Ansible Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Ansible
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Ansible skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 287 86 249
Rank change year-on-year -201 +163 -70
Permanent jobs citing Ansible 371 1,044 791
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.56% 3.51% 1.04%
As % of the Systems Management category 13.62% 32.92% 12.81%
Number of salaries quoted 271 216 554
10th Percentile £45,500 £44,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -11.11%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £72,433
90th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £86,750
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -3.45%

All Systems Management Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 2,724 3,171 6,173
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 4.09% 10.68% 8.10%
Number of salaries quoted 2,087 1,575 4,287
10th Percentile £31,500 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £58,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.86% +5.45% -7.60%
75th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £61,206
% change year-on-year -3.70% +10.28% -9.32%

Ansible
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Ansible relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Ansible job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Ansible
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Ansible.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Ansible

Ansible
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Ansible in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Ansible in the UK excluding London

Ansible
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Ansible within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 June 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
South East -23 124 £70,000 +12.00% 62
North of England -208 105 £53,750 -23.21% 52
South West -4 94 £65,000 +13.04% 33
North West -162 62 £65,000 -7.14% 32
Yorkshire -86 25 £50,000 -33.22% 5
North East -29 18 £47,972 -15.84% 15
Midlands -69 16 £60,000 -17.24% 15
West Midlands -49 14 £60,000 -17.24% 10
East of England -51 13 £57,500 -8.00% 17
Wales -30 12 £65,000 +18.18% 1
Scotland -5 10 £53,750 -28.68% 10
Northern Ireland -38 2 £57,500 +4.55% 2
East Midlands -50 2 £60,000 +50.00% 5
Ansible
UK

Ansible
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 14 (3.77%) OpenStack
2 13 (3.50%) Apache
3 10 (2.70%) Confluence
4 6 (1.62%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (1.35%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.81%) IIS
7 2 (0.54%) WordPress
8 1 (0.27%) Drupal
8 1 (0.27%) JBoss
8 1 (0.27%) nginx
8 1 (0.27%) OpenEdge
8 1 (0.27%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.27%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.08%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (0.27%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 228 (61.46%) AWS
2 167 (45.01%) Azure
3 67 (18.06%) GCP
4 50 (13.48%) Amazon EKS
5 47 (12.67%) Azure DevOps
5 47 (12.67%) GitHub
6 45 (12.13%) Serverless
7 37 (9.97%) GitHub Actions
8 33 (8.89%) SaaS
9 29 (7.82%) AWS Lambda
10 27 (7.28%) OpenShift
11 26 (7.01%) Amazon S3
12 24 (6.47%) AWS CloudFormation
13 23 (6.20%) Amazon EC2
13 23 (6.20%) Microsoft 365
14 18 (4.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 17 (4.58%) Amazon ECS
16 14 (3.77%) OCI
17 13 (3.50%) Azure AKS
17 13 (3.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 90 (24.26%) Firewall
2 46 (12.40%) DNS
3 41 (11.05%) WAN
4 39 (10.51%) VPN
5 36 (9.70%) LAN
6 33 (8.89%) TCP/IP
7 26 (7.01%) BGP
8 23 (6.20%) DHCP
9 22 (5.93%) VXLAN
10 20 (5.39%) MPLS
10 20 (5.39%) NGFW
10 20 (5.39%) SD-WAN
11 18 (4.85%) Wireshark
12 16 (4.31%) HTTP
13 15 (4.04%) Network Security
14 14 (3.77%) OSPF
15 13 (3.50%) VLAN
16 12 (3.23%) Software-Defined Networking
16 12 (3.23%) Wi-Fi
17 11 (2.96%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (7.28%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (3.77%) SQL Server
3 12 (3.23%) Elasticsearch
3 12 (3.23%) MySQL
4 11 (2.96%) MongoDB
4 11 (2.96%) Relational Database
5 8 (2.16%) Amazon RDS
5 8 (2.16%) Big Data
5 8 (2.16%) Oracle Database
6 6 (1.62%) NoSQL
7 5 (1.35%) Cloudera CDH
7 5 (1.35%) Hadoop
7 5 (1.35%) InfluxDB
8 3 (0.81%) DynamoDB
8 3 (0.81%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.27%) Adabas
9 1 (0.27%) Flink
9 1 (0.27%) InterSystems Cache
9 1 (0.27%) MariaDB
9 1 (0.27%) Redis
Development Applications
1 81 (21.83%) Jenkins
2 78 (21.02%) Git
3 77 (20.75%) GitLab
4 25 (6.74%) JIRA
5 19 (5.12%) SonarQube
6 18 (4.85%) Bitbucket
7 11 (2.96%) Cucumber
8 6 (1.62%) Artifactory
9 5 (1.35%) CircleCI
9 5 (1.35%) Robot Framework
9 5 (1.35%) Selenium
10 4 (1.08%) Cypress.io
10 4 (1.08%) TestRail
11 2 (0.54%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 2 (0.54%) Jaeger
11 2 (0.54%) Octopus Deploy
11 2 (0.54%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (0.54%) TeamCity
12 1 (0.27%) Gatling
12 1 (0.27%) Vagrant
General
1 65 (17.52%) Social Skills
2 51 (13.75%) Public Sector
3 37 (9.97%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (9.16%) Aerospace
5 25 (6.74%) Finance
5 25 (6.74%) Telecoms
6 21 (5.66%) Retail
7 20 (5.39%) Law
8 14 (3.77%) Marketing
9 13 (3.50%) Manufacturing
10 12 (3.23%) Banking
11 10 (2.70%) Automotive
12 8 (2.16%) Documentation Skills
13 7 (1.89%) Spanish Language
14 4 (1.08%) Electronics
15 3 (0.81%) Advertising
15 3 (0.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 3 (0.81%) Investment Banking
16 2 (0.54%) Health Technology
16 2 (0.54%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 88 (23.72%) DevOps Engineer
2 61 (16.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 61 (16.44%) Senior
3 37 (9.97%) Linux Engineer
4 31 (8.36%) Cloud Engineer
5 27 (7.28%) Lead
6 25 (6.74%) DevSecOps Engineer
7 20 (5.39%) Software Engineer
8 19 (5.12%) Network Engineer
9 18 (4.85%) Linux DevOps Engineer
9 18 (4.85%) Linux/Unix DevOps
9 18 (4.85%) Systems Engineer
10 17 (4.58%) Developer
10 17 (4.58%) Linux Systems Engineer
10 17 (4.58%) Senior DevOps
10 17 (4.58%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 17 (4.58%) Site Engineer
10 17 (4.58%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 16 (4.31%) DevOps Systems Engineer
12 14 (3.77%) Network Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (12.94%) Elastic Stack
2 31 (8.36%) REST
3 26 (7.01%) Spring
4 24 (6.47%) Spring Boot
5 17 (4.58%) React
6 16 (4.31%) Node.js
7 15 (4.04%) RabbitMQ
8 14 (3.77%) AngularJS
8 14 (3.77%) Kafka
9 13 (3.50%) YAML
10 10 (2.70%) XMPP
11 9 (2.43%) gRPC
12 8 (2.16%) ARM Templates
12 8 (2.16%) Web Services
13 6 (1.62%) Apache NiFi
13 6 (1.62%) JSON
13 6 (1.62%) OpenTelemetry
13 6 (1.62%) RESTful
13 6 (1.62%) Vue
14 5 (1.35%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 51 (13.75%) Data Centre
2 46 (12.40%) Hybrid Cloud
3 26 (7.01%) Distributed Systems
4 24 (6.47%) Cloud Native
4 24 (6.47%) PKI
5 16 (4.31%) Public Cloud
6 14 (3.77%) Private Cloud
7 12 (3.23%) Onboarding
7 12 (3.23%) Product Ownership
8 11 (2.96%) Self-Motivation
8 11 (2.96%) Video Conferencing
9 10 (2.70%) FlexPod
10 8 (2.16%) Replication
11 6 (1.62%) Renewable Energy
12 5 (1.35%) Clustering
12 5 (1.35%) CMDB
12 5 (1.35%) Management Information System
13 4 (1.08%) Life Science
13 4 (1.08%) Mobile App
13 4 (1.08%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 209 (56.33%) Linux
2 86 (23.18%) Windows
3 55 (14.82%) Ubuntu
4 54 (14.56%) Windows Server
5 32 (8.63%) CentOS
6 31 (8.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 16 (4.31%) Debian
8 14 (3.77%) Windows Server 2016
9 13 (3.50%) Unix
10 7 (1.89%) Windows Server 2008
10 7 (1.89%) Windows Server 2012
11 5 (1.35%) Windows Server 2019
12 4 (1.08%) VMS
13 3 (0.81%) Solaris
14 2 (0.54%) Android
14 2 (0.54%) Apple iOS
15 1 (0.27%) AIX
15 1 (0.27%) FreeBSD
15 1 (0.27%) OpenBSD
15 1 (0.27%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 198 (53.37%) CI/CD
2 193 (52.02%) DevOps
3 190 (51.21%) Infrastructure as Code
4 129 (34.77%) Agile
5 107 (28.84%) Containerisation
6 88 (23.72%) Problem-Solving
7 84 (22.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 66 (17.79%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 60 (16.17%) DevSecOps
10 59 (15.90%) Mentoring
11 53 (14.29%) Observability
12 51 (13.75%) Microservices
13 49 (13.21%) Continuous Improvement
14 46 (12.40%) Configuration Management
15 45 (12.13%) High Availability
15 45 (12.13%) Platform Engineering
16 42 (11.32%) Test Automation
17 40 (10.78%) Infrastructure Automation
18 38 (10.24%) Deployment Automation
19 34 (9.16%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 201 (54.18%) Python
2 133 (35.85%) Bash
3 83 (22.37%) PowerShell
4 54 (14.56%) Java
5 38 (10.24%) Go
6 27 (7.28%) JavaScript
7 18 (4.85%) Rust
8 14 (3.77%) SQL
9 13 (3.50%) TypeScript
10 9 (2.43%) PHP
11 8 (2.16%) C
11 8 (2.16%) Perl
11 8 (2.16%) Shell Script
12 6 (1.62%) C++
12 6 (1.62%) Groovy
13 5 (1.35%) Bicep
13 5 (1.35%) Ruby
14 4 (1.08%) PL/SQL
15 3 (0.81%) C#
15 3 (0.81%) Erlang
Qualifications
1 153 (41.24%) Security Cleared
2 83 (22.37%) SC Cleared
3 72 (19.41%) DV Cleared
4 32 (8.63%) Cisco Certification
5 26 (7.01%) AWS Certification
6 24 (6.47%) Degree
7 22 (5.93%) CCNP
8 13 (3.50%) Computer Science Degree
9 10 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
9 10 (2.70%) CCNA
10 9 (2.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 9 (2.43%) RHCE
11 7 (1.89%) CCIE
12 6 (1.62%) Microsoft Certification
13 5 (1.35%) Azure Certification
14 4 (1.08%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 4 (1.08%) ISTQB
14 4 (1.08%) OSCP
14 4 (1.08%) RHCSA
14 4 (1.08%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (4.04%) QA
2 11 (2.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (1.62%) SOC 2
4 5 (1.35%) GDPR
5 4 (1.08%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.08%) NIST
6 3 (0.81%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.54%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.27%) NCSC
8 1 (0.27%) SLA
System Software
1 128 (34.50%) Docker
2 65 (17.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 31 (8.36%) vSphere
4 28 (7.55%) Active Directory
5 25 (6.74%) VMware NSX
6 13 (3.50%) Hyper-V
7 10 (2.70%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 10 (2.70%) VMware ESXi
8 9 (2.43%) KVM
9 7 (1.89%) Virtual Machines
10 6 (1.62%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 6 (1.62%) Virtual Servers
11 5 (1.35%) iptables
12 4 (1.08%) Squid
13 3 (0.81%) Lustre
14 1 (0.27%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 1 (0.27%) Firmware
14 1 (0.27%) QEMU
14 1 (0.27%) Xen
Systems Management
1 291 (78.44%) Terraform
2 178 (47.98%) Kubernetes
3 86 (23.18%) Grafana
4 57 (15.36%) Prometheus
5 48 (12.94%) Puppet
6 20 (5.39%) Progress Chef
7 16 (4.31%) vCenter Server
8 14 (3.77%) Kibana
8 14 (3.77%) Nagios
9 12 (3.23%) Podman
10 10 (2.70%) Cisco CUCM
10 10 (2.70%) logstash
10 10 (2.70%) Proxmox
11 9 (2.43%) Packer
11 9 (2.43%) ZABBIX
12 8 (2.16%) Docker Swarm
12 8 (2.16%) FortiGate
13 7 (1.89%) Nessus
14 6 (1.62%) Microsoft Intune
15 4 (1.08%) WSUS
Vendors
1 80 (21.56%) VMware
2 58 (15.63%) Microsoft
2 58 (15.63%) Red Hat
3 41 (11.05%) Splunk
4 38 (10.24%) Cisco
5 21 (5.66%) Fortinet
6 19 (5.12%) Oracle
7 12 (3.23%) Arista
7 12 (3.23%) Aruba
7 12 (3.23%) NetScout
7 12 (3.23%) Palo Alto
8 11 (2.96%) IBM
8 11 (2.96%) NetApp
9 10 (2.70%) NVIDIA
10 9 (2.43%) AppDynamics
10 9 (2.43%) Mellanox
11 8 (2.16%) Atlassian
11 8 (2.16%) Google
12 7 (1.89%) Meraki
13 5 (1.35%) SaltStack