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

6 months to
9 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 139 137 160
Rank change year-on-year -2 +23 +8
Permanent jobs citing Ansible 52 75 85
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.73% 1.59% 1.28%
As % of the Systems Management category 14.09% 16.52% 15.37%
Number of salaries quoted 39 49 63
10th Percentile £46,446 £50,000 £42,853
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +25.00% -6.67%
75th Percentile £85,000 £78,750 £68,984
90th Percentile £86,300 £83,750 £77,172
England median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year - +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 369 454 553
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 5.18% 9.61% 8.36%
Number of salaries quoted 276 273 500
10th Percentile £28,750 £36,250 £30,450
25th Percentile £38,604 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,250 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.58% +4.35% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £90,750 £84,056
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

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 9 February 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 9 February 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 -8 30 £67,500 +12.50% 14
Cumbria -2 10 £85,000 +17.24% 2
Lancashire 0 6 £48,445 -17.54% 7
Cheshire -21 5 £79,000 +6.04% 3
Merseyside - 1 £65,000 - 1
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 (9.62%) Apache
2 4 (7.69%) Apache Spark
2 4 (7.69%) OpenStack
3 2 (3.85%) Apache Solr
4 1 (1.92%) JBoss
4 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.92%) nginx
4 1 (1.92%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 42 (80.77%) AWS
2 24 (46.15%) Azure
3 13 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 13 (25.00%) GCP
4 12 (23.08%) Amazon EKS
5 9 (17.31%) Serverless
6 8 (15.38%) OpenShift
7 7 (13.46%) GitHub
8 6 (11.54%) Amazon EC2
9 5 (9.62%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (7.69%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (7.69%) Amazon S3
10 4 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (7.69%) Azure AKS
10 4 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (7.69%) OCI
11 3 (5.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 3 (5.77%) AWS CodeBuild
11 3 (5.77%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 3 (5.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 8 (15.38%) Firewall
2 7 (13.46%) Internet
3 4 (7.69%) AMQP
3 4 (7.69%) DNS
3 4 (7.69%) HTTP
3 4 (7.69%) NGFW
3 4 (7.69%) VXLAN
3 4 (7.69%) Wi-Fi
3 4 (7.69%) Wireshark
4 2 (3.85%) DHCP
4 2 (3.85%) SSL
4 2 (3.85%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.92%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (30.77%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (23.08%) MongoDB
3 9 (17.31%) MySQL
4 5 (9.62%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (7.69%) Big Data
5 4 (7.69%) Cloudera CDH
5 4 (7.69%) Hadoop
6 3 (5.77%) DynamoDB
6 3 (5.77%) NoSQL
6 3 (5.77%) Relational Database
7 2 (3.85%) Oracle Database
7 2 (3.85%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 19 (36.54%) Git
2 10 (19.23%) Jenkins
3 7 (13.46%) GitLab
4 3 (5.77%) Bitbucket
4 3 (5.77%) CircleCI
5 2 (3.85%) JIRA
6 1 (1.92%) Ant
6 1 (1.92%) Artifactory
6 1 (1.92%) git-flow
6 1 (1.92%) Maven
6 1 (1.92%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (1.92%) TeamCity
General
1 5 (9.62%) Public Sector
2 4 (7.69%) Aerospace
2 4 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (7.69%) Social Skills
3 3 (5.77%) Banking
3 3 (5.77%) Law
4 2 (3.85%) Telecoms
5 1 (1.92%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (15.38%) DevOps Engineer
2 7 (13.46%) Cloud Engineer
3 6 (11.54%) Developer
3 6 (11.54%) Senior
4 5 (9.62%) Platform Engineer
5 4 (7.69%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
5 4 (7.69%) Full-Stack Developer
5 4 (7.69%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 4 (7.69%) Java Developer
5 4 (7.69%) Network Manager
5 4 (7.69%) Network Operations Manager
5 4 (7.69%) Operations Manager
5 4 (7.69%) Software Engineer
6 3 (5.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (5.77%) Senior DevOps
6 3 (5.77%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 2 (3.85%) AWS Architect
7 2 (3.85%) Azure Engineer
7 2 (3.85%) Integration Developer
7 2 (3.85%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (21.15%) Node.js
2 8 (15.38%) AngularJS
2 8 (15.38%) REST
2 8 (15.38%) Spring
2 8 (15.38%) Spring Boot
3 7 (13.46%) Elastic Stack
4 6 (11.54%) RabbitMQ
5 5 (9.62%) React
6 4 (7.69%) gRPC
6 4 (7.69%) Material-UI
6 4 (7.69%) OpenAPI
6 4 (7.69%) Swagger
7 3 (5.77%) .NET
7 3 (5.77%) DPDK
7 3 (5.77%) eBPF
7 3 (5.77%) RESTful
8 2 (3.85%) ASP.NET Web API
8 2 (3.85%) WCF
9 1 (1.92%) Apache Camel
9 1 (1.92%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 11 (21.15%) Cloud Native
2 4 (7.69%) Data Centre
2 4 (7.69%) PKI
3 3 (5.77%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (5.77%) Public Cloud
4 2 (3.85%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (3.85%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.92%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.92%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.92%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.92%) NVMe
5 1 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 30 (57.69%) Linux
2 9 (17.31%) Windows
3 7 (13.46%) Debian
3 7 (13.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (13.46%) Ubuntu
4 5 (9.62%) CentOS
5 4 (7.69%) Windows Server
6 3 (5.77%) VMS
7 2 (3.85%) Windows Server 2008
7 2 (3.85%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (3.85%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (1.92%) Solaris
8 1 (1.92%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (57.69%) CI/CD
2 29 (55.77%) Infrastructure as Code
3 25 (48.08%) DevOps
4 22 (42.31%) Containerisation
5 16 (30.77%) Agile
5 16 (30.77%) Microservices
6 11 (21.15%) Problem-Solving
7 10 (19.23%) Configuration Management
7 10 (19.23%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 10 (19.23%) Platform Engineering
8 7 (13.46%) Mentoring
8 7 (13.46%) Open Source
8 7 (13.46%) Software Engineering
9 6 (11.54%) Kanban
9 6 (11.54%) Scrum
9 6 (11.54%) Test Automation
10 5 (9.62%) GitOps
10 5 (9.62%) High Availability
10 5 (9.62%) Infrastructure Automation
10 5 (9.62%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 30 (57.69%) Python
2 12 (23.08%) Go
3 11 (21.15%) Java
4 10 (19.23%) JavaScript
5 8 (15.38%) Bash
6 7 (13.46%) C
6 7 (13.46%) TypeScript
7 3 (5.77%) SQL
8 2 (3.85%) PHP
8 2 (3.85%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.92%) Groovy
9 1 (1.92%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 10 (19.23%) Security Cleared
2 8 (15.38%) SC Cleared
3 6 (11.54%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.92%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.77%) QA
2 2 (3.85%) GDPR
System Software
1 14 (26.92%) Docker
2 4 (7.69%) VMware NSX
2 4 (7.69%) vSphere
3 3 (5.77%) KVM
3 3 (5.77%) QEMU
4 2 (3.85%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (1.92%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 43 (82.69%) Terraform
2 33 (63.46%) Kubernetes
3 9 (17.31%) Puppet
4 8 (15.38%) Grafana
5 7 (13.46%) Prometheus
6 4 (7.69%) Progress Chef
7 3 (5.77%) Rancher
8 2 (3.85%) Argo
8 2 (3.85%) Nagios
8 2 (3.85%) Podman
9 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 7 (13.46%) SaltStack
2 6 (11.54%) Red Hat
2 6 (11.54%) VMware
3 4 (7.69%) Arista
3 4 (7.69%) Aruba
3 4 (7.69%) Google
3 4 (7.69%) NetScout
4 3 (5.77%) Microsoft
5 2 (3.85%) Oracle
5 2 (3.85%) Splunk
6 1 (1.92%) Mirantis
6 1 (1.92%) Pega
6 1 (1.92%) WSO2