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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 164 153 78
Rank change year-on-year -11 -75 +82
Permanent jobs citing Ansible 33 44 132
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.85% 0.91% 3.53%
As % of the Systems Management category 11.58% 9.11% 23.87%
Number of salaries quoted 19 20 67
10th Percentile £46,150 £51,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £70,000 £56,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £76,250 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.48% +17.31% -10.34%
75th Percentile £91,500 £85,000 £81,625
90th Percentile £95,000 - £98,500
South East median annual salary £64,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +16.36% -15.38% +4.00%

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 285 483 553
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 7.37% 9.97% 14.77%
Number of salaries quoted 161 297 433
10th Percentile £32,500 £36,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £39,250 £46,250 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -18.33% +4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £73,750 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £92,700 £95,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%

Ansible
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Ansible as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Ansible 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 17 September 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 17 September 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 -20 19 £85,000 +9.68% 8
Buckinghamshire -4 8 £72,500 +20.83% 3
Oxfordshire +24 6 £80,000 +45.45% 4
Ansible
South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 7 (21.21%) JBoss
1 7 (21.21%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 1 (3.03%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 27 (81.82%) AWS
2 13 (39.39%) Azure
3 11 (33.33%) Serverless
4 9 (27.27%) Amazon EKS
5 8 (24.24%) Amazon ECS
6 6 (18.18%) GCP
7 5 (15.15%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (12.12%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (12.12%) Amazon S3
8 4 (12.12%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (12.12%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 3 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (9.09%) GitHub
10 2 (6.06%) OCI
10 2 (6.06%) Power Platform
11 1 (3.03%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 1 (3.03%) AWS KMS
11 1 (3.03%) IaaS
11 1 (3.03%) PaaS
11 1 (3.03%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (21.21%) LAN
1 7 (21.21%) WAN
2 6 (18.18%) Firewall
3 4 (12.12%) DNS
3 4 (12.12%) VPN
4 1 (3.03%) DHCP
4 1 (3.03%) Network Security
4 1 (3.03%) SD-WAN
4 1 (3.03%) SSL
4 1 (3.03%) VLAN
4 1 (3.03%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (27.27%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (21.21%) Relational Database
3 4 (12.12%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (9.09%) SQL Server
5 2 (6.06%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 15 (45.45%) Jenkins
2 10 (30.30%) Git
3 7 (21.21%) JUnit
4 4 (12.12%) GitLab
4 4 (12.12%) SonarQube
5 1 (3.03%) Bitbucket Server
5 1 (3.03%) Testinfra
General
1 10 (30.30%) Social Skills
2 8 (24.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 7 (21.21%) Public Sector
4 3 (9.09%) Law
5 2 (6.06%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (3.03%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 10 (30.30%) Platform Engineer
2 9 (27.27%) Developer
3 7 (21.21%) Java Developer
3 7 (21.21%) Lead
4 4 (12.12%) Automation Engineer
5 3 (9.09%) AWS Engineer
5 3 (9.09%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 3 (9.09%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 3 (9.09%) Senior
5 3 (9.09%) Senior Platform Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Power Platform Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Software Developer
7 1 (3.03%) Architect
7 1 (3.03%) Cloud Architect
7 1 (3.03%) Cloud Infrastructure Manager
7 1 (3.03%) Lead Architect
7 1 (3.03%) Network Infrastructure Manager
7 1 (3.03%) Support Engineer
7 1 (3.03%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (27.27%) REST
1 9 (27.27%) Spring Boot
2 7 (21.21%) Apache Camel
2 7 (21.21%) J2EE
2 7 (21.21%) RESTful
2 7 (21.21%) SOAP
2 7 (21.21%) Spring
2 7 (21.21%) Web Services
3 2 (6.06%) .NET
3 2 (6.06%) ActiveMQ
3 2 (6.06%) Kafka
3 2 (6.06%) Node.js
3 2 (6.06%) Pandas
3 2 (6.06%) React
4 1 (3.03%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 7 (21.21%) Distributed Systems
1 7 (21.21%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (9.09%) Virtual Team
3 2 (6.06%) Cyberattack
4 1 (3.03%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (3.03%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (27.27%) Linux
2 5 (15.15%) Windows
3 2 (6.06%) Android
4 1 (3.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (3.03%) Ubuntu
4 1 (3.03%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (48.48%) Agile
2 15 (45.45%) Infrastructure as Code
3 12 (36.36%) DevOps
4 11 (33.33%) Scrum
5 10 (30.30%) Infrastructure Automation
6 9 (27.27%) CI/CD
6 9 (27.27%) Kanban
6 9 (27.27%) Platform Engineering
7 8 (24.24%) Runbook
8 7 (21.21%) BDD
8 7 (21.21%) Microservices
8 7 (21.21%) Roadmaps
8 7 (21.21%) TDD
9 6 (18.18%) Business Strategy
9 6 (18.18%) Containerisation
9 6 (18.18%) Customer-Centricity
9 6 (18.18%) GTM Strategy
9 6 (18.18%) Mentoring
9 6 (18.18%) Network Virtualisation
9 6 (18.18%) Strategic Planning
Programming Languages
1 18 (54.55%) Python
2 11 (33.33%) Java
3 8 (24.24%) PowerShell
4 4 (12.12%) Bash
4 4 (12.12%) JavaScript
5 2 (6.06%) C++
5 2 (6.06%) Go
5 2 (6.06%) Rust
5 2 (6.06%) TypeScript
6 1 (3.03%) Shell Script
6 1 (3.03%) SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (48.48%) Security Cleared
2 13 (39.39%) SC Cleared
3 3 (9.09%) Degree
3 3 (9.09%) DV Cleared
4 1 (3.03%) CCIE
4 1 (3.03%) CCNP
4 1 (3.03%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (3.03%) CISSP
4 1 (3.03%) MCSE
4 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (3.03%) RHCE
4 1 (3.03%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (21.21%) SLA
2 1 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.03%) NCSC
System Software
1 16 (48.48%) Docker
2 4 (12.12%) vCloud
3 3 (9.09%) Active Directory
4 2 (6.06%) Hyper-V
4 2 (6.06%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (6.06%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (3.03%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 19 (57.58%) Terraform
2 16 (48.48%) Kubernetes
3 4 (12.12%) Docker Swarm
3 4 (12.12%) Rundeck
4 3 (9.09%) Puppet
5 2 (6.06%) SCCM
6 1 (3.03%) Nessus
6 1 (3.03%) Packer
6 1 (3.03%) Proxmox
6 1 (3.03%) Red Hat Satellite
6 1 (3.03%) WSUS
Vendors
1 7 (21.21%) Aruba
1 7 (21.21%) Cisco
1 7 (21.21%) Palo Alto
2 6 (18.18%) Fortinet
2 6 (18.18%) Mellanox
2 6 (18.18%) NVIDIA
2 6 (18.18%) VMware
3 2 (6.06%) Citrix
3 2 (6.06%) Juniper
3 2 (6.06%) Microsoft
3 2 (6.06%) SolarWinds
3 2 (6.06%) WSO2
4 1 (3.03%) HP
4 1 (3.03%) Oracle
4 1 (3.03%) Red Hat