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

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 137 65 150
Rank change year-on-year -72 +85 -40
Permanent jobs citing Ansible 40 105 64
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.68% 4.92% 1.24%
As % of the Systems Management category 12.94% 28.93% 14.04%
Number of salaries quoted 27 19 34
10th Percentile £45,050 £46,500 £46,625
25th Percentile £51,250 £53,750 £51,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £62,641
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -4.22% -10.51%
75th Percentile £73,000 £78,125 £74,375
90th Percentile £81,000 £88,750 £82,500
North West median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £62,783
% change year-on-year -7.14% +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 309 363 456
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 5.28% 17.02% 8.85%
Number of salaries quoted 237 204 346
10th Percentile £33,000 £32,500 £31,625
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,231 £44,263
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +16.67% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,563 £72,500
90th Percentile £88,750 £97,144 £81,875
North West median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -11.11% +17.39% -4.17%

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 27 May 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 (7.50%) Apache
1 3 (7.50%) Apache Spark
2 2 (5.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (5.00%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 29 (72.50%) AWS
2 21 (52.50%) Azure
3 15 (37.50%) Amazon EKS
4 11 (27.50%) GitHub
5 10 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 7 (17.50%) OpenShift
7 6 (15.00%) GCP
7 6 (15.00%) Serverless
8 5 (12.50%) Azure AKS
9 3 (7.50%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (7.50%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (7.50%) Amazon S3
9 3 (7.50%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (7.50%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (7.50%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 2 (5.00%) Entra ID
10 2 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (5.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 1 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.50%) AMQP
1 3 (7.50%) Firewall
2 1 (2.50%) SNMP
2 1 (2.50%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (15.00%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (7.50%) Big Data
2 3 (7.50%) Cloudera CDH
2 3 (7.50%) DynamoDB
2 3 (7.50%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (7.50%) Hadoop
2 3 (7.50%) MongoDB
2 3 (7.50%) MySQL
2 3 (7.50%) NoSQL
2 3 (7.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (25.00%) Git
1 10 (25.00%) GitLab
2 5 (12.50%) Jenkins
3 4 (10.00%) Bitbucket
4 1 (2.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (2.50%) JIRA
General
1 8 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (12.50%) Public Sector
3 4 (10.00%) Aerospace
4 1 (2.50%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.50%) German Language
4 1 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (2.50%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 18 (45.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 13 (32.50%) DevOps Engineer
3 9 (22.50%) Senior
4 5 (12.50%) Software Engineer
5 4 (10.00%) Platform Engineer
6 3 (7.50%) Developer
6 3 (7.50%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
6 3 (7.50%) Full-Stack Developer
6 3 (7.50%) Lead
6 3 (7.50%) Linux Engineer
6 3 (7.50%) Senior Cloud Engineer
7 2 (5.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 2 (5.00%) Azure Platform Engineer
7 2 (5.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 2 (5.00%) DevOps Platform Engineer
7 2 (5.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 2 (5.00%) Java Developer
7 2 (5.00%) Python Engineer
7 2 (5.00%) Senior DevOps
7 2 (5.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (22.50%) Spring
1 9 (22.50%) Spring Boot
2 6 (15.00%) AngularJS
2 6 (15.00%) Node.js
2 6 (15.00%) REST
3 5 (12.50%) React
4 4 (10.00%) YAML
5 3 (7.50%) gRPC
5 3 (7.50%) Material-UI
5 3 (7.50%) OpenAPI
5 3 (7.50%) RabbitMQ
5 3 (7.50%) RESTful
5 3 (7.50%) Swagger
6 2 (5.00%) Apache Camel
6 2 (5.00%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (5.00%) FastAPI
6 2 (5.00%) Next.js
6 2 (5.00%) React Native
6 2 (5.00%) Ruby on Rails
6 2 (5.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.00%) Cloud Native
1 4 (10.00%) Enterprise Cloud
1 4 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (7.50%) Public Cloud
3 2 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (5.00%) Mobile App
3 2 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 17 (42.50%) Linux
2 6 (15.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (12.50%) Debian
3 5 (12.50%) Ubuntu
4 4 (10.00%) CentOS
5 3 (7.50%) Windows
6 2 (5.00%) Solaris
6 2 (5.00%) Unix
7 1 (2.50%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (75.00%) DevOps
2 29 (72.50%) Infrastructure as Code
3 27 (67.50%) CI/CD
4 22 (55.00%) Agile
5 18 (45.00%) Containerisation
5 18 (45.00%) Platform Engineering
6 13 (32.50%) Collaborative Culture
7 10 (25.00%) Microservices
8 8 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 8 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
9 7 (17.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 6 (15.00%) Kanban
10 6 (15.00%) Project Delivery
10 6 (15.00%) Scrum
11 5 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
11 5 (12.50%) Software Engineering
12 4 (10.00%) Collaborative Working
12 4 (10.00%) GitOps
12 4 (10.00%) Infrastructure Automation
12 4 (10.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 18 (45.00%) Python
2 12 (30.00%) Java
3 7 (17.50%) Bash
4 6 (15.00%) JavaScript
5 4 (10.00%) PowerShell
6 3 (7.50%) Go
6 3 (7.50%) SQL
7 2 (5.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 22 (55.00%) Security Cleared
2 16 (40.00%) SC Cleared
3 10 (25.00%) DV Cleared
4 3 (7.50%) AWS Certification
4 3 (7.50%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.50%) LPIC
System Software
1 15 (37.50%) Docker
2 3 (7.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (7.50%) VMware NSX
2 3 (7.50%) vSphere
3 1 (2.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 36 (90.00%) Terraform
2 29 (72.50%) Kubernetes
3 3 (7.50%) Puppet
3 3 (7.50%) Rancher
4 2 (5.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (5.00%) Podman
Vendors
1 6 (15.00%) VMware
2 5 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 5 (12.50%) Red Hat
3 3 (7.50%) Google
3 3 (7.50%) LogicMonitor
3 3 (7.50%) SaltStack
4 2 (5.00%) Mirantis
4 2 (5.00%) Pega
4 2 (5.00%) Splunk
4 2 (5.00%) WSO2