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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 71 36
Rank change year-on-year +3 -35 +10
Contract jobs citing Ansible 11 25 91
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 1.19% 1.65% 4.81%
As % of the Systems Management category 7.48% 14.97% 28.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 17 76
10th Percentile £413 £400 £513
25th Percentile £441 £525 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £656 £575 £650
90th Percentile £696 £650 £688
North West median daily rate £573 £533 £588
% change year-on-year +7.51% -9.36% +5.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £55.00 -
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 147 167 314
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 15.87% 11.01% 16.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 129 245
10th Percentile £225 £323 £376
25th Percentile £413 £406 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £550 £545
Median % change year-on-year -11.36% +0.92% -0.91%
75th Percentile £550 £625 £638
90th Percentile £656 £694 £688
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 12
10th Percentile - £55.00 £20.00
25th Percentile £61.25 £58.75 £20.17
Median hourly rate £62.50 £80.00 £32.80
Median % change year-on-year -21.88% +143.90% +64.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £100.00 £65.00
90th Percentile - £102.40 -
North West median hourly rate £62.50 £17.72 £30.00
% change year-on-year +252.71% -40.93% +50.00%

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

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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 1 May 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 (18.18%) IIS
2 1 (9.09%) Documentum
2 1 (9.09%) FileNet
Business Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 7 (63.64%) AWS
2 4 (36.36%) Azure
3 3 (27.27%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (18.18%) Amazon S3
4 2 (18.18%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (18.18%) Entra ID
4 2 (18.18%) GCP
4 2 (18.18%) Nutanix
4 2 (18.18%) OpenShift
4 2 (18.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (9.09%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (9.09%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (9.09%) Cloudflare
5 1 (9.09%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) DHCP
1 2 (18.18%) DNS
1 2 (18.18%) Kerberos
2 1 (9.09%) Firewall
2 1 (9.09%) Network Security
2 1 (9.09%) SD-WAN
2 1 (9.09%) VPN
2 1 (9.09%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) MongoDB
1 1 (9.09%) NoSQL
1 1 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (9.09%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (54.55%) GitLab
2 4 (36.36%) Jenkins
3 1 (9.09%) Git
3 1 (9.09%) Maven
General
1 3 (27.27%) Public Sector
2 2 (18.18%) Military
3 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (18.18%) Developer
1 2 (18.18%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (18.18%) Lead
1 2 (18.18%) Linux Engineer
1 2 (18.18%) Senior
2 1 (9.09%) Architect
2 1 (9.09%) Development Team Leader
2 1 (9.09%) Documentum Developer
2 1 (9.09%) Operations Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Principal Developer
2 1 (9.09%) Python Developer
2 1 (9.09%) Senior Developer
2 1 (9.09%) Senior DevOps
2 1 (9.09%) Senior DevOps Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Senior Python Developer
2 1 (9.09%) Service Management Architect
2 1 (9.09%) Software Development Team Leader
2 1 (9.09%) Software Team Leader
2 1 (9.09%) Team Leader
2 1 (9.09%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) Kafka
1 2 (18.18%) LDAP
2 1 (9.09%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (9.09%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Cloud Native
2 2 (18.18%) Clustering
3 1 (9.09%) Data Centre
3 1 (9.09%) Management Information System
3 1 (9.09%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 6 (54.55%) Linux
2 2 (18.18%) CentOS
2 2 (18.18%) VMS
2 2 (18.18%) Windows
2 2 (18.18%) Windows Server
2 2 (18.18%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (9.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (36.36%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (27.27%) Containerisation
2 3 (27.27%) DevOps
2 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (27.27%) ITIL
3 2 (18.18%) CI/CD
3 2 (18.18%) ITSM
3 2 (18.18%) Mentoring
3 2 (18.18%) Microservices
3 2 (18.18%) Network Architecture
3 2 (18.18%) Platform Engineering
3 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (18.18%) Service Management
4 1 (9.09%) Agile
4 1 (9.09%) Computer Science
4 1 (9.09%) Content Management
4 1 (9.09%) Incident Management
4 1 (9.09%) IT Governance
4 1 (9.09%) Migration
4 1 (9.09%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 5 (45.45%) Python
2 3 (27.27%) Bash
3 2 (18.18%) Java
4 1 (9.09%) PowerShell
4 1 (9.09%) Rust
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) Degree
2 1 (9.09%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (9.09%) Master's Degree
2 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) PCI DSS
2 1 (9.09%) COBIT
2 1 (9.09%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (36.36%) Active Directory
2 2 (18.18%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (18.18%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (18.18%) VMware NSX
3 1 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (81.82%) Terraform
2 5 (45.45%) Kubernetes
3 4 (36.36%) ZABBIX
4 3 (27.27%) Grafana
4 3 (27.27%) Prometheus
4 3 (27.27%) Puppet
5 2 (18.18%) Graylog
5 2 (18.18%) Nagios
5 2 (18.18%) Progress Chef
6 1 (9.09%) Packer
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Dell
1 2 (18.18%) HP
1 2 (18.18%) IBM
1 2 (18.18%) Oracle
1 2 (18.18%) SolarWinds
1 2 (18.18%) VMware
2 1 (9.09%) BMC
2 1 (9.09%) Remedy
2 1 (9.09%) ServiceNow
2 1 (9.09%) Splunk