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

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 194 170 121
Rank change year-on-year -24 -49 +57
Permanent jobs citing Ansible 76 139 176
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.80% 1.15% 2.41%
As % of the Systems Management category 12.22% 14.90% 14.68%
Number of salaries quoted 57 78 146
10th Percentile £55,000 £42,238 £44,007
25th Percentile £57,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £59,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.45% -4.80% -3.85%
75th Percentile £82,500 £76,625 £78,304
90th Percentile £89,400 £83,750 £92,460
England median annual salary £75,000 £74,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +1.35% -1.33% -

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 622 933 1,199
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 6.59% 7.69% 16.43%
Number of salaries quoted 494 507 955
10th Percentile £28,500 £34,450 £31,500
25th Percentile £36,375 £43,875 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.77% -11.67% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £69,625 £76,875
90th Percentile £83,500 £85,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £62,250 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.78% +3.85% -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 28 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 28 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 +8 38 £63,750 +6.25% 20
Yorkshire +18 29 £75,000 +25.00% 18
North East -9 9 £67,500 +52.46% 5
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 (9.21%) OpenStack
2 3 (3.95%) Apache
3 2 (2.63%) Apache Solr
3 2 (2.63%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.32%) JBoss
4 1 (1.32%) nginx
4 1 (1.32%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 58 (76.32%) AWS
2 40 (52.63%) Azure
3 22 (28.95%) GCP
4 19 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 12 (15.79%) Amazon ECS
6 11 (14.47%) Amazon EKS
7 10 (13.16%) GitHub
7 10 (13.16%) Serverless
8 9 (11.84%) Azure DevOps
9 8 (10.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 8 (10.53%) Amazon EC2
10 7 (9.21%) AWS CodeBuild
10 7 (9.21%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 6 (7.89%) Route 53
12 5 (6.58%) GitHub Actions
13 4 (5.26%) IaaS
13 4 (5.26%) OpenShift
13 4 (5.26%) PaaS
14 3 (3.95%) Datadog
14 3 (3.95%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (17.11%) DNS
2 8 (10.53%) DHCP
3 6 (7.89%) Firewall
3 6 (7.89%) WAN
4 5 (6.58%) HTTP
5 4 (5.26%) LAN
5 4 (5.26%) SAN
6 3 (3.95%) TCP/IP
7 2 (2.63%) AMQP
7 2 (2.63%) SD-WAN
7 2 (2.63%) SSL
8 1 (1.32%) Internet
8 1 (1.32%) Network Security
8 1 (1.32%) VLAN
8 1 (1.32%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (10.53%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (7.89%) Relational Database
3 5 (6.58%) MySQL
4 4 (5.26%) MongoDB
4 4 (5.26%) SQL Server
5 3 (3.95%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (2.63%) Big Data
6 2 (2.63%) Cloudera CDH
6 2 (2.63%) Hadoop
6 2 (2.63%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.32%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (1.32%) DynamoDB
7 1 (1.32%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 26 (34.21%) Jenkins
2 21 (27.63%) GitLab
3 15 (19.74%) Git
4 7 (9.21%) CircleCI
4 7 (9.21%) JIRA
5 5 (6.58%) Artifactory
5 5 (6.58%) Bitbucket
5 5 (6.58%) TeamCity
6 4 (5.26%) Octopus Deploy
6 4 (5.26%) SonarQube
7 1 (1.32%) Ant
7 1 (1.32%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (1.32%) git-flow
7 1 (1.32%) Maven
7 1 (1.32%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 11 (14.47%) Social Skills
2 7 (9.21%) Finance
3 5 (6.58%) Law
4 4 (5.26%) Public Sector
5 3 (3.95%) Banking
5 3 (3.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (3.95%) Telecoms
6 2 (2.63%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 24 (31.58%) DevOps Engineer
2 15 (19.74%) Lead
3 10 (13.16%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 9 (11.84%) Developer
4 9 (11.84%) Lead DevOps
4 9 (11.84%) Senior
5 7 (9.21%) Java Developer
5 7 (9.21%) Lead DevOps Engineer
6 6 (7.89%) Full-Stack Developer
6 6 (7.89%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 5 (6.58%) Platform Engineer
8 4 (5.26%) Cloud Engineer
8 4 (5.26%) CloudOps Manager
8 4 (5.26%) Network Engineer
8 4 (5.26%) Operations Manager
8 4 (5.26%) Senior DevOps
8 4 (5.26%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 4 (5.26%) Site Engineer
8 4 (5.26%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 3 (3.95%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
2 12 (15.79%) Node.js
3 9 (11.84%) AngularJS
3 9 (11.84%) REST
3 9 (11.84%) Spring
3 9 (11.84%) Spring Boot
4 4 (5.26%) Apache Camel
4 4 (5.26%) RabbitMQ
4 4 (5.26%) Web Services
5 3 (3.95%) .NET
5 3 (3.95%) ARM Templates
5 3 (3.95%) DPDK
5 3 (3.95%) eBPF
5 3 (3.95%) React
6 2 (2.63%) ASP.NET Web API
6 2 (2.63%) gRPC
6 2 (2.63%) Material-UI
6 2 (2.63%) OpenAPI
6 2 (2.63%) Swagger
6 2 (2.63%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 20 (26.32%) Cloud Native
2 7 (9.21%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (5.26%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.63%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (1.32%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.32%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.32%) NVMe
5 1 (1.32%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.32%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 33 (43.42%) Linux
2 20 (26.32%) Windows
3 10 (13.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (10.53%) Debian
4 8 (10.53%) Ubuntu
4 8 (10.53%) Windows Server
5 3 (3.95%) CentOS
6 2 (2.63%) VMS
7 1 (1.32%) Solaris
7 1 (1.32%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (69.74%) DevOps
2 49 (64.47%) CI/CD
3 47 (61.84%) Infrastructure as Code
4 34 (44.74%) Containerisation
5 21 (27.63%) Agile
5 21 (27.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 20 (26.32%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 16 (21.05%) Configuration Management
7 16 (21.05%) Microservices
8 13 (17.11%) Continuous Integration
8 13 (17.11%) Problem-Solving
9 12 (15.79%) Incident Response
10 11 (14.47%) Observability
11 10 (13.16%) Platform Engineering
12 9 (11.84%) Performance Optimisation
13 8 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
13 8 (10.53%) Mentoring
13 8 (10.53%) Roadmaps
13 8 (10.53%) Scrum
14 7 (9.21%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 47 (61.84%) Python
2 23 (30.26%) Bash
3 19 (25.00%) Java
3 19 (25.00%) PowerShell
4 11 (14.47%) JavaScript
5 6 (7.89%) SQL
6 5 (6.58%) TypeScript
7 4 (5.26%) C#
7 4 (5.26%) Go
8 2 (2.63%) PHP
9 1 (1.32%) Groovy
9 1 (1.32%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 12 (15.79%) AWS Certification
2 8 (10.53%) Security Cleared
3 7 (9.21%) SC Cleared
4 4 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (5.26%) Degree
5 3 (3.95%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 3 (3.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (3.95%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
5 3 (3.95%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.32%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.95%) QA
2 2 (2.63%) GDPR
System Software
1 39 (51.32%) Docker
2 7 (9.21%) vSphere
3 6 (7.89%) Active Directory
3 6 (7.89%) Hyper-V
3 6 (7.89%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (3.95%) KVM
4 3 (3.95%) QEMU
5 2 (2.63%) VMware NSX
6 1 (1.32%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (1.32%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 55 (72.37%) Terraform
2 52 (68.42%) Kubernetes
3 26 (34.21%) Grafana
4 22 (28.95%) Prometheus
5 6 (7.89%) Puppet
6 5 (6.58%) Docker Swarm
6 5 (6.58%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
6 5 (6.58%) SCCM
6 5 (6.58%) SCOM
6 5 (6.58%) WSUS
7 4 (5.26%) Control-M
8 3 (3.95%) Argo
8 3 (3.95%) Progress Chef
9 2 (2.63%) Nagios
9 2 (2.63%) Podman
10 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (1.32%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 1 (1.32%) Rancher
10 1 (1.32%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 14 (18.42%) Microsoft
2 10 (13.16%) VMware
3 9 (11.84%) Red Hat
4 6 (7.89%) Oracle
4 6 (7.89%) Splunk
5 5 (6.58%) Google
5 5 (6.58%) SaltStack
6 4 (5.26%) Atlassian
6 4 (5.26%) Pega
6 4 (5.26%) WSO2
7 3 (3.95%) Aruba
7 3 (3.95%) Cisco
7 3 (3.95%) Fortinet
7 3 (3.95%) Mellanox
7 3 (3.95%) NVIDIA
7 3 (3.95%) Palo Alto
8 2 (2.63%) Zscaler
9 1 (1.32%) Avaya
9 1 (1.32%) Genesys
9 1 (1.32%) Mirantis