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 25 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 150 92
Rank change year-on-year +106 -58 +80
Permanent jobs citing Ansible 289 81 129
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 6.10% 1.16% 3.11%
As % of the Systems Management category 43.13% 14.92% 18.56%
Number of salaries quoted 23 45 94
10th Percentile £57,400 £42,500 £44,263
25th Percentile £57,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -11.11% -
75th Percentile £81,875 £72,500 £81,875
90th Percentile £87,500 £78,750 £87,476
England median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year - +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 670 543 695
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 14.13% 7.77% 16.77%
Number of salaries quoted 228 267 572
10th Percentile £26,775 £32,750 £36,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,625 £52,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.14% -19.23% +9.20%
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £82,875 £79,750 £85,000
England median annual salary £61,250 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -9.26% +3.85% -4.41%

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

Ansible
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

Ansible
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Ansible in the North West over the 6 months to 25 October 2025.

Salary histogram for Ansible in the North West

Ansible
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 25 October 2025. 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
Lancashire +58 164 £60,500 +36.65% 12
Manchester +43 74 £63,750 +6.25% 29
Cheshire +13 45 £79,000 +58.00% 7
Merseyside +5 6 £65,000 +13.04%
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 4 (1.38%) OpenStack
2 2 (0.69%) Apache
2 2 (0.69%) Apache Solr
3 1 (0.35%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.35%) JBoss
3 1 (0.35%) nginx
3 1 (0.35%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 26 (9.00%) AWS
2 19 (6.57%) Azure
3 11 (3.81%) AWS CloudFormation
4 9 (3.11%) Amazon EC2
5 8 (2.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 7 (2.42%) AWS CodeBuild
6 7 (2.42%) Route 53
6 7 (2.42%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 6 (2.08%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (1.73%) Serverless
9 4 (1.38%) Amazon EKS
9 4 (1.38%) GCP
9 4 (1.38%) GitHub
10 3 (1.04%) Amazon ECS
11 2 (0.69%) Amazon S3
11 2 (0.69%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (0.69%) OpenShift
12 1 (0.35%) Cloud Computing
12 1 (0.35%) PaaS
12 1 (0.35%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 250 (86.51%) Cisco IOS
1 250 (86.51%) VPN
2 6 (2.08%) DNS
3 4 (1.38%) SD-WAN
3 4 (1.38%) WAN
4 2 (0.69%) DHCP
4 2 (0.69%) HTTP
4 2 (0.69%) SSL
5 1 (0.35%) AMQP
5 1 (0.35%) Internet
5 1 (0.35%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.38%) MySQL
2 3 (1.04%) MongoDB
2 3 (1.04%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (1.04%) Relational Database
3 2 (0.69%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.35%) Big Data
4 1 (0.35%) Cloudera CDH
4 1 (0.35%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.35%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.35%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 14 (4.84%) Jenkins
2 9 (3.11%) Git
2 9 (3.11%) GitLab
3 8 (2.77%) CircleCI
4 2 (0.69%) JIRA
5 1 (0.35%) Ant
5 1 (0.35%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.35%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (0.35%) git-flow
5 1 (0.35%) Maven
5 1 (0.35%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.35%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 250 (86.51%) Analytical Skills
1 250 (86.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 7 (2.42%) Social Skills
3 3 (1.04%) Banking
4 2 (0.69%) Finance
5 1 (0.35%) Aerospace
5 1 (0.35%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 255 (88.24%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 10 (3.46%) DevOps Engineer
3 8 (2.77%) Senior
4 6 (2.08%) Azure Engineer
5 5 (1.73%) Cloud Engineer
5 5 (1.73%) Developer
5 5 (1.73%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 4 (1.38%) Network Engineer
6 4 (1.38%) Platform Engineer
7 3 (1.04%) Architect
7 3 (1.04%) Full-Stack Developer
7 3 (1.04%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 3 (1.04%) Java Developer
7 3 (1.04%) Senior DevOps
7 3 (1.04%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 2 (0.69%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (0.69%) Integration Developer
8 2 (0.69%) IT Manager
8 2 (0.69%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (0.69%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 260 (89.97%) Elastic Stack
2 7 (2.42%) Node.js
3 5 (1.73%) REST
4 4 (1.38%) AngularJS
4 4 (1.38%) ARM Templates
4 4 (1.38%) Spring
4 4 (1.38%) Spring Boot
5 3 (1.04%) .NET
5 3 (1.04%) DPDK
5 3 (1.04%) eBPF
5 3 (1.04%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (0.69%) ASP.NET Web API
6 2 (0.69%) Kafka
6 2 (0.69%) React
6 2 (0.69%) WCF
7 1 (0.35%) Apache Camel
7 1 (0.35%) gRPC
7 1 (0.35%) Material-UI
7 1 (0.35%) OpenAPI
7 1 (0.35%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 250 (86.51%) Cyberattack
2 9 (3.11%) Cloud Native
3 6 (2.08%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (1.38%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (0.69%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (0.35%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.35%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.35%) NVMe
6 1 (0.35%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.35%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 265 (91.70%) Linux
2 256 (88.58%) Windows
3 250 (86.51%) Android
4 8 (2.77%) Debian
4 8 (2.77%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.69%) VMS
5 2 (0.69%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.35%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 278 (96.19%) DevOps
2 260 (89.97%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 258 (89.27%) Platform Engineering
4 254 (87.89%) Problem-Solving
5 252 (87.20%) Risk Management
5 252 (87.20%) Task Automation
6 251 (86.85%) Storage Management
7 250 (86.51%) Line Management
7 250 (86.51%) Mathematics
8 25 (8.65%) CI/CD
9 20 (6.92%) Infrastructure as Code
10 16 (5.54%) Configuration Management
10 16 (5.54%) Containerisation
11 10 (3.46%) Microservices
12 9 (3.11%) Agile
13 7 (2.42%) Auto-Scaling
13 7 (2.42%) Continuous Integration
13 7 (2.42%) Infrastructure Automation
14 6 (2.08%) Software Engineering
14 6 (2.08%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 272 (94.12%) Python
2 263 (91.00%) Bash
3 252 (87.20%) PowerShell
4 6 (2.08%) JavaScript
5 4 (1.38%) Java
6 2 (0.69%) PHP
6 2 (0.69%) SQL
7 1 (0.35%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 5 (1.73%) Azure Certification
2 4 (1.38%) Security Cleared
3 3 (1.04%) SC Cleared
4 2 (0.69%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.35%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.04%) QA
2 2 (0.69%) GDPR
System Software
1 268 (92.73%) Docker
2 252 (87.20%) VMware NSX
2 252 (87.20%) vSphere
3 250 (86.51%) Hyper-V
4 3 (1.04%) KVM
4 3 (1.04%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 277 (95.85%) Terraform
2 25 (8.65%) Kubernetes
3 11 (3.81%) Grafana
4 10 (3.46%) Prometheus
5 6 (2.08%) Puppet
6 4 (1.38%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.35%) Argo
7 1 (0.35%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 1 (0.35%) Podman
Vendors
1 257 (88.93%) Splunk
2 250 (86.51%) 3PAR
2 250 (86.51%) Cisco
2 250 (86.51%) Juniper
3 7 (2.42%) Microsoft
4 4 (1.38%) SaltStack
4 4 (1.38%) Zscaler
5 2 (0.69%) Oracle
5 2 (0.69%) VMware
6 1 (0.35%) Google
6 1 (0.35%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.35%) Pega
6 1 (0.35%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.35%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.35%) SAP
6 1 (0.35%) TOWER Software
6 1 (0.35%) WSO2