Ansible Job Trends in the South West

Ansible
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Ansible skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 135 112 81
Rank change year-on-year -23 -31 +4
Permanent jobs citing Ansible 42 79 167
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.83% 1.90% 3.52%
As % of the Systems Management category 14.00% 19.04% 19.42%
Number of salaries quoted 34 57 98
10th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £44,625
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £72,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.90% +7.41% +17.39%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £91,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £75,000

All Systems Management Skills
South 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 South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 300 415 860
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 5.90% 10.01% 18.12%
Number of salaries quoted 243 261 657
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £31,475
25th Percentile £36,375 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £77,500 £72,433
90th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £84,056
England median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -10.71% +7.69% -3.70%

Ansible
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Ansible job vacancy trend in the South West

Ansible
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Ansible

Ansible
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Ansible in the South West over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Ansible in the South West

Ansible
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Ansible within the South West region over the 6 months to 14 January 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
Gloucestershire +13 21 £55,000 -20.29% 25
Bristol -18 8 £81,250 +4.84% 7
Wiltshire +9 4 £67,500 - 10
Somerset -13 4 £75,000 +87.50% 4
Dorset +3 2 £97,500 +27.87% 5
Devon - 2 £53,750 - 5
Cornwall -15 1 - -
Ansible
England

Ansible
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South 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 1 (2.38%) Apache
1 1 (2.38%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (2.38%) AutoCAD
1 1 (2.38%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 32 (76.19%) AWS
2 19 (45.24%) Azure
3 9 (21.43%) OpenShift
4 8 (19.05%) GCP
5 6 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
5 6 (14.29%) Amazon S3
5 6 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
5 6 (14.29%) Serverless
6 3 (7.14%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (7.14%) GitHub
7 2 (4.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (4.76%) Amazon ECR
7 2 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (4.76%) CloudFront
7 2 (4.76%) Datadog
7 2 (4.76%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (4.76%) OCI
7 2 (4.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (2.38%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (2.38%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 7 (16.67%) Firewall
2 6 (14.29%) TCP/IP
3 5 (11.90%) Network Security
3 5 (11.90%) VPN
4 4 (9.52%) VLAN
5 3 (7.14%) AMQP
5 3 (7.14%) BGP
5 3 (7.14%) DHCP
5 3 (7.14%) DNS
5 3 (7.14%) LAN
5 3 (7.14%) MPLS
5 3 (7.14%) OSPF
5 3 (7.14%) SD-WAN
5 3 (7.14%) WAN
6 2 (4.76%) Cisco ASA
6 2 (4.76%) NGFW
7 1 (2.38%) Broadband
7 1 (2.38%) Internet
7 1 (2.38%) Modbus
7 1 (2.38%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (9.52%) InfluxDB
2 4 (9.52%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.38%) Big Data
3 1 (2.38%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (2.38%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.38%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 12 (28.57%) Jenkins
2 4 (9.52%) GitLab
3 3 (7.14%) Bitbucket
3 3 (7.14%) Git
4 2 (4.76%) CircleCI
5 1 (2.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (2.38%) Cucumber
5 1 (2.38%) Jaeger
5 1 (2.38%) SonarQube
General
1 7 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 5 (11.90%) Public Sector
3 4 (9.52%) Electronics
3 4 (9.52%) Finance
3 4 (9.52%) Telecoms
4 3 (7.14%) Manufacturing
4 3 (7.14%) Marketing
5 2 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.38%) Aerospace
6 1 (2.38%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (11.90%) Administrator
2 5 (11.90%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (11.90%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 4 (9.52%) Linux Administrator
3 4 (9.52%) Linux Engineer
3 4 (9.52%) Linux Systems Administrator
3 4 (9.52%) Platform Engineer
3 4 (9.52%) Senior
3 4 (9.52%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 3 (7.14%) Engineering Manager
4 3 (7.14%) Network Engineering Manager
4 3 (7.14%) Network Manager
4 3 (7.14%) Site Engineer
4 3 (7.14%) Systems Administrator
5 2 (4.76%) Lead
5 2 (4.76%) Senior DevOps
5 2 (4.76%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 1 (2.38%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (2.38%) Virtualisation Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (9.52%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (4.76%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (2.38%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (2.38%) JWT
3 1 (2.38%) OAuth
3 1 (2.38%) OAuth2
3 1 (2.38%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (2.38%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.90%) Linux Command Line
2 3 (7.14%) Public Cloud
3 2 (4.76%) Blockchain
3 2 (4.76%) Cloud Native
3 2 (4.76%) e-Learning
4 1 (2.38%) CCTV
4 1 (2.38%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.38%) DataPower
4 1 (2.38%) Derivative
4 1 (2.38%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.38%) Driving Licence
4 1 (2.38%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.38%) Operational Technology
4 1 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 28 (66.67%) Linux
2 8 (19.05%) Windows
3 5 (11.90%) Debian
3 5 (11.90%) Ubuntu
4 3 (7.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (7.14%) Unix
4 3 (7.14%) Windows Server
5 2 (4.76%) CentOS
6 1 (2.38%) CoreOS
6 1 (2.38%) OpenWrt
6 1 (2.38%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (54.76%) DevOps
2 19 (45.24%) Infrastructure as Code
3 18 (42.86%) CI/CD
3 18 (42.86%) Containerisation
4 10 (23.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 9 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (16.67%) Configuration Management
6 7 (16.67%) DevSecOps
6 7 (16.67%) Infrastructure Automation
7 6 (14.29%) Agile
7 6 (14.29%) Mentoring
8 5 (11.90%) Cloud Security
8 5 (11.90%) Computer Science
8 5 (11.90%) Continuous Improvement
8 5 (11.90%) Platform Engineering
8 5 (11.90%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 4 (9.52%) Business Development
9 4 (9.52%) Vulnerability Management
10 3 (7.14%) Cybersecurity
10 3 (7.14%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 35 (83.33%) Python
2 25 (59.52%) Bash
3 12 (28.57%) PowerShell
4 8 (19.05%) Java
5 5 (11.90%) Go
6 3 (7.14%) Elixir
6 3 (7.14%) Erlang
6 3 (7.14%) Shell Script
6 3 (7.14%) SQL
7 2 (4.76%) JavaScript
7 2 (4.76%) Kotlin
8 1 (2.38%) C
8 1 (2.38%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 22 (52.38%) Security Cleared
2 19 (45.24%) DV Cleared
3 14 (33.33%) SC Cleared
4 6 (14.29%) Degree
5 4 (9.52%) AWS Certification
5 4 (9.52%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (9.52%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (7.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (7.14%) CCNP
6 3 (7.14%) Master's Degree
7 1 (2.38%) CCNA
7 1 (2.38%) CISM
7 1 (2.38%) CISSP
7 1 (2.38%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (2.38%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.38%) GDPR
1 1 (2.38%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 18 (42.86%) Docker
2 3 (7.14%) iptables
2 3 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (4.76%) Active Directory
3 2 (4.76%) Hyper-V
3 2 (4.76%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (4.76%) vSphere
4 1 (2.38%) Ceph
4 1 (2.38%) KVM
4 1 (2.38%) Lustre
4 1 (2.38%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (2.38%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 30 (71.43%) Terraform
2 21 (50.00%) Kubernetes
3 12 (28.57%) Grafana
4 10 (23.81%) Prometheus
5 7 (16.67%) Progress Chef
6 5 (11.90%) Puppet
7 3 (7.14%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (2.38%) Argo
8 1 (2.38%) Kibana
8 1 (2.38%) Kustomize
8 1 (2.38%) logstash
8 1 (2.38%) NetBackup
8 1 (2.38%) Podman
8 1 (2.38%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 8 (19.05%) Cisco
1 8 (19.05%) Red Hat
2 5 (11.90%) Fortinet
3 4 (9.52%) Google
3 4 (9.52%) Microsoft
3 4 (9.52%) Palo Alto
3 4 (9.52%) VMware
4 3 (7.14%) SAP
5 2 (4.76%) Juniper
6 1 (2.38%) Dell
6 1 (2.38%) F5
6 1 (2.38%) HP
6 1 (2.38%) IBM
6 1 (2.38%) Infoblox
6 1 (2.38%) MikroTik
6 1 (2.38%) Mirantis
6 1 (2.38%) NetScout
6 1 (2.38%) SolarWinds
6 1 (2.38%) Splunk
6 1 (2.38%) Veeam