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

6 months to
6 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 132 75 151
Rank change year-on-year -57 +76 -67
Permanent jobs citing Ansible 58 107 64
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.91% 4.41% 1.13%
As % of the Systems Management category 16.52% 28.08% 13.42%
Number of salaries quoted 41 19 32
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,500 £45,125
25th Percentile £52,500 £53,750 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £61,250
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -2.04% -12.50%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,625
90th Percentile £96,250 £88,750 £82,500
North West median annual salary £60,000 £60,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -0.83% -3.20% -10.71%

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 351 381 477
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 5.53% 15.70% 8.40%
Number of salaries quoted 284 215 329
10th Percentile £33,750 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £43,875 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,250 £67,037 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.67% +16.59% -14.81%
75th Percentile £80,313 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,875 £97,017 £83,250
North West median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +18.18% -12.00%

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 6 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 3 (5.17%) Apache
1 3 (5.17%) Apache Spark
2 2 (3.45%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (3.45%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 36 (62.07%) AWS
2 22 (37.93%) Azure
3 14 (24.14%) Amazon EKS
4 13 (22.41%) GitHub
5 9 (15.52%) AWS CloudFormation
6 8 (13.79%) Serverless
7 6 (10.34%) OpenShift
8 5 (8.62%) GCP
9 4 (6.90%) Amazon ECS
10 3 (5.17%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (5.17%) Azure AKS
10 3 (5.17%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (3.45%) Amazon EC2
11 2 (3.45%) Amazon S3
11 2 (3.45%) Entra ID
11 2 (3.45%) Microsoft 365
11 2 (3.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 1 (1.72%) Azure DevOps
12 1 (1.72%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.90%) BGP
1 4 (6.90%) Firewall
1 4 (6.90%) IPsec
1 4 (6.90%) SD-WAN
1 4 (6.90%) WAN
2 3 (5.17%) AMQP
2 3 (5.17%) VPN
3 2 (3.45%) DMZ
3 2 (3.45%) HSRP
3 2 (3.45%) LAN
3 2 (3.45%) MPLS
3 2 (3.45%) OSPF
3 2 (3.45%) VRRP
3 2 (3.45%) Wireless
3 2 (3.45%) Wireshark
3 2 (3.45%) WLAN
4 1 (1.72%) DHCP
4 1 (1.72%) DNS
4 1 (1.72%) SNMP
4 1 (1.72%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.62%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (8.62%) Relational Database
2 3 (5.17%) Big Data
2 3 (5.17%) Cloudera CDH
2 3 (5.17%) Hadoop
3 2 (3.45%) MySQL
4 1 (1.72%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.72%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.72%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.72%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (20.69%) Git
2 10 (17.24%) GitLab
3 8 (13.79%) Jenkins
4 3 (5.17%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 3 (5.17%) JIRA
5 2 (3.45%) Bitbucket
General
1 12 (20.69%) Social Skills
2 7 (12.07%) Public Sector
3 4 (6.90%) Aerospace
4 3 (5.17%) Finance
5 2 (3.45%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.72%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.72%) German Language
6 1 (1.72%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.72%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 24 (41.38%) DevOps Engineer
2 16 (27.59%) Cloud Engineer
3 15 (25.86%) Senior
4 9 (15.52%) Software Engineer
5 6 (10.34%) Lead
5 6 (10.34%) Principal DevOps Engineer
5 6 (10.34%) Principal Engineer
5 6 (10.34%) Python Engineer
5 6 (10.34%) Python Software Engineer
5 6 (10.34%) Senior Software Engineer
6 4 (6.90%) Developer
6 4 (6.90%) Full-Stack Developer
6 4 (6.90%) Linux Engineer
6 4 (6.90%) Senior DevOps
6 4 (6.90%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 3 (5.17%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
7 3 (5.17%) Lead DevOps
7 3 (5.17%) Lead DevOps Engineer
7 3 (5.17%) Platform Engineer
7 3 (5.17%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (29.31%) Spring
1 17 (29.31%) Spring Boot
2 9 (15.52%) React
3 7 (12.07%) Node.js
3 7 (12.07%) REST
4 6 (10.34%) AngularJS
4 6 (10.34%) FastAPI
4 6 (10.34%) Next.js
4 6 (10.34%) React Native
4 6 (10.34%) Ruby on Rails
5 4 (6.90%) YAML
6 3 (5.17%) gRPC
6 3 (5.17%) Material-UI
6 3 (5.17%) OpenAPI
6 3 (5.17%) RabbitMQ
6 3 (5.17%) Swagger
7 2 (3.45%) Apache Camel
7 2 (3.45%) Elastic Stack
7 2 (3.45%) Web Services
8 1 (1.72%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.07%) Cloud Native
2 4 (6.90%) Data Centre
2 4 (6.90%) Enterprise Cloud
2 4 (6.90%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (3.45%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (3.45%) Driving Licence
3 2 (3.45%) Mobile App
3 2 (3.45%) Onboarding
3 2 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.72%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.72%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 19 (32.76%) Linux
2 8 (13.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (12.07%) CentOS
4 6 (10.34%) Ubuntu
5 5 (8.62%) Debian
6 3 (5.17%) Solaris
6 3 (5.17%) Unix
7 2 (3.45%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (70.69%) DevOps
2 39 (67.24%) Infrastructure as Code
3 35 (60.34%) CI/CD
4 23 (39.66%) Containerisation
5 22 (37.93%) Agile
6 21 (36.21%) Platform Engineering
7 15 (25.86%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 14 (24.14%) Continuous Improvement
9 12 (20.69%) Collaborative Culture
10 11 (18.97%) Microservices
11 9 (15.52%) Project Delivery
11 9 (15.52%) Software Engineering
12 8 (13.79%) Stakeholder Management
13 7 (12.07%) Problem-Solving
14 6 (10.34%) Architectural Design
14 6 (10.34%) Deployment Automation
14 6 (10.34%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 6 (10.34%) Kanban
14 6 (10.34%) Scrum
15 5 (8.62%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 34 (58.62%) Python
2 19 (32.76%) Java
3 10 (17.24%) Bash
4 7 (12.07%) JavaScript
5 6 (10.34%) Ruby
6 4 (6.90%) PowerShell
7 2 (3.45%) Go
8 1 (1.72%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.72%) SQL
Qualifications
1 32 (55.17%) Security Cleared
2 20 (34.48%) DV Cleared
3 19 (32.76%) SC Cleared
4 4 (6.90%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (5.17%) AWS Certification
5 3 (5.17%) Azure Certification
6 2 (3.45%) CCIE
6 2 (3.45%) CCNA
6 2 (3.45%) CCNP
6 2 (3.45%) Degree
7 1 (1.72%) Linux+ Certification
7 1 (1.72%) LPIC
7 1 (1.72%) RHCE
7 1 (1.72%) RHCSA
System Software
1 28 (48.28%) Docker
2 4 (6.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (3.45%) VMware NSX
3 2 (3.45%) vSphere
4 1 (1.72%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.72%) KVM
4 1 (1.72%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 50 (86.21%) Terraform
2 37 (63.79%) Kubernetes
3 4 (6.90%) Puppet
4 2 (3.45%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (3.45%) Podman
4 2 (3.45%) SolarWinds Orion
5 1 (1.72%) Grafana
5 1 (1.72%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.72%) Rancher
Vendors
1 8 (13.79%) Splunk
2 6 (10.34%) Red Hat
2 6 (10.34%) VMware
3 5 (8.62%) Microsoft
4 3 (5.17%) Google
4 3 (5.17%) LogicMonitor
4 3 (5.17%) SaltStack
5 2 (3.45%) Cisco
5 2 (3.45%) F5
5 2 (3.45%) Mirantis
5 2 (3.45%) Pega
5 2 (3.45%) WSO2
5 2 (3.45%) Zscaler
6 1 (1.72%) Oracle