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

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 163 19 161
Rank change year-on-year -144 +142 -86
Permanent jobs citing Ansible 94 665 81
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.73% 12.67% 1.08%
As % of the Systems Management category 18.22% 64.88% 15.79%
Number of salaries quoted 54 20 40
10th Percentile £42,500 £56,888 £42,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £57,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £62,500 £59,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% +5.04% -11.85%
75th Percentile £92,500 £80,938 £69,688
90th Percentile £98,875 £87,650 £77,625
England median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year - +3.45% +0.69%

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 516 1,025 513
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 3.98% 19.52% 6.84%
Number of salaries quoted 374 203 242
10th Percentile £32,825 £26,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,215 £33,125 £38,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £48,720 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.02% -2.56% -23.08%
75th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £81,000 £76,225
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

Ansible
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 4 October 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 4 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 -52 83 £68,750 +10.00% 62
Merseyside -37 5 £50,101 -22.92% 5
Lancashire -64 4 - - 16
Cumbria -5 1 £65,000 - 1
Cheshire -56 1 - - 12
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%) IIS
2 3 (3.19%) Apache
2 3 (3.19%) Apache Spark
2 3 (3.19%) OpenStack
3 2 (2.13%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.06%) Confluence
4 1 (1.06%) OpenEdge
Cloud Services
1 44 (46.81%) AWS
2 29 (30.85%) Azure
3 14 (14.89%) OpenShift
4 12 (12.77%) AWS CloudFormation
5 11 (11.70%) GitHub
5 11 (11.70%) Serverless
6 7 (7.45%) PaaS
7 6 (6.38%) Amazon ECS
7 6 (6.38%) Amazon EKS
8 5 (5.32%) GCP
9 4 (4.26%) IaaS
10 3 (3.19%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (3.19%) Azure Monitor
10 3 (3.19%) SaaS
11 2 (2.13%) Azure AKS
11 2 (2.13%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (2.13%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (2.13%) Nutanix
12 1 (1.06%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 1 (1.06%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 10 (10.64%) DNS
2 7 (7.45%) DHCP
3 5 (5.32%) BGP
3 5 (5.32%) SD-WAN
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%) TCP/IP
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 5 (5.32%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (5.32%) 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 6 (6.38%) JIRA
5 5 (5.32%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (2.13%) Artifactory
7 1 (1.06%) Cypress.io
7 1 (1.06%) Mocha
7 1 (1.06%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 19 (20.21%) Social Skills
2 9 (9.57%) Aerospace
3 8 (8.51%) Public Sector
4 5 (5.32%) Finance
5 4 (4.26%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (3.19%) Retail
7 2 (2.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.13%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.06%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 41 (43.62%) DevOps Engineer
2 20 (21.28%) Cloud Engineer
3 19 (20.21%) Senior
4 13 (13.83%) Software Engineer
5 12 (12.77%) Lead
5 12 (12.77%) Principal DevOps Engineer
5 12 (12.77%) Principal Engineer
6 8 (8.51%) Lead DevOps
7 7 (7.45%) Lead DevOps Engineer
7 7 (7.45%) Senior DevOps
7 7 (7.45%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 7 (7.45%) Senior Software Engineer
8 6 (6.38%) Cloud Native Engineer
8 6 (6.38%) Python Engineer
8 6 (6.38%) Python Software Engineer
9 5 (5.32%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (4.26%) Administrator
10 4 (4.26%) Developer
11 3 (3.19%) DBA
11 3 (3.19%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (80.85%) Terraform
2 26 (27.66%) Spring
2 26 (27.66%) Spring Boot
3 12 (12.77%) React
4 7 (7.45%) FastAPI
4 7 (7.45%) Next.js
5 6 (6.38%) AngularJS
5 6 (6.38%) React Native
5 6 (6.38%) REST
5 6 (6.38%) Ruby on Rails
6 5 (5.32%) Node.js
7 4 (4.26%) OpenAPI
7 4 (4.26%) Swagger
8 3 (3.19%) AWS CDK
8 3 (3.19%) gRPC
8 3 (3.19%) Material-UI
8 3 (3.19%) RabbitMQ
9 2 (2.13%) Vue
10 1 (1.06%) 802.1X
10 1 (1.06%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 19 (20.21%) Cloud Native
2 6 (6.38%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (5.32%) Data Centre
3 5 (5.32%) Replication
4 3 (3.19%) Social Media
4 3 (3.19%) SystemC
5 2 (2.13%) Driving Licence
5 2 (2.13%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.13%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.06%) Clustering
6 1 (1.06%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.06%) Housing Association
6 1 (1.06%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 33 (35.11%) Linux
2 14 (14.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 10 (10.64%) Windows
4 9 (9.57%) CentOS
5 7 (7.45%) Windows Server
6 5 (5.32%) Ubuntu
7 4 (4.26%) Unix
8 3 (3.19%) Debian
9 2 (2.13%) AIX
9 2 (2.13%) VMS
10 1 (1.06%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (1.06%) Solaris
10 1 (1.06%) SUSE
10 1 (1.06%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 1 (1.06%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (1.06%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (1.06%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (65.96%) Infrastructure as Code
2 61 (64.89%) DevOps
3 54 (57.45%) CI/CD
4 35 (37.23%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 33 (35.11%) Containerisation
6 32 (34.04%) Agile
7 17 (18.09%) Stakeholder Management
8 16 (17.02%) Continuous Improvement
8 16 (17.02%) Platform Engineering
9 13 (13.83%) Software Engineering
10 11 (11.70%) AI
10 11 (11.70%) ITIL
10 11 (11.70%) Microservices
10 11 (11.70%) Technical Leadership
11 10 (10.64%) Collaborative Culture
12 9 (9.57%) Configuration Management
13 8 (8.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 8 (8.51%) Kanban
13 8 (8.51%) Mentoring
13 8 (8.51%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 59 (62.77%) Python
2 33 (35.11%) Java
3 22 (23.40%) Bash
4 14 (14.89%) PowerShell
5 9 (9.57%) Go
6 6 (6.38%) JavaScript
6 6 (6.38%) Ruby
7 5 (5.32%) Bicep
8 4 (4.26%) Shell Script
9 3 (3.19%) SQL
10 2 (2.13%) Korn
10 2 (2.13%) Rust
11 1 (1.06%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 59 (62.77%) Security Cleared
2 46 (48.94%) DV Cleared
3 27 (28.72%) SC Cleared
4 6 (6.38%) Azure Certification
5 5 (5.32%) AWS Certification
6 4 (4.26%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (3.19%) RHCE
7 3 (3.19%) RHCSA
8 2 (2.13%) CCIE
8 2 (2.13%) CCNA
8 2 (2.13%) CCNP
8 2 (2.13%) Degree
8 2 (2.13%) IBM AIX Certification
9 1 (1.06%) HP ASE
9 1 (1.06%) Linux+ Certification
9 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (1.06%) VCAP
9 1 (1.06%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.13%) SLA
2 1 (1.06%) GDPR
System Software
1 49 (52.13%) Docker
2 8 (8.51%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (6.38%) Active Directory
4 4 (4.26%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (3.19%) Ceph
5 3 (3.19%) VMware NSX
5 3 (3.19%) vSphere
6 2 (2.13%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (1.06%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 1 (1.06%) Firmware
7 1 (1.06%) Hyper-V
7 1 (1.06%) KVM
Systems Management
1 60 (63.83%) Kubernetes
2 12 (12.77%) Puppet
3 8 (8.51%) 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%) vCenter Server
6 2 (2.13%) WSUS
7 1 (1.06%) Opsview
7 1 (1.06%) VxRail
Vendors
1 14 (14.89%) Microsoft
2 12 (12.77%) Red Hat
3 9 (9.57%) VMware
4 8 (8.51%) Splunk
5 5 (5.32%) LogicMonitor
6 4 (4.26%) Dell
6 4 (4.26%) Oracle
7 3 (3.19%) Cisco
7 3 (3.19%) Google
7 3 (3.19%) SaltStack
7 3 (3.19%) Thales
7 3 (3.19%) Veeam
8 2 (2.13%) F5
8 2 (2.13%) IBM
8 2 (2.13%) ServiceNow
8 2 (2.13%) YouTube
8 2 (2.13%) Zscaler
9 1 (1.06%) Aruba
9 1 (1.06%) Broadcom
9 1 (1.06%) Percona