Ansible Job Trends in the Midlands

Ansible
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Ansible skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 234 172 261
Rank change year-on-year -62 +89 -64
Permanent jobs citing Ansible 17 44 50
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.14% 0.90% 0.44%
As % of the Systems Management category 5.56% 14.67% 6.12%
Number of salaries quoted 11 28 48
10th Percentile £48,500 £40,000 £39,475
25th Percentile £52,875 £51,250 £42,596
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £64,600 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.12% +12.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £78,750 - £81,625
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -3.45%

All Systems Management Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 306 300 817
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.51% 6.15% 7.25%
Number of salaries quoted 239 241 661
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,875 £41,250 £36,298
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £53,300 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.50% +6.60% -4.76%
75th Percentile £68,750 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £75,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% +16.67% -11.11%

Ansible
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Ansible relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Ansible job vacancy trend in the Midlands

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Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Ansible.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Ansible

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Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Ansible in the Midlands over the 6 months to 20 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Ansible in the Midlands

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Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Ansible within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 20 April 2026. 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
West Midlands -50 13 £60,000 -20.00% 9
East Midlands -60 4 £65,000 +62.50% 5
Ansible
England

Ansible
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 11 (64.71%) Azure
2 9 (52.94%) AWS
3 4 (23.53%) GCP
3 4 (23.53%) Serverless
4 3 (17.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (17.65%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (17.65%) Amazon S3
4 3 (17.65%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (17.65%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (17.65%) PaaS
4 3 (17.65%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 2 (11.76%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (11.76%) IaaS
5 2 (11.76%) Pulumi
5 2 (11.76%) SaaS
6 1 (5.88%) Azure AKS
6 1 (5.88%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (5.88%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (5.88%) Entra ID
6 1 (5.88%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 5 (29.41%) Firewall
2 3 (17.65%) DNS
3 2 (11.76%) Network Security
4 1 (5.88%) Broadband
4 1 (5.88%) DHCP
4 1 (5.88%) NAS
4 1 (5.88%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (17.65%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (5.88%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (5.88%) NoSQL
2 1 (5.88%) RDBMS
2 1 (5.88%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (23.53%) Jenkins
2 3 (17.65%) Git
3 1 (5.88%) GitLab
3 1 (5.88%) Jaeger
General
1 11 (64.71%) Social Skills
2 4 (23.53%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (17.65%) Advertising
3 3 (17.65%) Banking
3 3 (17.65%) Investment Banking
3 3 (17.65%) Military
4 2 (11.76%) Finance
5 1 (5.88%) Automotive
5 1 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (23.53%) Azure Engineer
1 4 (23.53%) Cloud Engineer
1 4 (23.53%) Cloud Platform Engineer
1 4 (23.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 4 (23.53%) Platform Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) Administrator
2 3 (17.65%) AWS Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) Azure Platform Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Linux Administrator
3 2 (11.76%) Linux Systems Administrator
3 2 (11.76%) Support Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Systems Administrator
4 1 (5.88%) Cloud Administrator
4 1 (5.88%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Kubernetes Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Lead DevOps
4 1 (5.88%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Release Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.88%) .NET
1 1 (5.88%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (5.88%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (11.76%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (11.76%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.88%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (5.88%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (5.88%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 7 (41.18%) Linux
2 2 (11.76%) CentOS
2 2 (11.76%) Debian
2 2 (11.76%) Ubuntu
3 1 (5.88%) Oracle Linux
3 1 (5.88%) Unix
3 1 (5.88%) Windows
3 1 (5.88%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (58.82%) DevOps
2 9 (52.94%) Infrastructure as Code
3 8 (47.06%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (35.29%) CI/CD
4 6 (35.29%) Containerisation
4 6 (35.29%) High Availability
4 6 (35.29%) Migration
5 5 (29.41%) Agile
6 4 (23.53%) Cloud Security
6 4 (23.53%) GitOps
6 4 (23.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 4 (23.53%) Microservices
6 4 (23.53%) Platform Engineering
7 3 (17.65%) Cost Optimisation
7 3 (17.65%) ITIL
7 3 (17.65%) Knowledge Transfer
7 3 (17.65%) Mentoring
7 3 (17.65%) Runbook
7 3 (17.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 2 (11.76%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (35.29%) Bash
2 5 (29.41%) PowerShell
3 3 (17.65%) Bicep
4 2 (11.76%) JavaScript
4 2 (11.76%) Python
4 2 (11.76%) Shell Script
5 1 (5.88%) Go
5 1 (5.88%) Java
5 1 (5.88%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (29.41%) SC Cleared
1 5 (29.41%) Security Cleared
2 4 (23.53%) AWS Certification
3 3 (17.65%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 3 (17.65%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
4 2 (11.76%) DV Cleared
5 1 (5.88%) CISSP
5 1 (5.88%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) GDPR
1 1 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (5.88%) SOC 2
System Software
1 9 (52.94%) Docker
2 1 (5.88%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.88%) Hyper-V
2 1 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 16 (94.12%) Terraform
2 12 (70.59%) Kubernetes
3 2 (11.76%) Progress Chef
3 2 (11.76%) Puppet
4 1 (5.88%) Argo
4 1 (5.88%) Kustomize
4 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (5.88%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (17.65%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.76%) Red Hat
3 1 (5.88%) Commvault
3 1 (5.88%) Google
3 1 (5.88%) Oracle
3 1 (5.88%) Salesforce
3 1 (5.88%) Veeam
3 1 (5.88%) VMware