Digital and Technology

Home to a thriving £5 billion digital ecosystem, Manchester is officially the UKs Top Digital Tech City and its reputation for the radical has seen it take a leading position across established and emerging digital sectors, creating commercial opportunities, and leveraging tech to transform tomorrow’s business landscape.

From start-ups to SMEs to global brands including Google, BooHoo, The Hut Group, and Microsoft, Manchester has more than 10,000 digital and tech businesses. Sitting side by side in the city’s digital and technology clusters, incubators and co-working spaces, together they converge, collaborate and drive innovation.

“Manchester is one of the most vibrant and modern cities in Europe, with strong education links and high connectivity, offering outstanding opportunities and quality of life for our team. The new Enterprise City space is the perfect home for game development, with its deep investment in businesses focused on media, technology and creativity.”

— Chris Roberts, CEO of Cloud Imperium Games

The city region innovates across a variety of sectors and in 2020, a world-first AI study found that Manchester outperforms all other major UK cities in fields including AI and data, cyber security, eCommerce and IoT. Manchester is also home to the UK's largest regional FinTech ecosystem.

A leading destination for Foreign Direct Investment, Manchester has recently been voted as the UK’s most entrepreneurial city offering pioneering companies, large and small, the key ingredients to commercialise fresh and novel ideas.

Cyber Security

The UK is committed to tackling cyber security and Manchester, home to the nation’s fastest-growing…

eCommerce

The city is an eCommerce powerhouse that has nurtured several of the UK's homegrown retail tech…

Gaming

Manchester has a fast growing gaming sector and with companies including Team 17, Smashmouth Games…

Artificial Intelligence

Home to a growing number of AI companies including Peak, Dream Agility, and Digital Bridge…

Life Sciences and Healthcare

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Greater Manchester Chosen to Develop a Regional Secure Data Environment (SDE) for Health and Care

Greater Manchester, as part of a collaborative across the North-West, will receive funding from NHS England to begin the development of a sub-national Secure Data Environment for Research…

Create and Media

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Industry and Government-Backed Initiative to Tackle Gender Diversity in Cyber to go UK-Wide

Applications for Spring cohorts of the Empowering Women to Lead, Cyber Security programme now open! An innovative cross-sector initiative, designed to tackle the long standing lack of gender…

Digital and Technology

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Canopius to Launch Tech and Data 'Hub' in Manchester

An insurance company is launching a technology and data hub in Manchester city centre. Canopius Group (Canopius), a global specialty (re)insurer, is set to open the Canopius Tech & Data Hub at…