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 18 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 185 174 125
Rank change year-on-year -11 -49 +52
Permanent jobs citing Ansible 75 141 183
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.78% 1.15% 2.41%
As % of the Systems Management category 12.10% 15.11% 14.73%
Number of salaries quoted 56 79 151
10th Percentile £55,000 £42,238 £44,263
25th Percentile £60,875 £47,500 £52,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £59,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +27.12% -9.23% -1.89%
75th Percentile £82,813 £72,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £89,500 £82,750 £97,500
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 620 933 1,242
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 6.46% 7.64% 16.36%
Number of salaries quoted 493 505 989
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,750 £31,450
25th Percentile £35,750 £44,106 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £69,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,500 £68,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -11.03% +4.62% -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 18 November 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 18 November 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 -6 35 £65,000 +8.33% 54
Yorkshire +19 32 £75,000 +25.00% 14
North East -15 8 £67,500 +52.46% 9
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 7 (9.33%) OpenStack
2 3 (4.00%) Apache
3 2 (2.67%) Apache Solr
3 2 (2.67%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.33%) JBoss
4 1 (1.33%) nginx
4 1 (1.33%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 57 (76.00%) AWS
2 41 (54.67%) Azure
3 23 (30.67%) GCP
4 18 (24.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 11 (14.67%) Amazon ECS
6 10 (13.33%) GitHub
7 9 (12.00%) Amazon EKS
7 9 (12.00%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (12.00%) Serverless
8 8 (10.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 8 (10.67%) Amazon EC2
9 7 (9.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 6 (8.00%) AWS CodeBuild
10 6 (8.00%) Route 53
11 5 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
12 4 (5.33%) IaaS
12 4 (5.33%) OCI
12 4 (5.33%) PaaS
13 3 (4.00%) OpenShift
13 3 (4.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (17.33%) DNS
2 9 (12.00%) Firewall
3 8 (10.67%) DHCP
4 7 (9.33%) TCP/IP
5 6 (8.00%) WAN
6 5 (6.67%) HTTP
6 5 (6.67%) Network Security
6 5 (6.67%) VLAN
6 5 (6.67%) VPN
7 4 (5.33%) BGP
7 4 (5.33%) LAN
7 4 (5.33%) OSPF
7 4 (5.33%) SAN
8 2 (2.67%) AMQP
8 2 (2.67%) SD-WAN
8 2 (2.67%) SSL
9 1 (1.33%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.00%) PostgreSQL
1 6 (8.00%) Relational Database
2 4 (5.33%) MySQL
2 4 (5.33%) SQL Server
3 3 (4.00%) MongoDB
4 2 (2.67%) Big Data
4 2 (2.67%) Cloudera CDH
4 2 (2.67%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (2.67%) Hadoop
5 1 (1.33%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.33%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.33%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 24 (32.00%) Jenkins
2 19 (25.33%) GitLab
3 11 (14.67%) Git
4 7 (9.33%) CircleCI
4 7 (9.33%) JIRA
5 5 (6.67%) Artifactory
6 4 (5.33%) Bitbucket
6 4 (5.33%) Octopus Deploy
6 4 (5.33%) SonarQube
6 4 (5.33%) TeamCity
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 11 (14.67%) Social Skills
2 7 (9.33%) Finance
3 5 (6.67%) Law
4 4 (5.33%) Public Sector
5 3 (4.00%) Banking
5 3 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (4.00%) Telecoms
6 2 (2.67%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 23 (30.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 16 (21.33%) Lead
3 10 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 10 (13.33%) Senior
4 8 (10.67%) Developer
4 8 (10.67%) Lead DevOps
4 8 (10.67%) Network Engineer
5 6 (8.00%) Java Developer
5 6 (8.00%) Lead DevOps Engineer
6 5 (6.67%) Full-Stack Developer
6 5 (6.67%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 4 (5.33%) Azure Engineer
7 4 (5.33%) Cloud Engineer
7 4 (5.33%) CloudOps Manager
7 4 (5.33%) Lead Network Engineer
7 4 (5.33%) Operations Manager
7 4 (5.33%) Platform Engineer
7 4 (5.33%) Senior DevOps
7 4 (5.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 3 (4.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (25.33%) Elastic Stack
2 11 (14.67%) Node.js
3 9 (12.00%) REST
4 8 (10.67%) AngularJS
4 8 (10.67%) Spring
4 8 (10.67%) Spring Boot
5 4 (5.33%) Apache Camel
5 4 (5.33%) RabbitMQ
5 4 (5.33%) Web Services
6 3 (4.00%) .NET
6 3 (4.00%) ARM Templates
6 3 (4.00%) DPDK
6 3 (4.00%) eBPF
6 3 (4.00%) React
7 2 (2.67%) gRPC
7 2 (2.67%) Kafka
7 2 (2.67%) Material-UI
7 2 (2.67%) OpenAPI
7 2 (2.67%) Swagger
7 2 (2.67%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 19 (25.33%) Cloud Native
2 8 (10.67%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (5.33%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (5.33%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.67%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (1.33%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.33%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.33%) NVMe
5 1 (1.33%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 29 (38.67%) Linux
2 20 (26.67%) Windows
3 8 (10.67%) Debian
3 8 (10.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (10.67%) Ubuntu
3 8 (10.67%) Windows Server
4 2 (2.67%) CentOS
4 2 (2.67%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (66.67%) DevOps
2 45 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 44 (58.67%) CI/CD
4 32 (42.67%) Containerisation
5 20 (26.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 19 (25.33%) Agile
7 18 (24.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 16 (21.33%) Configuration Management
9 14 (18.67%) Microservices
9 14 (18.67%) Problem-Solving
10 13 (17.33%) Continuous Integration
11 12 (16.00%) Continuous Improvement
12 11 (14.67%) Incident Response
13 10 (13.33%) Technical Leadership
14 9 (12.00%) Observability
15 8 (10.67%) Infrastructure Automation
15 8 (10.67%) Performance Optimisation
15 8 (10.67%) Platform Engineering
15 8 (10.67%) Roadmaps
15 8 (10.67%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 48 (64.00%) Python
2 21 (28.00%) Bash
3 19 (25.33%) PowerShell
4 17 (22.67%) Java
5 10 (13.33%) JavaScript
6 5 (6.67%) SQL
6 5 (6.67%) TypeScript
7 4 (5.33%) C#
8 3 (4.00%) Go
9 2 (2.67%) PHP
10 1 (1.33%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 12 (16.00%) AWS Certification
2 6 (8.00%) Security Cleared
3 5 (6.67%) SC Cleared
4 4 (5.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (5.33%) Degree
5 3 (4.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 3 (4.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (4.00%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
5 3 (4.00%) DV Cleared
6 2 (2.67%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.00%) QA
2 2 (2.67%) GDPR
System Software
1 35 (46.67%) Docker
2 7 (9.33%) vSphere
3 6 (8.00%) Active Directory
3 6 (8.00%) Hyper-V
4 5 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (4.00%) KVM
5 3 (4.00%) QEMU
6 2 (2.67%) VMware NSX
7 1 (1.33%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (1.33%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 52 (69.33%) Terraform
2 49 (65.33%) Kubernetes
3 23 (30.67%) Grafana
4 19 (25.33%) Prometheus
5 6 (8.00%) Puppet
6 5 (6.67%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
6 5 (6.67%) SCCM
6 5 (6.67%) SCOM
6 5 (6.67%) WSUS
7 4 (5.33%) Control-M
7 4 (5.33%) Docker Swarm
8 3 (4.00%) Progress Chef
9 2 (2.67%) Argo
10 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (1.33%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 1 (1.33%) Podman
10 1 (1.33%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 15 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 8 (10.67%) VMware
3 7 (9.33%) Oracle
3 7 (9.33%) Red Hat
4 6 (8.00%) Splunk
5 5 (6.67%) Google
5 5 (6.67%) SaltStack
6 4 (5.33%) Atlassian
6 4 (5.33%) Pega
6 4 (5.33%) WSO2
7 3 (4.00%) Aruba
7 3 (4.00%) Cisco
7 3 (4.00%) Fortinet
7 3 (4.00%) Mellanox
7 3 (4.00%) NVIDIA
7 3 (4.00%) Palo Alto
8 2 (2.67%) Zscaler
9 1 (1.33%) Avaya
9 1 (1.33%) Salesforce
9 1 (1.33%) SAP