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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 61 131 67
Rank change year-on-year +70 -64 +80
Permanent jobs citing Ansible 102 55 124
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 4.30% 1.36% 4.41%
As % of the Systems Management category 32.28% 13.35% 22.38%
Number of salaries quoted 18 24 89
10th Percentile £54,250 £42,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £49,750 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,250 £60,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.08% -14.29% +7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £88,750 £76,750 £87,435
North West median annual salary £62,500 £57,500 £69,447
% change year-on-year +8.70% -17.20% +6.84%

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 316 412 554
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 13.33% 10.16% 19.69%
Number of salaries quoted 168 183 459
10th Percentile £28,000 £36,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £37,188 £45,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year - -11.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £84,000 £86,484
North West median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -19.23% +8.33%

Ansible
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings citing Ansible as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for Ansible 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 17 September 2025.

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 17 September 2025. 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
Bury - 7 £60,000 -
Wigan - 6 - -
Bolton +11 5 - - 2
Rochdale +11 4 - -
Sale - 4 - -
Oldham - 4 - -
Cheadle - 3 - -
Dukinfield - 3 - -
Heywood - 3 - -
Stockport +13 2 - - 1
Stalybridge - 2 - -
Littleborough - 2 - -
Altrincham - 2 - -
Ashton-under-Lyne - 2 - -
Ansible
North West

Ansible
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (0.98%) Apache
1 1 (0.98%) Apache Solr
1 1 (0.98%) JBoss
1 1 (0.98%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 21 (20.59%) AWS
1 21 (20.59%) Azure
2 9 (8.82%) AWS CloudFormation
3 8 (7.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 8 (7.84%) Amazon EC2
3 8 (7.84%) AWS CodeBuild
3 8 (7.84%) Route 53
3 8 (7.84%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 7 (6.86%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (3.92%) GCP
6 1 (0.98%) Datadog
6 1 (0.98%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 70 (68.63%) VPN
2 43 (42.16%) Cisco IOS
3 32 (31.37%) DNS
4 6 (5.88%) SD-WAN
4 6 (5.88%) WAN
5 1 (0.98%) Firewall
5 1 (0.98%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.98%) Big Data
1 1 (0.98%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (0.98%) MySQL
1 1 (0.98%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 14 (13.73%) Jenkins
2 10 (9.80%) GitLab
3 8 (7.84%) CircleCI
4 2 (1.96%) Git
5 1 (0.98%) Ant
5 1 (0.98%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.98%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (0.98%) Jaeger
5 1 (0.98%) JIRA
5 1 (0.98%) Maven
5 1 (0.98%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 69 (67.65%) Analytical Skills
1 69 (67.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 27 (26.47%) Finance
3 8 (7.84%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 48 (47.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 27 (26.47%) Developer
3 26 (25.49%) Software Developer
4 10 (9.80%) DevOps Engineer
5 8 (7.84%) Azure Engineer
6 7 (6.86%) Cloud Engineer
6 7 (6.86%) Senior
6 7 (6.86%) Senior Cloud Engineer
7 6 (5.88%) Network Engineer
8 5 (4.90%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (4.90%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (4.90%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 4 (3.92%) Platform Engineer
10 3 (2.94%) Lead
11 2 (1.96%) IT Manager
11 2 (1.96%) Lead DevOps
11 2 (1.96%) Lead DevOps Engineer
12 1 (0.98%) Architect
12 1 (0.98%) Junior
12 1 (0.98%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (51.96%) Elastic Stack
2 7 (6.86%) ARM Templates
3 2 (1.96%) Kafka
4 1 (0.98%) GraphQL
4 1 (0.98%) Loki
4 1 (0.98%) Middleware
4 1 (0.98%) Node.js
4 1 (0.98%) REST
4 1 (0.98%) SOAP
4 1 (0.98%) Spring
4 1 (0.98%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 69 (67.65%) Cyberattack
2 9 (8.82%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (0.98%) Cloud Native
3 1 (0.98%) Data Centre
3 1 (0.98%) Management Information System
3 1 (0.98%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 83 (81.37%) Linux
2 69 (67.65%) Android
3 48 (47.06%) Windows
4 9 (8.82%) Debian
4 9 (8.82%) Ubuntu
5 2 (1.96%) CentOS
5 2 (1.96%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (67.65%) Line Management
1 69 (67.65%) Mathematics
2 68 (66.67%) DevOps
3 50 (49.02%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 49 (48.04%) Platform Engineering
5 45 (44.12%) Problem-Solving
5 45 (44.12%) Risk Management
6 44 (43.14%) Storage Management
7 43 (42.16%) Task Automation
8 27 (26.47%) Agile
8 27 (26.47%) OO
9 26 (25.49%) Android Development
9 26 (25.49%) Design Patterns
9 26 (25.49%) OOP
10 19 (18.63%) Infrastructure as Code
11 17 (16.67%) CI/CD
12 16 (15.69%) Configuration Management
12 16 (15.69%) Containerisation
13 9 (8.82%) Infrastructure Automation
14 8 (7.84%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 91 (89.22%) Python
2 57 (55.88%) Bash
3 44 (43.14%) PowerShell
4 27 (26.47%) Go
4 27 (26.47%) Java
5 26 (25.49%) C++
6 1 (0.98%) Groovy
6 1 (0.98%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.98%) PHP
6 1 (0.98%) Rust
6 1 (0.98%) SQL
Qualifications
1 28 (27.45%) DV Cleared
1 28 (27.45%) Security Cleared
2 7 (6.86%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.94%) QA
2 2 (1.96%) GDPR
System Software
1 85 (83.33%) Docker
2 43 (42.16%) Hyper-V
2 43 (42.16%) VMware NSX
2 43 (42.16%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 68 (66.67%) Terraform
2 19 (18.63%) Kubernetes
3 10 (9.80%) Grafana
3 10 (9.80%) Prometheus
4 4 (3.92%) Puppet
5 2 (1.96%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.98%) Podman
6 1 (0.98%) Proxmox
6 1 (0.98%) Salt
Vendors
1 51 (50.00%) Splunk
2 43 (42.16%) 3PAR
2 43 (42.16%) Cisco
2 43 (42.16%) Juniper
3 8 (7.84%) Microsoft
4 6 (5.88%) Zscaler
5 1 (0.98%) MuleSoft
5 1 (0.98%) New Relic
5 1 (0.98%) Oracle
5 1 (0.98%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.98%) SAP