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 16 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 57 45
Rank change year-on-year +47 -12 +66
Permanent jobs citing AI 329 139 150
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 14.37% 3.62% 5.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.23% 4.27% 6.14%
Number of salaries quoted 99 36 114
10th Percentile £24,570 £42,500 £46,306
25th Percentile £42,500 £50,938 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +3.85% +8.33%
75th Percentile £82,500 £84,063 £84,056
90th Percentile £110,000 £93,250 £95,000
North West median annual salary £60,000 £56,509 £65,000
% change year-on-year +6.18% -13.06% +18.18%

All Process and 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 2,027 3,258 2,443
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 88.52% 84.91% 94.80%
Number of salaries quoted 1,192 1,528 1,997
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £35,150
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,000 £43,800
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £69,850 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £84,056
North West median annual salary £50,000 £52,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% +4.76%

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 16 October 2025.

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 16 October 2025. 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 +20 19 £69,384 +2.79% 6
Stockport +9 16 - - 8
Wigan - 5 - - 3
Rochdale 0 4 - - 1
Bolton -5 3 £53,750 +15.59% 43
Oldham 0 1 £65,000 +18.18% 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 4 (1.22%) Apache Solr
1 4 (1.22%) CMS
2 3 (0.91%) Apache
2 3 (0.91%) Apache Spark
2 3 (0.91%) Confluence
2 3 (0.91%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.30%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 133 (40.43%) Chatbot
2 6 (1.82%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.91%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.30%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.30%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 32 (9.73%) AWS
2 29 (8.81%) Azure
3 14 (4.26%) Power Platform
4 9 (2.74%) Microsoft 365
5 8 (2.43%) GCP
5 8 (2.43%) SaaS
6 7 (2.13%) AWS CloudFormation
6 7 (2.13%) Microsoft Copilot
7 6 (1.82%) Amazon Bedrock
7 6 (1.82%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (1.82%) Power Automate
8 5 (1.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 5 (1.52%) Azure Monitor
8 5 (1.52%) GitHub
9 4 (1.22%) Copilot Studio
9 4 (1.22%) Serverless
10 3 (0.91%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (0.61%) Google Workspace
11 2 (0.61%) Supabase
11 2 (0.61%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.91%) Telepresence
1 3 (0.91%) Unified Communications
1 3 (0.91%) VoIP
1 3 (0.91%) WebEx
2 1 (0.30%) Cisco IPT
2 1 (0.30%) DNS
2 1 (0.30%) Firewall
2 1 (0.30%) HTTP
2 1 (0.30%) Network Security
2 1 (0.30%) SD-WAN
2 1 (0.30%) VPN
2 1 (0.30%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (5.78%) MySQL
2 12 (3.65%) Power BI
3 8 (2.43%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (1.82%) MongoDB
5 5 (1.52%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (1.52%) NoSQL
5 5 (1.52%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (1.52%) Tableau
6 3 (0.91%) Big Data
6 3 (0.91%) Looker
6 3 (0.91%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 2 (0.61%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (0.61%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.61%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.30%) Delta Lake
8 1 (0.30%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.30%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.30%) Metadata
8 1 (0.30%) Spark SQL
8 1 (0.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 10 (3.04%) Git
2 5 (1.52%) JIRA
3 3 (0.91%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.61%) MLflow
5 1 (0.30%) JUnit
General
1 76 (23.10%) Analytical Skills
2 75 (22.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 59 (17.93%) Social Skills
4 38 (11.55%) Finance
5 22 (6.69%) Marketing
6 12 (3.65%) Public Sector
7 11 (3.34%) Banking
8 10 (3.04%) Organisational Skills
9 9 (2.74%) Law
10 7 (2.13%) Legal
11 6 (1.82%) Manufacturing
11 6 (1.82%) Retail
12 5 (1.52%) Games
12 5 (1.52%) Telecoms
13 4 (1.22%) Aerospace
14 3 (0.91%) Private Banking
15 2 (0.61%) Advertising
15 2 (0.61%) Billing
15 2 (0.61%) Presentation Skills
16 1 (0.30%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 130 (39.51%) Trainer
2 28 (8.51%) Microsoft Specialist
3 22 (6.69%) Senior
4 21 (6.38%) Developer
5 17 (5.17%) Architect
6 12 (3.65%) Cisco Specialist
6 12 (3.65%) Software Engineer
7 11 (3.34%) Analyst
8 10 (3.04%) Sales Executive
9 9 (2.74%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 9 (2.74%) Senior Software Engineer
10 8 (2.43%) IT Sales Executive
11 7 (2.13%) Software Developer
11 7 (2.13%) Technical Manager
12 6 (1.82%) AWS Architect
12 6 (1.82%) AWS Solution Architect
12 6 (1.82%) Consultant
12 6 (1.82%) Data Engineer
12 6 (1.82%) Full-Stack Developer
12 6 (1.82%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (6.38%) React
2 11 (3.34%) .NET
2 11 (3.34%) CSS
3 9 (2.74%) HTML
3 9 (2.74%) RESTful
4 6 (1.82%) Node.js
5 5 (1.52%) CSS3
5 5 (1.52%) HTML5
5 5 (1.52%) TensorFlow
6 4 (1.22%) ASP.NET
6 4 (1.22%) Kafka
6 4 (1.22%) Next.js
6 4 (1.22%) PyTorch
6 4 (1.22%) REST
6 4 (1.22%) scikit-learn
6 4 (1.22%) Tailwind CSS
7 3 (0.91%) .NET Framework
7 3 (0.91%) ASP.NET Core
8 2 (0.61%) AngularJS
8 2 (0.61%) Express.js
Miscellaneous
1 25 (7.60%) AI Agents
2 14 (4.26%) Cloud Native
3 12 (3.65%) Data Centre
4 9 (2.74%) Greenfield Project
5 6 (1.82%) Microsoft Licensing
6 5 (1.52%) Product Ownership
7 3 (0.91%) Algorithms
7 3 (0.91%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (0.91%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (0.91%) Molecular Biology
7 3 (0.91%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (0.61%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (0.61%) Derivative
8 2 (0.61%) Equities
8 2 (0.61%) Fixed Income
8 2 (0.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (0.61%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (0.61%) Low-Code
8 2 (0.61%) Marketing Technology
8 2 (0.61%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.52%) Windows
2 4 (1.22%) Linux
2 4 (1.22%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.30%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 133 (40.43%) Conversational UI
2 58 (17.63%) Chemistry
3 36 (10.94%) Analytics
4 34 (10.33%) Machine Learning
5 29 (8.81%) CRM
6 28 (8.51%) Agile
6 28 (8.51%) Customer Service
7 25 (7.60%) Mathematics
8 23 (6.99%) CI/CD
9 21 (6.38%) Customer Engagement
9 21 (6.38%) Problem-Solving
9 21 (6.38%) Roadmaps
10 20 (6.08%) Computer Science
11 19 (5.78%) User Experience
12 18 (5.47%) DevOps
12 18 (5.47%) Generative AI
12 18 (5.47%) Software Engineering
13 17 (5.17%) Software Licensing
13 17 (5.17%) Statistics
13 17 (5.17%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 33 (10.03%) Python
2 26 (7.90%) SQL
3 17 (5.17%) TypeScript
4 15 (4.56%) Java
4 15 (4.56%) JavaScript
5 11 (3.34%) C#
6 5 (1.52%) PowerShell
7 4 (1.22%) Go
8 3 (0.91%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 3 (0.91%) PHP
8 3 (0.91%) T-SQL
9 2 (0.61%) Scala
9 2 (0.61%) VBA
10 1 (0.30%) Bash
10 1 (0.30%) Bicep
10 1 (0.30%) C++
10 1 (0.30%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 182 (55.32%) Degree
2 89 (27.05%) Master's Degree
3 87 (26.44%) PhD
4 4 (1.22%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (1.22%) SC Cleared
4 4 (1.22%) Security Cleared
5 2 (0.61%) CBAP
5 2 (0.61%) CCIE
5 2 (0.61%) CCNA
5 2 (0.61%) CCNP
5 2 (0.61%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (0.61%) DBS Check
5 2 (0.61%) MCP
5 2 (0.61%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.30%) APMG
6 1 (0.30%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.30%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.30%) MBA
6 1 (0.30%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (1.22%) GDPR
2 2 (0.61%) QA
3 1 (0.30%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.30%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.30%) NCSC
3 1 (0.30%) NIST
3 1 (0.30%) P3O
3 1 (0.30%) PERC
3 1 (0.30%) PMO
System Software
1 17 (5.17%) Docker
2 4 (1.22%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (3.34%) Kubernetes
2 9 (2.74%) Terraform
3 4 (1.22%) Prometheus
4 3 (0.91%) Cisco CUCM
5 2 (0.61%) Ansible
6 1 (0.30%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 129 (39.21%) PayPal
2 72 (21.88%) Microsoft
3 30 (9.12%) Cisco
4 12 (3.65%) Dell
5 11 (3.34%) Adobe
5 11 (3.34%) Apple
5 11 (3.34%) Google
6 9 (2.74%) Palo Alto
7 8 (2.43%) VMware
8 6 (1.82%) Databricks
9 5 (1.52%) Oracle
9 5 (1.52%) ServiceNow
10 4 (1.22%) Foundry
10 4 (1.22%) Genesys
11 2 (0.61%) Alteryx
11 2 (0.61%) Bloomberg
11 2 (0.61%) Hotjar
11 2 (0.61%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.61%) UiPath
12 1 (0.30%) IBM