Ansible Job Trends in the North West

Ansible
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Ansible skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 173 20 219
Rank change year-on-year -153 +199 -80
Permanent jobs citing Ansible 62 674 81
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.58% 14.33% 0.74%
As % of the Systems Management category 11.95% 61.05% 11.88%
Number of salaries quoted 44 27 46
10th Percentile £46,309 £51,250 £46,875
25th Percentile £48,324 £55,625 £50,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £62,783
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +11.50% -10.31%
75th Percentile £74,688 £81,875 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £88,000 £82,500
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 West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 519 1,104 682
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 4.84% 23.48% 6.21%
Number of salaries quoted 410 271 519
10th Percentile £31,000 £32,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £38,750 £42,125 £39,720
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £67,037 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.77% +21.89% -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,875 £78,125 £70,000
90th Percentile £88,875 £93,778 £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 West

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Ansible relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Ansible job vacancy trend in the North West

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Salary Trend in the North West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Ansible.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Ansible

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Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Ansible in the North West over the 6 months to 13 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Ansible in the North West

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Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Ansible within the North West region over the 6 months to 13 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
Manchester -62 42 £62,500 +4.17% 29
Lancashire -56 11 £48,445 -19.93% 3
Cumbria -24 8 £85,000 +21.43%
Merseyside -36 1 £50,101 -
Ansible
England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 (9.68%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (4.84%) Apache
2 3 (4.84%) Apache Spark
3 2 (3.23%) OpenStack
4 1 (1.61%) OpenEdge
Cloud Services
1 44 (70.97%) AWS
2 29 (46.77%) Azure
3 15 (24.19%) Amazon EKS
4 13 (20.97%) GitHub
5 9 (14.52%) AWS CloudFormation
6 7 (11.29%) Serverless
7 6 (9.68%) GCP
7 6 (9.68%) OpenShift
8 5 (8.06%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (6.45%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (6.45%) Azure AKS
9 4 (6.45%) Nutanix
9 4 (6.45%) OCI
10 3 (4.84%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (4.84%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (3.23%) Amazon EC2
11 2 (3.23%) Amazon S3
11 2 (3.23%) Entra ID
11 2 (3.23%) Microsoft 365
11 2 (3.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (14.52%) Firewall
2 6 (9.68%) DNS
2 6 (9.68%) Internet
2 6 (9.68%) TCP/IP
3 5 (8.06%) Wireshark
4 4 (6.45%) NGFW
4 4 (6.45%) VXLAN
4 4 (6.45%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (4.84%) AMQP
6 2 (3.23%) HTTP
6 2 (3.23%) VPN
7 1 (1.61%) BGP
7 1 (1.61%) IPsec
7 1 (1.61%) LAN
7 1 (1.61%) MPLS
7 1 (1.61%) OSPF
7 1 (1.61%) SNMP
7 1 (1.61%) WAN
7 1 (1.61%) Wireless
7 1 (1.61%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (22.58%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (11.29%) MongoDB
3 5 (8.06%) Relational Database
4 3 (4.84%) Big Data
4 3 (4.84%) Cloudera CDH
4 3 (4.84%) Hadoop
4 3 (4.84%) MySQL
4 3 (4.84%) SQL Server
5 2 (3.23%) Oracle Database
6 1 (1.61%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.61%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.61%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.61%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 16 (25.81%) Git
2 9 (14.52%) GitLab
3 8 (12.90%) Jenkins
4 2 (3.23%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.61%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (1.61%) JIRA
General
1 10 (16.13%) Public Sector
2 9 (14.52%) Social Skills
3 5 (8.06%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (6.45%) Aerospace
5 2 (3.23%) Law
5 2 (3.23%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.61%) Finance
6 1 (1.61%) German Language
6 1 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.61%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.61%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.61%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 19 (30.65%) Cloud Engineer
2 17 (27.42%) DevOps Engineer
3 11 (17.74%) Senior
4 7 (11.29%) Software Engineer
5 4 (6.45%) Developer
5 4 (6.45%) Full-Stack Developer
5 4 (6.45%) Lead
5 4 (6.45%) Network Manager
5 4 (6.45%) Network Operations Manager
5 4 (6.45%) Operations Manager
5 4 (6.45%) Python Engineer
5 4 (6.45%) Python Software Engineer
5 4 (6.45%) Senior Software Engineer
5 4 (6.45%) Support Engineer
6 3 (4.84%) DBA
6 3 (4.84%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
6 3 (4.84%) Linux Engineer
6 3 (4.84%) Platform Engineer
6 3 (4.84%) Senior Cloud Engineer
7 2 (3.23%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (17.74%) Spring
1 11 (17.74%) Spring Boot
2 7 (11.29%) Node.js
2 7 (11.29%) React
2 7 (11.29%) REST
3 6 (9.68%) AngularJS
4 4 (6.45%) Elastic Stack
4 4 (6.45%) FastAPI
4 4 (6.45%) Next.js
4 4 (6.45%) React Native
4 4 (6.45%) Ruby on Rails
4 4 (6.45%) YAML
5 3 (4.84%) gRPC
5 3 (4.84%) Material-UI
5 3 (4.84%) OpenAPI
5 3 (4.84%) RabbitMQ
5 3 (4.84%) Swagger
6 2 (3.23%) Apache Camel
6 2 (3.23%) Web Services
7 1 (1.61%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 9 (14.52%) Hybrid Cloud
2 6 (9.68%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (8.06%) Data Centre
3 5 (8.06%) Public Cloud
4 4 (6.45%) Cloud Native
4 4 (6.45%) Enterprise Cloud
4 4 (6.45%) PKI
5 2 (3.23%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (3.23%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.61%) Clustering
6 1 (1.61%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.61%) Housing Association
6 1 (1.61%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 23 (37.10%) Linux
2 9 (14.52%) Windows
3 6 (9.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (9.68%) Windows Server
4 5 (8.06%) Debian
4 5 (8.06%) Ubuntu
5 4 (6.45%) CentOS
6 2 (3.23%) Solaris
6 2 (3.23%) Unix
6 2 (3.23%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (3.23%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (3.23%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (66.13%) Infrastructure as Code
2 32 (51.61%) DevOps
3 31 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 24 (38.71%) Agile
5 19 (30.65%) Containerisation
6 18 (29.03%) Platform Engineering
7 12 (19.35%) Collaborative Culture
8 10 (16.13%) Continuous Improvement
8 10 (16.13%) Problem-Solving
9 9 (14.52%) ITIL
9 9 (14.52%) Mentoring
9 9 (14.52%) Microservices
10 8 (12.90%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 7 (11.29%) Project Delivery
11 7 (11.29%) Software Engineering
12 6 (9.68%) Coaching
12 6 (9.68%) Deployment Automation
12 6 (9.68%) Kanban
12 6 (9.68%) Scrum
13 5 (8.06%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 33 (53.23%) Python
2 13 (20.97%) Java
3 10 (16.13%) Bash
3 10 (16.13%) Go
4 9 (14.52%) PowerShell
5 7 (11.29%) JavaScript
6 6 (9.68%) C
6 6 (9.68%) SQL
6 6 (9.68%) TypeScript
7 4 (6.45%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 23 (37.10%) Security Cleared
2 16 (25.81%) SC Cleared
3 11 (17.74%) DV Cleared
4 3 (4.84%) AWS Certification
4 3 (4.84%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.61%) CCNA
5 1 (1.61%) CCNP
5 1 (1.61%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.61%) Degree
5 1 (1.61%) LPIC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.61%) GDPR
System Software
1 18 (29.03%) Docker
2 7 (11.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (6.45%) Active Directory
4 2 (3.23%) VMware NSX
4 2 (3.23%) vSphere
5 1 (1.61%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 54 (87.10%) Terraform
2 35 (56.45%) Kubernetes
3 5 (8.06%) Puppet
4 2 (3.23%) Grafana
4 2 (3.23%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (3.23%) Podman
4 2 (3.23%) Progress Chef
4 2 (3.23%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.61%) Rancher
Vendors
1 9 (14.52%) VMware
2 6 (9.68%) Microsoft
3 5 (8.06%) Red Hat
4 4 (6.45%) Arista
4 4 (6.45%) Aruba
4 4 (6.45%) NetScout
4 4 (6.45%) Splunk
5 3 (4.84%) Google
5 3 (4.84%) LogicMonitor
5 3 (4.84%) Oracle
5 3 (4.84%) SaltStack
6 2 (3.23%) Mirantis
6 2 (3.23%) Pega
6 2 (3.23%) WSO2