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 15 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 218 31 207
Rank change year-on-year -187 +176 -90
Permanent jobs citing Ansible 142 726 115
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.60% 7.80% 0.82%
As % of the Systems Management category 16.15% 58.08% 13.51%
Number of salaries quoted 98 61 56
10th Percentile £42,500 £55,000 £42,119
25th Percentile £52,750 £58,750 £42,434
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £50,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +38.61% -25.19%
75th Percentile £86,250 £85,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £101,250 £90,000 £74,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - +7.14% -

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 879 1,250 851
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 3.73% 13.42% 6.07%
Number of salaries quoted 667 380 491
10th Percentile £29,600 £26,225 £32,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £31,250 £42,238
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £48,360 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.56% -3.28% -16.67%
75th Percentile £74,750 £70,500 £69,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,900 £76,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,625 £65,000
% change year-on-year -1.03% -6.73% -

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 15 September 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 15 September 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 95 £67,500 +8.00% 91
Yorkshire -75 24 £66,000 -12.00% 33
North East -40 23 £82,500 +37.50% 23
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 (2.82%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (2.82%) OpenStack
2 3 (2.11%) Apache
2 3 (2.11%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.11%) IIS
3 2 (1.41%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.70%) Confluence
4 1 (0.70%) OpenEdge
Cloud Services
1 76 (53.52%) AWS
2 45 (31.69%) Azure
3 24 (16.90%) GitHub
4 19 (13.38%) AWS CloudFormation
4 19 (13.38%) Serverless
5 18 (12.68%) OpenShift
6 16 (11.27%) Amazon EKS
7 12 (8.45%) GCP
8 8 (5.63%) Amazon ECS
8 8 (5.63%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (4.23%) PaaS
10 5 (3.52%) SaaS
11 4 (2.82%) Amazon EC2
11 4 (2.82%) Amazon S3
11 4 (2.82%) Nutanix
12 3 (2.11%) Azure AKS
12 3 (2.11%) Entra ID
12 3 (2.11%) IaaS
13 2 (1.41%) GitHub Actions
13 2 (1.41%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 12 (8.45%) Firewall
2 11 (7.75%) TCP/IP
3 10 (7.04%) DNS
4 6 (4.23%) DHCP
5 5 (3.52%) BGP
5 5 (3.52%) SD-WAN
5 5 (3.52%) WAN
6 4 (2.82%) IPsec
7 3 (2.11%) AMQP
7 3 (2.11%) LAN
7 3 (2.11%) OSPF
7 3 (2.11%) Software-Defined Networking
7 3 (2.11%) VPN
7 3 (2.11%) Wireless
7 3 (2.11%) WLAN
8 2 (1.41%) DMZ
8 2 (1.41%) HSRP
8 2 (1.41%) MPLS
8 2 (1.41%) VRRP
8 2 (1.41%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (7.04%) Relational Database
2 7 (4.93%) SQL Server
3 6 (4.23%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (2.11%) Big Data
4 3 (2.11%) Cloudera CDH
4 3 (2.11%) Hadoop
5 2 (1.41%) MySQL
6 1 (0.70%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.70%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.70%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.70%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 36 (25.35%) Git
2 30 (21.13%) GitLab
3 29 (20.42%) Jenkins
4 16 (11.27%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 11 (7.75%) JIRA
6 9 (6.34%) SonarQube
7 6 (4.23%) Artifactory
8 3 (2.11%) Bitbucket
8 3 (2.11%) Cucumber
8 3 (2.11%) Octopus Deploy
8 3 (2.11%) TeamCity
9 2 (1.41%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.70%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.70%) Mocha
General
1 48 (33.80%) Social Skills
2 25 (17.61%) Public Sector
3 9 (6.34%) Aerospace
3 9 (6.34%) Finance
4 7 (4.93%) Law
5 5 (3.52%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (2.11%) Financial Institution
7 2 (1.41%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.41%) Retail
8 1 (0.70%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.70%) Front Office
8 1 (0.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 59 (41.55%) DevOps Engineer
2 27 (19.01%) Cloud Engineer
3 23 (16.20%) Senior
4 22 (15.49%) Principal DevOps Engineer
4 22 (15.49%) Principal Engineer
5 12 (8.45%) Software Engineer
6 11 (7.75%) Lead
7 9 (6.34%) Developer
7 9 (6.34%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 7 (4.93%) Infrastructure Manager
8 7 (4.93%) Lead DevOps
8 7 (4.93%) Network Engineer
8 7 (4.93%) Senior Software Engineer
9 6 (4.23%) Administrator
9 6 (4.23%) Lead DevOps Engineer
9 6 (4.23%) Python Engineer
9 6 (4.23%) Python Software Engineer
9 6 (4.23%) Senior DevOps
9 6 (4.23%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 5 (3.52%) Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 113 (79.58%) Terraform
2 26 (18.31%) Spring
2 26 (18.31%) Spring Boot
3 14 (9.86%) React
4 12 (8.45%) REST
5 10 (7.04%) Elastic Stack
6 9 (6.34%) AngularJS
6 9 (6.34%) Node.js
7 8 (5.63%) RabbitMQ
8 7 (4.93%) FastAPI
8 7 (4.93%) Next.js
9 6 (4.23%) AWS CDK
9 6 (4.23%) React Native
9 6 (4.23%) Ruby on Rails
10 5 (3.52%) YAML
11 4 (2.82%) OpenAPI
11 4 (2.82%) Swagger
12 3 (2.11%) gRPC
12 3 (2.11%) Material-UI
12 3 (2.11%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 29 (20.42%) Cloud Native
2 14 (9.86%) Hybrid Cloud
3 6 (4.23%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (4.23%) Life Science
3 6 (4.23%) Linux Command Line
4 5 (3.52%) Data Centre
4 5 (3.52%) Replication
5 4 (2.82%) Private Cloud
5 4 (2.82%) Public Cloud
5 4 (2.82%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (2.11%) Social Media
6 3 (2.11%) SystemC
7 2 (1.41%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (1.41%) Driving Licence
7 2 (1.41%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (1.41%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.70%) Clustering
8 1 (0.70%) Enterprise Storage
8 1 (0.70%) Housing Association
Operating Systems
1 68 (47.89%) Linux
2 26 (18.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 20 (14.08%) CentOS
4 17 (11.97%) Windows
5 10 (7.04%) Windows Server
6 7 (4.93%) Ubuntu
7 6 (4.23%) Debian
7 6 (4.23%) Unix
8 3 (2.11%) Solaris
9 2 (1.41%) AIX
9 2 (1.41%) VMS
10 1 (0.70%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.70%) SUSE
10 1 (0.70%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.70%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.70%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.70%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (59.86%) DevOps
2 84 (59.15%) Infrastructure as Code
3 83 (58.45%) CI/CD
4 46 (32.39%) Agile
5 45 (31.69%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 36 (25.35%) Containerisation
7 34 (23.94%) Platform Engineering
8 28 (19.72%) Microservices
9 26 (18.31%) Continuous Improvement
10 25 (17.61%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 22 (15.49%) Problem-Solving
12 19 (13.38%) Technical Leadership
13 16 (11.27%) ITIL
13 16 (11.27%) Stakeholder Management
14 13 (9.15%) Collaborative Culture
14 13 (9.15%) Configuration Management
14 13 (9.15%) Software Engineering
15 12 (8.45%) Deployment Automation
16 11 (7.75%) Project Delivery
17 10 (7.04%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 74 (52.11%) Python
2 38 (26.76%) Java
3 25 (17.61%) Bash
4 23 (16.20%) PowerShell
5 12 (8.45%) SQL
6 7 (4.93%) Go
6 7 (4.93%) JavaScript
7 6 (4.23%) Ruby
8 5 (3.52%) Bicep
9 4 (2.82%) Shell Script
9 4 (2.82%) TypeScript
10 3 (2.11%) C#
10 3 (2.11%) Groovy
11 2 (1.41%) Korn
11 2 (1.41%) PL/SQL
11 2 (1.41%) Rust
12 1 (0.70%) Perl
Qualifications
1 73 (51.41%) Security Cleared
2 53 (37.32%) DV Cleared
3 44 (30.99%) SC Cleared
4 6 (4.23%) AWS Certification
4 6 (4.23%) Azure Certification
4 6 (4.23%) Degree
5 4 (2.82%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (2.11%) RHCE
6 3 (2.11%) RHCSA
7 2 (1.41%) CCIE
7 2 (1.41%) CCNA
7 2 (1.41%) CCNP
7 2 (1.41%) IBM AIX Certification
7 2 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.70%) HP ASE
8 1 (0.70%) Linux+ Certification
8 1 (0.70%) VCAP
8 1 (0.70%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.11%) QA
2 2 (1.41%) SLA
3 1 (0.70%) GDPR
System Software
1 78 (54.93%) Docker
2 13 (9.15%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (7.04%) Active Directory
4 8 (5.63%) vSphere
5 4 (2.82%) VMware NSX
6 3 (2.11%) Ceph
6 3 (2.11%) iptables
6 3 (2.11%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.70%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 1 (0.70%) Firmware
7 1 (0.70%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.70%) KVM
7 1 (0.70%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 95 (66.90%) Kubernetes
2 26 (18.31%) Puppet
3 10 (7.04%) Progress Chef
4 9 (6.34%) Podman
5 5 (3.52%) Grafana
5 5 (3.52%) Prometheus
6 3 (2.11%) Argo
6 3 (2.11%) Check_MK
6 3 (2.11%) Control-M
6 3 (2.11%) Docker Swarm
6 3 (2.11%) Istio
6 3 (2.11%) Packer
7 2 (1.41%) Kibana
7 2 (1.41%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (1.41%) SCCM
7 2 (1.41%) SolarWinds Orion
7 2 (1.41%) WSUS
8 1 (0.70%) Red Hat Satellite
8 1 (0.70%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.70%) VxRail
Vendors
1 20 (14.08%) VMware
2 17 (11.97%) Microsoft
3 14 (9.86%) Red Hat
4 8 (5.63%) Splunk
5 7 (4.93%) IBM
6 6 (4.23%) Oracle
7 5 (3.52%) AppDynamics
7 5 (3.52%) Cisco
7 5 (3.52%) LogicMonitor
8 4 (2.82%) Dell
9 3 (2.11%) Atlassian
9 3 (2.11%) Google
9 3 (2.11%) SaltStack
9 3 (2.11%) Thales
9 3 (2.11%) Veeam
10 2 (1.41%) F5
10 2 (1.41%) Mirantis
10 2 (1.41%) ServiceNow
10 2 (1.41%) Zscaler
11 1 (0.70%) Zerto