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 3 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 100 119 86
Rank change year-on-year +19 -33 +45
Permanent jobs citing Ansible 28 54 68
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 1.21% 1.63% 3.04%
As % of the Systems Management category 15.14% 16.07% 17.00%
Number of salaries quoted 19 33 55
10th Percentile £54,500 £44,000 £44,263
25th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £51,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £69,447
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -13.60% -4.21%
75th Percentile £83,125 £77,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £87,500 - £102,774
North West median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% - -14.29%

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 185 336 400
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 8.02% 10.11% 17.88%
Number of salaries quoted 144 149 358
10th Percentile £33,125 £35,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £44,000 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £73,829 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £86,601
North West median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,250
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.86% +1.22%

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 3 December 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 3 December 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
Stockport +8 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 3 (10.71%) Apache
2 2 (7.14%) Apache Solr
2 2 (7.14%) Apache Spark
3 1 (3.57%) JBoss
3 1 (3.57%) OpenStack
3 1 (3.57%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 26 (92.86%) AWS
2 14 (50.00%) Azure
3 10 (35.71%) AWS CloudFormation
4 8 (28.57%) Amazon EC2
5 7 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
5 7 (25.00%) Serverless
6 6 (21.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 6 (21.43%) GCP
7 5 (17.86%) AWS CodeBuild
7 5 (17.86%) Route 53
7 5 (17.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 4 (14.29%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (14.29%) OpenShift
9 3 (10.71%) Amazon S3
9 3 (10.71%) GitHub
10 2 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
11 1 (3.57%) AWS CloudTrail
11 1 (3.57%) AWS CodePipeline
11 1 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
11 1 (3.57%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.14%) AMQP
1 2 (7.14%) DNS
1 2 (7.14%) SD-WAN
1 2 (7.14%) WAN
2 1 (3.57%) Firewall
2 1 (3.57%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (17.86%) MySQL
1 5 (17.86%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (10.71%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (10.71%) MongoDB
2 3 (10.71%) Relational Database
3 2 (7.14%) Big Data
3 2 (7.14%) Cloudera CDH
3 2 (7.14%) Hadoop
3 2 (7.14%) NoSQL
4 1 (3.57%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 11 (39.29%) Jenkins
2 8 (28.57%) Git
3 7 (25.00%) GitLab
4 5 (17.86%) CircleCI
5 2 (7.14%) JIRA
6 1 (3.57%) Ant
6 1 (3.57%) Artifactory
6 1 (3.57%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (3.57%) Bitbucket
6 1 (3.57%) Maven
6 1 (3.57%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 4 (14.29%) Social Skills
2 2 (7.14%) Aerospace
3 1 (3.57%) Finance
3 1 (3.57%) Law
3 1 (3.57%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (21.43%) Developer
2 5 (17.86%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (17.86%) Platform Engineer
3 4 (14.29%) Full-Stack Developer
3 4 (14.29%) Full-Stack Java Developer
3 4 (14.29%) Java Developer
3 4 (14.29%) Senior
4 2 (7.14%) Architect
4 2 (7.14%) AWS Architect
4 2 (7.14%) Backend Developer
4 2 (7.14%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Integration Developer
4 2 (7.14%) IT Manager
4 2 (7.14%) Network Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Senior DevOps
4 2 (7.14%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Software Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Linux DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (28.57%) Node.js
2 7 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
3 6 (21.43%) AngularJS
3 6 (21.43%) REST
3 6 (21.43%) Spring
3 6 (21.43%) Spring Boot
4 4 (14.29%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (7.14%) .NET
5 2 (7.14%) ASP.NET Web API
5 2 (7.14%) gRPC
5 2 (7.14%) Material-UI
5 2 (7.14%) OpenAPI
5 2 (7.14%) React
5 2 (7.14%) Swagger
5 2 (7.14%) WCF
6 1 (3.57%) Apache Camel
6 1 (3.57%) ARM Templates
6 1 (3.57%) Kafka
6 1 (3.57%) Middleware
6 1 (3.57%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (3.57%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.57%) Private Cloud
2 1 (3.57%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 16 (57.14%) Linux
2 7 (25.00%) Debian
2 7 (25.00%) Ubuntu
2 7 (25.00%) Windows
3 4 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (10.71%) CentOS
4 3 (10.71%) VMS
5 2 (7.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 19 (67.86%) DevOps
3 16 (57.14%) Containerisation
3 16 (57.14%) Infrastructure as Code
4 12 (42.86%) Microservices
5 10 (35.71%) Platform Engineering
6 9 (32.14%) Agile
6 9 (32.14%) Configuration Management
7 5 (17.86%) Auto-Scaling
7 5 (17.86%) Continuous Integration
7 5 (17.86%) Scrum
8 4 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
8 4 (14.29%) Infrastructure Automation
8 4 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 4 (14.29%) Kanban
8 4 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (14.29%) Software Engineering
9 3 (10.71%) Deployment Automation
9 3 (10.71%) GitOps
9 3 (10.71%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 14 (50.00%) Python
2 8 (28.57%) JavaScript
3 7 (25.00%) Bash
3 7 (25.00%) Java
4 2 (7.14%) PHP
4 2 (7.14%) SQL
5 1 (3.57%) Go
5 1 (3.57%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 6 (21.43%) Security Cleared
2 5 (17.86%) SC Cleared
3 3 (10.71%) DV Cleared
4 1 (3.57%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.14%) GDPR
1 2 (7.14%) QA
System Software
1 15 (53.57%) Docker
2 3 (10.71%) VMware NSX
2 3 (10.71%) vSphere
3 1 (3.57%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 20 (71.43%) Terraform
2 18 (64.29%) Kubernetes
3 7 (25.00%) Grafana
4 6 (21.43%) Prometheus
5 5 (17.86%) Puppet
6 2 (7.14%) Progress Chef
7 1 (3.57%) Nagios
7 1 (3.57%) Podman
7 1 (3.57%) Rancher
Vendors
1 5 (17.86%) Splunk
2 4 (14.29%) VMware
3 3 (10.71%) Red Hat
4 2 (7.14%) Google
4 2 (7.14%) Microsoft
4 2 (7.14%) SaltStack
4 2 (7.14%) Zscaler
5 1 (3.57%) Pega
5 1 (3.57%) WSO2