Ansible Job Trends in London

Ansible
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring Ansible skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 181 128 176
Rank change year-on-year -53 +48 -44
Permanent jobs citing Ansible 254 337 437
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.25% 2.67% 1.87%
As % of the Systems Management category 14.14% 17.21% 13.89%
Number of salaries quoted 141 220 350
10th Percentile £46,250 £56,250 £62,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £68,750 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +6.25% -
75th Percentile £91,250 £104,063 £101,250
90th Percentile £120,000 £124,000 £112,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -

All Systems Management Skills
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 1,796 1,958 3,146
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 8.81% 15.51% 13.45%
Number of salaries quoted 1,193 1,489 2,472
10th Percentile £42,000 £42,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% - +0.46%
75th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £97,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £121,250 £115,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £69,384 £60,500
% change year-on-year -6.32% +14.68% -10.37%

Ansible
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Ansible job vacancy trend in London

Ansible
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Ansible.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Ansible

Ansible
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Ansible in London over the 6 months to 9 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Ansible in London

Ansible
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Ansible within the London region over the 6 months to 9 May 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
Central London -26 35 £86,250 -9.21% 31
East London -11 8 £87,500 +27.27% 4
West London -21 7 - - 5
South London +1 3 £70,000 -
Ansible
England

Ansible
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 9 (3.54%) Apache
2 8 (3.15%) Confluence
3 7 (2.76%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (2.76%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (2.36%) Tomcat
5 5 (1.97%) Apache Spark
5 5 (1.97%) nginx
6 4 (1.57%) Appian
6 4 (1.57%) IIS
7 2 (0.79%) BizTalk Server
7 2 (0.79%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.39%) JBoss
8 1 (0.39%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 12 (4.72%) MS Visio
2 9 (3.54%) PlantUML
3 4 (1.57%) Weka
4 2 (0.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.39%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 128 (50.39%) Azure
2 125 (49.21%) AWS
3 58 (22.83%) GCP
4 50 (19.69%) GitHub
5 48 (18.90%) Datadog
6 42 (16.54%) Serverless
7 41 (16.14%) GitHub Actions
8 37 (14.57%) AWS CloudFormation
9 26 (10.24%) Azure DevOps
10 24 (9.45%) Entra ID
11 17 (6.69%) AWS Lambda
12 16 (6.30%) Pulumi
13 13 (5.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 13 (5.12%) Azure AKS
13 13 (5.12%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 13 (5.12%) IaaS
14 12 (4.72%) Azure Key Vault
14 12 (4.72%) Azure Monitor
15 11 (4.33%) Amazon S3
15 11 (4.33%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 81 (31.89%) Firewall
2 47 (18.50%) DNS
3 42 (16.54%) WAN
4 36 (14.17%) VPN
5 29 (11.42%) Network Security
6 20 (7.87%) SD-WAN
6 20 (7.87%) Wireless
7 16 (6.30%) Broadband
7 16 (6.30%) LAN
7 16 (6.30%) TCP/IP
8 15 (5.91%) Software-Defined Networking
9 14 (5.51%) SSL
10 12 (4.72%) Cisco ISE
10 12 (4.72%) Cisco Wireless
11 11 (4.33%) BIG-IP
11 11 (4.33%) DHCP
12 10 (3.94%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
12 10 (3.94%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
13 9 (3.54%) HTTPS
14 8 (3.15%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (11.02%) NoSQL
2 20 (7.87%) Relational Database
3 16 (6.30%) RDBMS
4 11 (4.33%) Elasticsearch
5 10 (3.94%) MySQL
6 6 (2.36%) SQL Server
7 5 (1.97%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (1.57%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (1.57%) Pinecone
8 4 (1.57%) Power BI
8 4 (1.57%) Weaviate
9 3 (1.18%) Data Lake
9 3 (1.18%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (1.18%) Delta Lake
9 3 (1.18%) MongoDB
9 3 (1.18%) Oracle Database
9 3 (1.18%) PostgreSQL
10 2 (0.79%) BigQuery
10 2 (0.79%) DynamoDB
10 2 (0.79%) Oracle Database 11g
Development Applications
1 58 (22.83%) Jenkins
2 56 (22.05%) Git
3 42 (16.54%) GitLab
4 21 (8.27%) Bitbucket
5 16 (6.30%) Jaeger
6 12 (4.72%) JIRA
7 10 (3.94%) CircleCI
8 9 (3.54%) Visual Studio Code
9 8 (3.15%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 7 (2.76%) Maven
11 5 (1.97%) Gradle
12 4 (1.57%) Metasploit
12 4 (1.57%) SonarQube
13 3 (1.18%) MLflow
13 3 (1.18%) Sonatype Nexus
13 3 (1.18%) TeamCity
14 2 (0.79%) Artifactory
14 2 (0.79%) Cucumber
14 2 (0.79%) Octopus Deploy
14 2 (0.79%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 94 (37.01%) Social Skills
2 69 (27.17%) Finance
3 20 (7.87%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (7.48%) Banking
5 18 (7.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (3.15%) Law
7 7 (2.76%) Retail
8 6 (2.36%) Organisational Skills
8 6 (2.36%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (2.36%) Telecoms
9 5 (1.97%) Legal
10 4 (1.57%) Advertising
10 4 (1.57%) Aerospace
10 4 (1.57%) Automotive
10 4 (1.57%) Electronics
10 4 (1.57%) Mandarin Language
10 4 (1.57%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.18%) Aviation
11 3 (1.18%) Investment Banking
11 3 (1.18%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 49 (19.29%) Senior
2 47 (18.50%) DevOps Engineer
3 41 (16.14%) Platform Engineer
4 34 (13.39%) Cloud Engineer
5 30 (11.81%) Lead
6 28 (11.02%) Architect
7 26 (10.24%) Network Engineer
8 21 (8.27%) Azure Engineer
9 20 (7.87%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 15 (5.91%) Senior Network Engineer
11 14 (5.51%) Administrator
11 14 (5.51%) Linux Administrator
12 13 (5.12%) Analyst
12 13 (5.12%) Cloud Architect
12 13 (5.12%) Operations Engineer
13 12 (4.72%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 11 (4.33%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
15 10 (3.94%) AWS DevOps
15 10 (3.94%) AWS Engineer
15 10 (3.94%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (14.17%) Elastic Stack
2 24 (9.45%) YAML
3 20 (7.87%) OAuth
4 18 (7.09%) SAML
5 17 (6.69%) Kafka
6 16 (6.30%) OpenTelemetry
7 14 (5.51%) Node.js
8 12 (4.72%) ADO
9 7 (2.76%) JSON
9 7 (2.76%) REST
10 6 (2.36%) React
11 5 (1.97%) .NET
11 5 (1.97%) OpenID
12 4 (1.57%) Django
12 4 (1.57%) FastAPI
12 4 (1.57%) GraphQL
12 4 (1.57%) LDAP
12 4 (1.57%) PyTorch
12 4 (1.57%) scikit-learn
12 4 (1.57%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 38 (14.96%) Data Centre
2 30 (11.81%) Cloud Native
3 21 (8.27%) Public Cloud
4 18 (7.09%) Security Posture
5 16 (6.30%) PKI
6 13 (5.12%) Private Cloud
7 10 (3.94%) Hybrid Cloud
8 8 (3.15%) Cyber Threat
8 8 (3.15%) Data Protection Act
8 8 (3.15%) Distributed Systems
9 7 (2.76%) Clustering
9 7 (2.76%) CMDB
9 7 (2.76%) Cyber Defence
10 6 (2.36%) Enterprise Storage
10 6 (2.36%) Management Information System
11 5 (1.97%) Cyberattack
12 4 (1.57%) Blockchain
12 4 (1.57%) Cyber Kill Chain
12 4 (1.57%) Renewable Energy
12 4 (1.57%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 131 (51.57%) Linux
2 52 (20.47%) Windows
3 35 (13.78%) Unix
4 29 (11.42%) Windows Server
5 27 (10.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 16 (6.30%) VMS
7 14 (5.51%) CentOS
8 12 (4.72%) Ubuntu
9 4 (1.57%) Kali Linux
10 3 (1.18%) Rocky
10 3 (1.18%) SUSE
10 3 (1.18%) Windows Server 2012
10 3 (1.18%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (1.18%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.79%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 153 (60.24%) Infrastructure as Code
2 150 (59.06%) DevOps
3 136 (53.54%) CI/CD
4 72 (28.35%) Containerisation
4 72 (28.35%) Continuous Improvement
5 68 (26.77%) Agile
6 60 (23.62%) High Availability
7 59 (23.23%) Problem-Solving
8 52 (20.47%) Roadmaps
9 51 (20.08%) Disaster Recovery
10 43 (16.93%) Platform Engineering
11 41 (16.14%) Configuration Management
11 41 (16.14%) Mentoring
12 39 (15.35%) Observability
13 38 (14.96%) Continuous Integration
14 37 (14.57%) Business Continuity
14 37 (14.57%) Infrastructure Automation
15 35 (13.78%) Task Automation
16 31 (12.20%) Microservices
16 31 (12.20%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 158 (62.20%) Python
2 87 (34.25%) Bash
3 63 (24.80%) PowerShell
4 43 (16.93%) Java
5 36 (14.17%) Go
6 33 (12.99%) SQL
7 27 (10.63%) JavaScript
8 12 (4.72%) Kusto Query Language
9 6 (2.36%) C#
10 5 (1.97%) Bicep
11 4 (1.57%) TypeScript
12 3 (1.18%) Perl
12 3 (1.18%) Ruby
12 3 (1.18%) Rust
12 3 (1.18%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.79%) Korn
13 2 (0.79%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.39%) C++
14 1 (0.39%) Groovy
14 1 (0.39%) VBA
Qualifications
1 39 (15.35%) Cisco Certification
2 38 (14.96%) Security Cleared
3 34 (13.39%) Degree
4 32 (12.60%) AWS Certification
4 32 (12.60%) CCNP
5 22 (8.66%) Azure Certification
6 13 (5.12%) SC Cleared
7 12 (4.72%) OSCP
8 11 (4.33%) CCIE
8 11 (4.33%) Computer Science Degree
8 11 (4.33%) DV Cleared
9 10 (3.94%) CCNA
9 10 (3.94%) CISSP
9 10 (3.94%) JNCIP
10 8 (3.15%) CompTIA Security+
10 8 (3.15%) Microsoft Certification
11 7 (2.76%) ISTQB
12 6 (2.36%) RHCE
12 6 (2.36%) SANS
13 5 (1.97%) CCIE Security
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (10.24%) GDPR
2 25 (9.84%) PCI DSS
3 24 (9.45%) NIST
3 24 (9.45%) SOC 2
4 21 (8.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 18 (7.09%) QA
6 8 (3.15%) SLA
7 4 (1.57%) Data Quality
8 3 (1.18%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (1.18%) NCSC
9 2 (0.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 99 (38.98%) Docker
2 47 (18.50%) Active Directory
3 38 (14.96%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (4.72%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (3.94%) Firmware
5 10 (3.94%) vSphere
6 8 (3.15%) VMware NSX
7 4 (1.57%) Squid
7 4 (1.57%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 3 (1.18%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.79%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.79%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.39%) iptables
10 1 (0.39%) KVM
Systems Management
1 174 (68.50%) Terraform
2 140 (55.12%) Kubernetes
3 53 (20.87%) Prometheus
4 44 (17.32%) Grafana
5 29 (11.42%) Argo
6 16 (6.30%) Kustomize
7 11 (4.33%) Puppet
8 10 (3.94%) Packer
9 9 (3.54%) Progress Chef
9 9 (3.54%) ZABBIX
10 8 (3.15%) Nagios
11 6 (2.36%) Red Hat Satellite
12 5 (1.97%) Docker Swarm
13 4 (1.57%) Istio
13 4 (1.57%) linkerd
13 4 (1.57%) Mesos
13 4 (1.57%) Rancher
14 3 (1.18%) Microsoft Intune
15 2 (0.79%) Red Hat Spacewalk
15 2 (0.79%) Salt
Vendors
1 68 (26.77%) Microsoft
2 58 (22.83%) VMware
3 42 (16.54%) Cisco
4 41 (16.14%) Red Hat
5 36 (14.17%) Palo Alto
6 33 (12.99%) Splunk
7 27 (10.63%) Google
8 17 (6.69%) F5
8 17 (6.69%) Fortinet
8 17 (6.69%) SolarWinds
9 15 (5.91%) Oracle
10 14 (5.51%) Arista
10 14 (5.51%) ServiceNow
10 14 (5.51%) Zscaler
11 13 (5.12%) Infoblox
12 12 (4.72%) ForeScout
12 12 (4.72%) SevOne
13 11 (4.33%) Juniper
14 7 (2.76%) CheckPoint
14 7 (2.76%) OpenAI