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 4 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 159 147 71
Rank change year-on-year -12 -76 +65
Permanent jobs citing Ansible 19 44 131
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.50% 1.08% 4.05%
As % of the Systems Management category 6.01% 9.13% 22.94%
Number of salaries quoted 14 21 63
10th Percentile £54,500 £72,500 £38,000
25th Percentile £66,250 £73,750 £50,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £85,000 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.71% +46.55% -20.00%
75th Percentile £85,000 £92,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,350 £100,000 £83,750
South East median annual salary £70,000 £62,500 £57,750
% change year-on-year +12.00% +8.23% -11.15%

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 316 482 571
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 8.30% 11.87% 17.65%
Number of salaries quoted 148 301 449
10th Percentile £30,750 £43,750 £30,500
25th Percentile £39,750 £47,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +18.18% -12.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £95,000 £92,500
South East median annual salary £50,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -15.83% +9.09% -4.35%

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 4 December 2025.

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 4 December 2025. 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 -10 8 £80,000 -1.54% 10
Buckinghamshire +21 6 £75,000 -11.76% 7
Oxfordshire +19 5 £67,500 -20.59% 9
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 (5.26%) JBoss
1 1 (5.26%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 18 (94.74%) AWS
2 13 (68.42%) Azure
3 4 (21.05%) Amazon EC2
3 4 (21.05%) Serverless
4 3 (15.79%) Amazon Cognito
4 3 (15.79%) Amazon S3
4 3 (15.79%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (15.79%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (15.79%) GCP
4 3 (15.79%) SaaS
5 2 (10.53%) IaaS
5 2 (10.53%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (10.53%) OCI
6 1 (5.26%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (5.26%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (5.26%) OpenShift
6 1 (5.26%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (21.05%) Firewall
2 3 (15.79%) LAN
2 3 (15.79%) VPN
2 3 (15.79%) WAN
2 3 (15.79%) Wireless
3 2 (10.53%) DNS
4 1 (5.26%) 5G
4 1 (5.26%) DHCP
4 1 (5.26%) MIMO
4 1 (5.26%) Network Security
4 1 (5.26%) NGN
4 1 (5.26%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (5.26%) SD-WAN
4 1 (5.26%) VLAN
4 1 (5.26%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (5.26%) Relational Database
1 1 (5.26%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (57.89%) Jenkins
2 5 (26.32%) Git
2 5 (26.32%) GitLab
3 4 (21.05%) SonarQube
4 3 (15.79%) MLflow
5 1 (5.26%) JUnit
5 1 (5.26%) Testinfra
General
1 8 (42.11%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.79%) Manufacturing
2 3 (15.79%) Retail
3 2 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Advertising
4 1 (5.26%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (26.32%) Automation Engineer
2 3 (15.79%) Architect
2 3 (15.79%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (15.79%) Infrastructure Manager
2 3 (15.79%) Linux Engineer
2 3 (15.79%) Linux Systems Engineer
2 3 (15.79%) Machine Learning Engineer
2 3 (15.79%) Operations Engineer
2 3 (15.79%) Systems Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) DevOps Systems Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Linux DevOps Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Linux/Unix DevOps
4 1 (5.26%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (5.26%) Cloud Infrastructure Manager
4 1 (5.26%) DevOps Automation Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Lead
4 1 (5.26%) Lead Cloud Architect
4 1 (5.26%) Network Infrastructure Manager
4 1 (5.26%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Platform Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.79%) PyTorch
2 1 (5.26%) Apache Camel
2 1 (5.26%) J2EE
2 1 (5.26%) JSON
2 1 (5.26%) REST
2 1 (5.26%) RESTful
2 1 (5.26%) SOAP
2 1 (5.26%) Spring
2 1 (5.26%) Spring Boot
2 1 (5.26%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.79%) Animation
1 3 (15.79%) Life Science
2 1 (5.26%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (5.26%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (5.26%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (5.26%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 14 (73.68%) Linux
2 5 (26.32%) Windows
3 2 (10.53%) Ubuntu
4 1 (5.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (5.26%) Unix
4 1 (5.26%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (63.16%) Infrastructure as Code
2 9 (47.37%) DevOps
3 6 (31.58%) CI/CD
4 5 (26.32%) Configuration Management
4 5 (26.32%) Containerisation
4 5 (26.32%) Infrastructure Automation
4 5 (26.32%) Runbook
4 5 (26.32%) Scrum
4 5 (26.32%) Validation
5 4 (21.05%) Agile
5 4 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (15.79%) Continuous Deployment
6 3 (15.79%) Data Acquisition
6 3 (15.79%) Data Management
6 3 (15.79%) Disaster Recovery
6 3 (15.79%) Machine Learning
6 3 (15.79%) MLOps
6 3 (15.79%) Motion Capture
6 3 (15.79%) Risk Management
6 3 (15.79%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 11 (57.89%) Python
2 4 (21.05%) Bash
3 3 (15.79%) C++
3 3 (15.79%) PowerShell
4 1 (5.26%) Java
4 1 (5.26%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (21.05%) Degree
2 3 (15.79%) Master's Degree
2 3 (15.79%) SC Cleared
2 3 (15.79%) Security Cleared
3 1 (5.26%) CCIE
3 1 (5.26%) CCNP
3 1 (5.26%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (5.26%) CISSP
3 1 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (5.26%) DV Cleared
3 1 (5.26%) MCSE
3 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (5.26%) RHCE
3 1 (5.26%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (5.26%) NCSC
1 1 (5.26%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (42.11%) Docker
2 4 (21.05%) vCloud
2 4 (21.05%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (15.79%) Active Directory
3 3 (15.79%) Hyper-V
4 1 (5.26%) VMware NSX
4 1 (5.26%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 11 (57.89%) Kubernetes
2 9 (47.37%) Terraform
3 4 (21.05%) Docker Swarm
3 4 (21.05%) Rundeck
4 3 (15.79%) Kubeflow
5 1 (5.26%) Argo
5 1 (5.26%) Grafana
5 1 (5.26%) Packer
5 1 (5.26%) Prometheus
5 1 (5.26%) Red Hat Satellite
5 1 (5.26%) SCCM
5 1 (5.26%) vCenter Server
5 1 (5.26%) WSUS
Vendors
1 8 (42.11%) VMware
2 5 (26.32%) Red Hat
3 2 (10.53%) Microsoft
4 1 (5.26%) Aruba
4 1 (5.26%) Cisco
4 1 (5.26%) Citrix
4 1 (5.26%) HP
4 1 (5.26%) Juniper
4 1 (5.26%) Oracle
4 1 (5.26%) Palo Alto
4 1 (5.26%) Pure Storage
4 1 (5.26%) SolarWinds