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 6 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 153 131 165
Rank change year-on-year -22 +34 0
Permanent jobs citing Ansible 50 63 87
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.63% 1.50% 1.19%
As % of the Systems Management category 12.17% 15.29% 16.23%
Number of salaries quoted 37 45 60
10th Percentile £46,446 £50,500 £44,087
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +21.74% -11.54%
75th Percentile £85,000 £78,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £86,600 £83,750 £82,500
England median annual salary £74,750 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -0.33% +3.45% -3.33%

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 411 412 536
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 5.18% 9.83% 7.36%
Number of salaries quoted 306 281 481
10th Percentile £28,000 £37,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,500 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -19.20% +8.70% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,500 £93,778 £82,548
England median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -10.71% +12.00% -7.41%

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 6 March 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 6 March 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 -12 27 £66,250 +10.42% 8
Cumbria -9 10 £85,000 +17.24%
Lancashire -5 7 £48,445 -17.54% 5
Cheshire -21 5 £79,000 +6.04% 3
Merseyside - 1 £65,000 -
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 (10.00%) Apache
2 4 (8.00%) Apache Spark
2 4 (8.00%) OpenStack
3 2 (4.00%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (2.00%) Apache Solr
4 1 (2.00%) JBoss
4 1 (2.00%) nginx
4 1 (2.00%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 39 (78.00%) AWS
2 23 (46.00%) Azure
3 13 (26.00%) Amazon EKS
4 12 (24.00%) GCP
5 11 (22.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 10 (20.00%) GitHub
7 9 (18.00%) Serverless
8 8 (16.00%) OpenShift
9 7 (14.00%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (10.00%) Azure AKS
10 5 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (8.00%) Amazon EC2
11 4 (8.00%) Amazon ECS
11 4 (8.00%) Amazon S3
11 4 (8.00%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (8.00%) OCI
12 3 (6.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 2 (4.00%) AWS CodePipeline
13 2 (4.00%) Datadog
13 2 (4.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 11 (22.00%) Firewall
2 7 (14.00%) Internet
3 5 (10.00%) DNS
3 5 (10.00%) HTTP
4 4 (8.00%) AMQP
4 4 (8.00%) NGFW
4 4 (8.00%) VXLAN
4 4 (8.00%) Wi-Fi
4 4 (8.00%) Wireshark
5 3 (6.00%) TCP/IP
6 2 (4.00%) DHCP
6 2 (4.00%) SSL
7 1 (2.00%) Network Security
7 1 (2.00%) SNMP
7 1 (2.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (32.00%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (24.00%) MongoDB
3 8 (16.00%) MySQL
4 4 (8.00%) Big Data
4 4 (8.00%) Cloudera CDH
4 4 (8.00%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (8.00%) Hadoop
5 3 (6.00%) DynamoDB
5 3 (6.00%) NoSQL
5 3 (6.00%) Relational Database
6 2 (4.00%) Oracle Database
6 2 (4.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 18 (36.00%) Git
2 9 (18.00%) Jenkins
3 6 (12.00%) GitLab
4 4 (8.00%) Bitbucket
5 2 (4.00%) JIRA
6 1 (2.00%) Ant
6 1 (2.00%) Artifactory
6 1 (2.00%) CircleCI
6 1 (2.00%) git-flow
6 1 (2.00%) Maven
6 1 (2.00%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (2.00%) TeamCity
General
1 5 (10.00%) Public Sector
1 5 (10.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (8.00%) Aerospace
2 4 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (8.00%) Law
3 3 (6.00%) Banking
3 3 (6.00%) Telecoms
4 1 (2.00%) Finance
4 1 (2.00%) German Language
4 1 (2.00%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (2.00%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 10 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 8 (16.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 6 (12.00%) Senior
4 5 (10.00%) Developer
5 4 (8.00%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
5 4 (8.00%) Full-Stack Developer
5 4 (8.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 4 (8.00%) Java Developer
5 4 (8.00%) Network Manager
5 4 (8.00%) Network Operations Manager
5 4 (8.00%) Operations Manager
5 4 (8.00%) Platform Engineer
5 4 (8.00%) Software Engineer
6 3 (6.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 3 (6.00%) Azure Engineer
6 3 (6.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (6.00%) Senior DevOps
6 3 (6.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 2 (4.00%) Azure Platform Engineer
7 2 (4.00%) DevOps Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (20.00%) Node.js
2 8 (16.00%) AngularJS
2 8 (16.00%) REST
2 8 (16.00%) Spring
2 8 (16.00%) Spring Boot
3 6 (12.00%) Elastic Stack
3 6 (12.00%) RabbitMQ
4 5 (10.00%) React
5 4 (8.00%) gRPC
5 4 (8.00%) Material-UI
5 4 (8.00%) OpenAPI
5 4 (8.00%) Swagger
6 3 (6.00%) .NET
6 3 (6.00%) DPDK
6 3 (6.00%) eBPF
6 3 (6.00%) RESTful
7 2 (4.00%) ASP.NET Web API
7 2 (4.00%) WCF
8 1 (2.00%) ARM Templates
8 1 (2.00%) NETCONF
Miscellaneous
1 11 (22.00%) Cloud Native
2 4 (8.00%) Data Centre
2 4 (8.00%) PKI
3 3 (6.00%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (6.00%) Public Cloud
4 2 (4.00%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (4.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (4.00%) Mobile App
4 2 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.00%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.00%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.00%) NVMe
Operating Systems
1 29 (58.00%) Linux
2 8 (16.00%) Windows
3 7 (14.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (12.00%) Debian
4 6 (12.00%) Ubuntu
5 5 (10.00%) CentOS
6 3 (6.00%) VMS
6 3 (6.00%) Windows Server
7 2 (4.00%) Windows Server 2008
7 2 (4.00%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (4.00%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (2.00%) Solaris
8 1 (2.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (58.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 27 (54.00%) CI/CD
3 23 (46.00%) DevOps
4 19 (38.00%) Containerisation
5 16 (32.00%) Agile
6 14 (28.00%) Microservices
7 10 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 10 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
8 9 (18.00%) Platform Engineering
9 8 (16.00%) Configuration Management
9 8 (16.00%) Mentoring
10 7 (14.00%) Open Source
11 6 (12.00%) High Availability
11 6 (12.00%) Kanban
11 6 (12.00%) Scrum
11 6 (12.00%) Software Engineering
12 5 (10.00%) GitOps
12 5 (10.00%) Load Balancing
12 5 (10.00%) Test Automation
13 4 (8.00%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 29 (58.00%) Python
2 13 (26.00%) Go
3 11 (22.00%) Java
4 9 (18.00%) JavaScript
5 8 (16.00%) Bash
6 7 (14.00%) C
6 7 (14.00%) TypeScript
7 3 (6.00%) SQL
8 2 (4.00%) PowerShell
9 1 (2.00%) Groovy
9 1 (2.00%) PHP
9 1 (2.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 10 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (16.00%) SC Cleared
3 6 (12.00%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.00%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.00%) LPIC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.00%) QA
System Software
1 9 (18.00%) Docker
2 4 (8.00%) VMware NSX
2 4 (8.00%) vSphere
3 3 (6.00%) KVM
3 3 (6.00%) QEMU
4 2 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (2.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 41 (82.00%) Terraform
2 30 (60.00%) Kubernetes
3 7 (14.00%) Grafana
3 7 (14.00%) Puppet
4 6 (12.00%) Prometheus
5 3 (6.00%) Rancher
6 2 (4.00%) Argo
6 2 (4.00%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (4.00%) Nagios
6 2 (4.00%) Podman
6 2 (4.00%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 7 (14.00%) SaltStack
2 6 (12.00%) Red Hat
2 6 (12.00%) VMware
3 4 (8.00%) Arista
3 4 (8.00%) Aruba
3 4 (8.00%) Google
3 4 (8.00%) NetScout
4 3 (6.00%) Microsoft
5 2 (4.00%) Oracle
6 1 (2.00%) Mirantis
6 1 (2.00%) Pega
6 1 (2.00%) WSO2