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 26 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 63 63
Rank change year-on-year -20 0 -8
Contract jobs citing Ansible 39 22 24
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 1.96% 2.15% 1.98%
As % of the Systems Management category 15.54% 16.42% 23.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 12 15
10th Percentile £327 £458 £440
25th Percentile £425 £581 £471
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £650 £550
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% +18.18% -4.35%
75th Percentile £582 £671 £625
90th Percentile £680 £724 £665
North West median daily rate £500 £600 £515
% change year-on-year -16.67% +16.46% -7.38%

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 251 134 104
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 12.64% 13.07% 8.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 172 91 67
10th Percentile £203 £298 £238
25th Percentile £406 £393 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.44%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £597
90th Percentile £650 £663 £660
North West median daily rate £482 £458 £465
% change year-on-year +5.36% -1.61% -7.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 4 3
10th Percentile £61.78 £31.58 £32.85
25th Percentile £71.75 £50.66 £37.88
Median hourly rate £76.50 £70.75 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.13% +48.95% +137.50%
75th Percentile £81.50 £87.13 £76.38
90th Percentile £95.00 £91.85 £92.95
North West median hourly rate £75.00 £63.40 £46.18
% change year-on-year +18.30% +37.29% +0.65%

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

Ansible
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

Ansible
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ansible in Manchester over the 6 months to 26 August 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (5.13%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 24 (61.54%) AWS
2 20 (51.28%) Azure
3 9 (23.08%) GCP
4 8 (20.51%) GitHub
4 8 (20.51%) OCI
5 6 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (10.26%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (7.69%) SaaS
8 2 (5.13%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (5.13%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 2 (5.13%) OpenShift
9 1 (2.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (2.56%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (2.56%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (2.56%) Amazon ELB
9 1 (2.56%) Apigee
9 1 (2.56%) AWS Direct Connect
9 1 (2.56%) AWS KMS
9 1 (2.56%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 1 (2.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 12 (30.77%) Firewall
2 9 (23.08%) BGP
3 8 (20.51%) OSPF
4 7 (17.95%) Network Security
5 6 (15.38%) VPN
6 5 (12.82%) WAN
7 4 (10.26%) Ethernet VPN
7 4 (10.26%) VXLAN
8 3 (7.69%) BIG-IP
8 3 (7.69%) SD-WAN
8 3 (7.69%) TCP/IP
8 3 (7.69%) Wireless
9 2 (5.13%) DNS
9 2 (5.13%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 2 (5.13%) Junos
9 2 (5.13%) NAS
9 2 (5.13%) SAN
9 2 (5.13%) SSL
9 2 (5.13%) VSAN
9 2 (5.13%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (12.82%) MongoDB
2 4 (10.26%) Oracle Database
2 4 (10.26%) Oracle Exadata
3 3 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (7.69%) SQL Server
4 2 (5.13%) RDBMS
4 2 (5.13%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 15 (38.46%) GitLab
2 11 (28.21%) Jenkins
3 9 (23.08%) Git
4 3 (7.69%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (5.13%) Burp Suite
5 2 (5.13%) Cucumber
5 2 (5.13%) Flyway
5 2 (5.13%) Gatling
5 2 (5.13%) Gradle
5 2 (5.13%) Liquibase
5 2 (5.13%) LoadRunner
5 2 (5.13%) REST Assured
5 2 (5.13%) SonarQube
6 1 (2.56%) Bitbucket
6 1 (2.56%) JIRA
General
1 5 (12.82%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (12.82%) Public Sector
2 4 (10.26%) Military
3 3 (7.69%) Finance
3 3 (7.69%) Social Skills
4 2 (5.13%) Banking
4 2 (5.13%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.56%) Games
Job Titles
1 12 (30.77%) Senior
2 9 (23.08%) Network Engineer
3 8 (20.51%) DevOps Engineer
4 4 (10.26%) Automation Engineer
4 4 (10.26%) Senior DevOps
4 4 (10.26%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 3 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (7.69%) Platform Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Administrator
6 2 (5.13%) Consultant
6 2 (5.13%) Database Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) DBA
6 2 (5.13%) Developer
6 2 (5.13%) Oracle DBA
6 2 (5.13%) Principal Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Senior Network Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) SIEM Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) SQL Developer
6 2 (5.13%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (56.41%) Terraform
2 5 (12.82%) Kafka
3 4 (10.26%) JSON
4 2 (5.13%) Node.js
4 2 (5.13%) Oracle GoldenGate
4 2 (5.13%) Playwright
4 2 (5.13%) Quarkus
4 2 (5.13%) React
4 2 (5.13%) REST
4 2 (5.13%) Spring
4 2 (5.13%) Spring Boot
5 1 (2.56%) .NET
5 1 (2.56%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (2.56%) RESTful
5 1 (2.56%) XML
5 1 (2.56%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (20.51%) Hybrid Cloud
2 6 (15.38%) Replication
3 4 (10.26%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (7.69%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (7.69%) PKI
5 2 (5.13%) Algorithms
5 2 (5.13%) Clustering
5 2 (5.13%) Data Centre
5 2 (5.13%) Data Structures
5 2 (5.13%) Product Ownership
5 2 (5.13%) Public Cloud
6 1 (2.56%) Animation
6 1 (2.56%) Cloud Native
6 1 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (2.56%) Onboarding
6 1 (2.56%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 15 (38.46%) Linux
2 9 (23.08%) Windows
3 6 (15.38%) Windows Server
4 4 (10.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (7.69%) Ubuntu
6 2 (5.13%) AIX
6 2 (5.13%) Unix
6 2 (5.13%) VMS
7 1 (2.56%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (53.85%) Infrastructure as Code
2 19 (48.72%) DevOps
3 18 (46.15%) CI/CD
4 9 (23.08%) Agile
5 8 (20.51%) Containerisation
5 8 (20.51%) Performance Tuning
6 7 (17.95%) Configuration Management
6 7 (17.95%) High Availability
6 7 (17.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 7 (17.95%) Observability
7 6 (15.38%) Root Cause Analysis
7 6 (15.38%) Zero Trust
8 5 (12.82%) Cloud Security
8 5 (12.82%) Continuous Improvement
8 5 (12.82%) Disaster Recovery
8 5 (12.82%) ITIL
8 5 (12.82%) Migration
8 5 (12.82%) Platform Engineering
8 5 (12.82%) Project Delivery
8 5 (12.82%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 23 (58.97%) Python
2 15 (38.46%) PowerShell
3 14 (35.90%) Bash
4 7 (17.95%) SQL
5 3 (7.69%) C#
6 2 (5.13%) Java
6 2 (5.13%) Kusto Query Language
6 2 (5.13%) PL/SQL
6 2 (5.13%) Search Processing Language
7 1 (2.56%) JavaScript
7 1 (2.56%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 12 (30.77%) SC Cleared
1 12 (30.77%) Security Cleared
2 5 (12.82%) CCNP
2 5 (12.82%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (7.69%) CISSP
3 3 (7.69%) Degree
4 2 (5.13%) GCFA
4 2 (5.13%) GCIH
4 2 (5.13%) VCAP
4 2 (5.13%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (2.56%) CCIE
5 1 (2.56%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.13%) GDPR
1 2 (5.13%) PCI DSS
1 2 (5.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (2.56%) GRC
2 1 (2.56%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (15.38%) Docker
2 5 (12.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (10.26%) Oracle RAC
4 3 (7.69%) VMware NSX
5 2 (5.13%) Active Directory
5 2 (5.13%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 2 (5.13%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (5.13%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (5.13%) vSphere
6 1 (2.56%) Hyper-V
6 1 (2.56%) zsh
Systems Management
1 15 (38.46%) Kubernetes
2 5 (12.82%) Progress Chef
3 4 (10.26%) Argo
3 4 (10.26%) Data Guard
3 4 (10.26%) Grafana
3 4 (10.26%) Oracle RMAN
3 4 (10.26%) Prometheus
4 3 (7.69%) vRealize
5 2 (5.13%) CASB
5 2 (5.13%) Istio
5 2 (5.13%) PowerCLI
5 2 (5.13%) Puppet
5 2 (5.13%) vCenter Server
5 2 (5.13%) vMotion
6 1 (2.56%) Nagios
6 1 (2.56%) Packer
6 1 (2.56%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 9 (23.08%) Palo Alto
2 7 (17.95%) Microsoft
3 6 (15.38%) Aruba
4 5 (12.82%) Arista
4 5 (12.82%) Cisco
4 5 (12.82%) Fortinet
4 5 (12.82%) Oracle
4 5 (12.82%) VMware
5 4 (10.26%) Dynatrace
5 4 (10.26%) F5
6 3 (7.69%) Juniper
6 3 (7.69%) Red Hat
6 3 (7.69%) ServiceNow
7 2 (5.13%) Confluent
7 2 (5.13%) Cribl.io
7 2 (5.13%) Perforce
7 2 (5.13%) Splunk
8 1 (2.56%) AlgoSec
8 1 (2.56%) Tanium
8 1 (2.56%) Tenable