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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 170 84
Rank change year-on-year +152 -86 +95
Permanent jobs citing Ansible 669 73 155
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 12.99% 0.94% 3.44%
As % of the Systems Management category 63.11% 12.33% 19.85%
Number of salaries quoted 23 31 110
10th Percentile £55,475 £42,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £47,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,500 £68,474
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -16.03% +5.34%
75th Percentile £84,000 £68,125 £80,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £75,000 £87,419
England median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% - -3.45%

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 1,060 592 781
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 20.57% 7.64% 17.33%
Number of salaries quoted 239 297 619
10th Percentile £26,250 £32,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £46,925
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £52,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% -19.23% +8.33%
75th Percentile £70,500 £71,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £81,500 £80,000 £86,250
England median annual salary £62,500 £66,500 £65,351
% change year-on-year -6.02% +1.76% -6.64%

Ansible
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

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 18 September 2025.

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 18 September 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 +65 469 £60,500 +36.65% 6
Manchester +66 102 £61,250 +2.08% 14
Cheshire +42 71 £74,500 +49.00% 13
Merseyside +21 26 £65,000 +13.04% 1
Cumbria - 1 - -
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (0.30%) OpenStack
2 1 (0.15%) Apache
2 1 (0.15%) Apache Solr
2 1 (0.15%) JBoss
2 1 (0.15%) nginx
2 1 (0.15%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 24 (3.59%) AWS
1 24 (3.59%) Azure
2 9 (1.35%) AWS CloudFormation
2 9 (1.35%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (1.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 8 (1.20%) Amazon EC2
3 8 (1.20%) AWS CodeBuild
3 8 (1.20%) Route 53
3 8 (1.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 4 (0.60%) GCP
5 3 (0.45%) GitHub
6 2 (0.30%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (0.15%) Amazon S3
7 1 (0.15%) Azure AKS
7 1 (0.15%) IaaS
7 1 (0.15%) OpenShift
7 1 (0.15%) PaaS
7 1 (0.15%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 630 (94.17%) VPN
2 387 (57.85%) DNS
3 250 (37.37%) Cisco IOS
4 6 (0.90%) SD-WAN
4 6 (0.90%) WAN
5 2 (0.30%) DHCP
5 2 (0.30%) HTTP
5 2 (0.30%) SSL
6 1 (0.15%) Firewall
6 1 (0.15%) Internet
6 1 (0.15%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.15%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (0.15%) Big Data
1 1 (0.15%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (0.15%) MongoDB
1 1 (0.15%) MySQL
1 1 (0.15%) NoSQL
1 1 (0.15%) Oracle Database
1 1 (0.15%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 15 (2.24%) Jenkins
2 11 (1.64%) GitLab
3 8 (1.20%) CircleCI
4 6 (0.90%) Git
5 2 (0.30%) JIRA
6 1 (0.15%) Ant
6 1 (0.15%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.15%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.15%) git-flow
6 1 (0.15%) Maven
6 1 (0.15%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.15%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 629 (94.02%) Analytical Skills
1 629 (94.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 381 (56.95%) Finance
3 9 (1.35%) Social Skills
4 2 (0.30%) Banking
Job Titles
1 380 (56.80%) Developer
2 379 (56.65%) Software Developer
3 257 (38.42%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 12 (1.79%) DevOps Engineer
5 9 (1.35%) Azure Engineer
5 9 (1.35%) Senior
6 7 (1.05%) Cloud Engineer
6 7 (1.05%) Senior Cloud Engineer
7 6 (0.90%) Network Engineer
8 5 (0.75%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (0.75%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (0.75%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 4 (0.60%) Platform Engineer
10 3 (0.45%) Lead
11 2 (0.30%) Architect
11 2 (0.30%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 2 (0.30%) IT Manager
11 2 (0.30%) Lead DevOps
11 2 (0.30%) Lead DevOps Engineer
12 1 (0.15%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 260 (38.86%) Elastic Stack
2 7 (1.05%) ARM Templates
3 2 (0.30%) DPDK
3 2 (0.30%) eBPF
3 2 (0.30%) Kafka
3 2 (0.30%) Node.js
4 1 (0.15%) .NET
4 1 (0.15%) FIDO
4 1 (0.15%) GraphQL
4 1 (0.15%) JWT
4 1 (0.15%) LDAP
4 1 (0.15%) Middleware
4 1 (0.15%) OAuth
4 1 (0.15%) OAuth2
4 1 (0.15%) React
4 1 (0.15%) REST
4 1 (0.15%) SAML
4 1 (0.15%) SOAP
4 1 (0.15%) Spring
4 1 (0.15%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 629 (94.02%) Cyberattack
2 11 (1.64%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (0.60%) Cloud Native
3 4 (0.60%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (0.30%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (0.15%) Algorithms
5 1 (0.15%) Data Centre
5 1 (0.15%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.15%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.15%) Private Cloud
5 1 (0.15%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 643 (96.11%) Linux
2 629 (94.02%) Android
3 254 (37.97%) Windows
4 9 (1.35%) Debian
4 9 (1.35%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.15%) CentOS
5 1 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.15%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 629 (94.02%) Line Management
1 629 (94.02%) Mathematics
2 382 (57.10%) Agile
3 380 (56.80%) OO
4 379 (56.65%) Android Development
4 379 (56.65%) Design Patterns
4 379 (56.65%) OOP
5 279 (41.70%) DevOps
6 260 (38.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 257 (38.42%) Platform Engineering
8 253 (37.82%) Problem-Solving
9 252 (37.67%) Risk Management
10 251 (37.52%) Storage Management
10 251 (37.52%) Task Automation
11 23 (3.44%) CI/CD
12 21 (3.14%) Infrastructure as Code
13 18 (2.69%) Configuration Management
13 18 (2.69%) Containerisation
14 10 (1.49%) Infrastructure Automation
15 9 (1.35%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 654 (97.76%) Python
2 381 (56.95%) Java
3 379 (56.65%) C++
3 379 (56.65%) Go
4 266 (39.76%) Bash
5 252 (37.67%) PowerShell
6 2 (0.30%) Rust
6 2 (0.30%) SQL
7 1 (0.15%) Groovy
7 1 (0.15%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.15%) PHP
Qualifications
1 382 (57.10%) Security Cleared
2 381 (56.95%) DV Cleared
3 8 (1.20%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.15%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (0.45%) QA
2 2 (0.30%) GDPR
System Software
1 649 (97.01%) Docker
2 250 (37.37%) Hyper-V
2 250 (37.37%) VMware NSX
2 250 (37.37%) vSphere
3 2 (0.30%) KVM
3 2 (0.30%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 279 (41.70%) Terraform
2 27 (4.04%) Kubernetes
3 11 (1.64%) Grafana
3 11 (1.64%) Prometheus
4 6 (0.90%) Puppet
5 5 (0.75%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.15%) Argo
6 1 (0.15%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 1 (0.15%) Podman
6 1 (0.15%) Proxmox
6 1 (0.15%) Salt
6 1 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 258 (38.57%) Splunk
2 250 (37.37%) 3PAR
2 250 (37.37%) Cisco
2 250 (37.37%) Juniper
3 9 (1.35%) Microsoft
4 6 (0.90%) Zscaler
5 2 (0.30%) Oracle
5 2 (0.30%) SaltStack
6 1 (0.15%) ForgeRock
6 1 (0.15%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.15%) Ping Identity
6 1 (0.15%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.15%) SAP
6 1 (0.15%) TOWER Software