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

6 months to
12 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 158 92 194
Rank change year-on-year -66 +102 -28
Permanent jobs citing Ansible 59 97 75
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.62% 2.67% 0.84%
As % of the Systems Management category 13.82% 24.49% 12.21%
Number of salaries quoted 41 39 45
10th Percentile £46,446 £52,000 £46,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £56,875 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £72,500 £62,783
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% +15.48% -6.99%
75th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £72,433
90th Percentile £85,000 £88,750 £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 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 427 396 614
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 4.48% 10.89% 6.88%
Number of salaries quoted 318 280 520
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £29,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,985 £42,434
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £67,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.81% +17.39% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £87,694 £93,900 £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 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 12 April 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 12 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
Manchester -15 36 £65,000 -13.33% 20
Lancashire -43 11 £48,445 -25.47% 10
Cumbria -17 10 £85,000 +17.24%
Cheshire - 2 £69,500 -
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 5 (8.47%) Apache
1 5 (8.47%) Apache Spark
1 5 (8.47%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (5.08%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 45 (76.27%) AWS
2 29 (49.15%) Azure
3 19 (32.20%) Amazon EKS
4 15 (25.42%) AWS CloudFormation
5 12 (20.34%) GCP
6 10 (16.95%) GitHub
7 9 (15.25%) Serverless
8 8 (13.56%) OpenShift
9 6 (10.17%) Azure AKS
9 6 (10.17%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (8.47%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (6.78%) Amazon EC2
11 4 (6.78%) Amazon ECS
11 4 (6.78%) Amazon S3
11 4 (6.78%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (6.78%) OCI
12 3 (5.08%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 3 (5.08%) Nutanix
13 2 (3.39%) AWS CodePipeline
13 2 (3.39%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 11 (18.64%) Firewall
2 7 (11.86%) Internet
3 6 (10.17%) DNS
3 6 (10.17%) TCP/IP
4 5 (8.47%) AMQP
5 4 (6.78%) NGFW
5 4 (6.78%) VXLAN
5 4 (6.78%) Wi-Fi
5 4 (6.78%) Wireshark
6 3 (5.08%) HTTP
7 1 (1.69%) SNMP
7 1 (1.69%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (27.12%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (18.64%) MongoDB
3 6 (10.17%) MySQL
4 5 (8.47%) Big Data
4 5 (8.47%) Cloudera CDH
4 5 (8.47%) Hadoop
5 3 (5.08%) DynamoDB
5 3 (5.08%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (5.08%) NoSQL
5 3 (5.08%) Relational Database
6 2 (3.39%) Oracle Database
6 2 (3.39%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 16 (27.12%) Git
2 10 (16.95%) GitLab
3 7 (11.86%) Jenkins
4 4 (6.78%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.69%) JIRA
5 1 (1.69%) TeamCity
General
1 8 (13.56%) Social Skills
2 7 (11.86%) Public Sector
3 5 (8.47%) Aerospace
3 5 (8.47%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (6.78%) Law
5 3 (5.08%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.69%) Banking
6 1 (1.69%) German Language
6 1 (1.69%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.69%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 16 (27.12%) Cloud Engineer
2 12 (20.34%) DevOps Engineer
3 6 (10.17%) Senior
4 5 (8.47%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
4 5 (8.47%) Software Engineer
5 4 (6.78%) Developer
5 4 (6.78%) Full-Stack Developer
5 4 (6.78%) Lead
5 4 (6.78%) Network Manager
5 4 (6.78%) Network Operations Manager
5 4 (6.78%) Operations Manager
5 4 (6.78%) Platform Engineer
5 4 (6.78%) Support Engineer
6 3 (5.08%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 3 (5.08%) Java Developer
6 3 (5.08%) Linux Engineer
7 2 (3.39%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 2 (3.39%) DBA
7 2 (3.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (3.39%) Oracle DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (16.95%) Spring
1 10 (16.95%) Spring Boot
2 9 (15.25%) AngularJS
2 9 (15.25%) Node.js
2 9 (15.25%) REST
3 6 (10.17%) RabbitMQ
4 5 (8.47%) Elastic Stack
4 5 (8.47%) gRPC
4 5 (8.47%) Material-UI
4 5 (8.47%) OpenAPI
4 5 (8.47%) React
4 5 (8.47%) Swagger
5 4 (6.78%) YAML
6 3 (5.08%) RESTful
7 2 (3.39%) Apache Camel
7 2 (3.39%) Web Services
8 1 (1.69%) ARM Templates
8 1 (1.69%) ASP.NET Web API
8 1 (1.69%) DPDK
8 1 (1.69%) eBPF
Miscellaneous
1 8 (13.56%) Cloud Native
1 8 (13.56%) Hybrid Cloud
2 6 (10.17%) Public Cloud
3 5 (8.47%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (6.78%) Data Centre
4 4 (6.78%) Enterprise Cloud
4 4 (6.78%) PKI
5 2 (3.39%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (3.39%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.69%) NVMe
Operating Systems
1 29 (49.15%) Linux
2 9 (15.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 9 (15.25%) Windows
3 7 (11.86%) Debian
3 7 (11.86%) Ubuntu
4 6 (10.17%) CentOS
5 5 (8.47%) Windows Server
6 3 (5.08%) Solaris
6 3 (5.08%) Unix
7 2 (3.39%) VMS
7 2 (3.39%) Windows Server 2008
7 2 (3.39%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (3.39%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (69.49%) Infrastructure as Code
2 30 (50.85%) CI/CD
3 29 (49.15%) DevOps
4 25 (42.37%) Agile
5 20 (33.90%) Containerisation
6 15 (25.42%) Platform Engineering
7 13 (22.03%) Microservices
8 12 (20.34%) Problem-Solving
9 10 (16.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 9 (15.25%) Collaborative Culture
10 9 (15.25%) ITIL
10 9 (15.25%) Mentoring
11 8 (13.56%) Configuration Management
12 7 (11.86%) Deployment Automation
12 7 (11.86%) Kanban
12 7 (11.86%) Scrum
13 6 (10.17%) Continuous Improvement
13 6 (10.17%) Open Source
13 6 (10.17%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 6 (10.17%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 31 (52.54%) Python
2 13 (22.03%) Go
2 13 (22.03%) Java
3 10 (16.95%) Bash
4 9 (15.25%) JavaScript
5 7 (11.86%) C
5 7 (11.86%) TypeScript
6 6 (10.17%) PowerShell
6 6 (10.17%) SQL
7 1 (1.69%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 17 (28.81%) Security Cleared
2 14 (23.73%) SC Cleared
3 8 (13.56%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.69%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.69%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.69%) LPIC
System Software
1 11 (18.64%) Docker
2 7 (11.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (6.78%) VMware NSX
3 4 (6.78%) vSphere
4 3 (5.08%) Active Directory
5 1 (1.69%) KVM
5 1 (1.69%) QEMU
5 1 (1.69%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 51 (86.44%) Terraform
2 35 (59.32%) Kubernetes
3 7 (11.86%) Puppet
4 4 (6.78%) Grafana
4 4 (6.78%) Prometheus
5 3 (5.08%) Podman
5 3 (5.08%) Rancher
6 2 (3.39%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (3.39%) Nagios
6 2 (3.39%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.69%) Argo
Vendors
1 11 (18.64%) VMware
2 9 (15.25%) Red Hat
3 6 (10.17%) SaltStack
4 5 (8.47%) Google
4 5 (8.47%) Microsoft
5 4 (6.78%) Arista
5 4 (6.78%) Aruba
5 4 (6.78%) NetScout
6 3 (5.08%) LogicMonitor
6 3 (5.08%) Mirantis
7 2 (3.39%) Oracle
7 2 (3.39%) Pega
7 2 (3.39%) WSO2