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 13 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 222 37 190
Rank change year-on-year -185 +153 -84
Permanent jobs citing Ansible 149 628 131
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.62% 6.66% 1.01%
As % of the Systems Management category 15.88% 53.31% 15.21%
Number of salaries quoted 108 61 68
10th Percentile £42,500 £57,375 £42,238
25th Percentile £53,750 £61,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,750 £74,500 £53,750
Median % change year-on-year -5.03% +38.60% -17.31%
75th Percentile £96,250 £85,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £101,250 £90,000 £77,875
England median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £74,000
% change year-on-year - +1.35% +2.07%

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 938 1,178 861
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 3.91% 12.50% 6.63%
Number of salaries quoted 696 405 455
10th Percentile £31,000 £26,250 £32,600
25th Percentile £40,000 £31,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,130 £48,720 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.00% -2.56% -16.67%
75th Percentile £72,500 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £88,148 £82,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% -

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 13 October 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 13 October 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 -143 99 £70,750 +13.20% 47
North East -44 29 £82,500 +22.22% 15
Yorkshire -65 24 £61,750 -17.67% 20
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 4 (2.68%) IIS
1 4 (2.68%) nginx
2 3 (2.01%) OpenStack
2 3 (2.01%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.34%) Apache
3 2 (1.34%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.34%) Confluence
4 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.67%) OpenEdge
Cloud Services
1 77 (51.68%) AWS
2 38 (25.50%) Azure
3 31 (20.81%) GitHub
4 20 (13.42%) AWS CloudFormation
5 18 (12.08%) OpenShift
6 14 (9.40%) Serverless
7 12 (8.05%) GCP
8 10 (6.71%) Amazon ECS
9 7 (4.70%) PaaS
10 6 (4.03%) SaaS
11 5 (3.36%) Amazon EKS
11 5 (3.36%) Entra ID
12 4 (2.68%) Amazon EC2
12 4 (2.68%) IaaS
13 3 (2.01%) Amazon ECR
13 3 (2.01%) Amazon S3
13 3 (2.01%) Microsoft 365
13 3 (2.01%) Mimecast
13 3 (2.01%) OneDrive
13 3 (2.01%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 12 (8.05%) Firewall
2 10 (6.71%) DNS
3 8 (5.37%) TCP/IP
4 7 (4.70%) DHCP
5 5 (3.36%) BGP
5 5 (3.36%) SD-WAN
5 5 (3.36%) WAN
6 4 (2.68%) IPsec
7 3 (2.01%) LAN
7 3 (2.01%) OSPF
7 3 (2.01%) Reverse Proxy
7 3 (2.01%) Software-Defined Networking
7 3 (2.01%) VPN
7 3 (2.01%) Wireless
7 3 (2.01%) WLAN
8 2 (1.34%) AMQP
8 2 (1.34%) DMZ
8 2 (1.34%) MPLS
8 2 (1.34%) Network Security
8 2 (1.34%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (5.37%) Relational Database
2 7 (4.70%) SQL Server
3 5 (3.36%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.34%) Big Data
4 2 (1.34%) Cloudera CDH
4 2 (1.34%) Hadoop
4 2 (1.34%) MySQL
5 1 (0.67%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.67%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.67%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.67%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 38 (25.50%) Git
2 34 (22.82%) GitLab
3 31 (20.81%) Jenkins
4 22 (14.77%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 10 (6.71%) JIRA
6 6 (4.03%) SonarQube
7 5 (3.36%) Artifactory
8 3 (2.01%) Bitbucket
8 3 (2.01%) Octopus Deploy
8 3 (2.01%) TeamCity
9 2 (1.34%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.67%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.67%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.67%) Mocha
General
1 50 (33.56%) Social Skills
2 30 (20.13%) Public Sector
3 10 (6.71%) Finance
4 9 (6.04%) Aerospace
5 7 (4.70%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (4.70%) Law
6 3 (2.01%) Financial Institution
6 3 (2.01%) Retail
7 2 (1.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.34%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.67%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.67%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 76 (51.01%) DevOps Engineer
2 30 (20.13%) Principal DevOps Engineer
2 30 (20.13%) Principal Engineer
3 24 (16.11%) Senior
4 22 (14.77%) Cloud Engineer
5 12 (8.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 12 (8.05%) Software Engineer
6 10 (6.71%) Lead
7 9 (6.04%) Lead DevOps
7 9 (6.04%) Senior DevOps
7 9 (6.04%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 8 (5.37%) Lead DevOps Engineer
8 8 (5.37%) Network Engineer
9 7 (4.70%) Cloud Native Engineer
9 7 (4.70%) Infrastructure Manager
9 7 (4.70%) Senior Software Engineer
10 6 (4.03%) Administrator
10 6 (4.03%) Python Engineer
10 6 (4.03%) Python Software Engineer
11 5 (3.36%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 120 (80.54%) Terraform
2 28 (18.79%) Spring
2 28 (18.79%) Spring Boot
3 11 (7.38%) React
4 7 (4.70%) FastAPI
4 7 (4.70%) Next.js
4 7 (4.70%) Node.js
5 6 (4.03%) AWS CDK
5 6 (4.03%) React Native
5 6 (4.03%) Ruby on Rails
6 5 (3.36%) AngularJS
6 5 (3.36%) REST
7 4 (2.68%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (2.01%) OpenAPI
8 3 (2.01%) Swagger
9 2 (1.34%) gRPC
9 2 (1.34%) Material-UI
9 2 (1.34%) RabbitMQ
9 2 (1.34%) Vue
10 1 (0.67%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 36 (24.16%) Cloud Native
2 8 (5.37%) Hybrid Cloud
3 6 (4.03%) Data Centre
3 6 (4.03%) Life Science
3 6 (4.03%) Linux Command Line
4 5 (3.36%) Replication
5 4 (2.68%) Private Cloud
6 3 (2.01%) Social Media
6 3 (2.01%) SystemC
7 2 (1.34%) Driving Licence
7 2 (1.34%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.34%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.34%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.67%) Clustering
8 1 (0.67%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.67%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.67%) Enterprise Storage
8 1 (0.67%) Housing Association
8 1 (0.67%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 76 (51.01%) Linux
2 31 (20.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 25 (16.78%) CentOS
4 19 (12.75%) Windows
5 9 (6.04%) Windows Server
6 7 (4.70%) Ubuntu
7 5 (3.36%) Debian
7 5 (3.36%) Unix
8 2 (1.34%) AIX
8 2 (1.34%) VMS
9 1 (0.67%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.67%) Solaris
9 1 (0.67%) SUSE
9 1 (0.67%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 1 (0.67%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.67%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.67%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (64.43%) DevOps
2 93 (62.42%) Infrastructure as Code
3 90 (60.40%) CI/CD
4 58 (38.93%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 42 (28.19%) Platform Engineering
6 40 (26.85%) Agile
6 40 (26.85%) Containerisation
7 31 (20.81%) Technical Leadership
8 29 (19.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 27 (18.12%) Microservices
10 24 (16.11%) Continuous Improvement
11 21 (14.09%) Problem-Solving
11 21 (14.09%) Stakeholder Management
12 18 (12.08%) Infrastructure Automation
13 14 (9.40%) Configuration Management
14 13 (8.72%) Software Engineering
15 12 (8.05%) AI
15 12 (8.05%) Collaborative Culture
16 11 (7.38%) Coaching
16 11 (7.38%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 83 (55.70%) Python
2 41 (27.52%) Java
3 31 (20.81%) Bash
4 22 (14.77%) PowerShell
5 10 (6.71%) Go
6 8 (5.37%) SQL
7 6 (4.03%) Bicep
7 6 (4.03%) Ruby
8 5 (3.36%) JavaScript
9 4 (2.68%) Shell Script
9 4 (2.68%) TypeScript
10 3 (2.01%) C#
11 2 (1.34%) Korn
11 2 (1.34%) Rust
Qualifications
1 89 (59.73%) Security Cleared
2 71 (47.65%) DV Cleared
3 51 (34.23%) SC Cleared
4 7 (4.70%) Azure Certification
5 6 (4.03%) AWS Certification
5 6 (4.03%) Degree
6 4 (2.68%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (2.68%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (2.01%) RHCE
7 3 (2.01%) RHCSA
8 2 (1.34%) CCIE
8 2 (1.34%) CCNA
8 2 (1.34%) CCNP
8 2 (1.34%) IBM AIX Certification
9 1 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.67%) HP ASE
9 1 (0.67%) Linux+ Certification
9 1 (0.67%) VCAP
9 1 (0.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.34%) SLA
2 1 (0.67%) GDPR
System Software
1 88 (59.06%) Docker
2 11 (7.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (6.04%) Active Directory
4 7 (4.70%) vSphere
5 6 (4.03%) VMware NSX
6 4 (2.68%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (2.68%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (2.01%) Ceph
7 3 (2.01%) iptables
8 1 (0.67%) EMC RecoverPoint
8 1 (0.67%) Firmware
8 1 (0.67%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.67%) KVM
Systems Management
1 103 (69.13%) Kubernetes
2 29 (19.46%) Puppet
3 11 (7.38%) Progress Chef
4 9 (6.04%) Grafana
4 9 (6.04%) Prometheus
5 8 (5.37%) Podman
6 4 (2.68%) vCenter Server
7 3 (2.01%) Argo
7 3 (2.01%) Check_MK
7 3 (2.01%) Control-M
7 3 (2.01%) Docker Swarm
7 3 (2.01%) Istio
7 3 (2.01%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (1.34%) SCCM
8 2 (1.34%) SolarWinds Orion
8 2 (1.34%) WSUS
9 1 (0.67%) Nessus
9 1 (0.67%) Opsview
9 1 (0.67%) Red Hat Satellite
9 1 (0.67%) VxRail
Vendors
1 20 (13.42%) Microsoft
2 18 (12.08%) VMware
3 12 (8.05%) Red Hat
4 8 (5.37%) Splunk
5 6 (4.03%) Cisco
6 4 (2.68%) Dell
6 4 (2.68%) Oracle
6 4 (2.68%) Thales
7 3 (2.01%) Atlassian
7 3 (2.01%) F5
7 3 (2.01%) Veeam
8 2 (1.34%) Broadcom
8 2 (1.34%) Google
8 2 (1.34%) IBM
8 2 (1.34%) LogicMonitor
8 2 (1.34%) SaltStack
8 2 (1.34%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.34%) YouTube
8 2 (1.34%) Zscaler
9 1 (0.67%) NetApp