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

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 226 31 242
Rank change year-on-year -195 +211 -108
Permanent jobs citing Ansible 131 750 101
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.61% 7.82% 0.67%
As % of the Systems Management category 12.68% 53.34% 9.09%
Number of salaries quoted 98 69 65
10th Percentile £37,500 £53,250 £42,238
25th Percentile £46,250 £57,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +21.74% -17.86%
75th Percentile £83,750 £82,500 £67,968
90th Percentile £101,250 £90,000 £81,000
England median annual salary £72,500 £74,685 £70,000
% change year-on-year -2.93% +6.69% -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 1,033 1,406 1,111
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 4.78% 14.66% 7.37%
Number of salaries quoted 823 491 798
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,750 £32,813 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 August 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 4 August 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 -144 86 £65,000 +8.33% 53
North East -31 24 £70,000 +16.67% 7
Yorkshire -83 21 £65,576 -11.00% 15
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 5 (3.82%) Microsoft Exchange
1 5 (3.82%) OpenStack
2 2 (1.53%) Apache
2 2 (1.53%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.53%) IIS
3 1 (0.76%) Confluence
3 1 (0.76%) OpenEdge
3 1 (0.76%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 73 (55.73%) AWS
2 47 (35.88%) Azure
3 31 (23.66%) GitHub
4 19 (14.50%) Amazon EKS
5 16 (12.21%) AWS CloudFormation
5 16 (12.21%) GCP
5 16 (12.21%) Serverless
6 13 (9.92%) OpenShift
7 11 (8.40%) GitHub Actions
8 10 (7.63%) Azure DevOps
9 8 (6.11%) Amazon ECS
10 7 (5.34%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (3.82%) PaaS
12 4 (3.05%) Amazon EC2
12 4 (3.05%) Amazon S3
12 4 (3.05%) Azure AKS
12 4 (3.05%) Nutanix
13 3 (2.29%) Entra ID
13 3 (2.29%) SaaS
14 2 (1.53%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 21 (16.03%) Firewall
2 19 (14.50%) TCP/IP
3 18 (13.74%) DNS
4 8 (6.11%) HTTP
5 6 (4.58%) DHCP
6 5 (3.82%) BGP
6 5 (3.82%) SD-WAN
6 5 (3.82%) WAN
7 4 (3.05%) IPsec
7 4 (3.05%) VPN
8 3 (2.29%) LAN
8 3 (2.29%) MPLS
8 3 (2.29%) Software-Defined Networking
9 2 (1.53%) AMQP
9 2 (1.53%) DMZ
9 2 (1.53%) HSRP
9 2 (1.53%) OSPF
9 2 (1.53%) VRRP
9 2 (1.53%) Wireshark
9 2 (1.53%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (6.87%) Relational Database
2 7 (5.34%) SQL Server
3 6 (4.58%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.53%) Big Data
4 2 (1.53%) Cloudera CDH
4 2 (1.53%) Hadoop
4 2 (1.53%) MySQL
5 1 (0.76%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.76%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.76%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 33 (25.19%) Jenkins
2 32 (24.43%) Git
3 26 (19.85%) GitLab
4 13 (9.92%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 10 (7.63%) JIRA
6 7 (5.34%) SonarQube
7 6 (4.58%) Artifactory
8 4 (3.05%) Bitbucket
9 3 (2.29%) Cucumber
9 3 (2.29%) Octopus Deploy
9 3 (2.29%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.76%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 40 (30.53%) Social Skills
2 22 (16.79%) Public Sector
3 14 (10.69%) Law
4 9 (6.87%) Finance
5 8 (6.11%) Telecoms
6 5 (3.82%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (2.29%) Aerospace
7 3 (2.29%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.53%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.76%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.76%) Front Office
9 1 (0.76%) German Language
9 1 (0.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.76%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 59 (45.04%) DevOps Engineer
2 26 (19.85%) Cloud Engineer
3 21 (16.03%) Senior
4 18 (13.74%) Principal DevOps Engineer
4 18 (13.74%) Principal Engineer
5 10 (7.63%) Lead
6 8 (6.11%) Developer
6 8 (6.11%) Software Engineer
7 7 (5.34%) Linux Engineer
8 6 (4.58%) Administrator
8 6 (4.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 6 (4.58%) Java Developer
8 6 (4.58%) Lead DevOps
8 6 (4.58%) Network Engineer
8 6 (4.58%) Python Engineer
8 6 (4.58%) Python Software Engineer
8 6 (4.58%) Senior Software Engineer
9 5 (3.82%) Lead DevOps Engineer
9 5 (3.82%) Senior DevOps
9 5 (3.82%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (18.32%) Spring
1 24 (18.32%) Spring Boot
2 19 (14.50%) Elastic Stack
3 11 (8.40%) REST
4 10 (7.63%) React
5 7 (5.34%) AngularJS
5 7 (5.34%) FastAPI
5 7 (5.34%) Node.js
5 7 (5.34%) RabbitMQ
5 7 (5.34%) YAML
6 6 (4.58%) Next.js
6 6 (4.58%) React Native
6 6 (4.58%) Ruby on Rails
7 4 (3.05%) Web Services
8 3 (2.29%) AWS CDK
8 3 (2.29%) JSON
9 2 (1.53%) gRPC
9 2 (1.53%) Material-UI
9 2 (1.53%) OpenAPI
9 2 (1.53%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 21 (16.03%) Cloud Native
2 14 (10.69%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (5.34%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (4.58%) Life Science
4 6 (4.58%) Linux Command Line
5 5 (3.82%) Replication
5 5 (3.82%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (3.05%) Data Centre
6 4 (3.05%) Enterprise Cloud
6 4 (3.05%) Public Cloud
7 3 (2.29%) Social Media
8 2 (1.53%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (1.53%) Driving Licence
8 2 (1.53%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.53%) SystemC
9 1 (0.76%) Clustering
9 1 (0.76%) Housing Association
9 1 (0.76%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.76%) PKI
9 1 (0.76%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 60 (45.80%) Linux
2 18 (13.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 16 (12.21%) CentOS
3 16 (12.21%) Windows
4 9 (6.87%) Windows Server
5 7 (5.34%) Ubuntu
6 6 (4.58%) Debian
7 5 (3.82%) Unix
8 3 (2.29%) Solaris
9 2 (1.53%) VMS
10 1 (0.76%) AIX
10 1 (0.76%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.76%) SUSE
10 1 (0.76%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.76%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.76%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.76%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (63.36%) DevOps
2 79 (60.31%) CI/CD
3 77 (58.78%) Infrastructure as Code
4 47 (35.88%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 38 (29.01%) Agile
6 37 (28.24%) Containerisation
7 33 (25.19%) Platform Engineering
8 25 (19.08%) Microservices
9 21 (16.03%) Continuous Improvement
10 19 (14.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 19 (14.50%) Problem-Solving
11 17 (12.98%) ITIL
12 15 (11.45%) Technical Leadership
13 14 (10.69%) High Availability
13 14 (10.69%) Stakeholder Management
14 13 (9.92%) Collaborative Culture
14 13 (9.92%) Deployment Automation
15 12 (9.16%) Continuous Integration
16 10 (7.63%) DevSecOps
16 10 (7.63%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 67 (51.15%) Python
2 32 (24.43%) Java
3 26 (19.85%) Bash
4 19 (14.50%) PowerShell
5 12 (9.16%) Go
6 11 (8.40%) SQL
7 6 (4.58%) JavaScript
7 6 (4.58%) Ruby
8 4 (3.05%) Bicep
9 3 (2.29%) C#
9 3 (2.29%) Groovy
9 3 (2.29%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.53%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.76%) Korn
11 1 (0.76%) Perl
11 1 (0.76%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 61 (46.56%) Security Cleared
2 43 (32.82%) DV Cleared
3 38 (29.01%) SC Cleared
4 5 (3.82%) AWS Certification
4 5 (3.82%) Azure Certification
4 5 (3.82%) Cisco Certification
4 5 (3.82%) Degree
5 3 (2.29%) CCNA
6 2 (1.53%) CCIE
6 2 (1.53%) CCNP
6 2 (1.53%) RHCE
6 2 (1.53%) RHCSA
7 1 (0.76%) HP ASE
7 1 (0.76%) IBM AIX Certification
7 1 (0.76%) Linux+ Certification
7 1 (0.76%) LPIC
7 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.76%) VCAP
7 1 (0.76%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.29%) QA
2 2 (1.53%) SLA
3 1 (0.76%) GDPR
System Software
1 63 (48.09%) Docker
2 12 (9.16%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (6.87%) Active Directory
4 8 (6.11%) vSphere
5 3 (2.29%) Ceph
5 3 (2.29%) iptables
5 3 (2.29%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (2.29%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.76%) EMC RecoverPoint
6 1 (0.76%) Firmware
6 1 (0.76%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.76%) KVM
6 1 (0.76%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 105 (80.15%) Terraform
2 81 (61.83%) Kubernetes
3 17 (12.98%) Puppet
4 13 (9.92%) Grafana
4 13 (9.92%) Prometheus
5 6 (4.58%) Podman
5 6 (4.58%) Progress Chef
6 3 (2.29%) Argo
6 3 (2.29%) Check_MK
6 3 (2.29%) Control-M
6 3 (2.29%) Docker Swarm
6 3 (2.29%) Istio
6 3 (2.29%) Packer
6 3 (2.29%) WSUS
7 2 (1.53%) Kibana
7 2 (1.53%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (1.53%) SCCM
7 2 (1.53%) SolarWinds Orion
8 1 (0.76%) Nessus
8 1 (0.76%) VxRail
Vendors
1 18 (13.74%) VMware
2 15 (11.45%) Microsoft
3 9 (6.87%) Red Hat
3 9 (6.87%) Splunk
4 6 (4.58%) IBM
4 6 (4.58%) Oracle
5 5 (3.82%) AppDynamics
5 5 (3.82%) LogicMonitor
6 4 (3.05%) Dell
7 3 (2.29%) Atlassian
7 3 (2.29%) Cisco
7 3 (2.29%) Veeam
8 2 (1.53%) F5
8 2 (1.53%) Google
8 2 (1.53%) Mirantis
8 2 (1.53%) Pega
8 2 (1.53%) SaltStack
8 2 (1.53%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.53%) WSO2
8 2 (1.53%) Zscaler