Ansible Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Ansible
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Ansible skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 86 72 75
Rank change year-on-year -14 +3 -40
Contract jobs citing Ansible 16 15 24
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 1.12% 1.47% 1.53%
As % of the Systems Management category 7.41% 8.67% 12.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 6 15
10th Percentile - £413 £363
25th Percentile £400 £434 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -8.33%
75th Percentile £581 £627 £575
90th Percentile £600 £656 -
North West median daily rate £456 £613 £540
% change year-on-year -25.55% +13.43% -8.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £53.38
25th Percentile - - £54.69
Median hourly rate - - £58.75
75th Percentile - - £62.19
90th Percentile - - £63.13
North West median hourly rate - £80.00 £58.75
% change year-on-year - +36.17% +10.85%

All Systems Management Skills
Manchester

Ansible falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills in Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 216 173 189
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 15.12% 16.99% 12.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 111 147
10th Percentile £326 £275 £313
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.80% -0.10% -9.09%
75th Percentile £615 £565 £600
90th Percentile £650 £656 £694
North West median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 0 8
10th Percentile - - £42.75
25th Percentile £52.50 - £57.19
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +7.69%
75th Percentile £60.31 - £82.50
90th Percentile £67.60 - £87.75
North West median hourly rate £55.00 £43.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +27.91% +115.00% -52.94%

Ansible
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Ansible relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Ansible job vacancy trend in Manchester

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Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Ansible.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Ansible

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Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ansible in Manchester over the 6 months to 9 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Ansible in Manchester

Ansible
Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Ansible.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Ansible

Ansible
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 12 (75.00%) AWS
2 7 (43.75%) AWS CloudFormation
3 5 (31.25%) Azure
4 3 (18.75%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (18.75%) Amazon S3
4 3 (18.75%) GCP
5 2 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (12.50%) AWS CodePipeline
5 2 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (12.50%) GitHub
5 2 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (12.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (6.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (6.25%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (6.25%) OCI
6 1 (6.25%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) 802.11
1 1 (6.25%) BIG-IP
1 1 (6.25%) Cisco IOS
1 1 (6.25%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (6.25%) DMZ
1 1 (6.25%) DNS
1 1 (6.25%) Firewall
1 1 (6.25%) SD-WAN
1 1 (6.25%) TCP/IP
1 1 (6.25%) VPN
1 1 (6.25%) WAN
1 1 (6.25%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (12.50%) Oracle Database
1 2 (12.50%) Oracle Exadata
1 2 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (6.25%) DynamoDB
2 1 (6.25%) MongoDB
2 1 (6.25%) MySQL
2 1 (6.25%) RDBMS
2 1 (6.25%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (43.75%) GitLab
2 3 (18.75%) Jenkins
3 2 (12.50%) Git
3 2 (12.50%) JIRA
4 1 (6.25%) Flyway
4 1 (6.25%) Liquibase
4 1 (6.25%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 4 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 3 (18.75%) Social Skills
3 2 (12.50%) Law
4 1 (6.25%) Military
Job Titles
1 3 (18.75%) DevOps Engineer
1 3 (18.75%) Lead
2 2 (12.50%) Lead DevOps
2 2 (12.50%) Senior
3 1 (6.25%) AWS Developer
3 1 (6.25%) AWS DevOps
3 1 (6.25%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Database Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (6.25%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
3 1 (6.25%) Full-Stack Python Developer
3 1 (6.25%) Installations Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) JavaScript Developer
3 1 (6.25%) Node.js Developer
3 1 (6.25%) Oracle DBA
3 1 (6.25%) Principal Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Senior Network Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Senior Oracle DBA
3 1 (6.25%) Web Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (12.50%) ARM Templates
1 2 (12.50%) Node.js
2 1 (6.25%) 802.1X
2 1 (6.25%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (6.25%) Kafka
2 1 (6.25%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 1 (6.25%) React
2 1 (6.25%) Spring
2 1 (6.25%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) e-Learning
1 3 (18.75%) Private Cloud
1 3 (18.75%) Virtual Team
2 2 (12.50%) Data Centre
2 2 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (6.25%) Cloud Native
3 1 (6.25%) Clustering
3 1 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (6.25%) Onboarding
3 1 (6.25%) Product Ownership
3 1 (6.25%) Public Cloud
3 1 (6.25%) Replication
3 1 (6.25%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (25.00%) Linux
2 3 (18.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (6.25%) AIX
3 1 (6.25%) CentOS
3 1 (6.25%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (68.75%) CI/CD
2 10 (62.50%) DevOps
3 8 (50.00%) Agile
4 6 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (31.25%) Mentoring
5 5 (31.25%) Technical Leadership
6 4 (25.00%) Configuration Management
6 4 (25.00%) Observability
7 3 (18.75%) Agile Coaching
7 3 (18.75%) Content Development
7 3 (18.75%) Data Protection
7 3 (18.75%) GAP Analysis
7 3 (18.75%) Incident Management
7 3 (18.75%) Incident Response
7 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure Automation
7 3 (18.75%) ITIL
7 3 (18.75%) Migration
7 3 (18.75%) Service-Level Objective
7 3 (18.75%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 3 (18.75%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 7 (43.75%) Python
2 4 (25.00%) Bash
3 1 (6.25%) Go
3 1 (6.25%) Java
3 1 (6.25%) JavaScript
3 1 (6.25%) Perl
3 1 (6.25%) PL/SQL
3 1 (6.25%) PowerShell
3 1 (6.25%) Shell Script
3 1 (6.25%) SQL
3 1 (6.25%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (31.25%) SC Cleared
1 5 (31.25%) Security Cleared
2 3 (18.75%) AWS Certification
2 3 (18.75%) Azure Certification
2 3 (18.75%) IBM Certification
2 3 (18.75%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (6.25%) CCIE
3 1 (6.25%) CCNP
3 1 (6.25%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 2 (12.50%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (6.25%) Docker
2 1 (6.25%) Hyper-V
2 1 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (81.25%) Terraform
2 4 (25.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (12.50%) Data Guard
3 2 (12.50%) Oracle RMAN
3 2 (12.50%) Progress Chef
3 2 (12.50%) Puppet
4 1 (6.25%) Grafana
4 1 (6.25%) Packer
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) Google
1 3 (18.75%) IBM
2 2 (12.50%) Oracle
3 1 (6.25%) Blue Coat
3 1 (6.25%) Cisco
3 1 (6.25%) F5
3 1 (6.25%) McAfee
3 1 (6.25%) Meraki
3 1 (6.25%) Palo Alto
3 1 (6.25%) VMware