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 4 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 175 29 207
Rank change year-on-year -146 +178 -63
Permanent jobs citing Ansible 57 425 74
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.55% 10.05% 0.80%
As % of the Systems Management category 12.84% 56.89% 11.25%
Number of salaries quoted 39 34 43
10th Percentile £46,407 £51,125 £46,750
25th Percentile £49,000 £56,563 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £72,500 £62,783
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% +15.48% -6.99%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £72,433
90th Percentile £85,000 £88,750 £82,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +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 444 747 658
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 4.25% 17.66% 7.11%
Number of salaries quoted 334 269 527
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £29,250
25th Percentile £40,500 £47,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £69,384 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -17.13% +20.67% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £69,500 £60,500
% change year-on-year -6.47% +14.88% -10.37%

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 4 May 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 4 May 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 -47 33 £65,000 -3.70% 13
Lancashire -55 12 £48,445 -25.47% 3
Cumbria -15 11 £85,000 +17.24% 3
Cheshire -43 1 £60,000 -19.46% 3
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 6 (10.53%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (7.02%) Apache
2 4 (7.02%) Apache Spark
3 2 (3.51%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 43 (75.44%) AWS
2 30 (52.63%) Azure
3 17 (29.82%) Amazon EKS
4 13 (22.81%) AWS CloudFormation
5 11 (19.30%) GCP
6 9 (15.79%) GitHub
7 7 (12.28%) OpenShift
7 7 (12.28%) Serverless
8 6 (10.53%) Azure AKS
8 6 (10.53%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (7.02%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (7.02%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (7.02%) Nutanix
9 4 (7.02%) OCI
10 3 (5.26%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (5.26%) Amazon ECS
10 3 (5.26%) Amazon S3
10 3 (5.26%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 2 (3.51%) AWS CodePipeline
11 2 (3.51%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 11 (19.30%) Firewall
2 7 (12.28%) DNS
2 7 (12.28%) Internet
2 7 (12.28%) TCP/IP
3 4 (7.02%) AMQP
3 4 (7.02%) NGFW
3 4 (7.02%) VXLAN
3 4 (7.02%) Wi-Fi
3 4 (7.02%) Wireshark
4 3 (5.26%) HTTP
5 1 (1.75%) SNMP
5 1 (1.75%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (28.07%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (17.54%) MongoDB
3 6 (10.53%) MySQL
4 4 (7.02%) Big Data
4 4 (7.02%) Cloudera CDH
4 4 (7.02%) Hadoop
5 3 (5.26%) DynamoDB
5 3 (5.26%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (5.26%) NoSQL
5 3 (5.26%) Oracle Database
5 3 (5.26%) SQL Server
6 2 (3.51%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 15 (26.32%) Git
2 10 (17.54%) GitLab
3 6 (10.53%) Jenkins
4 4 (7.02%) Bitbucket
5 2 (3.51%) JIRA
6 1 (1.75%) TeamCity
General
1 8 (14.04%) Social Skills
2 7 (12.28%) Public Sector
3 5 (8.77%) Aerospace
3 5 (8.77%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (7.02%) Law
5 3 (5.26%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.75%) German Language
6 1 (1.75%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.75%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 17 (29.82%) Cloud Engineer
2 12 (21.05%) DevOps Engineer
3 5 (8.77%) Senior
3 5 (8.77%) Support Engineer
4 4 (7.02%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
4 4 (7.02%) Lead
4 4 (7.02%) Network Manager
4 4 (7.02%) Network Operations Manager
4 4 (7.02%) Operations Manager
4 4 (7.02%) Platform Engineer
4 4 (7.02%) Software Engineer
5 3 (5.26%) DBA
5 3 (5.26%) Developer
5 3 (5.26%) Full-Stack Developer
5 3 (5.26%) Linux Engineer
5 3 (5.26%) Oracle DBA
6 2 (3.51%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 2 (3.51%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (3.51%) DevOps Platform Engineer
6 2 (3.51%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (14.04%) Spring
1 8 (14.04%) Spring Boot
2 7 (12.28%) AngularJS
2 7 (12.28%) Node.js
2 7 (12.28%) REST
3 5 (8.77%) Elastic Stack
4 4 (7.02%) gRPC
4 4 (7.02%) Material-UI
4 4 (7.02%) OpenAPI
4 4 (7.02%) RabbitMQ
4 4 (7.02%) React
4 4 (7.02%) Swagger
4 4 (7.02%) YAML
5 3 (5.26%) RESTful
6 2 (3.51%) Apache Camel
6 2 (3.51%) Web Services
7 1 (1.75%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 9 (15.79%) Hybrid Cloud
2 7 (12.28%) Public Cloud
3 6 (10.53%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (7.02%) Cloud Native
4 4 (7.02%) Data Centre
4 4 (7.02%) Enterprise Cloud
4 4 (7.02%) PKI
5 2 (3.51%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (3.51%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 29 (50.88%) Linux
2 10 (17.54%) Windows
3 8 (14.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (12.28%) Windows Server
5 6 (10.53%) Debian
5 6 (10.53%) Ubuntu
6 5 (8.77%) CentOS
7 3 (5.26%) Solaris
7 3 (5.26%) Unix
7 3 (5.26%) Windows Server 2008
7 3 (5.26%) Windows Server 2012
7 3 (5.26%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (1.75%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 29 (50.88%) CI/CD
3 27 (47.37%) DevOps
4 24 (42.11%) Agile
5 18 (31.58%) Containerisation
6 13 (22.81%) Platform Engineering
7 12 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
8 10 (17.54%) Microservices
9 9 (15.79%) Collaborative Culture
9 9 (15.79%) ITIL
9 9 (15.79%) Mentoring
10 8 (14.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 7 (12.28%) Deployment Automation
11 7 (12.28%) Kanban
11 7 (12.28%) Scrum
12 6 (10.53%) Configuration Management
12 6 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
12 6 (10.53%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 5 (8.77%) Coaching
13 5 (8.77%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 29 (50.88%) Python
2 13 (22.81%) Go
3 11 (19.30%) Java
4 10 (17.54%) Bash
5 7 (12.28%) C
5 7 (12.28%) JavaScript
5 7 (12.28%) PowerShell
5 7 (12.28%) SQL
5 7 (12.28%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.75%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 17 (29.82%) Security Cleared
2 13 (22.81%) SC Cleared
3 8 (14.04%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.75%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.75%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.75%) LPIC
System Software
1 11 (19.30%) Docker
2 8 (14.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (7.02%) Active Directory
4 3 (5.26%) VMware NSX
4 3 (5.26%) vSphere
5 1 (1.75%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 49 (85.96%) Terraform
2 32 (56.14%) Kubernetes
3 7 (12.28%) Puppet
4 4 (7.02%) Grafana
4 4 (7.02%) Prometheus
5 3 (5.26%) Podman
5 3 (5.26%) Progress Chef
5 3 (5.26%) Rancher
6 2 (3.51%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (3.51%) Nagios
7 1 (1.75%) Argo
Vendors
1 11 (19.30%) VMware
2 8 (14.04%) Red Hat
3 5 (8.77%) Microsoft
4 4 (7.02%) Arista
4 4 (7.02%) Aruba
4 4 (7.02%) Google
4 4 (7.02%) NetScout
4 4 (7.02%) SaltStack
5 3 (5.26%) LogicMonitor
5 3 (5.26%) Mirantis
5 3 (5.26%) Oracle
6 2 (3.51%) Pega
6 2 (3.51%) WSO2