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 16 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 159 21 202
Rank change year-on-year -138 +181 -103
Permanent jobs citing Ansible 91 670 54
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.76% 12.87% 0.65%
As % of the Systems Management category 16.11% 62.44% 9.17%
Number of salaries quoted 57 21 28
10th Percentile £42,500 £53,750 £44,250
25th Percentile £53,500 £57,375 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,576 £60,000 £58,750
Median % change year-on-year +9.29% +2.13% -16.07%
75th Percentile £81,250 £82,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £88,750 £79,875
England median annual salary £72,500 £73,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -1.36% +5.00% -2.10%

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 565 1,073 589
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 4.75% 20.61% 7.06%
Number of salaries quoted 445 245 373
10th Percentile £32,850 £28,000 £31,210
25th Percentile £41,000 £40,000 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +9.09% -15.38%
75th Percentile £79,750 £76,840 £71,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £86,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -2.99%

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 16 August 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 16 August 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 -46 77 £67,500 +12.50% 45
Lancashire -65 7 £65,576 +8.39% 8
Merseyside -36 5 £50,101 -
Cumbria -19 1 £65,000 -13.33%
Cheshire -51 1 - - 10
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 5 (5.49%) OpenStack
2 4 (4.40%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (3.30%) IIS
4 2 (2.20%) Apache
4 2 (2.20%) Apache Spark
5 1 (1.10%) OpenEdge
Cloud Services
1 47 (51.65%) AWS
2 30 (32.97%) Azure
3 15 (16.48%) AWS CloudFormation
4 13 (14.29%) OpenShift
5 11 (12.09%) Amazon EKS
5 11 (12.09%) GitHub
5 11 (12.09%) Serverless
6 7 (7.69%) Amazon ECS
7 6 (6.59%) PaaS
8 4 (4.40%) GCP
8 4 (4.40%) Nutanix
9 3 (3.30%) IaaS
9 3 (3.30%) SaaS
10 2 (2.20%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (2.20%) Azure Monitor
11 1 (1.10%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 1 (1.10%) Azure AKS
11 1 (1.10%) Azure DevOps
11 1 (1.10%) Azure Sentinel
11 1 (1.10%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (10.99%) DNS
2 6 (6.59%) DHCP
3 5 (5.49%) BGP
3 5 (5.49%) SD-WAN
3 5 (5.49%) TCP/IP
3 5 (5.49%) WAN
4 4 (4.40%) IPsec
5 3 (3.30%) LAN
5 3 (3.30%) OSPF
5 3 (3.30%) Software-Defined Networking
5 3 (3.30%) VPN
5 3 (3.30%) Wireless
5 3 (3.30%) WLAN
6 2 (2.20%) AMQP
6 2 (2.20%) DMZ
6 2 (2.20%) Firewall
6 2 (2.20%) HSRP
6 2 (2.20%) MPLS
6 2 (2.20%) VRRP
6 2 (2.20%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
1 7 (7.69%) Relational Database
2 3 (3.30%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.20%) Big Data
3 2 (2.20%) Cloudera CDH
3 2 (2.20%) Hadoop
3 2 (2.20%) MySQL
4 1 (1.10%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.10%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.10%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.10%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 16 (17.58%) Git
2 10 (10.99%) GitLab
3 9 (9.89%) Jenkins
4 4 (4.40%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 3 (3.30%) JIRA
6 1 (1.10%) Cypress.io
6 1 (1.10%) Mocha
6 1 (1.10%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 18 (19.78%) Social Skills
2 9 (9.89%) Public Sector
3 5 (5.49%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (5.49%) Finance
4 4 (4.40%) Aerospace
5 2 (2.20%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.10%) Front Office
6 1 (1.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 35 (38.46%) DevOps Engineer
2 27 (29.67%) Cloud Engineer
3 17 (18.68%) Senior
4 11 (12.09%) Lead
5 10 (10.99%) Principal DevOps Engineer
5 10 (10.99%) Principal Engineer
6 9 (9.89%) Software Engineer
7 7 (7.69%) Lead DevOps
7 7 (7.69%) Senior Software Engineer
8 6 (6.59%) Lead DevOps Engineer
8 6 (6.59%) Python Engineer
8 6 (6.59%) Python Software Engineer
9 5 (5.49%) Cloud Native Engineer
9 5 (5.49%) Linux Engineer
9 5 (5.49%) Senior DevOps
9 5 (5.49%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 4 (4.40%) Administrator
10 4 (4.40%) Full-Stack Developer
10 4 (4.40%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (4.40%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (25.27%) Spring
1 23 (25.27%) Spring Boot
2 9 (9.89%) React
3 7 (7.69%) FastAPI
3 7 (7.69%) Next.js
3 7 (7.69%) REST
4 6 (6.59%) Node.js
4 6 (6.59%) React Native
4 6 (6.59%) Ruby on Rails
5 5 (5.49%) AngularJS
6 4 (4.40%) YAML
7 3 (3.30%) AWS CDK
7 3 (3.30%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (3.30%) OpenAPI
7 3 (3.30%) Swagger
8 2 (2.20%) Apache Camel
8 2 (2.20%) gRPC
8 2 (2.20%) Material-UI
8 2 (2.20%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (2.20%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 14 (15.38%) Cloud Native
2 12 (13.19%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (5.49%) Data Centre
3 5 (5.49%) Replication
4 4 (4.40%) Enterprise Cloud
4 4 (4.40%) Public Cloud
4 4 (4.40%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (3.30%) Social Media
5 3 (3.30%) SystemC
6 2 (2.20%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (2.20%) Driving Licence
6 2 (2.20%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.10%) Clustering
7 1 (1.10%) Housing Association
Operating Systems
1 27 (29.67%) Linux
2 11 (12.09%) Windows
3 10 (10.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (8.79%) Windows Server
5 7 (7.69%) CentOS
6 6 (6.59%) Unix
7 3 (3.30%) Solaris
7 3 (3.30%) Ubuntu
8 2 (2.20%) AIX
8 2 (2.20%) Debian
8 2 (2.20%) VMS
9 1 (1.10%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (1.10%) SUSE
9 1 (1.10%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 1 (1.10%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (1.10%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (1.10%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (62.64%) Infrastructure as Code
2 55 (60.44%) DevOps
3 50 (54.95%) CI/CD
4 31 (34.07%) Agile
5 29 (31.87%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 28 (30.77%) Containerisation
7 22 (24.18%) Platform Engineering
8 20 (21.98%) Continuous Improvement
9 16 (17.58%) ITIL
10 14 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
11 13 (14.29%) Collaborative Culture
12 11 (12.09%) Microservices
13 10 (10.99%) Project Delivery
14 9 (9.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 9 (9.89%) Problem-Solving
14 9 (9.89%) Software Engineering
15 7 (7.69%) AI
15 7 (7.69%) Configuration Management
15 7 (7.69%) Mentoring
15 7 (7.69%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 48 (52.75%) Python
2 27 (29.67%) Java
3 18 (19.78%) Bash
4 14 (15.38%) PowerShell
5 7 (7.69%) JavaScript
6 6 (6.59%) Ruby
7 5 (5.49%) Go
7 5 (5.49%) SQL
8 4 (4.40%) Bicep
8 4 (4.40%) Shell Script
9 2 (2.20%) Korn
10 1 (1.10%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 50 (54.95%) Security Cleared
2 35 (38.46%) DV Cleared
3 26 (28.57%) SC Cleared
4 6 (6.59%) AWS Certification
4 6 (6.59%) Azure Certification
5 4 (4.40%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (3.30%) RHCE
6 3 (3.30%) RHCSA
7 2 (2.20%) CCIE
7 2 (2.20%) CCNA
7 2 (2.20%) CCNP
7 2 (2.20%) Degree
7 2 (2.20%) IBM AIX Certification
8 1 (1.10%) HP ASE
8 1 (1.10%) Linux+ Certification
8 1 (1.10%) VCAP
8 1 (1.10%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.20%) SLA
2 1 (1.10%) GDPR
System Software
1 42 (46.15%) Docker
2 11 (12.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (7.69%) Active Directory
4 4 (4.40%) vSphere
5 3 (3.30%) Ceph
5 3 (3.30%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (3.30%) VMware NSX
6 1 (1.10%) EMC RecoverPoint
6 1 (1.10%) Firmware
6 1 (1.10%) Hyper-V
6 1 (1.10%) KVM
6 1 (1.10%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 74 (81.32%) Terraform
2 56 (61.54%) Kubernetes
3 10 (10.99%) Puppet
4 7 (7.69%) Podman
5 5 (5.49%) Progress Chef
5 5 (5.49%) Prometheus
6 3 (3.30%) Argo
6 3 (3.30%) Check_MK
6 3 (3.30%) Istio
7 2 (2.20%) Grafana
7 2 (2.20%) SCCM
7 2 (2.20%) SolarWinds Orion
7 2 (2.20%) WSUS
8 1 (1.10%) vCenter Server
8 1 (1.10%) VxRail
Vendors
1 13 (14.29%) VMware
2 11 (12.09%) Microsoft
3 10 (10.99%) Red Hat
4 8 (8.79%) Splunk
5 5 (5.49%) LogicMonitor
6 4 (4.40%) Dell
6 4 (4.40%) Oracle
7 3 (3.30%) Cisco
7 3 (3.30%) Veeam
8 2 (2.20%) F5
8 2 (2.20%) Google
8 2 (2.20%) IBM
8 2 (2.20%) Mirantis
8 2 (2.20%) Pega
8 2 (2.20%) SaltStack
8 2 (2.20%) ServiceNow
8 2 (2.20%) WSO2
8 2 (2.20%) Zscaler
9 1 (1.10%) Broadcom
9 1 (1.10%) Zerto