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

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 169 21 199
Rank change year-on-year -148 +178 -84
Permanent jobs citing Ansible 79 674 72
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.69% 13.12% 0.80%
As % of the Systems Management category 14.42% 61.38% 11.16%
Number of salaries quoted 54 25 42
10th Percentile £42,500 £50,000 £42,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - -14.29%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £71,563
90th Percentile £96,250 £86,950 £82,500
England median annual salary £71,500 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -4.67% +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 548 1,098 645
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 4.80% 21.37% 7.17%
Number of salaries quoted 438 262 444
10th Percentile £32,675 £28,200 £29,650
25th Percentile £40,500 £40,155 £40,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £63,750 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +15.91% -15.38%
75th Percentile £78,967 £77,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,775 £82,938
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £62,783
% change year-on-year - +3.53% -6.99%

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 26 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 26 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 -48 68 £65,000 +8.33% 39
Lancashire -67 7 £47,500 -21.49% 15
Merseyside -41 2 £50,101 -
Cumbria -18 1 £65,000 -13.33%
Cheshire -50 1 - - 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 (7.59%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (5.06%) OpenStack
3 2 (2.53%) Apache
3 2 (2.53%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.27%) IIS
4 1 (1.27%) OpenEdge
Cloud Services
1 42 (53.16%) AWS
2 28 (35.44%) Azure
3 15 (18.99%) GitHub
4 13 (16.46%) Amazon EKS
5 12 (15.19%) AWS CloudFormation
6 10 (12.66%) Serverless
7 8 (10.13%) OpenShift
8 5 (6.33%) Amazon ECS
8 5 (6.33%) GCP
8 5 (6.33%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (5.06%) Nutanix
10 3 (3.80%) Azure AKS
10 3 (3.80%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (3.80%) PaaS
11 2 (2.53%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (2.53%) Entra ID
11 2 (2.53%) Microsoft 365
12 1 (1.27%) IaaS
12 1 (1.27%) SaaS
12 1 (1.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (11.39%) DNS
2 7 (8.86%) TCP/IP
3 6 (7.59%) Firewall
4 4 (5.06%) BGP
4 4 (5.06%) IPsec
4 4 (5.06%) SD-WAN
4 4 (5.06%) WAN
5 3 (3.80%) DHCP
5 3 (3.80%) VPN
6 2 (2.53%) AMQP
6 2 (2.53%) DMZ
6 2 (2.53%) HSRP
6 2 (2.53%) HTTP
6 2 (2.53%) LAN
6 2 (2.53%) MPLS
6 2 (2.53%) OSPF
6 2 (2.53%) VRRP
6 2 (2.53%) Wireless
6 2 (2.53%) Wireshark
6 2 (2.53%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (7.59%) PostgreSQL
1 6 (7.59%) Relational Database
2 2 (2.53%) Big Data
2 2 (2.53%) Cloudera CDH
2 2 (2.53%) Hadoop
2 2 (2.53%) MySQL
2 2 (2.53%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.27%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.27%) Oracle Database
3 1 (1.27%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 14 (17.72%) Git
2 10 (12.66%) GitLab
2 10 (12.66%) Jenkins
3 3 (3.80%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 3 (3.80%) JIRA
4 1 (1.27%) Bitbucket
General
1 16 (20.25%) Social Skills
2 8 (10.13%) Public Sector
3 5 (6.33%) Finance
4 4 (5.06%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (3.80%) Aerospace
6 2 (2.53%) Law
6 2 (2.53%) Manufacturing
6 2 (2.53%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.27%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.27%) Front Office
7 1 (1.27%) German Language
7 1 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.27%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.27%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 35 (44.30%) DevOps Engineer
2 23 (29.11%) Cloud Engineer
3 16 (20.25%) Senior
4 9 (11.39%) Lead
5 8 (10.13%) Principal DevOps Engineer
5 8 (10.13%) Principal Engineer
5 8 (10.13%) Software Engineer
6 6 (7.59%) Lead DevOps
6 6 (7.59%) Python Engineer
6 6 (7.59%) Python Software Engineer
6 6 (7.59%) Senior Software Engineer
7 5 (6.33%) Lead DevOps Engineer
7 5 (6.33%) Senior DevOps
7 5 (6.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 4 (5.06%) Cloud Native Engineer
8 4 (5.06%) Developer
8 4 (5.06%) Full-Stack Developer
8 4 (5.06%) Linux Engineer
8 4 (5.06%) Support Engineer
9 3 (3.80%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (26.58%) Spring
1 21 (26.58%) Spring Boot
2 8 (10.13%) React
3 7 (8.86%) FastAPI
4 6 (7.59%) Next.js
4 6 (7.59%) Node.js
4 6 (7.59%) React Native
4 6 (7.59%) REST
4 6 (7.59%) Ruby on Rails
5 5 (6.33%) AngularJS
5 5 (6.33%) Elastic Stack
6 4 (5.06%) YAML
7 2 (2.53%) Apache Camel
7 2 (2.53%) gRPC
7 2 (2.53%) Material-UI
7 2 (2.53%) OpenAPI
7 2 (2.53%) RabbitMQ
7 2 (2.53%) Swagger
7 2 (2.53%) Web Services
8 1 (1.27%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 10 (12.66%) Cloud Native
2 9 (11.39%) Hybrid Cloud
3 6 (7.59%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (5.06%) Data Centre
4 4 (5.06%) Enterprise Cloud
4 4 (5.06%) Public Cloud
5 3 (3.80%) Replication
6 2 (2.53%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (2.53%) Driving Licence
6 2 (2.53%) Mobile App
6 2 (2.53%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.53%) Social Media
7 1 (1.27%) Clustering
7 1 (1.27%) Housing Association
7 1 (1.27%) SystemC
Operating Systems
1 22 (27.85%) Linux
2 8 (10.13%) Windows
3 7 (8.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (7.59%) CentOS
4 6 (7.59%) Windows Server
5 5 (6.33%) Ubuntu
6 4 (5.06%) Debian
6 4 (5.06%) Unix
7 3 (3.80%) Solaris
8 1 (1.27%) VMS
8 1 (1.27%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (1.27%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (1.27%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (68.35%) DevOps
2 52 (65.82%) Infrastructure as Code
3 48 (60.76%) CI/CD
4 29 (36.71%) Containerisation
5 28 (35.44%) Agile
6 27 (34.18%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 21 (26.58%) Platform Engineering
8 17 (21.52%) Continuous Improvement
9 13 (16.46%) Collaborative Culture
9 13 (16.46%) Stakeholder Management
10 12 (15.19%) ITIL
11 10 (12.66%) Microservices
11 10 (12.66%) Project Delivery
12 9 (11.39%) Problem-Solving
13 8 (10.13%) Software Engineering
14 7 (8.86%) High Availability
14 7 (8.86%) Mentoring
15 6 (7.59%) Architectural Design
15 6 (7.59%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 6 (7.59%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 42 (53.16%) Python
2 23 (29.11%) Java
3 15 (18.99%) Bash
4 10 (12.66%) PowerShell
5 6 (7.59%) JavaScript
5 6 (7.59%) Ruby
6 5 (6.33%) Go
6 5 (6.33%) SQL
7 2 (2.53%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.27%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 41 (51.90%) Security Cleared
2 29 (36.71%) DV Cleared
3 22 (27.85%) SC Cleared
4 4 (5.06%) AWS Certification
4 4 (5.06%) Azure Certification
4 4 (5.06%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (2.53%) CCIE
5 2 (2.53%) CCNA
5 2 (2.53%) CCNP
5 2 (2.53%) Degree
6 1 (1.27%) Linux+ Certification
6 1 (1.27%) LPIC
6 1 (1.27%) RHCE
6 1 (1.27%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.27%) GDPR
1 1 (1.27%) SLA
System Software
1 35 (44.30%) Docker
2 8 (10.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (6.33%) Active Directory
4 2 (2.53%) Ceph
4 2 (2.53%) vSphere
5 1 (1.27%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.27%) KVM
5 1 (1.27%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (1.27%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 66 (83.54%) Terraform
2 48 (60.76%) Kubernetes
3 6 (7.59%) Prometheus
4 5 (6.33%) Puppet
5 4 (5.06%) Grafana
5 4 (5.06%) Podman
6 3 (3.80%) Progress Chef
7 2 (2.53%) Argo
7 2 (2.53%) Check_MK
7 2 (2.53%) Istio
7 2 (2.53%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (2.53%) SolarWinds Orion
8 1 (1.27%) SCCM
8 1 (1.27%) WSUS
Vendors
1 10 (12.66%) VMware
2 8 (10.13%) Microsoft
2 8 (10.13%) Splunk
3 7 (8.86%) Red Hat
4 4 (5.06%) LogicMonitor
5 3 (3.80%) Oracle
6 2 (2.53%) Cisco
6 2 (2.53%) Dell
6 2 (2.53%) F5
6 2 (2.53%) Google
6 2 (2.53%) Mirantis
6 2 (2.53%) Pega
6 2 (2.53%) SaltStack
6 2 (2.53%) WSO2
6 2 (2.53%) Zscaler
7 1 (1.27%) Percona
7 1 (1.27%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.27%) Veeam