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 1 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 169 19 161
Rank change year-on-year -150 +142 -83
Permanent jobs citing Ansible 99 665 78
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.76% 12.74% 1.04%
As % of the Systems Management category 19.26% 64.81% 15.29%
Number of salaries quoted 58 19 37
10th Percentile £42,500 £57,475 £42,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £57,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £62,500 £59,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% +5.93% -12.59%
75th Percentile £90,938 £84,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £97,375 £88,800 £78,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year - +3.45% +0.69%

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 514 1,026 510
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 3.97% 19.66% 6.78%
Number of salaries quoted 371 202 242
10th Percentile £32,750 £26,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,125 £33,125 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £48,720 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.15% -2.56% -23.08%
75th Percentile £77,500 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £81,250 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -0.83% -6.92% -

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 1 October 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 1 October 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 -52 87 £67,500 +8.00% 51
Merseyside -34 5 £50,101 -22.92% 4
Lancashire -70 5 £65,576 +8.39% 7
Cumbria -5 1 £65,000 - 1
Cheshire -66 1 - - 6
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 (4.04%) IIS
1 4 (4.04%) OpenStack
2 3 (3.03%) Apache
2 3 (3.03%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.02%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.01%) Confluence
4 1 (1.01%) OpenEdge
Cloud Services
1 47 (47.47%) AWS
2 32 (32.32%) Azure
3 14 (14.14%) OpenShift
4 13 (13.13%) AWS CloudFormation
4 13 (13.13%) GitHub
5 12 (12.12%) Serverless
6 8 (8.08%) Amazon EKS
7 7 (7.07%) Amazon ECS
7 7 (7.07%) PaaS
8 5 (5.05%) GCP
9 4 (4.04%) IaaS
10 3 (3.03%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (3.03%) Azure AKS
10 3 (3.03%) Azure Monitor
10 3 (3.03%) SaaS
11 2 (2.02%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (2.02%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (2.02%) Nutanix
12 1 (1.01%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 1 (1.01%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 10 (10.10%) DNS
2 7 (7.07%) DHCP
3 5 (5.05%) BGP
3 5 (5.05%) SD-WAN
3 5 (5.05%) WAN
4 4 (4.04%) IPsec
5 3 (3.03%) AMQP
5 3 (3.03%) LAN
5 3 (3.03%) OSPF
5 3 (3.03%) Software-Defined Networking
5 3 (3.03%) TCP/IP
5 3 (3.03%) VPN
5 3 (3.03%) Wireless
5 3 (3.03%) WLAN
6 2 (2.02%) DMZ
6 2 (2.02%) Firewall
6 2 (2.02%) HSRP
6 2 (2.02%) MPLS
6 2 (2.02%) VRRP
6 2 (2.02%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.06%) PostgreSQL
1 6 (6.06%) Relational Database
2 3 (3.03%) Big Data
2 3 (3.03%) Cloudera CDH
2 3 (3.03%) Hadoop
2 3 (3.03%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.02%) MySQL
4 1 (1.01%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.01%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.01%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.01%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 17 (17.17%) Git
2 10 (10.10%) GitLab
3 9 (9.09%) Jenkins
4 6 (6.06%) JIRA
5 5 (5.05%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (2.02%) Artifactory
7 1 (1.01%) Cypress.io
7 1 (1.01%) Mocha
7 1 (1.01%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 21 (21.21%) Social Skills
2 11 (11.11%) Public Sector
3 9 (9.09%) Aerospace
4 5 (5.05%) Finance
5 4 (4.04%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (3.03%) Retail
7 2 (2.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.02%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.01%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.01%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 41 (41.41%) DevOps Engineer
2 22 (22.22%) Cloud Engineer
3 21 (21.21%) Senior
4 13 (13.13%) Software Engineer
5 12 (12.12%) Lead
5 12 (12.12%) Principal DevOps Engineer
5 12 (12.12%) Principal Engineer
6 8 (8.08%) Lead DevOps
7 7 (7.07%) Lead DevOps Engineer
7 7 (7.07%) Senior DevOps
7 7 (7.07%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 7 (7.07%) Senior Software Engineer
8 6 (6.06%) Cloud Native Engineer
8 6 (6.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 6 (6.06%) Python Engineer
8 6 (6.06%) Python Software Engineer
9 5 (5.05%) Developer
10 4 (4.04%) Administrator
10 4 (4.04%) Linux Engineer
11 3 (3.03%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (80.81%) Terraform
2 27 (27.27%) Spring
2 27 (27.27%) Spring Boot
3 12 (12.12%) React
4 7 (7.07%) AngularJS
4 7 (7.07%) FastAPI
4 7 (7.07%) Next.js
4 7 (7.07%) REST
5 6 (6.06%) Node.js
5 6 (6.06%) React Native
5 6 (6.06%) Ruby on Rails
6 4 (4.04%) OpenAPI
6 4 (4.04%) Swagger
7 3 (3.03%) AWS CDK
7 3 (3.03%) gRPC
7 3 (3.03%) Material-UI
7 3 (3.03%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (2.02%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (2.02%) Vue
9 1 (1.01%) Apache Camel
Miscellaneous
1 19 (19.19%) Cloud Native
2 7 (7.07%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (5.05%) Data Centre
3 5 (5.05%) Replication
4 3 (3.03%) Social Media
4 3 (3.03%) SystemC
5 2 (2.02%) Driving Licence
5 2 (2.02%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.02%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.02%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.01%) Clustering
6 1 (1.01%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.01%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.01%) Housing Association
6 1 (1.01%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 34 (34.34%) Linux
2 15 (15.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 10 (10.10%) Windows
4 9 (9.09%) CentOS
5 7 (7.07%) Windows Server
6 5 (5.05%) Ubuntu
6 5 (5.05%) Unix
7 3 (3.03%) Debian
8 2 (2.02%) AIX
8 2 (2.02%) Solaris
8 2 (2.02%) VMS
9 1 (1.01%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (1.01%) SUSE
9 1 (1.01%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 1 (1.01%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (1.01%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (1.01%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (65.66%) Infrastructure as Code
2 64 (64.65%) DevOps
3 57 (57.58%) CI/CD
4 36 (36.36%) Agile
4 36 (36.36%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 34 (34.34%) Containerisation
6 18 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
6 18 (18.18%) Platform Engineering
7 17 (17.17%) Stakeholder Management
8 13 (13.13%) Software Engineering
9 12 (12.12%) Collaborative Culture
9 12 (12.12%) ITIL
9 12 (12.12%) Microservices
10 11 (11.11%) AI
10 11 (11.11%) Technical Leadership
11 10 (10.10%) Mentoring
11 10 (10.10%) Project Delivery
12 9 (9.09%) Coaching
12 9 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 9 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 60 (60.61%) Python
2 34 (34.34%) Java
3 23 (23.23%) Bash
4 14 (14.14%) PowerShell
5 9 (9.09%) Go
6 7 (7.07%) JavaScript
7 6 (6.06%) Ruby
8 5 (5.05%) Bicep
9 4 (4.04%) Shell Script
10 3 (3.03%) SQL
11 2 (2.02%) Korn
11 2 (2.02%) Rust
12 1 (1.01%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 61 (61.62%) Security Cleared
2 46 (46.46%) DV Cleared
3 29 (29.29%) SC Cleared
4 7 (7.07%) Azure Certification
5 6 (6.06%) AWS Certification
6 4 (4.04%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (3.03%) RHCE
7 3 (3.03%) RHCSA
8 2 (2.02%) CCIE
8 2 (2.02%) CCNA
8 2 (2.02%) CCNP
8 2 (2.02%) Degree
8 2 (2.02%) IBM AIX Certification
9 1 (1.01%) HP ASE
9 1 (1.01%) Linux+ Certification
9 1 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (1.01%) VCAP
9 1 (1.01%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.02%) SLA
2 1 (1.01%) GDPR
System Software
1 51 (51.52%) Docker
2 8 (8.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (6.06%) Active Directory
4 4 (4.04%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (3.03%) Ceph
5 3 (3.03%) VMware NSX
5 3 (3.03%) vSphere
6 2 (2.02%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (1.01%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 1 (1.01%) Firmware
7 1 (1.01%) Hyper-V
7 1 (1.01%) KVM
Systems Management
1 64 (64.65%) Kubernetes
2 12 (12.12%) Puppet
3 9 (9.09%) Podman
4 5 (5.05%) Progress Chef
4 5 (5.05%) Prometheus
5 3 (3.03%) Argo
5 3 (3.03%) Check_MK
5 3 (3.03%) Istio
6 2 (2.02%) Grafana
6 2 (2.02%) SCCM
6 2 (2.02%) SolarWinds Orion
6 2 (2.02%) vCenter Server
6 2 (2.02%) WSUS
7 1 (1.01%) Opsview
7 1 (1.01%) VxRail
Vendors
1 14 (14.14%) Microsoft
2 13 (13.13%) Red Hat
3 10 (10.10%) VMware
4 8 (8.08%) Splunk
5 5 (5.05%) LogicMonitor
6 4 (4.04%) Dell
6 4 (4.04%) Oracle
7 3 (3.03%) Cisco
7 3 (3.03%) Google
7 3 (3.03%) SaltStack
7 3 (3.03%) Thales
7 3 (3.03%) Veeam
8 2 (2.02%) F5
8 2 (2.02%) IBM
8 2 (2.02%) ServiceNow
8 2 (2.02%) YouTube
8 2 (2.02%) Zscaler
9 1 (1.01%) Aruba
9 1 (1.01%) Pega
9 1 (1.01%) Percona