Ansible Job Trends in Merseyside

Ansible
North West > Merseyside

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Merseyside requiring Ansible skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 61 40
Rank change year-on-year +20 -21 +46
Permanent jobs citing Ansible 26 2 20
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Merseyside 4.30% 0.25% 3.97%
As % of the Systems Management category 40.00% 6.45% 21.98%
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 13
10th Percentile - - £41,250
25th Percentile £62,500 £56,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% +15.00% -23.08%
75th Percentile £67,500 £58,750 £57,500
90th Percentile - - -
North West median annual salary £62,500 £59,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +5.93% -12.59% +3.85%

All Systems Management Skills
Merseyside

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 Merseyside.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 65 31 91
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Merseyside 10.76% 3.87% 18.06%
Number of salaries quoted 19 22 73
10th Percentile £25,750 £26,850 £30,750
25th Percentile £37,235 £29,550 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,720 £40,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.80% -27.27% -15.38%
75th Percentile £66,250 £57,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £70,000 £74,625 £85,000
North West median annual salary £53,750 £52,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +2.38% -19.23% +8.33%

Ansible
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

Job postings citing Ansible as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Merseyside.

Job vacancy trend for Ansible in Merseyside

Ansible
Salary Trend in Merseyside

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Merseyside citing Ansible.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Merseyside citing Ansible

Ansible
Job Locations in Merseyside

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Ansible within the Merseyside region over the 6 months to 26 September 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Southport - 4 - -
Liverpool +9 1 £65,000 +13.04% 2
Ansible
North West

Ansible
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Merseyside by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.85%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 1 (3.85%) Azure
1 1 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (3.85%) GitHub
1 1 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 25 (96.15%) VPN
2 20 (76.92%) DNS
3 5 (19.23%) Cisco IOS
Development Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Git
1 1 (3.85%) git-flow
General
1 25 (96.15%) Analytical Skills
1 25 (96.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 20 (76.92%) Finance
Job Titles
1 20 (76.92%) Developer
1 20 (76.92%) Software Developer
2 5 (19.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (3.85%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (3.85%) Operations Engineer
3 1 (3.85%) Senior
3 1 (3.85%) Senior DevOps
3 1 (3.85%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 1 (3.85%) Senior Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (19.23%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (3.85%) .NET
2 1 (3.85%) Node.js
2 1 (3.85%) React
Miscellaneous
1 25 (96.15%) Cyberattack
2 1 (3.85%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 26 (100.00%) Linux
2 25 (96.15%) Android
3 5 (19.23%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (96.15%) Line Management
1 25 (96.15%) Mathematics
2 20 (76.92%) Agile
2 20 (76.92%) Android Development
2 20 (76.92%) Design Patterns
2 20 (76.92%) OO
2 20 (76.92%) OOP
3 6 (23.08%) DevOps
4 5 (19.23%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 5 (19.23%) Platform Engineering
4 5 (19.23%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (19.23%) Risk Management
4 5 (19.23%) Storage Management
4 5 (19.23%) Task Automation
5 1 (3.85%) Containerisation
5 1 (3.85%) GitOps
5 1 (3.85%) Mentoring
5 1 (3.85%) Microservices
5 1 (3.85%) Observability
5 1 (3.85%) Trunk-Based Development
Programming Languages
1 25 (96.15%) Python
2 20 (76.92%) C++
2 20 (76.92%) Go
2 20 (76.92%) Java
3 6 (23.08%) Bash
3 6 (23.08%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 20 (76.92%) DV Cleared
1 20 (76.92%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 26 (100.00%) Docker
2 5 (19.23%) Hyper-V
2 5 (19.23%) VMware NSX
2 5 (19.23%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (23.08%) Terraform
2 1 (3.85%) Argo
2 1 (3.85%) Grafana
2 1 (3.85%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.85%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (19.23%) 3PAR
1 5 (19.23%) Cisco
1 5 (19.23%) Juniper
1 5 (19.23%) Splunk