Ansible Job Trends in the South East

Ansible
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Ansible skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 180 159 203
Rank change year-on-year -21 +44 -33
Permanent jobs citing Ansible 124 125 214
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.85% 1.59% 1.20%
As % of the Systems Management category 19.17% 21.48% 12.88%
Number of salaries quoted 101 57 153
10th Percentile £50,000 £48,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £61,250 £56,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% +4.17% -14.29%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £71,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £91,000 £83,750
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -2.78%

All Systems Management Skills
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 647 582 1,661
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 4.44% 7.39% 9.34%
Number of salaries quoted 530 362 1,235
10th Percentile £35,000 £34,100 £32,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £40,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £72,500 £77,500 £71,125
90th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £87,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £68,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -5.11% +9.60% -7.41%

Ansible
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Ansible job vacancy trend in the South East

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Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Ansible.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Ansible

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Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Ansible in the South East over the 6 months to 7 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Ansible in the South East

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Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Ansible within the South East region over the 6 months to 7 June 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
Hampshire -22 52 £75,000 +23.97% 24
Thames Valley +9 43 £65,000 -23.53% 17
Berkshire +10 35 £65,000 -23.53% 11
Surrey -17 14 £62,500 +8.70%
West Sussex -12 8 £70,000 +1.82% 2
Oxfordshire -6 7 £67,500 +50.00% 5
East Sussex -12 3 £85,000 -
Kent -31 2 £75,000 - 1
Sussex - 2 £75,000 -
Buckinghamshire -23 1 £75,000 +47.06% 1
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England

Ansible
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 8 (6.45%) OpenStack
2 5 (4.03%) Confluence
3 2 (1.61%) IIS
4 1 (0.81%) JBoss
4 1 (0.81%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 72 (58.06%) AWS
2 62 (50.00%) Azure
3 31 (25.00%) SaaS
4 22 (17.74%) Amazon EKS
5 20 (16.13%) Azure DevOps
6 19 (15.32%) Serverless
7 13 (10.48%) GCP
8 11 (8.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 10 (8.06%) OpenShift
10 9 (7.26%) GitHub
10 9 (7.26%) GitHub Actions
11 8 (6.45%) Amazon EC2
11 8 (6.45%) Amazon S3
11 8 (6.45%) AWS Lambda
12 7 (5.65%) Amazon ECS
12 7 (5.65%) Azure Stack
12 7 (5.65%) Microsoft 365
13 4 (3.23%) Azure AKS
14 3 (2.42%) Azure API Management
14 3 (2.42%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 28 (22.58%) Firewall
2 23 (18.55%) VPN
3 14 (11.29%) BGP
3 14 (11.29%) OSPF
3 14 (11.29%) WAN
4 13 (10.48%) LAN
5 10 (8.06%) MQTT
6 9 (7.26%) SD-WAN
7 7 (5.65%) MPLS
7 7 (5.65%) VXLAN
7 7 (5.65%) Wireless
8 6 (4.84%) DNS
8 6 (4.84%) Ethernet VPN
8 6 (4.84%) Network Security
8 6 (4.84%) NGFW
9 4 (3.23%) DHCP
10 2 (1.61%) VLAN
11 1 (0.81%) HTTP
11 1 (0.81%) HTTPS
11 1 (0.81%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.23%) Relational Database
2 3 (2.42%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (1.61%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.81%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.81%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 34 (27.42%) GitLab
2 33 (26.61%) Git
3 15 (12.10%) Jenkins
4 14 (11.29%) JIRA
5 11 (8.87%) SonarQube
6 5 (4.03%) Cucumber
7 4 (3.23%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.81%) JUnit
8 1 (0.81%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.81%) Selenium
8 1 (0.81%) Snyk
General
1 19 (15.32%) Social Skills
2 12 (9.68%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (6.45%) Retail
4 7 (5.65%) Documentation Skills
4 7 (5.65%) Finance
5 5 (4.03%) Aerospace
5 5 (4.03%) Public Sector
6 4 (3.23%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.61%) Health Technology
7 2 (1.61%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (1.61%) Tech for Good
8 1 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 38 (30.65%) DevOps Engineer
2 21 (16.94%) Linux Engineer
3 19 (15.32%) Senior
4 17 (13.71%) Systems Engineer
5 16 (12.90%) DevOps Systems Engineer
5 16 (12.90%) Linux DevOps Engineer
5 16 (12.90%) Linux Systems Engineer
5 16 (12.90%) Linux/Unix DevOps
6 13 (10.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 13 (10.48%) Site Engineer
6 13 (10.48%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 11 (8.87%) Developer
7 11 (8.87%) Lead
8 10 (8.06%) DevSecOps Engineer
9 9 (7.26%) Java Developer
9 9 (7.26%) Senior DevOps
10 8 (6.45%) Consultant
10 8 (6.45%) DevOps Administrator
10 8 (6.45%) Senior Systems Administrator
10 8 (6.45%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (16.13%) REST
2 13 (10.48%) Elastic Stack
3 10 (8.06%) Kafka
4 9 (7.26%) Spring
4 9 (7.26%) YAML
5 8 (6.45%) RabbitMQ
6 7 (5.65%) ARM Templates
6 7 (5.65%) Spring Boot
7 6 (4.84%) AngularJS
7 6 (4.84%) React
8 5 (4.03%) JSON
8 5 (4.03%) Web Services
9 4 (3.23%) gRPC
9 4 (3.23%) Java EE
9 4 (3.23%) JMS
9 4 (3.23%) JPA
9 4 (3.23%) Protocol Buffers
10 3 (2.42%) Keycloak
10 3 (2.42%) RESTful
11 2 (1.61%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 25 (20.16%) Data Centre
2 18 (14.52%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (10.48%) Hybrid Cloud
4 11 (8.87%) Private Cloud
5 8 (6.45%) Product Ownership
6 5 (4.03%) Public Cloud
7 4 (3.23%) Clustering
8 3 (2.42%) Cloud Native
8 3 (2.42%) Life Science
8 3 (2.42%) Renewable Energy
8 3 (2.42%) Robotics
8 3 (2.42%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (2.42%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 3 (2.42%) Virtual Team
9 2 (1.61%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (1.61%) Mobile App
10 1 (0.81%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.81%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.81%) PKI
10 1 (0.81%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 86 (69.35%) Linux
2 40 (32.26%) Ubuntu
3 24 (19.35%) Windows
4 21 (16.94%) Windows Server
5 18 (14.52%) CentOS
6 11 (8.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (5.65%) Windows Server 2016
8 5 (4.03%) Windows Server 2019
9 4 (3.23%) VMS
10 3 (2.42%) Debian
11 2 (1.61%) Android
11 2 (1.61%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.81%) FreeBSD
12 1 (0.81%) OpenBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (61.29%) DevOps
2 67 (54.03%) CI/CD
3 57 (45.97%) Infrastructure as Code
4 51 (41.13%) Agile
5 33 (26.61%) Containerisation
6 32 (25.81%) Observability
7 31 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
8 27 (21.77%) Microservices
9 25 (20.16%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 24 (19.35%) Deployment Automation
11 21 (16.94%) DevSecOps
12 18 (14.52%) AI
12 18 (14.52%) Configuration Management
13 17 (13.71%) Mentoring
13 17 (13.71%) Scrum
14 16 (12.90%) Kanban
15 15 (12.10%) Continuous Improvement
16 14 (11.29%) Cloud Security
16 14 (11.29%) Infrastructure Automation
17 13 (10.48%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 60 (48.39%) Python
2 53 (42.74%) Bash
3 22 (17.74%) PowerShell
4 16 (12.90%) Java
5 13 (10.48%) Rust
6 8 (6.45%) Go
6 8 (6.45%) Perl
7 7 (5.65%) PHP
8 6 (4.84%) Groovy
9 4 (3.23%) JavaScript
9 4 (3.23%) PL/SQL
9 4 (3.23%) SQL
10 3 (2.42%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 50 (40.32%) Security Cleared
2 31 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 14 (11.29%) CCNP
3 14 (11.29%) Cisco Certification
4 12 (9.68%) DV Cleared
5 10 (8.06%) Degree
6 8 (6.45%) AWS Certification
7 3 (2.42%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.61%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.61%) Linux+ Certification
8 2 (1.61%) LPIC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (10.48%) QA
2 5 (4.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (4.03%) SOC 2
3 3 (2.42%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.61%) GDPR
4 2 (1.61%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.81%) SLA
System Software
1 49 (39.52%) Docker
2 12 (9.68%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (5.65%) vSphere
4 5 (4.03%) Active Directory
4 5 (4.03%) Hyper-V
5 4 (3.23%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 4 (3.23%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.81%) KVM
6 1 (0.81%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 108 (87.10%) Terraform
2 73 (58.87%) Kubernetes
3 24 (19.35%) Grafana
4 21 (16.94%) Prometheus
5 14 (11.29%) Puppet
6 13 (10.48%) Nagios
7 9 (7.26%) Podman
7 9 (7.26%) Proxmox
8 7 (5.65%) FortiGate
8 7 (5.65%) Nessus
8 7 (5.65%) vCenter Server
9 5 (4.03%) Docker Swarm
10 4 (3.23%) Kibana
10 4 (3.23%) Packer
10 4 (3.23%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (3.23%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 29 (23.39%) Red Hat
2 22 (17.74%) VMware
3 12 (9.68%) Cisco
4 11 (8.87%) Microsoft
5 10 (8.06%) NVIDIA
5 10 (8.06%) Splunk
6 9 (7.26%) AppDynamics
7 8 (6.45%) IBM
8 7 (5.65%) Fortinet
8 7 (5.65%) Meraki
9 6 (4.84%) Mellanox
10 5 (4.03%) Tenable
11 4 (3.23%) Oracle
12 3 (2.42%) Dynatrace
12 3 (2.42%) Salesforce
13 1 (0.81%) Atlassian
13 1 (0.81%) Black Duck
13 1 (0.81%) Coverity