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

6 months to
13 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 107 103 120
Rank change year-on-year -4 +17 +9
Permanent jobs citing Ansible 32 50 60
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.94% 1.98% 1.67%
As % of the Systems Management category 14.61% 17.06% 16.71%
Number of salaries quoted 21 34 46
10th Percentile £46,750 £44,000 £43,382
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £49,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £72,433
90th Percentile £87,500 - £77,715
North West median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £55,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +26.13% -7.50%

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 219 293 359
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 6.43% 11.59% 9.99%
Number of salaries quoted 161 170 326
10th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,750 £47,500 £44,263
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £83,125 £75,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £96,378 £84,056
North West median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -

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 13 February 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 13 February 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 +3 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 5 (15.63%) Apache
2 4 (12.50%) Apache Spark
3 2 (6.25%) Apache Solr
3 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (3.13%) JBoss
4 1 (3.13%) OpenStack
4 1 (3.13%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 27 (84.38%) AWS
2 17 (53.13%) Azure
3 13 (40.63%) Amazon EKS
4 11 (34.38%) AWS CloudFormation
5 10 (31.25%) GCP
6 9 (28.13%) Serverless
7 8 (25.00%) OpenShift
8 6 (18.75%) Amazon EC2
8 6 (18.75%) GitHub
9 5 (15.63%) Azure AKS
10 4 (12.50%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (12.50%) Amazon S3
10 4 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (9.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 3 (9.38%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (9.38%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 3 (9.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 2 (6.25%) AWS CodeBuild
12 2 (6.25%) Entra ID
12 2 (6.25%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 4 (12.50%) AMQP
1 4 (12.50%) Firewall
2 1 (3.13%) Network Security
2 1 (3.13%) SNMP
2 1 (3.13%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (21.88%) MySQL
1 7 (21.88%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (15.63%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (15.63%) MongoDB
3 4 (12.50%) Big Data
3 4 (12.50%) Cloudera CDH
3 4 (12.50%) Hadoop
4 3 (9.38%) DynamoDB
4 3 (9.38%) NoSQL
4 3 (9.38%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (31.25%) Git
2 7 (21.88%) GitLab
2 7 (21.88%) Jenkins
3 4 (12.50%) Bitbucket
4 2 (6.25%) CircleCI
4 2 (6.25%) JIRA
5 1 (3.13%) Ant
5 1 (3.13%) Artifactory
5 1 (3.13%) Maven
5 1 (3.13%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 5 (15.63%) Social Skills
2 4 (12.50%) Aerospace
3 1 (3.13%) Finance
3 1 (3.13%) German Language
3 1 (3.13%) Law
3 1 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (3.13%) Public Sector
3 1 (3.13%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 8 (25.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 6 (18.75%) Developer
2 6 (18.75%) Platform Engineer
3 5 (15.63%) DevOps Engineer
3 5 (15.63%) Senior
4 4 (12.50%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
4 4 (12.50%) Full-Stack Developer
4 4 (12.50%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 4 (12.50%) Java Developer
4 4 (12.50%) Software Engineer
5 3 (9.38%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 3 (9.38%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) AWS Architect
6 2 (6.25%) Azure Platform Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Backend Developer
6 2 (6.25%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) DevOps Platform Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Integration Developer
6 2 (6.25%) Senior DevOps
6 2 (6.25%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (31.25%) Node.js
2 8 (25.00%) AngularJS
2 8 (25.00%) REST
2 8 (25.00%) Spring
2 8 (25.00%) Spring Boot
3 6 (18.75%) RabbitMQ
4 4 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
4 4 (12.50%) gRPC
4 4 (12.50%) Material-UI
4 4 (12.50%) OpenAPI
4 4 (12.50%) React
4 4 (12.50%) Swagger
5 3 (9.38%) RESTful
6 2 (6.25%) .NET
6 2 (6.25%) ASP.NET Web API
6 2 (6.25%) WCF
7 1 (3.13%) Apache Camel
7 1 (3.13%) Kafka
7 1 (3.13%) Middleware
7 1 (3.13%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (9.38%) Public Cloud
3 2 (6.25%) Mobile App
3 2 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (3.13%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 20 (62.50%) Linux
2 8 (25.00%) Debian
2 8 (25.00%) Ubuntu
3 7 (21.88%) Windows
4 6 (18.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (15.63%) CentOS
6 3 (9.38%) VMS
7 2 (6.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (68.75%) CI/CD
2 20 (62.50%) DevOps
3 19 (59.38%) Containerisation
3 19 (59.38%) Infrastructure as Code
4 15 (46.88%) Microservices
5 12 (37.50%) Agile
6 11 (34.38%) Platform Engineering
7 8 (25.00%) Configuration Management
8 7 (21.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 6 (18.75%) Deployment Automation
9 6 (18.75%) Kanban
9 6 (18.75%) Scrum
9 6 (18.75%) Software Engineering
10 5 (15.63%) Infrastructure Automation
10 5 (15.63%) Problem-Solving
10 5 (15.63%) Test Automation
11 4 (12.50%) Collaborative Working
11 4 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
11 4 (12.50%) GitOps
11 4 (12.50%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 13 (40.63%) Python
2 11 (34.38%) Java
3 10 (31.25%) JavaScript
4 4 (12.50%) Bash
5 3 (9.38%) Go
5 3 (9.38%) SQL
6 2 (6.25%) PHP
7 1 (3.13%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 9 (28.13%) Security Cleared
2 7 (21.88%) SC Cleared
3 6 (18.75%) DV Cleared
4 1 (3.13%) AWS Certification
4 1 (3.13%) LPIC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.25%) GDPR
1 2 (6.25%) QA
System Software
1 12 (37.50%) Docker
2 4 (12.50%) VMware NSX
2 4 (12.50%) vSphere
3 2 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (3.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 25 (78.13%) Terraform
2 22 (68.75%) Kubernetes
3 7 (21.88%) Puppet
4 4 (12.50%) Grafana
5 3 (9.38%) Prometheus
5 3 (9.38%) Rancher
6 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (6.25%) Progress Chef
7 1 (3.13%) Nagios
7 1 (3.13%) Podman
Vendors
1 5 (15.63%) Red Hat
1 5 (15.63%) VMware
2 4 (12.50%) Google
2 4 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 4 (12.50%) SaltStack
3 2 (6.25%) Splunk
4 1 (3.13%) Pega
4 1 (3.13%) WSO2