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 12 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 158 19 172
Rank change year-on-year -139 +153 -75
Permanent jobs citing Ansible 94 671 69
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.75% 13.02% 0.88%
As % of the Systems Management category 19.79% 65.85% 13.77%
Number of salaries quoted 56 24 29
10th Percentile £42,500 £54,125 £42,448
25th Percentile £53,250 £57,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £61,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.76% +17.14% -24.70%
75th Percentile £81,250 £81,063 £68,750
90th Percentile £96,250 £88,750 £75,500
England median annual salary £74,500 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -0.67% +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 475 1,019 501
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 3.79% 19.77% 6.41%
Number of salaries quoted 356 203 241
10th Percentile £31,875 £26,050 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,750 £33,125 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,808 £53,750 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.55% +7.50% -23.49%
75th Percentile £77,500 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £76,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% -3.85% -

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

Ansible
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Ansible in the North West over the 6 months to 12 September 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 12 September 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 -50 80 £67,500 +12.50% 35
Lancashire -68 7 £65,576 +8.39% 9
Merseyside -34 5 £50,101 -22.92% 1
Cumbria -11 1 £65,000 -
Cheshire -58 1 - - 5
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 (4.26%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (4.26%) OpenStack
2 3 (3.19%) Apache
2 3 (3.19%) Apache Spark
2 3 (3.19%) IIS
3 1 (1.06%) OpenEdge
Cloud Services
1 47 (50.00%) AWS
2 31 (32.98%) Azure
3 14 (14.89%) AWS CloudFormation
3 14 (14.89%) OpenShift
4 11 (11.70%) GitHub
4 11 (11.70%) Serverless
5 9 (9.57%) Amazon EKS
6 6 (6.38%) Amazon ECS
6 6 (6.38%) PaaS
7 5 (5.32%) GCP
8 4 (4.26%) Nutanix
9 3 (3.19%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (3.19%) IaaS
9 3 (3.19%) SaaS
10 2 (2.13%) Azure Monitor
11 1 (1.06%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 1 (1.06%) Azure AKS
11 1 (1.06%) Azure DevOps
11 1 (1.06%) Azure Sentinel
11 1 (1.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (10.64%) DNS
2 6 (6.38%) DHCP
3 5 (5.32%) BGP
3 5 (5.32%) SD-WAN
3 5 (5.32%) TCP/IP
3 5 (5.32%) WAN
4 4 (4.26%) IPsec
5 3 (3.19%) AMQP
5 3 (3.19%) LAN
5 3 (3.19%) OSPF
5 3 (3.19%) Software-Defined Networking
5 3 (3.19%) VPN
5 3 (3.19%) Wireless
5 3 (3.19%) WLAN
6 2 (2.13%) DMZ
6 2 (2.13%) Firewall
6 2 (2.13%) HSRP
6 2 (2.13%) MPLS
6 2 (2.13%) VRRP
6 2 (2.13%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.38%) PostgreSQL
1 6 (6.38%) Relational Database
2 3 (3.19%) Big Data
2 3 (3.19%) Cloudera CDH
2 3 (3.19%) Hadoop
2 3 (3.19%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.13%) MySQL
4 1 (1.06%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.06%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.06%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.06%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 15 (15.96%) Git
2 9 (9.57%) GitLab
3 8 (8.51%) Jenkins
4 4 (4.26%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 4 (4.26%) JIRA
5 1 (1.06%) Cypress.io
5 1 (1.06%) Mocha
5 1 (1.06%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 19 (20.21%) Social Skills
2 9 (9.57%) Public Sector
3 8 (8.51%) Aerospace
4 5 (5.32%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (5.32%) Finance
5 2 (2.13%) Manufacturing
5 2 (2.13%) Retail
6 1 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.06%) Front Office
6 1 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 37 (39.36%) DevOps Engineer
2 25 (26.60%) Cloud Engineer
3 18 (19.15%) Senior
4 12 (12.77%) Software Engineer
5 11 (11.70%) Lead
6 10 (10.64%) Principal DevOps Engineer
6 10 (10.64%) Principal Engineer
7 7 (7.45%) Lead DevOps
7 7 (7.45%) Senior Software Engineer
8 6 (6.38%) Lead DevOps Engineer
8 6 (6.38%) Python Engineer
8 6 (6.38%) Python Software Engineer
8 6 (6.38%) Senior DevOps
8 6 (6.38%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 5 (5.32%) Cloud Native Engineer
9 5 (5.32%) Linux Engineer
10 4 (4.26%) Administrator
10 4 (4.26%) Developer
10 4 (4.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (4.26%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (79.79%) Terraform
2 24 (25.53%) Spring
2 24 (25.53%) Spring Boot
3 11 (11.70%) React
4 7 (7.45%) FastAPI
4 7 (7.45%) Next.js
4 7 (7.45%) REST
5 6 (6.38%) AngularJS
5 6 (6.38%) Node.js
5 6 (6.38%) React Native
5 6 (6.38%) Ruby on Rails
6 4 (4.26%) OpenAPI
6 4 (4.26%) Swagger
7 3 (3.19%) AWS CDK
7 3 (3.19%) gRPC
7 3 (3.19%) Material-UI
7 3 (3.19%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (2.13%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (2.13%) YAML
9 1 (1.06%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 16 (17.02%) Cloud Native
2 10 (10.64%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (5.32%) Data Centre
3 5 (5.32%) Replication
4 4 (4.26%) Public Cloud
4 4 (4.26%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (3.19%) Social Media
5 3 (3.19%) SystemC
6 2 (2.13%) Driving Licence
6 2 (2.13%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (2.13%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.06%) Clustering
7 1 (1.06%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.06%) Housing Association
Operating Systems
1 31 (32.98%) Linux
2 13 (13.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 11 (11.70%) Windows
4 8 (8.51%) CentOS
4 8 (8.51%) Windows Server
5 6 (6.38%) Unix
6 4 (4.26%) Ubuntu
7 3 (3.19%) Debian
7 3 (3.19%) Solaris
8 2 (2.13%) AIX
8 2 (2.13%) VMS
9 1 (1.06%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (1.06%) SUSE
9 1 (1.06%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 1 (1.06%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (1.06%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (1.06%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (63.83%) Infrastructure as Code
2 57 (60.64%) DevOps
3 53 (56.38%) CI/CD
4 33 (35.11%) Agile
5 31 (32.98%) Containerisation
6 30 (31.91%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 20 (21.28%) Platform Engineering
8 19 (20.21%) Continuous Improvement
9 15 (15.96%) Stakeholder Management
10 14 (14.89%) ITIL
11 12 (12.77%) Collaborative Culture
11 12 (12.77%) Software Engineering
12 11 (11.70%) Microservices
13 10 (10.64%) Project Delivery
14 9 (9.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 9 (9.57%) Problem-Solving
15 8 (8.51%) AI
15 8 (8.51%) Configuration Management
16 7 (7.45%) Kanban
16 7 (7.45%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 53 (56.38%) Python
2 29 (30.85%) Java
3 20 (21.28%) Bash
4 14 (14.89%) PowerShell
5 7 (7.45%) Go
5 7 (7.45%) JavaScript
6 6 (6.38%) Ruby
7 5 (5.32%) SQL
8 4 (4.26%) Bicep
8 4 (4.26%) Shell Script
9 2 (2.13%) Korn
10 1 (1.06%) Rust
10 1 (1.06%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 54 (57.45%) Security Cleared
2 39 (41.49%) DV Cleared
3 27 (28.72%) SC Cleared
4 6 (6.38%) AWS Certification
4 6 (6.38%) Azure Certification
5 4 (4.26%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (3.19%) RHCE
6 3 (3.19%) RHCSA
7 2 (2.13%) CCIE
7 2 (2.13%) CCNA
7 2 (2.13%) CCNP
7 2 (2.13%) Degree
7 2 (2.13%) IBM AIX Certification
8 1 (1.06%) HP ASE
8 1 (1.06%) Linux+ Certification
8 1 (1.06%) VCAP
8 1 (1.06%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.13%) SLA
2 1 (1.06%) GDPR
System Software
1 46 (48.94%) Docker
2 11 (11.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (7.45%) Active Directory
4 4 (4.26%) vSphere
5 3 (3.19%) Ceph
5 3 (3.19%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (3.19%) VMware NSX
6 1 (1.06%) EMC RecoverPoint
6 1 (1.06%) Firmware
6 1 (1.06%) Hyper-V
6 1 (1.06%) KVM
6 1 (1.06%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 57 (60.64%) Kubernetes
2 11 (11.70%) Puppet
3 9 (9.57%) Podman
4 5 (5.32%) Progress Chef
4 5 (5.32%) Prometheus
5 3 (3.19%) Argo
5 3 (3.19%) Check_MK
5 3 (3.19%) Istio
6 2 (2.13%) Grafana
6 2 (2.13%) SCCM
6 2 (2.13%) SolarWinds Orion
6 2 (2.13%) WSUS
7 1 (1.06%) vCenter Server
7 1 (1.06%) VxRail
Vendors
1 13 (13.83%) Red Hat
1 13 (13.83%) VMware
2 11 (11.70%) Microsoft
3 8 (8.51%) Splunk
4 5 (5.32%) LogicMonitor
5 4 (4.26%) Dell
5 4 (4.26%) Oracle
6 3 (3.19%) Cisco
6 3 (3.19%) Google
6 3 (3.19%) SaltStack
6 3 (3.19%) Veeam
7 2 (2.13%) F5
7 2 (2.13%) IBM
7 2 (2.13%) Mirantis
7 2 (2.13%) ServiceNow
7 2 (2.13%) Thales
7 2 (2.13%) Zscaler
8 1 (1.06%) Aruba
8 1 (1.06%) Pega
8 1 (1.06%) Percona