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 24 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 75 115 68
Rank change year-on-year +40 -47 +79
Permanent jobs citing Ansible 74 57 98
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 3.22% 1.52% 3.85%
As % of the Systems Management category 28.14% 16.01% 20.08%
Number of salaries quoted 18 33 75
10th Percentile £56,000 £43,500 £46,158
25th Percentile £57,500 £51,250 £56,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,750 £60,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -14.29% +3.70%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £77,500 £93,500
North West median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% -11.11% -

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 263 356 488
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 11.44% 9.52% 19.18%
Number of salaries quoted 147 159 420
10th Percentile £28,000 £36,150 £37,425
25th Percentile £37,500 £44,132 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,351
Median % change year-on-year - -8.19% +8.92%
75th Percentile £69,875 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £85,250 £85,000 £86,250
North West median annual salary £53,500 £52,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +1.90% -19.23% +9.20%

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 24 October 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 24 October 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 - 3 - -
Cheadle - 3 - - 2
Oldham - 3 - -
Sale - 3 - -
Bolton +10 2 - - 3
Stockport +4 2 - -
Wigan - 2 - -
Stalybridge - 2 - -
Altrincham - 2 - -
Ashton-under-Lyne - 2 - -
Dukinfield - 2 - -
Heywood - 2 - -
Rochdale 0 1 - -
Littleborough - 1 - -
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 2 (2.70%) Apache
1 2 (2.70%) Apache Solr
2 1 (1.35%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.35%) JBoss
2 1 (1.35%) OpenStack
2 1 (1.35%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 24 (32.43%) AWS
2 16 (21.62%) Azure
3 9 (12.16%) Amazon EC2
3 9 (12.16%) AWS CloudFormation
4 8 (10.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 7 (9.46%) AWS CodeBuild
5 7 (9.46%) Route 53
5 7 (9.46%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 5 (6.76%) Serverless
7 4 (5.41%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (5.41%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (4.05%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (4.05%) GCP
9 2 (2.70%) Amazon S3
9 2 (2.70%) GitHub
9 2 (2.70%) OpenShift
10 1 (1.35%) Amazon Kinesis
10 1 (1.35%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 1 (1.35%) AWS CloudTrail
10 1 (1.35%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 43 (58.11%) Cisco IOS
1 43 (58.11%) VPN
2 4 (5.41%) DNS
2 4 (5.41%) SD-WAN
2 4 (5.41%) WAN
3 1 (1.35%) AMQP
3 1 (1.35%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.41%) MySQL
2 3 (4.05%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (4.05%) Relational Database
3 2 (2.70%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (2.70%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.35%) Big Data
4 1 (1.35%) Cloudera CDH
4 1 (1.35%) Hadoop
4 1 (1.35%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (16.22%) Jenkins
2 8 (10.81%) GitLab
3 7 (9.46%) CircleCI
4 6 (8.11%) Git
5 1 (1.35%) Ant
5 1 (1.35%) Artifactory
5 1 (1.35%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (1.35%) JIRA
5 1 (1.35%) Maven
5 1 (1.35%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 43 (58.11%) Analytical Skills
1 43 (58.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 6 (8.11%) Social Skills
3 1 (1.35%) Aerospace
3 1 (1.35%) Finance
3 1 (1.35%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 45 (60.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (9.46%) DevOps Engineer
2 7 (9.46%) Senior
3 5 (6.76%) Azure Engineer
3 5 (6.76%) Cloud Engineer
3 5 (6.76%) Developer
3 5 (6.76%) Senior Cloud Engineer
4 4 (5.41%) Network Engineer
4 4 (5.41%) Platform Engineer
5 3 (4.05%) Architect
5 3 (4.05%) Full-Stack Developer
5 3 (4.05%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 3 (4.05%) Java Developer
6 2 (2.70%) AWS Architect
6 2 (2.70%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (2.70%) Backend Developer
6 2 (2.70%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (2.70%) Integration Developer
6 2 (2.70%) Senior DevOps
6 2 (2.70%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (70.27%) Elastic Stack
2 6 (8.11%) Node.js
3 5 (6.76%) REST
4 4 (5.41%) AngularJS
4 4 (5.41%) ARM Templates
4 4 (5.41%) Spring
4 4 (5.41%) Spring Boot
5 3 (4.05%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (2.70%) .NET
6 2 (2.70%) ASP.NET Web API
6 2 (2.70%) Kafka
6 2 (2.70%) WCF
7 1 (1.35%) Apache Camel
7 1 (1.35%) GraphQL
7 1 (1.35%) Material-UI
7 1 (1.35%) Middleware
7 1 (1.35%) OpenAPI
7 1 (1.35%) React
7 1 (1.35%) SOAP
7 1 (1.35%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 43 (58.11%) Cyberattack
2 6 (8.11%) Cloud Native
3 4 (5.41%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.35%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.35%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.35%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 57 (77.03%) Linux
2 49 (66.22%) Windows
3 43 (58.11%) Android
4 8 (10.81%) Debian
4 8 (10.81%) Ubuntu
5 2 (2.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (2.70%) VMS
5 2 (2.70%) Windows Server
6 1 (1.35%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (87.84%) DevOps
2 51 (68.92%) Platform Engineering
3 49 (66.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 46 (62.16%) Problem-Solving
5 45 (60.81%) Risk Management
6 44 (59.46%) Storage Management
7 43 (58.11%) Line Management
7 43 (58.11%) Mathematics
7 43 (58.11%) Task Automation
8 19 (25.68%) CI/CD
9 18 (24.32%) Infrastructure as Code
10 15 (20.27%) Containerisation
11 13 (17.57%) Configuration Management
12 9 (12.16%) Microservices
13 7 (9.46%) Auto-Scaling
13 7 (9.46%) Continuous Integration
14 6 (8.11%) Agile
14 6 (8.11%) Infrastructure Automation
15 4 (5.41%) Network Architecture
15 4 (5.41%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 59 (79.73%) Python
2 52 (70.27%) Bash
3 43 (58.11%) PowerShell
4 6 (8.11%) JavaScript
5 4 (5.41%) Java
6 2 (2.70%) PHP
7 1 (1.35%) Groovy
7 1 (1.35%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (5.41%) Azure Certification
1 4 (5.41%) Security Cleared
2 3 (4.05%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.70%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.35%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.70%) GDPR
1 2 (2.70%) QA
System Software
1 58 (78.38%) Docker
2 45 (60.81%) VMware NSX
2 45 (60.81%) vSphere
3 43 (58.11%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 65 (87.84%) Terraform
2 18 (24.32%) Kubernetes
3 8 (10.81%) Grafana
4 7 (9.46%) Prometheus
5 4 (5.41%) Puppet
6 2 (2.70%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.35%) Podman
Vendors
1 50 (67.57%) Splunk
2 43 (58.11%) 3PAR
2 43 (58.11%) Cisco
2 43 (58.11%) Juniper
3 6 (8.11%) Microsoft
4 4 (5.41%) Zscaler
5 2 (2.70%) VMware
6 1 (1.35%) Google
6 1 (1.35%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.35%) Oracle
6 1 (1.35%) Pega
6 1 (1.35%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.35%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.35%) SaltStack
6 1 (1.35%) SAP
6 1 (1.35%) WSO2