Ansible Job Trends in Manchester

Ansible
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Ansible skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 122 114 126
Rank change year-on-year -8 +12 +11
Permanent jobs citing Ansible 26 36 68
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.67% 1.61% 1.59%
As % of the Systems Management category 11.93% 14.01% 17.30%
Number of salaries quoted 16 28 46
10th Percentile £46,750 £50,000 £44,263
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,250 £62,500 £58,750
Median % change year-on-year +6.00% +6.38% -2.08%
75th Percentile £82,813 £77,500 £72,433
90th Percentile £87,500 £81,375 £82,500
North West median annual salary £65,000 £71,250 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.77% +18.75% -7.69%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring systems management skills in Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 218 257 393
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 5.59% 11.50% 9.17%
Number of salaries quoted 155 188 351
10th Percentile £32,500 £38,550 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £49,688 £44,263
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +12.50% -
75th Percentile £76,875 £87,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £94,500 £97,528 £82,548
North West median annual salary £51,750 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -20.38% +13.04% -

Ansible
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Ansible relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Ansible job vacancy trend in Manchester

Ansible
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Ansible.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Ansible

Ansible
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Ansible in Manchester over the 6 months to 10 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Ansible in Manchester

Ansible
Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Ansible within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 10 March 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Stockport - 1 £60,000 -
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 4 (15.38%) Apache
1 4 (15.38%) Apache Spark
2 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (3.85%) Apache Solr
3 1 (3.85%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 22 (84.62%) AWS
2 13 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
2 13 (50.00%) Azure
3 9 (34.62%) AWS CloudFormation
3 9 (34.62%) Serverless
4 8 (30.77%) GCP
5 7 (26.92%) OpenShift
6 6 (23.08%) GitHub
7 5 (19.23%) Azure AKS
8 4 (15.38%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (15.38%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (15.38%) Amazon S3
8 4 (15.38%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (11.54%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (11.54%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 2 (7.69%) Entra ID
10 2 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
11 1 (3.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 1 (3.85%) Amazon Kinesis
11 1 (3.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (15.38%) AMQP
1 4 (15.38%) Firewall
2 1 (3.85%) Network Security
2 1 (3.85%) SNMP
2 1 (3.85%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (26.92%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (23.08%) MySQL
3 5 (19.23%) MongoDB
4 4 (15.38%) Big Data
4 4 (15.38%) Cloudera CDH
4 4 (15.38%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (15.38%) Hadoop
5 3 (11.54%) DynamoDB
5 3 (11.54%) NoSQL
5 3 (11.54%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (30.77%) Git
2 5 (19.23%) GitLab
3 4 (15.38%) Bitbucket
3 4 (15.38%) Jenkins
4 1 (3.85%) JIRA
General
1 5 (19.23%) Social Skills
2 4 (15.38%) Aerospace
3 1 (3.85%) German Language
3 1 (3.85%) Law
3 1 (3.85%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (3.85%) Public Sector
3 1 (3.85%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 8 (30.77%) Cloud Engineer
2 5 (19.23%) Developer
2 5 (19.23%) Senior
3 4 (15.38%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (15.38%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
3 4 (15.38%) Full-Stack Developer
3 4 (15.38%) Full-Stack Java Developer
3 4 (15.38%) Java Developer
3 4 (15.38%) Platform Engineer
3 4 (15.38%) Software Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Architect
4 2 (7.69%) AWS Architect
4 2 (7.69%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Azure Platform Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) DevOps Platform Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Senior DevOps
4 2 (7.69%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (34.62%) Node.js
2 8 (30.77%) AngularJS
2 8 (30.77%) REST
2 8 (30.77%) Spring
2 8 (30.77%) Spring Boot
3 6 (23.08%) RabbitMQ
4 4 (15.38%) gRPC
4 4 (15.38%) Material-UI
4 4 (15.38%) OpenAPI
4 4 (15.38%) React
4 4 (15.38%) Swagger
5 3 (11.54%) RESTful
6 2 (7.69%) .NET
6 2 (7.69%) ASP.NET Web API
6 2 (7.69%) WCF
7 1 (3.85%) Apache Camel
7 1 (3.85%) ARM Templates
7 1 (3.85%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (3.85%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (30.77%) Cloud Native
2 3 (11.54%) Public Cloud
3 2 (7.69%) Mobile App
3 2 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 16 (61.54%) Linux
2 6 (23.08%) Debian
2 6 (23.08%) Ubuntu
3 5 (19.23%) CentOS
3 5 (19.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (19.23%) Windows
4 3 (11.54%) VMS
5 1 (3.85%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (65.38%) Infrastructure as Code
2 16 (61.54%) CI/CD
3 15 (57.69%) DevOps
4 14 (53.85%) Containerisation
5 13 (50.00%) Microservices
6 12 (46.15%) Agile
7 9 (34.62%) Platform Engineering
8 7 (26.92%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 6 (23.08%) Kanban
9 6 (23.08%) Scrum
10 5 (19.23%) Configuration Management
10 5 (19.23%) Software Engineering
11 4 (15.38%) API Development
11 4 (15.38%) Collaborative Working
11 4 (15.38%) Deployment Automation
11 4 (15.38%) Open Source
11 4 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
11 4 (15.38%) Scaled Agile Framework
11 4 (15.38%) Security Hardening
11 4 (15.38%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 11 (42.31%) Java
2 9 (34.62%) JavaScript
2 9 (34.62%) Python
3 3 (11.54%) Go
3 3 (11.54%) SQL
4 1 (3.85%) Bash
4 1 (3.85%) PHP
Qualifications
1 9 (34.62%) Security Cleared
2 7 (26.92%) SC Cleared
3 6 (23.08%) DV Cleared
4 1 (3.85%) AWS Certification
4 1 (3.85%) LPIC
System Software
1 7 (26.92%) Docker
2 4 (15.38%) VMware NSX
2 4 (15.38%) vSphere
3 2 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (3.85%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 21 (80.77%) Terraform
2 17 (65.38%) Kubernetes
3 4 (15.38%) Puppet
4 3 (11.54%) Rancher
5 2 (7.69%) Grafana
5 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (3.85%) Nagios
6 1 (3.85%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (19.23%) Red Hat
1 5 (19.23%) VMware
2 4 (15.38%) Google
2 4 (15.38%) SaltStack
3 3 (11.54%) Microsoft
4 1 (3.85%) Pega
4 1 (3.85%) WSO2