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

6 months to
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 174 146 177
Rank change year-on-year -28 +31 -3
Permanent jobs citing Ansible 89 139 136
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.79% 1.54% 1.37%
As % of the Systems Management category 13.95% 16.71% 12.79%
Number of salaries quoted 70 74 105
10th Percentile £46,446 £41,250 £43,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £48,125 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.00% +13.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £82,500 £78,438 £72,433
90th Percentile £86,150 £84,100 £77,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £75,000

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 638 832 1,063
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 5.68% 9.19% 10.72%
Number of salaries quoted 487 475 904
10th Percentile £30,000 £34,000 £31,125
25th Percentile £41,250 £43,875 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £74,144 £72,433
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £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 22 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 22 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 +1 50 £67,500 -3.57% 30
Yorkshire -24 26 £75,000 +4.17% 30
North East -11 13 £49,222 +13.81% 12
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 (8.99%) OpenStack
2 5 (5.62%) Apache
3 4 (4.49%) Apache Spark
4 2 (2.25%) Apache Solr
5 1 (1.12%) JBoss
5 1 (1.12%) nginx
5 1 (1.12%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 70 (78.65%) AWS
2 50 (56.18%) Azure
3 28 (31.46%) GCP
4 20 (22.47%) AWS CloudFormation
5 15 (16.85%) Amazon EKS
6 13 (14.61%) Amazon ECS
6 13 (14.61%) GitHub
6 13 (14.61%) Serverless
7 12 (13.48%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (8.99%) GitHub Actions
8 8 (8.99%) OpenShift
9 7 (7.87%) Amazon EC2
10 6 (6.74%) OCI
11 4 (4.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (4.49%) Amazon S3
11 4 (4.49%) AWS CodeBuild
11 4 (4.49%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (4.49%) IaaS
11 4 (4.49%) PaaS
11 4 (4.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 15 (16.85%) Firewall
2 10 (11.24%) DNS
3 8 (8.99%) HTTP
4 7 (7.87%) Internet
5 6 (6.74%) NGFW
5 6 (6.74%) TCP/IP
5 6 (6.74%) VXLAN
5 6 (6.74%) Wi-Fi
5 6 (6.74%) Wireshark
6 4 (4.49%) AMQP
6 4 (4.49%) DHCP
7 2 (2.25%) LAN
7 2 (2.25%) SAN
7 2 (2.25%) SSL
7 2 (2.25%) VPN
7 2 (2.25%) WAN
8 1 (1.12%) Asterisk PBX
8 1 (1.12%) VLAN
8 1 (1.12%) VoIP
8 1 (1.12%) VPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (22.47%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (13.48%) MongoDB
3 9 (10.11%) MySQL
4 6 (6.74%) Relational Database
5 5 (5.62%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (5.62%) NoSQL
6 4 (4.49%) Big Data
6 4 (4.49%) Cloudera CDH
6 4 (4.49%) Hadoop
6 4 (4.49%) SQL Server
7 3 (3.37%) DynamoDB
8 2 (2.25%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 27 (30.34%) Jenkins
2 24 (26.97%) Git
3 22 (24.72%) GitLab
4 5 (5.62%) Bitbucket
5 4 (4.49%) CircleCI
5 4 (4.49%) JIRA
6 3 (3.37%) Artifactory
6 3 (3.37%) TeamCity
7 2 (2.25%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (2.25%) SonarQube
8 1 (1.12%) Ant
8 1 (1.12%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (1.12%) git-flow
8 1 (1.12%) Maven
8 1 (1.12%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 10 (11.24%) Public Sector
2 8 (8.99%) Law
2 8 (8.99%) Social Skills
3 6 (6.74%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (6.74%) Telecoms
4 4 (4.49%) Aerospace
4 4 (4.49%) Finance
5 3 (3.37%) Banking
Job Titles
1 24 (26.97%) DevOps Engineer
2 12 (13.48%) Lead
3 10 (11.24%) Developer
3 10 (11.24%) Lead DevOps
3 10 (11.24%) Operations Manager
4 9 (10.11%) Senior
5 8 (8.99%) Cloud Engineer
5 8 (8.99%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 8 (8.99%) Java Developer
5 8 (8.99%) Lead DevOps Engineer
6 7 (7.87%) Full-Stack Developer
6 7 (7.87%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 6 (6.74%) Network Manager
7 6 (6.74%) Network Operations Manager
7 6 (6.74%) Platform Engineer
8 4 (4.49%) CloudOps Manager
8 4 (4.49%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
8 4 (4.49%) Senior DevOps
8 4 (4.49%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 4 (4.49%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (20.22%) Elastic Stack
2 15 (16.85%) Node.js
3 12 (13.48%) REST
3 12 (13.48%) Spring
3 12 (13.48%) Spring Boot
4 11 (12.36%) AngularJS
5 6 (6.74%) RabbitMQ
5 6 (6.74%) React
6 5 (5.62%) Web Services
7 4 (4.49%) Apache Camel
7 4 (4.49%) gRPC
7 4 (4.49%) Material-UI
7 4 (4.49%) OpenAPI
7 4 (4.49%) Swagger
8 3 (3.37%) .NET
8 3 (3.37%) ARM Templates
8 3 (3.37%) DPDK
8 3 (3.37%) eBPF
8 3 (3.37%) RESTful
9 2 (2.25%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 20 (22.47%) Cloud Native
2 7 (7.87%) Data Centre
2 7 (7.87%) PKI
3 5 (5.62%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (5.62%) Public Cloud
4 3 (3.37%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.25%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (2.25%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.12%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.12%) NVMe
6 1 (1.12%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 41 (46.07%) Linux
2 20 (22.47%) Windows
3 7 (7.87%) Debian
3 7 (7.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (7.87%) Ubuntu
3 7 (7.87%) Windows Server
4 5 (5.62%) CentOS
5 3 (3.37%) Unix
5 3 (3.37%) VMS
6 2 (2.25%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (2.25%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (2.25%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (1.12%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (64.04%) Infrastructure as Code
2 55 (61.80%) CI/CD
3 54 (60.67%) DevOps
4 35 (39.33%) Containerisation
5 29 (32.58%) Agile
6 23 (25.84%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 21 (23.60%) Microservices
7 21 (23.60%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 17 (19.10%) Problem-Solving
9 14 (15.73%) Configuration Management
9 14 (15.73%) Mentoring
10 13 (14.61%) Observability
11 11 (12.36%) Coaching
11 11 (12.36%) Continuous Integration
11 11 (12.36%) Platform Engineering
11 11 (12.36%) Scrum
12 10 (11.24%) Incident Response
12 10 (11.24%) Kanban
12 10 (11.24%) Performance Optimisation
13 9 (10.11%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 49 (55.06%) Python
2 22 (24.72%) Java
3 21 (23.60%) Bash
4 16 (17.98%) Go
5 14 (15.73%) JavaScript
6 12 (13.48%) PowerShell
6 12 (13.48%) TypeScript
7 7 (7.87%) C
7 7 (7.87%) SQL
8 2 (2.25%) C#
8 2 (2.25%) PHP
9 1 (1.12%) Groovy
9 1 (1.12%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 13 (14.61%) Security Cleared
2 9 (10.11%) SC Cleared
3 8 (8.99%) DV Cleared
4 6 (6.74%) AWS Certification
5 3 (3.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (2.25%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.25%) Degree
7 1 (1.12%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.12%) CCNA
7 1 (1.12%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.37%) QA
2 2 (2.25%) GDPR
System Software
1 37 (41.57%) Docker
2 8 (8.99%) vSphere
3 6 (6.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (5.62%) VMware NSX
5 3 (3.37%) KVM
5 3 (3.37%) QEMU
6 2 (2.25%) Active Directory
6 2 (2.25%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (1.12%) Hyper-V
7 1 (1.12%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (1.12%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 73 (82.02%) Terraform
2 58 (65.17%) Kubernetes
3 24 (26.97%) Grafana
4 21 (23.60%) Prometheus
5 9 (10.11%) Puppet
6 4 (4.49%) Progress Chef
7 3 (3.37%) Docker Swarm
7 3 (3.37%) Rancher
8 2 (2.25%) Argo
8 2 (2.25%) Control-M
8 2 (2.25%) Nagios
8 2 (2.25%) Podman
9 1 (1.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (1.12%) vCenter Server
9 1 (1.12%) WSUS
Vendors
1 11 (12.36%) VMware
2 7 (7.87%) Microsoft
2 7 (7.87%) SaltStack
3 6 (6.74%) Arista
3 6 (6.74%) Aruba
3 6 (6.74%) NetScout
3 6 (6.74%) Red Hat
3 6 (6.74%) Splunk
4 5 (5.62%) Google
5 4 (4.49%) Pega
5 4 (4.49%) WSO2
6 3 (3.37%) Dynatrace
7 2 (2.25%) Atlassian
7 2 (2.25%) BMC
7 2 (2.25%) Oracle
8 1 (1.12%) Avaya
8 1 (1.12%) Genesys
8 1 (1.12%) Mirantis
8 1 (1.12%) Verint