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

6 months to
8 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 199 137 236
Rank change year-on-year -62 +99 -44
Permanent jobs citing Ansible 109 112 144
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.67% 1.75% 0.91%
As % of the Systems Management category 14.17% 17.13% 11.11%
Number of salaries quoted 83 75 97
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £44,500
25th Percentile £46,446 £51,875 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £70,000 £62,783
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +11.50% -3.41%
75th Percentile £80,000 £79,375 £72,433
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £70,576
% change year-on-year -6.67% +6.27% -2.65%

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 769 654 1,296
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 4.71% 10.24% 8.18%
Number of salaries quoted 566 495 1,064
10th Percentile £30,375 £33,100 £29,000
25th Percentile £41,063 £46,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £67,037 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.23% +21.89% -7.60%
75th Percentile £78,790 £77,875 £70,000
90th Percentile £86,876 £97,528 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% +16.67% -11.11%

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 8 April 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 8 April 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 -23 59 £65,000 -10.34% 35
Yorkshire -77 29 £52,500 -25.00% 23
North East -16 21 £47,972 +12.88% 16
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 8 (7.34%) OpenStack
2 5 (4.59%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (3.67%) Apache
3 4 (3.67%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 85 (77.98%) AWS
2 67 (61.47%) Azure
3 33 (30.28%) GCP
4 29 (26.61%) Amazon EKS
5 28 (25.69%) GitHub
6 23 (21.10%) Azure DevOps
7 21 (19.27%) GitHub Actions
8 19 (17.43%) Serverless
9 14 (12.84%) AWS CloudFormation
10 12 (11.01%) Amazon ECS
10 12 (11.01%) OCI
11 9 (8.26%) AWS Lambda
12 8 (7.34%) OpenShift
13 7 (6.42%) Amazon EC2
13 7 (6.42%) Amazon S3
14 6 (5.50%) Azure AKS
15 4 (3.67%) Nutanix
16 3 (2.75%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 3 (2.75%) PaaS
16 3 (2.75%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 34 (31.19%) Firewall
2 25 (22.94%) DNS
3 21 (19.27%) TCP/IP
4 18 (16.51%) HTTP
5 12 (11.01%) NGFW
5 12 (11.01%) VXLAN
5 12 (11.01%) Wi-Fi
5 12 (11.01%) Wireshark
6 7 (6.42%) Internet
7 5 (4.59%) VPN
8 4 (3.67%) AMQP
8 4 (3.67%) Asterisk PBX
8 4 (3.67%) BGP
8 4 (3.67%) DHCP
8 4 (3.67%) LAN
8 4 (3.67%) MPLS
8 4 (3.67%) SD-WAN
8 4 (3.67%) VoIP
8 4 (3.67%) VPLS
8 4 (3.67%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (20.18%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (10.09%) MongoDB
3 10 (9.17%) Relational Database
4 6 (5.50%) MySQL
5 4 (3.67%) Big Data
5 4 (3.67%) Cloudera CDH
5 4 (3.67%) Hadoop
5 4 (3.67%) NoSQL
6 3 (2.75%) DynamoDB
6 3 (2.75%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (2.75%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.83%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 34 (31.19%) Jenkins
2 28 (25.69%) Git
3 23 (21.10%) GitLab
4 5 (4.59%) Bitbucket
4 5 (4.59%) JIRA
5 4 (3.67%) Artifactory
5 4 (3.67%) SonarQube
6 3 (2.75%) Cucumber
7 2 (1.83%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.92%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 21 (19.27%) Public Sector
2 19 (17.43%) Law
3 18 (16.51%) Telecoms
4 13 (11.93%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (11.93%) Social Skills
5 4 (3.67%) Aerospace
6 1 (0.92%) Banking
6 1 (0.92%) Finance
6 1 (0.92%) German Language
6 1 (0.92%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (0.92%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 38 (34.86%) DevOps Engineer
2 17 (15.60%) Cloud Engineer
3 14 (12.84%) Developer
4 13 (11.93%) Java Developer
5 12 (11.01%) Network Manager
5 12 (11.01%) Network Operations Manager
5 12 (11.01%) Operations Manager
6 10 (9.17%) Lead
7 9 (8.26%) Full-Stack Developer
8 8 (7.34%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 8 (7.34%) Lead DevOps
8 8 (7.34%) Support Engineer
9 7 (6.42%) Senior
10 6 (5.50%) Azure Engineer
10 6 (5.50%) Lead DevOps Engineer
11 5 (4.59%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 5 (4.59%) IT Engineer
11 5 (4.59%) IT Support
11 5 (4.59%) IT Support Engineer
11 5 (4.59%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (28.44%) Elastic Stack
2 19 (17.43%) REST
3 17 (15.60%) Spring
3 17 (15.60%) Spring Boot
4 15 (13.76%) AngularJS
5 14 (12.84%) Node.js
6 10 (9.17%) RabbitMQ
7 9 (8.26%) Web Services
8 7 (6.42%) React
8 7 (6.42%) YAML
9 6 (5.50%) Apache Camel
10 5 (4.59%) RESTful
11 4 (3.67%) gRPC
11 4 (3.67%) JSON
11 4 (3.67%) Material-UI
11 4 (3.67%) OpenAPI
11 4 (3.67%) OpenTelemetry
11 4 (3.67%) Swagger
12 2 (1.83%) ARM Templates
12 2 (1.83%) JMS
Miscellaneous
1 16 (14.68%) PKI
2 13 (11.93%) Cloud Native
2 13 (11.93%) Data Centre
3 12 (11.01%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (7.34%) Hybrid Cloud
4 8 (7.34%) Public Cloud
5 5 (4.59%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (3.67%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (1.83%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (1.83%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.92%) NVMe
Operating Systems
1 40 (36.70%) Linux
2 16 (14.68%) Windows
3 8 (7.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (6.42%) Windows Server
5 6 (5.50%) Debian
5 6 (5.50%) Ubuntu
6 5 (4.59%) CentOS
6 5 (4.59%) Unix
7 3 (2.75%) Solaris
8 2 (1.83%) VMS
8 2 (1.83%) Windows Server 2008
8 2 (1.83%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (1.83%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (64.22%) Infrastructure as Code
2 65 (59.63%) DevOps
3 62 (56.88%) CI/CD
4 41 (37.61%) Containerisation
5 40 (36.70%) Agile
6 27 (24.77%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 23 (21.10%) Microservices
8 22 (20.18%) Problem-Solving
9 21 (19.27%) Continuous Integration
10 20 (18.35%) High Availability
11 19 (17.43%) DevSecOps
11 19 (17.43%) Mentoring
11 19 (17.43%) Static Code Analysis
11 19 (17.43%) Vulnerability Scanning
12 18 (16.51%) Continuous Delivery
12 18 (16.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 16 (14.68%) Platform Engineering
14 15 (13.76%) Coaching
15 14 (12.84%) Kanban
15 14 (12.84%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 58 (53.21%) Python
2 28 (25.69%) Go
3 25 (22.94%) Bash
4 24 (22.02%) Java
5 14 (12.84%) JavaScript
6 11 (10.09%) PowerShell
7 10 (9.17%) SQL
8 7 (6.42%) C
8 7 (6.42%) TypeScript
9 3 (2.75%) Groovy
10 2 (1.83%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.92%) C#
11 1 (0.92%) Perl
11 1 (0.92%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 27 (24.77%) Security Cleared
2 19 (17.43%) SC Cleared
3 11 (10.09%) DV Cleared
4 4 (3.67%) CCNA
4 4 (3.67%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (1.83%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.92%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.92%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.92%) Degree
6 1 (0.92%) LPIC
6 1 (0.92%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.75%) QA
System Software
1 30 (27.52%) Docker
2 12 (11.01%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (9.17%) vSphere
4 8 (7.34%) VMware NSX
5 7 (6.42%) Active Directory
6 5 (4.59%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (1.83%) KVM
7 2 (1.83%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.92%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.92%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 94 (86.24%) Terraform
2 54 (49.54%) Kubernetes
3 27 (24.77%) Grafana
4 26 (23.85%) Prometheus
5 6 (5.50%) Puppet
6 4 (3.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 4 (3.67%) WSUS
7 3 (2.75%) Packer
7 3 (2.75%) Podman
7 3 (2.75%) Rancher
8 2 (1.83%) Docker Swarm
8 2 (1.83%) Kibana
8 2 (1.83%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (1.83%) Nagios
8 2 (1.83%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.92%) Argo
9 1 (0.92%) Control-M
9 1 (0.92%) PowerCLI
9 1 (0.92%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 17 (15.60%) VMware
2 12 (11.01%) Arista
2 12 (11.01%) Aruba
2 12 (11.01%) NetScout
3 8 (7.34%) Red Hat
4 7 (6.42%) Microsoft
5 6 (5.50%) Pega
5 6 (5.50%) Splunk
5 6 (5.50%) WSO2
6 5 (4.59%) AppDynamics
6 5 (4.59%) IBM
6 5 (4.59%) SaltStack
7 4 (3.67%) Google
7 4 (3.67%) Oracle
8 3 (2.75%) Dynatrace
8 3 (2.75%) Mirantis
9 2 (1.83%) BMC
9 2 (1.83%) LogicMonitor
10 1 (0.92%) Atlassian