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 29 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 140 153 86
Rank change year-on-year +13 -67 +72
Permanent jobs citing Ansible 38 82 105
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.76% 1.22% 2.80%
As % of the Systems Management category 11.55% 15.21% 17.02%
Number of salaries quoted 26 48 80
10th Percentile £53,750 £42,500 £44,263
25th Percentile £57,500 £51,063 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,750 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -7.69% -3.70%
75th Percentile £82,813 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £83,750 £87,419
England median annual salary £75,000 £74,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +1.35% -1.33% -

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 329 539 617
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 6.62% 8.03% 16.47%
Number of salaries quoted 255 272 510
10th Percentile £29,800 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,750 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -13.93% +2.48%
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,563 £77,500
90th Percentile £83,250 £83,975 £85,000
England median annual salary £61,500 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -8.89% +3.85% -3.70%

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

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Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Ansible in the North West over the 6 months to 29 November 2025.

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 29 November 2025. 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 +19 28 £65,000 +8.33% 8
Cheshire -1 7 £69,500 +39.00% 4
Lancashire +10 1 £60,000 +35.52% 7
Cumbria -1 1 £55,000 -27.87% 2
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 4 (10.53%) OpenStack
2 3 (7.89%) Apache
3 2 (5.26%) Apache Solr
3 2 (5.26%) Apache Spark
4 1 (2.63%) JBoss
4 1 (2.63%) nginx
4 1 (2.63%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 30 (78.95%) AWS
2 17 (44.74%) Azure
3 13 (34.21%) AWS CloudFormation
4 8 (21.05%) Amazon EC2
4 8 (21.05%) GCP
5 7 (18.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 7 (18.42%) Amazon EKS
5 7 (18.42%) AWS CodeBuild
5 7 (18.42%) Serverless
6 6 (15.79%) Route 53
6 6 (15.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 5 (13.16%) GitHub
8 4 (10.53%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (10.53%) OpenShift
9 3 (7.89%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (7.89%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (5.26%) Amazon S3
10 2 (5.26%) AWS CodePipeline
10 2 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (5.26%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 5 (13.16%) DNS
2 3 (7.89%) HTTP
3 2 (5.26%) AMQP
3 2 (5.26%) DHCP
3 2 (5.26%) Firewall
3 2 (5.26%) SD-WAN
3 2 (5.26%) SSL
3 2 (5.26%) WAN
4 1 (2.63%) Internet
4 1 (2.63%) Network Security
4 1 (2.63%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (13.16%) MySQL
1 5 (13.16%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (10.53%) MongoDB
3 3 (7.89%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (7.89%) Relational Database
4 2 (5.26%) Big Data
4 2 (5.26%) Cloudera CDH
4 2 (5.26%) Hadoop
4 2 (5.26%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.63%) DynamoDB
5 1 (2.63%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 14 (36.84%) Jenkins
2 11 (28.95%) Git
3 9 (23.68%) GitLab
4 7 (18.42%) CircleCI
5 3 (7.89%) JIRA
6 1 (2.63%) Ant
6 1 (2.63%) Artifactory
6 1 (2.63%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (2.63%) Bitbucket
6 1 (2.63%) git-flow
6 1 (2.63%) Maven
6 1 (2.63%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (2.63%) TeamCity
General
1 5 (13.16%) Social Skills
2 3 (7.89%) Banking
3 2 (5.26%) Aerospace
3 2 (5.26%) Finance
3 2 (5.26%) Law
4 1 (2.63%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.63%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (23.68%) DevOps Engineer
2 6 (15.79%) Developer
3 4 (10.53%) Full-Stack Developer
3 4 (10.53%) Full-Stack Java Developer
3 4 (10.53%) Java Developer
3 4 (10.53%) Platform Engineer
3 4 (10.53%) Senior
4 3 (7.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (7.89%) Senior DevOps
4 3 (7.89%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 2 (5.26%) Architect
5 2 (5.26%) Backend Developer
5 2 (5.26%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (5.26%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
5 2 (5.26%) Integration Developer
5 2 (5.26%) IT Manager
5 2 (5.26%) Network Engineer
5 2 (5.26%) Site Engineer
5 2 (5.26%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 2 (5.26%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (26.32%) Elastic Stack
2 9 (23.68%) Node.js
3 6 (15.79%) AngularJS
3 6 (15.79%) REST
3 6 (15.79%) Spring
3 6 (15.79%) Spring Boot
4 4 (10.53%) RabbitMQ
5 3 (7.89%) .NET
5 3 (7.89%) DPDK
5 3 (7.89%) eBPF
5 3 (7.89%) React
6 2 (5.26%) ASP.NET Web API
6 2 (5.26%) gRPC
6 2 (5.26%) Material-UI
6 2 (5.26%) OpenAPI
6 2 (5.26%) Swagger
6 2 (5.26%) WCF
7 1 (2.63%) LDAP
7 1 (2.63%) RESTful
7 1 (2.63%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 10 (26.32%) Cloud Native
2 4 (10.53%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (5.26%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (5.26%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.63%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.63%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.63%) NVMe
4 1 (2.63%) Private Cloud
4 1 (2.63%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 19 (50.00%) Linux
2 8 (21.05%) Debian
2 8 (21.05%) Ubuntu
3 6 (15.79%) Windows
4 5 (13.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (7.89%) CentOS
6 2 (5.26%) VMS
6 2 (5.26%) Windows Server
7 1 (2.63%) Solaris
7 1 (2.63%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (73.68%) CI/CD
2 26 (68.42%) DevOps
3 19 (50.00%) Containerisation
3 19 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 13 (34.21%) Configuration Management
4 13 (34.21%) Microservices
5 11 (28.95%) Agile
6 9 (23.68%) Platform Engineering
7 7 (18.42%) Continuous Integration
7 7 (18.42%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (18.42%) Software Engineering
8 6 (15.79%) Auto-Scaling
8 6 (15.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 5 (13.16%) Open Source
9 5 (13.16%) Scrum
9 5 (13.16%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 4 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
10 4 (10.53%) Data Protection
10 4 (10.53%) Kanban
10 4 (10.53%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 23 (60.53%) Python
2 14 (36.84%) Bash
3 8 (21.05%) JavaScript
4 7 (18.42%) Java
5 3 (7.89%) SQL
6 2 (5.26%) Go
6 2 (5.26%) PHP
6 2 (5.26%) PowerShell
7 1 (2.63%) Groovy
7 1 (2.63%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (18.42%) Security Cleared
2 6 (15.79%) SC Cleared
3 3 (7.89%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.63%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.89%) QA
2 2 (5.26%) GDPR
System Software
1 18 (47.37%) Docker
2 3 (7.89%) KVM
2 3 (7.89%) QEMU
3 2 (5.26%) VMware NSX
3 2 (5.26%) vSphere
4 1 (2.63%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 27 (71.05%) Terraform
2 24 (63.16%) Kubernetes
3 12 (31.58%) Grafana
4 11 (28.95%) Prometheus
5 6 (15.79%) Puppet
6 3 (7.89%) Progress Chef
7 2 (5.26%) Argo
7 2 (5.26%) Nagios
7 2 (5.26%) Podman
8 1 (2.63%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 1 (2.63%) Rancher
Vendors
1 6 (15.79%) Splunk
2 5 (13.16%) SaltStack
3 4 (10.53%) Red Hat
3 4 (10.53%) VMware
4 2 (5.26%) Google
4 2 (5.26%) Microsoft
4 2 (5.26%) Zscaler
5 1 (2.63%) Mirantis
5 1 (2.63%) Oracle
5 1 (2.63%) Pega
5 1 (2.63%) TOWER Software
5 1 (2.63%) WSO2