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 1 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 63 78
Rank change year-on-year +5 +15 -39
Contract jobs citing Ansible 27 20 30
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 2.52% 1.72% 1.83%
As % of the Systems Management category 16.67% 12.90% 11.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 9 21
10th Percentile £400 £440 £363
25th Percentile £519 £450 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £505 £513
Median % change year-on-year +23.76% -1.46% -10.87%
75th Percentile £653 £565 £575
90th Percentile £714 £625 £688
North West median daily rate £575 £538 £519
% change year-on-year +6.98% +3.61% -5.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £61.25
Median hourly rate - - £62.50
75th Percentile - - £64.38
90th Percentile - - £64.75
North West median hourly rate - £80.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year - +28.00% +17.92%

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 162 155 269
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 15.14% 13.33% 16.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 84 210
10th Percentile £313 £316 £298
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £503 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.50% +0.50% -9.09%
75th Percentile £613 £603 £572
90th Percentile £677 £675 £651
North West median daily rate £450 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -7.69% -2.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 11
10th Percentile £19.21 £31.18 £17.75
25th Percentile £19.72 £33.69 £18.88
Median hourly rate £49.50 £39.25 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year +26.11% -10.29% -17.45%
75th Percentile £87.13 £44.69 £64.38
90th Percentile £91.85 £47.13 £78.75
North West median hourly rate £20.00 £46.18 £46.18
% change year-on-year -56.69% - +73.15%

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 1 November 2025.

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
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Ansible within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 1 November 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cheadle - 2 £650 - 2
Ansible
North West

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 1 (3.70%) Apache
1 1 (3.70%) IIS
1 1 (3.70%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 11 (40.74%) AWS
2 4 (14.81%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (11.11%) Azure
3 3 (11.11%) GCP
4 2 (7.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (7.41%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (7.41%) Amazon S3
5 1 (3.70%) Amazon ELB
5 1 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (3.70%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (3.70%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (3.70%) Serverless
5 1 (3.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (11.11%) Firewall
1 3 (11.11%) TCP/IP
2 2 (7.41%) DNS
2 2 (7.41%) SSL
2 2 (7.41%) VPN
2 2 (7.41%) VSAN
2 2 (7.41%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (3.70%) 802.11
3 1 (3.70%) BIG-IP
3 1 (3.70%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (3.70%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (3.70%) DMZ
3 1 (3.70%) Network Security
3 1 (3.70%) SD-WAN
3 1 (3.70%) VLAN
3 1 (3.70%) VoIP
3 1 (3.70%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.41%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.70%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (3.70%) DynamoDB
2 1 (3.70%) MySQL
2 1 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.70%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (37.04%) GitLab
2 8 (29.63%) Git
2 8 (29.63%) Jenkins
3 3 (11.11%) JIRA
3 3 (11.11%) Rational DOORS
4 1 (3.70%) Robot Framework
4 1 (3.70%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 12 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 8 (29.63%) Finance
3 3 (11.11%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.70%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (25.93%) Automation Specialist
1 7 (25.93%) Support Specialist
2 5 (18.52%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 4 (14.81%) Software Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) AWS Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) Senior
5 2 (7.41%) AWS Developer
5 2 (7.41%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Consultant
5 2 (7.41%) Developer
5 2 (7.41%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (7.41%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
5 2 (7.41%) Full-Stack Python Developer
5 2 (7.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) JavaScript Developer
5 2 (7.41%) Network Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Node.js Developer
5 2 (7.41%) Senior Network Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) VMware Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (18.52%) Node.js
2 2 (7.41%) AWS CDK
2 2 (7.41%) Kafka
3 1 (3.70%) 802.1X
3 1 (3.70%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (3.70%) Middleware
3 1 (3.70%) pytest
3 1 (3.70%) React
3 1 (3.70%) Spring
3 1 (3.70%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.11%) Cloud Native
2 2 (7.41%) Data Centre
2 2 (7.41%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (3.70%) Clustering
3 1 (3.70%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.70%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (3.70%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (3.70%) IBM XIV
3 1 (3.70%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.70%) PKI
3 1 (3.70%) Replication
3 1 (3.70%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (14.81%) Linux
2 1 (3.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (48.15%) CI/CD
2 12 (44.44%) DevOps
2 12 (44.44%) Infrastructure as Code
3 7 (25.93%) Business Process Analysis
3 7 (25.93%) DevSecOps
3 7 (25.93%) Risk Management
3 7 (25.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 7 (25.93%) Test Automation
3 7 (25.93%) Translating Business Requirements
4 6 (22.22%) Agile
4 6 (22.22%) Security Hardening
5 5 (18.52%) Configuration Management
5 5 (18.52%) Software Engineering
6 4 (14.81%) Containerisation
6 4 (14.81%) Infrastructure Automation
7 3 (11.11%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
7 3 (11.11%) Scaled Agile Framework
7 3 (11.11%) Static Application Security Testing
7 3 (11.11%) Threat Modelling
7 3 (11.11%) UML
Programming Languages
1 21 (77.78%) Python
2 7 (25.93%) Bash
3 4 (14.81%) Java
4 3 (11.11%) C++
4 3 (11.11%) Go
4 3 (11.11%) Perl
4 3 (11.11%) Shell Script
4 3 (11.11%) TypeScript
5 2 (7.41%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 9 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 9 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 2 (7.41%) Azure Certification
2 2 (7.41%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (7.41%) Degree
3 1 (3.70%) AWS Certification
3 1 (3.70%) CCIE
3 1 (3.70%) CCNP
3 1 (3.70%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (25.93%) Accessibility
2 2 (7.41%) QA
3 1 (3.70%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (18.52%) Docker
2 3 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (11.11%) vSphere
3 2 (7.41%) VMware NSX
4 1 (3.70%) Active Directory
4 1 (3.70%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 13 (48.15%) Terraform
2 6 (22.22%) Kubernetes
3 3 (11.11%) Packer
3 3 (11.11%) Podman
3 3 (11.11%) SELinux
4 2 (7.41%) Grafana
4 2 (7.41%) PowerCLI
4 2 (7.41%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (3.70%) Progress Chef
5 1 (3.70%) Puppet
5 1 (3.70%) SCCM
5 1 (3.70%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 7 (25.93%) ServiceNow
2 4 (14.81%) VMware
3 3 (11.11%) Microsoft
4 2 (7.41%) F5
4 2 (7.41%) IBM
4 2 (7.41%) Palo Alto
5 1 (3.70%) Blue Coat
5 1 (3.70%) CheckPoint
5 1 (3.70%) Cisco
5 1 (3.70%) Citrix
5 1 (3.70%) McAfee
5 1 (3.70%) Meraki
5 1 (3.70%) Oracle