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

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 195 137 231
Rank change year-on-year -58 +94 -35
Permanent jobs citing Ansible 107 113 145
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.69% 1.77% 0.93%
As % of the Systems Management category 14.40% 16.87% 11.28%
Number of salaries quoted 83 77 100
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £44,875
25th Percentile £46,446 £52,500 £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 £82,500 £78,750 £72,433
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,250 £82,500
England median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £70,576
% change year-on-year -3.33% +6.27% -5.90%

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 743 670 1,286
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 4.80% 10.50% 8.23%
Number of salaries quoted 543 500 1,059
10th Percentile £31,000 £35,000 £28,950
25th Percentile £41,125 £46,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £66,750 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.86% +21.36% -7.60%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £86,253 £97,528 £80,000
England median annual salary £63,247 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.65% +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 1 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 1 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 -13 57 £65,000 -10.34% 35
Yorkshire -75 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 (7.48%) OpenStack
2 4 (3.74%) Apache
2 4 (3.74%) Apache Spark
2 4 (3.74%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.93%) Apache Solr
Cloud Services
1 86 (80.37%) AWS
2 66 (61.68%) Azure
3 34 (31.78%) GCP
4 28 (26.17%) Amazon EKS
4 28 (26.17%) GitHub
5 23 (21.50%) Azure DevOps
6 21 (19.63%) GitHub Actions
7 20 (18.69%) Serverless
8 15 (14.02%) AWS CloudFormation
9 12 (11.21%) Amazon ECS
9 12 (11.21%) OCI
10 9 (8.41%) AWS Lambda
11 8 (7.48%) OpenShift
12 7 (6.54%) Amazon EC2
12 7 (6.54%) Amazon S3
13 5 (4.67%) Azure AKS
14 3 (2.80%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 3 (2.80%) Nutanix
14 3 (2.80%) PaaS
14 3 (2.80%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 34 (31.78%) Firewall
2 24 (22.43%) DNS
3 20 (18.69%) TCP/IP
4 18 (16.82%) HTTP
5 12 (11.21%) NGFW
5 12 (11.21%) VXLAN
5 12 (11.21%) Wi-Fi
5 12 (11.21%) Wireshark
6 7 (6.54%) Internet
7 5 (4.67%) VPN
8 4 (3.74%) AMQP
8 4 (3.74%) Asterisk PBX
8 4 (3.74%) BGP
8 4 (3.74%) DHCP
8 4 (3.74%) LAN
8 4 (3.74%) MPLS
8 4 (3.74%) Software-Defined Networking
8 4 (3.74%) VoIP
8 4 (3.74%) VPLS
8 4 (3.74%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (20.56%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (10.28%) MongoDB
3 10 (9.35%) Relational Database
4 7 (6.54%) MySQL
5 4 (3.74%) Big Data
5 4 (3.74%) Cloudera CDH
5 4 (3.74%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (3.74%) Hadoop
5 4 (3.74%) NoSQL
6 3 (2.80%) DynamoDB
6 3 (2.80%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.87%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 35 (32.71%) Jenkins
2 29 (27.10%) Git
3 23 (21.50%) GitLab
4 5 (4.67%) Bitbucket
4 5 (4.67%) JIRA
5 4 (3.74%) Artifactory
5 4 (3.74%) SonarQube
6 3 (2.80%) Cucumber
7 2 (1.87%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.93%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.93%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 20 (18.69%) Public Sector
2 19 (17.76%) Law
3 18 (16.82%) Telecoms
4 13 (12.15%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (10.28%) Social Skills
6 4 (3.74%) Aerospace
7 1 (0.93%) Banking
7 1 (0.93%) Finance
7 1 (0.93%) German Language
7 1 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.93%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 39 (36.45%) DevOps Engineer
2 17 (15.89%) Cloud Engineer
3 15 (14.02%) Developer
4 13 (12.15%) Java Developer
5 12 (11.21%) Network Manager
5 12 (11.21%) Network Operations Manager
5 12 (11.21%) Operations Manager
6 9 (8.41%) Full-Stack Developer
7 8 (7.48%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 8 (7.48%) Lead
7 8 (7.48%) Lead DevOps
8 7 (6.54%) Senior
8 7 (6.54%) Support Engineer
9 6 (5.61%) Azure Engineer
9 6 (5.61%) Lead DevOps Engineer
10 5 (4.67%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 5 (4.67%) IT Engineer
10 5 (4.67%) IT Support
10 5 (4.67%) IT Support Engineer
10 5 (4.67%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (29.91%) Elastic Stack
2 19 (17.76%) REST
3 17 (15.89%) Spring
3 17 (15.89%) Spring Boot
4 15 (14.02%) AngularJS
4 15 (14.02%) Node.js
5 10 (9.35%) RabbitMQ
6 9 (8.41%) Web Services
7 7 (6.54%) React
7 7 (6.54%) YAML
8 6 (5.61%) Apache Camel
9 5 (4.67%) RESTful
10 4 (3.74%) gRPC
10 4 (3.74%) JSON
10 4 (3.74%) Material-UI
10 4 (3.74%) OpenAPI
10 4 (3.74%) OpenTelemetry
10 4 (3.74%) Swagger
11 2 (1.87%) ARM Templates
11 2 (1.87%) Java EE
Miscellaneous
1 16 (14.95%) PKI
2 13 (12.15%) Cloud Native
2 13 (12.15%) Data Centre
3 12 (11.21%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (6.54%) Public Cloud
5 6 (5.61%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (3.74%) Enterprise Cloud
6 4 (3.74%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.87%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (1.87%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.93%) NVMe
Operating Systems
1 40 (37.38%) Linux
2 16 (14.95%) Windows
3 7 (6.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (6.54%) Windows Server
4 6 (5.61%) Debian
4 6 (5.61%) Ubuntu
5 5 (4.67%) CentOS
6 4 (3.74%) Unix
7 2 (1.87%) Solaris
7 2 (1.87%) VMS
7 2 (1.87%) Windows Server 2008
7 2 (1.87%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (1.87%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (62.62%) Infrastructure as Code
2 65 (60.75%) DevOps
3 61 (57.01%) CI/CD
4 42 (39.25%) Containerisation
5 38 (35.51%) Agile
6 26 (24.30%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 23 (21.50%) Microservices
8 21 (19.63%) Continuous Integration
8 21 (19.63%) High Availability
8 21 (19.63%) Problem-Solving
9 20 (18.69%) DevSecOps
9 20 (18.69%) Vulnerability Scanning
10 19 (17.76%) Static Code Analysis
11 18 (16.82%) Continuous Delivery
11 18 (16.82%) Mentoring
12 17 (15.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 16 (14.95%) Platform Engineering
14 14 (13.08%) Coaching
14 14 (13.08%) Kanban
14 14 (13.08%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 57 (53.27%) Python
2 28 (26.17%) Go
3 24 (22.43%) Java
4 23 (21.50%) Bash
5 15 (14.02%) JavaScript
6 9 (8.41%) PowerShell
6 9 (8.41%) SQL
7 7 (6.54%) C
7 7 (6.54%) TypeScript
8 3 (2.80%) Groovy
9 2 (1.87%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.93%) C#
10 1 (0.93%) Perl
10 1 (0.93%) PHP
10 1 (0.93%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 27 (25.23%) Security Cleared
2 19 (17.76%) SC Cleared
3 11 (10.28%) DV Cleared
4 4 (3.74%) CCNA
4 4 (3.74%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (1.87%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.87%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.93%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.93%) Degree
6 1 (0.93%) LPIC
6 1 (0.93%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.74%) QA
System Software
1 30 (28.04%) Docker
2 11 (10.28%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (9.35%) vSphere
4 8 (7.48%) VMware NSX
5 6 (5.61%) Active Directory
6 5 (4.67%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (1.87%) KVM
7 2 (1.87%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.93%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.93%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 92 (85.98%) Terraform
2 53 (49.53%) Kubernetes
3 29 (27.10%) Grafana
4 27 (25.23%) Prometheus
5 6 (5.61%) Puppet
6 4 (3.74%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 4 (3.74%) WSUS
7 3 (2.80%) Packer
7 3 (2.80%) Rancher
8 2 (1.87%) Docker Swarm
8 2 (1.87%) Kibana
8 2 (1.87%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (1.87%) Nagios
8 2 (1.87%) Podman
8 2 (1.87%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.93%) Argo
9 1 (0.93%) Control-M
9 1 (0.93%) PowerCLI
9 1 (0.93%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 15 (14.02%) VMware
2 12 (11.21%) Arista
2 12 (11.21%) Aruba
2 12 (11.21%) NetScout
3 7 (6.54%) Red Hat
4 6 (5.61%) Microsoft
4 6 (5.61%) Pega
4 6 (5.61%) Splunk
4 6 (5.61%) WSO2
5 5 (4.67%) AppDynamics
5 5 (4.67%) IBM
5 5 (4.67%) SaltStack
6 4 (3.74%) Google
6 4 (3.74%) Oracle
7 3 (2.80%) Dynatrace
8 2 (1.87%) BMC
8 2 (1.87%) Mirantis
9 1 (0.93%) Atlassian