Ansible Job Trends in the North of England

Ansible
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Ansible skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 193 154 131
Rank change year-on-year -39 -23 +48
Permanent jobs citing Ansible 75 144 150
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.71% 1.49% 2.23%
As % of the Systems Management category 12.20% 16.33% 14.97%
Number of salaries quoted 56 83 124
10th Percentile £52,500 £41,400 £43,750
25th Percentile £56,875 £45,000 £48,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.83% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £73,125
90th Percentile £87,500 £83,750 £103,652
England median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £75,000

All Systems Management Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 615 882 1,002
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 5.82% 9.12% 14.91%
Number of salaries quoted 471 495 873
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,850 £31,250
25th Percentile £39,750 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £53,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.21% -7.83% -4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £84,000 £84,056
England median annual salary £62,500 £68,875 £65,000
% change year-on-year -9.26% +5.96% -3.70%

Ansible
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Ansible job vacancy trend in the North of England

Ansible
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Ansible.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Ansible

Ansible
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Ansible in the North of England over the 6 months to 21 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Ansible in the North of England

Ansible
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Ansible within the North of England region over the 6 months to 21 December 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
North West -2 40 £66,250 +6.00% 30
Yorkshire -10 24 £75,000 +15.38% 22
North East -16 11 £60,000 +35.52% 2
Ansible
England

Ansible
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 8 (10.67%) OpenStack
2 4 (5.33%) Apache
3 3 (4.00%) Apache Spark
4 2 (2.67%) Apache Solr
5 1 (1.33%) JBoss
5 1 (1.33%) nginx
5 1 (1.33%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 58 (77.33%) AWS
2 42 (56.00%) Azure
3 25 (33.33%) GCP
4 19 (25.33%) AWS CloudFormation
5 14 (18.67%) Amazon EKS
6 13 (17.33%) Amazon ECS
7 12 (16.00%) Serverless
8 11 (14.67%) GitHub
9 10 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (9.33%) Amazon EC2
11 6 (8.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 6 (8.00%) GitHub Actions
11 6 (8.00%) OpenShift
12 5 (6.67%) AWS CodeBuild
12 5 (6.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 4 (5.33%) IaaS
13 4 (5.33%) PaaS
13 4 (5.33%) Route 53
14 3 (4.00%) AWS Lambda
14 3 (4.00%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 9 (12.00%) DNS
2 7 (9.33%) Firewall
3 6 (8.00%) HTTP
4 4 (5.33%) DHCP
4 4 (5.33%) TCP/IP
5 3 (4.00%) AMQP
5 3 (4.00%) SAN
6 2 (2.67%) Internet
6 2 (2.67%) SSL
6 2 (2.67%) WAN
7 1 (1.33%) LAN
7 1 (1.33%) Network Security
7 1 (1.33%) SD-WAN
7 1 (1.33%) VLAN
7 1 (1.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (17.33%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (9.33%) MySQL
3 6 (8.00%) MongoDB
3 6 (8.00%) Relational Database
4 4 (5.33%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (5.33%) NoSQL
4 4 (5.33%) SQL Server
5 3 (4.00%) Big Data
5 3 (4.00%) Cloudera CDH
5 3 (4.00%) Hadoop
6 2 (2.67%) DynamoDB
7 1 (1.33%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (1.33%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 26 (34.67%) Jenkins
2 21 (28.00%) GitLab
3 18 (24.00%) Git
4 5 (6.67%) Bitbucket
4 5 (6.67%) CircleCI
4 5 (6.67%) JIRA
5 4 (5.33%) Artifactory
5 4 (5.33%) TeamCity
6 3 (4.00%) Octopus Deploy
6 3 (4.00%) SonarQube
7 1 (1.33%) Ant
7 1 (1.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (1.33%) git-flow
7 1 (1.33%) Maven
7 1 (1.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 9 (12.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (8.00%) Law
3 5 (6.67%) Finance
4 4 (5.33%) Public Sector
4 4 (5.33%) Telecoms
5 3 (4.00%) Aerospace
5 3 (4.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 23 (30.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 12 (16.00%) Lead
3 10 (13.33%) Developer
3 10 (13.33%) Lead DevOps
4 9 (12.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 9 (12.00%) Senior
5 8 (10.67%) Java Developer
5 8 (10.67%) Lead DevOps Engineer
6 7 (9.33%) Full-Stack Developer
6 7 (9.33%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 6 (8.00%) Cloud Engineer
7 6 (8.00%) Platform Engineer
8 4 (5.33%) CloudOps Manager
8 4 (5.33%) Operations Manager
8 4 (5.33%) Senior DevOps
8 4 (5.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 3 (4.00%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
9 3 (4.00%) Site Engineer
9 3 (4.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 3 (4.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (24.00%) Elastic Stack
2 14 (18.67%) Node.js
3 11 (14.67%) REST
3 11 (14.67%) Spring
3 11 (14.67%) Spring Boot
4 10 (13.33%) AngularJS
5 5 (6.67%) RabbitMQ
5 5 (6.67%) React
5 5 (6.67%) Web Services
6 4 (5.33%) Apache Camel
7 3 (4.00%) .NET
7 3 (4.00%) ARM Templates
7 3 (4.00%) DPDK
7 3 (4.00%) eBPF
7 3 (4.00%) gRPC
7 3 (4.00%) Material-UI
7 3 (4.00%) OpenAPI
7 3 (4.00%) Swagger
8 2 (2.67%) RESTful
8 2 (2.67%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 21 (28.00%) Cloud Native
2 5 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (5.33%) Public Cloud
4 3 (4.00%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (4.00%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.67%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.33%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.33%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.33%) NVMe
6 1 (1.33%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 34 (45.33%) Linux
2 19 (25.33%) Windows
3 7 (9.33%) Debian
3 7 (9.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (9.33%) Ubuntu
3 7 (9.33%) Windows Server
4 4 (5.33%) CentOS
5 3 (4.00%) Unix
5 3 (4.00%) VMS
6 1 (1.33%) Solaris
6 1 (1.33%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (1.33%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (1.33%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (70.67%) CI/CD
1 53 (70.67%) DevOps
2 50 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 33 (44.00%) Containerisation
4 26 (34.67%) Agile
5 22 (29.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 20 (26.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 19 (25.33%) Microservices
8 14 (18.67%) Configuration Management
9 12 (16.00%) Observability
9 12 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
10 11 (14.67%) Continuous Integration
10 11 (14.67%) Incident Response
10 11 (14.67%) Platform Engineering
11 10 (13.33%) Performance Optimisation
11 10 (13.33%) Scrum
12 9 (12.00%) Kanban
13 8 (10.67%) High Availability
13 8 (10.67%) Line Management
13 8 (10.67%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 39 (52.00%) Python
2 21 (28.00%) Java
3 20 (26.67%) Bash
4 14 (18.67%) PowerShell
5 13 (17.33%) JavaScript
6 8 (10.67%) Go
7 7 (9.33%) TypeScript
8 6 (8.00%) SQL
9 3 (4.00%) C#
10 2 (2.67%) C
10 2 (2.67%) PHP
11 1 (1.33%) Groovy
11 1 (1.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 10 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 8 (10.67%) AWS Certification
2 8 (10.67%) SC Cleared
3 5 (6.67%) DV Cleared
4 3 (4.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 3 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (4.00%) Degree
5 1 (1.33%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.00%) QA
2 2 (2.67%) GDPR
System Software
1 38 (50.67%) Docker
2 7 (9.33%) vSphere
3 5 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (4.00%) KVM
4 3 (4.00%) QEMU
4 3 (4.00%) VMware NSX
5 2 (2.67%) Active Directory
5 2 (2.67%) Hyper-V
6 1 (1.33%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (1.33%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 59 (78.67%) Terraform
2 54 (72.00%) Kubernetes
3 24 (32.00%) Grafana
4 21 (28.00%) Prometheus
5 7 (9.33%) Puppet
6 4 (5.33%) Docker Swarm
7 3 (4.00%) Argo
7 3 (4.00%) Control-M
7 3 (4.00%) Progress Chef
8 2 (2.67%) Nagios
8 2 (2.67%) Podman
8 2 (2.67%) Rancher
9 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
9 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (1.33%) SCCM
9 1 (1.33%) SCOM
9 1 (1.33%) vCenter Server
9 1 (1.33%) WSUS
Vendors
1 10 (13.33%) VMware
2 9 (12.00%) Microsoft
3 6 (8.00%) Red Hat
3 6 (8.00%) SaltStack
3 6 (8.00%) Splunk
4 5 (6.67%) Google
5 4 (5.33%) Pega
5 4 (5.33%) WSO2
6 3 (4.00%) Atlassian
6 3 (4.00%) Dynatrace
7 2 (2.67%) BMC
7 2 (2.67%) Oracle
8 1 (1.33%) Avaya
8 1 (1.33%) Genesys
8 1 (1.33%) Mirantis
8 1 (1.33%) Verint
8 1 (1.33%) Zscaler