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 13 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 166 23 153
Rank change year-on-year -143 +130 -73
Permanent jobs citing Ansible 99 569 80
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.77% 11.14% 1.11%
As % of the Systems Management category 18.13% 61.58% 15.69%
Number of salaries quoted 60 21 42
10th Percentile £42,500 £57,375 £42,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £57,500 £48,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,750 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.20% +4.17% -11.11%
75th Percentile £95,000 £80,000 £71,563
90th Percentile £100,125 £87,500 £78,625
England median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £74,000
% change year-on-year - +1.35% +2.07%

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 546 924 510
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 4.25% 18.09% 7.06%
Number of salaries quoted 401 204 238
10th Percentile £33,000 £26,250 £31,600
25th Percentile £42,215 £33,125 £39,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £48,720 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.89% -2.56% -21.88%
75th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £81,250 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% -

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 13 October 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 13 October 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 -54 89 £71,500 +14.40% 32
Merseyside -29 5 £50,101 -22.92% 2
Lancashire -74 3 - - 7
Cumbria -3 1 £65,000 -
Cheshire -56 1 - - 7
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 (4.04%) IIS
2 3 (3.03%) OpenStack
3 2 (2.02%) Apache
3 2 (2.02%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.01%) Confluence
4 1 (1.01%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.01%) nginx
4 1 (1.01%) OpenEdge
Cloud Services
1 45 (45.45%) AWS
2 25 (25.25%) Azure
3 14 (14.14%) OpenShift
4 13 (13.13%) AWS CloudFormation
4 13 (13.13%) GitHub
5 11 (11.11%) Serverless
6 7 (7.07%) PaaS
7 6 (6.06%) Amazon ECS
8 5 (5.05%) Amazon EKS
8 5 (5.05%) GCP
9 4 (4.04%) IaaS
10 3 (3.03%) Azure Monitor
10 3 (3.03%) SaaS
11 2 (2.02%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (2.02%) Azure AKS
11 2 (2.02%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (2.02%) GitHub Actions
12 1 (1.01%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 1 (1.01%) Entra ID
12 1 (1.01%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 10 (10.10%) DNS
2 7 (7.07%) DHCP
3 5 (5.05%) BGP
3 5 (5.05%) SD-WAN
3 5 (5.05%) WAN
4 4 (4.04%) IPsec
5 3 (3.03%) LAN
5 3 (3.03%) OSPF
5 3 (3.03%) Software-Defined Networking
5 3 (3.03%) VPN
5 3 (3.03%) Wireless
5 3 (3.03%) WLAN
6 2 (2.02%) AMQP
6 2 (2.02%) DMZ
6 2 (2.02%) Firewall
6 2 (2.02%) HSRP
6 2 (2.02%) Network Security
6 2 (2.02%) TCP/IP
6 2 (2.02%) VRRP
6 2 (2.02%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.05%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (5.05%) Relational Database
2 3 (3.03%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.02%) Big Data
3 2 (2.02%) Cloudera CDH
3 2 (2.02%) Hadoop
3 2 (2.02%) MySQL
4 1 (1.01%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.01%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.01%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.01%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 17 (17.17%) Git
2 11 (11.11%) GitLab
3 10 (10.10%) Jenkins
4 6 (6.06%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 6 (6.06%) JIRA
5 2 (2.02%) Artifactory
6 1 (1.01%) Claude Code
6 1 (1.01%) Cypress.io
6 1 (1.01%) Mocha
6 1 (1.01%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 22 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 9 (9.09%) Public Sector
3 8 (8.08%) Aerospace
4 6 (6.06%) Finance
5 4 (4.04%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (3.03%) Retail
7 2 (2.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.02%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.01%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.01%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 48 (48.48%) DevOps Engineer
2 20 (20.20%) Cloud Engineer
2 20 (20.20%) Senior
3 14 (14.14%) Principal DevOps Engineer
3 14 (14.14%) Principal Engineer
4 12 (12.12%) Software Engineer
5 10 (10.10%) Lead
6 9 (9.09%) Lead DevOps
7 8 (8.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 8 (8.08%) Lead DevOps Engineer
7 8 (8.08%) Senior DevOps
7 8 (8.08%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 7 (7.07%) Cloud Native Engineer
8 7 (7.07%) Senior Software Engineer
9 6 (6.06%) Python Engineer
9 6 (6.06%) Python Software Engineer
10 4 (4.04%) Administrator
10 4 (4.04%) Developer
11 3 (3.03%) DBA
11 3 (3.03%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (80.81%) Terraform
2 28 (28.28%) Spring
2 28 (28.28%) Spring Boot
3 11 (11.11%) React
4 7 (7.07%) FastAPI
4 7 (7.07%) Next.js
5 6 (6.06%) React Native
5 6 (6.06%) Ruby on Rails
6 5 (5.05%) AngularJS
6 5 (5.05%) REST
7 4 (4.04%) Node.js
8 3 (3.03%) AWS CDK
8 3 (3.03%) OpenAPI
8 3 (3.03%) Swagger
9 2 (2.02%) gRPC
9 2 (2.02%) Material-UI
9 2 (2.02%) RabbitMQ
9 2 (2.02%) Vue
10 1 (1.01%) 802.1X
10 1 (1.01%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 20 (20.20%) Cloud Native
2 6 (6.06%) Data Centre
3 5 (5.05%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (5.05%) Replication
4 3 (3.03%) Social Media
4 3 (3.03%) SystemC
5 2 (2.02%) Driving Licence
5 2 (2.02%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.02%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.02%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.01%) Clustering
6 1 (1.01%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.01%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.01%) Housing Association
6 1 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 36 (36.36%) Linux
2 14 (14.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 11 (11.11%) Windows
4 9 (9.09%) CentOS
5 6 (6.06%) Windows Server
6 4 (4.04%) Ubuntu
6 4 (4.04%) Unix
7 2 (2.02%) AIX
7 2 (2.02%) Debian
7 2 (2.02%) VMS
8 1 (1.01%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (1.01%) Solaris
8 1 (1.01%) SUSE
8 1 (1.01%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
8 1 (1.01%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (1.01%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (1.01%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 65 (65.66%) DevOps
3 58 (58.59%) CI/CD
4 40 (40.40%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 37 (37.37%) Containerisation
6 31 (31.31%) Agile
7 19 (19.19%) Platform Engineering
7 19 (19.19%) Stakeholder Management
8 17 (17.17%) Continuous Improvement
9 14 (14.14%) Technical Leadership
10 12 (12.12%) AI
10 12 (12.12%) Software Engineering
11 11 (11.11%) Collaborative Culture
11 11 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 11 (11.11%) Microservices
12 10 (10.10%) Coaching
12 10 (10.10%) ITIL
13 9 (9.09%) Configuration Management
13 9 (9.09%) Mentoring
14 8 (8.08%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 62 (62.63%) Python
2 38 (38.38%) Java
3 23 (23.23%) Bash
4 12 (12.12%) PowerShell
5 10 (10.10%) Go
6 6 (6.06%) Ruby
7 5 (5.05%) Bicep
7 5 (5.05%) JavaScript
8 4 (4.04%) Shell Script
9 2 (2.02%) Korn
9 2 (2.02%) Rust
9 2 (2.02%) SQL
10 1 (1.01%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 67 (67.68%) Security Cleared
2 53 (53.54%) DV Cleared
3 29 (29.29%) SC Cleared
4 7 (7.07%) Azure Certification
5 6 (6.06%) AWS Certification
6 4 (4.04%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (3.03%) RHCE
7 3 (3.03%) RHCSA
8 2 (2.02%) CCIE
8 2 (2.02%) CCNA
8 2 (2.02%) CCNP
8 2 (2.02%) Degree
8 2 (2.02%) IBM AIX Certification
9 1 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (1.01%) HP ASE
9 1 (1.01%) Linux+ Certification
9 1 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (1.01%) VCAP
9 1 (1.01%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.02%) SLA
2 1 (1.01%) GDPR
System Software
1 55 (55.56%) Docker
2 9 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (5.05%) Active Directory
3 5 (5.05%) VMware NSX
4 4 (4.04%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (4.04%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (3.03%) Ceph
5 3 (3.03%) vSphere
6 1 (1.01%) EMC RecoverPoint
6 1 (1.01%) Firmware
6 1 (1.01%) Hyper-V
6 1 (1.01%) KVM
Systems Management
1 68 (68.69%) Kubernetes
2 13 (13.13%) Puppet
3 8 (8.08%) Podman
4 5 (5.05%) Progress Chef
4 5 (5.05%) Prometheus
5 4 (4.04%) vCenter Server
6 3 (3.03%) Argo
6 3 (3.03%) Check_MK
6 3 (3.03%) Istio
7 2 (2.02%) Grafana
7 2 (2.02%) SCCM
7 2 (2.02%) SolarWinds Orion
7 2 (2.02%) WSUS
8 1 (1.01%) Opsview
8 1 (1.01%) VxRail
Vendors
1 13 (13.13%) Microsoft
2 11 (11.11%) Red Hat
3 10 (10.10%) VMware
4 8 (8.08%) Splunk
5 4 (4.04%) Dell
5 4 (4.04%) Oracle
6 3 (3.03%) Cisco
6 3 (3.03%) F5
6 3 (3.03%) Thales
6 3 (3.03%) Veeam
7 2 (2.02%) Broadcom
7 2 (2.02%) Google
7 2 (2.02%) IBM
7 2 (2.02%) LogicMonitor
7 2 (2.02%) SaltStack
7 2 (2.02%) ServiceNow
7 2 (2.02%) YouTube
7 2 (2.02%) Zscaler
8 1 (1.01%) Aruba
8 1 (1.01%) Zerto