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The 2026 income operating system for Manchester professionals: live salary benchmarks across 20 roles, side hustles matched to your skills, a free ATS check on your CV, and a private Monday brief that wraps it all into one weekly editorial.
Manchester market: Manchester is the UK's largest tech hub outside London, with a growing ecosystem of scale-ups, fintech companies and digital agencies. Salaries sit 10-20% below London for the same role, but lower cost of living often gives comparable take-home purchasing power.
Manchester salaries · live medians
20 role salary benchmarks for Manchester
Each report combines a live Adzuna pull with our calibrated percentile band. Tap any role to see the 25/50/75 split, market context and side-income opportunity tailored to Manchester.
Software Engineer
Median benchmark: £72,000
Senior Software Engineer
Median benchmark: £95,000
Staff Engineer
Median benchmark: £140,000
Frontend Engineer
Median benchmark: £68,000
Backend Engineer
Median benchmark: £75,000
Full-stack Engineer
Median benchmark: £72,000
DevOps Engineer
Median benchmark: £85,000
ML Engineer
Median benchmark: £100,000
Data Analyst
Median benchmark: £55,000
Senior Data Analyst
Median benchmark: £75,000
Data Scientist
Median benchmark: £78,000
Data Engineer
Median benchmark: £85,000
Product Manager
Median benchmark: £78,000
Senior Product Manager
Median benchmark: £110,000
Product Designer
Median benchmark: £68,000
Marketing Manager
Median benchmark: £60,000
Sales Manager
Median benchmark: £70,000
Customer Success Manager
Median benchmark: £55,000
Financial Analyst
Median benchmark: £60,000
Credit Risk Analyst
Median benchmark: £65,000
Side hustles · Manchester
Earn extra income from Manchester this month
Most of these can be done remotely from Manchester alongside a full-time job. We rank skills by realistic hourly rate and the depth of the contract market in 2026.
React side hustles
£55–£110/hr · Adzuna · Toptal
Next.js side hustles
£60–£120/hr · Adzuna · Vercel community
TypeScript side hustles
£60–£110/hr · Adzuna · YunoJuno
Python side hustles
£50–£100/hr · Adzuna · Toptal
AI / LLM engineering side hustles
£80–£200/hr · Adzuna · Toptal
DevOps / SRE side hustles
£70–£140/hr · Adzuna · YunoJuno
Product design side hustles
£45–£95/hr · Adzuna · Dribbble Pro
UX research side hustles
£55–£120/hr · Adzuna · Contra
Technical writing side hustles
£35–£85/hr · Adzuna · Contra
Data analysis side hustles
£50–£95/hr · Adzuna · YunoJuno
Data engineering side hustles
£70–£130/hr · Adzuna · YunoJuno
Product management side hustles
£65–£130/hr · Adzuna · Contra
SEO side hustles
£40–£110/hr · Adzuna · Contra
Growth marketing side hustles
£60–£130/hr · Adzuna · Contra
Paid media side hustles
£55–£120/hr · Adzuna · Contra
Copywriting side hustles
£40–£120/hr · Adzuna · Contra
Video editing side hustles
£30–£100/hr · Adzuna · Contra
Translation / Localisation side hustles
£30–£90/hr · Adzuna · ProZ
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