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

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 177 19 211
Rank change year-on-year -158 +192 -61
Permanent jobs citing Ansible 59 676 76
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.56% 14.57% 0.81%
As % of the Systems Management category 12.80% 62.19% 11.50%
Number of salaries quoted 42 32 45
10th Percentile £46,446 £50,375 £47,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,938 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £62,783
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +11.50% -6.99%
75th Percentile £76,563 £79,375 £72,433
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,175 £82,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +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 461 1,087 661
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 4.40% 23.42% 7.01%
Number of salaries quoted 350 271 529
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £29,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £46,740 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +17.39% -3.40%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £87,500 £93,778 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £61,206
% change year-on-year -3.70% +10.28% -9.32%

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 16 May 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 16 May 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 -61 36 £65,000 +8.33% 24
Cumbria -18 11 £85,000 +17.24% 1
Lancashire -68 11 £48,445 -22.80% 9
Cheshire -61 1 £60,000 -19.46% 4
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 6 (10.17%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (5.08%) Apache
2 3 (5.08%) Apache Spark
3 2 (3.39%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 45 (76.27%) AWS
2 31 (52.54%) Azure
3 17 (28.81%) Amazon EKS
4 11 (18.64%) AWS CloudFormation
4 11 (18.64%) GitHub
5 9 (15.25%) GCP
6 7 (11.86%) Serverless
7 6 (10.17%) Azure AKS
7 6 (10.17%) OpenShift
8 4 (6.78%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (6.78%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (6.78%) Nutanix
8 4 (6.78%) OCI
9 3 (5.08%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (5.08%) Amazon S3
9 3 (5.08%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (5.08%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 2 (3.39%) Entra ID
10 2 (3.39%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (3.39%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (16.95%) Firewall
2 7 (11.86%) Internet
3 6 (10.17%) DNS
3 6 (10.17%) TCP/IP
4 4 (6.78%) NGFW
4 4 (6.78%) VXLAN
4 4 (6.78%) Wi-Fi
4 4 (6.78%) Wireshark
5 3 (5.08%) AMQP
6 2 (3.39%) HTTP
7 1 (1.69%) SNMP
7 1 (1.69%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (28.81%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (16.95%) MongoDB
3 6 (10.17%) MySQL
4 3 (5.08%) Big Data
4 3 (5.08%) Cloudera CDH
4 3 (5.08%) DynamoDB
4 3 (5.08%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (5.08%) Hadoop
4 3 (5.08%) NoSQL
4 3 (5.08%) Oracle Database
4 3 (5.08%) Relational Database
4 3 (5.08%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 18 (30.51%) Git
2 10 (16.95%) GitLab
3 6 (10.17%) Jenkins
4 4 (6.78%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.69%) JIRA
5 1 (1.69%) TeamCity
General
1 9 (15.25%) Public Sector
2 8 (13.56%) Social Skills
3 5 (8.47%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (6.78%) Aerospace
5 2 (3.39%) Law
5 2 (3.39%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.69%) German Language
6 1 (1.69%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.69%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 21 (35.59%) Cloud Engineer
2 11 (18.64%) DevOps Engineer
3 7 (11.86%) Senior
4 5 (8.47%) Support Engineer
5 4 (6.78%) Developer
5 4 (6.78%) Full-Stack Developer
5 4 (6.78%) Network Manager
5 4 (6.78%) Network Operations Manager
5 4 (6.78%) Operations Manager
5 4 (6.78%) Platform Engineer
6 3 (5.08%) DBA
6 3 (5.08%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
6 3 (5.08%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 3 (5.08%) Java Developer
6 3 (5.08%) Lead
6 3 (5.08%) Linux Engineer
6 3 (5.08%) Oracle DBA
6 3 (5.08%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 3 (5.08%) Software Engineer
7 2 (3.39%) MySQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (13.56%) Spring
1 8 (13.56%) Spring Boot
2 7 (11.86%) AngularJS
2 7 (11.86%) Node.js
2 7 (11.86%) REST
3 4 (6.78%) Elastic Stack
3 4 (6.78%) YAML
4 3 (5.08%) gRPC
4 3 (5.08%) Material-UI
4 3 (5.08%) OpenAPI
4 3 (5.08%) RabbitMQ
4 3 (5.08%) React
4 3 (5.08%) RESTful
4 3 (5.08%) Swagger
5 2 (3.39%) Apache Camel
5 2 (3.39%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (15.25%) Hybrid Cloud
2 7 (11.86%) Public Cloud
3 6 (10.17%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (6.78%) Data Centre
4 4 (6.78%) Enterprise Cloud
4 4 (6.78%) PKI
5 3 (5.08%) Cloud Native
6 2 (3.39%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (3.39%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 28 (47.46%) Linux
2 10 (16.95%) Windows
3 7 (11.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (11.86%) Windows Server
4 5 (8.47%) Debian
4 5 (8.47%) Ubuntu
5 4 (6.78%) CentOS
6 3 (5.08%) Solaris
6 3 (5.08%) Unix
6 3 (5.08%) Windows Server 2008
6 3 (5.08%) Windows Server 2012
6 3 (5.08%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (1.69%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (66.10%) Infrastructure as Code
2 31 (52.54%) CI/CD
3 30 (50.85%) DevOps
4 26 (44.07%) Agile
5 18 (30.51%) Containerisation
6 17 (28.81%) Platform Engineering
7 13 (22.03%) Collaborative Culture
8 12 (20.34%) Problem-Solving
9 10 (16.95%) Mentoring
9 10 (16.95%) Microservices
10 9 (15.25%) ITIL
11 8 (13.56%) Continuous Improvement
11 8 (13.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 7 (11.86%) Deployment Automation
13 6 (10.17%) Kanban
13 6 (10.17%) Project Delivery
13 6 (10.17%) Scrum
14 5 (8.47%) Coaching
14 5 (8.47%) Customer Service
14 5 (8.47%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 27 (45.76%) Python
2 12 (20.34%) Go
3 11 (18.64%) Java
4 9 (15.25%) Bash
5 7 (11.86%) C
5 7 (11.86%) JavaScript
5 7 (11.86%) PowerShell
5 7 (11.86%) SQL
5 7 (11.86%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.69%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 20 (33.90%) Security Cleared
2 16 (27.12%) SC Cleared
3 7 (11.86%) DV Cleared
4 3 (5.08%) AWS Certification
4 3 (5.08%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.69%) LPIC
System Software
1 11 (18.64%) Docker
2 8 (13.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (6.78%) Active Directory
4 3 (5.08%) VMware NSX
4 3 (5.08%) vSphere
5 1 (1.69%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 50 (84.75%) Terraform
2 35 (59.32%) Kubernetes
3 6 (10.17%) Puppet
4 3 (5.08%) Grafana
4 3 (5.08%) Podman
4 3 (5.08%) Progress Chef
4 3 (5.08%) Prometheus
4 3 (5.08%) Rancher
5 2 (3.39%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (3.39%) Nagios
6 1 (1.69%) Argo
Vendors
1 11 (18.64%) VMware
2 7 (11.86%) Red Hat
3 5 (8.47%) Microsoft
4 4 (6.78%) Arista
4 4 (6.78%) Aruba
4 4 (6.78%) NetScout
5 3 (5.08%) Google
5 3 (5.08%) LogicMonitor
5 3 (5.08%) Mirantis
5 3 (5.08%) Oracle
5 3 (5.08%) SaltStack
6 2 (3.39%) Pega
6 2 (3.39%) WSO2