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

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 64 69
Rank change year-on-year -21 +5 -21
Contract jobs citing Ansible 38 21 19
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 1.96% 2.09% 1.59%
As % of the Systems Management category 12.42% 14.79% 14.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 11 10
10th Percentile £332 £450 £438
25th Percentile £416 £613 £501
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £650 £556
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% +16.85% -5.32%
75th Percentile £580 £686 £650
90th Percentile £675 £725 £680
North West median daily rate £500 £600 £515
% change year-on-year -16.67% +16.48% -10.42%

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 306 142 130
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 15.77% 14.12% 10.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 209 101 85
10th Percentile £301 £300 £313
25th Percentile £418 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £617 £600 £613
90th Percentile £675 £688 £665
North West median daily rate £500 £465 £484
% change year-on-year +7.53% -3.88% -7.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 4 3
10th Percentile £61.70 £31.58 £32.85
25th Percentile £64.33 £50.66 £37.88
Median hourly rate £76.00 £70.75 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.42% +48.95% +137.50%
75th Percentile £86.00 £87.13 £76.38
90th Percentile £95.00 £91.85 £92.95
North West median hourly rate £64.58 £63.40 £46.18
% change year-on-year +1.86% +37.29% +8.66%

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 12 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 (5.26%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 25 (65.79%) AWS
2 20 (52.63%) Azure
3 9 (23.68%) GCP
4 8 (21.05%) OCI
5 7 (18.42%) GitHub
6 6 (15.79%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (10.53%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (7.89%) SaaS
9 2 (5.26%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (5.26%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (5.26%) Amazon S3
9 2 (5.26%) Azure Sentinel
9 2 (5.26%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 2 (5.26%) OpenShift
9 2 (5.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 1 (2.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (2.63%) Amazon ELB
10 1 (2.63%) AWS Direct Connect
10 1 (2.63%) AWS KMS
10 1 (2.63%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 11 (28.95%) Firewall
2 9 (23.68%) BGP
3 8 (21.05%) OSPF
4 6 (15.79%) Network Security
4 6 (15.79%) VPN
5 5 (13.16%) WAN
6 4 (10.53%) Ethernet VPN
6 4 (10.53%) VXLAN
7 3 (7.89%) BIG-IP
7 3 (7.89%) SD-WAN
7 3 (7.89%) TCP/IP
7 3 (7.89%) Wireless
8 2 (5.26%) DNS
8 2 (5.26%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 2 (5.26%) Junos
8 2 (5.26%) NAS
8 2 (5.26%) SAN
8 2 (5.26%) SSL
8 2 (5.26%) VSAN
8 2 (5.26%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (13.16%) MongoDB
2 4 (10.53%) Oracle Database
2 4 (10.53%) Oracle Exadata
3 3 (7.89%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (7.89%) SQL Server
4 2 (5.26%) RDBMS
4 2 (5.26%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 15 (39.47%) GitLab
2 12 (31.58%) Jenkins
3 9 (23.68%) Git
4 3 (7.89%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (5.26%) Burp Suite
5 2 (5.26%) Cucumber
5 2 (5.26%) Flyway
5 2 (5.26%) Gatling
5 2 (5.26%) Gradle
5 2 (5.26%) Liquibase
5 2 (5.26%) LoadRunner
5 2 (5.26%) REST Assured
5 2 (5.26%) SonarQube
6 1 (2.63%) Bitbucket
General
1 6 (15.79%) Public Sector
2 5 (13.16%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (10.53%) Military
4 3 (7.89%) Finance
4 3 (7.89%) Social Skills
5 2 (5.26%) Banking
5 2 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.63%) Games
Job Titles
1 12 (31.58%) Senior
2 8 (21.05%) DevOps Engineer
2 8 (21.05%) Network Engineer
3 4 (10.53%) Senior DevOps
3 4 (10.53%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 3 (7.89%) Automation Engineer
4 3 (7.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (5.26%) Administrator
5 2 (5.26%) Consultant
5 2 (5.26%) Database Engineer
5 2 (5.26%) DBA
5 2 (5.26%) Developer
5 2 (5.26%) Oracle DBA
5 2 (5.26%) Principal Engineer
5 2 (5.26%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (5.26%) Senior Network Engineer
5 2 (5.26%) SIEM Engineer
5 2 (5.26%) Splunk Engineer
5 2 (5.26%) SQL Developer
5 2 (5.26%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (13.16%) Kafka
2 4 (10.53%) JSON
3 2 (5.26%) Node.js
3 2 (5.26%) Oracle GoldenGate
3 2 (5.26%) Playwright
3 2 (5.26%) Quarkus
3 2 (5.26%) React
3 2 (5.26%) Spring
3 2 (5.26%) Spring Boot
4 1 (2.63%) .NET
4 1 (2.63%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (2.63%) REST
4 1 (2.63%) RESTful
4 1 (2.63%) XML
4 1 (2.63%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (21.05%) Hybrid Cloud
2 6 (15.79%) Replication
3 4 (10.53%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (7.89%) Data Centre
4 3 (7.89%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (7.89%) PKI
5 2 (5.26%) Algorithms
5 2 (5.26%) Clustering
5 2 (5.26%) Data Structures
5 2 (5.26%) Product Ownership
5 2 (5.26%) Public Cloud
6 1 (2.63%) Animation
6 1 (2.63%) Cloud Native
6 1 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (2.63%) Onboarding
6 1 (2.63%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 16 (42.11%) Linux
2 9 (23.68%) Windows
3 6 (15.79%) Windows Server
4 5 (13.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (7.89%) Ubuntu
6 2 (5.26%) AIX
6 2 (5.26%) Unix
6 2 (5.26%) VMS
7 1 (2.63%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (50.00%) DevOps
1 19 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 18 (47.37%) CI/CD
3 9 (23.68%) Agile
4 8 (21.05%) Performance Tuning
5 7 (18.42%) Containerisation
5 7 (18.42%) High Availability
5 7 (18.42%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 7 (18.42%) Observability
6 6 (15.79%) Configuration Management
6 6 (15.79%) Root Cause Analysis
7 5 (13.16%) AI
7 5 (13.16%) Cloud Security
7 5 (13.16%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (13.16%) Disaster Recovery
7 5 (13.16%) ITIL
7 5 (13.16%) Load Balancing
7 5 (13.16%) Migration
7 5 (13.16%) Project Delivery
7 5 (13.16%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 22 (57.89%) Python
2 14 (36.84%) PowerShell
3 13 (34.21%) Bash
4 7 (18.42%) SQL
5 3 (7.89%) C#
6 2 (5.26%) Java
6 2 (5.26%) Kusto Query Language
6 2 (5.26%) PL/SQL
6 2 (5.26%) Search Processing Language
7 1 (2.63%) JavaScript
7 1 (2.63%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 13 (34.21%) SC Cleared
1 13 (34.21%) Security Cleared
2 4 (10.53%) CCNP
2 4 (10.53%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (7.89%) Degree
4 2 (5.26%) CISSP
4 2 (5.26%) GCFA
4 2 (5.26%) GCIH
4 2 (5.26%) VCAP
4 2 (5.26%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (2.63%) CCIE
5 1 (2.63%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.26%) GDPR
1 2 (5.26%) PCI DSS
1 2 (5.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (2.63%) GRC
2 1 (2.63%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (13.16%) Docker
1 5 (13.16%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (10.53%) Oracle RAC
3 3 (7.89%) VMware NSX
4 2 (5.26%) Active Directory
4 2 (5.26%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 2 (5.26%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (5.26%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (5.26%) vSphere
5 1 (2.63%) Hyper-V
5 1 (2.63%) zsh
Systems Management
1 22 (57.89%) Terraform
2 15 (39.47%) Kubernetes
3 4 (10.53%) Argo
3 4 (10.53%) Data Guard
3 4 (10.53%) Grafana
3 4 (10.53%) Oracle RMAN
3 4 (10.53%) Progress Chef
3 4 (10.53%) Prometheus
4 3 (7.89%) vRealize
5 2 (5.26%) CASB
5 2 (5.26%) Istio
5 2 (5.26%) PowerCLI
5 2 (5.26%) Puppet
5 2 (5.26%) vCenter Server
5 2 (5.26%) vMotion
6 1 (2.63%) Nagios
6 1 (2.63%) Packer
6 1 (2.63%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 9 (23.68%) Palo Alto
2 7 (18.42%) Microsoft
3 6 (15.79%) Aruba
4 5 (13.16%) Arista
4 5 (13.16%) Cisco
4 5 (13.16%) Fortinet
4 5 (13.16%) Oracle
4 5 (13.16%) VMware
5 4 (10.53%) Dynatrace
5 4 (10.53%) F5
6 3 (7.89%) Juniper
6 3 (7.89%) Red Hat
7 2 (5.26%) Confluent
7 2 (5.26%) Cribl.io
7 2 (5.26%) Perforce
7 2 (5.26%) ServiceNow
7 2 (5.26%) Splunk
8 1 (2.63%) OpenText
8 1 (2.63%) Tanium
8 1 (2.63%) Tenable