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

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 67 139
Rank change year-on-year -47 +72 -58
Permanent jobs citing Ansible 72 106 54
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 1.09% 4.21% 1.16%
As % of the Systems Management category 19.89% 29.28% 12.00%
Number of salaries quoted 51 18 27
10th Percentile £42,500 £50,375 £45,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £54,063 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £62,783
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -4.43% -10.31%
75th Percentile £80,625 £74,375 £78,125
90th Percentile £96,250 £88,750 £83,000
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 362 362 450
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 5.46% 14.39% 9.66%
Number of salaries quoted 293 200 281
10th Percentile £35,150 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £42,688 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.77% +8.33% -13.60%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,778 £84,919
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 1 August 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 5 (6.94%) OpenStack
2 2 (2.78%) Apache
2 2 (2.78%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 37 (51.39%) AWS
2 22 (30.56%) Azure
3 12 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
3 12 (16.67%) GitHub
4 11 (15.28%) Amazon EKS
5 10 (13.89%) OpenShift
5 10 (13.89%) Serverless
6 6 (8.33%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (4.17%) GCP
7 3 (4.17%) PaaS
8 2 (2.78%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (2.78%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (2.78%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (1.39%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (1.39%) Azure AKS
9 1 (1.39%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (1.39%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (1.39%) Entra ID
9 1 (1.39%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (1.39%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.56%) BGP
1 4 (5.56%) IPsec
1 4 (5.56%) SD-WAN
1 4 (5.56%) WAN
2 3 (4.17%) DHCP
2 3 (4.17%) DNS
2 3 (4.17%) Firewall
2 3 (4.17%) VPN
3 2 (2.78%) AMQP
3 2 (2.78%) DMZ
3 2 (2.78%) HSRP
3 2 (2.78%) LAN
3 2 (2.78%) MPLS
3 2 (2.78%) OSPF
3 2 (2.78%) Software-Defined Networking
3 2 (2.78%) VRRP
3 2 (2.78%) Wireless
3 2 (2.78%) Wireshark
3 2 (2.78%) WLAN
4 1 (1.39%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.94%) Relational Database
2 4 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (2.78%) Big Data
3 2 (2.78%) Cloudera CDH
3 2 (2.78%) Hadoop
4 1 (1.39%) MySQL
4 1 (1.39%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 15 (20.83%) Git
2 8 (11.11%) GitLab
2 8 (11.11%) Jenkins
3 3 (4.17%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 3 (4.17%) JIRA
4 1 (1.39%) Bitbucket
General
1 15 (20.83%) Social Skills
2 7 (9.72%) Public Sector
3 5 (6.94%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (5.56%) Finance
5 3 (4.17%) Aerospace
6 2 (2.78%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.39%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.39%) German Language
7 1 (1.39%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.39%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 33 (45.83%) DevOps Engineer
2 18 (25.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 15 (20.83%) Senior
4 10 (13.89%) Lead
5 8 (11.11%) Principal DevOps Engineer
5 8 (11.11%) Principal Engineer
5 8 (11.11%) Software Engineer
6 6 (8.33%) Lead DevOps
6 6 (8.33%) Python Engineer
6 6 (8.33%) Python Software Engineer
6 6 (8.33%) Senior Software Engineer
7 5 (6.94%) Lead DevOps Engineer
7 5 (6.94%) Senior DevOps
7 5 (6.94%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 4 (5.56%) Cloud Native Engineer
8 4 (5.56%) Developer
8 4 (5.56%) Full-Stack Developer
8 4 (5.56%) Linux Engineer
9 3 (4.17%) Administrator
9 3 (4.17%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (30.56%) Spring
1 22 (30.56%) Spring Boot
2 8 (11.11%) React
3 6 (8.33%) FastAPI
3 6 (8.33%) Next.js
3 6 (8.33%) Node.js
3 6 (8.33%) React Native
3 6 (8.33%) REST
3 6 (8.33%) Ruby on Rails
4 5 (6.94%) AngularJS
5 4 (5.56%) YAML
6 2 (2.78%) Apache Camel
6 2 (2.78%) AWS CDK
6 2 (2.78%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (2.78%) gRPC
6 2 (2.78%) Material-UI
6 2 (2.78%) OpenAPI
6 2 (2.78%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (2.78%) Swagger
6 2 (2.78%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 11 (15.28%) Cloud Native
2 5 (6.94%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (5.56%) Data Centre
3 4 (5.56%) Enterprise Cloud
3 4 (5.56%) Replication
4 3 (4.17%) Social Media
5 2 (2.78%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.78%) Driving Licence
5 2 (2.78%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.39%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 23 (31.94%) Linux
2 7 (9.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (8.33%) CentOS
4 4 (5.56%) Ubuntu
4 4 (5.56%) Unix
4 4 (5.56%) Windows
5 3 (4.17%) Debian
5 3 (4.17%) Solaris
5 3 (4.17%) Windows Server
6 2 (2.78%) VMS
7 1 (1.39%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (1.39%) SUSE
7 1 (1.39%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (72.22%) DevOps
2 45 (62.50%) Infrastructure as Code
3 43 (59.72%) CI/CD
4 27 (37.50%) Agile
4 27 (37.50%) Containerisation
5 24 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 21 (29.17%) Platform Engineering
7 16 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
8 13 (18.06%) Collaborative Culture
9 12 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
10 10 (13.89%) Microservices
10 10 (13.89%) Project Delivery
11 8 (11.11%) ITIL
11 8 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
11 8 (11.11%) Software Engineering
12 7 (9.72%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 7 (9.72%) Mentoring
13 6 (8.33%) Architectural Design
13 6 (8.33%) Configuration Management
13 6 (8.33%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 41 (56.94%) Python
2 24 (33.33%) Java
3 14 (19.44%) Bash
4 6 (8.33%) JavaScript
4 6 (8.33%) Ruby
5 5 (6.94%) PowerShell
6 4 (5.56%) Go
7 1 (1.39%) Bicep
7 1 (1.39%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 43 (59.72%) Security Cleared
2 31 (43.06%) DV Cleared
3 23 (31.94%) SC Cleared
4 5 (6.94%) AWS Certification
5 4 (5.56%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (4.17%) Azure Certification
7 2 (2.78%) CCIE
7 2 (2.78%) CCNA
7 2 (2.78%) CCNP
7 2 (2.78%) Degree
8 1 (1.39%) HP ASE
8 1 (1.39%) Linux+ Certification
8 1 (1.39%) LPIC
8 1 (1.39%) RHCE
8 1 (1.39%) RHCSA
8 1 (1.39%) VCAP
8 1 (1.39%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.78%) SLA
System Software
1 37 (51.39%) Docker
2 6 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (5.56%) vSphere
4 3 (4.17%) Ceph
4 3 (4.17%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (2.78%) VMware NSX
6 1 (1.39%) EMC RecoverPoint
6 1 (1.39%) Firmware
6 1 (1.39%) Hyper-V
6 1 (1.39%) KVM
Systems Management
1 58 (80.56%) Terraform
2 48 (66.67%) Kubernetes
3 5 (6.94%) Podman
3 5 (6.94%) Puppet
4 4 (5.56%) Prometheus
5 3 (4.17%) Argo
5 3 (4.17%) Check_MK
5 3 (4.17%) Istio
6 2 (2.78%) Progress Chef
6 2 (2.78%) SCCM
6 2 (2.78%) SolarWinds Orion
6 2 (2.78%) WSUS
7 1 (1.39%) Grafana
7 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (1.39%) VxRail
Vendors
1 8 (11.11%) Red Hat
1 8 (11.11%) Splunk
1 8 (11.11%) VMware
2 7 (9.72%) Microsoft
3 5 (6.94%) LogicMonitor
4 4 (5.56%) Dell
5 3 (4.17%) Veeam
6 2 (2.78%) Cisco
6 2 (2.78%) F5
6 2 (2.78%) Google
6 2 (2.78%) Mirantis
6 2 (2.78%) Oracle
6 2 (2.78%) Pega
6 2 (2.78%) SaltStack
6 2 (2.78%) ServiceNow
6 2 (2.78%) WSO2
6 2 (2.78%) Zscaler
7 1 (1.39%) Broadcom
7 1 (1.39%) Zerto