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

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 173 20 205
Rank change year-on-year -153 +185 -87
Permanent jobs citing Ansible 73 675 79
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.65% 13.17% 0.79%
As % of the Systems Management category 13.70% 61.14% 11.79%
Number of salaries quoted 52 26 45
10th Percentile £42,875 £50,625 £43,500
25th Percentile £50,650 £55,313 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,250 £62,783
Median % change year-on-year +3.73% -4.03% -10.31%
75th Percentile £78,125 £80,625 £72,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £86,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -3.45%

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 533 1,104 670
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 4.72% 21.53% 6.72%
Number of salaries quoted 434 265 479
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,500 £40,620 £39,720
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +18.18% -12.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £70,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,778 £82,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £66,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -2.26% +6.40% -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

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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 17 July 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 17 July 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 -53 60 £65,000 +8.33% 30
Lancashire -67 9 £48,445 -19.93% 18
Cumbria -23 2 £60,000 -18.64%
Merseyside -39 1 £50,101 - 2
Cheshire -55 1 - - 6
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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 (8.22%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.74%) Apache
2 2 (2.74%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.74%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.37%) OpenEdge
Cloud Services
1 43 (58.90%) AWS
2 28 (38.36%) Azure
3 15 (20.55%) GitHub
4 13 (17.81%) Amazon EKS
5 10 (13.70%) AWS CloudFormation
6 9 (12.33%) Serverless
7 5 (6.85%) GCP
7 5 (6.85%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (6.85%) OpenShift
8 4 (5.48%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (5.48%) Nutanix
9 3 (4.11%) Azure AKS
9 3 (4.11%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (2.74%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (2.74%) Entra ID
10 2 (2.74%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (2.74%) OCI
11 1 (1.37%) Amazon EC2
11 1 (1.37%) Amazon S3
11 1 (1.37%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 8 (10.96%) Firewall
2 7 (9.59%) DNS
2 7 (9.59%) TCP/IP
3 4 (5.48%) BGP
3 4 (5.48%) IPsec
3 4 (5.48%) SD-WAN
3 4 (5.48%) WAN
3 4 (5.48%) Wireshark
4 3 (4.11%) VPN
5 2 (2.74%) AMQP
5 2 (2.74%) DMZ
5 2 (2.74%) HTTP
5 2 (2.74%) LAN
5 2 (2.74%) MPLS
5 2 (2.74%) OSPF
5 2 (2.74%) VRRP
5 2 (2.74%) VXLAN
5 2 (2.74%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (2.74%) Wireless
5 2 (2.74%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (9.59%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (8.22%) Relational Database
3 3 (4.11%) MySQL
3 3 (4.11%) SQL Server
4 2 (2.74%) Big Data
4 2 (2.74%) Cloudera CDH
4 2 (2.74%) Hadoop
4 2 (2.74%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.37%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.37%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 12 (16.44%) Git
2 10 (13.70%) GitLab
2 10 (13.70%) Jenkins
3 3 (4.11%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 3 (4.11%) JIRA
4 1 (1.37%) Bitbucket
General
1 13 (17.81%) Social Skills
2 10 (13.70%) Public Sector
3 5 (6.85%) Finance
4 3 (4.11%) Aerospace
4 3 (4.11%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.74%) Law
5 2 (2.74%) Manufacturing
5 2 (2.74%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.37%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.37%) Front Office
6 1 (1.37%) German Language
6 1 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.37%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.37%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 31 (42.47%) DevOps Engineer
2 21 (28.77%) Cloud Engineer
3 15 (20.55%) Senior
4 8 (10.96%) Software Engineer
5 7 (9.59%) Lead
5 7 (9.59%) Principal DevOps Engineer
5 7 (9.59%) Principal Engineer
6 6 (8.22%) Python Engineer
6 6 (8.22%) Python Software Engineer
6 6 (8.22%) Senior Software Engineer
7 4 (5.48%) DBA
7 4 (5.48%) Developer
7 4 (5.48%) Full-Stack Developer
7 4 (5.48%) Lead DevOps
7 4 (5.48%) Lead DevOps Engineer
7 4 (5.48%) Linux Engineer
7 4 (5.48%) Senior DevOps
7 4 (5.48%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 4 (5.48%) Support Engineer
8 3 (4.11%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (24.66%) Spring
1 18 (24.66%) Spring Boot
2 8 (10.96%) React
3 7 (9.59%) FastAPI
4 6 (8.22%) Next.js
4 6 (8.22%) Node.js
4 6 (8.22%) React Native
4 6 (8.22%) REST
4 6 (8.22%) Ruby on Rails
5 5 (6.85%) AngularJS
5 5 (6.85%) Elastic Stack
6 4 (5.48%) YAML
7 2 (2.74%) Apache Camel
7 2 (2.74%) gRPC
7 2 (2.74%) Material-UI
7 2 (2.74%) OpenAPI
7 2 (2.74%) RabbitMQ
7 2 (2.74%) Swagger
7 2 (2.74%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (12.33%) Hybrid Cloud
2 8 (10.96%) Cloud Native
3 6 (8.22%) Data Centre
3 6 (8.22%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (5.48%) Enterprise Cloud
4 4 (5.48%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.74%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.74%) Driving Licence
5 2 (2.74%) Mobile App
5 2 (2.74%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.74%) PKI
5 2 (2.74%) Replication
6 1 (1.37%) Clustering
6 1 (1.37%) Housing Association
Operating Systems
1 19 (26.03%) Linux
2 8 (10.96%) Windows
3 7 (9.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (8.22%) CentOS
4 6 (8.22%) Windows Server
5 5 (6.85%) Ubuntu
6 4 (5.48%) Debian
7 3 (4.11%) Solaris
7 3 (4.11%) Unix
8 2 (2.74%) Windows Server 2008
8 2 (2.74%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (2.74%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (64.38%) DevOps
2 46 (63.01%) Infrastructure as Code
3 42 (57.53%) CI/CD
4 26 (35.62%) Agile
5 25 (34.25%) Containerisation
6 23 (31.51%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 21 (28.77%) Platform Engineering
8 15 (20.55%) Continuous Improvement
9 12 (16.44%) Collaborative Culture
10 10 (13.70%) Problem-Solving
10 10 (13.70%) Stakeholder Management
11 9 (12.33%) ITIL
11 9 (12.33%) Microservices
11 9 (12.33%) Project Delivery
12 8 (10.96%) Mentoring
12 8 (10.96%) Software Engineering
13 7 (9.59%) High Availability
14 6 (8.22%) Architectural Design
14 6 (8.22%) Coaching
15 5 (6.85%) Collaborative Engineering
Programming Languages
1 40 (54.79%) Python
2 20 (27.40%) Java
3 14 (19.18%) Bash
4 9 (12.33%) PowerShell
5 6 (8.22%) JavaScript
5 6 (8.22%) Ruby
6 5 (6.85%) SQL
7 4 (5.48%) Go
8 2 (2.74%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 36 (49.32%) Security Cleared
2 24 (32.88%) DV Cleared
3 20 (27.40%) SC Cleared
4 4 (5.48%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (4.11%) AWS Certification
5 3 (4.11%) Azure Certification
6 2 (2.74%) CCIE
6 2 (2.74%) CCNA
6 2 (2.74%) CCNP
6 2 (2.74%) Degree
7 1 (1.37%) Linux+ Certification
7 1 (1.37%) LPIC
7 1 (1.37%) RHCE
7 1 (1.37%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.37%) GDPR
System Software
1 30 (41.10%) Docker
2 7 (9.59%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (5.48%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.37%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.37%) KVM
4 1 (1.37%) VMware NSX
4 1 (1.37%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 62 (84.93%) Terraform
2 41 (56.16%) Kubernetes
3 5 (6.85%) Puppet
4 4 (5.48%) Grafana
4 4 (5.48%) Prometheus
5 3 (4.11%) Progress Chef
6 2 (2.74%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (2.74%) Podman
6 2 (2.74%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 9 (12.33%) VMware
2 8 (10.96%) Splunk
3 6 (8.22%) Microsoft
4 5 (6.85%) Red Hat
5 4 (5.48%) Oracle
6 3 (4.11%) LogicMonitor
7 2 (2.74%) Arista
7 2 (2.74%) Aruba
7 2 (2.74%) Cisco
7 2 (2.74%) F5
7 2 (2.74%) Google
7 2 (2.74%) Mirantis
7 2 (2.74%) NetScout
7 2 (2.74%) Pega
7 2 (2.74%) SaltStack
7 2 (2.74%) WSO2
7 2 (2.74%) Zscaler
8 1 (1.37%) Percona