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

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 88 67 72
Rank change year-on-year -21 +5 -31
Contract jobs citing Ansible 29 14 20
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 1.53% 1.50% 1.39%
As % of the Systems Management category 10.82% 11.57% 14.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 9 13
10th Percentile £304 £400 £443
25th Percentile £400 £413 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% -9.09% -6.38%
75th Percentile £550 £656 £650
90th Percentile £587 £738 £670
North West median daily rate £458 £537 £525
% change year-on-year -14.71% +2.29% -8.70%

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 268 121 142
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 14.15% 12.94% 9.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 179 89 108
10th Percentile £316 £253 £298
25th Percentile £404 £400 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £550 £613
90th Percentile £650 £664 £675
North West median daily rate £489 £468 £475
% change year-on-year +4.60% -1.58% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 3 4
10th Percentile £52.50 £63.70 £34.53
25th Percentile £59.06 £67.38 £42.06
Median hourly rate £69.25 £79.00 £63.75
Median % change year-on-year -12.34% +23.92% +213.23%
75th Percentile £81.50 £89.75 £87.88
90th Percentile £95.00 £92.90 £97.55
North West median hourly rate £62.00 £63.40 £17.72
% change year-on-year -2.21% +257.79% -40.93%

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 July 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 (6.90%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 17 (58.62%) AWS
2 14 (48.28%) Azure
3 8 (27.59%) GCP
4 5 (17.24%) OCI
5 4 (13.79%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (13.79%) GitHub
6 3 (10.34%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (10.34%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (10.34%) Amazon S3
6 3 (10.34%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 2 (6.90%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (6.90%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 1 (3.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (3.45%) Amazon ELB
8 1 (3.45%) Apigee
8 1 (3.45%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (3.45%) AWS KMS
8 1 (3.45%) OpenShift
8 1 (3.45%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (20.69%) BGP
1 6 (20.69%) Firewall
2 5 (17.24%) OSPF
3 3 (10.34%) BIG-IP
3 3 (10.34%) Ethernet VPN
3 3 (10.34%) VPN
3 3 (10.34%) VXLAN
3 3 (10.34%) WAN
4 2 (6.90%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 2 (6.90%) NAS
4 2 (6.90%) SAN
4 2 (6.90%) SD-WAN
4 2 (6.90%) SSL
4 2 (6.90%) TCP/IP
4 2 (6.90%) VSAN
4 2 (6.90%) Wireless
5 1 (3.45%) DNS
5 1 (3.45%) Junos
5 1 (3.45%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (3.45%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (17.24%) MongoDB
2 4 (13.79%) Oracle Database
2 4 (13.79%) Oracle Exadata
3 3 (10.34%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (10.34%) SQL Server
4 2 (6.90%) RDBMS
4 2 (6.90%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (31.03%) GitLab
1 9 (31.03%) Jenkins
2 6 (20.69%) Git
3 2 (6.90%) Burp Suite
3 2 (6.90%) Cucumber
3 2 (6.90%) Flyway
3 2 (6.90%) Gatling
3 2 (6.90%) Gradle
3 2 (6.90%) Liquibase
3 2 (6.90%) LoadRunner
3 2 (6.90%) REST Assured
3 2 (6.90%) SonarQube
3 2 (6.90%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (3.45%) Bitbucket
General
1 7 (24.14%) Public Sector
2 3 (10.34%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (10.34%) Military
3 2 (6.90%) Banking
4 1 (3.45%) Finance
4 1 (3.45%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (20.69%) DevOps Engineer
1 6 (20.69%) Senior
2 3 (10.34%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (10.34%) Network Engineer
3 2 (6.90%) Administrator
3 2 (6.90%) Consultant
3 2 (6.90%) Database Engineer
3 2 (6.90%) DBA
3 2 (6.90%) Developer
3 2 (6.90%) Oracle DBA
3 2 (6.90%) Principal Engineer
3 2 (6.90%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (6.90%) SQL Developer
3 2 (6.90%) VMware Engineer
4 1 (3.45%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (3.45%) Network Consultant
4 1 (3.45%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (3.45%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (3.45%) Site Engineer
4 1 (3.45%) VMware Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (17.24%) Kafka
2 3 (10.34%) JSON
3 2 (6.90%) Node.js
3 2 (6.90%) Oracle GoldenGate
3 2 (6.90%) Playwright
3 2 (6.90%) Quarkus
3 2 (6.90%) React
3 2 (6.90%) Spring
3 2 (6.90%) Spring Boot
4 1 (3.45%) .NET
4 1 (3.45%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (3.45%) RESTful
4 1 (3.45%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.69%) Replication
2 5 (17.24%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (13.79%) Data Centre
3 4 (13.79%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (10.34%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (10.34%) PKI
5 2 (6.90%) Algorithms
5 2 (6.90%) Clustering
5 2 (6.90%) Data Structures
5 2 (6.90%) Product Ownership
5 2 (6.90%) Public Cloud
6 1 (3.45%) Cloud Native
6 1 (3.45%) e-Learning
6 1 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (3.45%) Onboarding
6 1 (3.45%) Private Cloud
6 1 (3.45%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 14 (48.28%) Linux
2 7 (24.14%) Windows
3 6 (20.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (17.24%) Windows Server
5 3 (10.34%) Ubuntu
6 2 (6.90%) AIX
6 2 (6.90%) VMS
7 1 (3.45%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (55.17%) DevOps
2 15 (51.72%) CI/CD
3 13 (44.83%) Infrastructure as Code
4 8 (27.59%) Performance Tuning
5 7 (24.14%) Agile
6 6 (20.69%) Observability
7 5 (17.24%) High Availability
7 5 (17.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 5 (17.24%) Migration
7 5 (17.24%) Root Cause Analysis
7 5 (17.24%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 4 (13.79%) Capacity Planning
8 4 (13.79%) Configuration Management
8 4 (13.79%) Data Protection
8 4 (13.79%) Disaster Recovery
8 4 (13.79%) ITIL
8 4 (13.79%) Load Balancing
8 4 (13.79%) SDLC
8 4 (13.79%) Secrets Management
8 4 (13.79%) Security Hardening
Programming Languages
1 15 (51.72%) Python
2 10 (34.48%) Bash
2 10 (34.48%) PowerShell
3 5 (17.24%) SQL
4 3 (10.34%) C#
5 2 (6.90%) Java
5 2 (6.90%) PL/SQL
6 1 (3.45%) JavaScript
6 1 (3.45%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (24.14%) SC Cleared
1 7 (24.14%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.90%) VCAP
2 2 (6.90%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 1 (3.45%) AWS Certification
3 1 (3.45%) Azure Certification
3 1 (3.45%) CCNP
3 1 (3.45%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (3.45%) Degree
3 1 (3.45%) IBM Certification
3 1 (3.45%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.45%) GRC
1 1 (3.45%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (13.79%) Oracle RAC
1 4 (13.79%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (10.34%) Docker
3 2 (6.90%) Active Directory
3 2 (6.90%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 2 (6.90%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (6.90%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (6.90%) VMware NSX
3 2 (6.90%) vSphere
4 1 (3.45%) Hyper-V
4 1 (3.45%) zsh
Systems Management
1 17 (58.62%) Terraform
2 10 (34.48%) Kubernetes
3 4 (13.79%) Data Guard
3 4 (13.79%) Oracle RMAN
4 3 (10.34%) Argo
4 3 (10.34%) Grafana
4 3 (10.34%) Prometheus
4 3 (10.34%) vRealize
5 2 (6.90%) Istio
5 2 (6.90%) PowerCLI
5 2 (6.90%) vCenter Server
5 2 (6.90%) vMotion
6 1 (3.45%) Packer
6 1 (3.45%) Progress Chef
6 1 (3.45%) Puppet
6 1 (3.45%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 5 (17.24%) Palo Alto
2 4 (13.79%) Arista
2 4 (13.79%) Aruba
2 4 (13.79%) Dynatrace
2 4 (13.79%) Oracle
2 4 (13.79%) VMware
3 3 (10.34%) F5
3 3 (10.34%) Microsoft
4 2 (6.90%) Confluent
4 2 (6.90%) Fortinet
4 2 (6.90%) Red Hat
5 1 (3.45%) Cisco
5 1 (3.45%) Google
5 1 (3.45%) IBM
5 1 (3.45%) Juniper
5 1 (3.45%) OpenText
5 1 (3.45%) Perforce
5 1 (3.45%) ServiceNow
5 1 (3.45%) Tanium
5 1 (3.45%) Trend Micro