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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 217 32 230
Rank change year-on-year -185 +198 -105
Permanent jobs citing Ansible 142 732 99
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.62% 7.70% 0.67%
As % of the Systems Management category 16.38% 57.91% 10.81%
Number of salaries quoted 103 65 53
10th Percentile £42,500 £55,000 £42,238
25th Percentile £51,250 £58,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +37.25% -26.56%
75th Percentile £86,250 £82,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £101,250 £90,000 £77,000
England median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year - +3.57% -2.78%

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 867 1,264 916
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 3.79% 13.29% 6.17%
Number of salaries quoted 673 391 569
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £31,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £74,066 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £76,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -3.85%

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 September 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 September 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 -146 94 £65,576 +8.84% 61
North East -37 25 £82,500 +37.50% 15
Yorkshire -75 23 £66,000 -12.00% 29
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 5 (3.52%) OpenStack
2 4 (2.82%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (2.11%) IIS
4 2 (1.41%) Apache
4 2 (1.41%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.41%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.70%) Confluence
5 1 (0.70%) OpenEdge
Cloud Services
1 78 (54.93%) AWS
2 46 (32.39%) Azure
3 26 (18.31%) GitHub
4 20 (14.08%) AWS CloudFormation
5 19 (13.38%) Serverless
6 18 (12.68%) Amazon EKS
7 17 (11.97%) OpenShift
8 13 (9.15%) GCP
9 9 (6.34%) Amazon ECS
10 7 (4.93%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (4.23%) PaaS
12 5 (3.52%) SaaS
13 4 (2.82%) Amazon EC2
13 4 (2.82%) Amazon S3
13 4 (2.82%) Azure DevOps
13 4 (2.82%) GitHub Actions
13 4 (2.82%) Nutanix
14 3 (2.11%) Azure AKS
14 3 (2.11%) Entra ID
14 3 (2.11%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (9.86%) Firewall
2 13 (9.15%) TCP/IP
3 12 (8.45%) DNS
4 6 (4.23%) DHCP
5 5 (3.52%) BGP
5 5 (3.52%) SD-WAN
5 5 (3.52%) WAN
6 4 (2.82%) IPsec
7 3 (2.11%) LAN
7 3 (2.11%) OSPF
7 3 (2.11%) Software-Defined Networking
7 3 (2.11%) VPN
7 3 (2.11%) Wireless
7 3 (2.11%) WLAN
8 2 (1.41%) AMQP
8 2 (1.41%) DMZ
8 2 (1.41%) HTTP
8 2 (1.41%) MPLS
8 2 (1.41%) VRRP
8 2 (1.41%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (7.75%) Relational Database
2 7 (4.93%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (4.93%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.41%) Big Data
3 2 (1.41%) Cloudera CDH
3 2 (1.41%) Hadoop
3 2 (1.41%) MySQL
4 1 (0.70%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.70%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.70%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.70%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 37 (26.06%) Git
2 32 (22.54%) Jenkins
3 31 (21.83%) GitLab
4 16 (11.27%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 10 (7.04%) JIRA
6 9 (6.34%) SonarQube
7 6 (4.23%) Artifactory
8 3 (2.11%) Bitbucket
8 3 (2.11%) Cucumber
8 3 (2.11%) Octopus Deploy
8 3 (2.11%) TeamCity
9 2 (1.41%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.70%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.70%) Mocha
General
1 46 (32.39%) Social Skills
2 25 (17.61%) Public Sector
3 9 (6.34%) Finance
3 9 (6.34%) Law
4 5 (3.52%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (2.82%) Aerospace
6 3 (2.11%) Financial Institution
7 2 (1.41%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.41%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.70%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.70%) Front Office
8 1 (0.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 61 (42.96%) DevOps Engineer
2 29 (20.42%) Cloud Engineer
3 23 (16.20%) Senior
4 22 (15.49%) Principal DevOps Engineer
4 22 (15.49%) Principal Engineer
5 11 (7.75%) Lead
6 9 (6.34%) Developer
6 9 (6.34%) Software Engineer
7 8 (5.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 7 (4.93%) Infrastructure Manager
8 7 (4.93%) Lead DevOps
8 7 (4.93%) Network Engineer
8 7 (4.93%) Senior Software Engineer
9 6 (4.23%) Administrator
9 6 (4.23%) Java Developer
9 6 (4.23%) Lead DevOps Engineer
9 6 (4.23%) Linux Engineer
9 6 (4.23%) Python Engineer
9 6 (4.23%) Senior DevOps
9 6 (4.23%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 115 (80.99%) Terraform
2 27 (19.01%) Spring
2 27 (19.01%) Spring Boot
3 13 (9.15%) Elastic Stack
4 12 (8.45%) React
4 12 (8.45%) REST
5 9 (6.34%) Node.js
6 8 (5.63%) AngularJS
7 7 (4.93%) FastAPI
7 7 (4.93%) Next.js
7 7 (4.93%) RabbitMQ
7 7 (4.93%) YAML
8 6 (4.23%) AWS CDK
8 6 (4.23%) React Native
8 6 (4.23%) Ruby on Rails
9 4 (2.82%) Web Services
10 3 (2.11%) JSON
10 3 (2.11%) OpenAPI
10 3 (2.11%) Swagger
11 2 (1.41%) Material-UI
Miscellaneous
1 27 (19.01%) Cloud Native
2 16 (11.27%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (4.93%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (4.23%) Life Science
4 6 (4.23%) Linux Command Line
5 5 (3.52%) Data Centre
5 5 (3.52%) Replication
6 4 (2.82%) Enterprise Cloud
6 4 (2.82%) Public Cloud
6 4 (2.82%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (2.11%) Private Cloud
7 3 (2.11%) Social Media
7 3 (2.11%) SystemC
8 2 (1.41%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (1.41%) Driving Licence
8 2 (1.41%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.70%) Clustering
9 1 (0.70%) Housing Association
Operating Systems
1 64 (45.07%) Linux
2 22 (15.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 19 (13.38%) CentOS
4 17 (11.97%) Windows
5 10 (7.04%) Windows Server
6 6 (4.23%) Ubuntu
6 6 (4.23%) Unix
7 5 (3.52%) Debian
8 3 (2.11%) Solaris
9 2 (1.41%) AIX
9 2 (1.41%) VMS
10 1 (0.70%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.70%) SUSE
10 1 (0.70%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.70%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.70%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.70%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (60.56%) DevOps
2 84 (59.15%) CI/CD
2 84 (59.15%) Infrastructure as Code
3 48 (33.80%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 43 (30.28%) Agile
5 37 (26.06%) Containerisation
6 36 (25.35%) Platform Engineering
7 28 (19.72%) Microservices
8 26 (18.31%) Continuous Improvement
9 24 (16.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 21 (14.79%) Problem-Solving
11 19 (13.38%) Technical Leadership
12 18 (12.68%) ITIL
13 16 (11.27%) Stakeholder Management
14 14 (9.86%) Collaborative Culture
15 12 (8.45%) Deployment Automation
16 11 (7.75%) Configuration Management
16 11 (7.75%) High Availability
17 10 (7.04%) Project Delivery
17 10 (7.04%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 73 (51.41%) Python
2 38 (26.76%) Java
3 25 (17.61%) Bash
4 23 (16.20%) PowerShell
5 12 (8.45%) SQL
6 7 (4.93%) Go
6 7 (4.93%) JavaScript
7 6 (4.23%) Ruby
8 5 (3.52%) Bicep
9 4 (2.82%) Shell Script
9 4 (2.82%) TypeScript
10 3 (2.11%) C#
10 3 (2.11%) Groovy
11 2 (1.41%) Korn
11 2 (1.41%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.70%) Perl
12 1 (0.70%) Rust
Qualifications
1 71 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 51 (35.92%) DV Cleared
3 43 (30.28%) SC Cleared
4 6 (4.23%) AWS Certification
4 6 (4.23%) Azure Certification
5 5 (3.52%) Degree
6 4 (2.82%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (2.11%) RHCE
7 3 (2.11%) RHCSA
8 2 (1.41%) CCIE
8 2 (1.41%) CCNA
8 2 (1.41%) CCNP
8 2 (1.41%) IBM AIX Certification
8 2 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.70%) HP ASE
9 1 (0.70%) Linux+ Certification
9 1 (0.70%) VCAP
9 1 (0.70%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.11%) QA
2 2 (1.41%) SLA
3 1 (0.70%) GDPR
System Software
1 76 (53.52%) Docker
2 12 (8.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (7.04%) Active Directory
4 7 (4.93%) vSphere
5 3 (2.11%) Ceph
5 3 (2.11%) iptables
5 3 (2.11%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (2.11%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.70%) EMC RecoverPoint
6 1 (0.70%) Firmware
6 1 (0.70%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.70%) KVM
6 1 (0.70%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 96 (67.61%) Kubernetes
2 25 (17.61%) Puppet
3 10 (7.04%) Progress Chef
4 7 (4.93%) Grafana
4 7 (4.93%) Podman
4 7 (4.93%) Prometheus
5 3 (2.11%) Argo
5 3 (2.11%) Check_MK
5 3 (2.11%) Control-M
5 3 (2.11%) Docker Swarm
5 3 (2.11%) Istio
5 3 (2.11%) Packer
6 2 (1.41%) Kibana
6 2 (1.41%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (1.41%) SCCM
6 2 (1.41%) SolarWinds Orion
6 2 (1.41%) WSUS
7 1 (0.70%) Nessus
7 1 (0.70%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.70%) VxRail
Vendors
1 19 (13.38%) VMware
2 17 (11.97%) Microsoft
3 10 (7.04%) Red Hat
4 8 (5.63%) Splunk
5 7 (4.93%) IBM
6 6 (4.23%) Oracle
7 5 (3.52%) AppDynamics
7 5 (3.52%) Cisco
7 5 (3.52%) LogicMonitor
8 4 (2.82%) Dell
9 3 (2.11%) Atlassian
9 3 (2.11%) Veeam
10 2 (1.41%) F5
10 2 (1.41%) Google
10 2 (1.41%) Mirantis
10 2 (1.41%) Pega
10 2 (1.41%) SaltStack
10 2 (1.41%) ServiceNow
10 2 (1.41%) WSO2
10 2 (1.41%) Zscaler