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 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 188 139 133
Rank change year-on-year -49 -6 +47
Permanent jobs citing Ansible 75 144 155
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.72% 1.52% 2.08%
As % of the Systems Management category 12.52% 16.72% 15.27%
Number of salaries quoted 57 83 123
10th Percentile £52,500 £41,250 £43,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £42,500 £48,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% - -11.11%
75th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £72,433
90th Percentile £87,500 £83,750 £104,531
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 599 861 1,015
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 5.71% 9.07% 13.65%
Number of salaries quoted 460 489 876
10th Percentile £28,975 £33,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £39,750 £42,500 £42,217
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £53,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.85% -7.83% -4.17%
75th Percentile £76,375 £71,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £84,050 £84,056
England median annual salary £62,500 £69,308 £65,000
% change year-on-year -9.82% +6.63% -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 31 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 31 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 -10 41 £67,500 +3.85% 122
Yorkshire -11 24 £77,500 +19.23% 110
North East -15 10 £60,000 +35.52% 17
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 26 (34.67%) GCP
4 19 (25.33%) AWS CloudFormation
5 13 (17.33%) Amazon ECS
5 13 (17.33%) Amazon EKS
6 12 (16.00%) Serverless
7 11 (14.67%) GitHub
8 10 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (9.33%) Amazon EC2
10 6 (8.00%) GitHub Actions
10 6 (8.00%) OpenShift
11 5 (6.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 5 (6.67%) AWS CodeBuild
12 4 (5.33%) IaaS
12 4 (5.33%) PaaS
12 4 (5.33%) Route 53
12 4 (5.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 3 (4.00%) Amazon S3
13 3 (4.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (9.33%) DNS
1 7 (9.33%) Firewall
2 6 (8.00%) HTTP
3 4 (5.33%) Internet
3 4 (5.33%) TCP/IP
4 3 (4.00%) AMQP
4 3 (4.00%) DHCP
5 2 (2.67%) SAN
5 2 (2.67%) SSL
6 1 (1.33%) LAN
6 1 (1.33%) Network Security
6 1 (1.33%) VLAN
6 1 (1.33%) VPN
6 1 (1.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (10.67%) MongoDB
3 7 (9.33%) MySQL
4 6 (8.00%) Relational Database
5 4 (5.33%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (5.33%) NoSQL
6 3 (4.00%) Big Data
6 3 (4.00%) Cloudera CDH
6 3 (4.00%) Hadoop
6 3 (4.00%) SQL Server
7 2 (2.67%) DynamoDB
8 1 (1.33%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 26 (34.67%) Jenkins
2 23 (30.67%) GitLab
3 20 (26.67%) Git
4 5 (6.67%) CircleCI
5 4 (5.33%) Bitbucket
5 4 (5.33%) JIRA
6 3 (4.00%) Artifactory
6 3 (4.00%) TeamCity
7 2 (2.67%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (2.67%) SonarQube
8 1 (1.33%) Ant
8 1 (1.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (1.33%) git-flow
8 1 (1.33%) Maven
8 1 (1.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 7 (9.33%) Social Skills
2 6 (8.00%) Law
3 4 (5.33%) Finance
3 4 (5.33%) Public Sector
3 4 (5.33%) Telecoms
4 3 (4.00%) Aerospace
4 3 (4.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 24 (32.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 14 (18.67%) Lead
3 12 (16.00%) Lead DevOps
4 10 (13.33%) Developer
4 10 (13.33%) Lead DevOps Engineer
5 8 (10.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 8 (10.67%) Java Developer
5 8 (10.67%) Senior
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%) Azure Engineer
9 3 (4.00%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
9 3 (4.00%) Software Engineer
10 2 (2.67%) Integration Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (22.67%) 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
5 2 (2.67%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (2.67%) Hybrid Cloud
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 17 (22.67%) Windows
3 7 (9.33%) Debian
3 7 (9.33%) Ubuntu
4 6 (8.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (8.00%) Windows Server
5 4 (5.33%) CentOS
6 3 (4.00%) Unix
6 3 (4.00%) VMS
7 1 (1.33%) Solaris
7 1 (1.33%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (1.33%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (1.33%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (70.67%) CI/CD
1 53 (70.67%) DevOps
2 52 (69.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 31 (41.33%) Containerisation
4 28 (37.33%) Agile
5 23 (30.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 21 (28.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 19 (25.33%) Microservices
8 14 (18.67%) Configuration Management
8 14 (18.67%) Observability
9 12 (16.00%) Incident Response
9 12 (16.00%) Performance Optimisation
10 11 (14.67%) Platform Engineering
11 10 (13.33%) Continuous Integration
11 10 (13.33%) Line Management
11 10 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
11 10 (13.33%) Scrum
12 9 (12.00%) Kanban
13 8 (10.67%) Full-Stack Development
13 8 (10.67%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 37 (49.33%) Python
2 20 (26.67%) Bash
2 20 (26.67%) Java
3 13 (17.33%) JavaScript
4 11 (14.67%) PowerShell
5 10 (13.33%) Go
6 9 (12.00%) TypeScript
7 6 (8.00%) SQL
8 4 (5.33%) C
9 2 (2.67%) C#
9 2 (2.67%) PHP
10 1 (1.33%) Groovy
10 1 (1.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 10 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 8 (10.67%) SC Cleared
3 6 (8.00%) AWS Certification
4 5 (6.67%) DV Cleared
5 3 (4.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (2.67%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.67%) Degree
7 1 (1.33%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.00%) QA
2 2 (2.67%) GDPR
System Software
1 39 (52.00%) Docker
2 6 (8.00%) vSphere
3 4 (5.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (4.00%) KVM
4 3 (4.00%) QEMU
4 3 (4.00%) VMware NSX
5 1 (1.33%) Active Directory
5 1 (1.33%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.33%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (1.33%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 61 (81.33%) Terraform
2 55 (73.33%) Kubernetes
3 25 (33.33%) Grafana
4 22 (29.33%) Prometheus
5 7 (9.33%) Puppet
6 3 (4.00%) Docker Swarm
6 3 (4.00%) Progress Chef
7 2 (2.67%) Argo
7 2 (2.67%) Control-M
7 2 (2.67%) Nagios
7 2 (2.67%) Podman
7 2 (2.67%) Rancher
8 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (1.33%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 9 (12.00%) VMware
2 7 (9.33%) Microsoft
3 6 (8.00%) SaltStack
3 6 (8.00%) Splunk
4 5 (6.67%) Red Hat
5 4 (5.33%) Google
5 4 (5.33%) Pega
5 4 (5.33%) WSO2
6 3 (4.00%) Dynatrace
7 2 (2.67%) Atlassian
7 2 (2.67%) BMC
8 1 (1.33%) Avaya
8 1 (1.33%) Genesys
8 1 (1.33%) Mirantis
8 1 (1.33%) Oracle
8 1 (1.33%) Verint