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

6 months to
8 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 66 77
Rank change year-on-year -4 +11 -40
Contract jobs citing Ansible 22 18 21
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 1.87% 1.70% 1.39%
As % of the Systems Management category 11.22% 10.23% 8.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 10 14
10th Percentile £434 £440 £363
25th Percentile £516 £461 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £581 £528 £525
Median % change year-on-year +10.14% +0.48% -12.50%
75th Percentile £647 £591 £575
90th Percentile £650 £656 -
North West median daily rate £465 £550 £543
% change year-on-year -15.53% +1.38% -1.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £54.25
25th Percentile - - £56.88
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 196 176 236
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 16.67% 16.64% 15.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 135 107 180
10th Percentile £327 £313 £275
25th Percentile £400 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.09%
75th Percentile £614 £579 £575
90th Percentile £650 £656 £675
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 0 13
10th Percentile £26.50 - £17.90
25th Percentile £52.50 - £19.25
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -15.38%
75th Percentile £57.50 - £65.00
90th Percentile £68.25 - £81.75
North West median hourly rate £55.00 £44.59 £46.18
% change year-on-year +23.35% -3.44% -7.30%

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 8 January 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
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 8 January 2026. 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 & 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 (4.55%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 13 (59.09%) AWS
2 8 (36.36%) AWS CloudFormation
3 6 (27.27%) Azure
4 4 (18.18%) GCP
5 2 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (9.09%) Amazon S3
5 2 (9.09%) AWS CodePipeline
5 2 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (9.09%) GitHub
5 2 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (4.55%) Amazon ELB
6 1 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (4.55%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (4.55%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (4.55%) Serverless
6 1 (4.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (13.64%) TCP/IP
2 2 (9.09%) DNS
2 2 (9.09%) Firewall
2 2 (9.09%) VPN
2 2 (9.09%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (4.55%) 802.11
3 1 (4.55%) BIG-IP
3 1 (4.55%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (4.55%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (4.55%) DMZ
3 1 (4.55%) Network Security
3 1 (4.55%) SD-WAN
3 1 (4.55%) SSL
3 1 (4.55%) VLAN
3 1 (4.55%) VoIP
3 1 (4.55%) VSAN
3 1 (4.55%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.55%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (4.55%) DynamoDB
1 1 (4.55%) MySQL
1 1 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (4.55%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (31.82%) Git
1 7 (31.82%) GitLab
2 5 (22.73%) Jenkins
2 5 (22.73%) JIRA
3 3 (13.64%) Rational DOORS
4 1 (4.55%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 9 (40.91%) Social Skills
2 3 (13.64%) Finance
3 2 (9.09%) Law
3 2 (9.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (18.18%) DevSecOps Engineer
2 3 (13.64%) Automation Specialist
2 3 (13.64%) Lead
2 3 (13.64%) Senior
2 3 (13.64%) Software Engineer
2 3 (13.64%) Support Specialist
3 2 (9.09%) AWS Developer
3 2 (9.09%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) Developer
3 2 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (9.09%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
3 2 (9.09%) Full-Stack Python Developer
3 2 (9.09%) JavaScript Developer
3 2 (9.09%) Lead DevOps
3 2 (9.09%) Network Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) Node.js Developer
3 2 (9.09%) Python Developer
3 2 (9.09%) Senior Network Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (18.18%) Node.js
2 2 (9.09%) ARM Templates
3 1 (4.55%) 802.1X
3 1 (4.55%) AWS CDK
3 1 (4.55%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (4.55%) Kafka
3 1 (4.55%) Middleware
3 1 (4.55%) React
3 1 (4.55%) Spring
3 1 (4.55%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.64%) e-Learning
1 3 (13.64%) Private Cloud
1 3 (13.64%) Virtual Team
2 2 (9.09%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.55%) Clustering
3 1 (4.55%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.55%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (4.55%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (4.55%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (4.55%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (4.55%) IBM XIV
3 1 (4.55%) Onboarding
3 1 (4.55%) Replication
3 1 (4.55%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (13.64%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (63.64%) CI/CD
2 13 (59.09%) DevOps
3 10 (45.45%) Agile
3 10 (45.45%) Infrastructure as Code
4 6 (27.27%) Configuration Management
4 6 (27.27%) DevSecOps
4 6 (27.27%) Mentoring
5 5 (22.73%) Security Hardening
5 5 (22.73%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 4 (18.18%) Containerisation
6 4 (18.18%) Incident Response
6 4 (18.18%) Infrastructure Automation
6 4 (18.18%) Root Cause Analysis
6 4 (18.18%) Software Engineering
6 4 (18.18%) Technical Leadership
7 3 (13.64%) Business Process Analysis
7 3 (13.64%) Content Development
7 3 (13.64%) Observability
7 3 (13.64%) Scaled Agile Framework
7 3 (13.64%) Service-Level Objective
Programming Languages
1 15 (68.18%) Python
2 7 (31.82%) Bash
3 4 (18.18%) Java
4 3 (13.64%) C++
5 2 (9.09%) Go
5 2 (9.09%) JavaScript
5 2 (9.09%) Perl
5 2 (9.09%) Shell Script
5 2 (9.09%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 8 (36.36%) SC Cleared
1 8 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 3 (13.64%) AWS Certification
2 3 (13.64%) Azure Certification
2 3 (13.64%) IBM Certification
2 3 (13.64%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (4.55%) CCIE
3 1 (4.55%) CCNP
3 1 (4.55%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.64%) Accessibility
2 1 (4.55%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (22.73%) Docker
2 2 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (9.09%) vSphere
3 1 (4.55%) Active Directory
3 1 (4.55%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 14 (63.64%) Terraform
2 6 (27.27%) Kubernetes
3 3 (13.64%) Podman
3 3 (13.64%) SELinux
4 2 (9.09%) Grafana
4 2 (9.09%) Packer
5 1 (4.55%) PowerCLI
5 1 (4.55%) Progress Chef
5 1 (4.55%) Puppet
5 1 (4.55%) SCCM
5 1 (4.55%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (18.18%) IBM
2 3 (13.64%) Google
2 3 (13.64%) ServiceNow
3 2 (9.09%) F5
3 2 (9.09%) Palo Alto
3 2 (9.09%) VMware
4 1 (4.55%) Blue Coat
4 1 (4.55%) CheckPoint
4 1 (4.55%) Cisco
4 1 (4.55%) Citrix
4 1 (4.55%) McAfee
4 1 (4.55%) Meraki
4 1 (4.55%) Microsoft