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

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 208 122 239
Rank change year-on-year -86 +117 -49
Permanent jobs citing Ansible 106 138 144
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.64% 2.14% 0.89%
As % of the Systems Management category 13.82% 20.15% 10.98%
Number of salaries quoted 82 74 96
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £44,375
25th Percentile £46,446 £51,563 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £70,000 £62,783
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +11.50% -3.41%
75th Percentile £81,250 £79,688 £72,433
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £70,576
% change year-on-year -6.67% +6.27% -2.65%

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 767 685 1,312
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 4.64% 10.62% 8.11%
Number of salaries quoted 567 499 1,078
10th Percentile £31,000 £32,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,037 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.50% +21.89% -7.60%
75th Percentile £78,790 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £97,528 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% +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 11 April 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 April 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 -46 58 £65,000 -10.34% 35
Yorkshire -82 27 £52,500 -25.00% 23
North East -17 21 £47,972 +12.88% 16
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 5 (4.72%) Apache
1 5 (4.72%) Apache Spark
1 5 (4.72%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (3.77%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 81 (76.42%) AWS
2 63 (59.43%) Azure
3 34 (32.08%) GCP
4 27 (25.47%) Amazon EKS
4 27 (25.47%) GitHub
5 22 (20.75%) Azure DevOps
6 21 (19.81%) GitHub Actions
7 17 (16.04%) AWS CloudFormation
8 15 (14.15%) Serverless
9 12 (11.32%) OCI
10 10 (9.43%) AWS Lambda
11 9 (8.49%) OpenShift
12 8 (7.55%) Azure AKS
13 7 (6.60%) Amazon EC2
13 7 (6.60%) Amazon ECS
13 7 (6.60%) Amazon S3
14 4 (3.77%) Nutanix
15 3 (2.83%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 2 (1.89%) AWS CodePipeline
16 2 (1.89%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 34 (32.08%) Firewall
2 25 (23.58%) DNS
3 21 (19.81%) TCP/IP
4 18 (16.98%) HTTP
5 12 (11.32%) NGFW
5 12 (11.32%) VXLAN
5 12 (11.32%) Wi-Fi
5 12 (11.32%) Wireshark
6 7 (6.60%) Internet
7 5 (4.72%) AMQP
7 5 (4.72%) VPN
8 4 (3.77%) Asterisk PBX
8 4 (3.77%) BGP
8 4 (3.77%) DHCP
8 4 (3.77%) LAN
8 4 (3.77%) MPLS
8 4 (3.77%) Software-Defined Networking
8 4 (3.77%) VoIP
8 4 (3.77%) VPLS
8 4 (3.77%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (16.04%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (10.38%) MongoDB
3 6 (5.66%) MySQL
4 5 (4.72%) Big Data
4 5 (4.72%) Cloudera CDH
4 5 (4.72%) Hadoop
4 5 (4.72%) Relational Database
5 4 (3.77%) NoSQL
6 3 (2.83%) DynamoDB
6 3 (2.83%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (2.83%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.89%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 29 (27.36%) Jenkins
2 25 (23.58%) GitLab
3 23 (21.70%) Git
4 5 (4.72%) Bitbucket
4 5 (4.72%) JIRA
5 4 (3.77%) Artifactory
5 4 (3.77%) SonarQube
6 3 (2.83%) Cucumber
7 2 (1.89%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.94%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 19 (17.92%) Law
1 19 (17.92%) Public Sector
2 18 (16.98%) Telecoms
3 14 (13.21%) Social Skills
4 13 (12.26%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (4.72%) Aerospace
6 1 (0.94%) Banking
6 1 (0.94%) Finance
6 1 (0.94%) German Language
6 1 (0.94%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (0.94%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 38 (35.85%) DevOps Engineer
2 16 (15.09%) Cloud Engineer
3 12 (11.32%) Network Manager
3 12 (11.32%) Network Operations Manager
3 12 (11.32%) Operations Manager
4 10 (9.43%) Lead
5 9 (8.49%) Developer
5 9 (8.49%) Senior
6 8 (7.55%) Java Developer
6 8 (7.55%) Lead DevOps
6 8 (7.55%) Support Engineer
7 6 (5.66%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 6 (5.66%) Lead DevOps Engineer
8 5 (4.72%) Azure Engineer
8 5 (4.72%) Full-Stack Developer
8 5 (4.72%) IT Engineer
8 5 (4.72%) IT Support
8 5 (4.72%) IT Support Engineer
8 5 (4.72%) Linux Engineer
8 5 (4.72%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (25.47%) Elastic Stack
2 15 (14.15%) REST
3 13 (12.26%) Spring
3 13 (12.26%) Spring Boot
4 11 (10.38%) AngularJS
4 11 (10.38%) RabbitMQ
5 10 (9.43%) Node.js
6 8 (7.55%) React
7 7 (6.60%) YAML
8 5 (4.72%) gRPC
8 5 (4.72%) Material-UI
8 5 (4.72%) OpenAPI
8 5 (4.72%) RESTful
8 5 (4.72%) Swagger
8 5 (4.72%) Web Services
9 4 (3.77%) JSON
9 4 (3.77%) OpenTelemetry
10 2 (1.89%) Java EE
10 2 (1.89%) JMS
10 2 (1.89%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 16 (15.09%) PKI
2 14 (13.21%) Cloud Native
3 13 (12.26%) Data Centre
4 10 (9.43%) Hybrid Cloud
5 8 (7.55%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (7.55%) Public Cloud
6 5 (4.72%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (3.77%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (1.89%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (1.89%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.94%) NVMe
Operating Systems
1 41 (38.68%) Linux
2 16 (15.09%) Windows
3 9 (8.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (6.60%) Debian
4 7 (6.60%) Ubuntu
4 7 (6.60%) Windows Server
5 6 (5.66%) CentOS
6 5 (4.72%) Unix
7 3 (2.83%) Solaris
8 2 (1.89%) VMS
8 2 (1.89%) Windows Server 2008
8 2 (1.89%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (1.89%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (67.92%) Infrastructure as Code
2 62 (58.49%) CI/CD
3 59 (55.66%) DevOps
4 41 (38.68%) Containerisation
5 38 (35.85%) Agile
6 29 (27.36%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 24 (22.64%) Problem-Solving
8 21 (19.81%) Continuous Integration
8 21 (19.81%) Mentoring
9 20 (18.87%) High Availability
9 20 (18.87%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 19 (17.92%) DevSecOps
10 19 (17.92%) Microservices
10 19 (17.92%) Static Code Analysis
10 19 (17.92%) Vulnerability Scanning
11 18 (16.98%) Continuous Delivery
12 17 (16.04%) Coaching
13 16 (15.09%) Platform Engineering
14 13 (12.26%) ITIL
15 12 (11.32%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 59 (55.66%) Python
2 28 (26.42%) Go
3 25 (23.58%) Bash
4 20 (18.87%) Java
5 11 (10.38%) PowerShell
6 10 (9.43%) JavaScript
6 10 (9.43%) SQL
7 7 (6.60%) C
7 7 (6.60%) TypeScript
8 3 (2.83%) Groovy
9 2 (1.89%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.94%) C#
10 1 (0.94%) Perl
10 1 (0.94%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 27 (25.47%) Security Cleared
2 19 (17.92%) SC Cleared
3 12 (11.32%) DV Cleared
4 4 (3.77%) CCNA
4 4 (3.77%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (0.94%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.94%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.94%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.94%) Degree
5 1 (0.94%) LPIC
5 1 (0.94%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.83%) QA
System Software
1 25 (23.58%) Docker
2 12 (11.32%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (9.43%) vSphere
4 8 (7.55%) VMware NSX
5 7 (6.60%) Active Directory
6 5 (4.72%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (1.89%) KVM
7 2 (1.89%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.94%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.94%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 92 (86.79%) Terraform
2 52 (49.06%) Kubernetes
3 27 (25.47%) Grafana
4 26 (24.53%) Prometheus
5 7 (6.60%) Puppet
6 4 (3.77%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 4 (3.77%) WSUS
7 3 (2.83%) Packer
7 3 (2.83%) Podman
7 3 (2.83%) Rancher
8 2 (1.89%) Docker Swarm
8 2 (1.89%) Kibana
8 2 (1.89%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (1.89%) Nagios
8 2 (1.89%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.94%) Argo
9 1 (0.94%) Control-M
9 1 (0.94%) PowerCLI
9 1 (0.94%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 17 (16.04%) VMware
2 12 (11.32%) Arista
2 12 (11.32%) Aruba
2 12 (11.32%) NetScout
3 9 (8.49%) Red Hat
4 7 (6.60%) Microsoft
5 6 (5.66%) SaltStack
5 6 (5.66%) Splunk
6 5 (4.72%) AppDynamics
6 5 (4.72%) Google
6 5 (4.72%) IBM
7 4 (3.77%) Oracle
8 3 (2.83%) Dynatrace
8 3 (2.83%) Mirantis
9 2 (1.89%) BMC
9 2 (1.89%) LogicMonitor
9 2 (1.89%) Pega
9 2 (1.89%) WSO2
10 1 (0.94%) Atlassian