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 12 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 182 171 158
Rank change year-on-year -11 -13 -85
Permanent jobs citing Ansible 32 26 42
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.43% 0.69% 0.92%
As % of the Systems Management category 9.76% 7.90% 8.71%
Number of salaries quoted 17 18 19
10th Percentile £28,500 £48,000 £63,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £70,000 £73,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £85,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -23.53% +9.68% +26.53%
75th Percentile £71,250 £90,375 £85,000
90th Percentile £83,025 £94,125 £94,000
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 328 329 482
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 4.36% 8.67% 10.55%
Number of salaries quoted 254 151 273
10th Percentile £37,500 £31,250 £36,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £39,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £46,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +30.43% -29.23% +14.99%
75th Percentile £72,500 £70,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £85,000 £95,000
South East median annual salary £60,000 £50,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +20.00% -13.04% +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 12 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 12 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 +13 19 £65,000 -23.53% 20
Oxfordshire -34 10 £57,500 -28.13% 17
Buckinghamshire -10 3 £76,157 +5.04% 6
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 (3.13%) JBoss
1 1 (3.13%) OpenStack
1 1 (3.13%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 20 (62.50%) AWS
2 15 (46.88%) Azure
3 12 (37.50%) SaaS
4 10 (31.25%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (9.38%) Azure API Management
5 3 (9.38%) Azure Key Vault
5 3 (9.38%) GitHub
6 2 (6.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (6.25%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (6.25%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (6.25%) Amazon S3
6 2 (6.25%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (6.25%) Azure Sentinel
6 2 (6.25%) Entra ID
6 2 (6.25%) Serverless
6 2 (6.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (3.13%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (3.13%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (3.13%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 5 (15.63%) Firewall
2 4 (12.50%) DHCP
2 4 (12.50%) DNS
3 2 (6.25%) TCP/IP
3 2 (6.25%) VPN
4 1 (3.13%) SSH
4 1 (3.13%) Structured Cabling
4 1 (3.13%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.25%) Big Data
1 2 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (6.25%) Relational Database
2 1 (3.13%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (6.25%) Git
1 2 (6.25%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.13%) JUnit
General
1 5 (15.63%) Manufacturing
2 3 (9.38%) Banking
2 3 (9.38%) Finance
3 2 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (3.13%) Military
4 1 (3.13%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.13%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (53.13%) DevOps Engineer
2 8 (25.00%) Linux Engineer
2 8 (25.00%) Linux Systems Engineer
2 8 (25.00%) Systems Engineer
3 7 (21.88%) DevOps Systems Engineer
3 7 (21.88%) Linux DevOps Engineer
3 7 (21.88%) Linux/Unix DevOps
4 5 (15.63%) Junior
4 5 (15.63%) Junior DevOps
4 5 (15.63%) Junior DevOps Engineer
4 5 (15.63%) Senior
5 3 (9.38%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 3 (9.38%) Azure Engineer
5 3 (9.38%) Graduate Software Engineer
5 3 (9.38%) Linux Administrator
5 3 (9.38%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 3 (9.38%) Senior Linux Administrator
5 3 (9.38%) Senior Linux Systems Administrator
5 3 (9.38%) Senior Systems Administrator
5 3 (9.38%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (75.00%) Terraform
2 3 (9.38%) YAML
3 2 (6.25%) ARM Templates
3 2 (6.25%) Spring
3 2 (6.25%) Spring Boot
3 2 (6.25%) Web Services
4 1 (3.13%) AngularJS
4 1 (3.13%) Apache Camel
4 1 (3.13%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (3.13%) Guice
4 1 (3.13%) Hibernate
4 1 (3.13%) Jakarta EE
4 1 (3.13%) JSON
4 1 (3.13%) Mustache
4 1 (3.13%) Node.js
4 1 (3.13%) REST
4 1 (3.13%) RESTful
4 1 (3.13%) SOAP
4 1 (3.13%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.38%) Clustering
1 3 (9.38%) Distributed Systems
1 3 (9.38%) Private Cloud
2 2 (6.25%) ARM Cortex
2 2 (6.25%) Data Centre
2 2 (6.25%) Life Science
2 2 (6.25%) Onboarding
2 2 (6.25%) Public Cloud
2 2 (6.25%) Renewable Energy
2 2 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (6.25%) Virtual Team
3 1 (3.13%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (3.13%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 22 (68.75%) Linux
2 13 (40.63%) Ubuntu
3 5 (15.63%) Windows
4 4 (12.50%) Windows Server
5 3 (9.38%) Debian
5 3 (9.38%) Gentoo
5 3 (9.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (9.38%) Rocky
6 1 (3.13%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (68.75%) DevOps
2 14 (43.75%) Infrastructure as Code
3 11 (34.38%) CI/CD
4 8 (25.00%) Configuration Management
4 8 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (21.88%) Computer Science
6 6 (18.75%) Cloud Security
7 5 (15.63%) Agile
7 5 (15.63%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (15.63%) Software Engineering
8 4 (12.50%) AI
8 4 (12.50%) Containerisation
8 4 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
8 4 (12.50%) Kanban
8 4 (12.50%) Scrum
9 3 (9.38%) API Management
9 3 (9.38%) Deployment Automation
9 3 (9.38%) Infrastructure Automation
9 3 (9.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 3 (9.38%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 22 (68.75%) Bash
2 6 (18.75%) Python
3 4 (12.50%) PowerShell
4 3 (9.38%) Ruby
4 3 (9.38%) Shell Script
5 2 (6.25%) Bicep
5 2 (6.25%) Java
Qualifications
1 7 (21.88%) Degree
1 7 (21.88%) Security Cleared
2 6 (18.75%) DV Cleared
3 5 (15.63%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.13%) AWS Certification
4 1 (3.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (3.13%) Azure Certification
4 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (3.13%) SC Cleared
4 1 (3.13%) VCDX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.38%) QA
2 2 (6.25%) SOC 2
3 1 (3.13%) NCSC
System Software
1 7 (21.88%) Docker
2 6 (18.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (12.50%) Active Directory
4 3 (9.38%) Hyper-V
4 3 (9.38%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (9.38%) vSphere
5 2 (6.25%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (3.13%) LXC
Systems Management
1 7 (21.88%) Kubernetes
2 3 (9.38%) Grafana
2 3 (9.38%) Podman
3 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (6.25%) Progress Chef
3 2 (6.25%) Prometheus
3 2 (6.25%) Puppet
3 2 (6.25%) SCCM
4 1 (3.13%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 13 (40.63%) Red Hat
2 7 (21.88%) VMware
3 4 (12.50%) Microsoft
4 3 (9.38%) Salesforce
5 2 (6.25%) CrowdStrike
6 1 (3.13%) Dynatrace
6 1 (3.13%) ServiceNow