Ansible Jobs in the North West

Ansible
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring Ansible skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Ansible over the 6 months leading up to 16 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 188 91
Rank change year-on-year +162 -97 +56
Permanent jobs citing Ansible 678 102 243
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 8.81% 0.96% 3.61%
As % of the Systems Management category 60.48% 14.39% 25.47%
Number of salaries quoted 26 44 105
10th Percentile £50,625 £43,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £55,313 £47,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,250 £62,641 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.82% -10.51% +12.00%
75th Percentile £80,625 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £86,500 £82,500 £87,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% +3.57%

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 1,121 709 954
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 14.57% 6.68% 14.16%
Number of salaries quoted 270 486 654
10th Percentile £32,000 £29,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £40,620 £38,992 £47,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £70,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £93,778 £82,500 £86,250
England median annual salary £67,037 £62,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +7.26% -7.41% -3.57%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Ansible as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Ansible in the North West

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Salary Trend in the North West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Ansible in the North West.

Salary trend for Ansible in the North West

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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 16 July 2025.

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 16 July 2025. 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
Lancashire +74 469 £60,500 -3.64% 20
Manchester +68 107 £60,000 -4.22% 29
Cheshire +66 71 £67,125 +34.25% 9
Merseyside +40 25 - - 4
Cumbria - 6 £73,750 -
Ansible
England

Ansible
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 30 (4.42%) AWS
2 27 (3.98%) Azure
3 8 (1.18%) Amazon EC2
3 8 (1.18%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (1.03%) AWS CloudFormation
5 5 (0.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 5 (0.74%) AWS CodeBuild
5 5 (0.74%) GitHub
5 5 (0.74%) Route 53
5 5 (0.74%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 4 (0.59%) Amazon S3
6 4 (0.59%) GCP
6 4 (0.59%) Nutanix
7 3 (0.44%) Pulumi
8 2 (0.29%) SaaS
9 1 (0.15%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (0.15%) Datadog
9 1 (0.15%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (0.15%) IaaS
9 1 (0.15%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 636 (93.81%) VPN
2 390 (57.52%) DNS
3 254 (37.46%) Cisco IOS
4 6 (0.88%) SD-WAN
4 6 (0.88%) WAN
5 5 (0.74%) Firewall
6 4 (0.59%) HTTP
6 4 (0.59%) SSH
7 3 (0.44%) Broadband
8 1 (0.15%) Internet
8 1 (0.15%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (0.44%) NoSQL
1 3 (0.44%) RDBMS
1 3 (0.44%) Relational Database
2 2 (0.29%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.15%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.15%) Big Data
3 1 (0.15%) MySQL
3 1 (0.15%) Oracle Database
3 1 (0.15%) Oracle Exadata
3 1 (0.15%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 17 (2.51%) Jenkins
2 8 (1.18%) Git
2 8 (1.18%) GitLab
3 5 (0.74%) CircleCI
3 5 (0.74%) JIRA
4 4 (0.59%) Jaeger
4 4 (0.59%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.15%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 632 (93.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 630 (92.92%) Analytical Skills
3 385 (56.78%) Finance
4 15 (2.21%) Social Skills
5 1 (0.15%) Aerospace
5 1 (0.15%) Electronics
5 1 (0.15%) Games
5 1 (0.15%) Manufacturing
5 1 (0.15%) Marketing
5 1 (0.15%) Public Sector
5 1 (0.15%) Retail
5 1 (0.15%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 379 (55.90%) Developer
1 379 (55.90%) Software Developer
2 255 (37.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 14 (2.06%) DevOps Engineer
4 10 (1.47%) Azure Engineer
4 10 (1.47%) Lead
5 8 (1.18%) Senior
6 7 (1.03%) Cloud Engineer
6 7 (1.03%) Senior Cloud Engineer
7 6 (0.88%) Network Engineer
8 5 (0.74%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (0.74%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (0.74%) Platform Engineer
8 5 (0.74%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 4 (0.59%) IT Support
10 3 (0.44%) Site Engineer
10 3 (0.44%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 3 (0.44%) Team Leader
11 2 (0.29%) Junior DevOps
11 2 (0.29%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 260 (38.35%) Elastic Stack
2 7 (1.03%) ARM Templates
3 5 (0.74%) LDAP
4 4 (0.59%) ADO
5 3 (0.44%) OpenTelemetry
6 2 (0.29%) Kafka
6 2 (0.29%) Spring Boot
7 1 (0.15%) AngularJS
7 1 (0.15%) FIDO
7 1 (0.15%) GraphQL
7 1 (0.15%) JWT
7 1 (0.15%) OAuth
7 1 (0.15%) OAuth2
7 1 (0.15%) OpenID
7 1 (0.15%) React
7 1 (0.15%) REST
7 1 (0.15%) SAML
7 1 (0.15%) SOAP
7 1 (0.15%) Spring
7 1 (0.15%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 629 (92.77%) Cyberattack
2 10 (1.47%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (0.59%) Anti-Spyware
4 1 (0.15%) Algorithms
4 1 (0.15%) Cloud Native
4 1 (0.15%) Data Centre
4 1 (0.15%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (0.15%) Data Structures
4 1 (0.15%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (0.15%) PropTech
4 1 (0.15%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 645 (95.13%) Linux
2 633 (93.36%) Android
3 261 (38.50%) Windows
4 6 (0.88%) Debian
4 6 (0.88%) Ubuntu
5 3 (0.44%) Unix
6 2 (0.29%) CentOS
7 1 (0.15%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 629 (92.77%) Line Management
1 629 (92.77%) Mathematics
2 383 (56.49%) Agile
3 379 (55.90%) Android Development
3 379 (55.90%) Design Patterns
3 379 (55.90%) OO
3 379 (55.90%) OOP
4 280 (41.30%) DevOps
5 260 (38.35%) Platform Engineering
6 258 (38.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 255 (37.61%) Problem-Solving
7 255 (37.61%) Task Automation
8 250 (36.87%) Risk Management
8 250 (36.87%) Storage Management
9 30 (4.42%) Infrastructure as Code
10 18 (2.65%) CI/CD
10 18 (2.65%) Configuration Management
11 17 (2.51%) Containerisation
12 9 (1.33%) Continuous Integration
13 8 (1.18%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 655 (96.61%) Python
2 385 (56.78%) Java
3 384 (56.64%) Go
4 380 (56.05%) C++
5 268 (39.53%) Bash
6 251 (37.02%) PowerShell
7 4 (0.59%) Bicep
7 4 (0.59%) JavaScript
7 4 (0.59%) Ruby
8 2 (0.29%) Rust
9 1 (0.15%) SQL
Qualifications
1 381 (56.19%) DV Cleared
1 381 (56.19%) Security Cleared
2 8 (1.18%) Azure Certification
3 3 (0.44%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.15%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (0.74%) QA
System Software
1 649 (95.72%) Docker
2 250 (36.87%) Hyper-V
2 250 (36.87%) VMware NSX
2 250 (36.87%) vSphere
3 4 (0.59%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.59%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 285 (42.04%) Terraform
2 25 (3.69%) Kubernetes
3 13 (1.92%) Prometheus
4 11 (1.62%) Puppet
5 10 (1.47%) Grafana
6 7 (1.03%) Progress Chef
7 5 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.44%) Argo
8 3 (0.44%) Kustomize
9 2 (0.29%) Salt
10 1 (0.15%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 1 (0.15%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 255 (37.61%) Splunk
2 254 (37.46%) Cisco
3 250 (36.87%) 3PAR
3 250 (36.87%) Juniper
4 8 (1.18%) Microsoft
5 6 (0.88%) Zscaler
6 4 (0.59%) Okta
6 4 (0.59%) Perforce
6 4 (0.59%) ServiceNow
6 4 (0.59%) VMware
7 3 (0.44%) Google
7 3 (0.44%) Oracle
8 2 (0.29%) SAP
9 1 (0.15%) ForgeRock
9 1 (0.15%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.15%) New Relic
9 1 (0.15%) Ping Identity
9 1 (0.15%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.15%) TOWER Software