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 21 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 165 19 166
Rank change year-on-year -146 +147 -80
Permanent jobs citing Ansible 99 667 74
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.77% 13.01% 0.96%
As % of the Systems Management category 20.29% 65.39% 14.77%
Number of salaries quoted 60 21 32
10th Percentile £42,500 £57,375 £42,500
25th Percentile £53,688 £57,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £62,500 £58,250
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% +7.30% -14.93%
75th Percentile £85,313 £84,250 £67,813
90th Percentile £96,625 £88,750 £74,750
England median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - +7.14% -

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 488 1,020 501
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 3.81% 19.90% 6.49%
Number of salaries quoted 357 203 236
10th Percentile £32,650 £26,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,750 £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 £68,125 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,700 £76,875
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% -3.85% -

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 21 September 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 21 September 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 -53 86 £67,500 +8.00% 60
Lancashire -72 6 £65,576 +8.39% 16
Merseyside -38 5 £50,101 -22.92% 5
Cumbria -5 1 £65,000 - 1
Cheshire -59 1 - - 9
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
2 3 (3.03%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.01%) OpenEdge
Cloud Services
1 48 (48.48%) AWS
2 31 (31.31%) Azure
3 15 (15.15%) AWS CloudFormation
4 14 (14.14%) OpenShift
5 13 (13.13%) GitHub
6 12 (12.12%) Serverless
7 9 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
8 6 (6.06%) Amazon ECS
8 6 (6.06%) PaaS
9 5 (5.05%) GCP
10 3 (3.03%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (3.03%) Azure Monitor
10 3 (3.03%) IaaS
10 3 (3.03%) Nutanix
10 3 (3.03%) SaaS
11 2 (2.02%) Azure AKS
11 2 (2.02%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (2.02%) GitHub Actions
12 1 (1.01%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 1 (1.01%) Azure Sentinel
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
4 4 (4.04%) TCP/IP
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%) 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 16 (16.16%) Git
2 11 (11.11%) GitLab
3 9 (9.09%) Jenkins
4 5 (5.05%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 4 (4.04%) JIRA
6 1 (1.01%) Cypress.io
6 1 (1.01%) Mocha
6 1 (1.01%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 22 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 10 (10.10%) Public Sector
3 8 (8.08%) Aerospace
4 5 (5.05%) Finance
5 4 (4.04%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.02%) Manufacturing
6 2 (2.02%) Retail
7 1 (1.01%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.01%) Front Office
7 1 (1.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 41 (41.41%) DevOps Engineer
2 25 (25.25%) Cloud Engineer
3 19 (19.19%) Senior
4 12 (12.12%) Lead
4 12 (12.12%) Principal DevOps Engineer
4 12 (12.12%) Principal Engineer
4 12 (12.12%) Software Engineer
5 8 (8.08%) Lead DevOps
6 7 (7.07%) Lead DevOps Engineer
6 7 (7.07%) Senior Software Engineer
7 6 (6.06%) Cloud Native Engineer
7 6 (6.06%) Python Engineer
7 6 (6.06%) Python Software Engineer
7 6 (6.06%) Senior DevOps
7 6 (6.06%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 5 (5.05%) Developer
8 5 (5.05%) Linux Engineer
9 4 (4.04%) Administrator
9 4 (4.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 3 (3.03%) Systems Administrator
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
8 2 (2.02%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (19.19%) Cloud Native
2 10 (10.10%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (5.05%) Data Centre
3 5 (5.05%) Replication
4 3 (3.03%) Public Cloud
4 3 (3.03%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (3.03%) Social Media
4 3 (3.03%) SystemC
5 2 (2.02%) Driving Licence
5 2 (2.02%) Enterprise Cloud
5 2 (2.02%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.01%) Clustering
6 1 (1.01%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.01%) Housing Association
Operating Systems
1 32 (32.32%) Linux
2 15 (15.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 10 (10.10%) Windows
4 9 (9.09%) CentOS
5 8 (8.08%) Windows Server
6 6 (6.06%) Unix
7 5 (5.05%) Ubuntu
8 3 (3.03%) Debian
8 3 (3.03%) Solaris
9 2 (2.02%) AIX
9 2 (2.02%) VMS
10 1 (1.01%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (1.01%) SUSE
10 1 (1.01%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 1 (1.01%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (1.01%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (1.01%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (64.65%) Infrastructure as Code
2 63 (63.64%) DevOps
3 57 (57.58%) CI/CD
4 35 (35.35%) Agile
4 35 (35.35%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 34 (34.34%) Containerisation
6 20 (20.20%) Continuous Improvement
6 20 (20.20%) Platform Engineering
7 17 (17.17%) Stakeholder Management
8 13 (13.13%) Collaborative Culture
8 13 (13.13%) ITIL
9 12 (12.12%) Microservices
9 12 (12.12%) Software Engineering
10 10 (10.10%) Problem-Solving
10 10 (10.10%) Project Delivery
11 9 (9.09%) AI
11 9 (9.09%) Configuration Management
12 8 (8.08%) Kanban
12 8 (8.08%) Mentoring
12 8 (8.08%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 58 (58.59%) Python
2 33 (33.33%) Java
3 21 (21.21%) Bash
4 14 (14.14%) PowerShell
5 7 (7.07%) Go
5 7 (7.07%) JavaScript
6 6 (6.06%) Ruby
7 5 (5.05%) Bicep
8 4 (4.04%) Shell Script
8 4 (4.04%) SQL
9 2 (2.02%) Korn
9 2 (2.02%) Rust
10 1 (1.01%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 60 (60.61%) Security Cleared
2 45 (45.45%) 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 9 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (7.07%) Active Directory
4 4 (4.04%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (3.03%) Ceph
5 3 (3.03%) vSphere
6 2 (2.02%) VMware NSX
7 1 (1.01%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 1 (1.01%) Firmware
7 1 (1.01%) Hyper-V
7 1 (1.01%) KVM
7 1 (1.01%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 63 (63.64%) Kubernetes
2 11 (11.11%) 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%) WSUS
7 1 (1.01%) vCenter Server
7 1 (1.01%) VxRail
Vendors
1 13 (13.13%) Red Hat
2 12 (12.12%) Microsoft
3 11 (11.11%) 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%) Veeam
8 2 (2.02%) F5
8 2 (2.02%) IBM
8 2 (2.02%) Mirantis
8 2 (2.02%) ServiceNow
8 2 (2.02%) Thales
8 2 (2.02%) Zscaler
9 1 (1.01%) Broadcom
9 1 (1.01%) Percona
9 1 (1.01%) WSO2