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

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 64 129
Rank change year-on-year -51 +65 -63
Permanent jobs citing Ansible 86 100 55
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 1.14% 4.27% 1.38%
As % of the Systems Management category 26.88% 35.71% 16.72%
Number of salaries quoted 56 16 25
10th Percentile £42,500 £55,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £53,688 £57,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% +4.17% -14.29%
75th Percentile £87,813 £84,688 £72,500
90th Percentile £98,125 £88,750 £76,500
North West median annual salary £67,500 £62,500 £58,250
% change year-on-year +8.00% +7.30% -14.93%

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 320 280 329
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 4.26% 11.96% 8.24%
Number of salaries quoted 224 132 139
10th Percentile £32,575 £27,000 £35,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £33,125 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% +4.55% -20.80%
75th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £73,125
90th Percentile £95,000 £87,125 £83,800
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 22 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 22 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 +1 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 4 (4.65%) OpenStack
2 3 (3.49%) Apache
2 3 (3.49%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.16%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 44 (51.16%) AWS
2 25 (29.07%) Azure
3 14 (16.28%) OpenShift
4 13 (15.12%) AWS CloudFormation
4 13 (15.12%) GitHub
5 12 (13.95%) Serverless
6 7 (8.14%) Amazon EKS
7 6 (6.98%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (4.65%) GCP
8 4 (4.65%) PaaS
9 3 (3.49%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (3.49%) Azure Monitor
10 2 (2.33%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (2.33%) GitHub Actions
11 1 (1.16%) Azure AKS
11 1 (1.16%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 1 (1.16%) Azure Key Vault
11 1 (1.16%) Azure Sentinel
11 1 (1.16%) Entra ID
11 1 (1.16%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.65%) BGP
1 4 (4.65%) DHCP
1 4 (4.65%) DNS
1 4 (4.65%) IPsec
1 4 (4.65%) SD-WAN
1 4 (4.65%) WAN
2 3 (3.49%) AMQP
2 3 (3.49%) Software-Defined Networking
3 2 (2.33%) DMZ
3 2 (2.33%) HSRP
3 2 (2.33%) LAN
3 2 (2.33%) MPLS
3 2 (2.33%) OSPF
3 2 (2.33%) VPN
3 2 (2.33%) VRRP
3 2 (2.33%) Wireless
3 2 (2.33%) Wireshark
3 2 (2.33%) WLAN
4 1 (1.16%) Firewall
4 1 (1.16%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.81%) Relational Database
2 4 (4.65%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (3.49%) Big Data
3 3 (3.49%) Cloudera CDH
3 3 (3.49%) Hadoop
4 1 (1.16%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.16%) MySQL
4 1 (1.16%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 17 (19.77%) Git
2 9 (10.47%) GitLab
2 9 (10.47%) Jenkins
3 5 (5.81%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 5 (5.81%) JIRA
4 1 (1.16%) Artifactory
4 1 (1.16%) Cypress.io
4 1 (1.16%) Mocha
General
1 19 (22.09%) Social Skills
2 10 (11.63%) Public Sector
3 8 (9.30%) Aerospace
4 4 (4.65%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (4.65%) Finance
5 2 (2.33%) Manufacturing
5 2 (2.33%) Retail
6 1 (1.16%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 40 (46.51%) DevOps Engineer
2 19 (22.09%) Senior
3 18 (20.93%) Cloud Engineer
4 12 (13.95%) Lead
4 12 (13.95%) Principal DevOps Engineer
4 12 (13.95%) Principal Engineer
4 12 (13.95%) Software Engineer
5 8 (9.30%) Lead DevOps
6 7 (8.14%) Lead DevOps Engineer
6 7 (8.14%) Senior Software Engineer
7 6 (6.98%) Cloud Native Engineer
7 6 (6.98%) Python Engineer
7 6 (6.98%) Python Software Engineer
7 6 (6.98%) Senior DevOps
7 6 (6.98%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 5 (5.81%) Developer
9 4 (4.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 3 (3.49%) Administrator
10 3 (3.49%) Linux Engineer
10 3 (3.49%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (82.56%) Terraform
2 27 (31.40%) Spring
2 27 (31.40%) Spring Boot
3 12 (13.95%) React
4 7 (8.14%) AngularJS
4 7 (8.14%) Next.js
4 7 (8.14%) REST
5 6 (6.98%) FastAPI
5 6 (6.98%) Node.js
5 6 (6.98%) React Native
5 6 (6.98%) Ruby on Rails
6 4 (4.65%) OpenAPI
6 4 (4.65%) Swagger
7 3 (3.49%) AWS CDK
7 3 (3.49%) gRPC
7 3 (3.49%) Material-UI
7 3 (3.49%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (2.33%) Vue
9 1 (1.16%) Elastic Stack
9 1 (1.16%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 19 (22.09%) Cloud Native
2 4 (4.65%) Data Centre
2 4 (4.65%) Replication
3 3 (3.49%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (3.49%) Social Media
4 2 (2.33%) Driving Licence
4 2 (2.33%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.16%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.16%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 30 (34.88%) Linux
2 13 (15.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (10.47%) CentOS
4 5 (5.81%) Ubuntu
4 5 (5.81%) Windows
5 4 (4.65%) Unix
5 4 (4.65%) Windows Server
6 3 (3.49%) Debian
6 3 (3.49%) Solaris
7 2 (2.33%) VMS
8 1 (1.16%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (1.16%) SUSE
8 1 (1.16%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (72.09%) DevOps
2 57 (66.28%) Infrastructure as Code
3 50 (58.14%) CI/CD
4 34 (39.53%) Containerisation
5 33 (38.37%) Agile
5 33 (38.37%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 19 (22.09%) Platform Engineering
7 16 (18.60%) Continuous Improvement
7 16 (18.60%) Stakeholder Management
8 12 (13.95%) Collaborative Culture
8 12 (13.95%) Microservices
8 12 (13.95%) Software Engineering
9 10 (11.63%) Project Delivery
10 9 (10.47%) AI
10 9 (10.47%) Configuration Management
10 9 (10.47%) Kanban
10 9 (10.47%) Problem-Solving
10 9 (10.47%) Technical Leadership
11 8 (9.30%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 8 (9.30%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 54 (62.79%) Python
2 33 (38.37%) Java
3 18 (20.93%) Bash
4 7 (8.14%) Go
4 7 (8.14%) JavaScript
4 7 (8.14%) PowerShell
5 6 (6.98%) Ruby
6 2 (2.33%) Bicep
6 2 (2.33%) Rust
7 1 (1.16%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.16%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 58 (67.44%) Security Cleared
2 45 (52.33%) DV Cleared
3 29 (33.72%) SC Cleared
4 6 (6.98%) AWS Certification
5 4 (4.65%) Azure Certification
5 4 (4.65%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (2.33%) CCIE
6 2 (2.33%) CCNA
6 2 (2.33%) CCNP
6 2 (2.33%) Degree
7 1 (1.16%) HP ASE
7 1 (1.16%) Linux+ Certification
7 1 (1.16%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.16%) RHCE
7 1 (1.16%) RHCSA
7 1 (1.16%) VCAP
7 1 (1.16%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.33%) SLA
System Software
1 49 (56.98%) Docker
2 6 (6.98%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (4.65%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (3.49%) Ceph
4 3 (3.49%) vSphere
5 2 (2.33%) VMware NSX
6 1 (1.16%) Active Directory
6 1 (1.16%) EMC RecoverPoint
6 1 (1.16%) Firmware
6 1 (1.16%) Hyper-V
6 1 (1.16%) KVM
6 1 (1.16%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 61 (70.93%) Kubernetes
2 8 (9.30%) Puppet
3 7 (8.14%) Podman
4 4 (4.65%) Prometheus
5 3 (3.49%) Argo
5 3 (3.49%) Check_MK
5 3 (3.49%) Istio
5 3 (3.49%) Progress Chef
6 2 (2.33%) SCCM
6 2 (2.33%) SolarWinds Orion
6 2 (2.33%) WSUS
7 1 (1.16%) Grafana
7 1 (1.16%) vCenter Server
7 1 (1.16%) VxRail
Vendors
1 11 (12.79%) Red Hat
2 9 (10.47%) Microsoft
3 8 (9.30%) Splunk
3 8 (9.30%) VMware
4 5 (5.81%) LogicMonitor
5 4 (4.65%) Dell
6 3 (3.49%) Google
6 3 (3.49%) SaltStack
6 3 (3.49%) Veeam
7 2 (2.33%) Cisco
7 2 (2.33%) F5
7 2 (2.33%) Mirantis
7 2 (2.33%) Oracle
7 2 (2.33%) ServiceNow
7 2 (2.33%) Thales
7 2 (2.33%) Zscaler
8 1 (1.16%) Broadcom
8 1 (1.16%) Pega
8 1 (1.16%) WSO2
8 1 (1.16%) YouTube