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

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 132 86 152
Rank change year-on-year -46 +66 -29
Permanent jobs citing Ansible 34 57 61
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.68% 2.77% 1.26%
As % of the Systems Management category 13.13% 20.00% 13.71%
Number of salaries quoted 20 23 33
10th Percentile £46,325 £48,000 £46,500
25th Percentile £52,188 £53,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £75,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +25.00% -11.11%
75th Percentile £74,688 £83,125 £75,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £89,750 £82,500
North West median annual salary £65,000 £72,500 £62,783
% change year-on-year -10.34% +15.48% -6.99%

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 259 285 445
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 5.16% 13.87% 9.22%
Number of salaries quoted 186 210 355
10th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £31,550
25th Percentile £46,375 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £71,991 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.71% +19.99% -
75th Percentile £78,467 £82,751 £73,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,528 £82,500
North West median annual salary £57,500 £67,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -14.81% +17.39% -

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 21 April 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 21 April 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 (11.76%) Apache
1 4 (11.76%) Apache Spark
2 2 (5.88%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (5.88%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 25 (73.53%) AWS
2 19 (55.88%) Azure
3 16 (47.06%) Amazon EKS
4 12 (35.29%) AWS CloudFormation
5 8 (23.53%) GCP
6 7 (20.59%) OpenShift
6 7 (20.59%) Serverless
7 6 (17.65%) GitHub
8 5 (14.71%) Azure AKS
9 4 (11.76%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (11.76%) Amazon S3
9 4 (11.76%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (8.82%) Amazon ECS
10 3 (8.82%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (8.82%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 2 (5.88%) Entra ID
11 2 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
11 2 (5.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 1 (2.94%) AWS CodePipeline
12 1 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (11.76%) AMQP
1 4 (11.76%) Firewall
2 1 (2.94%) SNMP
2 1 (2.94%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (17.65%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (11.76%) Big Data
2 4 (11.76%) Cloudera CDH
2 4 (11.76%) Hadoop
2 4 (11.76%) MongoDB
2 4 (11.76%) MySQL
3 3 (8.82%) DynamoDB
3 3 (8.82%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (8.82%) NoSQL
4 2 (5.88%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (26.47%) GitLab
2 7 (20.59%) Git
3 4 (11.76%) Bitbucket
4 3 (8.82%) Jenkins
5 2 (5.88%) JIRA
General
1 7 (20.59%) Social Skills
2 5 (14.71%) Aerospace
3 2 (5.88%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.94%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.94%) German Language
4 1 (2.94%) Law
4 1 (2.94%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (2.94%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 13 (38.24%) Cloud Engineer
2 10 (29.41%) DevOps Engineer
3 5 (14.71%) Senior
4 4 (11.76%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
4 4 (11.76%) Lead
4 4 (11.76%) Platform Engineer
4 4 (11.76%) Software Engineer
5 3 (8.82%) Developer
5 3 (8.82%) Full-Stack Developer
5 3 (8.82%) Linux Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Azure Platform Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) DevOps Platform Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 2 (5.88%) Java Developer
6 2 (5.88%) Senior DevOps
6 2 (5.88%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (23.53%) Spring
1 8 (23.53%) Spring Boot
2 7 (20.59%) AngularJS
2 7 (20.59%) Node.js
2 7 (20.59%) REST
3 5 (14.71%) RabbitMQ
4 4 (11.76%) gRPC
4 4 (11.76%) Material-UI
4 4 (11.76%) OpenAPI
4 4 (11.76%) React
4 4 (11.76%) Swagger
4 4 (11.76%) YAML
5 3 (8.82%) RESTful
6 2 (5.88%) Apache Camel
6 2 (5.88%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (5.88%) Web Services
7 1 (2.94%) .NET
7 1 (2.94%) ARM Templates
7 1 (2.94%) ASP.NET Web API
7 1 (2.94%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 5 (14.71%) Cloud Native
2 4 (11.76%) Enterprise Cloud
2 4 (11.76%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (8.82%) Public Cloud
4 2 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (5.88%) Mobile App
4 2 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 18 (52.94%) Linux
2 7 (20.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (17.65%) Debian
3 6 (17.65%) Ubuntu
4 5 (14.71%) CentOS
5 4 (11.76%) Windows
6 2 (5.88%) Solaris
6 2 (5.88%) Unix
6 2 (5.88%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (70.59%) DevOps
1 24 (70.59%) Infrastructure as Code
2 22 (64.71%) CI/CD
3 20 (58.82%) Agile
4 15 (44.12%) Containerisation
5 14 (41.18%) Platform Engineering
6 11 (32.35%) Microservices
7 9 (26.47%) Collaborative Culture
8 8 (23.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 7 (20.59%) Deployment Automation
9 7 (20.59%) Kanban
9 7 (20.59%) Scrum
10 6 (17.65%) Continuous Improvement
11 5 (14.71%) Collaborative Working
11 5 (14.71%) Configuration Management
11 5 (14.71%) Problem-Solving
12 4 (11.76%) Infrastructure Automation
12 4 (11.76%) ITIL
12 4 (11.76%) Scaled Agile Framework
12 4 (11.76%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 14 (41.18%) Python
2 11 (32.35%) Java
3 7 (20.59%) JavaScript
4 6 (17.65%) Bash
5 3 (8.82%) Go
5 3 (8.82%) PowerShell
5 3 (8.82%) SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (47.06%) Security Cleared
2 12 (35.29%) SC Cleared
3 8 (23.53%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.94%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.94%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.94%) LPIC
System Software
1 11 (32.35%) Docker
2 4 (11.76%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (11.76%) VMware NSX
2 4 (11.76%) vSphere
3 1 (2.94%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 30 (88.24%) Terraform
2 24 (70.59%) Kubernetes
3 4 (11.76%) Puppet
4 3 (8.82%) Rancher
5 2 (5.88%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (5.88%) Podman
6 1 (2.94%) Grafana
6 1 (2.94%) Nagios
6 1 (2.94%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (20.59%) Red Hat
1 7 (20.59%) VMware
2 5 (14.71%) Microsoft
3 4 (11.76%) Google
3 4 (11.76%) SaltStack
4 3 (8.82%) LogicMonitor
5 2 (5.88%) Mirantis
5 2 (5.88%) Pega
5 2 (5.88%) WSO2