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Manchester career opportunity guide

Use this page to compare graduate and broader career prospects in Manchester, including broad salary ranges, stronger industries, example roles, and CV positioning advice.

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Location snapshot

Graduate score

45

Career score

48

Greater Manchester, United Kingdom

Graduate Map view

Manchester graduate prospects

Salary range

£23k–£30k

Opportunity score

45/100

Salary band reference

ONS ASHE combined-authority earnings release

2024 earnings, published in the 4 November 2025 provisional release · Manchester, Greater Manchester

Modern CV rounds checked-in ONS earnings percentiles into a broad public-facing band. Graduate Map bands use the published 30th percentile to median range as an early-career proxy.

Top industries: Healthcare, Professional Services, Retail, Business Services

Example roles: Graduate Developer, Digital Marketing Assistant, Operations Coordinator, Business Analyst

Score maths

Formula: final score = sum of each component's normalised value × its weight.

CV tip

Show practical tools, placements, portfolio work, and communication skills in the first page rather than burying them later.

Career Map view

Manchester wider career market

Salary range

£30k–£44k

Opportunity score

48/100

Salary band reference

ONS ASHE combined-authority earnings release

2024 earnings, published in the 4 November 2025 provisional release · Manchester, Greater Manchester

Modern CV rounds checked-in ONS earnings percentiles into a broad public-facing band. Career Map bands use the published median to 75th percentile range for broader career positioning.

Top industries: Professional Services, Retail, Business Services, Healthcare

Example roles: Frontend Developer, Account Manager, Project Coordinator, Operations Analyst

Score maths

Formula: final score = sum of each component's normalised value × its weight.

CV tip

Highlight delivery metrics, client impact, and adaptable experience that fits regional employers with mixed digital and commercial teams.

Data sources and methodology

Career opportunity scores and salary ranges are editorial estimates derived from public labour market datasets and curated role research. They are not live job counts and should be treated as indicative.

This location dataset was refreshed against current official source pages reviewed on 2026-04-26. For expanded UK coverage, salary bands and most score inputs are derived from checked-in ONS ASHE earnings files, while UK industry themes are derived from the official ONS BRES region-by-broad-industry workbook and then lightly grouped by Modern CV into reader-friendly labels.

What comes from where

  • Official source-backed: the salary reference, most UK score inputs, and UK broad-industry inputs come from checked-in ONS releases.
  • Derived by Modern CV: the final score, salary band, and UK display industry labels are calculated or grouped from those source files and rounded for readability.
  • Editorial by Modern CV: example roles, CV tips, and Europe-side industry summaries are guidance content rather than official statistics.

ONS BRES region by broad industry group, 2024 provisional

Top UK industry themes for Greater Manchester are derived from the official ONS BRES 2024 provisional region-by-broad-industry table for North West, because a matching checked-in city or combined-authority industry table is not currently used in this project.

Office for National Statistics content reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0 where applicable.

ONS ASHE combined authorities, 2025 provisional

Used for checked-in median, mean, jobs volume, and percentile context by combined authority or wider geography where available. Release date 4 November 2025.

Office for National Statistics content reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0 where applicable.

Office for Students student outcomes data dashboard

Retained in the project as the official graduate outcomes source for future provider-level expansion. Current UK graduate-map scores rely primarily on checked-in ONS earnings and jobs-volume proxies where city-level graduate outcomes are not published in a matching geography.

Office for Students official statistics, reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0 except where otherwise stated.

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