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

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 155 141 196
Rank change year-on-year -14 +55 -20
Permanent jobs citing Ansible 58 48 73
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.65% 1.33% 0.85%
As % of the Systems Management category 14.15% 13.48% 12.19%
Number of salaries quoted 43 43 46
10th Percentile £46,446 £52,500 £46,875
25th Percentile £51,875 £55,625 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £72,500 £61,391
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% +18.10% -9.05%
75th Percentile £83,750 £81,875 £72,433
90th Percentile £85,000 £86,750 £82,500
England median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £70,576
% change year-on-year -3.33% +6.27% -5.90%

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 410 356 599
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 4.61% 9.89% 6.95%
Number of salaries quoted 306 291 514
10th Percentile £29,500 £37,750 £29,075
25th Percentile £38,625 £46,250 £42,238
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £67,037 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.23% +16.59% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,125 £71,250
90th Percentile £87,500 £93,778 £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 2 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 2 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 -11 35 £65,000 -1.89% 26
Lancashire -9 10 £48,445 -25.47% 12
Cumbria -16 10 £85,000 +17.24%
Cheshire - 3 £69,500 - 2
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 (6.90%) Apache
1 4 (6.90%) Apache Spark
1 4 (6.90%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (6.90%) OpenStack
2 1 (1.72%) Apache Solr
Cloud Services
1 47 (81.03%) AWS
2 27 (46.55%) Azure
3 20 (34.48%) Amazon EKS
4 16 (27.59%) AWS CloudFormation
5 12 (20.69%) GCP
6 11 (18.97%) Serverless
7 10 (17.24%) GitHub
8 7 (12.07%) OpenShift
9 6 (10.34%) Amazon ECS
9 6 (10.34%) Azure AKS
9 6 (10.34%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (6.90%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (6.90%) Amazon S3
10 4 (6.90%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (6.90%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (6.90%) OCI
11 3 (5.17%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 2 (3.45%) AWS CodePipeline
12 2 (3.45%) Nutanix
12 2 (3.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 11 (18.97%) Firewall
2 7 (12.07%) Internet
3 5 (8.62%) DNS
3 5 (8.62%) TCP/IP
4 4 (6.90%) AMQP
4 4 (6.90%) NGFW
4 4 (6.90%) VXLAN
4 4 (6.90%) Wi-Fi
4 4 (6.90%) Wireshark
5 3 (5.17%) HTTP
6 1 (1.72%) Network Security
6 1 (1.72%) SNMP
6 1 (1.72%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (31.03%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (18.97%) MongoDB
3 7 (12.07%) MySQL
4 5 (8.62%) Relational Database
5 4 (6.90%) Big Data
5 4 (6.90%) Cloudera CDH
5 4 (6.90%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (6.90%) Hadoop
6 3 (5.17%) DynamoDB
6 3 (5.17%) NoSQL
7 2 (3.45%) Oracle Database
7 2 (3.45%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 19 (32.76%) Git
2 11 (18.97%) GitLab
3 10 (17.24%) Jenkins
4 4 (6.90%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.72%) CircleCI
5 1 (1.72%) JIRA
5 1 (1.72%) TeamCity
General
1 8 (13.79%) Public Sector
2 7 (12.07%) Social Skills
3 5 (8.62%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (6.90%) Aerospace
4 4 (6.90%) Law
5 3 (5.17%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.72%) Banking
6 1 (1.72%) German Language
6 1 (1.72%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.72%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 16 (27.59%) Cloud Engineer
2 13 (22.41%) DevOps Engineer
3 7 (12.07%) Developer
3 7 (12.07%) Senior
4 6 (10.34%) Full-Stack Developer
5 5 (8.62%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 5 (8.62%) Java Developer
6 4 (6.90%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
6 4 (6.90%) Network Manager
6 4 (6.90%) Network Operations Manager
6 4 (6.90%) Operations Manager
6 4 (6.90%) Platform Engineer
6 4 (6.90%) Software Engineer
7 3 (5.17%) Support Engineer
8 2 (3.45%) DBA
8 2 (3.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (3.45%) Linux Engineer
8 2 (3.45%) Oracle DBA
8 2 (3.45%) Senior DevOps
8 2 (3.45%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (18.97%) Node.js
1 11 (18.97%) Spring
1 11 (18.97%) Spring Boot
2 10 (17.24%) AngularJS
2 10 (17.24%) REST
3 7 (12.07%) Elastic Stack
4 5 (8.62%) RabbitMQ
5 4 (6.90%) gRPC
5 4 (6.90%) Material-UI
5 4 (6.90%) OpenAPI
5 4 (6.90%) React
5 4 (6.90%) Swagger
5 4 (6.90%) YAML
6 3 (5.17%) Apache Camel
6 3 (5.17%) RESTful
6 3 (5.17%) Web Services
7 1 (1.72%) .NET
7 1 (1.72%) ARM Templates
7 1 (1.72%) ASP.NET Web API
7 1 (1.72%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.07%) Cloud Native
1 7 (12.07%) Hybrid Cloud
2 5 (8.62%) Public Cloud
3 4 (6.90%) Data Centre
3 4 (6.90%) Enterprise Cloud
3 4 (6.90%) PKI
3 4 (6.90%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (5.17%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (3.45%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.72%) NVMe
Operating Systems
1 28 (48.28%) Linux
2 9 (15.52%) Windows
3 7 (12.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (10.34%) Debian
4 6 (10.34%) Ubuntu
5 5 (8.62%) CentOS
5 5 (8.62%) Windows Server
6 2 (3.45%) Solaris
6 2 (3.45%) Unix
6 2 (3.45%) VMS
6 2 (3.45%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (3.45%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (3.45%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (65.52%) Infrastructure as Code
2 31 (53.45%) CI/CD
3 30 (51.72%) DevOps
4 24 (41.38%) Agile
5 20 (34.48%) Containerisation
6 15 (25.86%) Platform Engineering
7 14 (24.14%) Microservices
8 12 (20.69%) Problem-Solving
9 10 (17.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 9 (15.52%) Collaborative Culture
10 9 (15.52%) Mentoring
11 8 (13.79%) ITIL
11 8 (13.79%) Kanban
11 8 (13.79%) Scrum
12 7 (12.07%) Configuration Management
13 6 (10.34%) Continuous Improvement
13 6 (10.34%) Full-Stack Development
13 6 (10.34%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 6 (10.34%) Software Engineering
14 5 (8.62%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 28 (48.28%) Python
2 14 (24.14%) Java
3 13 (22.41%) Go
4 11 (18.97%) JavaScript
5 7 (12.07%) Bash
5 7 (12.07%) C
5 7 (12.07%) TypeScript
6 5 (8.62%) SQL
7 3 (5.17%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.72%) PHP
8 1 (1.72%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 17 (29.31%) Security Cleared
2 14 (24.14%) SC Cleared
3 7 (12.07%) DV Cleared
4 2 (3.45%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.72%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.72%) LPIC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.72%) QA
System Software
1 12 (20.69%) Docker
2 6 (10.34%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (6.90%) VMware NSX
3 4 (6.90%) vSphere
4 2 (3.45%) Active Directory
5 1 (1.72%) KVM
5 1 (1.72%) QEMU
5 1 (1.72%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 49 (84.48%) Terraform
2 35 (60.34%) Kubernetes
3 6 (10.34%) Grafana
3 6 (10.34%) Puppet
4 5 (8.62%) Prometheus
5 3 (5.17%) Rancher
6 2 (3.45%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (3.45%) Nagios
6 2 (3.45%) Podman
6 2 (3.45%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.72%) Argo
Vendors
1 9 (15.52%) VMware
2 7 (12.07%) Red Hat
3 5 (8.62%) SaltStack
4 4 (6.90%) Arista
4 4 (6.90%) Aruba
4 4 (6.90%) Google
4 4 (6.90%) NetScout
5 3 (5.17%) Microsoft
5 3 (5.17%) Pega
5 3 (5.17%) WSO2
6 2 (3.45%) Mirantis
6 2 (3.45%) Oracle