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

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 226 37 254
Rank change year-on-year -189 +217 -74
Permanent jobs citing Ansible 105 573 133
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.57% 7.55% 0.79%
As % of the Systems Management category 12.96% 47.36% 9.97%
Number of salaries quoted 82 70 86
10th Percentile £45,000 £44,525 £44,375
25th Percentile £46,446 £53,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £70,000 £62,783
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +11.50% -3.93%
75th Percentile £73,438 £80,938 £72,433
90th Percentile £83,625 £88,875 £80,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -

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 810 1,210 1,334
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 4.41% 15.95% 7.91%
Number of salaries quoted 596 479 1,066
10th Percentile £30,875 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,375 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £67,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.81% +22.73% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,313 £78,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £97,528 £79,375
England median annual salary £65,000 £69,384 £61,206
% change year-on-year -6.32% +13.36% -9.32%

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 11 May 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 11 May 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 -148 58 £65,000 -7.14% 33
Yorkshire -87 26 £51,250 -26.79% 16
North East -30 21 £48,445 -2.13% 14
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 (5.71%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (2.86%) Apache
2 3 (2.86%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.86%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 81 (77.14%) AWS
2 64 (60.95%) Azure
3 33 (31.43%) GCP
4 25 (23.81%) Amazon EKS
4 25 (23.81%) GitHub
5 20 (19.05%) GitHub Actions
6 19 (18.10%) Azure DevOps
7 13 (12.38%) AWS CloudFormation
7 13 (12.38%) Serverless
8 12 (11.43%) OCI
9 8 (7.62%) AWS Lambda
9 8 (7.62%) Azure AKS
10 7 (6.67%) Amazon ECS
10 7 (6.67%) OpenShift
11 6 (5.71%) Amazon EC2
11 6 (5.71%) Amazon S3
12 5 (4.76%) Nutanix
13 3 (2.86%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 2 (1.90%) Entra ID
14 2 (1.90%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 34 (32.38%) Firewall
2 26 (24.76%) DNS
3 22 (20.95%) TCP/IP
4 18 (17.14%) HTTP
5 12 (11.43%) NGFW
5 12 (11.43%) VXLAN
5 12 (11.43%) Wi-Fi
5 12 (11.43%) Wireshark
6 7 (6.67%) Internet
7 5 (4.76%) VPN
8 4 (3.81%) Asterisk PBX
8 4 (3.81%) BGP
8 4 (3.81%) DHCP
8 4 (3.81%) LAN
8 4 (3.81%) MPLS
8 4 (3.81%) SD-WAN
8 4 (3.81%) Software-Defined Networking
8 4 (3.81%) VoIP
8 4 (3.81%) VPLS
8 4 (3.81%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (17.14%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (9.52%) MongoDB
3 6 (5.71%) MySQL
3 6 (5.71%) SQL Server
4 5 (4.76%) Relational Database
5 4 (3.81%) NoSQL
6 3 (2.86%) Big Data
6 3 (2.86%) Cloudera CDH
6 3 (2.86%) DynamoDB
6 3 (2.86%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (2.86%) Hadoop
6 3 (2.86%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 29 (27.62%) Jenkins
2 24 (22.86%) Git
2 24 (22.86%) GitLab
3 7 (6.67%) Bitbucket
3 7 (6.67%) JIRA
4 6 (5.71%) Artifactory
4 6 (5.71%) SonarQube
5 4 (3.81%) TeamCity
6 3 (2.86%) Cucumber
6 3 (2.86%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 20 (19.05%) Public Sector
2 18 (17.14%) Law
2 18 (17.14%) Telecoms
3 14 (13.33%) Social Skills
4 13 (12.38%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (3.81%) Aerospace
6 3 (2.86%) Finance
7 2 (1.90%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.95%) German Language
8 1 (0.95%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.95%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 38 (36.19%) DevOps Engineer
2 19 (18.10%) Cloud Engineer
3 12 (11.43%) Network Manager
3 12 (11.43%) Network Operations Manager
3 12 (11.43%) Operations Manager
4 9 (8.57%) Developer
4 9 (8.57%) Support Engineer
5 8 (7.62%) Java Developer
5 8 (7.62%) Lead
5 8 (7.62%) Senior
6 5 (4.76%) Full-Stack Developer
6 5 (4.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (4.76%) IT Engineer
6 5 (4.76%) IT Support
6 5 (4.76%) IT Support Engineer
6 5 (4.76%) Lead DevOps
6 5 (4.76%) Lead DevOps Engineer
6 5 (4.76%) Linux Engineer
6 5 (4.76%) Platform Engineer
7 4 (3.81%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (27.62%) Elastic Stack
2 13 (12.38%) REST
3 11 (10.48%) Spring
3 11 (10.48%) Spring Boot
4 9 (8.57%) AngularJS
5 8 (7.62%) Node.js
5 8 (7.62%) RabbitMQ
6 7 (6.67%) YAML
7 6 (5.71%) React
8 5 (4.76%) RESTful
8 5 (4.76%) Web Services
9 4 (3.81%) JSON
9 4 (3.81%) OpenTelemetry
10 3 (2.86%) gRPC
10 3 (2.86%) Material-UI
10 3 (2.86%) OpenAPI
10 3 (2.86%) Swagger
11 2 (1.90%) Apache Camel
11 2 (1.90%) Java EE
11 2 (1.90%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 16 (15.24%) PKI
2 13 (12.38%) Data Centre
3 11 (10.48%) Hybrid Cloud
4 9 (8.57%) Public Cloud
5 8 (7.62%) Cloud Native
5 8 (7.62%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (5.71%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (3.81%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (1.90%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (1.90%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 42 (40.00%) Linux
2 19 (18.10%) Windows
3 9 (8.57%) Windows Server
4 7 (6.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (4.76%) Debian
5 5 (4.76%) Ubuntu
5 5 (4.76%) Unix
6 4 (3.81%) CentOS
7 3 (2.86%) Solaris
7 3 (2.86%) Windows Server 2008
7 3 (2.86%) Windows Server 2012
7 3 (2.86%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.95%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (63.81%) Infrastructure as Code
2 64 (60.95%) CI/CD
3 59 (56.19%) DevOps
4 37 (35.24%) Agile
4 37 (35.24%) Containerisation
5 28 (26.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 24 (22.86%) Problem-Solving
7 22 (20.95%) Continuous Integration
8 21 (20.00%) Mentoring
9 20 (19.05%) High Availability
10 19 (18.10%) DevSecOps
10 19 (18.10%) Static Code Analysis
10 19 (18.10%) Vulnerability Scanning
11 18 (17.14%) Continuous Delivery
12 17 (16.19%) Coaching
12 17 (16.19%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 16 (15.24%) Microservices
13 16 (15.24%) Platform Engineering
14 13 (12.38%) ITIL
15 12 (11.43%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 59 (56.19%) Python
2 28 (26.67%) Go
3 26 (24.76%) Bash
4 20 (19.05%) Java
5 15 (14.29%) PowerShell
6 11 (10.48%) SQL
7 8 (7.62%) JavaScript
8 7 (6.67%) C
8 7 (6.67%) TypeScript
9 3 (2.86%) C#
9 3 (2.86%) Groovy
10 2 (1.90%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.95%) Perl
11 1 (0.95%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 28 (26.67%) Security Cleared
2 19 (18.10%) SC Cleared
3 11 (10.48%) DV Cleared
4 4 (3.81%) CCNA
4 4 (3.81%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (2.86%) Degree
6 2 (1.90%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.90%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.95%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.95%) LPIC
7 1 (0.95%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.86%) QA
System Software
1 24 (22.86%) Docker
2 13 (12.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (10.48%) vSphere
4 8 (7.62%) Active Directory
5 7 (6.67%) VMware NSX
6 5 (4.76%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (1.90%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.95%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.95%) KVM
Systems Management
1 90 (85.71%) Terraform
2 49 (46.67%) Kubernetes
3 28 (26.67%) Grafana
4 25 (23.81%) Prometheus
5 6 (5.71%) Puppet
6 4 (3.81%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 4 (3.81%) Docker Swarm
6 4 (3.81%) WSUS
7 3 (2.86%) Control-M
7 3 (2.86%) Packer
7 3 (2.86%) Podman
7 3 (2.86%) Progress Chef
7 3 (2.86%) Rancher
8 2 (1.90%) Kibana
8 2 (1.90%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (1.90%) Nagios
9 1 (0.95%) Argo
9 1 (0.95%) PowerCLI
9 1 (0.95%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 19 (18.10%) VMware
2 12 (11.43%) Arista
2 12 (11.43%) Aruba
2 12 (11.43%) NetScout
3 8 (7.62%) Microsoft
4 7 (6.67%) Red Hat
5 6 (5.71%) Splunk
6 5 (4.76%) AppDynamics
6 5 (4.76%) IBM
6 5 (4.76%) Oracle
7 3 (2.86%) Atlassian
7 3 (2.86%) Dynatrace
7 3 (2.86%) Google
7 3 (2.86%) LogicMonitor
7 3 (2.86%) Mirantis
7 3 (2.86%) SaltStack
8 2 (1.90%) BMC
8 2 (1.90%) Pega
8 2 (1.90%) WSO2