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

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 124 71 151
Rank change year-on-year -53 +80 -67
Permanent jobs citing Ansible 60 107 63
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.94% 4.31% 1.15%
As % of the Systems Management category 17.34% 28.84% 13.38%
Number of salaries quoted 44 19 30
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £52,188 £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 £80,000 £77,500 £76,875
90th Percentile £96,250 £88,750 £82,625
North West median annual salary £62,500 £60,250 £62,641
% change year-on-year +3.73% -3.82% -10.51%

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 346 371 471
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 5.43% 14.94% 8.60%
Number of salaries quoted 283 206 318
10th Percentile £35,750 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,500 £67,037 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.29% +16.59% -14.81%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £73,438
90th Percentile £90,000 £96,264 £83,825
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 16 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 2 (3.33%) Apache
1 2 (3.33%) Apache Spark
1 2 (3.33%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (3.33%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 35 (58.33%) AWS
2 20 (33.33%) Azure
3 13 (21.67%) GitHub
4 12 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
5 9 (15.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 9 (15.00%) Serverless
6 5 (8.33%) OpenShift
7 4 (6.67%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (5.00%) GCP
8 3 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (3.33%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (3.33%) Azure AKS
9 2 (3.33%) Entra ID
9 2 (3.33%) Microsoft 365
10 1 (1.67%) Amazon EC2
10 1 (1.67%) Amazon S3
10 1 (1.67%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (1.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.67%) BGP
1 4 (6.67%) Firewall
1 4 (6.67%) IPsec
1 4 (6.67%) SD-WAN
1 4 (6.67%) WAN
2 3 (5.00%) VPN
3 2 (3.33%) AMQP
3 2 (3.33%) DMZ
3 2 (3.33%) HSRP
3 2 (3.33%) LAN
3 2 (3.33%) MPLS
3 2 (3.33%) OSPF
3 2 (3.33%) VRRP
3 2 (3.33%) Wireless
3 2 (3.33%) Wireshark
3 2 (3.33%) WLAN
4 1 (1.67%) DHCP
4 1 (1.67%) DNS
4 1 (1.67%) SNMP
4 1 (1.67%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.33%) Relational Database
2 4 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (3.33%) Big Data
3 2 (3.33%) Cloudera CDH
3 2 (3.33%) Hadoop
4 1 (1.67%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 12 (20.00%) Git
2 9 (15.00%) GitLab
3 8 (13.33%) Jenkins
4 3 (5.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 3 (5.00%) JIRA
5 1 (1.67%) Bitbucket
General
1 12 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (11.67%) Public Sector
3 4 (6.67%) Finance
4 3 (5.00%) Aerospace
5 2 (3.33%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.67%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.67%) German Language
6 1 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.67%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 29 (48.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 17 (28.33%) Cloud Engineer
3 14 (23.33%) Senior
4 8 (13.33%) Software Engineer
5 7 (11.67%) Lead
5 7 (11.67%) Principal DevOps Engineer
5 7 (11.67%) Principal Engineer
6 6 (10.00%) Python Engineer
6 6 (10.00%) Python Software Engineer
6 6 (10.00%) Senior Software Engineer
7 4 (6.67%) Developer
7 4 (6.67%) Full-Stack Developer
7 4 (6.67%) Lead DevOps
7 4 (6.67%) Lead DevOps Engineer
7 4 (6.67%) Linux Engineer
7 4 (6.67%) Senior DevOps
7 4 (6.67%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 3 (5.00%) Cloud Native Engineer
8 3 (5.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
9 2 (3.33%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (30.00%) Spring
1 18 (30.00%) Spring Boot
2 8 (13.33%) React
3 6 (10.00%) FastAPI
3 6 (10.00%) Next.js
3 6 (10.00%) Node.js
3 6 (10.00%) React Native
3 6 (10.00%) REST
3 6 (10.00%) Ruby on Rails
4 5 (8.33%) AngularJS
5 4 (6.67%) YAML
6 2 (3.33%) Apache Camel
6 2 (3.33%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (3.33%) gRPC
6 2 (3.33%) Material-UI
6 2 (3.33%) OpenAPI
6 2 (3.33%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (3.33%) Swagger
6 2 (3.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (13.33%) Cloud Native
2 4 (6.67%) Data Centre
2 4 (6.67%) Enterprise Cloud
2 4 (6.67%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (3.33%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (3.33%) Driving Licence
3 2 (3.33%) Mobile App
3 2 (3.33%) Onboarding
3 2 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.67%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 17 (28.33%) Linux
2 7 (11.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (10.00%) CentOS
4 5 (8.33%) Ubuntu
5 4 (6.67%) Debian
6 3 (5.00%) Solaris
6 3 (5.00%) Unix
7 1 (1.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (73.33%) DevOps
2 39 (65.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 36 (60.00%) CI/CD
4 23 (38.33%) Agile
4 23 (38.33%) Containerisation
5 21 (35.00%) Platform Engineering
6 19 (31.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 15 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 12 (20.00%) Collaborative Culture
9 9 (15.00%) Microservices
9 9 (15.00%) Project Delivery
9 9 (15.00%) Stakeholder Management
10 8 (13.33%) Software Engineering
11 7 (11.67%) Problem-Solving
12 6 (10.00%) Architectural Design
13 5 (8.33%) Collaborative Engineering
13 5 (8.33%) Deployment Automation
13 5 (8.33%) Kanban
13 5 (8.33%) Mentoring
13 5 (8.33%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 35 (58.33%) Python
2 20 (33.33%) Java
3 11 (18.33%) Bash
4 6 (10.00%) JavaScript
4 6 (10.00%) Ruby
5 4 (6.67%) PowerShell
6 2 (3.33%) Go
7 1 (1.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 36 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 24 (40.00%) DV Cleared
3 20 (33.33%) SC Cleared
4 4 (6.67%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (5.00%) AWS Certification
5 3 (5.00%) Azure Certification
6 2 (3.33%) CCIE
6 2 (3.33%) CCNA
6 2 (3.33%) CCNP
6 2 (3.33%) Degree
7 1 (1.67%) Linux+ Certification
7 1 (1.67%) LPIC
7 1 (1.67%) RHCE
7 1 (1.67%) RHCSA
System Software
1 30 (50.00%) Docker
2 3 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.67%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.67%) KVM
3 1 (1.67%) VMware NSX
3 1 (1.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 52 (86.67%) Terraform
2 39 (65.00%) Kubernetes
3 3 (5.00%) Puppet
4 2 (3.33%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (3.33%) Podman
4 2 (3.33%) SolarWinds Orion
5 1 (1.67%) Grafana
5 1 (1.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 8 (13.33%) Splunk
2 5 (8.33%) Microsoft
2 5 (8.33%) Red Hat
2 5 (8.33%) VMware
3 3 (5.00%) LogicMonitor
4 2 (3.33%) Cisco
4 2 (3.33%) F5
4 2 (3.33%) Google
4 2 (3.33%) Mirantis
4 2 (3.33%) Pega
4 2 (3.33%) SaltStack
4 2 (3.33%) WSO2
4 2 (3.33%) Zscaler
5 1 (1.67%) Oracle