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

6 months to
22 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 227 28 262
Rank change year-on-year -199 +234 -100
Permanent jobs citing Ansible 107 759 128
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.53% 9.02% 0.64%
As % of the Systems Management category 11.43% 53.26% 9.30%
Number of salaries quoted 85 71 78
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £47,125
25th Percentile £46,250 £56,813 £53,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £70,000 £62,783
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +11.50% -8.68%
75th Percentile £72,250 £82,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £84,500 £90,000 £80,750
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 936 1,425 1,377
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 4.64% 16.94% 6.89%
Number of salaries quoted 735 503 1,056
10th Percentile £32,500 £28,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,500 £38,695 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +18.18% -8.33%
75th Percentile £74,994 £77,500 £69,500
90th Percentile £88,750 £96,000 £80,000
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 22 June 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 22 June 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 -155 62 £60,000 -7.69% 33
Yorkshire -82 24 £50,000 -31.03% 7
North East -34 21 £48,445 -15.75% 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 (5.61%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.87%) Apache
2 2 (1.87%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.87%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.93%) OpenEdge
Cloud Services
1 77 (71.96%) AWS
2 58 (54.21%) Azure
3 26 (24.30%) GitHub
4 22 (20.56%) GCP
5 21 (19.63%) Amazon EKS
6 17 (15.89%) GitHub Actions
7 15 (14.02%) Azure DevOps
8 12 (11.21%) OCI
9 11 (10.28%) Serverless
10 10 (9.35%) AWS CloudFormation
11 7 (6.54%) AWS Lambda
12 6 (5.61%) Amazon ECS
12 6 (5.61%) Azure AKS
12 6 (5.61%) OpenShift
13 5 (4.67%) Amazon EC2
13 5 (4.67%) Amazon S3
13 5 (4.67%) Nutanix
14 2 (1.87%) Entra ID
14 2 (1.87%) Microsoft 365
14 2 (1.87%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 34 (31.78%) Firewall
2 22 (20.56%) DNS
3 20 (18.69%) TCP/IP
4 14 (13.08%) HTTP
4 14 (13.08%) Wireshark
5 12 (11.21%) NGFW
5 12 (11.21%) VXLAN
5 12 (11.21%) Wi-Fi
6 7 (6.54%) VPN
7 6 (5.61%) BGP
7 6 (5.61%) LAN
7 6 (5.61%) MPLS
7 6 (5.61%) SD-WAN
7 6 (5.61%) WAN
8 4 (3.74%) Asterisk PBX
8 4 (3.74%) DHCP
8 4 (3.74%) Internet
8 4 (3.74%) Software-Defined Networking
8 4 (3.74%) VoIP
8 4 (3.74%) VPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (11.21%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (6.54%) Relational Database
3 6 (5.61%) SQL Server
4 5 (4.67%) MongoDB
5 3 (2.80%) MySQL
6 2 (1.87%) Big Data
6 2 (1.87%) Cloudera CDH
6 2 (1.87%) Hadoop
6 2 (1.87%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.93%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.93%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.93%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.93%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 26 (24.30%) Jenkins
2 21 (19.63%) GitLab
3 20 (18.69%) Git
4 7 (6.54%) JIRA
5 6 (5.61%) Artifactory
5 6 (5.61%) SonarQube
6 5 (4.67%) Bitbucket
7 3 (2.80%) Cucumber
7 3 (2.80%) Octopus Deploy
7 3 (2.80%) TeamCity
8 2 (1.87%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 23 (21.50%) Public Sector
2 18 (16.82%) Social Skills
3 16 (14.95%) Law
4 14 (13.08%) Telecoms
5 13 (12.15%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (3.74%) Finance
7 3 (2.80%) Aerospace
7 3 (2.80%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.87%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.93%) German Language
9 1 (0.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.93%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 38 (35.51%) DevOps Engineer
2 19 (17.76%) Cloud Engineer
3 18 (16.82%) Senior
4 12 (11.21%) Network Manager
4 12 (11.21%) Network Operations Manager
4 12 (11.21%) Operations Manager
5 8 (7.48%) Developer
5 8 (7.48%) Software Engineer
5 8 (7.48%) Support Engineer
6 6 (5.61%) Java Developer
6 6 (5.61%) Lead
6 6 (5.61%) Python Engineer
6 6 (5.61%) Python Software Engineer
6 6 (5.61%) Senior Software Engineer
7 5 (4.67%) Linux Engineer
8 4 (3.74%) Azure Engineer
8 4 (3.74%) Full-Stack Developer
8 4 (3.74%) IT Engineer
8 4 (3.74%) IT Support
8 4 (3.74%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (22.43%) Elastic Stack
2 12 (11.21%) Spring
2 12 (11.21%) Spring Boot
3 11 (10.28%) REST
4 10 (9.35%) React
5 7 (6.54%) AngularJS
5 7 (6.54%) RabbitMQ
5 7 (6.54%) YAML
6 6 (5.61%) FastAPI
6 6 (5.61%) Next.js
6 6 (5.61%) Node.js
6 6 (5.61%) React Native
6 6 (5.61%) Ruby on Rails
7 4 (3.74%) OpenTelemetry
7 4 (3.74%) Web Services
8 3 (2.80%) JSON
8 3 (2.80%) RESTful
9 2 (1.87%) Apache Camel
9 2 (1.87%) Java EE
9 2 (1.87%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 16 (14.95%) PKI
2 15 (14.02%) Data Centre
3 11 (10.28%) Hybrid Cloud
4 7 (6.54%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (5.61%) Cloud Native
5 6 (5.61%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (4.67%) Public Cloud
7 4 (3.74%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (1.87%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (1.87%) Driving Licence
8 2 (1.87%) Life Science
8 2 (1.87%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.87%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.93%) Clustering
9 1 (0.93%) Housing Association
9 1 (0.93%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 40 (37.38%) Linux
2 16 (14.95%) Windows
3 7 (6.54%) Debian
3 7 (6.54%) Ubuntu
4 6 (5.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (5.61%) Windows Server
5 4 (3.74%) CentOS
6 2 (1.87%) Solaris
6 2 (1.87%) Unix
6 2 (1.87%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (1.87%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (1.87%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (54.21%) Infrastructure as Code
2 57 (53.27%) DevOps
3 56 (52.34%) CI/CD
4 32 (29.91%) Agile
5 31 (28.97%) Containerisation
6 25 (23.36%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 24 (22.43%) Problem-Solving
8 19 (17.76%) High Availability
8 19 (17.76%) Mentoring
8 19 (17.76%) Platform Engineering
9 17 (15.89%) Continuous Integration
10 16 (14.95%) Coaching
11 15 (14.02%) Continuous Delivery
11 15 (14.02%) DevSecOps
12 14 (13.08%) Microservices
12 14 (13.08%) Static Code Analysis
12 14 (13.08%) Vulnerability Scanning
13 13 (12.15%) Continuous Improvement
13 13 (12.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 12 (11.21%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 62 (57.94%) Python
2 22 (20.56%) Bash
3 20 (18.69%) Go
3 20 (18.69%) Java
4 17 (15.89%) PowerShell
5 11 (10.28%) SQL
6 6 (5.61%) JavaScript
6 6 (5.61%) Ruby
7 4 (3.74%) C
7 4 (3.74%) TypeScript
8 3 (2.80%) C#
8 3 (2.80%) Groovy
9 2 (1.87%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.93%) Perl
Qualifications
1 32 (29.91%) Security Cleared
2 20 (18.69%) SC Cleared
3 15 (14.02%) DV Cleared
4 6 (5.61%) CCNA
4 6 (5.61%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (4.67%) Degree
6 3 (2.80%) AWS Certification
6 3 (2.80%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.87%) CCNP
8 1 (0.93%) LPIC
8 1 (0.93%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.80%) QA
2 1 (0.93%) GDPR
System Software
1 34 (31.78%) Docker
2 13 (12.15%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (9.35%) vSphere
4 8 (7.48%) Active Directory
5 6 (5.61%) VMware NSX
6 5 (4.67%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (2.80%) iptables
8 2 (1.87%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.93%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.93%) KVM
Systems Management
1 88 (82.24%) Terraform
2 50 (46.73%) Kubernetes
3 19 (17.76%) Grafana
4 16 (14.95%) Prometheus
5 9 (8.41%) Puppet
6 4 (3.74%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 4 (3.74%) WSUS
7 3 (2.80%) Control-M
7 3 (2.80%) Docker Swarm
7 3 (2.80%) Packer
8 2 (1.87%) Kibana
8 2 (1.87%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (1.87%) Podman
8 2 (1.87%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.93%) PowerCLI
9 1 (0.93%) Rancher
9 1 (0.93%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 18 (16.82%) VMware
2 12 (11.21%) Arista
2 12 (11.21%) Aruba
2 12 (11.21%) NetScout
3 10 (9.35%) Splunk
4 9 (8.41%) Microsoft
5 5 (4.67%) AppDynamics
5 5 (4.67%) IBM
5 5 (4.67%) Oracle
6 4 (3.74%) Red Hat
7 3 (2.80%) Atlassian
7 3 (2.80%) LogicMonitor
8 2 (1.87%) Google
8 2 (1.87%) Mirantis
8 2 (1.87%) Pega
8 2 (1.87%) SaltStack
8 2 (1.87%) WSO2