Trends · data through July 2026

Parkings in Manchester

Iceflower tracks 49 stores from 23 parkings chains in Manchester. University of Manchester grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Q-Park UK and National Car Parks.

Rankings come from real card and bank transactions across a panel of 130M+ US and EU consumers. We publish relative growth and rankings, never revenue figures. About the data

Tracked chains
23
Tracked stores
49
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked parkings chains

Ranked by year-over-year growth of share of tracked local spend. Arrows show movement in the rankings since last year. Each dot in the chart is one tracked chain: bigger market position to the right, faster growth higher up, more tracked stores in a bigger dot. Colors match the store map below. University of Manchester and Q-Park UK sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 U University of Manchester - -6.0%
2 Q Q-Park UK - -23.6%
3 N National Car Parks logo National Car Parks - -30.4%
  • Trafford Centre
  • Manchester Airport Parking
  • Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council
  • National Car Parks
  • Q-Park UK
  • NCP
  • YourParkingSpace Premier Inn Manchester Trafford Centre West Car Park
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

49 tracked store locations in Manchester. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Trafford Centre (3)
  • Manchester Airport Parking (1)
  • Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council (1)
  • National Car Parks (13)
  • Q-Park UK (6)
  • NCP (1)
  • YourParkingSpace Premier Inn Manchester Trafford Centre West Car Park (1)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 N National Car Parks logo National Car Parks 13
  • 2 Q Q-Park UK 6
  • 3 T Trafford Centre 3
  • 4 S Salford City Council 3
  • 5 U University of Manchester 3
  • 6 P Prestwich 2
  • 7 E Euro Car Parks 2
  • 8 A Apcoa 2
  • 9 A Angel Street 1
  • 10 M Manchester Road 1
  • 11 P Piccadilly Parking 1
  • 12 S Salford 1
  • 13 H Halliwell Road 1
  • 14 C Capital Quay 1
  • 15 C CitiPark AO Arena 1
  • 16 B Bloom Street 1
  • 17 P Premier Parking Live 1
  • 18 P ParkBee NL 1
  • 19 C CitiPark 1
  • 20 Y YourParkingSpace Premier Inn Manchester Trafford Centre West Car Park 1
  • 21 N NCP 1
  • 22 S Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council 1
  • 23 M Manchester Airport Parking 1

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