Ansible Job Trends in England

Ansible
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Ansible skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 237 165 196
Rank change year-on-year -72 +31 -56
Permanent jobs citing Ansible 560 728 1,113
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.85% 1.89% 1.49%
As % of the Systems Management category 14.09% 15.75% 14.00%
Number of salaries quoted 392 508 846
10th Percentile £45,000 £51,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £62,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +3.45% -3.33%
75th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £104,875 £109,125 £102,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £70,576
% change year-on-year -6.67% +6.27% -5.90%

All Systems Management Skills
England

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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 3,975 4,622 7,950
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 6.01% 11.98% 10.65%
Number of salaries quoted 2,850 3,220 6,622
10th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £32,250
25th Percentile £44,000 £51,237 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +16.67% -11.11%
75th Percentile £83,750 £92,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £115,000 £101,250
UK median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.71% +16.67% -11.11%

Ansible
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Ansible relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Ansible job vacancy trend in England

Ansible
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Ansible.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Ansible

Ansible
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Ansible in England over the 6 months to 17 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Ansible in England

Ansible
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Ansible within the England region over the 6 months to 17 March 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
London -40 259 £80,000 -5.88% 75
North of England -53 96 £55,000 -21.43% 63
South East -39 87 £72,500 - 56
South West -18 58 £55,000 -20.29% 40
North West -12 50 £65,000 -10.34% 21
Yorkshire -65 24 £50,000 -28.57% 26
North East -17 22 £48,445 +13.99% 16
Midlands -38 21 £58,250 -9.83% 15
West Midlands -11 16 £56,500 -12.54% 12
East of England -27 14 £55,000 -12.00% 11
East Midlands -32 5 £60,000 - 3
Ansible
UK

Ansible
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 20 (3.57%) Apache
2 15 (2.68%) Apache Spark
2 15 (2.68%) OpenStack
3 9 (1.61%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (1.43%) Apache Airflow
5 7 (1.25%) Tomcat
6 6 (1.07%) Appian
6 6 (1.07%) Confluence
6 6 (1.07%) IIS
7 4 (0.71%) Apache Solr
7 4 (0.71%) nginx
8 2 (0.36%) BizTalk Server
8 2 (0.36%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 6 (1.07%) Weka
2 4 (0.71%) PlantUML
3 3 (0.54%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.18%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 4 (0.71%) Dynamics AX
2 2 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 337 (60.18%) AWS
2 292 (52.14%) Azure
3 130 (23.21%) GCP
4 96 (17.14%) GitHub
5 90 (16.07%) Azure DevOps
6 74 (13.21%) GitHub Actions
7 63 (11.25%) Serverless
8 60 (10.71%) AWS CloudFormation
9 49 (8.75%) Datadog
10 40 (7.14%) Amazon EKS
11 35 (6.25%) OpenShift
12 31 (5.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 30 (5.36%) Amazon S3
14 28 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
15 27 (4.82%) Entra ID
16 26 (4.64%) SaaS
17 23 (4.11%) Azure AKS
17 23 (4.11%) Microsoft 365
18 22 (3.93%) Amazon EC2
19 21 (3.75%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 146 (26.07%) Firewall
2 83 (14.82%) DNS
3 63 (11.25%) VPN
4 57 (10.18%) WAN
5 46 (8.21%) TCP/IP
6 41 (7.32%) LAN
7 27 (4.82%) Network Security
7 27 (4.82%) SD-WAN
7 27 (4.82%) VXLAN
8 23 (4.11%) BGP
8 23 (4.11%) DHCP
8 23 (4.11%) Wi-Fi
9 21 (3.75%) Wireless
10 20 (3.57%) Broadband
10 20 (3.57%) HTTP
10 20 (3.57%) VLAN
11 19 (3.39%) MPLS
11 19 (3.39%) OSPF
12 18 (3.21%) NGFW
13 16 (2.86%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (6.96%) NoSQL
2 29 (5.18%) Relational Database
3 26 (4.64%) PostgreSQL
4 24 (4.29%) MySQL
5 19 (3.39%) RDBMS
6 17 (3.04%) MongoDB
7 15 (2.68%) Elasticsearch
7 15 (2.68%) SQL Server
8 14 (2.50%) Big Data
9 12 (2.14%) Amazon RDS
10 11 (1.96%) Hadoop
11 6 (1.07%) Apache Hive
11 6 (1.07%) Azure SQL Database
12 5 (0.89%) Cloudera CDH
12 5 (0.89%) DynamoDB
13 4 (0.71%) Oracle Database
13 4 (0.71%) Pinecone
13 4 (0.71%) Redis
13 4 (0.71%) Weaviate
14 3 (0.54%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 137 (24.46%) Jenkins
2 113 (20.18%) Git
3 87 (15.54%) GitLab
4 36 (6.43%) Bitbucket
5 22 (3.93%) Robot Framework
6 21 (3.75%) Jaeger
7 19 (3.39%) Selenium
8 18 (3.21%) JIRA
9 17 (3.04%) Snyk
10 16 (2.86%) CircleCI
11 10 (1.79%) SonarQube
12 8 (1.43%) TeamCity
13 7 (1.25%) Artifactory
14 6 (1.07%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 6 (1.07%) Sonatype Nexus
15 5 (0.89%) Cucumber
15 5 (0.89%) MLflow
16 4 (0.71%) Metasploit
16 4 (0.71%) Octopus Deploy
16 4 (0.71%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 158 (28.21%) Social Skills
2 94 (16.79%) Finance
3 69 (12.32%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (6.79%) Banking
5 36 (6.43%) Telecoms
6 34 (6.07%) Public Sector
7 31 (5.54%) Law
8 23 (4.11%) Retail
9 22 (3.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 14 (2.50%) Aerospace
11 13 (2.32%) Manufacturing
12 12 (2.14%) Marketing
13 8 (1.43%) Presentation Skills
14 7 (1.25%) Advertising
14 7 (1.25%) Military
15 6 (1.07%) Documentation Skills
15 6 (1.07%) Electronics
16 5 (0.89%) Investment Banking
17 4 (0.71%) Legal
17 4 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 108 (19.29%) DevOps Engineer
2 87 (15.54%) Senior
3 57 (10.18%) Lead
4 54 (9.64%) Cloud Engineer
4 54 (9.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 52 (9.29%) Platform Engineer
6 43 (7.68%) Architect
7 41 (7.32%) Linux Engineer
8 28 (5.00%) Azure Engineer
9 26 (4.64%) Administrator
10 22 (3.93%) DevSecOps Engineer
10 22 (3.93%) Network Engineer
10 22 (3.93%) Senior DevOps
11 20 (3.57%) Support Engineer
12 18 (3.21%) Developer
12 18 (3.21%) Lead DevOps
12 18 (3.21%) Linux Administrator
12 18 (3.21%) Network Manager
13 17 (3.04%) AWS Engineer
13 17 (3.04%) Azure DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (14.11%) Elastic Stack
2 33 (5.89%) REST
3 30 (5.36%) Kafka
4 29 (5.18%) Node.js
5 27 (4.82%) OAuth
5 27 (4.82%) OpenTelemetry
6 22 (3.93%) YAML
7 20 (3.57%) Spring
8 18 (3.21%) SAML
8 18 (3.21%) Spring Boot
9 14 (2.50%) AngularJS
10 13 (2.32%) React
11 12 (2.14%) ADO
12 10 (1.79%) .NET
12 10 (1.79%) LDAP
13 9 (1.61%) JSON
13 9 (1.61%) PyTorch
13 9 (1.61%) RabbitMQ
13 9 (1.61%) Web Services
14 8 (1.43%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 68 (12.14%) Data Centre
2 56 (10.00%) Cloud Native
3 37 (6.61%) Hybrid Cloud
4 34 (6.07%) Public Cloud
5 29 (5.18%) Distributed Systems
5 29 (5.18%) PKI
6 17 (3.04%) Private Cloud
7 16 (2.86%) Product Ownership
8 12 (2.14%) Self-Motivation
9 11 (1.96%) Clustering
9 11 (1.96%) Management Information System
10 10 (1.79%) Security Posture
11 9 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
12 8 (1.43%) Cyber Threat
13 7 (1.25%) Cyber Defence
13 7 (1.25%) Linux Command Line
14 6 (1.07%) Enterprise Software
14 6 (1.07%) Enterprise Storage
14 6 (1.07%) Mobile App
14 6 (1.07%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 290 (51.79%) Linux
2 123 (21.96%) Windows
3 54 (9.64%) Unix
4 48 (8.57%) Windows Server
5 40 (7.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 40 (7.14%) Ubuntu
6 30 (5.36%) CentOS
7 23 (4.11%) VMS
8 11 (1.96%) Debian
9 8 (1.43%) Windows Server 2016
9 8 (1.43%) Windows Server 2019
10 7 (1.25%) Windows Server 2012
11 5 (0.89%) Rocky
12 4 (0.71%) Kali Linux
13 3 (0.54%) Android
13 3 (0.54%) Oracle Linux
13 3 (0.54%) SUSE
14 2 (0.36%) Apple iOS
14 2 (0.36%) Solaris
14 2 (0.36%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 319 (56.96%) DevOps
2 305 (54.46%) Infrastructure as Code
3 292 (52.14%) CI/CD
4 171 (30.54%) Containerisation
5 162 (28.93%) Agile
6 152 (27.14%) Problem-Solving
7 107 (19.11%) Continuous Improvement
8 88 (15.71%) Observability
9 87 (15.54%) Mentoring
10 86 (15.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 84 (15.00%) Configuration Management
12 83 (14.82%) High Availability
13 74 (13.21%) Continuous Integration
14 73 (13.04%) Platform Engineering
15 71 (12.68%) Infrastructure Automation
15 71 (12.68%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 70 (12.50%) Roadmaps
17 68 (12.14%) DevSecOps
18 66 (11.79%) Microservices
19 61 (10.89%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 320 (57.14%) Python
2 192 (34.29%) Bash
3 124 (22.14%) PowerShell
4 78 (13.93%) Go
5 75 (13.39%) Java
6 56 (10.00%) JavaScript
7 43 (7.68%) SQL
8 16 (2.86%) TypeScript
9 12 (2.14%) Kusto Query Language
10 11 (1.96%) Shell Script
11 10 (1.79%) C#
12 9 (1.61%) Bicep
12 9 (1.61%) Perl
13 8 (1.43%) C
14 7 (1.25%) Rust
15 6 (1.07%) PHP
16 5 (0.89%) C++
17 4 (0.71%) Ruby
18 3 (0.54%) Erlang
18 3 (0.54%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 126 (22.50%) Security Cleared
2 68 (12.14%) DV Cleared
3 53 (9.46%) SC Cleared
4 51 (9.11%) Degree
5 42 (7.50%) AWS Certification
6 41 (7.32%) Cisco Certification
7 35 (6.25%) CCNP
8 25 (4.46%) Computer Science Degree
9 12 (2.14%) Azure Certification
9 12 (2.14%) CISSP
10 10 (1.79%) CCNA
11 9 (1.61%) OSCP
12 8 (1.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 8 (1.43%) Master's Degree
13 7 (1.25%) CCIE
13 7 (1.25%) CompTIA Security+
14 6 (1.07%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 6 (1.07%) RHCE
15 5 (0.89%) ITIL Certification
15 5 (0.89%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (5.36%) GDPR
2 23 (4.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 23 (4.11%) SOC 2
3 21 (3.75%) PCI DSS
3 21 (3.75%) QA
4 17 (3.04%) NIST
5 13 (2.32%) SLA
6 4 (0.71%) Accessibility
6 4 (0.71%) Data Quality
7 3 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (0.54%) NCSC
7 3 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.36%) Def Stans
8 2 (0.36%) JSP 440
8 2 (0.36%) NIST 800
System Software
1 197 (35.18%) Docker
2 64 (11.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 59 (10.54%) Active Directory
4 27 (4.82%) vSphere
5 19 (3.39%) VMware NSX
6 18 (3.21%) Virtual Machines
7 13 (2.32%) Hyper-V
8 12 (2.14%) VMware ESXi
9 10 (1.79%) Firmware
9 10 (1.79%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 7 (1.25%) Lustre
11 6 (1.07%) iptables
11 6 (1.07%) KVM
12 5 (0.89%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 5 (0.89%) Virtual Servers
13 4 (0.71%) Veritas Cluster Server
14 2 (0.36%) Ceph
14 2 (0.36%) GPFS
15 1 (0.18%) Apache ZooKeeper
15 1 (0.18%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 396 (70.71%) Terraform
2 276 (49.29%) Kubernetes
3 117 (20.89%) Grafana
4 115 (20.54%) Prometheus
5 34 (6.07%) Argo
6 32 (5.71%) Puppet
7 20 (3.57%) Progress Chef
8 19 (3.39%) Kustomize
9 17 (3.04%) Nagios
10 12 (2.14%) Docker Swarm
10 12 (2.14%) FortiGate
11 10 (1.79%) Microsoft Intune
12 9 (1.61%) Proxmox
13 8 (1.43%) ZABBIX
14 7 (1.25%) Rancher
15 6 (1.07%) Istio
15 6 (1.07%) linkerd
15 6 (1.07%) Mesos
15 6 (1.07%) vCenter Server
16 5 (0.89%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 107 (19.11%) VMware
2 91 (16.25%) Microsoft
3 62 (11.07%) Red Hat
4 51 (9.11%) Cisco
5 46 (8.21%) Splunk
6 43 (7.68%) Google
7 31 (5.54%) Fortinet
8 28 (5.00%) Palo Alto
9 19 (3.39%) Arista
10 18 (3.21%) Aruba
10 18 (3.21%) Dell
11 17 (3.04%) Black Duck
11 17 (3.04%) Coverity
11 17 (3.04%) Juniper
12 16 (2.86%) NetScout
12 16 (2.86%) Oracle
13 12 (2.14%) Atlassian
13 12 (2.14%) Meraki
13 12 (2.14%) NetApp
13 12 (2.14%) Zscaler