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

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 133 71 159
Rank change year-on-year -62 +88 -52
Permanent jobs citing Ansible 42 105 67
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.70% 4.63% 1.16%
As % of the Systems Management category 12.73% 27.93% 14.11%
Number of salaries quoted 28 18 34
10th Percentile £45,475 £46,000 £46,625
25th Percentile £51,250 £53,750 £51,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £62,641
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -4.22% -10.51%
75th Percentile £72,250 £78,438 £75,000
90th Percentile £80,750 £88,750 £82,500
North West median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £62,783
% change year-on-year -10.71% +11.50% -10.31%

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 330 376 475
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 5.47% 16.56% 8.20%
Number of salaries quoted 259 212 345
10th Percentile £33,750 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £45,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,563 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.79% +12.61% -8.19%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £96,125 £81,250
North West median annual salary £62,500 £67,037 £55,000
% change year-on-year -6.77% +21.89% -8.33%

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 13 June 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 (7.14%) Apache
1 3 (7.14%) Apache Spark
2 2 (4.76%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (4.76%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 28 (66.67%) AWS
2 19 (45.24%) Azure
3 14 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
4 11 (26.19%) GitHub
5 8 (19.05%) AWS CloudFormation
6 7 (16.67%) Serverless
7 6 (14.29%) OpenShift
8 4 (9.52%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (9.52%) GCP
9 3 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (7.14%) Azure AKS
9 3 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (4.76%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (4.76%) Amazon S3
10 2 (4.76%) Entra ID
10 2 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (4.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 1 (2.38%) Azure DevOps
11 1 (2.38%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.14%) AMQP
1 3 (7.14%) Firewall
2 2 (4.76%) VPN
3 1 (2.38%) BGP
3 1 (2.38%) HSRP
3 1 (2.38%) IPsec
3 1 (2.38%) LAN
3 1 (2.38%) MPLS
3 1 (2.38%) OSPF
3 1 (2.38%) SD-WAN
3 1 (2.38%) SNMP
3 1 (2.38%) VRRP
3 1 (2.38%) WAN
3 1 (2.38%) Wireless
3 1 (2.38%) Wireshark
3 1 (2.38%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (11.90%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (9.52%) Relational Database
3 3 (7.14%) Big Data
3 3 (7.14%) Cloudera CDH
3 3 (7.14%) Hadoop
4 1 (2.38%) DynamoDB
4 1 (2.38%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (2.38%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.38%) MySQL
4 1 (2.38%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (23.81%) Git
2 8 (19.05%) GitLab
3 6 (14.29%) Jenkins
4 2 (4.76%) Bitbucket
5 1 (2.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (2.38%) JIRA
General
1 8 (19.05%) Social Skills
2 5 (11.90%) Public Sector
3 4 (9.52%) Aerospace
4 1 (2.38%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.38%) Finance
4 1 (2.38%) German Language
4 1 (2.38%) Manufacturing
4 1 (2.38%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (2.38%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 15 (35.71%) Cloud Engineer
1 15 (35.71%) DevOps Engineer
2 10 (23.81%) Senior
3 7 (16.67%) Software Engineer
4 4 (9.52%) Developer
4 4 (9.52%) Full-Stack Developer
4 4 (9.52%) Lead
4 4 (9.52%) Python Engineer
4 4 (9.52%) Python Software Engineer
4 4 (9.52%) Senior Software Engineer
5 3 (7.14%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
5 3 (7.14%) Linux Engineer
5 3 (7.14%) Platform Engineer
5 3 (7.14%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Java Developer
6 2 (4.76%) Principal Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Senior DevOps
6 2 (4.76%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (26.19%) Spring
1 11 (26.19%) Spring Boot
2 7 (16.67%) Node.js
2 7 (16.67%) React
2 7 (16.67%) REST
3 6 (14.29%) AngularJS
4 4 (9.52%) FastAPI
4 4 (9.52%) Next.js
4 4 (9.52%) React Native
4 4 (9.52%) Ruby on Rails
4 4 (9.52%) YAML
5 3 (7.14%) gRPC
5 3 (7.14%) Material-UI
5 3 (7.14%) OpenAPI
5 3 (7.14%) RabbitMQ
5 3 (7.14%) Swagger
6 2 (4.76%) Apache Camel
6 2 (4.76%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (4.76%) Web Services
7 1 (2.38%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.52%) Cloud Native
1 4 (9.52%) Enterprise Cloud
1 4 (9.52%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (4.76%) Mobile App
2 2 (4.76%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (2.38%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.38%) Driving Licence
3 1 (2.38%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 15 (35.71%) Linux
2 6 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (11.90%) Debian
3 5 (11.90%) Ubuntu
4 4 (9.52%) CentOS
5 2 (4.76%) Solaris
5 2 (4.76%) Unix
5 2 (4.76%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (71.43%) DevOps
2 28 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 26 (61.90%) CI/CD
4 21 (50.00%) Agile
5 18 (42.86%) Platform Engineering
6 17 (40.48%) Containerisation
7 12 (28.57%) Collaborative Culture
8 10 (23.81%) Continuous Improvement
9 9 (21.43%) Microservices
10 7 (16.67%) Project Delivery
10 7 (16.67%) Software Engineering
11 6 (14.29%) Deployment Automation
11 6 (14.29%) Kanban
11 6 (14.29%) Scrum
12 5 (11.90%) Problem-Solving
12 5 (11.90%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 4 (9.52%) Architectural Design
13 4 (9.52%) Collaborative Engineering
13 4 (9.52%) Collaborative Working
13 4 (9.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 21 (50.00%) Python
2 13 (30.95%) Java
3 8 (19.05%) Bash
4 7 (16.67%) JavaScript
5 4 (9.52%) PowerShell
5 4 (9.52%) Ruby
6 2 (4.76%) Go
7 1 (2.38%) SQL
Qualifications
1 23 (54.76%) Security Cleared
2 16 (38.10%) SC Cleared
3 11 (26.19%) DV Cleared
4 3 (7.14%) AWS Certification
4 3 (7.14%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.38%) CCNA
5 1 (2.38%) CCNP
5 1 (2.38%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (2.38%) Degree
5 1 (2.38%) LPIC
System Software
1 18 (42.86%) Docker
2 3 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (4.76%) VMware NSX
3 2 (4.76%) vSphere
4 1 (2.38%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 36 (85.71%) Terraform
2 28 (66.67%) Kubernetes
3 3 (7.14%) Puppet
4 2 (4.76%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (4.76%) Podman
5 1 (2.38%) Rancher
Vendors
1 5 (11.90%) Microsoft
1 5 (11.90%) Red Hat
1 5 (11.90%) VMware
2 4 (9.52%) Splunk
3 3 (7.14%) Google
3 3 (7.14%) LogicMonitor
3 3 (7.14%) SaltStack
4 2 (4.76%) Mirantis
4 2 (4.76%) Pega
4 2 (4.76%) WSO2