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 23 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 139 133 156
Rank change year-on-year -6 +23 +9
Permanent jobs citing Ansible 53 67 84
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.71% 1.51% 1.24%
As % of the Systems Management category 13.45% 15.40% 16.09%
Number of salaries quoted 40 46 61
10th Percentile £46,446 £50,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +21.74% -4.17%
75th Percentile £85,000 £78,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £86,150 £83,750 £77,715
England median annual salary £73,625 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -1.83% +3.45% -3.33%

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 394 435 522
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 5.24% 9.80% 7.72%
Number of salaries quoted 294 275 471
10th Percentile £28,150 £36,750 £29,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,750 £62,205 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.20% +8.18% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £93,778 £84,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -10.71% +12.00% -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

Ansible
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Ansible in the North West over the 6 months to 23 February 2026.

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 23 February 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 -5 30 £65,000 +8.33% 10
Cumbria -2 10 £85,000 +17.24%
Lancashire -8 7 £48,445 -17.54% 6
Cheshire -18 5 £79,000 +6.04% 5
Merseyside - 1 £65,000 -
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 (9.43%) Apache
2 4 (7.55%) Apache Spark
2 4 (7.55%) OpenStack
3 2 (3.77%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.89%) Apache Solr
4 1 (1.89%) JBoss
4 1 (1.89%) nginx
4 1 (1.89%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 42 (79.25%) AWS
2 24 (45.28%) Azure
3 13 (24.53%) Amazon EKS
3 13 (24.53%) AWS CloudFormation
3 13 (24.53%) GCP
4 10 (18.87%) GitHub
5 9 (16.98%) Serverless
6 8 (15.09%) OpenShift
7 7 (13.21%) GitHub Actions
8 6 (11.32%) Amazon EC2
9 5 (9.43%) Azure AKS
9 5 (9.43%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (7.55%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (7.55%) Amazon S3
10 4 (7.55%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (7.55%) OCI
11 3 (5.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 3 (5.66%) AWS CodeBuild
11 3 (5.66%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 3 (5.66%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 11 (20.75%) Firewall
2 7 (13.21%) Internet
3 5 (9.43%) DNS
3 5 (9.43%) HTTP
4 4 (7.55%) AMQP
4 4 (7.55%) NGFW
4 4 (7.55%) VXLAN
4 4 (7.55%) Wi-Fi
4 4 (7.55%) Wireshark
5 3 (5.66%) TCP/IP
6 2 (3.77%) DHCP
6 2 (3.77%) SSL
7 1 (1.89%) Network Security
7 1 (1.89%) SNMP
7 1 (1.89%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (30.19%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (22.64%) MongoDB
3 8 (15.09%) MySQL
4 4 (7.55%) Big Data
4 4 (7.55%) Cloudera CDH
4 4 (7.55%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (7.55%) Hadoop
5 3 (5.66%) DynamoDB
5 3 (5.66%) NoSQL
5 3 (5.66%) Relational Database
6 2 (3.77%) Oracle Database
6 2 (3.77%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 18 (33.96%) Git
2 11 (20.75%) Jenkins
3 8 (15.09%) GitLab
4 4 (7.55%) Bitbucket
5 3 (5.66%) CircleCI
6 2 (3.77%) JIRA
7 1 (1.89%) Ant
7 1 (1.89%) Artifactory
7 1 (1.89%) git-flow
7 1 (1.89%) Maven
7 1 (1.89%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (1.89%) TeamCity
General
1 5 (9.43%) Public Sector
1 5 (9.43%) Social Skills
2 4 (7.55%) Aerospace
2 4 (7.55%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (7.55%) Law
3 3 (5.66%) Banking
3 3 (5.66%) Telecoms
4 1 (1.89%) Finance
4 1 (1.89%) German Language
4 1 (1.89%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (1.89%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 10 (18.87%) DevOps Engineer
2 8 (15.09%) Cloud Engineer
3 6 (11.32%) Platform Engineer
3 6 (11.32%) Senior
4 5 (9.43%) Developer
5 4 (7.55%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
5 4 (7.55%) Full-Stack Developer
5 4 (7.55%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 4 (7.55%) Java Developer
5 4 (7.55%) Network Manager
5 4 (7.55%) Network Operations Manager
5 4 (7.55%) Operations Manager
5 4 (7.55%) Software Engineer
6 3 (5.66%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 3 (5.66%) Azure Engineer
6 3 (5.66%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (5.66%) Senior DevOps
6 3 (5.66%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 2 (3.77%) Architect
7 2 (3.77%) DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (18.87%) Node.js
2 8 (15.09%) AngularJS
2 8 (15.09%) Elastic Stack
2 8 (15.09%) REST
2 8 (15.09%) Spring
2 8 (15.09%) Spring Boot
3 6 (11.32%) RabbitMQ
4 5 (9.43%) React
5 4 (7.55%) gRPC
5 4 (7.55%) Material-UI
5 4 (7.55%) OpenAPI
5 4 (7.55%) Swagger
6 3 (5.66%) .NET
6 3 (5.66%) DPDK
6 3 (5.66%) eBPF
6 3 (5.66%) RESTful
7 2 (3.77%) ASP.NET Web API
7 2 (3.77%) WCF
8 1 (1.89%) Apache Camel
8 1 (1.89%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 11 (20.75%) Cloud Native
2 4 (7.55%) Data Centre
2 4 (7.55%) PKI
3 3 (5.66%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (5.66%) Public Cloud
4 2 (3.77%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (3.77%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (3.77%) Mobile App
4 2 (3.77%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.89%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.89%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.89%) NVMe
Operating Systems
1 31 (58.49%) Linux
2 8 (15.09%) Debian
2 8 (15.09%) Ubuntu
2 8 (15.09%) Windows
3 7 (13.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (9.43%) CentOS
5 3 (5.66%) VMS
5 3 (5.66%) Windows Server
6 2 (3.77%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (3.77%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (3.77%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (1.89%) Solaris
7 1 (1.89%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (58.49%) Infrastructure as Code
2 30 (56.60%) CI/CD
3 26 (49.06%) DevOps
4 22 (41.51%) Containerisation
5 16 (30.19%) Agile
6 15 (28.30%) Microservices
7 11 (20.75%) Platform Engineering
8 10 (18.87%) Configuration Management
8 10 (18.87%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 10 (18.87%) Problem-Solving
9 8 (15.09%) Mentoring
10 7 (13.21%) Open Source
11 6 (11.32%) High Availability
11 6 (11.32%) Kanban
11 6 (11.32%) Scrum
11 6 (11.32%) Software Engineering
12 5 (9.43%) Continuous Integration
12 5 (9.43%) Deployment Automation
12 5 (9.43%) Load Balancing
12 5 (9.43%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 31 (58.49%) Python
2 13 (24.53%) Go
3 11 (20.75%) Java
4 10 (18.87%) Bash
5 9 (16.98%) JavaScript
6 7 (13.21%) C
6 7 (13.21%) TypeScript
7 3 (5.66%) SQL
8 2 (3.77%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.89%) Groovy
9 1 (1.89%) PHP
9 1 (1.89%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 10 (18.87%) Security Cleared
2 8 (15.09%) SC Cleared
3 6 (11.32%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.89%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.89%) LPIC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.77%) QA
2 1 (1.89%) GDPR
System Software
1 12 (22.64%) Docker
2 4 (7.55%) VMware NSX
2 4 (7.55%) vSphere
3 3 (5.66%) KVM
3 3 (5.66%) QEMU
4 2 (3.77%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (1.89%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 44 (83.02%) Terraform
2 33 (62.26%) Kubernetes
3 9 (16.98%) Grafana
4 8 (15.09%) Prometheus
4 8 (15.09%) Puppet
5 3 (5.66%) Progress Chef
5 3 (5.66%) Rancher
6 2 (3.77%) Argo
6 2 (3.77%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (3.77%) Nagios
6 2 (3.77%) Podman
Vendors
1 7 (13.21%) SaltStack
2 6 (11.32%) Red Hat
2 6 (11.32%) VMware
3 4 (7.55%) Arista
3 4 (7.55%) Aruba
3 4 (7.55%) Google
3 4 (7.55%) NetScout
4 3 (5.66%) Microsoft
5 2 (3.77%) Oracle
5 2 (3.77%) Splunk
6 1 (1.89%) Mirantis
6 1 (1.89%) Pega
6 1 (1.89%) WSO2