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

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 142 72 146
Rank change year-on-year -70 +74 -37
Permanent jobs citing Ansible 41 104 64
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.69% 4.77% 1.22%
As % of the Systems Management category 12.81% 28.49% 14.04%
Number of salaries quoted 28 18 33
10th Percentile £45,475 £46,000 £46,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £53,750 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -4.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £74,688 £78,438 £75,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £88,750 £82,500
North West median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £62,783
% change year-on-year -7.14% +11.50% -6.99%

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 320 365 456
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 5.38% 16.75% 8.68%
Number of salaries quoted 247 205 343
10th Percentile £33,000 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £47,125 £47,231 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £69,384 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.32% +15.64% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £88,750 £97,017 £81,000
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 30 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 (7.32%) Apache
1 3 (7.32%) Apache Spark
2 2 (4.88%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (4.88%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 29 (70.73%) AWS
2 20 (48.78%) Azure
3 15 (36.59%) Amazon EKS
4 11 (26.83%) GitHub
5 9 (21.95%) AWS CloudFormation
6 7 (17.07%) Serverless
7 6 (14.63%) OpenShift
8 5 (12.20%) GCP
9 4 (9.76%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (9.76%) Azure AKS
10 3 (7.32%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (7.32%) Amazon S3
10 3 (7.32%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (7.32%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (4.88%) Entra ID
11 2 (4.88%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 2 (4.88%) Microsoft 365
11 2 (4.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 1 (2.44%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.32%) AMQP
1 3 (7.32%) Firewall
2 1 (2.44%) SNMP
2 1 (2.44%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (14.63%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (9.76%) Relational Database
3 3 (7.32%) Big Data
3 3 (7.32%) Cloudera CDH
3 3 (7.32%) Hadoop
4 2 (4.88%) DynamoDB
4 2 (4.88%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (4.88%) MongoDB
4 2 (4.88%) MySQL
4 2 (4.88%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (24.39%) Git
2 9 (21.95%) GitLab
3 6 (14.63%) Jenkins
4 3 (7.32%) Bitbucket
5 1 (2.44%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (2.44%) JIRA
General
1 7 (17.07%) Social Skills
2 5 (12.20%) Public Sector
3 4 (9.76%) Aerospace
4 1 (2.44%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.44%) German Language
4 1 (2.44%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (2.44%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 17 (41.46%) Cloud Engineer
2 14 (34.15%) DevOps Engineer
3 9 (21.95%) Senior
4 5 (12.20%) Software Engineer
5 4 (9.76%) Developer
5 4 (9.76%) Full-Stack Developer
5 4 (9.76%) Lead
5 4 (9.76%) Platform Engineer
6 3 (7.32%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
6 3 (7.32%) Linux Engineer
6 3 (7.32%) Senior Cloud Engineer
7 2 (4.88%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 2 (4.88%) Azure Engineer
7 2 (4.88%) Azure Platform Engineer
7 2 (4.88%) DevOps Platform Engineer
7 2 (4.88%) Principal Engineer
7 2 (4.88%) Python Engineer
7 2 (4.88%) Python Software Engineer
7 2 (4.88%) Senior DevOps
7 2 (4.88%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (26.83%) Spring
1 11 (26.83%) Spring Boot
2 7 (17.07%) Node.js
2 7 (17.07%) REST
3 6 (14.63%) AngularJS
4 5 (12.20%) React
5 4 (9.76%) YAML
6 3 (7.32%) gRPC
6 3 (7.32%) Material-UI
6 3 (7.32%) OpenAPI
6 3 (7.32%) RabbitMQ
6 3 (7.32%) Swagger
7 2 (4.88%) Apache Camel
7 2 (4.88%) Elastic Stack
7 2 (4.88%) FastAPI
7 2 (4.88%) Next.js
7 2 (4.88%) React Native
7 2 (4.88%) RESTful
7 2 (4.88%) Ruby on Rails
7 2 (4.88%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.76%) Cloud Native
1 4 (9.76%) Enterprise Cloud
1 4 (9.76%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (4.88%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (4.88%) Mobile App
2 2 (4.88%) Public Cloud
2 2 (4.88%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 16 (39.02%) Linux
2 6 (14.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (12.20%) Debian
3 5 (12.20%) Ubuntu
4 4 (9.76%) CentOS
5 3 (7.32%) Windows
6 2 (4.88%) Solaris
6 2 (4.88%) Unix
7 1 (2.44%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (75.61%) DevOps
2 29 (70.73%) Infrastructure as Code
3 27 (65.85%) CI/CD
4 21 (51.22%) Agile
5 18 (43.90%) Containerisation
5 18 (43.90%) Platform Engineering
6 12 (29.27%) Collaborative Culture
7 10 (24.39%) Microservices
8 8 (19.51%) Continuous Improvement
9 7 (17.07%) Deployment Automation
10 6 (14.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 6 (14.63%) Kanban
10 6 (14.63%) Project Delivery
10 6 (14.63%) Scrum
11 5 (12.20%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 5 (12.20%) Software Engineering
12 4 (9.76%) Collaborative Working
12 4 (9.76%) Infrastructure Automation
12 4 (9.76%) ITIL
12 4 (9.76%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 18 (43.90%) Python
2 13 (31.71%) Java
3 7 (17.07%) Bash
3 7 (17.07%) JavaScript
4 4 (9.76%) PowerShell
5 2 (4.88%) Go
5 2 (4.88%) Ruby
5 2 (4.88%) SQL
Qualifications
1 23 (56.10%) Security Cleared
2 16 (39.02%) SC Cleared
3 11 (26.83%) DV Cleared
4 3 (7.32%) AWS Certification
4 3 (7.32%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.44%) LPIC
System Software
1 16 (39.02%) Docker
2 3 (7.32%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (7.32%) VMware NSX
2 3 (7.32%) vSphere
3 1 (2.44%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 36 (87.80%) Terraform
2 29 (70.73%) Kubernetes
3 3 (7.32%) Puppet
4 2 (4.88%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (4.88%) Podman
4 2 (4.88%) Rancher
Vendors
1 6 (14.63%) VMware
2 5 (12.20%) Microsoft
2 5 (12.20%) Red Hat
3 3 (7.32%) Google
3 3 (7.32%) LogicMonitor
3 3 (7.32%) SaltStack
4 2 (4.88%) Mirantis
4 2 (4.88%) Pega
4 2 (4.88%) Splunk
4 2 (4.88%) WSO2