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 1 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 116 64 125
Rank change year-on-year -52 +61 -63
Permanent jobs citing Ansible 87 98 56
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 1.14% 4.12% 1.41%
As % of the Systems Management category 25.97% 35.64% 16.72%
Number of salaries quoted 55 14 27
10th Percentile £42,500 - £42,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £57,500 £50,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% +4.17% -14.29%
75th Percentile £92,500 £82,813 £70,625
90th Percentile £98,500 £88,375 £76,000
North West median annual salary £67,500 £62,500 £59,000
% change year-on-year +8.00% +5.93% -12.59%

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 335 275 335
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 4.39% 11.56% 8.41%
Number of salaries quoted 229 127 144
10th Percentile £32,250 £27,000 £35,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £33,125 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% +4.76% -24.40%
75th Percentile £80,000 £68,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £85,250 £83,375
North West median annual salary £60,000 £48,720 £50,000
% change year-on-year +23.15% -2.56% -23.08%

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 1 October 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 1 October 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 3 - -
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 (4.60%) OpenStack
2 3 (3.45%) Apache
2 3 (3.45%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.15%) Confluence
3 1 (1.15%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 44 (50.57%) AWS
2 26 (29.89%) Azure
3 14 (16.09%) OpenShift
4 13 (14.94%) GitHub
5 12 (13.79%) AWS CloudFormation
5 12 (13.79%) Serverless
6 7 (8.05%) Amazon ECS
6 7 (8.05%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (4.60%) GCP
7 4 (4.60%) PaaS
8 3 (3.45%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (3.45%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (2.30%) Azure AKS
9 2 (2.30%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (2.30%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (1.15%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 1 (1.15%) Azure Key Vault
10 1 (1.15%) Azure Sentinel
10 1 (1.15%) Entra ID
10 1 (1.15%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.75%) DNS
2 4 (4.60%) BGP
2 4 (4.60%) DHCP
2 4 (4.60%) IPsec
2 4 (4.60%) SD-WAN
2 4 (4.60%) WAN
3 3 (3.45%) AMQP
3 3 (3.45%) Software-Defined Networking
4 2 (2.30%) DMZ
4 2 (2.30%) HSRP
4 2 (2.30%) LAN
4 2 (2.30%) MPLS
4 2 (2.30%) OSPF
4 2 (2.30%) VPN
4 2 (2.30%) VRRP
4 2 (2.30%) Wireless
4 2 (2.30%) Wireshark
4 2 (2.30%) WLAN
5 1 (1.15%) SAN
5 1 (1.15%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.75%) Relational Database
2 4 (4.60%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (3.45%) Big Data
3 3 (3.45%) Cloudera CDH
3 3 (3.45%) Hadoop
4 1 (1.15%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.15%) MySQL
4 1 (1.15%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 17 (19.54%) Git
2 9 (10.34%) GitLab
2 9 (10.34%) Jenkins
3 6 (6.90%) JIRA
4 5 (5.75%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (2.30%) Artifactory
6 1 (1.15%) Cypress.io
6 1 (1.15%) Mocha
General
1 18 (20.69%) Social Skills
2 10 (11.49%) Public Sector
3 9 (10.34%) Aerospace
4 4 (4.60%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (4.60%) Finance
5 3 (3.45%) Retail
6 2 (2.30%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 41 (47.13%) DevOps Engineer
2 20 (22.99%) Senior
3 17 (19.54%) Cloud Engineer
4 13 (14.94%) Software Engineer
5 12 (13.79%) Lead
5 12 (13.79%) Principal DevOps Engineer
5 12 (13.79%) Principal Engineer
6 8 (9.20%) Lead DevOps
7 7 (8.05%) Lead DevOps Engineer
7 7 (8.05%) Senior DevOps
7 7 (8.05%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 7 (8.05%) Senior Software Engineer
8 6 (6.90%) Cloud Native Engineer
8 6 (6.90%) Python Engineer
8 6 (6.90%) Python Software Engineer
9 5 (5.75%) Developer
9 5 (5.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 3 (3.45%) Administrator
10 3 (3.45%) Operations Engineer
10 3 (3.45%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (82.76%) Terraform
2 27 (31.03%) Spring
2 27 (31.03%) Spring Boot
3 12 (13.79%) React
4 7 (8.05%) AngularJS
4 7 (8.05%) Next.js
4 7 (8.05%) REST
5 6 (6.90%) FastAPI
5 6 (6.90%) Node.js
5 6 (6.90%) React Native
5 6 (6.90%) Ruby on Rails
6 4 (4.60%) OpenAPI
6 4 (4.60%) Swagger
7 3 (3.45%) AWS CDK
7 3 (3.45%) gRPC
7 3 (3.45%) Material-UI
7 3 (3.45%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (2.30%) Vue
9 1 (1.15%) Apache Camel
9 1 (1.15%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 19 (21.84%) Cloud Native
2 4 (4.60%) Data Centre
2 4 (4.60%) Replication
3 3 (3.45%) Social Media
4 2 (2.30%) Driving Licence
4 2 (2.30%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (2.30%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.15%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.15%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (1.15%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 31 (35.63%) Linux
2 13 (14.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (10.34%) CentOS
4 6 (6.90%) Windows
5 5 (5.75%) Ubuntu
6 4 (4.60%) Windows Server
7 3 (3.45%) Debian
7 3 (3.45%) Unix
8 2 (2.30%) Solaris
8 2 (2.30%) VMS
9 1 (1.15%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (1.15%) SUSE
9 1 (1.15%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (72.41%) DevOps
2 59 (67.82%) Infrastructure as Code
3 51 (58.62%) CI/CD
4 34 (39.08%) Agile
4 34 (39.08%) Containerisation
4 34 (39.08%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 18 (20.69%) Platform Engineering
6 16 (18.39%) Stakeholder Management
7 15 (17.24%) Continuous Improvement
8 13 (14.94%) Software Engineering
9 12 (13.79%) Collaborative Culture
9 12 (13.79%) Microservices
10 11 (12.64%) Technical Leadership
11 10 (11.49%) AI
11 10 (11.49%) Project Delivery
12 9 (10.34%) Configuration Management
12 9 (10.34%) Kanban
12 9 (10.34%) Mentoring
13 8 (9.20%) Coaching
13 8 (9.20%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 56 (64.37%) Python
2 34 (39.08%) Java
3 20 (22.99%) Bash
4 9 (10.34%) Go
5 8 (9.20%) PowerShell
6 7 (8.05%) JavaScript
7 6 (6.90%) Ruby
8 2 (2.30%) Bicep
8 2 (2.30%) Rust
9 1 (1.15%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.15%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 59 (67.82%) Security Cleared
2 46 (52.87%) DV Cleared
3 29 (33.33%) SC Cleared
4 6 (6.90%) AWS Certification
5 4 (4.60%) Azure Certification
5 4 (4.60%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (2.30%) CCIE
6 2 (2.30%) CCNA
6 2 (2.30%) CCNP
6 2 (2.30%) Degree
7 1 (1.15%) HP ASE
7 1 (1.15%) Linux+ Certification
7 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.15%) RHCE
7 1 (1.15%) RHCSA
7 1 (1.15%) VCAP
7 1 (1.15%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.30%) SLA
System Software
1 49 (56.32%) Docker
2 6 (6.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (4.60%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (3.45%) Ceph
4 3 (3.45%) VMware NSX
4 3 (3.45%) vSphere
5 2 (2.30%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (1.15%) Active Directory
6 1 (1.15%) EMC RecoverPoint
6 1 (1.15%) Firmware
6 1 (1.15%) Hyper-V
6 1 (1.15%) KVM
Systems Management
1 62 (71.26%) Kubernetes
2 9 (10.34%) Puppet
3 7 (8.05%) Podman
4 4 (4.60%) Prometheus
5 3 (3.45%) Argo
5 3 (3.45%) Check_MK
5 3 (3.45%) Istio
5 3 (3.45%) Progress Chef
6 2 (2.30%) SCCM
6 2 (2.30%) SolarWinds Orion
6 2 (2.30%) vCenter Server
6 2 (2.30%) WSUS
7 1 (1.15%) Grafana
7 1 (1.15%) Opsview
7 1 (1.15%) VxRail
Vendors
1 11 (12.64%) Red Hat
2 10 (11.49%) Microsoft
3 8 (9.20%) Splunk
3 8 (9.20%) VMware
4 5 (5.75%) LogicMonitor
5 4 (4.60%) Dell
6 3 (3.45%) Google
6 3 (3.45%) SaltStack
6 3 (3.45%) Thales
6 3 (3.45%) Veeam
7 2 (2.30%) Cisco
7 2 (2.30%) F5
7 2 (2.30%) Oracle
7 2 (2.30%) ServiceNow
7 2 (2.30%) YouTube
7 2 (2.30%) Zscaler
8 1 (1.15%) Broadcom
8 1 (1.15%) Mirantis
8 1 (1.15%) Pega
8 1 (1.15%) WSO2