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 8 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 233 25 259
Rank change year-on-year -208 +234 -80
Permanent jobs citing Ansible 105 760 131
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.53% 9.32% 0.69%
As % of the Systems Management category 11.65% 53.79% 9.65%
Number of salaries quoted 84 71 81
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £46,397 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £70,000 £62,783
Median % change year-on-year -23.21% +11.50% -10.31%
75th Percentile £74,688 £82,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -1.41%

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 901 1,413 1,357
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 4.55% 17.32% 7.17%
Number of salaries quoted 689 489 1,057
10th Percentile £31,850 £29,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,500 £41,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +18.18% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £69,500
90th Percentile £88,148 £97,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,813 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.15% +8.50% -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 8 June 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 8 June 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 -162 62 £65,000 -7.14% 27
Yorkshire -86 25 £50,000 -33.22% 4
North East -29 18 £47,972 -15.84% 11
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 6 (5.71%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (2.86%) Apache
2 3 (2.86%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.86%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.95%) OpenEdge
Cloud Services
1 80 (76.19%) AWS
2 59 (56.19%) Azure
3 27 (25.71%) GitHub
4 25 (23.81%) GCP
5 24 (22.86%) Amazon EKS
6 18 (17.14%) GitHub Actions
7 16 (15.24%) Azure DevOps
8 13 (12.38%) Serverless
9 12 (11.43%) AWS CloudFormation
9 12 (11.43%) OCI
10 8 (7.62%) AWS Lambda
11 7 (6.67%) Amazon ECS
11 7 (6.67%) Azure AKS
11 7 (6.67%) OpenShift
12 5 (4.76%) Amazon EC2
12 5 (4.76%) Amazon S3
12 5 (4.76%) Nutanix
13 2 (1.90%) Entra ID
13 2 (1.90%) Microsoft 365
13 2 (1.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 32 (30.48%) Firewall
2 23 (21.90%) DNS
3 20 (19.05%) TCP/IP
4 15 (14.29%) HTTP
5 12 (11.43%) NGFW
5 12 (11.43%) VXLAN
5 12 (11.43%) Wi-Fi
5 12 (11.43%) Wireshark
6 7 (6.67%) Internet
7 5 (4.76%) VPN
8 4 (3.81%) Asterisk PBX
8 4 (3.81%) BGP
8 4 (3.81%) DHCP
8 4 (3.81%) LAN
8 4 (3.81%) MPLS
8 4 (3.81%) SD-WAN
8 4 (3.81%) Software-Defined Networking
8 4 (3.81%) VoIP
8 4 (3.81%) VPLS
8 4 (3.81%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (16.19%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (8.57%) MongoDB
3 7 (6.67%) Relational Database
4 5 (4.76%) SQL Server
5 4 (3.81%) MySQL
6 3 (2.86%) Big Data
6 3 (2.86%) Cloudera CDH
6 3 (2.86%) Hadoop
6 3 (2.86%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.90%) DynamoDB
7 2 (1.90%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.90%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.95%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 28 (26.67%) Jenkins
2 24 (22.86%) Git
3 23 (21.90%) GitLab
4 6 (5.71%) JIRA
5 5 (4.76%) Artifactory
5 5 (4.76%) Bitbucket
5 5 (4.76%) SonarQube
6 3 (2.86%) Cucumber
7 2 (1.90%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (1.90%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (1.90%) TeamCity
General
1 23 (21.90%) Public Sector
2 16 (15.24%) Law
3 15 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 15 (14.29%) Telecoms
4 13 (12.38%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (3.81%) Aerospace
6 2 (1.90%) Finance
6 2 (1.90%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.95%) German Language
7 1 (0.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.95%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.95%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 38 (36.19%) DevOps Engineer
2 21 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 13 (12.38%) Senior
4 12 (11.43%) Network Manager
4 12 (11.43%) Network Operations Manager
4 12 (11.43%) Operations Manager
5 9 (8.57%) Developer
6 8 (7.62%) Support Engineer
7 7 (6.67%) Java Developer
7 7 (6.67%) Lead
8 6 (5.71%) Software Engineer
9 5 (4.76%) Full-Stack Developer
9 5 (4.76%) Linux Engineer
10 4 (3.81%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 4 (3.81%) Azure Engineer
10 4 (3.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (3.81%) IT Engineer
10 4 (3.81%) IT Support
10 4 (3.81%) Lead DevOps
10 4 (3.81%) Lead DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (23.81%) Elastic Stack
2 14 (13.33%) Spring
2 14 (13.33%) Spring Boot
3 13 (12.38%) REST
4 9 (8.57%) React
5 8 (7.62%) AngularJS
5 8 (7.62%) Node.js
5 8 (7.62%) RabbitMQ
6 7 (6.67%) YAML
7 5 (4.76%) Web Services
8 4 (3.81%) JSON
8 4 (3.81%) OpenTelemetry
8 4 (3.81%) RESTful
9 3 (2.86%) gRPC
9 3 (2.86%) Material-UI
9 3 (2.86%) Next.js
9 3 (2.86%) OpenAPI
9 3 (2.86%) React Native
9 3 (2.86%) Ruby on Rails
9 3 (2.86%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 16 (15.24%) PKI
2 13 (12.38%) Data Centre
3 11 (10.48%) Hybrid Cloud
4 8 (7.62%) Cloud Native
4 8 (7.62%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (6.67%) Public Cloud
6 6 (5.71%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (3.81%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (1.90%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (1.90%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.95%) Clustering
9 1 (0.95%) Housing Association
9 1 (0.95%) Life Science
9 1 (0.95%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.95%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 39 (37.14%) Linux
2 16 (15.24%) Windows
3 7 (6.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (6.67%) Windows Server
4 6 (5.71%) Debian
4 6 (5.71%) Ubuntu
5 5 (4.76%) CentOS
6 3 (2.86%) Unix
7 2 (1.90%) Solaris
7 2 (1.90%) Windows Server 2008
7 2 (1.90%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (1.90%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (61.90%) Infrastructure as Code
2 59 (56.19%) CI/CD
3 58 (55.24%) DevOps
4 35 (33.33%) Agile
5 34 (32.38%) Containerisation
6 27 (25.71%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 21 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
8 20 (19.05%) Mentoring
9 18 (17.14%) Continuous Integration
9 18 (17.14%) High Availability
9 18 (17.14%) Platform Engineering
10 17 (16.19%) Coaching
10 17 (16.19%) Microservices
11 16 (15.24%) DevSecOps
12 15 (14.29%) Continuous Delivery
12 15 (14.29%) Static Code Analysis
12 15 (14.29%) Vulnerability Scanning
13 13 (12.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 12 (11.43%) Collaborative Culture
14 12 (11.43%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 60 (57.14%) Python
2 24 (22.86%) Go
3 22 (20.95%) Bash
4 21 (20.00%) Java
5 16 (15.24%) PowerShell
6 11 (10.48%) SQL
7 8 (7.62%) JavaScript
8 7 (6.67%) C
8 7 (6.67%) TypeScript
9 3 (2.86%) Groovy
9 3 (2.86%) Ruby
10 2 (1.90%) C#
10 2 (1.90%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.95%) Perl
Qualifications
1 33 (31.43%) Security Cleared
2 21 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 16 (15.24%) DV Cleared
4 4 (3.81%) CCNA
4 4 (3.81%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (2.86%) AWS Certification
5 3 (2.86%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.90%) Degree
7 1 (0.95%) LPIC
7 1 (0.95%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.86%) QA
2 1 (0.95%) GDPR
System Software
1 27 (25.71%) Docker
2 12 (11.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (8.57%) vSphere
4 8 (7.62%) Active Directory
5 6 (5.71%) VMware NSX
6 5 (4.76%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (1.90%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.95%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.95%) iptables
8 1 (0.95%) KVM
Systems Management
1 91 (86.67%) Terraform
2 51 (48.57%) Kubernetes
3 20 (19.05%) Grafana
4 18 (17.14%) Prometheus
5 6 (5.71%) Puppet
6 4 (3.81%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 4 (3.81%) WSUS
7 3 (2.86%) Packer
8 2 (1.90%) Control-M
8 2 (1.90%) Docker Swarm
8 2 (1.90%) Kibana
8 2 (1.90%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (1.90%) Podman
8 2 (1.90%) Progress Chef
8 2 (1.90%) Rancher
9 1 (0.95%) PowerCLI
9 1 (0.95%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 16 (15.24%) VMware
2 12 (11.43%) Arista
2 12 (11.43%) Aruba
2 12 (11.43%) NetScout
3 8 (7.62%) Microsoft
3 8 (7.62%) Splunk
4 5 (4.76%) AppDynamics
4 5 (4.76%) IBM
4 5 (4.76%) Oracle
4 5 (4.76%) Red Hat
5 3 (2.86%) Google
5 3 (2.86%) LogicMonitor
5 3 (2.86%) SaltStack
6 2 (1.90%) Atlassian
6 2 (1.90%) Mirantis
6 2 (1.90%) Pega
6 2 (1.90%) WSO2
7 1 (0.95%) BMC
7 1 (0.95%) Dynatrace