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 24 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 117 72 150
Rank change year-on-year -45 +78 -68
Permanent jobs citing Ansible 66 106 59
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 1.02% 4.25% 1.19%
As % of the Systems Management category 18.70% 29.20% 12.80%
Number of salaries quoted 47 18 30
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £53,750 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £62,641
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -4.22% -10.51%
75th Percentile £80,625 £74,375 £76,875
90th Percentile £96,250 £88,750 £82,625
North West median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £61,250
% change year-on-year +8.33% -2.04% -12.50%

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 353 363 461
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 5.46% 14.54% 9.29%
Number of salaries quoted 286 201 297
10th Percentile £35,750 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £42,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.77% +8.33% -11.11%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £84,367
North West median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +13.64% -15.38%

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 24 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Ansible in Manchester

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 (6.06%) OpenStack
2 2 (3.03%) Apache
2 2 (3.03%) Apache Spark
2 2 (3.03%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 36 (54.55%) AWS
2 21 (31.82%) Azure
3 13 (19.70%) GitHub
4 12 (18.18%) Amazon EKS
5 11 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
6 10 (15.15%) Serverless
7 8 (12.12%) OpenShift
8 5 (7.58%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (4.55%) GCP
9 3 (4.55%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (3.03%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (3.03%) Azure AKS
10 2 (3.03%) Entra ID
10 2 (3.03%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (3.03%) PaaS
11 1 (1.52%) Amazon EC2
11 1 (1.52%) Amazon S3
11 1 (1.52%) Azure DevOps
11 1 (1.52%) Azure Monitor
11 1 (1.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.06%) BGP
1 4 (6.06%) Firewall
1 4 (6.06%) IPsec
1 4 (6.06%) SD-WAN
1 4 (6.06%) WAN
2 3 (4.55%) VPN
3 2 (3.03%) AMQP
3 2 (3.03%) DHCP
3 2 (3.03%) DMZ
3 2 (3.03%) DNS
3 2 (3.03%) HSRP
3 2 (3.03%) LAN
3 2 (3.03%) MPLS
3 2 (3.03%) OSPF
3 2 (3.03%) VRRP
3 2 (3.03%) Wireless
3 2 (3.03%) Wireshark
3 2 (3.03%) WLAN
4 1 (1.52%) SNMP
4 1 (1.52%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (7.58%) Relational Database
2 4 (6.06%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (3.03%) Big Data
3 2 (3.03%) Cloudera CDH
3 2 (3.03%) Hadoop
4 1 (1.52%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 14 (21.21%) Git
2 9 (13.64%) GitLab
3 8 (12.12%) Jenkins
4 3 (4.55%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 3 (4.55%) JIRA
5 1 (1.52%) Bitbucket
General
1 15 (22.73%) Social Skills
2 7 (10.61%) Public Sector
3 4 (6.06%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (6.06%) Finance
4 3 (4.55%) Aerospace
5 2 (3.03%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.52%) German Language
6 1 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.52%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 31 (46.97%) DevOps Engineer
2 18 (27.27%) Cloud Engineer
3 14 (21.21%) Senior
4 8 (12.12%) Lead
4 8 (12.12%) Software Engineer
5 7 (10.61%) Principal DevOps Engineer
5 7 (10.61%) Principal Engineer
6 6 (9.09%) Python Engineer
6 6 (9.09%) Python Software Engineer
6 6 (9.09%) Senior Software Engineer
7 5 (7.58%) Lead DevOps
8 4 (6.06%) Cloud Native Engineer
8 4 (6.06%) Developer
8 4 (6.06%) Full-Stack Developer
8 4 (6.06%) Lead DevOps Engineer
8 4 (6.06%) Linux Engineer
8 4 (6.06%) Senior DevOps
8 4 (6.06%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 3 (4.55%) Senior Cloud Engineer
10 2 (3.03%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (28.79%) Spring
1 19 (28.79%) Spring Boot
2 8 (12.12%) React
3 6 (9.09%) FastAPI
3 6 (9.09%) Next.js
3 6 (9.09%) Node.js
3 6 (9.09%) React Native
3 6 (9.09%) REST
3 6 (9.09%) Ruby on Rails
4 5 (7.58%) AngularJS
5 4 (6.06%) YAML
6 2 (3.03%) Apache Camel
6 2 (3.03%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (3.03%) gRPC
6 2 (3.03%) Material-UI
6 2 (3.03%) OpenAPI
6 2 (3.03%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (3.03%) Swagger
6 2 (3.03%) Web Services
7 1 (1.52%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 10 (15.15%) Cloud Native
2 4 (6.06%) Data Centre
2 4 (6.06%) Enterprise Cloud
2 4 (6.06%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (3.03%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (3.03%) Driving Licence
3 2 (3.03%) Mobile App
3 2 (3.03%) Onboarding
3 2 (3.03%) Replication
3 2 (3.03%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (3.03%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 21 (31.82%) Linux
2 7 (10.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (9.09%) CentOS
4 5 (7.58%) Ubuntu
5 4 (6.06%) Debian
5 4 (6.06%) Unix
6 3 (4.55%) Solaris
7 2 (3.03%) Windows
8 1 (1.52%) VMS
8 1 (1.52%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (74.24%) DevOps
2 42 (63.64%) Infrastructure as Code
3 40 (60.61%) CI/CD
4 26 (39.39%) Agile
5 25 (37.88%) Containerisation
6 21 (31.82%) Platform Engineering
6 21 (31.82%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 16 (24.24%) Continuous Improvement
8 13 (19.70%) Collaborative Culture
9 10 (15.15%) Microservices
9 10 (15.15%) Project Delivery
9 10 (15.15%) Stakeholder Management
10 8 (12.12%) Problem-Solving
10 8 (12.12%) Software Engineering
11 6 (9.09%) Architectural Design
11 6 (9.09%) ITIL
11 6 (9.09%) Mentoring
11 6 (9.09%) Service Delivery
12 5 (7.58%) Configuration Management
12 5 (7.58%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 37 (56.06%) Python
2 21 (31.82%) Java
3 12 (18.18%) Bash
4 6 (9.09%) JavaScript
4 6 (9.09%) Ruby
5 4 (6.06%) PowerShell
6 3 (4.55%) Go
7 1 (1.52%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 39 (59.09%) Security Cleared
2 27 (40.91%) DV Cleared
3 22 (33.33%) SC Cleared
4 4 (6.06%) AWS Certification
4 4 (6.06%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (4.55%) Azure Certification
6 2 (3.03%) CCIE
6 2 (3.03%) CCNA
6 2 (3.03%) CCNP
6 2 (3.03%) Degree
7 1 (1.52%) Linux+ Certification
7 1 (1.52%) LPIC
7 1 (1.52%) RHCE
7 1 (1.52%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.52%) SLA
System Software
1 33 (50.00%) Docker
2 4 (6.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (3.03%) Ceph
3 2 (3.03%) vSphere
4 1 (1.52%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.52%) KVM
4 1 (1.52%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.52%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 55 (83.33%) Terraform
2 44 (66.67%) Kubernetes
3 4 (6.06%) Podman
3 4 (6.06%) Puppet
4 3 (4.55%) Prometheus
5 2 (3.03%) Argo
5 2 (3.03%) Check_MK
5 2 (3.03%) Istio
5 2 (3.03%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (3.03%) SolarWinds Orion
6 1 (1.52%) Grafana
6 1 (1.52%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.52%) SCCM
6 1 (1.52%) WSUS
Vendors
1 8 (12.12%) Splunk
2 7 (10.61%) Red Hat
3 6 (9.09%) Microsoft
3 6 (9.09%) VMware
4 4 (6.06%) LogicMonitor
5 2 (3.03%) Cisco
5 2 (3.03%) Dell
5 2 (3.03%) F5
5 2 (3.03%) Google
5 2 (3.03%) Mirantis
5 2 (3.03%) Pega
5 2 (3.03%) SaltStack
5 2 (3.03%) WSO2
5 2 (3.03%) Zscaler
6 1 (1.52%) Oracle
6 1 (1.52%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.52%) Veeam