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

6 months to
6 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 226 29 261
Rank change year-on-year -197 +232 -108
Permanent jobs citing Ansible 125 760 123
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.60% 8.31% 0.65%
As % of the Systems Management category 12.73% 52.81% 9.21%
Number of salaries quoted 99 72 79
10th Percentile £42,500 £51,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £57,469 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £68,750 £62,783
Median % change year-on-year -12.73% +9.51% -10.31%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £68,359
90th Percentile £96,250 £89,875 £80,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -0.71%

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 982 1,439 1,335
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 4.75% 15.74% 7.07%
Number of salaries quoted 781 508 1,020
10th Percentile £32,500 £28,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £39,348
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +18.18% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £69,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £94,144 £81,250
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -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 6 July 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 6 July 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 -157 73 £60,000 -0.83% 44
North East -24 26 £57,500 -4.17% 4
Yorkshire -78 26 £50,000 -28.57% 6
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 (4.80%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (2.40%) Apache
2 3 (2.40%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.60%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.80%) Confluence
4 1 (0.80%) OpenEdge
Cloud Services
1 85 (68.00%) AWS
2 62 (49.60%) Azure
3 33 (26.40%) GitHub
4 24 (19.20%) GCP
5 22 (17.60%) Amazon EKS
6 18 (14.40%) GitHub Actions
7 16 (12.80%) Azure DevOps
8 14 (11.20%) Serverless
9 13 (10.40%) AWS CloudFormation
10 12 (9.60%) OCI
11 8 (6.40%) AWS Lambda
11 8 (6.40%) OpenShift
12 6 (4.80%) Amazon ECS
12 6 (4.80%) Azure AKS
13 5 (4.00%) Amazon EC2
13 5 (4.00%) Amazon S3
13 5 (4.00%) Nutanix
14 3 (2.40%) Entra ID
15 2 (1.60%) Microsoft 365
15 2 (1.60%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 36 (28.80%) Firewall
2 23 (18.40%) DNS
3 22 (17.60%) TCP/IP
4 14 (11.20%) HTTP
4 14 (11.20%) Wireshark
5 12 (9.60%) NGFW
5 12 (9.60%) VXLAN
5 12 (9.60%) Wi-Fi
6 8 (6.40%) BGP
6 8 (6.40%) SD-WAN
6 8 (6.40%) WAN
7 7 (5.60%) VPN
8 6 (4.80%) LAN
8 6 (4.80%) MPLS
9 5 (4.00%) DHCP
10 4 (3.20%) Asterisk PBX
10 4 (3.20%) IPsec
10 4 (3.20%) Software-Defined Networking
10 4 (3.20%) VoIP
10 4 (3.20%) VPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (7.20%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (6.40%) Relational Database
3 7 (5.60%) SQL Server
4 4 (3.20%) MySQL
5 3 (2.40%) Big Data
5 3 (2.40%) Cloudera CDH
5 3 (2.40%) Hadoop
6 2 (1.60%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.60%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.80%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.80%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.80%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.80%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 34 (27.20%) Jenkins
2 26 (20.80%) GitLab
3 24 (19.20%) Git
4 10 (8.00%) JIRA
5 8 (6.40%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 7 (5.60%) SonarQube
7 6 (4.80%) Artifactory
8 5 (4.00%) Bitbucket
9 3 (2.40%) Cucumber
9 3 (2.40%) Octopus Deploy
9 3 (2.40%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.80%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 29 (23.20%) Public Sector
2 28 (22.40%) Social Skills
3 17 (13.60%) Law
4 14 (11.20%) Telecoms
5 13 (10.40%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (5.60%) Finance
7 4 (3.20%) Aerospace
8 3 (2.40%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.60%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.80%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.80%) German Language
10 1 (0.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.80%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.80%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 51 (40.80%) DevOps Engineer
2 21 (16.80%) Senior
3 20 (16.00%) Cloud Engineer
4 12 (9.60%) Network Manager
4 12 (9.60%) Network Operations Manager
4 12 (9.60%) Operations Manager
5 11 (8.80%) Principal DevOps Engineer
5 11 (8.80%) Principal Engineer
6 9 (7.20%) Software Engineer
7 8 (6.40%) Developer
7 8 (6.40%) Support Engineer
8 6 (4.80%) Java Developer
8 6 (4.80%) Lead
8 6 (4.80%) Linux Engineer
8 6 (4.80%) Python Engineer
8 6 (4.80%) Python Software Engineer
8 6 (4.80%) Senior Software Engineer
9 4 (3.20%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 4 (3.20%) Azure Engineer
9 4 (3.20%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (19.20%) Elastic Stack
2 19 (15.20%) Spring
2 19 (15.20%) Spring Boot
3 12 (9.60%) REST
4 11 (8.80%) React
5 8 (6.40%) AngularJS
5 8 (6.40%) Node.js
5 8 (6.40%) RabbitMQ
6 7 (5.60%) YAML
7 6 (4.80%) FastAPI
7 6 (4.80%) Next.js
7 6 (4.80%) React Native
7 6 (4.80%) Ruby on Rails
8 4 (3.20%) OpenTelemetry
8 4 (3.20%) Web Services
9 3 (2.40%) JSON
9 3 (2.40%) Material-UI
9 3 (2.40%) OpenAPI
9 3 (2.40%) RESTful
9 3 (2.40%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 17 (13.60%) Data Centre
2 16 (12.80%) PKI
3 12 (9.60%) Cloud Native
4 11 (8.80%) Hybrid Cloud
5 7 (5.60%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (4.80%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (4.00%) Public Cloud
8 4 (3.20%) Enterprise Cloud
9 3 (2.40%) Life Science
9 3 (2.40%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (1.60%) Distributed Architecture
10 2 (1.60%) Driving Licence
10 2 (1.60%) Mobile App
10 2 (1.60%) Onboarding
10 2 (1.60%) Replication
11 1 (0.80%) Clustering
11 1 (0.80%) Housing Association
11 1 (0.80%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 49 (39.20%) Linux
2 16 (12.80%) Windows
3 13 (10.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 12 (9.60%) CentOS
5 9 (7.20%) Ubuntu
6 8 (6.40%) Debian
7 6 (4.80%) Windows Server
8 3 (2.40%) Solaris
8 3 (2.40%) Unix
9 2 (1.60%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (1.60%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (1.60%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (57.60%) DevOps
2 71 (56.80%) Infrastructure as Code
3 69 (55.20%) CI/CD
4 39 (31.20%) Containerisation
5 38 (30.40%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 34 (27.20%) Agile
7 27 (21.60%) Platform Engineering
7 27 (21.60%) Problem-Solving
8 21 (16.80%) Microservices
9 20 (16.00%) High Availability
9 20 (16.00%) Mentoring
10 18 (14.40%) Coaching
10 18 (14.40%) Continuous Integration
11 17 (13.60%) Continuous Improvement
12 16 (12.80%) DevSecOps
13 15 (12.00%) Continuous Delivery
13 15 (12.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 15 (12.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
14 14 (11.20%) Static Code Analysis
15 13 (10.40%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 73 (58.40%) Python
2 27 (21.60%) Java
3 25 (20.00%) Bash
4 19 (15.20%) PowerShell
5 17 (13.60%) Go
6 11 (8.80%) SQL
7 7 (5.60%) JavaScript
8 6 (4.80%) Ruby
9 3 (2.40%) C#
9 3 (2.40%) Groovy
10 2 (1.60%) PL/SQL
10 2 (1.60%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.80%) Bicep
11 1 (0.80%) C
11 1 (0.80%) Perl
11 1 (0.80%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 46 (36.80%) Security Cleared
2 29 (23.20%) DV Cleared
3 28 (22.40%) SC Cleared
4 8 (6.40%) Cisco Certification
5 6 (4.80%) CCNA
6 5 (4.00%) Degree
7 3 (2.40%) AWS Certification
7 3 (2.40%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.60%) CCIE
8 2 (1.60%) CCNP
9 1 (0.80%) Linux+ Certification
9 1 (0.80%) LPIC
9 1 (0.80%) RHCE
9 1 (0.80%) RHCSA
9 1 (0.80%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.40%) QA
2 1 (0.80%) GDPR
System Software
1 47 (37.60%) Docker
2 14 (11.20%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (8.00%) vSphere
4 9 (7.20%) Active Directory
5 6 (4.80%) VMware NSX
6 5 (4.00%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (2.40%) iptables
8 2 (1.60%) Hyper-V
8 2 (1.60%) KVM
8 2 (1.60%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 103 (82.40%) Terraform
2 62 (49.60%) Kubernetes
3 18 (14.40%) Grafana
4 15 (12.00%) Prometheus
5 14 (11.20%) Puppet
6 4 (3.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 4 (3.20%) WSUS
7 3 (2.40%) Control-M
7 3 (2.40%) Docker Swarm
7 3 (2.40%) Packer
7 3 (2.40%) Progress Chef
8 2 (1.60%) Kibana
8 2 (1.60%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (1.60%) Podman
8 2 (1.60%) SolarWinds Orion
9 1 (0.80%) PowerCLI
9 1 (0.80%) Rancher
9 1 (0.80%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 19 (15.20%) VMware
2 12 (9.60%) Arista
2 12 (9.60%) Aruba
2 12 (9.60%) NetScout
2 12 (9.60%) Splunk
3 10 (8.00%) Microsoft
4 6 (4.80%) Oracle
4 6 (4.80%) Red Hat
5 5 (4.00%) AppDynamics
5 5 (4.00%) IBM
6 3 (2.40%) Atlassian
6 3 (2.40%) Google
6 3 (2.40%) LogicMonitor
6 3 (2.40%) SaltStack
7 2 (1.60%) Cisco
7 2 (1.60%) F5
7 2 (1.60%) Mirantis
7 2 (1.60%) Pega
7 2 (1.60%) WSO2
7 2 (1.60%) Zscaler