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 5 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 173 143 178
Rank change year-on-year -30 +35 +6
Permanent jobs citing Ansible 98 137 156
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.82% 1.63% 1.30%
As % of the Systems Management category 14.92% 16.98% 13.24%
Number of salaries quoted 79 70 124
10th Percentile £46,407 £40,875 £44,263
25th Percentile £46,446 £50,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.25%
75th Percentile £82,500 £78,438 £72,296
90th Percentile £85,200 £83,800 £77,715
England median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year - +3.45% -3.33%

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 657 807 1,178
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 5.49% 9.60% 9.78%
Number of salaries quoted 495 464 1,012
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £29,250
25th Percentile £41,750 £45,000 £39,720
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -7.60%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £93,778 £83,630
England median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -10.71% +12.00% -7.41%

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 5 February 2026.

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 5 February 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
North West -16 52 £67,500 -3.57% 32
Yorkshire -27 30 £61,500 -9.89% 22
North East -19 16 £48,445 +13.99% 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 8 (8.16%) OpenStack
2 5 (5.10%) Apache
3 4 (4.08%) Apache Spark
4 2 (2.04%) Apache Solr
5 1 (1.02%) JBoss
5 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (1.02%) nginx
5 1 (1.02%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 76 (77.55%) AWS
2 58 (59.18%) Azure
3 30 (30.61%) GCP
4 18 (18.37%) AWS CloudFormation
4 18 (18.37%) GitHub
5 16 (16.33%) Amazon EKS
5 16 (16.33%) Azure DevOps
6 13 (13.27%) GitHub Actions
6 13 (13.27%) Serverless
7 12 (12.24%) Amazon ECS
7 12 (12.24%) OCI
8 9 (9.18%) OpenShift
9 6 (6.12%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (4.08%) Amazon S3
10 4 (4.08%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (4.08%) Azure AKS
10 4 (4.08%) IaaS
10 4 (4.08%) PaaS
11 3 (3.06%) AWS CodeBuild
11 3 (3.06%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 25 (25.51%) Firewall
2 16 (16.33%) DNS
3 12 (12.24%) HTTP
3 12 (12.24%) NGFW
3 12 (12.24%) VXLAN
3 12 (12.24%) Wi-Fi
3 12 (12.24%) Wireshark
4 10 (10.20%) TCP/IP
5 7 (7.14%) Internet
6 6 (6.12%) DHCP
7 4 (4.08%) AMQP
7 4 (4.08%) LAN
7 4 (4.08%) VPN
7 4 (4.08%) WAN
8 3 (3.06%) Asterisk PBX
8 3 (3.06%) BGP
8 3 (3.06%) MPLS
8 3 (3.06%) SD-WAN
8 3 (3.06%) Software-Defined Networking
8 3 (3.06%) VPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (20.41%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (12.24%) MongoDB
3 9 (9.18%) MySQL
4 6 (6.12%) Relational Database
5 5 (5.10%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (5.10%) NoSQL
6 4 (4.08%) Big Data
6 4 (4.08%) Cloudera CDH
6 4 (4.08%) Hadoop
6 4 (4.08%) SQL Server
7 3 (3.06%) DynamoDB
8 2 (2.04%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 29 (29.59%) Jenkins
2 24 (24.49%) Git
3 21 (21.43%) GitLab
4 5 (5.10%) Bitbucket
5 4 (4.08%) JIRA
6 3 (3.06%) Artifactory
6 3 (3.06%) CircleCI
6 3 (3.06%) TeamCity
7 2 (2.04%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (2.04%) SonarQube
8 1 (1.02%) Ant
8 1 (1.02%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (1.02%) git-flow
8 1 (1.02%) Maven
8 1 (1.02%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 16 (16.33%) Public Sector
2 12 (12.24%) Analytical Skills
2 12 (12.24%) Law
3 10 (10.20%) Telecoms
4 9 (9.18%) Social Skills
5 4 (4.08%) Aerospace
5 4 (4.08%) Finance
6 3 (3.06%) Banking
Job Titles
1 27 (27.55%) DevOps Engineer
2 16 (16.33%) Operations Manager
3 12 (12.24%) Network Manager
3 12 (12.24%) Network Operations Manager
4 10 (10.20%) Developer
5 9 (9.18%) Cloud Engineer
5 9 (9.18%) Lead
6 8 (8.16%) Java Developer
6 8 (8.16%) Lead DevOps
6 8 (8.16%) Senior
7 7 (7.14%) Full-Stack Developer
7 7 (7.14%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 7 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 6 (6.12%) Lead DevOps Engineer
8 6 (6.12%) Platform Engineer
9 4 (4.08%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
9 4 (4.08%) IT Engineer
9 4 (4.08%) IT Support
9 4 (4.08%) IT Support Engineer
9 4 (4.08%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (21.43%) Elastic Stack
2 15 (15.31%) Node.js
3 12 (12.24%) REST
3 12 (12.24%) Spring
3 12 (12.24%) Spring Boot
4 11 (11.22%) AngularJS
5 6 (6.12%) RabbitMQ
5 6 (6.12%) React
6 5 (5.10%) Web Services
7 4 (4.08%) Apache Camel
7 4 (4.08%) gRPC
7 4 (4.08%) Material-UI
7 4 (4.08%) OpenAPI
7 4 (4.08%) Swagger
8 3 (3.06%) .NET
8 3 (3.06%) DPDK
8 3 (3.06%) eBPF
8 3 (3.06%) OpenTelemetry
8 3 (3.06%) RESTful
9 2 (2.04%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 18 (18.37%) Cloud Native
2 15 (15.31%) PKI
3 13 (13.27%) Data Centre
4 5 (5.10%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (5.10%) Public Cloud
5 3 (3.06%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.04%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (2.04%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.02%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.02%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.02%) NVMe
7 1 (1.02%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.02%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 41 (41.84%) Linux
2 20 (20.41%) Windows
3 7 (7.14%) Debian
3 7 (7.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (7.14%) Ubuntu
4 6 (6.12%) Windows Server
5 5 (5.10%) CentOS
6 3 (3.06%) Unix
6 3 (3.06%) VMS
7 2 (2.04%) Windows Server 2008
7 2 (2.04%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (2.04%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (1.02%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (58.16%) Infrastructure as Code
2 56 (57.14%) CI/CD
3 55 (56.12%) DevOps
4 39 (39.80%) Containerisation
5 27 (27.55%) Agile
6 23 (23.47%) Problem-Solving
7 22 (22.45%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 21 (21.43%) Microservices
9 20 (20.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 19 (19.39%) Mentoring
11 16 (16.33%) Coaching
12 14 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
12 14 (14.29%) High Availability
13 13 (13.27%) Configuration Management
13 13 (13.27%) Load Balancing
13 13 (13.27%) Observability
14 12 (12.24%) Creative Thinking
14 12 (12.24%) DevSecOps
14 12 (12.24%) Network Monitoring
14 12 (12.24%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 57 (58.16%) Python
2 23 (23.47%) Bash
3 21 (21.43%) Java
4 20 (20.41%) Go
5 14 (14.29%) JavaScript
6 13 (13.27%) PowerShell
7 11 (11.22%) TypeScript
8 7 (7.14%) C
9 6 (6.12%) SQL
10 2 (2.04%) C#
10 2 (2.04%) PHP
11 1 (1.02%) Groovy
11 1 (1.02%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 15 (15.31%) Security Cleared
2 10 (10.20%) DV Cleared
3 9 (9.18%) SC Cleared
4 5 (5.10%) AWS Certification
5 3 (3.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (3.06%) CCNA
5 3 (3.06%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.04%) Degree
7 1 (1.02%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.02%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.06%) QA
2 2 (2.04%) GDPR
System Software
1 34 (34.69%) Docker
2 10 (10.20%) vSphere
3 8 (8.16%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (7.14%) VMware NSX
5 4 (4.08%) Active Directory
5 4 (4.08%) KVM
5 4 (4.08%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (3.06%) QEMU
7 2 (2.04%) Hyper-V
7 2 (2.04%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (1.02%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 80 (81.63%) Terraform
2 55 (56.12%) Kubernetes
3 25 (25.51%) Grafana
4 22 (22.45%) Prometheus
5 9 (9.18%) Puppet
6 4 (4.08%) Progress Chef
7 3 (3.06%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (3.06%) Docker Swarm
7 3 (3.06%) Rancher
7 3 (3.06%) WSUS
8 2 (2.04%) Argo
8 2 (2.04%) Control-M
8 2 (2.04%) Nagios
8 2 (2.04%) Podman
9 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (1.02%) PowerCLI
9 1 (1.02%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 13 (13.27%) VMware
2 12 (12.24%) Arista
2 12 (12.24%) Aruba
2 12 (12.24%) NetScout
3 7 (7.14%) Microsoft
3 7 (7.14%) SaltStack
3 7 (7.14%) Splunk
4 6 (6.12%) Red Hat
5 5 (5.10%) Google
6 4 (4.08%) Pega
6 4 (4.08%) WSO2
7 3 (3.06%) Dynatrace
8 2 (2.04%) Atlassian
8 2 (2.04%) BMC
8 2 (2.04%) Oracle
9 1 (1.02%) Avaya
9 1 (1.02%) Genesys
9 1 (1.02%) Mirantis
9 1 (1.02%) Verint