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

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 191 135 190
Rank change year-on-year -56 +55 +7
Permanent jobs citing Ansible 94 126 163
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.68% 1.81% 1.13%
As % of the Systems Management category 13.24% 17.62% 12.78%
Number of salaries quoted 77 78 120
10th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £44,212
25th Percentile £46,446 £51,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,750 £62,783
Median % change year-on-year -16.35% +4.73% -1.28%
75th Percentile £82,500 £78,750 £72,296
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £80,250
England median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -3.33% +3.45% -3.33%

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 710 715 1,275
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 5.13% 10.28% 8.80%
Number of salaries quoted 529 483 1,071
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £28,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £37,792
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.69% +18.18% -7.60%
75th Percentile £73,750 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £97,522 £80,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.71% +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 9 March 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 9 March 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 -20 47 £65,000 -8.77% 20
Yorkshire -62 25 £51,250 -22.93% 25
North East -16 22 £48,445 +13.99% 9
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 (6.38%) OpenStack
2 4 (4.26%) Apache
2 4 (4.26%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.13%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.06%) Apache Solr
4 1 (1.06%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 73 (77.66%) AWS
2 60 (63.83%) Azure
3 35 (37.23%) GCP
4 28 (29.79%) GitHub
5 24 (25.53%) Azure DevOps
6 22 (23.40%) GitHub Actions
7 17 (18.09%) Amazon EKS
8 13 (13.83%) Serverless
9 12 (12.77%) OCI
10 11 (11.70%) AWS CloudFormation
11 8 (8.51%) Amazon ECS
11 8 (8.51%) OpenShift
12 5 (5.32%) Azure AKS
13 4 (4.26%) Amazon EC2
13 4 (4.26%) Amazon S3
13 4 (4.26%) AWS Lambda
14 3 (3.19%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 3 (3.19%) IaaS
14 3 (3.19%) PaaS
14 3 (3.19%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 34 (36.17%) Firewall
2 22 (23.40%) DNS
3 18 (19.15%) HTTP
3 18 (19.15%) TCP/IP
4 12 (12.77%) NGFW
4 12 (12.77%) VXLAN
4 12 (12.77%) Wi-Fi
4 12 (12.77%) Wireshark
5 7 (7.45%) Internet
6 5 (5.32%) VPN
7 4 (4.26%) AMQP
7 4 (4.26%) Asterisk PBX
7 4 (4.26%) BGP
7 4 (4.26%) DHCP
7 4 (4.26%) LAN
7 4 (4.26%) MPLS
7 4 (4.26%) Software-Defined Networking
7 4 (4.26%) VoIP
7 4 (4.26%) VPLS
7 4 (4.26%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (21.28%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (12.77%) MongoDB
3 8 (8.51%) MySQL
4 6 (6.38%) Relational Database
5 4 (4.26%) Big Data
5 4 (4.26%) Cloudera CDH
5 4 (4.26%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (4.26%) Hadoop
5 4 (4.26%) NoSQL
5 4 (4.26%) SQL Server
6 3 (3.19%) DynamoDB
7 2 (2.13%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 29 (30.85%) Jenkins
2 22 (23.40%) Git
3 16 (17.02%) GitLab
4 6 (6.38%) Bitbucket
5 3 (3.19%) JIRA
5 3 (3.19%) TeamCity
6 2 (2.13%) Artifactory
6 2 (2.13%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (2.13%) SonarQube
7 1 (1.06%) CircleCI
7 1 (1.06%) git-flow
General
1 19 (20.21%) Law
2 18 (19.15%) Telecoms
3 16 (17.02%) Public Sector
4 12 (12.77%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (9.57%) Social Skills
6 4 (4.26%) Aerospace
7 3 (3.19%) Finance
8 1 (1.06%) Banking
8 1 (1.06%) German Language
8 1 (1.06%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.06%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 33 (35.11%) DevOps Engineer
2 12 (12.77%) Network Manager
2 12 (12.77%) Network Operations Manager
2 12 (12.77%) Operations Manager
3 9 (9.57%) Cloud Engineer
3 9 (9.57%) Developer
3 9 (9.57%) Lead
4 8 (8.51%) Java Developer
4 8 (8.51%) Lead DevOps
5 7 (7.45%) Full-Stack Developer
5 7 (7.45%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 7 (7.45%) Senior
6 6 (6.38%) Azure Engineer
6 6 (6.38%) Lead DevOps Engineer
7 5 (5.32%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 5 (5.32%) IT Engineer
7 5 (5.32%) IT Support
7 5 (5.32%) IT Support Engineer
7 5 (5.32%) Platform Engineer
7 5 (5.32%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (27.66%) Elastic Stack
2 14 (14.89%) Node.js
3 12 (12.77%) REST
3 12 (12.77%) Spring
3 12 (12.77%) Spring Boot
4 11 (11.70%) AngularJS
5 6 (6.38%) RabbitMQ
5 6 (6.38%) React
6 5 (5.32%) Web Services
7 4 (4.26%) Apache Camel
7 4 (4.26%) gRPC
7 4 (4.26%) Material-UI
7 4 (4.26%) OpenAPI
7 4 (4.26%) OpenTelemetry
7 4 (4.26%) Swagger
8 3 (3.19%) .NET
8 3 (3.19%) RESTful
9 2 (2.13%) ARM Templates
9 2 (2.13%) ASP.NET Web API
9 2 (2.13%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 16 (17.02%) PKI
2 15 (15.96%) Cloud Native
3 13 (13.83%) Data Centre
4 5 (5.32%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (5.32%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.13%) Mobile App
5 2 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.06%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.06%) NVMe
Operating Systems
1 38 (40.43%) Linux
2 15 (15.96%) Windows
3 6 (6.38%) Debian
3 6 (6.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (6.38%) Ubuntu
4 5 (5.32%) CentOS
4 5 (5.32%) Windows Server
5 3 (3.19%) Unix
5 3 (3.19%) VMS
6 2 (2.13%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (2.13%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (2.13%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (1.06%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (61.70%) Infrastructure as Code
2 53 (56.38%) DevOps
3 51 (54.26%) CI/CD
4 41 (43.62%) Containerisation
5 26 (27.66%) Agile
6 25 (26.60%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 20 (21.28%) Continuous Integration
7 20 (21.28%) DevSecOps
7 20 (21.28%) High Availability
7 20 (21.28%) Problem-Solving
7 20 (21.28%) Vulnerability Scanning
8 19 (20.21%) Mentoring
8 19 (20.21%) Static Code Analysis
9 18 (19.15%) Continuous Delivery
9 18 (19.15%) Microservices
10 16 (17.02%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 14 (14.89%) Coaching
12 13 (13.83%) Observability
13 12 (12.77%) Creative Thinking
13 12 (12.77%) Network Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 54 (57.45%) Python
2 28 (29.79%) Go
3 23 (24.47%) Bash
4 17 (18.09%) Java
5 13 (13.83%) JavaScript
6 9 (9.57%) PowerShell
7 7 (7.45%) C
7 7 (7.45%) TypeScript
8 5 (5.32%) SQL
9 2 (2.13%) C#
10 1 (1.06%) PHP
10 1 (1.06%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 15 (15.96%) Security Cleared
2 10 (10.64%) DV Cleared
3 9 (9.57%) SC Cleared
4 4 (4.26%) CCNA
4 4 (4.26%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.13%) Degree
6 1 (1.06%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.06%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.06%) LPIC
6 1 (1.06%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.06%) QA
System Software
1 26 (27.66%) Docker
2 11 (11.70%) vSphere
3 8 (8.51%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (8.51%) VMware NSX
4 5 (5.32%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (4.26%) Active Directory
6 2 (2.13%) KVM
6 2 (2.13%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (1.06%) Hyper-V
7 1 (1.06%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 80 (85.11%) Terraform
2 42 (44.68%) Kubernetes
3 31 (32.98%) Grafana
4 28 (29.79%) Prometheus
5 6 (6.38%) Puppet
6 4 (4.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 4 (4.26%) WSUS
7 3 (3.19%) Docker Swarm
7 3 (3.19%) Rancher
8 2 (2.13%) Argo
8 2 (2.13%) Control-M
8 2 (2.13%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (2.13%) Nagios
8 2 (2.13%) Progress Chef
9 1 (1.06%) Podman
9 1 (1.06%) PowerCLI
9 1 (1.06%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 13 (13.83%) VMware
2 12 (12.77%) Arista
2 12 (12.77%) Aruba
2 12 (12.77%) NetScout
3 7 (7.45%) Microsoft
4 6 (6.38%) Red Hat
4 6 (6.38%) Splunk
5 5 (5.32%) Google
5 5 (5.32%) SaltStack
6 4 (4.26%) Pega
6 4 (4.26%) WSO2
7 3 (3.19%) Dynatrace
8 2 (2.13%) Atlassian
8 2 (2.13%) BMC
8 2 (2.13%) Oracle
9 1 (1.06%) Avaya
9 1 (1.06%) Genesys
9 1 (1.06%) Mirantis
9 1 (1.06%) Verint