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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 61 65 69
Rank change year-on-year +4 +4 -30
Contract jobs citing Ansible 26 22 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 2.58% 1.84% 2.31%
As % of the Systems Management category 17.33% 13.92% 13.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 12 29
10th Percentile £400 £440 £409
25th Percentile £522 £448 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £528 £575
Median % change year-on-year +20.85% -8.26% -
75th Percentile £670 £595 £594
90th Percentile £720 £645 £678
North West median daily rate £544 £525 £531
% change year-on-year +3.52% -1.18% -5.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £61.63
25th Percentile - - £62.19
Median hourly rate - - £63.75
75th Percentile - - £64.69
90th Percentile - - £64.88
North West median hourly rate - £85.00 £63.75
% change year-on-year - +33.33% -

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 150 158 286
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 14.87% 13.20% 16.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 96 217
10th Percentile £312 £333 £313
25th Percentile £400 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £505 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.46% +1.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £575
90th Percentile £691 £675 £675
North West median daily rate £450 £465 £500
% change year-on-year -3.23% -7.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 11
10th Percentile £19.32 £32.85 £17.75
25th Percentile £20.00 £37.88 £18.88
Median hourly rate £62.50 £47.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +31.58% +137.50% +17.65%
75th Percentile £84.50 £76.38 £55.31
90th Percentile £90.80 £92.95 £65.00
North West median hourly rate £20.00 £46.18 £46.18
% change year-on-year -56.69% - +112.03%

Ansible
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

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 20 September 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 20 September 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 -
Ansible
North West

Ansible
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 1 (3.85%) Apache
1 1 (3.85%) IIS
1 1 (3.85%) JBoss
Business Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 12 (46.15%) AWS
2 4 (15.38%) AWS CloudFormation
2 4 (15.38%) Azure
2 4 (15.38%) GCP
3 2 (7.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (7.69%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (7.69%) Amazon S3
4 1 (3.85%) Amazon ELB
4 1 (3.85%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (3.85%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (3.85%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (3.85%) Serverless
4 1 (3.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.69%) Firewall
1 2 (7.69%) SSL
1 2 (7.69%) TCP/IP
1 2 (7.69%) VSAN
2 1 (3.85%) DNS
2 1 (3.85%) Network Security
2 1 (3.85%) VLAN
2 1 (3.85%) VoIP
2 1 (3.85%) VPN
2 1 (3.85%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.69%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.85%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (3.85%) DynamoDB
2 1 (3.85%) MySQL
2 1 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.85%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 11 (42.31%) GitLab
2 9 (34.62%) Jenkins
3 8 (30.77%) Git
4 3 (11.54%) JIRA
4 3 (11.54%) Rational DOORS
5 1 (3.85%) Robot Framework
General
1 13 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 8 (30.77%) Finance
3 4 (15.38%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.85%) Military
4 1 (3.85%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (26.92%) Automation Specialist
1 7 (26.92%) Support Specialist
2 5 (19.23%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 4 (15.38%) Software Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) AWS Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) AWS Developer
5 2 (7.69%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Consultant
5 2 (7.69%) Developer
5 2 (7.69%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (7.69%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
5 2 (7.69%) Full-Stack Python Developer
5 2 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) JavaScript Developer
5 2 (7.69%) Node.js Developer
5 2 (7.69%) Python Developer
5 2 (7.69%) Senior
5 2 (7.69%) VMware Consultant
6 1 (3.85%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (19.23%) Node.js
2 2 (7.69%) AWS CDK
3 1 (3.85%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (3.85%) Kafka
3 1 (3.85%) Middleware
3 1 (3.85%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.54%) Cloud Native
2 2 (7.69%) Data Centre
2 2 (7.69%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (3.85%) Clustering
3 1 (3.85%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (3.85%) IBM XIV
3 1 (3.85%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.85%) PKI
3 1 (3.85%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (15.38%) Linux
2 1 (3.85%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (53.85%) DevOps
2 13 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 12 (46.15%) Infrastructure as Code
4 7 (26.92%) Business Process Analysis
4 7 (26.92%) DevSecOps
4 7 (26.92%) Risk Management
4 7 (26.92%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 7 (26.92%) Test Automation
4 7 (26.92%) Translating Business Requirements
5 6 (23.08%) Security Hardening
6 5 (19.23%) Agile
6 5 (19.23%) Configuration Management
6 5 (19.23%) Containerisation
7 4 (15.38%) Infrastructure Automation
7 4 (15.38%) Software Engineering
8 3 (11.54%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
8 3 (11.54%) Scaled Agile Framework
8 3 (11.54%) Software Architecture
8 3 (11.54%) Static Application Security Testing
8 3 (11.54%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 18 (69.23%) Python
2 7 (26.92%) Bash
3 3 (11.54%) C++
3 3 (11.54%) Go
3 3 (11.54%) Java
3 3 (11.54%) Perl
3 3 (11.54%) Shell Script
3 3 (11.54%) TypeScript
4 2 (7.69%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 10 (38.46%) Security Cleared
2 9 (34.62%) SC Cleared
3 3 (11.54%) Degree
4 2 (7.69%) Azure Certification
4 2 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (3.85%) AWS Certification
5 1 (3.85%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (3.85%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (26.92%) Accessibility
2 2 (7.69%) QA
3 1 (3.85%) COBIT
3 1 (3.85%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (19.23%) Docker
2 3 (11.54%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (11.54%) vSphere
3 2 (7.69%) VMware NSX
4 1 (3.85%) Active Directory
4 1 (3.85%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 14 (53.85%) Terraform
2 7 (26.92%) Kubernetes
3 3 (11.54%) Packer
3 3 (11.54%) Podman
3 3 (11.54%) SELinux
4 2 (7.69%) Grafana
4 2 (7.69%) PowerCLI
4 2 (7.69%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (3.85%) Progress Chef
5 1 (3.85%) Puppet
5 1 (3.85%) SCCM
5 1 (3.85%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 8 (30.77%) ServiceNow
2 4 (15.38%) VMware
3 3 (11.54%) Microsoft
4 2 (7.69%) IBM
5 1 (3.85%) BMC
5 1 (3.85%) CheckPoint
5 1 (3.85%) Citrix
5 1 (3.85%) F5
5 1 (3.85%) Oracle
5 1 (3.85%) Palo Alto
5 1 (3.85%) Remedy