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

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 220 32 184
Rank change year-on-year -188 +152 -76
Permanent jobs citing Ansible 151 722 128
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.63% 7.63% 0.94%
As % of the Systems Management category 16.52% 57.17% 14.63%
Number of salaries quoted 107 59 62
10th Percentile £42,500 £57,475 £42,238
25th Percentile £53,750 £59,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +42.86% -19.23%
75th Percentile £93,750 £85,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £101,250 £90,000 £77,250
England median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year - +3.45% +0.69%

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 914 1,263 875
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 3.80% 13.35% 6.41%
Number of salaries quoted 680 391 487
10th Percentile £30,500 £26,250 £32,650
25th Percentile £38,000 £31,250 £42,238
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £48,720 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.89% -2.56% -16.67%
75th Percentile £74,809 £70,000 £69,125
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -0.83% -6.92% -

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 29 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 29 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 -145 98 £67,500 +8.00% 69
Yorkshire -59 28 £65,576 -12.57% 19
North East -44 27 £82,500 +37.50% 13
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 4 (2.65%) IIS
1 4 (2.65%) OpenStack
2 3 (1.99%) Apache
2 3 (1.99%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.99%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.32%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.32%) nginx
4 1 (0.66%) Confluence
4 1 (0.66%) OpenEdge
Cloud Services
1 80 (52.98%) AWS
2 46 (30.46%) Azure
3 28 (18.54%) GitHub
4 21 (13.91%) AWS CloudFormation
5 20 (13.25%) Serverless
6 18 (11.92%) OpenShift
7 15 (9.93%) Amazon EKS
8 12 (7.95%) GCP
9 11 (7.28%) Amazon ECS
10 8 (5.30%) AWS Lambda
11 7 (4.64%) PaaS
12 6 (3.97%) Amazon EC2
12 6 (3.97%) SaaS
13 5 (3.31%) Amazon S3
13 5 (3.31%) Entra ID
14 4 (2.65%) Azure AKS
14 4 (2.65%) IaaS
15 3 (1.99%) Azure Monitor
15 3 (1.99%) GitHub Actions
15 3 (1.99%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 12 (7.95%) Firewall
2 9 (5.96%) DNS
2 9 (5.96%) TCP/IP
3 7 (4.64%) DHCP
4 5 (3.31%) BGP
4 5 (3.31%) SD-WAN
4 5 (3.31%) WAN
5 4 (2.65%) IPsec
6 3 (1.99%) AMQP
6 3 (1.99%) LAN
6 3 (1.99%) OSPF
6 3 (1.99%) Software-Defined Networking
6 3 (1.99%) VPN
6 3 (1.99%) Wireless
6 3 (1.99%) WLAN
7 2 (1.32%) DMZ
7 2 (1.32%) HSRP
7 2 (1.32%) Reverse Proxy
7 2 (1.32%) VRRP
7 2 (1.32%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (7.28%) Relational Database
2 7 (4.64%) SQL Server
3 6 (3.97%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (1.99%) Big Data
4 3 (1.99%) Cloudera CDH
4 3 (1.99%) Hadoop
5 2 (1.32%) MySQL
6 1 (0.66%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.66%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.66%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.66%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 41 (27.15%) Git
2 35 (23.18%) GitLab
3 32 (21.19%) Jenkins
4 19 (12.58%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 12 (7.95%) JIRA
6 9 (5.96%) SonarQube
7 7 (4.64%) Artifactory
8 3 (1.99%) Bitbucket
8 3 (1.99%) Cucumber
8 3 (1.99%) Octopus Deploy
8 3 (1.99%) TeamCity
9 2 (1.32%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.66%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.66%) Mocha
General
1 51 (33.77%) Social Skills
2 32 (21.19%) Public Sector
3 9 (5.96%) Aerospace
3 9 (5.96%) Finance
4 7 (4.64%) Law
5 6 (3.97%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (1.99%) Financial Institution
7 2 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.32%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.32%) Retail
8 1 (0.66%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.66%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 67 (44.37%) DevOps Engineer
2 26 (17.22%) Principal DevOps Engineer
2 26 (17.22%) Principal Engineer
2 26 (17.22%) Senior
3 25 (16.56%) Cloud Engineer
4 12 (7.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 12 (7.95%) Lead
4 12 (7.95%) Software Engineer
5 9 (5.96%) Developer
6 8 (5.30%) Lead DevOps
7 7 (4.64%) Infrastructure Manager
7 7 (4.64%) Lead DevOps Engineer
7 7 (4.64%) Network Engineer
7 7 (4.64%) Senior DevOps
7 7 (4.64%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 7 (4.64%) Senior Software Engineer
8 6 (3.97%) Administrator
8 6 (3.97%) Cloud Native Engineer
8 6 (3.97%) Python Engineer
8 6 (3.97%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 123 (81.46%) Terraform
2 29 (19.21%) Spring
2 29 (19.21%) Spring Boot
3 14 (9.27%) React
4 12 (7.95%) REST
5 10 (6.62%) Elastic Stack
6 9 (5.96%) AngularJS
6 9 (5.96%) Node.js
7 8 (5.30%) RabbitMQ
8 7 (4.64%) FastAPI
8 7 (4.64%) Next.js
9 6 (3.97%) AWS CDK
9 6 (3.97%) React Native
9 6 (3.97%) Ruby on Rails
10 4 (2.65%) OpenAPI
10 4 (2.65%) Swagger
10 4 (2.65%) YAML
11 3 (1.99%) gRPC
11 3 (1.99%) JSON
11 3 (1.99%) Material-UI
Miscellaneous
1 33 (21.85%) Cloud Native
2 13 (8.61%) Hybrid Cloud
3 6 (3.97%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (3.97%) Life Science
3 6 (3.97%) Linux Command Line
4 5 (3.31%) Data Centre
4 5 (3.31%) Replication
5 4 (2.65%) Private Cloud
6 3 (1.99%) Social Media
6 3 (1.99%) SystemC
7 2 (1.32%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (1.32%) Driving Licence
7 2 (1.32%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.32%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.66%) Clustering
8 1 (0.66%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.66%) Enterprise Storage
8 1 (0.66%) Housing Association
8 1 (0.66%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 73 (48.34%) Linux
2 29 (19.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 23 (15.23%) CentOS
4 18 (11.92%) Windows
5 10 (6.62%) Windows Server
6 8 (5.30%) Ubuntu
7 6 (3.97%) Debian
7 6 (3.97%) Unix
8 2 (1.32%) AIX
8 2 (1.32%) Solaris
8 2 (1.32%) VMS
9 1 (0.66%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.66%) SUSE
9 1 (0.66%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 1 (0.66%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.66%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.66%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (62.91%) DevOps
2 92 (60.93%) Infrastructure as Code
3 91 (60.26%) CI/CD
4 52 (34.44%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 50 (33.11%) Agile
6 38 (25.17%) Containerisation
7 37 (24.50%) Platform Engineering
8 31 (20.53%) Microservices
9 28 (18.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 27 (17.88%) Continuous Improvement
11 25 (16.56%) Technical Leadership
12 24 (15.89%) Problem-Solving
13 18 (11.92%) Stakeholder Management
14 14 (9.27%) Configuration Management
14 14 (9.27%) Deployment Automation
14 14 (9.27%) ITIL
15 13 (8.61%) Collaborative Culture
15 13 (8.61%) Infrastructure Automation
15 13 (8.61%) Software Engineering
16 12 (7.95%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 81 (53.64%) Python
2 42 (27.81%) Java
3 28 (18.54%) Bash
4 24 (15.89%) PowerShell
5 11 (7.28%) SQL
6 7 (4.64%) Go
6 7 (4.64%) JavaScript
7 6 (3.97%) Bicep
7 6 (3.97%) Ruby
8 4 (2.65%) Shell Script
8 4 (2.65%) TypeScript
9 3 (1.99%) C#
9 3 (1.99%) Groovy
10 2 (1.32%) Korn
10 2 (1.32%) PL/SQL
10 2 (1.32%) Rust
11 1 (0.66%) Perl
Qualifications
1 83 (54.97%) Security Cleared
2 61 (40.40%) DV Cleared
3 50 (33.11%) SC Cleared
4 7 (4.64%) Azure Certification
5 6 (3.97%) AWS Certification
5 6 (3.97%) Degree
6 4 (2.65%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (2.65%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (1.99%) RHCE
7 3 (1.99%) RHCSA
8 2 (1.32%) CCIE
8 2 (1.32%) CCNA
8 2 (1.32%) CCNP
8 2 (1.32%) IBM AIX Certification
9 1 (0.66%) HP ASE
9 1 (0.66%) Linux+ Certification
9 1 (0.66%) VCAP
9 1 (0.66%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.99%) QA
2 2 (1.32%) SLA
3 1 (0.66%) GDPR
System Software
1 83 (54.97%) Docker
2 10 (6.62%) Active Directory
2 10 (6.62%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (4.64%) vSphere
4 4 (2.65%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (2.65%) VMware NSX
5 3 (1.99%) Ceph
5 3 (1.99%) iptables
6 2 (1.32%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.66%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 1 (0.66%) Firmware
7 1 (0.66%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.66%) KVM
Systems Management
1 103 (68.21%) Kubernetes
2 28 (18.54%) Puppet
3 11 (7.28%) Progress Chef
4 8 (5.30%) Podman
5 7 (4.64%) Grafana
5 7 (4.64%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.99%) Argo
6 3 (1.99%) Check_MK
6 3 (1.99%) Control-M
6 3 (1.99%) Docker Swarm
6 3 (1.99%) Istio
6 3 (1.99%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (1.99%) Packer
7 2 (1.32%) Kibana
7 2 (1.32%) SCCM
7 2 (1.32%) SolarWinds Orion
7 2 (1.32%) vCenter Server
7 2 (1.32%) WSUS
8 1 (0.66%) Red Hat Satellite
8 1 (0.66%) VxRail
Vendors
1 21 (13.91%) Microsoft
2 18 (11.92%) VMware
3 13 (8.61%) Red Hat
4 8 (5.30%) Splunk
5 7 (4.64%) IBM
6 6 (3.97%) Cisco
6 6 (3.97%) Oracle
7 5 (3.31%) AppDynamics
7 5 (3.31%) LogicMonitor
8 4 (2.65%) Dell
9 3 (1.99%) Atlassian
9 3 (1.99%) Google
9 3 (1.99%) SaltStack
9 3 (1.99%) Thales
9 3 (1.99%) Veeam
10 2 (1.32%) F5
10 2 (1.32%) ServiceNow
10 2 (1.32%) Zscaler
11 1 (0.66%) Palo Alto
11 1 (0.66%) Zerto