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

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 94 67 76
Rank change year-on-year -27 +9 -37
Contract jobs citing Ansible 21 11 22
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 1.21% 1.23% 1.55%
As % of the Systems Management category 8.71% 7.75% 13.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 8 14
10th Percentile £345 £413 £451
25th Percentile £406 £441 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.88% -6.82% -8.33%
75th Percentile £581 £656 £636
90th Percentile £615 £696 £668
North West median daily rate £465 £573 £533
% change year-on-year -18.85% +7.51% -9.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £52.50
Median hourly rate - - £55.00
75th Percentile - - £57.50
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate - - £55.00

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 241 142 158
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 13.88% 15.90% 11.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 156 106 118
10th Percentile £312 £240 £321
25th Percentile £419 £420 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £483 £525
Median % change year-on-year +8.81% -8.10% -1.18%
75th Percentile £602 £550 £625
90th Percentile £650 £659 £694
North West median daily rate £488 £475 £489
% change year-on-year +2.63% -2.86% -6.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 3 5
10th Percentile - £63.70 £55.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £67.38 £58.75
Median hourly rate £55.00 £79.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.38% -1.25% +207.69%
75th Percentile £65.31 £89.75 £100.00
90th Percentile £73.00 £92.90 £102.40
North West median hourly rate £55.00 £63.40 £17.72
% change year-on-year -13.25% +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

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Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ansible in Manchester over the 6 months to 20 May 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:

Cloud Services
1 14 (66.67%) AWS
2 10 (47.62%) Azure
3 5 (23.81%) GCP
4 4 (19.05%) OCI
5 3 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
5 3 (14.29%) Amazon S3
5 3 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (14.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (4.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (4.76%) Amazon ELB
6 1 (4.76%) AWS KMS
6 1 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (4.76%) GitHub
6 1 (4.76%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 1 (4.76%) OpenShift
6 1 (4.76%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (19.05%) BGP
2 3 (14.29%) BIG-IP
2 3 (14.29%) Ethernet VPN
2 3 (14.29%) Firewall
2 3 (14.29%) OSPF
2 3 (14.29%) VXLAN
3 2 (9.52%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 2 (9.52%) NAS
3 2 (9.52%) SAN
3 2 (9.52%) SD-WAN
3 2 (9.52%) TCP/IP
3 2 (9.52%) VSAN
3 2 (9.52%) WAN
4 1 (4.76%) DNS
4 1 (4.76%) Network Security
4 1 (4.76%) NGFW
4 1 (4.76%) VPN
4 1 (4.76%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (4.76%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (14.29%) Oracle Database
1 3 (14.29%) Oracle Exadata
1 3 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (9.52%) MongoDB
3 1 (4.76%) RDBMS
3 1 (4.76%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (33.33%) GitLab
2 3 (14.29%) Jenkins
3 2 (9.52%) Flyway
3 2 (9.52%) Git
3 2 (9.52%) Liquibase
4 1 (4.76%) Bitbucket
4 1 (4.76%) Burp Suite
4 1 (4.76%) Cucumber
4 1 (4.76%) Gatling
4 1 (4.76%) Gradle
4 1 (4.76%) LoadRunner
4 1 (4.76%) REST Assured
4 1 (4.76%) SonarQube
4 1 (4.76%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 6 (28.57%) Public Sector
2 3 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 2 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (9.52%) Military
4 1 (4.76%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (28.57%) Senior
2 5 (23.81%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Database Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Network Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Principal Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) VMware Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) AWS DevOps
5 1 (4.76%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Linux Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Senior DBA
5 1 (4.76%) Senior DevOps
5 1 (4.76%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Senior VMware Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Site Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) VMware Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.76%) Node.js
1 1 (4.76%) Oracle GoldenGate
1 1 (4.76%) Playwright
1 1 (4.76%) Quarkus
1 1 (4.76%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (4.76%) React
1 1 (4.76%) Spring
1 1 (4.76%) Spring Boot
1 1 (4.76%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (19.05%) Data Centre
1 4 (19.05%) Data Protection Act
1 4 (19.05%) Hybrid Cloud
1 4 (19.05%) Replication
2 3 (14.29%) e-Learning
2 3 (14.29%) Private Cloud
2 3 (14.29%) Virtual Team
3 2 (9.52%) Clustering
3 2 (9.52%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (9.52%) PKI
3 2 (9.52%) Product Ownership
4 1 (4.76%) Cloud Native
4 1 (4.76%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 11 (52.38%) Linux
2 5 (23.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (19.05%) Windows
4 3 (14.29%) Ubuntu
4 3 (14.29%) Windows Server
5 2 (9.52%) VMS
6 1 (4.76%) AIX
6 1 (4.76%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (57.14%) DevOps
2 11 (52.38%) CI/CD
3 9 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
4 6 (28.57%) Observability
4 6 (28.57%) Root Cause Analysis
5 5 (23.81%) Agile
5 5 (23.81%) ITIL
5 5 (23.81%) Performance Tuning
5 5 (23.81%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 5 (23.81%) Technical Leadership
6 4 (19.05%) Capacity Planning
6 4 (19.05%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (19.05%) Data Protection
6 4 (19.05%) Disaster Recovery
6 4 (19.05%) High Availability
6 4 (19.05%) Incident Response
6 4 (19.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 4 (19.05%) Load Balancing
6 4 (19.05%) Migration
7 3 (14.29%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 11 (52.38%) Python
2 8 (38.10%) Bash
3 6 (28.57%) PowerShell
4 2 (9.52%) PL/SQL
4 2 (9.52%) SQL
5 1 (4.76%) Java
5 1 (4.76%) JavaScript
5 1 (4.76%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 6 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 3 (14.29%) AWS Certification
2 3 (14.29%) Azure Certification
2 3 (14.29%) IBM Certification
2 3 (14.29%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (9.52%) VCAP
3 2 (9.52%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.76%) GRC
System Software
1 4 (19.05%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (14.29%) Oracle RAC
3 2 (9.52%) Docker
3 2 (9.52%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (9.52%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (9.52%) VMware NSX
3 2 (9.52%) vSphere
4 1 (4.76%) Hyper-V
4 1 (4.76%) zsh
Systems Management
1 12 (57.14%) Terraform
2 6 (28.57%) Kubernetes
3 3 (14.29%) Data Guard
3 3 (14.29%) Oracle RMAN
3 3 (14.29%) vRealize
4 2 (9.52%) PowerCLI
4 2 (9.52%) vCenter Server
4 2 (9.52%) vMotion
5 1 (4.76%) Argo
5 1 (4.76%) Grafana
5 1 (4.76%) Istio
5 1 (4.76%) Packer
5 1 (4.76%) Progress Chef
5 1 (4.76%) Prometheus
5 1 (4.76%) Puppet
5 1 (4.76%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 4 (19.05%) VMware
2 3 (14.29%) F5
2 3 (14.29%) Google
2 3 (14.29%) IBM
2 3 (14.29%) Oracle
2 3 (14.29%) Palo Alto
3 2 (9.52%) Arista
3 2 (9.52%) Aruba
4 1 (4.76%) Cisco
4 1 (4.76%) Dynatrace
4 1 (4.76%) Microsoft
4 1 (4.76%) OpenText
4 1 (4.76%) Red Hat
4 1 (4.76%) ServiceNow
4 1 (4.76%) Tanium
4 1 (4.76%) Tenable
4 1 (4.76%) Trend Micro