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

6 months to
8 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 91 74 71
Rank change year-on-year -17 -3 -35
Contract jobs citing Ansible 15 11 25
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.92% 1.17% 1.62%
As % of the Systems Management category 6.10% 7.19% 14.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 8 17
10th Percentile £400 £413 £400
25th Percentile £484 £441 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +6.10% -6.82% -8.33%
75th Percentile £581 £656 £575
90th Percentile - £696 £650
North West median daily rate £453 £625 £540
% change year-on-year -27.52% +15.74% -10.00%
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 - £75.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year - +36.36% -

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 246 153 168
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 15.11% 16.33% 10.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 169 109 134
10th Percentile £312 £246 £302
25th Percentile £400 £413 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
75th Percentile £613 £550 £623
90th Percentile £650 £656 £694
North West median daily rate £493 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +3.81% -5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 0 4
10th Percentile - - £54.38
25th Percentile £52.50 - £57.19
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +7.69%
75th Percentile £62.88 - £86.88
90th Percentile £70.00 - £94.75
North West median hourly rate £55.00 £53.39 £17.72
% change year-on-year +3.01% +201.31% -52.75%

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 8 April 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 12 (80.00%) AWS
2 7 (46.67%) Azure
3 5 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (20.00%) GCP
5 2 (13.33%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (13.33%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (13.33%) Amazon S3
5 2 (13.33%) AWS CodePipeline
5 2 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (13.33%) GitHub
5 2 (13.33%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (13.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (6.67%) OCI
6 1 (6.67%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) NAS
1 2 (13.33%) SAN
1 2 (13.33%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (20.00%) Oracle Database
1 3 (20.00%) Oracle Exadata
1 3 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (13.33%) MongoDB
3 1 (6.67%) RDBMS
3 1 (6.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (33.33%) GitLab
2 2 (13.33%) Flyway
2 2 (13.33%) Jenkins
2 2 (13.33%) JIRA
2 2 (13.33%) Liquibase
3 1 (6.67%) Bitbucket
3 1 (6.67%) Git
General
1 3 (20.00%) Public Sector
1 3 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Law
3 1 (6.67%) Military
Job Titles
1 3 (20.00%) Lead
2 2 (13.33%) Database Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Lead DevOps
2 2 (13.33%) Principal Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Senior
2 2 (13.33%) VMware Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) DBA
3 1 (6.67%) Installations Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Linux Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Oracle DBA
3 1 (6.67%) Senior DBA
3 1 (6.67%) Senior Oracle DBA
3 1 (6.67%) Senior VMware Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Site Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) ARM Templates
2 1 (6.67%) Kafka
2 1 (6.67%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 1 (6.67%) React
2 1 (6.67%) Spring
2 1 (6.67%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Replication
2 3 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (20.00%) e-Learning
2 3 (20.00%) Private Cloud
2 3 (20.00%) Virtual Team
3 2 (13.33%) Clustering
3 2 (13.33%) Data Centre
3 2 (13.33%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (13.33%) Product Ownership
4 1 (6.67%) Cloud Native
4 1 (6.67%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (6.67%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (46.67%) Linux
2 5 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (20.00%) Ubuntu
4 2 (13.33%) VMS
4 2 (13.33%) Windows
4 2 (13.33%) Windows Server
5 1 (6.67%) AIX
5 1 (6.67%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 9 (60.00%) DevOps
3 8 (53.33%) Agile
4 6 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 6 (40.00%) Observability
4 6 (40.00%) Technical Leadership
5 5 (33.33%) ITIL
5 5 (33.33%) Mentoring
5 5 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
5 5 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
6 4 (26.67%) Capacity Planning
6 4 (26.67%) Configuration Management
6 4 (26.67%) Disaster Recovery
6 4 (26.67%) Knowledge Transfer
6 4 (26.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 3 (20.00%) Agile Coaching
7 3 (20.00%) Incident Response
7 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
7 3 (20.00%) Service-Level Objective
7 3 (20.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 6 (40.00%) Bash
2 5 (33.33%) Python
3 4 (26.67%) PowerShell
4 2 (13.33%) PL/SQL
4 2 (13.33%) SQL
5 1 (6.67%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (26.67%) SC Cleared
1 4 (26.67%) Security Cleared
2 3 (20.00%) AWS Certification
2 3 (20.00%) Azure Certification
2 3 (20.00%) IBM Certification
2 3 (20.00%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (13.33%) VCAP
3 2 (13.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) GRC
System Software
1 3 (20.00%) Oracle RAC
1 3 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (13.33%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (13.33%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (13.33%) VMware NSX
2 2 (13.33%) vSphere
3 1 (6.67%) Hyper-V
3 1 (6.67%) zsh
Systems Management
1 11 (73.33%) Terraform
2 4 (26.67%) Kubernetes
3 3 (20.00%) Data Guard
3 3 (20.00%) Oracle RMAN
4 2 (13.33%) PowerCLI
4 2 (13.33%) vCenter Server
4 2 (13.33%) vMotion
4 2 (13.33%) vRealize
5 1 (6.67%) Grafana
5 1 (6.67%) Progress Chef
5 1 (6.67%) Prometheus
5 1 (6.67%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) Google
1 3 (20.00%) IBM
1 3 (20.00%) Oracle
1 3 (20.00%) VMware