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 18 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 134 131 137
Rank change year-on-year -3 +6 +3
Permanent jobs citing Ansible 40 50 102
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.71% 1.47% 1.57%
As % of the Systems Management category 17.02% 19.76% 14.11%
Number of salaries quoted 24 17 70
10th Percentile - £41,000 £52,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £48,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £85,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -23.53% +36.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £71,188
90th Percentile - £94,250 £83,750
South East median annual salary £72,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +11.54% +8.33% -14.29%

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 235 253 723
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 4.14% 7.42% 11.10%
Number of salaries quoted 157 158 577
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,875 £34,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,007
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -3.52% -8.79%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £95,000 £92,500
South East median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -7.95%

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 18 May 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 18 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
Berkshire +7 32 £65,000 -23.53% 12
Oxfordshire -1 6 £67,500 +50.00% 4
Buckinghamshire -17 2 £75,000 +10.29%
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 (2.50%) JBoss
1 1 (2.50%) OpenStack
1 1 (2.50%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 37 (92.50%) AWS
2 28 (70.00%) Azure
3 20 (50.00%) SaaS
4 19 (47.50%) Azure DevOps
5 11 (27.50%) Amazon EKS
5 11 (27.50%) Serverless
6 8 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (15.00%) Amazon EC2
7 6 (15.00%) Amazon S3
8 5 (12.50%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (7.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (7.50%) Azure API Management
9 3 (7.50%) Azure Key Vault
10 1 (2.50%) GCP
10 1 (2.50%) Microsoft 365
10 1 (2.50%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 5 (12.50%) Firewall
2 4 (10.00%) DNS
3 3 (7.50%) DHCP
4 2 (5.00%) VPN
5 1 (2.50%) HTTP
5 1 (2.50%) HTTPS
5 1 (2.50%) LAN
5 1 (2.50%) SMTP
5 1 (2.50%) SSL
5 1 (2.50%) VLAN
5 1 (2.50%) WAN
5 1 (2.50%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (2.50%) Oracle Database
2 1 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 13 (32.50%) Git
2 12 (30.00%) Jenkins
3 7 (17.50%) GitLab
4 6 (15.00%) SonarQube
5 5 (12.50%) Cucumber
5 5 (12.50%) JIRA
6 4 (10.00%) Artifactory
7 1 (2.50%) JUnit
General
1 6 (15.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (12.50%) Public Sector
3 3 (7.50%) Finance
3 3 (7.50%) Manufacturing
4 2 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 31 (77.50%) DevOps Engineer
2 15 (37.50%) DevOps Systems Engineer
2 15 (37.50%) Linux DevOps Engineer
2 15 (37.50%) Linux Engineer
2 15 (37.50%) Linux Systems Engineer
2 15 (37.50%) Linux/Unix DevOps
2 15 (37.50%) Systems Engineer
3 7 (17.50%) Developer
3 7 (17.50%) Java Developer
4 4 (10.00%) Junior
4 4 (10.00%) Junior DevOps
4 4 (10.00%) Junior DevOps Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) Azure Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) Backend Developer
5 3 (7.50%) Java Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) SC Cleared Java Developer
6 2 (5.00%) DevOps Developer
7 1 (2.50%) AWS DevOps
7 1 (2.50%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (25.00%) REST
2 9 (22.50%) Elastic Stack
3 8 (20.00%) RabbitMQ
4 7 (17.50%) YAML
5 6 (15.00%) AngularJS
5 6 (15.00%) Spring
6 5 (12.50%) JSON
6 5 (12.50%) React
6 5 (12.50%) Spring Boot
6 5 (12.50%) Web Services
7 4 (10.00%) Java EE
7 4 (10.00%) JMS
7 4 (10.00%) JPA
8 2 (5.00%) RESTful
9 1 (2.50%) Apache Camel
9 1 (2.50%) J2EE
9 1 (2.50%) Mustache
9 1 (2.50%) Node.js
9 1 (2.50%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 13 (32.50%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (10.00%) Public Cloud
3 3 (7.50%) Life Science
3 3 (7.50%) Private Cloud
3 3 (7.50%) Renewable Energy
3 3 (7.50%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (7.50%) Virtual Team
4 2 (5.00%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (2.50%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.50%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 28 (70.00%) Linux
2 19 (47.50%) Ubuntu
3 1 (2.50%) FreeBSD
3 1 (2.50%) OpenBSD
3 1 (2.50%) Unix
3 1 (2.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (92.50%) DevOps
2 19 (47.50%) Infrastructure as Code
3 16 (40.00%) CI/CD
4 14 (35.00%) Agile
5 11 (27.50%) Microservices
6 9 (22.50%) Deployment Automation
6 9 (22.50%) Kanban
6 9 (22.50%) Scrum
6 9 (22.50%) Test Automation
7 7 (17.50%) Cloud Security
7 7 (17.50%) Containerisation
7 7 (17.50%) Design Patterns
7 7 (17.50%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (17.50%) Secrets Management
8 6 (15.00%) Auto-Scaling
8 6 (15.00%) TDD
9 5 (12.50%) BDD
9 5 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
9 5 (12.50%) Domain-Driven Design
9 5 (12.50%) Security Hardening
Programming Languages
1 24 (60.00%) Bash
2 11 (27.50%) Python
3 10 (25.00%) Java
4 6 (15.00%) Groovy
5 5 (12.50%) PowerShell
6 4 (10.00%) Perl
6 4 (10.00%) PL/SQL
6 4 (10.00%) SQL
7 2 (5.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 9 (22.50%) Security Cleared
2 8 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 4 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (10.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (22.50%) QA
2 3 (7.50%) SOC 2
3 1 (2.50%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (27.50%) Docker
2 5 (12.50%) Hyper-V
2 5 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (10.00%) Active Directory
4 1 (2.50%) KVM
4 1 (2.50%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 39 (97.50%) Terraform
2 15 (37.50%) Kubernetes
3 4 (10.00%) Grafana
3 4 (10.00%) Kibana
3 4 (10.00%) Packer
3 4 (10.00%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.50%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 20 (50.00%) Red Hat
2 9 (22.50%) AppDynamics
3 8 (20.00%) IBM
4 5 (12.50%) VMware
5 4 (10.00%) Oracle
6 3 (7.50%) Salesforce
7 2 (5.00%) Microsoft
8 1 (2.50%) Atlassian