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

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 67 124
Rank change year-on-year -47 +57 -60
Permanent jobs citing Ansible 91 97 57
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 1.18% 4.14% 1.48%
As % of the Systems Management category 26.92% 36.47% 17.33%
Number of salaries quoted 58 16 31
10th Percentile £42,500 £55,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £57,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.40% +4.17% -14.29%
75th Percentile £95,000 £80,000 £70,625
90th Percentile £100,375 £85,625 £77,500
North West median annual salary £70,750 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +13.20% +4.17% -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 338 266 329
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 4.39% 11.36% 8.53%
Number of salaries quoted 228 125 136
10th Percentile £32,125 £27,400 £35,750
25th Percentile £45,938 £33,125 £42,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,500 £53,750
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% +6.98% -20.37%
75th Percentile £80,000 £68,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £83,250 £82,500
North West median annual salary £55,000 £48,720 £50,000
% change year-on-year +12.89% -2.56% -20.00%

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 14 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 14 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 +2 5 - - 2
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 (3.30%) OpenStack
2 2 (2.20%) Apache
2 2 (2.20%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.10%) Confluence
3 1 (1.10%) IIS
3 1 (1.10%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 43 (47.25%) AWS
2 20 (21.98%) Azure
3 14 (15.38%) OpenShift
4 13 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
4 13 (14.29%) GitHub
5 11 (12.09%) Serverless
6 6 (6.59%) Amazon ECS
7 5 (5.49%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (4.40%) GCP
8 4 (4.40%) PaaS
9 3 (3.30%) Azure Monitor
10 2 (2.20%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (2.20%) Azure AKS
10 2 (2.20%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (2.20%) GitHub Actions
11 1 (1.10%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 1 (1.10%) Azure Key Vault
11 1 (1.10%) Azure Sentinel
11 1 (1.10%) Entra ID
11 1 (1.10%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.59%) DNS
2 4 (4.40%) BGP
2 4 (4.40%) DHCP
2 4 (4.40%) IPsec
2 4 (4.40%) SD-WAN
2 4 (4.40%) WAN
3 3 (3.30%) Software-Defined Networking
4 2 (2.20%) AMQP
4 2 (2.20%) DMZ
4 2 (2.20%) Firewall
4 2 (2.20%) HSRP
4 2 (2.20%) LAN
4 2 (2.20%) MPLS
4 2 (2.20%) OSPF
4 2 (2.20%) VPN
4 2 (2.20%) VRRP
4 2 (2.20%) VSAN
4 2 (2.20%) Wireless
4 2 (2.20%) Wireshark
4 2 (2.20%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.40%) Relational Database
2 3 (3.30%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (2.20%) Big Data
3 2 (2.20%) Cloudera CDH
3 2 (2.20%) Hadoop
4 1 (1.10%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.10%) MySQL
4 1 (1.10%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 17 (18.68%) Git
2 11 (12.09%) GitLab
3 10 (10.99%) Jenkins
4 6 (6.59%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 6 (6.59%) JIRA
5 2 (2.20%) Artifactory
6 1 (1.10%) Claude Code
6 1 (1.10%) Cypress.io
6 1 (1.10%) Mocha
General
1 21 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 10 (10.99%) Aerospace
3 9 (9.89%) Public Sector
4 5 (5.49%) Finance
5 4 (4.40%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (4.40%) Retail
6 2 (2.20%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 49 (53.85%) DevOps Engineer
2 20 (21.98%) Senior
3 16 (17.58%) Cloud Engineer
4 14 (15.38%) Principal DevOps Engineer
4 14 (15.38%) Principal Engineer
5 13 (14.29%) Software Engineer
6 10 (10.99%) Lead
7 9 (9.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 9 (9.89%) Lead DevOps
8 8 (8.79%) Lead DevOps Engineer
8 8 (8.79%) Senior DevOps
8 8 (8.79%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 7 (7.69%) Cloud Native Engineer
9 7 (7.69%) Senior Software Engineer
10 6 (6.59%) Python Engineer
10 6 (6.59%) Python Software Engineer
11 4 (4.40%) Developer
11 4 (4.40%) DevOps Systems Engineer
11 4 (4.40%) Operations Engineer
12 3 (3.30%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (82.42%) Terraform
2 28 (30.77%) Spring
2 28 (30.77%) Spring Boot
3 11 (12.09%) React
4 7 (7.69%) Next.js
5 6 (6.59%) FastAPI
5 6 (6.59%) React Native
5 6 (6.59%) Ruby on Rails
6 5 (5.49%) AngularJS
6 5 (5.49%) REST
7 4 (4.40%) Node.js
8 3 (3.30%) AWS CDK
8 3 (3.30%) OpenAPI
8 3 (3.30%) Swagger
9 2 (2.20%) gRPC
9 2 (2.20%) Material-UI
9 2 (2.20%) RabbitMQ
9 2 (2.20%) Vue
10 1 (1.10%) ARM Templates
10 1 (1.10%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 20 (21.98%) Cloud Native
2 5 (5.49%) Data Centre
3 4 (4.40%) Replication
4 3 (3.30%) Product Ownership
4 3 (3.30%) Social Media
5 2 (2.20%) Driving Licence
5 2 (2.20%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.20%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.10%) CSOC
6 1 (1.10%) Cyberattack
6 1 (1.10%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.10%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.10%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.10%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 35 (38.46%) Linux
2 13 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (9.89%) CentOS
4 8 (8.79%) Windows
5 5 (5.49%) Windows Server
6 4 (4.40%) Ubuntu
7 2 (2.20%) Debian
7 2 (2.20%) Unix
7 2 (2.20%) VMS
8 1 (1.10%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (1.10%) Solaris
8 1 (1.10%) SUSE
8 1 (1.10%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (71.43%) DevOps
2 63 (69.23%) Infrastructure as Code
3 54 (59.34%) CI/CD
4 39 (42.86%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 37 (40.66%) Containerisation
6 31 (34.07%) Agile
7 19 (20.88%) Platform Engineering
8 18 (19.78%) Stakeholder Management
9 14 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
9 14 (15.38%) Technical Leadership
10 13 (14.29%) Software Engineering
11 12 (13.19%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 11 (12.09%) AI
12 11 (12.09%) Collaborative Culture
12 11 (12.09%) Microservices
13 10 (10.99%) Coaching
14 9 (9.89%) Configuration Management
14 9 (9.89%) Infrastructure Automation
14 9 (9.89%) Mentoring
15 8 (8.79%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 59 (64.84%) Python
2 38 (41.76%) Java
3 22 (24.18%) Bash
4 11 (12.09%) Go
5 8 (8.79%) PowerShell
6 6 (6.59%) Ruby
7 5 (5.49%) JavaScript
8 2 (2.20%) Bicep
8 2 (2.20%) Rust
9 1 (1.10%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.10%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 67 (73.63%) Security Cleared
2 53 (58.24%) DV Cleared
3 31 (34.07%) SC Cleared
4 6 (6.59%) AWS Certification
5 4 (4.40%) Azure Certification
5 4 (4.40%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (3.30%) Degree
7 2 (2.20%) CCIE
7 2 (2.20%) CCNA
7 2 (2.20%) CCNP
7 2 (2.20%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (2.20%) RHCSA
7 2 (2.20%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 1 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.10%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (1.10%) MCSA
8 1 (1.10%) MCSE
8 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (1.10%) RHCE
8 1 (1.10%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.30%) SLA
System Software
1 54 (59.34%) Docker
2 9 (9.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (6.59%) VMware NSX
4 5 (5.49%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (4.40%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (3.30%) Ceph
6 3 (3.30%) vSphere
7 1 (1.10%) Active Directory
7 1 (1.10%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 1 (1.10%) Firmware
7 1 (1.10%) Hyper-V
7 1 (1.10%) KVM
Systems Management
1 67 (73.63%) Kubernetes
2 10 (10.99%) Puppet
3 7 (7.69%) Podman
4 4 (4.40%) Prometheus
4 4 (4.40%) vCenter Server
5 3 (3.30%) Argo
5 3 (3.30%) Check_MK
5 3 (3.30%) Istio
5 3 (3.30%) Progress Chef
6 2 (2.20%) SCCM
6 2 (2.20%) SolarWinds Orion
6 2 (2.20%) WSUS
7 1 (1.10%) Grafana
7 1 (1.10%) Opsview
7 1 (1.10%) Red Hat Satellite
7 1 (1.10%) VxRail
Vendors
1 11 (12.09%) Red Hat
2 10 (10.99%) VMware
3 9 (9.89%) Microsoft
4 8 (8.79%) Splunk
5 5 (5.49%) Dell
5 5 (5.49%) Thales
6 3 (3.30%) Broadcom
6 3 (3.30%) Cisco
6 3 (3.30%) F5
6 3 (3.30%) Veeam
7 2 (2.20%) Google
7 2 (2.20%) LogicMonitor
7 2 (2.20%) Oracle
7 2 (2.20%) SaltStack
7 2 (2.20%) ServiceNow
7 2 (2.20%) YouTube
7 2 (2.20%) Zscaler
8 1 (1.10%) HP
8 1 (1.10%) NetApp
8 1 (1.10%) Zerto