Ansible Contracts in Manchester

Ansible
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester requiring Ansible skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Ansible over the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 65 77 40
Rank change year-on-year +12 -37 +3
Contract jobs citing Ansible 15 20 76
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 1.59% 1.38% 4.24%
As % of the Systems Management category 12.40% 13.89% 24.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 13 61
10th Percentile £400 £443 £506
25th Percentile £413 £525 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £588
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -6.38% +2.17%
75th Percentile £656 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £670 £688
North West median daily rate £537 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +2.29% -8.70% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £61.25
Median hourly rate - - £62.50
75th Percentile - - £63.75
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate - - £62.50

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 121 144 314
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 12.83% 9.90% 17.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 108 250
10th Percentile £248 £298 £375
25th Percentile £400 £381 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £550 £613 £600
90th Percentile £664 £675 £688
North West median daily rate £465 £475 £525
% change year-on-year -2.11% -9.52% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 6
10th Percentile £63.70 £34.53 £16.98
25th Percentile £67.38 £42.06 £20.00
Median hourly rate £79.00 £63.75 £20.35
Median % change year-on-year +23.92% +213.23% +17.99%
75th Percentile £89.75 £87.88 £35.00
90th Percentile £92.90 £97.55 £51.68
North West median hourly rate £63.40 £17.72 £30.00
% change year-on-year +257.79% -40.93% +60.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings citing Ansible as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for Ansible in Manchester

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Ansible in Manchester.

Daily rate trend for Ansible in Manchester

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Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ansible in Manchester over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Ansible in Manchester

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Ansible in Manchester.

Hourly rate trend for Ansible in Manchester

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (13.33%) IIS
2 1 (6.67%) Apache
2 1 (6.67%) Documentum
2 1 (6.67%) FileNet
2 1 (6.67%) JBoss
Business Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 7 (46.67%) AWS
2 4 (26.67%) Azure
3 3 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (13.33%) Amazon S3
4 2 (13.33%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (13.33%) Entra ID
4 2 (13.33%) GCP
4 2 (13.33%) Nutanix
4 2 (13.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (6.67%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (6.67%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (6.67%) Cloudflare
5 1 (6.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) DHCP
1 2 (13.33%) DNS
1 2 (13.33%) Firewall
1 2 (13.33%) Kerberos
2 1 (6.67%) Network Security
2 1 (6.67%) SD-WAN
2 1 (6.67%) SSL
2 1 (6.67%) VPN
2 1 (6.67%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) Relational Database
2 1 (6.67%) MongoDB
2 1 (6.67%) NoSQL
2 1 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (6.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (26.67%) GitLab
2 3 (20.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (6.67%) Git
3 1 (6.67%) Maven
3 1 (6.67%) Robot Framework
General
1 5 (33.33%) Finance
1 5 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (13.33%) Military
4 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (26.67%) Automation Specialist
1 4 (26.67%) Support Specialist
2 2 (13.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Linux Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Architect
3 1 (6.67%) Developer
3 1 (6.67%) Documentum Developer
3 1 (6.67%) Lead
3 1 (6.67%) Operations Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Python Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Python Software Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Senior
3 1 (6.67%) Senior DevOps
3 1 (6.67%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Service Management Architect
3 1 (6.67%) Software Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) LDAP
2 1 (6.67%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (6.67%) Kafka
2 1 (6.67%) Node.js
2 1 (6.67%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Clustering
2 1 (6.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (6.67%) Data Centre
2 1 (6.67%) Management Information System
2 1 (6.67%) PKI
2 1 (6.67%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 7 (46.67%) Linux
2 3 (20.00%) Windows
3 2 (13.33%) CentOS
3 2 (13.33%) VMS
3 2 (13.33%) Windows Server
3 2 (13.33%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (6.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (26.67%) Business Process Analysis
1 4 (26.67%) DevOps
1 4 (26.67%) Risk Management
1 4 (26.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 4 (26.67%) Test Automation
1 4 (26.67%) Translating Business Requirements
2 3 (20.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (20.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (20.00%) ITIL
3 2 (13.33%) ITSM
3 2 (13.33%) Microservices
3 2 (13.33%) Network Architecture
3 2 (13.33%) Platform Engineering
3 2 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (13.33%) Service Management
3 2 (13.33%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (6.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (6.67%) High Availability
4 1 (6.67%) Network Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 8 (53.33%) Python
2 3 (20.00%) Bash
3 2 (13.33%) Java
4 1 (6.67%) PowerShell
4 1 (6.67%) Rust
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) Degree
2 1 (6.67%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (6.67%) Master's Degree
2 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (26.67%) Accessibility
2 2 (13.33%) PCI DSS
3 1 (6.67%) COBIT
3 1 (6.67%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (26.67%) Active Directory
2 3 (20.00%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (13.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (13.33%) VMware NSX
4 1 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (46.67%) Terraform
2 5 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 4 (26.67%) ZABBIX
4 3 (20.00%) Grafana
4 3 (20.00%) Prometheus
4 3 (20.00%) Puppet
5 2 (13.33%) Graylog
5 2 (13.33%) Nagios
6 1 (6.67%) Packer
6 1 (6.67%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 5 (33.33%) ServiceNow
2 3 (20.00%) IBM
2 3 (20.00%) Oracle
2 3 (20.00%) VMware
3 2 (13.33%) Dell
3 2 (13.33%) HP
3 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
3 2 (13.33%) SolarWinds
4 1 (6.67%) BMC
4 1 (6.67%) Remedy
4 1 (6.67%) Splunk