2.12%) Snowflake
13 11 (1.94%) PaaS
13 11 (1.94%) Power Automate
14 10 (1.77%) GitHub Copilot
14 10 (1.77%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.41%) Firewall
2 6 (1.06%) VLAN
3 5 (0.88%) BGP
3 5 (0.88%) DNS
3 5 (0.88%) SAN
4 3 (0.53%) DKIM
4 3 (0.53%) DMARC
4 3 (0.53%) OSPF
4 3 (0.53%) PBX
4 3 (0.53%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.53%) Unified Communications
4 3 (0.53%) VoIP
4 3 (0.53%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (0.35%) DMZ
5 2 (0.35%) HTTP
5 2 (0.35%) IPFIX
5 2 (0.35%) IPsec
5 2 (0.35%) Network Security
5 2 (0.35%) SD-WAN
5 2 (0.35%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (6.36%) Power BI
2 24 (4.24%) Tableau
3 21 (3.71%) PostgreSQL
4 18 (3.18%) MongoDB
5 15 (2.65%) NoSQL
5 15 (2.65%) SQL Server
6 11 (1.94%) Data Warehouse
6 11 (1.94%) Relational Database
7 6 (1.06%) RDBMS
8 5 (0.88%) Big Data
8 5 (0.88%) DynamoDB
8 5 (0.88%) Pinecone
9 4 (0.71%) Amazon Redshift
9 4 (0.71%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (0.71%) BigQuery
9 4 (0.71%) Data Lake
9 4 (0.71%) Data Mining
9 4 (0.71%) Electronic Patient Records
9 4 (0.71%) MySQL
10 3 (0.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 30 (5.30%) Git
2 20 (3.53%) GitLab
3 18 (3.18%) Jenkins
4 13 (2.30%) Claude Code
5 12 (2.12%) Snyk
6 11 (1.94%) JUnit
6 11 (1.94%) Spock
7 8 (1.41%) JIRA
7 8 (1.41%) Maven
7 8 (1.41%) Visual Studio Code
8 5 (0.88%) Postman
9 4 (0.71%) Selenium
9 4 (0.71%) Storybook
9 4 (0.71%) Vite
10 3 (0.53%) Bitbucket
11 2 (0.35%) IntelliJ
11 2 (0.35%) Terragrunt
11 2 (0.35%) XCUITest
12 1 (0.18%) Gemini Tracker
12 1 (0.18%) MLflow
General
1 134 (23.67%) Social Skills
2 112 (19.79%) Finance
3 77 (13.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 58 (10.25%) Analytical Skills
5 32 (5.65%) Public Sector
6 29 (5.12%) Banking
7 22 (3.89%) Law
8 18 (3.18%) Marketing
9 16 (2.83%) Organisational Skills
10 15 (2.65%) Retail
11 10 (1.77%) Manufacturing
12 9 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
13 7 (1.24%) Local Government
14 5 (0.88%) Legal
14 5 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (0.88%) Social Housing
14 5 (0.88%) Telecoms
15 4 (0.71%) Billing
15 4 (0.71%) Health Technology
15 4 (0.71%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 166 (29.33%) Senior
2 65 (11.48%) Architect
3 56 (9.89%) Software Engineer
4 48 (8.48%) Developer
5 46 (8.13%) Analyst
6 31 (5.48%) Python Engineer
7 30 (5.30%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 29 (5.12%) Senior Developer
9 26 (4.59%) Solutions Architect
10 25 (4.42%) Senior Software Engineer
11 23 (4.06%) Data Engineer
11 23 (4.06%) Senior Architect
12 22 (3.89%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
13 20 (3.53%) Data Analyst
13 20 (3.53%) Lead
14 19 (3.36%) Python Software Engineer
14 19 (3.36%) Senior Analyst
14 19 (3.36%) Senior Manager
15 18 (3.18%) Consultant
15 18 (3.18%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (6.01%) React
2 24 (4.24%) Spring
3 23 (4.06%) Vue
4 22 (3.89%) CSS
4 22 (3.89%) HTML
4 22 (3.89%) Node.js
5 20 (3.53%) FastAPI
6 19 (3.36%) .NET
6 19 (3.36%) AngularJS
7 15 (2.65%) LangChain
8 13 (2.30%) OAuth
9 12 (2.12%) JWT
10 11 (1.94%) Kafka
10 11 (1.94%) OpenID
10 11 (1.94%) RESTful
10 11 (1.94%) SAML
10 11 (1.94%) Spring Boot
11 10 (1.77%) Microsoft Graph
11 10 (1.77%) REST
12 9 (1.59%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 65 (11.48%) Cloud Native
2 42 (7.42%) AI Agents
3 38 (6.71%) Distributed Systems
4 34 (6.01%) Onboarding
4 34 (6.01%) Product Ownership
5 20 (3.53%) Data Centre
6 19 (3.36%) Self-Motivation
7 13 (2.30%) Private Cloud
8 12 (2.12%) Management Information System
9 11 (1.94%) Social Media
10 10 (1.77%) Enterprise Software
10 10 (1.77%) Marketing Technology
11 9 (1.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 8 (1.41%) Analytical Mindset
13 7 (1.24%) Greenfield Project
14 6 (1.06%) Algorithms
14 6 (1.06%) Credit Risk
14 6 (1.06%) Life Science
14 6 (1.06%) Virtual Team
15 5 (0.88%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 10 (1.77%) Windows
2 9 (1.59%) Linux
3 6 (1.06%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.35%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.35%) VMS
5 1 (0.18%) Android
5 1 (0.18%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 132 (23.32%) CI/CD
2 115 (20.32%) Agile
3 112 (19.79%) DevOps
4 102 (18.02%) Software Engineering
5 91 (16.08%) Machine Learning
6 78 (13.78%) Analytics
7 71 (12.54%) Continuous Improvement
8 65 (11.48%) Roadmaps
9 63 (11.13%) Problem-Solving
10 58 (10.25%) Cybersecurity
11 57 (10.07%) Decision-Making
12 54 (9.54%) Mentoring
13 53 (9.36%) Stakeholder Management
14 52 (9.19%) Microservices
15 49 (8.66%) Observability
16 48 (8.48%) LLM
17 47 (8.30%) Full-Stack Development
18 45 (7.95%) Infrastructure as Code
19 42 (7.42%) B2B
19 42 (7.42%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 164 (28.98%) Python
2 81 (14.31%) SQL
3 58 (10.25%) Java
4 53 (9.36%) JavaScript
5 49 (8.66%) TypeScript
6 25 (4.42%) C#
7 14 (2.47%) PowerShell
8 12 (2.12%) Go
9 10 (1.77%) Bash
9 10 (1.77%) Scala
10 7 (1.24%) Bicep
11 6 (1.06%) Groovy
12 4 (0.71%) C++
12 4 (0.71%) Kotlin
12 4 (0.71%) T-SQL
13 3 (0.53%) C
13 3 (0.53%) PHP
14 2 (0.35%) Swift
15 1 (0.18%) R
15 1 (0.18%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 46 (8.13%) Degree
2 31 (5.48%) Security Cleared
3 23 (4.06%) Azure Certification
4 18 (3.18%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (3.00%) AWS Certification
6 16 (2.83%) SC Cleared
7 13 (2.30%) Master's Degree
8 12 (2.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 11 (1.94%) DV Cleared
10 6 (1.06%) ACCA
10 6 (1.06%) CIMA
11 5 (0.88%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 4 (0.71%) MBA
12 4 (0.71%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.35%) BPSS Clearance
13 2 (0.35%) CCIE
13 2 (0.35%) Cisco Certification
13 2 (0.35%) CSPO
13 2 (0.35%) HNC
13 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (4.24%) Data Quality
2 19 (3.36%) GDPR
3 17 (3.00%) GRC
3 17 (3.00%) QA
4 15 (2.65%) Accessibility
4 15 (2.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (2.12%) SLA
6 10 (1.77%) PCI DSS
7 7 (1.24%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 7 (1.24%) WCAG
8 6 (1.06%) NIST
9 4 (0.71%) SOC 2
10 3 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.35%) GAAP
11 2 (0.35%) IFRS
12 1 (0.18%) Solvency II
System Software
1 47 (8.30%) Docker
2 15 (2.65%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (1.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.53%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.53%) Ceph
4 3 (0.53%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 41 (7.24%) Kubernetes
2 38 (6.71%) Terraform
3 12 (2.12%) Grafana
3 12 (2.12%) Prometheus
4 6 (1.06%) Istio
5 5 (0.88%) Ansible
6 3 (0.53%) Argo
6 3 (0.53%) Check_MK
6 3 (0.53%) cPanel
6 3 (0.53%) linkerd
6 3 (0.53%) Nagios
6 3 (0.53%) Plesk
6 3 (0.53%) Podman
6 3 (0.53%) Progress Chef
6 3 (0.53%) Puppet
7 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Clustering
7 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.35%) SolarWinds Orion
8 1 (0.18%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 89 (15.72%) Microsoft
2 22 (3.89%) ServiceNow
3 20 (3.53%) Adobe
4 18 (3.18%) Splunk
5 17 (3.00%) Google
6 16 (2.83%) CrowdStrike
7 13 (2.30%) Apple
7 13 (2.30%) Databricks
8 12 (2.12%) AppDynamics
8 12 (2.12%) OpenAI
8 12 (2.12%) Palo Alto
8 12 (2.12%) Tenable
9 9 (1.59%) Oracle
10 8 (1.41%) VMware
11 5 (0.88%) Cisco
12 3 (0.53%) Acronis
12 3 (0.53%) Dell
12 3 (0.53%) NETGEAR
12 3 (0.53%) Red Hat
12 3 (0.53%) Salesforce