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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 204 117
Rank change year-on-year +176 -87 +49
Permanent jobs citing Ansible 728 119 248
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 7.73% 0.84% 2.80%
As % of the Systems Management category 54.78% 11.60% 17.04%
Number of salaries quoted 63 56 181
10th Percentile £55,475 £42,119 £46,250
25th Percentile £58,750 £42,434 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,500 £50,750 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +46.80% -24.81% +3.85%
75th Percentile £85,000 £67,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £74,500 £87,419
England median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% - -3.45%

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 1,329 1,026 1,455
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 14.12% 7.27% 16.40%
Number of salaries quoted 452 615 1,116
10th Percentile £27,500 £35,000 £32,200
25th Percentile £32,500 £44,198 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £72,125 £69,500 £77,715
90th Percentile £82,500 £81,250 £85,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £66,250 £65,351
% change year-on-year -5.66% +1.38% -6.64%

Ansible
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Ansible as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Ansible 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 19 September 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 19 September 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 +156 669 £62,500 +8.70% 39
Yorkshire +45 56 £75,000 +25.00% 12
North East -1 3 £60,000 +20.00% 14
Ansible
England

Ansible
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (0.41%) IIS
2 2 (0.27%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.14%) Apache
3 1 (0.14%) Apache Solr
3 1 (0.14%) Confluence
3 1 (0.14%) JBoss
3 1 (0.14%) nginx
3 1 (0.14%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (0.27%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 54 (7.42%) AWS
2 46 (6.32%) Azure
3 20 (2.75%) GCP
4 15 (2.06%) AWS CloudFormation
5 10 (1.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 10 (1.37%) Azure DevOps
5 10 (1.37%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 8 (1.10%) Amazon EC2
6 8 (1.10%) AWS CodeBuild
6 8 (1.10%) Route 53
7 6 (0.82%) OCI
8 5 (0.69%) Amazon ECS
8 5 (0.69%) IaaS
8 5 (0.69%) PaaS
8 5 (0.69%) SaaS
9 4 (0.55%) GitHub
10 2 (0.27%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (0.27%) Amazon MSK
10 2 (0.27%) Datadog
10 2 (0.27%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 650 (89.29%) VPN
2 407 (55.91%) DNS
3 251 (34.48%) Cisco IOS
4 16 (2.20%) WAN
5 12 (1.65%) Firewall
5 12 (1.65%) TCP/IP
6 11 (1.51%) DHCP
7 10 (1.37%) LAN
8 9 (1.24%) Network Security
9 8 (1.10%) VLAN
10 7 (0.96%) BGP
10 7 (0.96%) OSPF
11 6 (0.82%) SD-WAN
12 3 (0.41%) SAN
13 2 (0.27%) Cisco Nexus
13 2 (0.27%) DWDM
13 2 (0.27%) HTTP
13 2 (0.27%) SSL
14 1 (0.14%) EIGRP
14 1 (0.14%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (0.82%) SQL Server
2 3 (0.41%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.14%) Big Data
3 1 (0.14%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (0.14%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.14%) MySQL
3 1 (0.14%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.14%) Oracle Database
3 1 (0.14%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 23 (3.16%) Jenkins
2 21 (2.88%) GitLab
3 8 (1.10%) CircleCI
4 6 (0.82%) Git
4 6 (0.82%) JIRA
5 4 (0.55%) Artifactory
6 3 (0.41%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.41%) Octopus Deploy
6 3 (0.41%) SonarQube
6 3 (0.41%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (0.41%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.14%) Ant
7 1 (0.14%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.14%) git-flow
7 1 (0.14%) Maven
7 1 (0.14%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 646 (88.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 640 (87.91%) Analytical Skills
3 395 (54.26%) Finance
4 18 (2.47%) Social Skills
5 3 (0.41%) Banking
6 1 (0.14%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (0.14%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (0.14%) Law
Job Titles
1 389 (53.43%) Developer
2 388 (53.30%) Software Developer
3 266 (36.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 21 (2.88%) DevOps Engineer
4 21 (2.88%) Lead
5 20 (2.75%) Senior
6 18 (2.47%) Network Engineer
7 12 (1.65%) Azure Engineer
8 11 (1.51%) Cloud Engineer
9 10 (1.37%) Senior Cloud Engineer
10 8 (1.10%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 7 (0.96%) Lead DevOps
11 7 (0.96%) Lead DevOps Engineer
12 6 (0.82%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
12 6 (0.82%) Lead Network Engineer
13 5 (0.69%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
13 5 (0.69%) Platform Engineer
14 4 (0.55%) CloudOps Manager
14 4 (0.55%) Operations Manager
14 4 (0.55%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 264 (36.26%) Elastic Stack
2 11 (1.51%) ARM Templates
3 2 (0.27%) DPDK
3 2 (0.27%) eBPF
3 2 (0.27%) Kafka
3 2 (0.27%) Node.js
3 2 (0.27%) REST
4 1 (0.14%) .NET
4 1 (0.14%) GraphQL
4 1 (0.14%) LDAP
4 1 (0.14%) Middleware
4 1 (0.14%) OAuth
4 1 (0.14%) OAuth2
4 1 (0.14%) OpenID
4 1 (0.14%) React
4 1 (0.14%) SailPoint
4 1 (0.14%) SAML
4 1 (0.14%) SOAP
4 1 (0.14%) Spring
4 1 (0.14%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 639 (87.77%) Cyberattack
2 22 (3.02%) Hybrid Cloud
3 14 (1.92%) Cloud Native
4 4 (0.55%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (0.41%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (0.27%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (0.27%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.14%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.14%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.14%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.14%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.14%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.14%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 673 (92.45%) Linux
2 639 (87.77%) Android
3 274 (37.64%) Windows
4 10 (1.37%) Windows Server
5 9 (1.24%) Debian
5 9 (1.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (1.24%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.41%) Unix
7 1 (0.14%) CentOS
7 1 (0.14%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (0.14%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 643 (88.32%) Line Management
2 639 (87.77%) Mathematics
3 397 (54.53%) Agile
4 389 (53.43%) OO
5 388 (53.30%) Android Development
5 388 (53.30%) Design Patterns
5 388 (53.30%) OOP
6 297 (40.80%) DevOps
7 276 (37.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 268 (36.81%) Problem-Solving
9 260 (35.71%) Task Automation
10 259 (35.58%) Platform Engineering
11 253 (34.75%) Risk Management
12 252 (34.62%) Storage Management
13 47 (6.46%) Infrastructure as Code
14 44 (6.04%) CI/CD
15 34 (4.67%) Containerisation
16 21 (2.88%) Configuration Management
17 16 (2.20%) Infrastructure Automation
17 16 (2.20%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 704 (96.70%) Python
2 398 (54.67%) Java
3 388 (53.30%) C++
3 388 (53.30%) Go
4 277 (38.05%) Bash
5 276 (37.91%) PowerShell
6 5 (0.69%) TypeScript
7 3 (0.41%) Bicep
7 3 (0.41%) C#
7 3 (0.41%) SQL
8 2 (0.27%) Rust
9 1 (0.14%) Groovy
9 1 (0.14%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.14%) PHP
Qualifications
1 391 (53.71%) Security Cleared
2 390 (53.57%) DV Cleared
3 14 (1.92%) AWS Certification
4 11 (1.51%) Azure Certification
5 6 (0.82%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (0.82%) Degree
6 3 (0.41%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 3 (0.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (0.41%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 3 (0.41%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.27%) CCNA
7 2 (0.27%) CCNP
7 2 (0.27%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (0.27%) JNCIA
7 2 (0.27%) JNCIS
8 1 (0.14%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (0.41%) QA
2 2 (0.27%) GDPR
System Software
1 671 (92.17%) Docker
2 259 (35.58%) Hyper-V
3 256 (35.16%) vSphere
4 252 (34.62%) VMware NSX
5 12 (1.65%) Active Directory
6 7 (0.96%) VMware Infrastructure
7 2 (0.27%) KVM
7 2 (0.27%) QEMU
7 2 (0.27%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 307 (42.17%) Terraform
2 51 (7.01%) Kubernetes
3 19 (2.61%) Grafana
4 18 (2.47%) Prometheus
5 10 (1.37%) SCCM
6 8 (1.10%) SCOM
7 7 (0.96%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
7 7 (0.96%) Puppet
7 7 (0.96%) WSUS
8 5 (0.69%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.41%) Argo
9 3 (0.41%) Control-M
9 3 (0.41%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (0.27%) vCenter Server
11 1 (0.14%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 1 (0.14%) Podman
11 1 (0.14%) Proxmox
11 1 (0.14%) Salt
11 1 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 262 (35.99%) Cisco
2 259 (35.58%) Splunk
3 251 (34.48%) 3PAR
3 251 (34.48%) Juniper
4 26 (3.57%) Microsoft
5 10 (1.37%) Oracle
5 10 (1.37%) VMware
6 8 (1.10%) Red Hat
7 7 (0.96%) Aruba
7 7 (0.96%) Fortinet
7 7 (0.96%) Mellanox
7 7 (0.96%) NVIDIA
7 7 (0.96%) Palo Alto
8 6 (0.82%) Zscaler
9 3 (0.41%) Atlassian
9 3 (0.41%) Google
10 2 (0.27%) Arista
10 2 (0.27%) SaltStack
11 1 (0.14%) AppDynamics
11 1 (0.14%) Ping Identity