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 20 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 215 29 258
Rank change year-on-year -186 +229 -109
Permanent jobs citing Ansible 128 755 128
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.61% 8.00% 0.74%
As % of the Systems Management category 12.92% 53.36% 10.06%
Number of salaries quoted 102 69 84
10th Percentile £42,500 £51,250 £42,238
25th Percentile £46,250 £57,375 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £62,783
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +3.53% -10.31%
75th Percentile £80,938 £82,500 £67,968
90th Percentile £100,750 £90,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -2.78%

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 991 1,415 1,272
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 4.71% 14.99% 7.34%
Number of salaries quoted 799 489 960
10th Percentile £32,000 £28,400 £29,250
25th Percentile £41,000 £35,750 £39,720
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,840 £69,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +4.00% -7.41%

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 20 July 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 20 July 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 -151 75 £65,000 +8.33% 40
Yorkshire -72 28 £50,000 -28.57% 9
North East -24 25 £65,000 +8.33% 3
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 6 (4.69%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.56%) Apache
2 2 (1.56%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.56%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.78%) Confluence
3 1 (0.78%) OpenEdge
3 1 (0.78%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 79 (61.72%) AWS
2 53 (41.41%) Azure
3 34 (26.56%) GitHub
4 20 (15.63%) Amazon EKS
4 20 (15.63%) GCP
5 16 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
5 16 (12.50%) Serverless
6 14 (10.94%) AWS CloudFormation
6 14 (10.94%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (6.25%) OpenShift
8 7 (5.47%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (4.69%) Amazon ECS
9 6 (4.69%) OCI
10 5 (3.91%) Azure AKS
10 5 (3.91%) Nutanix
11 4 (3.13%) Amazon EC2
11 4 (3.13%) Amazon S3
11 4 (3.13%) Entra ID
12 3 (2.34%) Microsoft 365
13 1 (0.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 32 (25.00%) Firewall
2 23 (17.97%) TCP/IP
3 20 (15.63%) DNS
4 12 (9.38%) HTTP
5 8 (6.25%) Wireshark
6 7 (5.47%) BGP
6 7 (5.47%) SD-WAN
6 7 (5.47%) WAN
7 6 (4.69%) NGFW
7 6 (4.69%) VPN
7 6 (4.69%) VXLAN
7 6 (4.69%) Wi-Fi
8 5 (3.91%) LAN
8 5 (3.91%) MPLS
9 4 (3.13%) DHCP
9 4 (3.13%) IPsec
10 3 (2.34%) Asterisk PBX
10 3 (2.34%) Software-Defined Networking
10 3 (2.34%) VoIP
10 3 (2.34%) VPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (7.03%) Relational Database
2 6 (4.69%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (4.69%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.56%) Big Data
3 2 (1.56%) Cloudera CDH
3 2 (1.56%) Hadoop
3 2 (1.56%) MySQL
4 1 (0.78%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.78%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.78%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 35 (27.34%) Jenkins
2 27 (21.09%) Git
2 27 (21.09%) GitLab
3 11 (8.59%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 10 (7.81%) JIRA
5 7 (5.47%) SonarQube
6 6 (4.69%) Artifactory
7 4 (3.13%) Bitbucket
8 3 (2.34%) Cucumber
8 3 (2.34%) Octopus Deploy
8 3 (2.34%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.78%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 35 (27.34%) Social Skills
2 26 (20.31%) Public Sector
3 18 (14.06%) Law
4 12 (9.38%) Telecoms
5 9 (7.03%) Finance
6 8 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (2.34%) Aerospace
7 3 (2.34%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.56%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.78%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.78%) Front Office
9 1 (0.78%) German Language
9 1 (0.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.78%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 59 (46.09%) DevOps Engineer
2 23 (17.97%) Cloud Engineer
3 20 (15.63%) Senior
4 15 (11.72%) Principal DevOps Engineer
4 15 (11.72%) Principal Engineer
5 8 (6.25%) Developer
5 8 (6.25%) Lead
5 8 (6.25%) Software Engineer
6 7 (5.47%) Support Engineer
7 6 (4.69%) Java Developer
7 6 (4.69%) Linux Engineer
7 6 (4.69%) Network Engineer
7 6 (4.69%) Network Manager
7 6 (4.69%) Network Operations Manager
7 6 (4.69%) Operations Manager
7 6 (4.69%) Python Engineer
7 6 (4.69%) Python Software Engineer
7 6 (4.69%) Senior Software Engineer
8 5 (3.91%) Lead DevOps
9 4 (3.13%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (17.97%) Elastic Stack
2 21 (16.41%) Spring
2 21 (16.41%) Spring Boot
3 11 (8.59%) REST
4 10 (7.81%) React
5 7 (5.47%) AngularJS
5 7 (5.47%) FastAPI
5 7 (5.47%) Node.js
5 7 (5.47%) RabbitMQ
5 7 (5.47%) YAML
6 6 (4.69%) Next.js
6 6 (4.69%) React Native
6 6 (4.69%) Ruby on Rails
7 4 (3.13%) Web Services
8 3 (2.34%) JSON
8 3 (2.34%) OpenTelemetry
9 2 (1.56%) gRPC
9 2 (1.56%) Material-UI
9 2 (1.56%) OpenAPI
9 2 (1.56%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 17 (13.28%) Cloud Native
2 12 (9.38%) Hybrid Cloud
3 11 (8.59%) Data Centre
4 9 (7.03%) PKI
5 7 (5.47%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (4.69%) Life Science
6 6 (4.69%) Linux Command Line
6 6 (4.69%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (3.13%) Enterprise Cloud
7 4 (3.13%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.56%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (1.56%) Driving Licence
8 2 (1.56%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.56%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.56%) Replication
9 1 (0.78%) Clustering
9 1 (0.78%) Housing Association
9 1 (0.78%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 52 (40.63%) Linux
2 15 (11.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 15 (11.72%) Windows
3 14 (10.94%) CentOS
4 8 (6.25%) Ubuntu
5 7 (5.47%) Debian
6 6 (4.69%) Windows Server
7 4 (3.13%) Unix
8 3 (2.34%) Solaris
9 1 (0.78%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.78%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.78%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (62.50%) DevOps
2 74 (57.81%) CI/CD
3 73 (57.03%) Infrastructure as Code
4 46 (35.94%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 39 (30.47%) Containerisation
6 35 (27.34%) Agile
7 30 (23.44%) Platform Engineering
8 25 (19.53%) Problem-Solving
9 23 (17.97%) Microservices
10 19 (14.84%) Continuous Improvement
10 19 (14.84%) High Availability
11 16 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
12 15 (11.72%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 15 (11.72%) Mentoring
13 14 (10.94%) Continuous Delivery
13 14 (10.94%) DevSecOps
14 13 (10.16%) Collaborative Culture
14 13 (10.16%) Deployment Automation
14 13 (10.16%) Vulnerability Scanning
15 12 (9.38%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 72 (56.25%) Python
2 29 (22.66%) Java
3 26 (20.31%) Bash
4 19 (14.84%) PowerShell
5 14 (10.94%) Go
6 11 (8.59%) SQL
7 6 (4.69%) JavaScript
7 6 (4.69%) Ruby
8 3 (2.34%) C#
8 3 (2.34%) Groovy
9 2 (1.56%) PL/SQL
9 2 (1.56%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.78%) Bicep
10 1 (0.78%) Perl
10 1 (0.78%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 56 (43.75%) Security Cleared
2 39 (30.47%) DV Cleared
3 34 (26.56%) SC Cleared
4 7 (5.47%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (3.91%) CCNA
5 5 (3.91%) Degree
6 3 (2.34%) AWS Certification
6 3 (2.34%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.56%) CCIE
7 2 (1.56%) CCNP
8 1 (0.78%) Linux+ Certification
8 1 (0.78%) LPIC
8 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.78%) RHCE
8 1 (0.78%) RHCSA
8 1 (0.78%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.34%) QA
2 1 (0.78%) GDPR
System Software
1 53 (41.41%) Docker
2 12 (9.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (7.03%) Active Directory
4 8 (6.25%) vSphere
5 4 (3.13%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (3.13%) VMware NSX
6 3 (2.34%) iptables
7 2 (1.56%) Hyper-V
7 2 (1.56%) KVM
8 1 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 107 (83.59%) Terraform
2 70 (54.69%) Kubernetes
3 17 (13.28%) Grafana
4 14 (10.94%) Prometheus
5 13 (10.16%) Puppet
6 4 (3.13%) Progress Chef
7 3 (2.34%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (2.34%) Control-M
7 3 (2.34%) Docker Swarm
7 3 (2.34%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (2.34%) Packer
7 3 (2.34%) WSUS
8 2 (1.56%) Kibana
8 2 (1.56%) Podman
8 2 (1.56%) SolarWinds Orion
9 1 (0.78%) Nessus
9 1 (0.78%) PowerCLI
9 1 (0.78%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 18 (14.06%) VMware
2 11 (8.59%) Microsoft
2 11 (8.59%) Splunk
3 6 (4.69%) Arista
3 6 (4.69%) Aruba
3 6 (4.69%) NetScout
4 5 (3.91%) AppDynamics
4 5 (3.91%) IBM
4 5 (3.91%) Oracle
4 5 (3.91%) Red Hat
5 3 (2.34%) Atlassian
5 3 (2.34%) Cisco
5 3 (2.34%) LogicMonitor
6 2 (1.56%) F5
6 2 (1.56%) Google
6 2 (1.56%) Mirantis
6 2 (1.56%) Pega
6 2 (1.56%) SaltStack
6 2 (1.56%) WSO2
6 2 (1.56%) Zscaler