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 16 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 130 119 144
Rank change year-on-year -11 +25 -1
Permanent jobs citing Ansible 32 45 109
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.60% 1.60% 1.67%
As % of the Systems Management category 16.67% 18.15% 14.12%
Number of salaries quoted 22 14 73
10th Percentile - £39,875 £52,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £63,750 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,250 £85,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.06% +30.77% -3.70%
75th Percentile £83,750 £91,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £84,875 £98,500 £83,750
South East median annual salary £72,500 £72,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +0.69% +20.00% -11.11%

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 192 248 772
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 3.62% 8.79% 11.81%
Number of salaries quoted 129 160 649
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £61,250 £55,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.76% +10.36% -7.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,563 £76,250
90th Percentile £83,750 £97,750 £92,500
South East median annual salary £58,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% +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 16 April 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 16 April 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 +8 27 £65,000 -23.53% 14
Oxfordshire -12 3 £67,500 +3.85% 4
Buckinghamshire -24 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 31 (96.88%) AWS
2 21 (65.63%) Azure
3 13 (40.63%) SaaS
4 12 (37.50%) Azure DevOps
4 12 (37.50%) Serverless
5 10 (31.25%) Amazon EKS
5 10 (31.25%) AWS Lambda
6 8 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
6 8 (25.00%) Amazon S3
7 4 (12.50%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (6.25%) Amazon Cognito
8 2 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (3.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (3.13%) GCP
9 1 (3.13%) IaaS
9 1 (3.13%) Nutanix
9 1 (3.13%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 4 (12.50%) Firewall
2 3 (9.38%) DNS
2 3 (9.38%) VPN
2 3 (9.38%) Wireless
3 2 (6.25%) LAN
3 2 (6.25%) WAN
4 1 (3.13%) 5G
4 1 (3.13%) DHCP
4 1 (3.13%) HTTP
4 1 (3.13%) HTTPS
4 1 (3.13%) MIMO
4 1 (3.13%) NGN
4 1 (3.13%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (3.13%) SMTP
4 1 (3.13%) SSL
4 1 (3.13%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.38%) Relational Database
2 1 (3.13%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 14 (43.75%) Jenkins
2 12 (37.50%) Git
3 7 (21.88%) GitLab
4 6 (18.75%) SonarQube
5 5 (15.63%) Cucumber
5 5 (15.63%) JIRA
6 4 (12.50%) Artifactory
7 2 (6.25%) MLflow
General
1 8 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (15.63%) Public Sector
3 3 (9.38%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (9.38%) Manufacturing
3 3 (9.38%) Retail
4 1 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 19 (59.38%) DevOps Engineer
2 11 (34.38%) DevOps Systems Engineer
2 11 (34.38%) Linux DevOps Engineer
2 11 (34.38%) Linux Engineer
2 11 (34.38%) Linux Systems Engineer
2 11 (34.38%) Linux/Unix DevOps
2 11 (34.38%) Systems Engineer
3 6 (18.75%) Developer
3 6 (18.75%) Java Developer
4 3 (9.38%) Backend Developer
4 3 (9.38%) SC Cleared Java Developer
5 2 (6.25%) Architect
5 2 (6.25%) DevOps Developer
5 2 (6.25%) Infrastructure Manager
5 2 (6.25%) Java Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Machine Learning Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Operations Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) AWS Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) Cloud Consultant
6 1 (3.13%) Operations Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (28.13%) REST
2 8 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
2 8 (25.00%) RabbitMQ
3 5 (15.63%) AngularJS
3 5 (15.63%) JSON
3 5 (15.63%) React
3 5 (15.63%) Spring
4 4 (12.50%) Java EE
4 4 (12.50%) JMS
4 4 (12.50%) JPA
4 4 (12.50%) Spring Boot
4 4 (12.50%) Web Services
4 4 (12.50%) YAML
5 2 (6.25%) PyTorch
5 2 (6.25%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 10 (31.25%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (9.38%) Life Science
3 2 (6.25%) Animation
3 2 (6.25%) Distributed Architecture
3 2 (6.25%) Public Cloud
4 1 (3.13%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.13%) Data Centre
4 1 (3.13%) Private Cloud
4 1 (3.13%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (3.13%) Security Posture
4 1 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (3.13%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 24 (75.00%) Linux
2 12 (37.50%) Ubuntu
3 1 (3.13%) FreeBSD
3 1 (3.13%) OpenBSD
3 1 (3.13%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (84.38%) DevOps
2 14 (43.75%) Infrastructure as Code
3 11 (34.38%) Agile
3 11 (34.38%) CI/CD
4 10 (31.25%) Microservices
5 7 (21.88%) Deployment Automation
5 7 (21.88%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (21.88%) Test Automation
6 6 (18.75%) Auto-Scaling
6 6 (18.75%) Containerisation
6 6 (18.75%) Kanban
6 6 (18.75%) Scrum
7 5 (15.63%) BDD
7 5 (15.63%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (15.63%) Design Patterns
7 5 (15.63%) Domain-Driven Design
7 5 (15.63%) Secrets Management
7 5 (15.63%) Security Hardening
7 5 (15.63%) TDD
8 4 (12.50%) Issue Tracking
Programming Languages
1 16 (50.00%) Bash
2 13 (40.63%) Python
3 9 (28.13%) Java
4 6 (18.75%) Groovy
5 4 (12.50%) Perl
5 4 (12.50%) PL/SQL
5 4 (12.50%) PowerShell
5 4 (12.50%) SQL
6 2 (6.25%) C++
6 2 (6.25%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 10 (31.25%) Security Cleared
2 9 (28.13%) SC Cleared
3 4 (12.50%) Degree
4 2 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (6.25%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (18.75%) QA
2 1 (3.13%) SLA
2 1 (3.13%) SOC 2
System Software
1 10 (31.25%) Docker
2 5 (15.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (12.50%) Hyper-V
4 3 (9.38%) Active Directory
5 2 (6.25%) VMware NSX
6 1 (3.13%) KVM
6 1 (3.13%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 29 (90.63%) Terraform
2 16 (50.00%) Kubernetes
3 4 (12.50%) Kibana
3 4 (12.50%) Packer
4 2 (6.25%) Grafana
4 2 (6.25%) Kubeflow
4 2 (6.25%) Prometheus
5 1 (3.13%) Argo
5 1 (3.13%) Proxmox
5 1 (3.13%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 14 (43.75%) Red Hat
2 9 (28.13%) AppDynamics
3 8 (25.00%) IBM
4 5 (15.63%) VMware
5 4 (12.50%) Oracle
6 3 (9.38%) Microsoft
7 1 (3.13%) Atlassian
7 1 (3.13%) Pure Storage