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

6 months to
25 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 174 144 170
Rank change year-on-year -30 +26 +9
Permanent jobs citing Ansible 96 140 147
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.84% 1.57% 1.37%
As % of the Systems Management category 14.91% 16.85% 13.30%
Number of salaries quoted 77 74 114
10th Percentile £46,446 £41,250 £43,904
25th Percentile £46,500 £48,125 £48,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £59,250
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +5.49% -8.85%
75th Percentile £82,500 £78,438 £72,250
90th Percentile £85,400 £84,100 £77,050
England median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year - +3.45% -3.33%

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 644 831 1,105
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 5.63% 9.31% 10.27%
Number of salaries quoted 490 473 945
10th Percentile £30,000 £34,200 £31,125
25th Percentile £41,250 £44,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,068 £75,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £88,500 £83,750
England median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -10.71% +12.00% -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 25 January 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 25 January 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 -6 52 £67,500 -3.57% 32
Yorkshire -27 29 £72,500 +3.57% 31
North East -12 15 £48,445 +12.01% 11
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 (8.33%) OpenStack
2 5 (5.21%) Apache
3 4 (4.17%) Apache Spark
4 2 (2.08%) Apache Solr
5 1 (1.04%) JBoss
5 1 (1.04%) nginx
5 1 (1.04%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 76 (79.17%) AWS
2 56 (58.33%) Azure
3 29 (30.21%) GCP
4 20 (20.83%) AWS CloudFormation
5 15 (15.63%) Amazon EKS
5 15 (15.63%) GitHub
6 14 (14.58%) Azure DevOps
7 13 (13.54%) Amazon ECS
7 13 (13.54%) Serverless
8 11 (11.46%) OCI
9 10 (10.42%) GitHub Actions
10 8 (8.33%) OpenShift
11 7 (7.29%) Amazon EC2
12 4 (4.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 4 (4.17%) Amazon S3
12 4 (4.17%) AWS CodeBuild
12 4 (4.17%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (4.17%) IaaS
12 4 (4.17%) PaaS
12 4 (4.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 22 (22.92%) Firewall
2 13 (13.54%) DNS
3 11 (11.46%) NGFW
3 11 (11.46%) VXLAN
3 11 (11.46%) Wi-Fi
3 11 (11.46%) Wireshark
4 10 (10.42%) HTTP
5 8 (8.33%) TCP/IP
6 7 (7.29%) Internet
7 5 (5.21%) DHCP
8 4 (4.17%) AMQP
9 3 (3.13%) LAN
9 3 (3.13%) VPN
9 3 (3.13%) WAN
10 2 (2.08%) BGP
10 2 (2.08%) MPLS
10 2 (2.08%) SAN
10 2 (2.08%) SSL
10 2 (2.08%) VoIP
10 2 (2.08%) VPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (20.83%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (12.50%) MongoDB
3 9 (9.38%) MySQL
4 6 (6.25%) Relational Database
5 5 (5.21%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (5.21%) NoSQL
6 4 (4.17%) Big Data
6 4 (4.17%) Cloudera CDH
6 4 (4.17%) Hadoop
6 4 (4.17%) SQL Server
7 3 (3.13%) DynamoDB
8 2 (2.08%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 29 (30.21%) Jenkins
2 24 (25.00%) Git
3 22 (22.92%) GitLab
4 5 (5.21%) Bitbucket
5 4 (4.17%) CircleCI
5 4 (4.17%) JIRA
6 3 (3.13%) Artifactory
6 3 (3.13%) TeamCity
7 2 (2.08%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (2.08%) SonarQube
8 1 (1.04%) Ant
8 1 (1.04%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (1.04%) git-flow
8 1 (1.04%) Maven
8 1 (1.04%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 15 (15.63%) Public Sector
2 11 (11.46%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (10.42%) Law
4 8 (8.33%) Social Skills
4 8 (8.33%) Telecoms
5 4 (4.17%) Aerospace
5 4 (4.17%) Finance
6 3 (3.13%) Banking
Job Titles
1 25 (26.04%) DevOps Engineer
2 15 (15.63%) Operations Manager
3 11 (11.46%) Lead
3 11 (11.46%) Network Manager
3 11 (11.46%) Network Operations Manager
4 10 (10.42%) Developer
5 9 (9.38%) Lead DevOps
5 9 (9.38%) Senior
6 8 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
6 8 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 8 (8.33%) Java Developer
7 7 (7.29%) Full-Stack Developer
7 7 (7.29%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 7 (7.29%) Lead DevOps Engineer
8 6 (6.25%) Platform Engineer
9 4 (4.17%) CloudOps Manager
9 4 (4.17%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
9 4 (4.17%) Senior DevOps
9 4 (4.17%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 4 (4.17%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (20.83%) Elastic Stack
2 15 (15.63%) Node.js
3 12 (12.50%) REST
3 12 (12.50%) Spring
3 12 (12.50%) Spring Boot
4 11 (11.46%) AngularJS
5 6 (6.25%) RabbitMQ
5 6 (6.25%) React
6 5 (5.21%) Web Services
7 4 (4.17%) Apache Camel
7 4 (4.17%) gRPC
7 4 (4.17%) Material-UI
7 4 (4.17%) OpenAPI
7 4 (4.17%) Swagger
8 3 (3.13%) .NET
8 3 (3.13%) ARM Templates
8 3 (3.13%) DPDK
8 3 (3.13%) eBPF
8 3 (3.13%) RESTful
9 2 (2.08%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 19 (19.79%) Cloud Native
2 13 (13.54%) PKI
3 12 (12.50%) Data Centre
4 5 (5.21%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (5.21%) Public Cloud
5 3 (3.13%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.08%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (2.08%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.04%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.04%) NVMe
7 1 (1.04%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 42 (43.75%) Linux
2 21 (21.88%) Windows
3 7 (7.29%) Debian
3 7 (7.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (7.29%) Ubuntu
3 7 (7.29%) Windows Server
4 5 (5.21%) CentOS
5 3 (3.13%) Unix
5 3 (3.13%) VMS
6 2 (2.08%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (2.08%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (2.08%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (1.04%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (60.42%) Infrastructure as Code
2 56 (58.33%) CI/CD
3 55 (57.29%) DevOps
4 37 (38.54%) Containerisation
5 28 (29.17%) Agile
6 22 (22.92%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 22 (22.92%) Problem-Solving
6 22 (22.92%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 21 (21.88%) Microservices
8 19 (19.79%) Mentoring
9 16 (16.67%) Coaching
10 14 (14.58%) Configuration Management
11 13 (13.54%) Continuous Integration
11 13 (13.54%) Observability
12 12 (12.50%) Load Balancing
13 11 (11.46%) Creative Thinking
13 11 (11.46%) High Availability
13 11 (11.46%) ITSM
13 11 (11.46%) Network Monitoring
13 11 (11.46%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 56 (58.33%) Python
2 23 (23.96%) Bash
3 22 (22.92%) Java
4 18 (18.75%) Go
5 14 (14.58%) JavaScript
6 13 (13.54%) PowerShell
7 12 (12.50%) TypeScript
8 7 (7.29%) C
8 7 (7.29%) SQL
9 2 (2.08%) C#
9 2 (2.08%) PHP
10 1 (1.04%) Groovy
10 1 (1.04%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 14 (14.58%) Security Cleared
2 9 (9.38%) DV Cleared
2 9 (9.38%) SC Cleared
3 6 (6.25%) AWS Certification
4 3 (3.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (2.08%) CCNA
5 2 (2.08%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.08%) Degree
6 1 (1.04%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.13%) QA
2 2 (2.08%) GDPR
System Software
1 36 (37.50%) Docker
2 9 (9.38%) vSphere
3 7 (7.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (6.25%) VMware NSX
5 3 (3.13%) Active Directory
5 3 (3.13%) KVM
5 3 (3.13%) QEMU
5 3 (3.13%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (1.04%) Hyper-V
6 1 (1.04%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (1.04%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 79 (82.29%) Terraform
2 57 (59.38%) Kubernetes
3 25 (26.04%) Grafana
4 22 (22.92%) Prometheus
5 9 (9.38%) Puppet
6 4 (4.17%) Progress Chef
7 3 (3.13%) Docker Swarm
7 3 (3.13%) Rancher
8 2 (2.08%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (2.08%) Argo
8 2 (2.08%) Control-M
8 2 (2.08%) Nagios
8 2 (2.08%) Podman
8 2 (2.08%) WSUS
9 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (1.04%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 12 (12.50%) VMware
2 11 (11.46%) Arista
2 11 (11.46%) Aruba
2 11 (11.46%) NetScout
3 7 (7.29%) Microsoft
3 7 (7.29%) SaltStack
3 7 (7.29%) Splunk
4 6 (6.25%) Red Hat
5 5 (5.21%) Google
6 4 (4.17%) Pega
6 4 (4.17%) WSO2
7 3 (3.13%) Dynatrace
8 2 (2.08%) Atlassian
8 2 (2.08%) BMC
8 2 (2.08%) Oracle
9 1 (1.04%) Avaya
9 1 (1.04%) Genesys
9 1 (1.04%) Mirantis
9 1 (1.04%) Verint