• Manchester is named as Europe's fastest-growing digital city. It is also the top choice outside of London for technology workers to job-hunt.
• It welcomes many investors from London and abroad. Tech firms secured a nearly tenfold increase in investment from £48 million in 2018 to £519 million in 2020, according to data by Adzuna and Tech Nation.
• Some of the hasty tech start-ups and companies here are guided design platform DigitalBridge, delivery management platform Sorted Group and e-commerce company The Hut Group. It is also home to MediaCityUK, which encompasses 250 media and digital businesses like BBC, Kellog's and ITV. In 2020, MediaCityUK was named the first "connected neighborhood" in Europe and the second in the world after New York City. The area provides "frictionless connectivity" across the whole estate with high-speed outdoor Wi-Fi.
• Average digital/tech salary, according to Totaljobs, is £47,500.