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

6 months to
24 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 212 32 242
Rank change year-on-year -180 +210 -68
Permanent jobs citing Ansible 104 502 136
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.58% 7.17% 0.82%
As % of the Systems Management category 13.52% 48.60% 10.15%
Number of salaries quoted 79 70 88
10th Percentile £44,500 £42,375 £44,625
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 £75,625 £79,688 £72,433
90th Percentile £84,000 £87,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -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 769 1,033 1,340
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 4.32% 14.75% 8.10%
Number of salaries quoted 565 490 1,076
10th Percentile £30,850 £32,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £67,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.81% +22.73% -7.60%
75th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £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 24 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 24 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 -141 57 £65,000 -10.34% 18
Yorkshire -98 27 £52,500 -25.00% 11
North East -26 20 £47,500 +11.76% 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 6 (5.77%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (3.85%) Apache
2 4 (3.85%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.88%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 79 (75.96%) AWS
2 64 (61.54%) Azure
3 33 (31.73%) GCP
4 25 (24.04%) Amazon EKS
4 25 (24.04%) GitHub
5 21 (20.19%) Azure DevOps
5 21 (20.19%) GitHub Actions
6 15 (14.42%) AWS CloudFormation
7 13 (12.50%) Serverless
8 12 (11.54%) OCI
9 9 (8.65%) AWS Lambda
10 8 (7.69%) Azure AKS
10 8 (7.69%) OpenShift
11 6 (5.77%) Amazon EC2
11 6 (5.77%) Amazon ECS
11 6 (5.77%) Amazon S3
12 5 (4.81%) Nutanix
13 3 (2.88%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 2 (1.92%) AWS CodePipeline
14 2 (1.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 34 (32.69%) Firewall
2 26 (25.00%) DNS
3 22 (21.15%) TCP/IP
4 18 (17.31%) HTTP
5 12 (11.54%) NGFW
5 12 (11.54%) VXLAN
5 12 (11.54%) Wi-Fi
5 12 (11.54%) Wireshark
6 7 (6.73%) Internet
7 5 (4.81%) VPN
8 4 (3.85%) AMQP
8 4 (3.85%) Asterisk PBX
8 4 (3.85%) BGP
8 4 (3.85%) DHCP
8 4 (3.85%) LAN
8 4 (3.85%) MPLS
8 4 (3.85%) Software-Defined Networking
8 4 (3.85%) VoIP
8 4 (3.85%) VPLS
8 4 (3.85%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (16.35%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (9.62%) MongoDB
3 6 (5.77%) MySQL
4 4 (3.85%) Big Data
4 4 (3.85%) Cloudera CDH
4 4 (3.85%) Hadoop
4 4 (3.85%) NoSQL
4 4 (3.85%) Relational Database
4 4 (3.85%) SQL Server
5 3 (2.88%) DynamoDB
5 3 (2.88%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (2.88%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 28 (26.92%) Jenkins
2 25 (24.04%) GitLab
3 22 (21.15%) Git
4 6 (5.77%) JIRA
5 5 (4.81%) Bitbucket
6 4 (3.85%) Artifactory
6 4 (3.85%) SonarQube
7 3 (2.88%) Cucumber
8 2 (1.92%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.96%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 19 (18.27%) Law
1 19 (18.27%) Public Sector
2 18 (17.31%) Telecoms
3 14 (13.46%) Social Skills
4 13 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (4.81%) Aerospace
6 1 (0.96%) Finance
6 1 (0.96%) German Language
6 1 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (0.96%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 37 (35.58%) DevOps Engineer
2 17 (16.35%) Cloud Engineer
3 12 (11.54%) Network Manager
3 12 (11.54%) Network Operations Manager
3 12 (11.54%) Operations Manager
4 11 (10.58%) Lead
5 9 (8.65%) Support Engineer
6 8 (7.69%) Developer
6 8 (7.69%) Lead DevOps
7 7 (6.73%) Java Developer
7 7 (6.73%) Senior
8 6 (5.77%) Lead DevOps Engineer
9 5 (4.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (4.81%) IT Engineer
9 5 (4.81%) IT Support
9 5 (4.81%) IT Support Engineer
9 5 (4.81%) Linux Engineer
9 5 (4.81%) Platform Engineer
10 4 (3.85%) Azure Engineer
10 4 (3.85%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (25.96%) Elastic Stack
2 13 (12.50%) REST
3 11 (10.58%) Spring
3 11 (10.58%) Spring Boot
4 9 (8.65%) AngularJS
4 9 (8.65%) RabbitMQ
5 8 (7.69%) Node.js
6 7 (6.73%) React
6 7 (6.73%) YAML
7 5 (4.81%) RESTful
7 5 (4.81%) Web Services
8 4 (3.85%) gRPC
8 4 (3.85%) JSON
8 4 (3.85%) Material-UI
8 4 (3.85%) OpenAPI
8 4 (3.85%) OpenTelemetry
8 4 (3.85%) Swagger
9 2 (1.92%) Apache Camel
9 2 (1.92%) ARM Templates
9 2 (1.92%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 16 (15.38%) PKI
2 13 (12.50%) Data Centre
3 11 (10.58%) Hybrid Cloud
4 10 (9.62%) Cloud Native
5 9 (8.65%) Public Cloud
6 8 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (5.77%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (3.85%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (1.92%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (1.92%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 41 (39.42%) Linux
2 17 (16.35%) Windows
3 9 (8.65%) Windows Server
4 8 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (5.77%) Debian
5 6 (5.77%) Ubuntu
6 5 (4.81%) CentOS
6 5 (4.81%) Unix
7 3 (2.88%) Solaris
7 3 (2.88%) Windows Server 2008
7 3 (2.88%) Windows Server 2012
7 3 (2.88%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.96%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (66.35%) Infrastructure as Code
2 62 (59.62%) CI/CD
3 57 (54.81%) DevOps
4 38 (36.54%) Agile
4 38 (36.54%) Containerisation
5 29 (27.88%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 24 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
7 22 (21.15%) Continuous Integration
8 21 (20.19%) Mentoring
9 20 (19.23%) High Availability
10 19 (18.27%) DevSecOps
10 19 (18.27%) Static Code Analysis
10 19 (18.27%) Vulnerability Scanning
11 18 (17.31%) Continuous Delivery
11 18 (17.31%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 17 (16.35%) Coaching
13 16 (15.38%) Microservices
14 14 (13.46%) Platform Engineering
15 13 (12.50%) ITIL
16 12 (11.54%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 58 (55.77%) Python
2 28 (26.92%) Go
3 26 (25.00%) Bash
4 18 (17.31%) Java
5 13 (12.50%) PowerShell
6 10 (9.62%) SQL
7 8 (7.69%) JavaScript
8 7 (6.73%) C
8 7 (6.73%) TypeScript
9 3 (2.88%) Groovy
10 2 (1.92%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.96%) C#
11 1 (0.96%) Perl
11 1 (0.96%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 27 (25.96%) Security Cleared
2 18 (17.31%) SC Cleared
3 12 (11.54%) DV Cleared
4 4 (3.85%) CCNA
4 4 (3.85%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (0.96%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.96%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.96%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.96%) Degree
5 1 (0.96%) LPIC
5 1 (0.96%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.88%) QA
System Software
1 24 (23.08%) Docker
2 13 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (8.65%) vSphere
4 8 (7.69%) Active Directory
5 7 (6.73%) VMware NSX
6 5 (4.81%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (1.92%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.96%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.96%) KVM
Systems Management
1 90 (86.54%) Terraform
2 48 (46.15%) Kubernetes
3 27 (25.96%) Grafana
4 26 (25.00%) Prometheus
5 7 (6.73%) Puppet
6 4 (3.85%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 4 (3.85%) WSUS
7 3 (2.88%) Packer
7 3 (2.88%) Podman
7 3 (2.88%) Progress Chef
7 3 (2.88%) Rancher
8 2 (1.92%) Docker Swarm
8 2 (1.92%) Kibana
8 2 (1.92%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (1.92%) Nagios
9 1 (0.96%) Argo
9 1 (0.96%) Control-M
9 1 (0.96%) PowerCLI
9 1 (0.96%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 17 (16.35%) VMware
2 12 (11.54%) Arista
2 12 (11.54%) Aruba
2 12 (11.54%) NetScout
3 8 (7.69%) Red Hat
4 7 (6.73%) Microsoft
5 6 (5.77%) Splunk
6 5 (4.81%) AppDynamics
6 5 (4.81%) IBM
6 5 (4.81%) Oracle
7 4 (3.85%) Google
7 4 (3.85%) SaltStack
8 3 (2.88%) Dynatrace
8 3 (2.88%) LogicMonitor
8 3 (2.88%) Mirantis
9 2 (1.92%) BMC
9 2 (1.92%) Pega
9 2 (1.92%) WSO2
10 1 (0.96%) Atlassian