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 9 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 113 63 133
Rank change year-on-year -50 +70 -67
Permanent jobs citing Ansible 81 104 51
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 1.11% 4.33% 1.25%
As % of the Systems Management category 27.00% 35.74% 15.41%
Number of salaries quoted 56 19 23
10th Percentile £42,500 £53,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £53,250 £57,500 £49,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% - -14.29%
75th Percentile £81,250 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £88,750 £78,500
North West median annual salary £65,576 £60,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.39% +10.00% -21.43%

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 300 291 331
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 4.12% 12.11% 8.13%
Number of salaries quoted 225 142 141
10th Percentile £32,750 £27,100 £35,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £33,125 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +14.29% -24.70%
75th Percentile £80,000 £71,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £92,500 £88,625 £82,500
North West median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% +10.00% -23.49%

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 9 September 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 9 September 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 +2 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 5 (6.17%) OpenStack
2 2 (2.47%) Apache
2 2 (2.47%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 43 (53.09%) AWS
2 22 (27.16%) Azure
3 14 (17.28%) AWS CloudFormation
4 13 (16.05%) OpenShift
5 11 (13.58%) GitHub
5 11 (13.58%) Serverless
6 10 (12.35%) Amazon EKS
7 7 (8.64%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (3.70%) GCP
8 3 (3.70%) PaaS
9 2 (2.47%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (2.47%) Azure Monitor
10 1 (1.23%) Amazon EC2
10 1 (1.23%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 1 (1.23%) Amazon S3
10 1 (1.23%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (1.23%) Azure Sentinel
10 1 (1.23%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (1.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.94%) BGP
1 4 (4.94%) IPsec
1 4 (4.94%) SD-WAN
1 4 (4.94%) WAN
2 3 (3.70%) DHCP
2 3 (3.70%) DNS
2 3 (3.70%) Software-Defined Networking
3 2 (2.47%) AMQP
3 2 (2.47%) DMZ
3 2 (2.47%) HSRP
3 2 (2.47%) LAN
3 2 (2.47%) MPLS
3 2 (2.47%) OSPF
3 2 (2.47%) VPN
3 2 (2.47%) VRRP
3 2 (2.47%) Wireless
3 2 (2.47%) Wireshark
3 2 (2.47%) WLAN
4 1 (1.23%) Firewall
4 1 (1.23%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (7.41%) Relational Database
2 5 (6.17%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (2.47%) Big Data
3 2 (2.47%) Cloudera CDH
3 2 (2.47%) Hadoop
4 1 (1.23%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.23%) MySQL
4 1 (1.23%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 16 (19.75%) Git
2 10 (12.35%) GitLab
3 9 (11.11%) Jenkins
4 4 (4.94%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 3 (3.70%) JIRA
6 1 (1.23%) Cypress.io
6 1 (1.23%) Mocha
General
1 16 (19.75%) Social Skills
2 8 (9.88%) Public Sector
3 5 (6.17%) Aerospace
3 5 (6.17%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (4.94%) Finance
5 2 (2.47%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.23%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.23%) Retail
Job Titles
1 38 (46.91%) DevOps Engineer
2 20 (24.69%) Cloud Engineer
3 17 (20.99%) Senior
4 11 (13.58%) Lead
5 10 (12.35%) Principal DevOps Engineer
5 10 (12.35%) Principal Engineer
5 10 (12.35%) Software Engineer
6 7 (8.64%) Lead DevOps
6 7 (8.64%) Senior Software Engineer
7 6 (7.41%) Lead DevOps Engineer
7 6 (7.41%) Python Engineer
7 6 (7.41%) Python Software Engineer
7 6 (7.41%) Senior DevOps
7 6 (7.41%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 5 (6.17%) Cloud Native Engineer
8 5 (6.17%) Developer
9 4 (4.94%) Full-Stack Developer
10 3 (3.70%) Administrator
10 3 (3.70%) Senior Cloud Engineer
10 3 (3.70%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (82.72%) Terraform
2 25 (30.86%) Spring
2 25 (30.86%) Spring Boot
3 10 (12.35%) React
4 7 (8.64%) Next.js
4 7 (8.64%) REST
5 6 (7.41%) AngularJS
5 6 (7.41%) FastAPI
5 6 (7.41%) Node.js
5 6 (7.41%) React Native
5 6 (7.41%) Ruby on Rails
6 4 (4.94%) YAML
7 3 (3.70%) AWS CDK
7 3 (3.70%) OpenAPI
7 3 (3.70%) Swagger
8 2 (2.47%) Apache Camel
8 2 (2.47%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (2.47%) gRPC
8 2 (2.47%) Material-UI
8 2 (2.47%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 15 (18.52%) Cloud Native
2 5 (6.17%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (4.94%) Data Centre
3 4 (4.94%) Enterprise Cloud
3 4 (4.94%) Replication
4 3 (3.70%) Social Media
5 2 (2.47%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.47%) Driving Licence
5 2 (2.47%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 25 (30.86%) Linux
2 9 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (8.64%) CentOS
4 5 (6.17%) Windows
5 4 (4.94%) Unix
6 3 (3.70%) Solaris
6 3 (3.70%) Ubuntu
6 3 (3.70%) Windows Server
7 2 (2.47%) Debian
7 2 (2.47%) VMS
8 1 (1.23%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (1.23%) SUSE
8 1 (1.23%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (71.60%) DevOps
2 53 (65.43%) Infrastructure as Code
3 48 (59.26%) CI/CD
4 31 (38.27%) Agile
4 31 (38.27%) Containerisation
5 29 (35.80%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 22 (27.16%) Platform Engineering
7 18 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
8 14 (17.28%) Collaborative Culture
8 14 (17.28%) Stakeholder Management
9 11 (13.58%) Microservices
10 10 (12.35%) Project Delivery
10 10 (12.35%) Software Engineering
11 8 (9.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 8 (9.88%) ITIL
11 8 (9.88%) Problem-Solving
12 7 (8.64%) AI
12 7 (8.64%) Configuration Management
12 7 (8.64%) Technical Leadership
13 6 (7.41%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 48 (59.26%) Python
2 30 (37.04%) Java
3 16 (19.75%) Bash
4 7 (8.64%) JavaScript
5 6 (7.41%) Go
5 6 (7.41%) PowerShell
5 6 (7.41%) Ruby
6 1 (1.23%) Bicep
6 1 (1.23%) Rust
6 1 (1.23%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.23%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 52 (64.20%) Security Cleared
2 38 (46.91%) DV Cleared
3 27 (33.33%) SC Cleared
4 6 (7.41%) AWS Certification
5 4 (4.94%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (3.70%) Azure Certification
7 2 (2.47%) CCIE
7 2 (2.47%) CCNA
7 2 (2.47%) CCNP
7 2 (2.47%) Degree
8 1 (1.23%) HP ASE
8 1 (1.23%) Linux+ Certification
8 1 (1.23%) RHCE
8 1 (1.23%) RHCSA
8 1 (1.23%) VCAP
8 1 (1.23%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.47%) SLA
System Software
1 44 (54.32%) Docker
2 7 (8.64%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (4.94%) vSphere
4 3 (3.70%) Ceph
4 3 (3.70%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (3.70%) VMware NSX
5 1 (1.23%) EMC RecoverPoint
5 1 (1.23%) Firmware
5 1 (1.23%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.23%) KVM
5 1 (1.23%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 57 (70.37%) Kubernetes
2 7 (8.64%) Puppet
3 6 (7.41%) Podman
4 4 (4.94%) Prometheus
5 3 (3.70%) Argo
5 3 (3.70%) Check_MK
5 3 (3.70%) Istio
5 3 (3.70%) Progress Chef
6 2 (2.47%) SCCM
6 2 (2.47%) SolarWinds Orion
6 2 (2.47%) WSUS
7 1 (1.23%) Grafana
7 1 (1.23%) vCenter Server
7 1 (1.23%) VxRail
Vendors
1 9 (11.11%) Red Hat
1 9 (11.11%) VMware
2 8 (9.88%) Splunk
3 7 (8.64%) Microsoft
4 5 (6.17%) LogicMonitor
5 4 (4.94%) Dell
6 3 (3.70%) Veeam
7 2 (2.47%) Cisco
7 2 (2.47%) F5
7 2 (2.47%) Google
7 2 (2.47%) Mirantis
7 2 (2.47%) Oracle
7 2 (2.47%) Pega
7 2 (2.47%) SaltStack
7 2 (2.47%) ServiceNow
7 2 (2.47%) WSO2
7 2 (2.47%) Zscaler
8 1 (1.23%) Broadcom
8 1 (1.23%) Thales
8 1 (1.23%) Zerto