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 24 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 23 49
Rank change year-on-year +12 +26 +20
Permanent jobs citing AI 538 247 213
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 8.32% 9.90% 4.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.31% 10.72% 5.20%
Number of salaries quoted 344 104 58
10th Percentile £39,500 £25,000 £35,092
25th Percentile £53,750 £32,063 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £65,000 £61,391
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% +5.88% -5.55%
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £86,875
90th Percentile £107,500 £110,000 £101,250
North West median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £56,509
% change year-on-year +16.67% +6.18% -13.06%

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 4,755 2,304 4,099
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 73.49% 92.31% 82.61%
Number of salaries quoted 3,754 1,333 2,884
10th Percentile £33,500 £29,750 £30,825
25th Percentile £45,000 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -7.60%
75th Percentile £78,750 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £99,550 £87,700 £82,500
North West median annual salary £55,000 £50,055 £50,055
% change year-on-year +9.88% - -8.99%

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 24 July 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 24 July 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 15 £80,000 - 10
Cheadle - 11 £63,750 - 2
Bolton +23 8 £30,000 - 7
Ashton-under-Lyne - 7 £51,000 - 1
Stockport -6 3 £32,500 - 2
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 13 (2.42%) SharePoint
2 6 (1.12%) CMS
2 6 (1.12%) Jupyter
3 5 (0.93%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (0.93%) WordPress
4 4 (0.74%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 2 (0.37%) IIS
5 2 (0.37%) nginx
5 2 (0.37%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.19%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.19%) WebSphere
Applications
1 17 (3.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (2.23%) Chatbot
3 5 (0.93%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (2.23%) Cloudability
2 1 (0.19%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.19%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 141 (26.21%) Azure
2 133 (24.72%) AWS
3 61 (11.34%) Power Platform
4 57 (10.59%) GCP
5 56 (10.41%) SaaS
6 33 (6.13%) Azure AI
7 32 (5.95%) Serverless
8 27 (5.02%) GitHub
9 26 (4.83%) Microsoft 365
10 23 (4.28%) Microsoft Copilot
11 20 (3.72%) Anthropic Claude
11 20 (3.72%) Azure DevOps
12 16 (2.97%) GitHub Actions
13 14 (2.60%) PowerApps
14 12 (2.23%) AWS Lambda
15 10 (1.86%) Microsoft Purview
16 9 (1.67%) Amazon S3
16 9 (1.67%) Firebase
16 9 (1.67%) PaaS
16 9 (1.67%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.49%) Firewall
2 6 (1.12%) VLAN
3 5 (0.93%) BGP
3 5 (0.93%) DNS
3 5 (0.93%) SAN
4 3 (0.56%) DKIM
4 3 (0.56%) DMARC
4 3 (0.56%) OSPF
4 3 (0.56%) PBX
4 3 (0.56%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.56%) Unified Communications
4 3 (0.56%) VoIP
4 3 (0.56%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (0.37%) DMZ
5 2 (0.37%) IPFIX
5 2 (0.37%) IPsec
5 2 (0.37%) Network Security
5 2 (0.37%) SD-WAN
5 2 (0.37%) SNMP
5 2 (0.37%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (7.06%) Power BI
2 24 (4.46%) Tableau
3 17 (3.16%) PostgreSQL
4 16 (2.97%) MongoDB
5 15 (2.79%) SQL Server
6 14 (2.60%) NoSQL
7 11 (2.04%) Relational Database
8 9 (1.67%) Data Warehouse
9 6 (1.12%) RDBMS
10 5 (0.93%) Big Data
10 5 (0.93%) MySQL
10 5 (0.93%) Pinecone
11 4 (0.74%) Data Lake
11 4 (0.74%) Data Mining
11 4 (0.74%) Electronic Patient Records
12 3 (0.56%) Amazon Redshift
12 3 (0.56%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (0.56%) Redis
12 3 (0.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 3 (0.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 24 (4.46%) Git
2 18 (3.35%) GitLab
3 17 (3.16%) Jenkins
4 13 (2.42%) Claude Code
5 12 (2.23%) Snyk
6 9 (1.67%) JUnit
6 9 (1.67%) Spock
7 8 (1.49%) Visual Studio Code
8 7 (1.30%) Maven
9 6 (1.12%) JIRA
10 5 (0.93%) Postman
11 4 (0.74%) Selenium
11 4 (0.74%) Storybook
11 4 (0.74%) Vite
12 2 (0.37%) Bitbucket
12 2 (0.37%) Terragrunt
12 2 (0.37%) XCUITest
13 1 (0.19%) Gemini Tracker
13 1 (0.19%) Gradle
13 1 (0.19%) MLflow
General
1 119 (22.12%) Social Skills
2 110 (20.45%) Finance
3 72 (13.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 53 (9.85%) Analytical Skills
5 33 (6.13%) Banking
5 33 (6.13%) Public Sector
6 17 (3.16%) Law
7 15 (2.79%) Marketing
7 15 (2.79%) Organisational Skills
7 15 (2.79%) Retail
8 11 (2.04%) Manufacturing
9 7 (1.30%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (0.93%) Local Government
10 5 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (0.93%) Telecoms
11 4 (0.74%) Health Technology
11 4 (0.74%) Legal
11 4 (0.74%) Publishing
12 3 (0.56%) Billing
12 3 (0.56%) Games
Job Titles
1 159 (29.55%) Senior
2 62 (11.52%) Architect
3 54 (10.04%) Software Engineer
4 45 (8.36%) Analyst
5 44 (8.18%) Developer
6 30 (5.58%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 30 (5.58%) Python Engineer
7 28 (5.20%) Senior Developer
8 23 (4.28%) Senior Software Engineer
8 23 (4.28%) Solutions Architect
9 20 (3.72%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
9 20 (3.72%) Data Analyst
9 20 (3.72%) Senior Architect
10 19 (3.53%) Lead
10 19 (3.53%) Senior Analyst
10 19 (3.53%) Service Manager
11 18 (3.35%) Data Engineer
11 18 (3.35%) Python Software Engineer
11 18 (3.35%) Security Architect
11 18 (3.35%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (5.95%) React
2 23 (4.28%) CSS
2 23 (4.28%) HTML
2 23 (4.28%) Vue
3 22 (4.09%) Node.js
3 22 (4.09%) Spring
4 20 (3.72%) FastAPI
5 18 (3.35%) .NET
5 18 (3.35%) AngularJS
6 15 (2.79%) LangChain
7 13 (2.42%) OAuth
8 12 (2.23%) JWT
9 11 (2.04%) Kafka
9 11 (2.04%) OpenID
9 11 (2.04%) RESTful
9 11 (2.04%) SAML
9 11 (2.04%) Spring Boot
10 9 (1.67%) Flask
10 9 (1.67%) OAuth2
10 9 (1.67%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 58 (10.78%) Cloud Native
2 39 (7.25%) AI Agents
3 36 (6.69%) Distributed Systems
4 32 (5.95%) Product Ownership
5 31 (5.76%) Onboarding
6 20 (3.72%) Data Centre
7 15 (2.79%) Self-Motivation
8 11 (2.04%) Private Cloud
9 10 (1.86%) Enterprise Software
9 10 (1.86%) Management Information System
10 9 (1.67%) Marketing Technology
11 8 (1.49%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 8 (1.49%) Social Media
12 7 (1.30%) Algorithms
12 7 (1.30%) Analytical Mindset
12 7 (1.30%) Greenfield Project
13 6 (1.12%) Credit Risk
13 6 (1.12%) Life Science
13 6 (1.12%) Virtual Team
14 5 (0.93%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 11 (2.04%) Windows
2 8 (1.49%) Linux
3 6 (1.12%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.37%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.19%) Android
5 1 (0.19%) Unix
5 1 (0.19%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (23.42%) CI/CD
2 104 (19.33%) DevOps
3 101 (18.77%) Agile
4 94 (17.47%) Software Engineering
5 78 (14.50%) Machine Learning
6 76 (14.13%) Analytics
7 65 (12.08%) Continuous Improvement
8 62 (11.52%) Roadmaps
9 58 (10.78%) Problem-Solving
10 57 (10.59%) Cybersecurity
11 52 (9.67%) Decision-Making
12 50 (9.29%) Mentoring
13 49 (9.11%) Microservices
14 48 (8.92%) Stakeholder Management
15 47 (8.74%) Observability
16 46 (8.55%) LLM
17 45 (8.36%) Infrastructure as Code
18 43 (7.99%) Full-Stack Development
19 41 (7.62%) B2B
20 38 (7.06%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 156 (29.00%) Python
2 72 (13.38%) SQL
3 54 (10.04%) Java
4 46 (8.55%) JavaScript
4 46 (8.55%) TypeScript
5 23 (4.28%) C#
6 14 (2.60%) PowerShell
7 12 (2.23%) Go
8 10 (1.86%) Bash
9 9 (1.67%) Scala
10 7 (1.30%) Bicep
11 5 (0.93%) Groovy
12 4 (0.74%) Kotlin
12 4 (0.74%) T-SQL
13 3 (0.56%) C
13 3 (0.56%) C++
13 3 (0.56%) PHP
14 2 (0.37%) Swift
15 1 (0.19%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 42 (7.81%) Degree
2 28 (5.20%) Security Cleared
3 24 (4.46%) Azure Certification
4 18 (3.35%) AWS Certification
4 18 (3.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (2.79%) SC Cleared
6 12 (2.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 10 (1.86%) Master's Degree
8 7 (1.30%) DV Cleared
9 6 (1.12%) ACCA
9 6 (1.12%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 6 (1.12%) CIMA
10 4 (0.74%) MBA
11 2 (0.37%) CCIE
11 2 (0.37%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.37%) CSPO
11 2 (0.37%) HNC
11 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 1 (0.19%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (3.53%) GDPR
2 18 (3.35%) Data Quality
3 17 (3.16%) GRC
4 15 (2.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 15 (2.79%) QA
5 14 (2.60%) Accessibility
6 12 (2.23%) SLA
7 10 (1.86%) PCI DSS
8 8 (1.49%) WCAG
9 7 (1.30%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 6 (1.12%) NIST
11 4 (0.74%) SOC 2
12 3 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 2 (0.37%) GAAP
13 2 (0.37%) IFRS
14 1 (0.19%) Solvency II
System Software
1 42 (7.81%) Docker
2 15 (2.79%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (1.49%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.56%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.56%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.37%) Ceph
Systems Management
1 39 (7.25%) Kubernetes
2 38 (7.06%) Terraform
3 12 (2.23%) Grafana
4 11 (2.04%) Prometheus
5 5 (0.93%) Istio
6 4 (0.74%) Ansible
7 3 (0.56%) cPanel
7 3 (0.56%) linkerd
7 3 (0.56%) Nagios
7 3 (0.56%) Plesk
7 3 (0.56%) Progress Chef
7 3 (0.56%) Puppet
8 2 (0.37%) Argo
8 2 (0.37%) Check_MK
8 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Clustering
8 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.37%) Podman
8 2 (0.37%) SolarWinds Orion
9 1 (0.19%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 86 (15.99%) Microsoft
2 22 (4.09%) ServiceNow
3 20 (3.72%) Adobe
4 16 (2.97%) CrowdStrike
4 16 (2.97%) Splunk
5 15 (2.79%) Google
6 13 (2.42%) Apple
6 13 (2.42%) OpenAI
7 12 (2.23%) Palo Alto
7 12 (2.23%) Tenable
8 10 (1.86%) AppDynamics
9 9 (1.67%) Databricks
10 8 (1.49%) Oracle
10 8 (1.49%) VMware
11 5 (0.93%) Cisco
12 3 (0.56%) Acronis
12 3 (0.56%) NETGEAR
12 3 (0.56%) SonicWALL
12 3 (0.56%) Veeam
12 3 (0.56%) WatchGuard