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 8 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 144 91
Rank change year-on-year +103 -53 +84
Permanent jobs citing Ansible 285 85 120
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 5.57% 1.23% 3.04%
As % of the Systems Management category 47.90% 15.71% 17.78%
Number of salaries quoted 22 49 90
10th Percentile £57,388 £42,500 £44,263
25th Percentile £57,500 £50,500 £52,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -11.11% -
75th Percentile £82,813 £77,500 £81,875
90th Percentile £87,500 £82,750 £87,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £75,000

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 595 541 675
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 11.63% 7.85% 17.09%
Number of salaries quoted 233 269 560
10th Percentile £27,200 £32,750 £36,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £52,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% -16.00% +5.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 £68,750 £77,911
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,750 £85,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £68,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -8.09% +4.62% -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

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 8 November 2025.

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 8 November 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 +55 163 - - 22
Manchester +35 71 £63,750 +6.25% 37
Cheshire +29 45 £79,000 +58.00% 19
Merseyside +9 6 £65,000 +13.04% 1
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 (1.40%) OpenStack
2 2 (0.70%) Apache
2 2 (0.70%) 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 25 (8.77%) AWS
2 15 (5.26%) Azure
3 11 (3.86%) AWS CloudFormation
4 9 (3.16%) Amazon EC2
5 8 (2.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 7 (2.46%) AWS CodeBuild
6 7 (2.46%) Route 53
6 7 (2.46%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 5 (1.75%) Serverless
8 4 (1.40%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (1.40%) GCP
9 3 (1.05%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (1.05%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (1.05%) GitHub
10 2 (0.70%) Amazon S3
10 2 (0.70%) OpenShift
11 1 (0.35%) Amazon Kinesis
11 1 (0.35%) AWS CloudTrail
11 1 (0.35%) AWS Lambda
11 1 (0.35%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 250 (87.72%) Cisco IOS
1 250 (87.72%) VPN
2 5 (1.75%) DNS
3 3 (1.05%) SD-WAN
3 3 (1.05%) WAN
4 2 (0.70%) DHCP
4 2 (0.70%) HTTP
4 2 (0.70%) SSL
5 1 (0.35%) AMQP
5 1 (0.35%) Internet
5 1 (0.35%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.40%) MySQL
2 3 (1.05%) MongoDB
2 3 (1.05%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (1.05%) Relational Database
3 2 (0.70%) 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 13 (4.56%) Jenkins
2 9 (3.16%) GitLab
3 8 (2.81%) CircleCI
3 8 (2.81%) Git
4 2 (0.70%) 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
General
1 250 (87.72%) Analytical Skills
1 250 (87.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 6 (2.11%) Social Skills
3 3 (1.05%) Banking
4 2 (0.70%) Finance
5 1 (0.35%) Aerospace
5 1 (0.35%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 253 (88.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 9 (3.16%) DevOps Engineer
3 6 (2.11%) Senior
4 5 (1.75%) Developer
5 4 (1.40%) Platform Engineer
6 3 (1.05%) Architect
6 3 (1.05%) Azure Engineer
6 3 (1.05%) Cloud Engineer
6 3 (1.05%) Full-Stack Developer
6 3 (1.05%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 3 (1.05%) Java Developer
6 3 (1.05%) Network Engineer
6 3 (1.05%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 3 (1.05%) Senior DevOps
6 3 (1.05%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 2 (0.70%) AWS Architect
7 2 (0.70%) Backend Developer
7 2 (0.70%) Integration Developer
7 2 (0.70%) IT Manager
7 2 (0.70%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 260 (91.23%) Elastic Stack
2 7 (2.46%) Node.js
3 5 (1.75%) REST
4 4 (1.40%) AngularJS
4 4 (1.40%) Spring
4 4 (1.40%) Spring Boot
5 3 (1.05%) .NET
5 3 (1.05%) DPDK
5 3 (1.05%) eBPF
5 3 (1.05%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (0.70%) ARM Templates
6 2 (0.70%) ASP.NET Web API
6 2 (0.70%) Kafka
6 2 (0.70%) React
6 2 (0.70%) WCF
7 1 (0.35%) Apache Camel
7 1 (0.35%) Material-UI
7 1 (0.35%) NETCONF
7 1 (0.35%) OpenAPI
7 1 (0.35%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 250 (87.72%) Cyberattack
2 9 (3.16%) Cloud Native
3 4 (1.40%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (1.40%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (0.70%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (0.35%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (0.35%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.35%) NVMe
5 1 (0.35%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 265 (92.98%) Linux
2 256 (89.82%) Windows
3 250 (87.72%) Android
4 8 (2.81%) Debian
4 8 (2.81%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.70%) VMS
5 2 (0.70%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.35%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 275 (96.49%) DevOps
2 258 (90.53%) Platform Engineering
3 257 (90.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 254 (89.12%) Problem-Solving
5 252 (88.42%) Risk Management
5 252 (88.42%) Task Automation
6 251 (88.07%) Storage Management
7 250 (87.72%) Line Management
7 250 (87.72%) Mathematics
8 24 (8.42%) CI/CD
9 18 (6.32%) Infrastructure as Code
10 16 (5.61%) Containerisation
11 13 (4.56%) Configuration Management
12 10 (3.51%) Microservices
13 8 (2.81%) Agile
14 7 (2.46%) Auto-Scaling
14 7 (2.46%) Continuous Integration
15 6 (2.11%) Software Engineering
16 5 (1.75%) Infrastructure Automation
16 5 (1.75%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 271 (95.09%) Python
2 263 (92.28%) Bash
3 252 (88.42%) PowerShell
4 6 (2.11%) JavaScript
5 4 (1.40%) Java
6 2 (0.70%) PHP
6 2 (0.70%) SQL
7 1 (0.35%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 4 (1.40%) Security Cleared
2 3 (1.05%) SC Cleared
3 2 (0.70%) Azure Certification
3 2 (0.70%) DV Cleared
4 1 (0.35%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.05%) QA
2 2 (0.70%) GDPR
System Software
1 267 (93.68%) Docker
2 252 (88.42%) VMware NSX
2 252 (88.42%) vSphere
3 250 (87.72%) Hyper-V
4 3 (1.05%) KVM
4 3 (1.05%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 275 (96.49%) Terraform
2 22 (7.72%) Kubernetes
3 11 (3.86%) Grafana
4 10 (3.51%) Prometheus
5 5 (1.75%) Puppet
6 3 (1.05%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.35%) Argo
7 1 (0.35%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 1 (0.35%) Podman
Vendors
1 257 (90.18%) Splunk
2 250 (87.72%) 3PAR
2 250 (87.72%) Cisco
2 250 (87.72%) Juniper
3 4 (1.40%) Microsoft
3 4 (1.40%) SaltStack
4 3 (1.05%) Zscaler
5 2 (0.70%) Oracle
5 2 (0.70%) 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