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

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 155 142 61
Rank change year-on-year -13 -81 +68
Permanent jobs citing Ansible 17 43 128
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.43% 1.21% 4.11%
As % of the Systems Management category 5.61% 9.73% 22.07%
Number of salaries quoted 13 22 78
10th Percentile £50,000 £72,625 £44,750
25th Percentile £65,000 £74,063 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £85,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.59% +41.67% -17.24%
75th Percentile £85,000 £91,250 £82,000
90th Percentile £89,000 £100,000 £83,750
South East median annual salary £75,000 £65,000 £58,350
% change year-on-year +15.38% +11.40% -10.23%

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 303 442 580
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 7.66% 12.47% 18.61%
Number of salaries quoted 140 280 470
10th Percentile £34,688 £43,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £39,750 £47,500 £41,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,065 £67,500 £56,525
Median % change year-on-year -21.39% +19.42% -9.56%
75th Percentile £73,750 £82,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £95,000 £92,500
South East median annual salary £52,500 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -16.00% +13.64% -

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 21 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 21 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 -27 7 £65,000 -20.00% 8
Buckinghamshire +11 5 £75,000 -11.76% 5
Oxfordshire +7 5 £67,500 -20.59% 1
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 16 (94.12%) AWS
2 11 (64.71%) Azure
3 4 (23.53%) Amazon EC2
3 4 (23.53%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (23.53%) SaaS
4 3 (17.65%) Amazon Cognito
4 3 (17.65%) Amazon S3
4 3 (17.65%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (17.65%) Serverless
5 2 (11.76%) GCP
5 2 (11.76%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (5.88%) IaaS
6 1 (5.88%) OCI
6 1 (5.88%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 4 (23.53%) Firewall
2 3 (17.65%) LAN
2 3 (17.65%) VPN
2 3 (17.65%) WAN
2 3 (17.65%) Wireless
3 2 (11.76%) DNS
4 1 (5.88%) 5G
4 1 (5.88%) DHCP
4 1 (5.88%) MIMO
4 1 (5.88%) Network Security
4 1 (5.88%) NGN
4 1 (5.88%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (5.88%) SD-WAN
4 1 (5.88%) VLAN
4 1 (5.88%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.88%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (47.06%) Jenkins
2 3 (17.65%) GitLab
2 3 (17.65%) MLflow
3 2 (11.76%) Git
3 2 (11.76%) SonarQube
4 1 (5.88%) Testinfra
General
1 7 (41.18%) Social Skills
2 3 (17.65%) Manufacturing
2 3 (17.65%) Retail
3 2 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (23.53%) Linux Engineer
1 4 (23.53%) Linux Systems Engineer
1 4 (23.53%) Systems Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) Automation Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) DevOps Systems Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) Infrastructure Manager
2 3 (17.65%) Linux DevOps Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) Linux/Unix DevOps
2 3 (17.65%) Machine Learning Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) Operations Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Cloud Infrastructure Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Network Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Operations Team Leader
4 1 (5.88%) Platform Support Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Support Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Team Leader
4 1 (5.88%) Wireless Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (17.65%) PyTorch
2 1 (5.88%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) Animation
1 3 (17.65%) Life Science
2 1 (5.88%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.88%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (5.88%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 13 (76.47%) Linux
2 3 (17.65%) Ubuntu
2 3 (17.65%) Windows
3 1 (5.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (5.88%) Unix
3 1 (5.88%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (58.82%) Infrastructure as Code
2 8 (47.06%) DevOps
3 5 (29.41%) CI/CD
4 4 (23.53%) Configuration Management
4 4 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (17.65%) Containerisation
5 3 (17.65%) Data Acquisition
5 3 (17.65%) Data Management
5 3 (17.65%) Disaster Recovery
5 3 (17.65%) Infrastructure Automation
5 3 (17.65%) ITIL
5 3 (17.65%) Machine Learning
5 3 (17.65%) MLOps
5 3 (17.65%) Motion Capture
5 3 (17.65%) Runbook
5 3 (17.65%) Validation
6 2 (11.76%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 2 (11.76%) Knowledge Transfer
6 2 (11.76%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (52.94%) Python
2 5 (29.41%) Bash
3 3 (17.65%) C++
3 3 (17.65%) PowerShell
4 1 (5.88%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (23.53%) Degree
2 3 (17.65%) Master's Degree
3 1 (5.88%) CCIE
3 1 (5.88%) CCNP
3 1 (5.88%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (5.88%) CISSP
3 1 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (5.88%) MCSE
3 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (5.88%) RHCE
3 1 (5.88%) RHCSA
3 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.88%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 5 (29.41%) Docker
2 4 (23.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (17.65%) Active Directory
3 3 (17.65%) Hyper-V
4 2 (11.76%) vCloud
5 1 (5.88%) VMware NSX
5 1 (5.88%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (58.82%) Terraform
2 8 (47.06%) Kubernetes
3 3 (17.65%) Kubeflow
4 2 (11.76%) Docker Swarm
4 2 (11.76%) Rundeck
5 1 (5.88%) Argo
5 1 (5.88%) Grafana
5 1 (5.88%) Packer
5 1 (5.88%) Prometheus
5 1 (5.88%) Red Hat Satellite
5 1 (5.88%) SCCM
5 1 (5.88%) vCenter Server
5 1 (5.88%) WSUS
Vendors
1 6 (35.29%) Red Hat
1 6 (35.29%) VMware
2 2 (11.76%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.88%) Aruba
3 1 (5.88%) Cisco
3 1 (5.88%) Citrix
3 1 (5.88%) HP
3 1 (5.88%) Juniper
3 1 (5.88%) Oracle
3 1 (5.88%) Palo Alto
3 1 (5.88%) Pure Storage
3 1 (5.88%) SolarWinds