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

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 166 21 196
Rank change year-on-year -145 +175 -91
Permanent jobs citing Ansible 88 671 58
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.74% 12.98% 0.70%
As % of the Systems Management category 15.52% 62.01% 9.72%
Number of salaries quoted 57 22 31
10th Percentile £42,500 £53,750 £45,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £56,531 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +4.35% -17.86%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £96,250 £88,625 £82,500
England median annual salary £72,500 £73,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -1.36% +5.00% -3.45%

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 567 1,082 597
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 4.80% 20.94% 7.16%
Number of salaries quoted 450 250 387
10th Percentile £32,975 £28,000 £31,020
25th Percentile £41,000 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +9.09% -15.38%
75th Percentile £78,563 £76,840 £71,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £81,250
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -3.70%

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 10 August 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 10 August 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 -43 75 £65,000 +8.33% 53
Lancashire -66 7 £56,538 -6.55% 9
Merseyside -37 4 £50,101 -
Cumbria -18 1 £65,000 -13.33%
Cheshire -58 1 - - 11
Ansible
England

Ansible
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 5 (5.68%) Microsoft Exchange
1 5 (5.68%) OpenStack
2 3 (3.41%) IIS
3 2 (2.27%) Apache
3 2 (2.27%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.14%) OpenEdge
Cloud Services
1 44 (50.00%) AWS
2 30 (34.09%) Azure
3 14 (15.91%) AWS CloudFormation
4 13 (14.77%) GitHub
5 12 (13.64%) Amazon EKS
5 12 (13.64%) OpenShift
6 10 (11.36%) Serverless
7 7 (7.95%) Amazon ECS
8 6 (6.82%) PaaS
9 4 (4.55%) GCP
9 4 (4.55%) Nutanix
10 3 (3.41%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (3.41%) IaaS
10 3 (3.41%) SaaS
11 2 (2.27%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (2.27%) Azure AKS
11 2 (2.27%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (2.27%) Azure Monitor
12 1 (1.14%) Azure Sentinel
12 1 (1.14%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 11 (12.50%) DNS
2 6 (6.82%) DHCP
2 6 (6.82%) TCP/IP
3 4 (4.55%) BGP
3 4 (4.55%) Firewall
3 4 (4.55%) IPsec
3 4 (4.55%) SD-WAN
3 4 (4.55%) WAN
4 3 (3.41%) Software-Defined Networking
4 3 (3.41%) VPN
5 2 (2.27%) AMQP
5 2 (2.27%) DMZ
5 2 (2.27%) HSRP
5 2 (2.27%) LAN
5 2 (2.27%) MPLS
5 2 (2.27%) OSPF
5 2 (2.27%) VRRP
5 2 (2.27%) Wireless
5 2 (2.27%) Wireshark
5 2 (2.27%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.82%) PostgreSQL
1 6 (6.82%) Relational Database
2 3 (3.41%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.27%) Big Data
3 2 (2.27%) Cloudera CDH
3 2 (2.27%) Hadoop
3 2 (2.27%) MySQL
4 1 (1.14%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.14%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.14%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 15 (17.05%) Git
2 9 (10.23%) GitLab
2 9 (10.23%) Jenkins
3 3 (3.41%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 3 (3.41%) JIRA
4 1 (1.14%) Bitbucket
General
1 17 (19.32%) Social Skills
2 8 (9.09%) Public Sector
3 5 (5.68%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (5.68%) Finance
4 3 (3.41%) Aerospace
5 2 (2.27%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.14%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.14%) Front Office
6 1 (1.14%) German Language
6 1 (1.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.14%) Law
6 1 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.14%) Spanish Language
6 1 (1.14%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 34 (38.64%) DevOps Engineer
2 27 (30.68%) Cloud Engineer
3 16 (18.18%) Senior
4 10 (11.36%) Lead
5 8 (9.09%) Principal DevOps Engineer
5 8 (9.09%) Principal Engineer
5 8 (9.09%) Software Engineer
6 6 (6.82%) Lead DevOps
6 6 (6.82%) Python Engineer
6 6 (6.82%) Python Software Engineer
6 6 (6.82%) Senior Software Engineer
7 5 (5.68%) Lead DevOps Engineer
7 5 (5.68%) Linux Engineer
7 5 (5.68%) Senior DevOps
7 5 (5.68%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 4 (4.55%) Administrator
8 4 (4.55%) Developer
8 4 (4.55%) Full-Stack Developer
8 4 (4.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (4.55%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (25.00%) Spring
1 22 (25.00%) Spring Boot
2 8 (9.09%) React
3 7 (7.95%) FastAPI
4 6 (6.82%) Next.js
4 6 (6.82%) Node.js
4 6 (6.82%) React Native
4 6 (6.82%) REST
4 6 (6.82%) Ruby on Rails
5 5 (5.68%) AngularJS
6 4 (4.55%) Elastic Stack
6 4 (4.55%) YAML
7 3 (3.41%) AWS CDK
8 2 (2.27%) Apache Camel
8 2 (2.27%) gRPC
8 2 (2.27%) Material-UI
8 2 (2.27%) OpenAPI
8 2 (2.27%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (2.27%) Swagger
8 2 (2.27%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 12 (13.64%) Cloud Native
2 11 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (5.68%) Replication
3 5 (5.68%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (4.55%) Data Centre
4 4 (4.55%) Enterprise Cloud
4 4 (4.55%) Public Cloud
5 3 (3.41%) Social Media
5 3 (3.41%) SystemC
6 2 (2.27%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (2.27%) Driving Licence
6 2 (2.27%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.14%) Clustering
7 1 (1.14%) Housing Association
7 1 (1.14%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 27 (30.68%) Linux
2 11 (12.50%) Windows
3 8 (9.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (9.09%) Windows Server
4 6 (6.82%) CentOS
5 5 (5.68%) Unix
6 4 (4.55%) Ubuntu
7 3 (3.41%) Debian
7 3 (3.41%) Solaris
8 2 (2.27%) VMS
9 1 (1.14%) AIX
9 1 (1.14%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (1.14%) SUSE
9 1 (1.14%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 1 (1.14%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (1.14%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (1.14%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (63.64%) Infrastructure as Code
2 54 (61.36%) DevOps
3 50 (56.82%) CI/CD
4 29 (32.95%) Agile
5 28 (31.82%) Containerisation
6 27 (30.68%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 22 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
8 19 (21.59%) Continuous Improvement
9 16 (18.18%) ITIL
10 13 (14.77%) Collaborative Culture
10 13 (14.77%) Stakeholder Management
11 10 (11.36%) Microservices
11 10 (11.36%) Project Delivery
12 9 (10.23%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 9 (10.23%) Problem-Solving
13 8 (9.09%) Mentoring
13 8 (9.09%) Software Engineering
14 7 (7.95%) Configuration Management
14 7 (7.95%) Observability
15 6 (6.82%) Architectural Design
Programming Languages
1 46 (52.27%) Python
2 25 (28.41%) Java
3 19 (21.59%) Bash
4 14 (15.91%) PowerShell
5 6 (6.82%) Go
5 6 (6.82%) JavaScript
5 6 (6.82%) Ruby
6 5 (5.68%) SQL
7 4 (4.55%) Bicep
8 3 (3.41%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.14%) Korn
Qualifications
1 45 (51.14%) Security Cleared
2 32 (36.36%) DV Cleared
3 23 (26.14%) SC Cleared
4 6 (6.82%) AWS Certification
4 6 (6.82%) Azure Certification
5 4 (4.55%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (2.27%) CCIE
6 2 (2.27%) CCNA
6 2 (2.27%) CCNP
6 2 (2.27%) Degree
6 2 (2.27%) RHCE
6 2 (2.27%) RHCSA
7 1 (1.14%) HP ASE
7 1 (1.14%) IBM AIX Certification
7 1 (1.14%) Linux+ Certification
7 1 (1.14%) LPIC
7 1 (1.14%) VCAP
7 1 (1.14%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.27%) SLA
2 1 (1.14%) GDPR
System Software
1 38 (43.18%) Docker
2 11 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (7.95%) Active Directory
4 4 (4.55%) vSphere
5 3 (3.41%) Ceph
5 3 (3.41%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (3.41%) VMware NSX
6 1 (1.14%) EMC RecoverPoint
6 1 (1.14%) Firmware
6 1 (1.14%) Hyper-V
6 1 (1.14%) KVM
6 1 (1.14%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 71 (80.68%) Terraform
2 53 (60.23%) Kubernetes
3 9 (10.23%) Puppet
4 6 (6.82%) Podman
4 6 (6.82%) Prometheus
5 5 (5.68%) Progress Chef
6 3 (3.41%) Argo
6 3 (3.41%) Check_MK
6 3 (3.41%) Grafana
6 3 (3.41%) Istio
7 2 (2.27%) SCCM
7 2 (2.27%) SolarWinds Orion
7 2 (2.27%) WSUS
8 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (1.14%) vCenter Server
8 1 (1.14%) VxRail
Vendors
1 13 (14.77%) VMware
2 12 (13.64%) Microsoft
3 9 (10.23%) Red Hat
4 8 (9.09%) Splunk
5 5 (5.68%) LogicMonitor
6 4 (4.55%) Dell
6 4 (4.55%) Oracle
7 3 (3.41%) Veeam
8 2 (2.27%) Cisco
8 2 (2.27%) F5
8 2 (2.27%) Google
8 2 (2.27%) Mirantis
8 2 (2.27%) Pega
8 2 (2.27%) SaltStack
8 2 (2.27%) ServiceNow
8 2 (2.27%) WSO2
8 2 (2.27%) Zscaler
9 1 (1.14%) Broadcom
9 1 (1.14%) IBM
9 1 (1.14%) Zerto