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 25 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 149 118 128
Rank change year-on-year -31 +10 +16
Permanent jobs citing Ansible 20 42 116
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.41% 1.54% 1.87%
As % of the Systems Management category 7.94% 15.05% 15.32%
Number of salaries quoted 16 15 79
10th Percentile - £50,500 £51,250
25th Percentile - £72,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £85,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -41.18% +30.77% -3.70%
75th Percentile £68,750 £96,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £81,250 £100,000 £83,750
South East median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +20.83% -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 252 279 757
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 5.22% 10.20% 12.21%
Number of salaries quoted 127 182 638
10th Percentile £31,260 £36,350 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,250 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.20% +6.52% -
75th Percentile £73,125 £81,250 £77,188
90th Percentile £80,000 £99,750 £92,500
South East median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -

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 25 March 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 25 March 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 0 14 £50,000 -40.30% 20
Oxfordshire -7 4 £67,500 -20.59% 5
Buckinghamshire -31 2 £75,000 -11.76% 2
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:

Cloud Services
1 19 (95.00%) AWS
2 15 (75.00%) Azure
3 10 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
3 10 (50.00%) SaaS
4 3 (15.00%) Amazon Cognito
4 3 (15.00%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (15.00%) Amazon S3
4 3 (15.00%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (15.00%) Serverless
5 2 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (5.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (5.00%) GCP
6 1 (5.00%) IaaS
6 1 (5.00%) Nutanix
6 1 (5.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 4 (20.00%) Firewall
2 3 (15.00%) DNS
2 3 (15.00%) VPN
2 3 (15.00%) Wireless
3 2 (10.00%) LAN
3 2 (10.00%) WAN
4 1 (5.00%) 5G
4 1 (5.00%) DHCP
4 1 (5.00%) HTTP
4 1 (5.00%) HTTPS
4 1 (5.00%) MIMO
4 1 (5.00%) NGN
4 1 (5.00%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (5.00%) SMTP
4 1 (5.00%) SSL
4 1 (5.00%) VLAN
Development Applications
1 5 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (15.00%) MLflow
3 2 (10.00%) Git
4 1 (5.00%) GitLab
General
1 5 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (20.00%) Manufacturing
3 3 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (15.00%) Retail
4 1 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 9 (45.00%) DevOps Systems Engineer
2 9 (45.00%) Linux DevOps Engineer
2 9 (45.00%) Linux Engineer
2 9 (45.00%) Linux Systems Engineer
2 9 (45.00%) Linux/Unix DevOps
2 9 (45.00%) Systems Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) Machine Learning Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) Operations Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Architect
4 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Manager
5 1 (5.00%) Automation Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Cloud Consultant
5 1 (5.00%) Consultant
5 1 (5.00%) Lead
5 1 (5.00%) Operations Team Leader
5 1 (5.00%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Team Leader
5 1 (5.00%) Wireless Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.00%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 4 (20.00%) Life Science
2 3 (15.00%) Animation
3 2 (10.00%) Public Cloud
4 1 (5.00%) Cloud Native
4 1 (5.00%) Data Centre
4 1 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (5.00%) Private Cloud
4 1 (5.00%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (5.00%) Security Posture
4 1 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (5.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 16 (80.00%) Linux
2 9 (45.00%) Ubuntu
3 1 (5.00%) FreeBSD
3 1 (5.00%) OpenBSD
3 1 (5.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (75.00%) DevOps
2 8 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 6 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (20.00%) CI/CD
5 3 (15.00%) Configuration Management
5 3 (15.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (15.00%) Data Acquisition
5 3 (15.00%) Data Management
5 3 (15.00%) Machine Learning
5 3 (15.00%) MLOps
5 3 (15.00%) Motion Capture
6 2 (10.00%) Business Continuity
6 2 (10.00%) Computer Science
6 2 (10.00%) Containerisation
6 2 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
6 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 2 (10.00%) ITIL
6 2 (10.00%) Knowledge Transfer
6 2 (10.00%) Service Management
6 2 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (65.00%) Bash
2 8 (40.00%) Python
3 4 (20.00%) PowerShell
4 3 (15.00%) C++
Qualifications
1 5 (25.00%) Degree
2 3 (15.00%) Master's Degree
3 2 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (5.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) QA
1 1 (5.00%) SLA
1 1 (5.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 5 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (20.00%) Docker
2 4 (20.00%) Hyper-V
3 3 (15.00%) Active Directory
4 2 (10.00%) VMware NSX
5 1 (5.00%) KVM
5 1 (5.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 16 (80.00%) Terraform
2 7 (35.00%) Kubernetes
3 3 (15.00%) Kubeflow
4 2 (10.00%) Grafana
4 2 (10.00%) Prometheus
5 1 (5.00%) Argo
5 1 (5.00%) Proxmox
5 1 (5.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 11 (55.00%) Red Hat
2 5 (25.00%) VMware
3 3 (15.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (5.00%) Pure Storage