Ansible Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Ansible
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Ansible skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 177 171 160
Rank change year-on-year -6 -11 -83
Permanent jobs citing Ansible 29 29 44
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.39% 0.76% 0.93%
As % of the Systems Management category 9.21% 8.71% 8.94%
Number of salaries quoted 15 18 19
10th Percentile £28,500 £48,000 £56,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £71,250 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £85,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -23.53% +9.68% +21.57%
75th Percentile £71,250 £92,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £84,000 £95,000 £88,500
South East median annual salary £67,500 £64,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.47% +16.36% -12.00%

All Systems Management Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 315 333 492
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 4.20% 8.67% 10.41%
Number of salaries quoted 244 152 285
10th Percentile £37,500 £31,250 £36,500
25th Percentile £44,750 £39,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £49,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +22.45% -21.60% +10.57%
75th Percentile £72,500 £70,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £94,625 £87,250 £95,000
South East median annual salary £60,000 £52,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +15.38% -9.57% +1.72%

Ansible
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Ansible job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

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Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Ansible.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Ansible

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Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Ansible in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 5 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Ansible in the Thames Valley

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Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Ansible within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 5 October 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
Berkshire +15 19 £65,000 -23.53% 18
Oxfordshire -25 10 £57,500 -31.34% 16
Ansible
South East

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (3.45%) JBoss
1 1 (3.45%) OpenStack
1 1 (3.45%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 19 (65.52%) AWS
2 13 (44.83%) Azure
2 13 (44.83%) SaaS
3 11 (37.93%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (10.34%) Azure API Management
4 3 (10.34%) Azure Key Vault
4 3 (10.34%) GitHub
5 2 (6.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (6.90%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (6.90%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (6.90%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (6.90%) Amazon S3
5 2 (6.90%) Serverless
5 2 (6.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (3.45%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.90%) DHCP
1 2 (6.90%) DNS
1 2 (6.90%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.90%) Big Data
1 2 (6.90%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (6.90%) Relational Database
2 1 (3.45%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (6.90%) Git
1 2 (6.90%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.45%) JUnit
General
1 5 (17.24%) Manufacturing
2 3 (10.34%) Banking
2 3 (10.34%) Finance
3 1 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (3.45%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (62.07%) DevOps Engineer
2 8 (27.59%) DevOps Systems Engineer
2 8 (27.59%) Linux DevOps Engineer
2 8 (27.59%) Linux Engineer
2 8 (27.59%) Linux Systems Engineer
2 8 (27.59%) Linux/Unix DevOps
2 8 (27.59%) Systems Engineer
3 5 (17.24%) Junior
3 5 (17.24%) Junior DevOps
3 5 (17.24%) Junior DevOps Engineer
4 3 (10.34%) Administrator
4 3 (10.34%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 3 (10.34%) Azure Engineer
4 3 (10.34%) Graduate
4 3 (10.34%) Graduate Software Engineer
4 3 (10.34%) Linux Administrator
4 3 (10.34%) Senior Linux Administrator
4 3 (10.34%) Senior Linux Systems Administrator
4 3 (10.34%) Software Engineer
4 3 (10.34%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (72.41%) Terraform
2 3 (10.34%) YAML
3 2 (6.90%) Spring
3 2 (6.90%) Spring Boot
3 2 (6.90%) Web Services
4 1 (3.45%) AngularJS
4 1 (3.45%) Apache Camel
4 1 (3.45%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (3.45%) Guice
4 1 (3.45%) Hibernate
4 1 (3.45%) Jakarta EE
4 1 (3.45%) JSON
4 1 (3.45%) Mustache
4 1 (3.45%) Node.js
4 1 (3.45%) REST
4 1 (3.45%) RESTful
4 1 (3.45%) SOAP
4 1 (3.45%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.34%) Clustering
1 3 (10.34%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (6.90%) Life Science
2 2 (6.90%) Private Cloud
2 2 (6.90%) Public Cloud
2 2 (6.90%) Renewable Energy
2 2 (6.90%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (6.90%) Virtual Team
3 1 (3.45%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 20 (68.97%) Linux
2 13 (44.83%) Ubuntu
3 3 (10.34%) Debian
3 3 (10.34%) Gentoo
3 3 (10.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (10.34%) Rocky
3 3 (10.34%) Windows
4 2 (6.90%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (75.86%) DevOps
2 12 (41.38%) Infrastructure as Code
3 9 (31.03%) CI/CD
4 7 (24.14%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (20.69%) Configuration Management
6 5 (17.24%) Cloud Security
6 5 (17.24%) Computer Science
6 5 (17.24%) Software Engineering
7 4 (13.79%) Agile
7 4 (13.79%) Containerisation
7 4 (13.79%) Kanban
7 4 (13.79%) Scrum
8 3 (10.34%) AI
8 3 (10.34%) Continuous Improvement
8 3 (10.34%) Data Security
8 3 (10.34%) Mentoring
8 3 (10.34%) Open Source
8 3 (10.34%) Release Management
8 3 (10.34%) Software Delivery
8 3 (10.34%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 21 (72.41%) Bash
2 6 (20.69%) Python
3 3 (10.34%) Ruby
3 3 (10.34%) Shell Script
4 2 (6.90%) Java
4 2 (6.90%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (17.24%) Computer Science Degree
1 5 (17.24%) Degree
2 4 (13.79%) Security Cleared
3 3 (10.34%) DV Cleared
4 1 (3.45%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.34%) QA
2 2 (6.90%) SOC 2
System Software
1 7 (24.14%) Docker
2 5 (17.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (10.34%) Hyper-V
3 3 (10.34%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (10.34%) vSphere
4 2 (6.90%) Active Directory
4 2 (6.90%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (24.14%) Kubernetes
2 3 (10.34%) Grafana
2 3 (10.34%) Podman
3 2 (6.90%) Prometheus
4 1 (3.45%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 13 (44.83%) Red Hat
2 6 (20.69%) VMware
3 3 (10.34%) Salesforce
4 1 (3.45%) Dynatrace
4 1 (3.45%) Microsoft
4 1 (3.45%) ServiceNow