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

6 months to
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 94 59 61
Rank change year-on-year -35 +2 +12
Contract jobs citing Ansible 33 26 20
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 1.64% 2.60% 1.71%
As % of the Systems Management category 13.36% 20.00% 17.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 15 9
10th Percentile £351 £400 £440
25th Percentile £411 £519 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £625 £505
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +23.76% -6.05%
75th Percentile £609 £653 £565
90th Percentile £700 £714 £625
North West median daily rate £498 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -5.07% - -

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 247 130 116
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 12.29% 13.00% 9.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 166 90 73
10th Percentile £314 £294 £315
25th Percentile £409 £385 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £464 £475
Median % change year-on-year +7.70% -2.26% -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £584
90th Percentile £639 £651 £650
North West median daily rate £480 £448 £450
% change year-on-year +7.14% -0.44% -7.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 5 3
10th Percentile £75.00 £19.32 £32.85
25th Percentile £76.00 £20.00 £37.88
Median hourly rate £77.00 £62.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +23.20% +31.58% +19.95%
75th Percentile - £84.50 £76.38
90th Percentile £90.00 £90.80 £92.95
North West median hourly rate £76.00 £18.87 £46.18
% change year-on-year +302.76% -59.14% -

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 7 October 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (6.06%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 20 (60.61%) AWS
2 18 (54.55%) Azure
3 9 (27.27%) GCP
4 8 (24.24%) GitHub
5 7 (21.21%) OCI
6 6 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (12.12%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (9.09%) SaaS
9 2 (6.06%) Azure Sentinel
9 2 (6.06%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 1 (3.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (3.03%) Amazon EC2
10 1 (3.03%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (3.03%) Amazon ELB
10 1 (3.03%) Apigee
10 1 (3.03%) AWS Direct Connect
10 1 (3.03%) AWS KMS
10 1 (3.03%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 1 (3.03%) OpenShift
10 1 (3.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 12 (36.36%) Firewall
2 9 (27.27%) BGP
3 8 (24.24%) OSPF
4 7 (21.21%) Network Security
5 6 (18.18%) VPN
6 5 (15.15%) WAN
7 4 (12.12%) Ethernet VPN
7 4 (12.12%) VXLAN
8 3 (9.09%) BIG-IP
8 3 (9.09%) SD-WAN
8 3 (9.09%) TCP/IP
8 3 (9.09%) Wireless
9 2 (6.06%) DNS
9 2 (6.06%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 2 (6.06%) Junos
9 2 (6.06%) SSL
9 2 (6.06%) WLAN
10 1 (3.03%) Cisco Nexus
10 1 (3.03%) NGFW
10 1 (3.03%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.09%) MongoDB
1 3 (9.09%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.03%) Oracle Database
2 1 (3.03%) Oracle Exadata
2 1 (3.03%) RDBMS
2 1 (3.03%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 13 (39.39%) GitLab
2 11 (33.33%) Jenkins
3 8 (24.24%) Git
4 3 (9.09%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (6.06%) Burp Suite
5 2 (6.06%) Cucumber
5 2 (6.06%) Gatling
5 2 (6.06%) Gradle
5 2 (6.06%) LoadRunner
5 2 (6.06%) REST Assured
5 2 (6.06%) SonarQube
6 1 (3.03%) JIRA
General
1 5 (15.15%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (12.12%) Public Sector
3 3 (9.09%) Finance
3 3 (9.09%) Military
3 3 (9.09%) Social Skills
4 2 (6.06%) Banking
4 2 (6.06%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.03%) Games
Job Titles
1 10 (30.30%) Senior
2 9 (27.27%) DevOps Engineer
2 9 (27.27%) Network Engineer
3 4 (12.12%) Automation Engineer
3 4 (12.12%) Senior DevOps
3 4 (12.12%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 3 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (9.09%) Platform Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) Administrator
5 2 (6.06%) Consultant
5 2 (6.06%) Developer
5 2 (6.06%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) Senior Network Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) SIEM Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) Splunk Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) SQL Developer
6 1 (3.03%) Kafka Engineer
6 1 (3.03%) Network Consultant
6 1 (3.03%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
6 1 (3.03%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (60.61%) Terraform
2 5 (15.15%) Kafka
3 4 (12.12%) JSON
4 2 (6.06%) Node.js
4 2 (6.06%) Playwright
4 2 (6.06%) Quarkus
4 2 (6.06%) React
4 2 (6.06%) REST
4 2 (6.06%) Spring
4 2 (6.06%) Spring Boot
5 1 (3.03%) .NET
5 1 (3.03%) Oracle GoldenGate
5 1 (3.03%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (3.03%) RESTful
5 1 (3.03%) XML
5 1 (3.03%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (18.18%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (9.09%) Linux Command Line
2 3 (9.09%) PKI
3 2 (6.06%) Algorithms
3 2 (6.06%) Data Centre
3 2 (6.06%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (6.06%) Data Structures
3 2 (6.06%) Replication
4 1 (3.03%) Animation
4 1 (3.03%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (3.03%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.03%) Public Cloud
4 1 (3.03%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (30.30%) Linux
2 7 (21.21%) Windows
3 4 (12.12%) Windows Server
4 2 (6.06%) Unix
5 1 (3.03%) AIX
5 1 (3.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (54.55%) DevOps
1 18 (54.55%) Infrastructure as Code
2 17 (51.52%) CI/CD
3 8 (24.24%) Containerisation
4 7 (21.21%) Agile
5 6 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 6 (18.18%) Zero Trust
6 5 (15.15%) AI
6 5 (15.15%) Configuration Management
6 5 (15.15%) Continuous Improvement
6 5 (15.15%) High Availability
6 5 (15.15%) Load Balancing
6 5 (15.15%) Platform Engineering
6 5 (15.15%) Secrets Management
7 4 (12.12%) Incident Response
7 4 (12.12%) Network Architecture
7 4 (12.12%) Observability
7 4 (12.12%) Project Delivery
7 4 (12.12%) Root Cause Analysis
7 4 (12.12%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 19 (57.58%) Python
2 11 (33.33%) PowerShell
3 8 (24.24%) Bash
4 5 (15.15%) SQL
5 3 (9.09%) C#
6 2 (6.06%) Java
6 2 (6.06%) Kusto Query Language
6 2 (6.06%) Search Processing Language
7 1 (3.03%) JavaScript
7 1 (3.03%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 11 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 11 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 5 (15.15%) CCNP
2 5 (15.15%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (9.09%) CISSP
3 3 (9.09%) Degree
4 2 (6.06%) GCFA
4 2 (6.06%) GCIH
5 1 (3.03%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (3.03%) CCIE
5 1 (3.03%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.06%) GDPR
1 2 (6.06%) PCI DSS
1 2 (6.06%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (3.03%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (18.18%) Docker
2 2 (6.06%) Active Directory
2 2 (6.06%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 2 (6.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (3.03%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (3.03%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 14 (42.42%) Kubernetes
2 4 (12.12%) Argo
2 4 (12.12%) Progress Chef
3 3 (9.09%) Grafana
3 3 (9.09%) Prometheus
4 2 (6.06%) CASB
4 2 (6.06%) Istio
5 1 (3.03%) Data Guard
5 1 (3.03%) Nagios
5 1 (3.03%) Oracle RMAN
5 1 (3.03%) Packer
5 1 (3.03%) Puppet
5 1 (3.03%) vRealize
5 1 (3.03%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 9 (27.27%) Palo Alto
2 7 (21.21%) Microsoft
3 6 (18.18%) Aruba
4 5 (15.15%) Arista
4 5 (15.15%) Cisco
4 5 (15.15%) Fortinet
5 4 (12.12%) Dynatrace
5 4 (12.12%) F5
6 3 (9.09%) Juniper
6 3 (9.09%) Red Hat
6 3 (9.09%) ServiceNow
7 2 (6.06%) Confluent
7 2 (6.06%) Cribl.io
7 2 (6.06%) Oracle
7 2 (6.06%) Perforce
7 2 (6.06%) Splunk
7 2 (6.06%) VMware
8 1 (3.03%) SolarWinds
8 1 (3.03%) Tanium
8 1 (3.03%) Trend Micro