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 citing Ansible skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 November 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 10 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	209	78	173
Rank change year-on-year	-131	+95	-53
Permanent jobs citing Ansible	159	328	141
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England	0.66%	3.37%	1.14%
As % of the Systems Management category	16.83%	39.81%	17.13%
Number of salaries quoted	105	56	79
10^th Percentile	£42,500	£57,438	£42,238
25^th Percentile	£53,750	£62,188	£47,500
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£75,000	£75,000	£59,000
Median % change year-on-year	-	+27.12%	-9.23%
75^th Percentile	£96,250	£84,063	£72,500
90^th Percentile	£101,250	£89,500	£79,500
England median annual salary	£80,000	£75,000	£75,000
% change year-on-year	+6.67%	-	-

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 citing systems management skills in the North of England.

	6 months to 10 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Permanent vacancies citing systems management skills	945	824	823
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England	3.91%	8.46%	6.68%
Number of salaries quoted	687	431	435
10^th Percentile	£31,250	£27,000	£32,350
25^th Percentile	£40,000	£31,250	£42,500
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£52,500	£50,000	£50,000
Median % change year-on-year	+5.00%	-	-16.67%
75^th Percentile	£72,500	£70,250	£68,750
90^th Percentile	£88,389	£83,500	£77,500
England median annual salary	£60,000	£60,000	£67,500
% change year-on-year	-	-11.11%	+6.08%

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 Salary Trend in the North of England

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 10 November 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 10 November 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	Job Ads Past 6 Months	Median Salary Past 6 Months	Median Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Jobs
North West	-121	107	£75,000	+15.38%	41
North East	-43	28	£82,500	+10.00%	19
Yorkshire	-58	27	£61,750	-17.67%	19
Ansible England

Ansible Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 10 November 2026, job vacancies citing Ansible also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the North of England region citing Ansible.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Terraform	78.0%	124
2	Infrastructure as Code	64.2%	102
3	Kubernetes	63.5%	101
4	DevOps	62.9%	100
4	Security Cleared	62.9%	100
6	CI/CD	58.5%	93
6	Python	58.5%	93
8	Docker	57.9%	92
9	Linux	55.3%	88
10	AWS	45.3%	72
10	DV Cleared	45.3%	72
12	SC Cleared	38.4%	61
13	Site Reliability Engineering	36.5%	58
14	Agile	28.9%	46
15	Bash	26.4%	42
15	Java	26.4%	42
17	Containerisation	25.2%	40
17	Platform Engineering	25.2%	40
17	Red Hat Enterprise Linux	25.2%	40
20	Infrastructure Engineering	23.3%	37
21	Git	22.6%	36
22	Azure	21.4%	34
22	GitLab	21.4%	34
24	Technical Leadership	20.8%	33
25	Jenkins	18.9%	30
25	Puppet	18.9%	30
27	GitHub	18.2%	29
27	Infrastructure Automation	18.2%	29
29	Continuous Improvement	17.0%	27
29	Spring	17.0%	27

Ansible Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Systems Management

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Kubernetes	63.5%	101
2	Puppet	18.9%	30
3	Podman	8.8%	14
4	Progress Chef	6.3%	10
5	Prometheus	5.7%	9
6	Grafana	5.0%	8
7	Red Hat Satellite	4.4%	7
8	vCenter Server	3.8%	6
9	Argo	1.9%	3
9	Check_MK	1.9%	3
9	Istio	1.9%	3
9	Microsoft Intune	1.9%	3
13	Control-M	1.3%	2
13	Docker Swarm	1.3%	2
13	SCCM	1.3%	2
13	SolarWinds Orion	1.3%	2
13	WSUS	1.3%	2
18	Nessus	0.6%	1
18	Opsview	0.6%	1
18	VxRail	0.6%	1