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 9 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 140 132 121
Rank change year-on-year -8 -11 +28
Permanent jobs citing Ansible 42 73 78
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.67% 1.45% 1.81%
As % of the Systems Management category 12.61% 15.90% 15.85%
Number of salaries quoted 31 45 55
10th Percentile £52,500 £48,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £58,750 £52,500 £46,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £79,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.54% +18.18% -16.98%
75th Percentile £85,000 £78,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £83,750 £77,629
England median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £75,000

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 333 459 492
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 5.28% 9.09% 11.40%
Number of salaries quoted 254 252 435
10th Percentile £28,575 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £40,438 £43,408 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £56,250 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% -6.25% +0.80%
75th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £84,056
England median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -10.71% +7.69% -3.70%

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 9 January 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 9 January 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 27 £67,500 +12.50% 16
Cumbria +4 8 £85,000 +17.24% 5
Cheshire -14 5 £79,000 +58.00% 13
Lancashire +4 1 £60,000 +2.13% 8
Merseyside - 1 £65,000 - 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 (9.52%) Apache
1 4 (9.52%) OpenStack
2 3 (7.14%) Apache Spark
3 2 (4.76%) Apache Solr
4 1 (2.38%) JBoss
4 1 (2.38%) nginx
4 1 (2.38%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 34 (80.95%) AWS
2 17 (40.48%) Azure
3 12 (28.57%) AWS CloudFormation
4 10 (23.81%) GCP
5 9 (21.43%) Amazon EKS
6 8 (19.05%) Serverless
7 6 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
7 6 (14.29%) OpenShift
8 5 (11.90%) GitHub
9 4 (9.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (9.52%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (9.52%) AWS CodeBuild
10 3 (7.14%) Amazon S3
10 3 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (7.14%) Route 53
10 3 (7.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 2 (4.76%) Azure AKS
11 2 (4.76%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 6 (14.29%) Internet
2 3 (7.14%) AMQP
2 3 (7.14%) DNS
2 3 (7.14%) HTTP
3 2 (4.76%) DHCP
3 2 (4.76%) Firewall
3 2 (4.76%) SSL
4 1 (2.38%) Network Security
4 1 (2.38%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (30.95%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (23.81%) MongoDB
3 7 (16.67%) MySQL
4 4 (9.52%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (7.14%) Big Data
5 3 (7.14%) Cloudera CDH
5 3 (7.14%) Hadoop
5 3 (7.14%) NoSQL
5 3 (7.14%) Relational Database
6 2 (4.76%) DynamoDB
7 1 (2.38%) Oracle Database
7 1 (2.38%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 17 (40.48%) Git
2 11 (26.19%) Jenkins
3 7 (16.67%) GitLab
4 4 (9.52%) CircleCI
5 2 (4.76%) Bitbucket
5 2 (4.76%) JIRA
6 1 (2.38%) Ant
6 1 (2.38%) Artifactory
6 1 (2.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (2.38%) git-flow
6 1 (2.38%) Maven
6 1 (2.38%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (2.38%) TeamCity
General
1 3 (7.14%) Aerospace
1 3 (7.14%) Banking
1 3 (7.14%) Social Skills
2 2 (4.76%) Law
3 1 (2.38%) Finance
3 1 (2.38%) Public Sector
3 1 (2.38%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 6 (14.29%) Developer
3 5 (11.90%) Senior
4 4 (9.52%) Cloud Engineer
4 4 (9.52%) Full-Stack Developer
4 4 (9.52%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 4 (9.52%) Java Developer
4 4 (9.52%) Platform Engineer
5 3 (7.14%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
5 3 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (7.14%) Senior DevOps
5 3 (7.14%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 3 (7.14%) Software Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Architect
6 2 (4.76%) AWS Architect
6 2 (4.76%) Backend Developer
6 2 (4.76%) Integration Developer
6 2 (4.76%) IT Manager
7 1 (2.38%) AWS Engineer
7 1 (2.38%) Linux/Unix DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (23.81%) Node.js
2 7 (16.67%) AngularJS
2 7 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
2 7 (16.67%) REST
2 7 (16.67%) Spring
2 7 (16.67%) Spring Boot
3 5 (11.90%) RabbitMQ
4 4 (9.52%) React
5 3 (7.14%) .NET
5 3 (7.14%) DPDK
5 3 (7.14%) eBPF
5 3 (7.14%) gRPC
5 3 (7.14%) Material-UI
5 3 (7.14%) OpenAPI
5 3 (7.14%) Swagger
6 2 (4.76%) ASP.NET Web API
6 2 (4.76%) RESTful
6 2 (4.76%) WCF
7 1 (2.38%) Apache Camel
7 1 (2.38%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 11 (26.19%) Cloud Native
2 3 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (4.76%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (4.76%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (4.76%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.38%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.38%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.38%) NVMe
4 1 (2.38%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 26 (61.90%) Linux
2 8 (19.05%) Windows
3 6 (14.29%) Debian
3 6 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (14.29%) Ubuntu
4 4 (9.52%) CentOS
5 3 (7.14%) VMS
5 3 (7.14%) Windows Server
6 1 (2.38%) Solaris
6 1 (2.38%) Unix
6 1 (2.38%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (2.38%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (2.38%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (64.29%) CI/CD
2 25 (59.52%) Infrastructure as Code
3 23 (54.76%) DevOps
4 19 (45.24%) Containerisation
5 15 (35.71%) Microservices
6 14 (33.33%) Agile
7 10 (23.81%) Configuration Management
8 9 (21.43%) Platform Engineering
9 8 (19.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 7 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
11 6 (14.29%) Open Source
11 6 (14.29%) Scrum
11 6 (14.29%) Software Engineering
12 5 (11.90%) Kanban
12 5 (11.90%) Test Automation
13 4 (9.52%) Continuous Integration
13 4 (9.52%) Deployment Automation
13 4 (9.52%) GitOps
13 4 (9.52%) High Availability
13 4 (9.52%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 24 (57.14%) Python
2 9 (21.43%) Bash
2 9 (21.43%) Go
2 9 (21.43%) Java
2 9 (21.43%) JavaScript
3 6 (14.29%) C
3 6 (14.29%) TypeScript
4 3 (7.14%) SQL
5 2 (4.76%) PHP
5 2 (4.76%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.38%) Groovy
6 1 (2.38%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 9 (21.43%) Security Cleared
2 7 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 5 (11.90%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.38%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.14%) QA
2 2 (4.76%) GDPR
System Software
1 15 (35.71%) Docker
2 3 (7.14%) KVM
2 3 (7.14%) QEMU
2 3 (7.14%) VMware NSX
2 3 (7.14%) vSphere
3 1 (2.38%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 34 (80.95%) Terraform
2 30 (71.43%) Kubernetes
3 8 (19.05%) Grafana
4 7 (16.67%) Prometheus
4 7 (16.67%) Puppet
5 3 (7.14%) Progress Chef
6 2 (4.76%) Argo
6 2 (4.76%) Nagios
6 2 (4.76%) Podman
6 2 (4.76%) Rancher
Vendors
1 6 (14.29%) SaltStack
2 5 (11.90%) Red Hat
2 5 (11.90%) VMware
3 3 (7.14%) Google
3 3 (7.14%) Splunk
4 2 (4.76%) Microsoft
5 1 (2.38%) Mirantis
5 1 (2.38%) Oracle
5 1 (2.38%) Pega
5 1 (2.38%) WSO2