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 4 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 78 168 114
Rank change year-on-year +90 -54 +73
Permanent jobs citing Ansible 329 139 203
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 3.45% 1.12% 2.63%
As % of the Systems Management category 34.70% 14.90% 15.53%
Number of salaries quoted 58 77 165
10th Percentile £56,663 £42,238 £45,000
25th Percentile £61,250 £47,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +30.43% -11.54% -
75th Percentile £84,688 £70,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £78,750 £87,500
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 948 933 1,307
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 9.94% 7.52% 16.93%
Number of salaries quoted 482 507 1,043
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,750 £31,600
25th Percentile £32,500 £44,053 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,625 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.14% -12.50% +0.80%
75th Percentile £72,500 £69,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £83,500 £85,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £68,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -8.09% +4.62% -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 4 November 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 4 November 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 +105 287 £65,000 +8.33% 28
Yorkshire +17 37 £75,000 +25.00% 12
North East -14 5 £75,000 +69.40% 6
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 7 (2.13%) OpenStack
2 2 (0.61%) Apache
2 2 (0.61%) Apache Solr
3 1 (0.30%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.30%) Confluence
3 1 (0.30%) JBoss
3 1 (0.30%) nginx
3 1 (0.30%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 56 (17.02%) AWS
2 41 (12.46%) Azure
3 20 (6.08%) GCP
4 17 (5.17%) AWS CloudFormation
5 11 (3.34%) Amazon ECS
6 10 (3.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 9 (2.74%) Amazon EC2
7 9 (2.74%) Amazon EKS
7 9 (2.74%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 8 (2.43%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (2.43%) Serverless
9 7 (2.13%) AWS CodeBuild
9 7 (2.13%) GitHub
9 7 (2.13%) Route 53
10 6 (1.82%) OCI
11 4 (1.22%) IaaS
11 4 (1.22%) PaaS
11 4 (1.22%) SaaS
12 3 (0.91%) Datadog
13 2 (0.61%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 259 (78.72%) VPN
2 251 (76.29%) Cisco IOS
3 12 (3.65%) DNS
4 9 (2.74%) DHCP
4 9 (2.74%) Firewall
5 8 (2.43%) WAN
6 7 (2.13%) Network Security
6 7 (2.13%) VLAN
7 6 (1.82%) BGP
7 6 (1.82%) OSPF
7 6 (1.82%) TCP/IP
8 5 (1.52%) LAN
9 3 (0.91%) SAN
9 3 (0.91%) SD-WAN
10 2 (0.61%) HTTP
10 2 (0.61%) SSL
11 1 (0.30%) AMQP
11 1 (0.30%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (1.82%) PostgreSQL
1 6 (1.82%) Relational Database
2 4 (1.22%) MySQL
3 3 (0.91%) MongoDB
3 3 (0.91%) SQL Server
4 2 (0.61%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (0.61%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.30%) Big Data
5 1 (0.30%) Cloudera CDH
5 1 (0.30%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.30%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.30%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 24 (7.29%) Jenkins
2 19 (5.78%) GitLab
3 12 (3.65%) Git
4 8 (2.43%) CircleCI
5 6 (1.82%) JIRA
6 4 (1.22%) Artifactory
7 3 (0.91%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.91%) Octopus Deploy
7 3 (0.91%) SonarQube
7 3 (0.91%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.30%) Ant
8 1 (0.30%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.30%) git-flow
8 1 (0.30%) Maven
8 1 (0.30%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.30%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 255 (77.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 252 (76.60%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (3.65%) Social Skills
4 7 (2.13%) Finance
5 4 (1.22%) Banking
5 4 (1.22%) Public Sector
6 1 (0.30%) Aerospace
6 1 (0.30%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (0.30%) Law
Job Titles
1 262 (79.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 20 (6.08%) DevOps Engineer
3 15 (4.56%) Lead
4 14 (4.26%) Senior
5 11 (3.34%) Network Engineer
6 8 (2.43%) Developer
7 7 (2.13%) Azure Engineer
8 6 (1.82%) Cloud Engineer
8 6 (1.82%) Java Developer
9 5 (1.52%) Full-Stack Developer
9 5 (1.52%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 5 (1.52%) Lead DevOps
9 5 (1.52%) Lead DevOps Engineer
9 5 (1.52%) Lead Network Engineer
10 4 (1.22%) CloudOps Manager
10 4 (1.22%) Operations Manager
10 4 (1.22%) Senior Cloud Engineer
10 4 (1.22%) Senior DevOps
10 4 (1.22%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 4 (1.22%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 267 (81.16%) Elastic Stack
2 10 (3.04%) Node.js
3 8 (2.43%) REST
4 7 (2.13%) AngularJS
4 7 (2.13%) Spring
4 7 (2.13%) Spring Boot
5 4 (1.22%) Apache Camel
5 4 (1.22%) ARM Templates
5 4 (1.22%) Web Services
6 3 (0.91%) .NET
6 3 (0.91%) DPDK
6 3 (0.91%) eBPF
6 3 (0.91%) RabbitMQ
7 2 (0.61%) ASP.NET Web API
7 2 (0.61%) Kafka
7 2 (0.61%) React
7 2 (0.61%) WCF
8 1 (0.30%) NETCONF
8 1 (0.30%) Swagger
8 1 (0.30%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 251 (76.29%) Cyberattack
2 19 (5.78%) Cloud Native
3 11 (3.34%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (1.22%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (1.22%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (0.61%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (0.30%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.30%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.30%) NVMe
6 1 (0.30%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.30%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.30%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 280 (85.11%) Linux
2 271 (82.37%) Windows
3 251 (76.29%) Android
4 9 (2.74%) Windows Server
5 8 (2.43%) Debian
5 8 (2.43%) Ubuntu
6 7 (2.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.61%) VMS
8 1 (0.30%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 300 (91.19%) DevOps
2 273 (82.98%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 267 (81.16%) Problem-Solving
4 259 (78.72%) Platform Engineering
4 259 (78.72%) Task Automation
5 255 (77.51%) Line Management
6 253 (76.90%) Risk Management
7 252 (76.60%) Storage Management
8 251 (76.29%) Mathematics
9 43 (13.07%) Infrastructure as Code
10 42 (12.77%) CI/CD
11 28 (8.51%) Containerisation
12 18 (5.47%) Agile
12 18 (5.47%) Configuration Management
13 15 (4.56%) Continuous Improvement
13 15 (4.56%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 13 (3.95%) Microservices
15 12 (3.65%) Technical Leadership
16 11 (3.34%) Incident Response
17 10 (3.04%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 301 (91.49%) Python
2 271 (82.37%) Bash
2 271 (82.37%) PowerShell
3 15 (4.56%) Java
4 9 (2.74%) JavaScript
5 5 (1.52%) TypeScript
6 4 (1.22%) SQL
7 3 (0.91%) C#
8 2 (0.61%) PHP
9 1 (0.30%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 13 (3.95%) AWS Certification
2 5 (1.52%) Azure Certification
3 4 (1.22%) Security Cleared
4 3 (0.91%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 3 (0.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 3 (0.91%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
4 3 (0.91%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (0.91%) Degree
4 3 (0.91%) SC Cleared
5 2 (0.61%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (0.91%) QA
2 2 (0.61%) GDPR
System Software
1 285 (86.63%) Docker
2 258 (78.42%) vSphere
3 257 (78.12%) Hyper-V
4 253 (76.90%) VMware NSX
5 7 (2.13%) Active Directory
6 6 (1.82%) VMware Infrastructure
7 3 (0.91%) KVM
7 3 (0.91%) QEMU
8 2 (0.61%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.30%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 301 (91.49%) Terraform
2 50 (15.20%) Kubernetes
3 19 (5.78%) Grafana
4 17 (5.17%) Prometheus
5 6 (1.82%) Puppet
5 6 (1.82%) SCOM
6 5 (1.52%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
6 5 (1.52%) SCCM
6 5 (1.52%) WSUS
7 4 (1.22%) Progress Chef
8 3 (0.91%) Argo
8 3 (0.91%) Control-M
8 3 (0.91%) Docker Swarm
9 2 (0.61%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.61%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.30%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 1 (0.30%) Podman
Vendors
1 258 (78.42%) Splunk
2 256 (77.81%) Cisco
3 251 (76.29%) 3PAR
3 251 (76.29%) Juniper
4 17 (5.17%) Microsoft
5 8 (2.43%) VMware
6 7 (2.13%) Oracle
7 6 (1.82%) Red Hat
8 4 (1.22%) Aruba
8 4 (1.22%) Fortinet
8 4 (1.22%) Google
8 4 (1.22%) Mellanox
8 4 (1.22%) NVIDIA
8 4 (1.22%) Palo Alto
8 4 (1.22%) Pega
8 4 (1.22%) SaltStack
8 4 (1.22%) WSO2
9 3 (0.91%) Atlassian
9 3 (0.91%) Zscaler
10 1 (0.30%) Salesforce