Ansible
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Ansible skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Ansible over the 6 months to 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 196 125 111
Rank change year-on-year -71 -14 -21
Permanent jobs citing Ansible 1,494 2,793 5,427
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.48% 2.84% 3.31%
As % of the Systems Management category 15.16% 19.32% 18.00%
Number of salaries quoted 987 1,353 2,316
10th Percentile £43,468 £46,430 £45,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% +7.69%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £101,750 £105,000 £107,125
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -

All Systems Management Skills
UK

Ansible is in the Systems Management category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 9,854 14,460 30,142
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.76% 14.68% 18.40%
Number of salaries quoted 7,058 8,969 14,039
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,400 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,091 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% -3.57% +12.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £59,526 £59,526
% change year-on-year -7.60% - +8.23%

Ansible
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Ansible as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Ansible in the UK

Ansible
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Ansible.

Salary trend for Ansible in the UK

Ansible
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Ansible over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Ansible in the UK

Ansible
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Ansible within the UK over the 6 months to 23 May 2024. 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
England -65 1,296 £70,000 -2.78% 364
UK excluding London -76 956 £60,000 -7.69% 248
Work from Home -37 744 £67,500 -6.90% 179
London -33 482 £82,500 +3.13% 214
South West -17 299 £55,000 -8.33% 42
South East -28 255 £60,000 -14.29% 117
North of England -79 167 £62,783 -6.99% 35
North West -77 103 £62,783 -10.31% 24
Scotland -120 70 £65,000 -13.33% 8
Midlands -86 60 £57,500 -11.54% 19
Wales -12 53 £50,000 -14.89% 5
Yorkshire -17 53 £62,783 -3.67% 8
East of England -37 42 £61,250 -5.77% 19
West Midlands -34 30 £60,000 -11.11% 14
East Midlands -45 30 £57,500 +27.78% 5
North East -6 13 £62,783 +16.80% 3
Northern Ireland -9 13 £105,000 +61.54% 7

Ansible
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 148 (9.91%) Apache
2 71 (4.75%) OpenStack
3 65 (4.35%) Apache Spark
4 50 (3.35%) nginx
5 21 (1.41%) Jupyter
6 20 (1.34%) Confluence
7 16 (1.07%) JBoss
8 12 (0.80%) Microsoft Exchange
9 10 (0.67%) Red Hat Fuse
10 9 (0.60%) IIS
11 5 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
11 5 (0.33%) Tomcat
12 4 (0.27%) Drupal
13 3 (0.20%) CloudStack
13 3 (0.20%) SharePoint
14 2 (0.13%) MQSeries
15 1 (0.067%) WebLogic
15 1 (0.067%) WebSphere
15 1 (0.067%) WordPress
Applications
1 18 (1.20%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (1.07%) Simulink
3 10 (0.67%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.067%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.067%) PTC Creo
4 1 (0.067%) SOLIDWORKS
4 1 (0.067%) Weka
Business Applications
1 3 (0.20%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.067%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.067%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 768 (51.41%) AWS
2 649 (43.44%) Azure
3 225 (15.06%) GCP
4 168 (11.24%) OpenShift
5 137 (9.17%) Serverless
6 126 (8.43%) Amazon S3
7 120 (8.03%) GitHub
8 117 (7.83%) Amazon EKS
9 98 (6.56%) AWS CloudFormation
10 95 (6.36%) SaaS
11 93 (6.22%) Azure DevOps
12 85 (5.69%) PaaS
13 79 (5.29%) Amazon ECS
14 73 (4.89%) AWS Lambda
15 70 (4.69%) IaaS
16 55 (3.68%) Amazon EC2
17 50 (3.35%) Cloud Computing
17 50 (3.35%) GitHub Actions
18 41 (2.74%) Microsoft 365
19 28 (1.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 282 (18.88%) Firewall
2 149 (9.97%) VPN
3 143 (9.57%) DNS
4 122 (8.17%) Internet
5 100 (6.69%) WAN
6 92 (6.16%) TCP/IP
7 79 (5.29%) DHCP
8 72 (4.82%) LAN
8 72 (4.82%) SNMP
9 63 (4.22%) IPsec
10 47 (3.15%) HTTP
11 33 (2.21%) AMQP
11 33 (2.21%) Wireless
12 31 (2.07%) SAN
13 29 (1.94%) Network Security
14 25 (1.67%) BGP
15 24 (1.61%) Cisco ASA
15 24 (1.61%) SSL
16 23 (1.54%) SD-WAN
17 17 (1.14%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 136 (9.10%) PostgreSQL
2 103 (6.89%) Elasticsearch
3 93 (6.22%) MongoDB
4 78 (5.22%) Big Data
5 74 (4.95%) NoSQL
6 71 (4.75%) MySQL
7 59 (3.95%) SQL Server
8 52 (3.48%) Hadoop
9 49 (3.28%) Relational Database
10 28 (1.87%) Cloudera CDH
11 26 (1.74%) MariaDB
11 26 (1.74%) Redis
12 25 (1.67%) Amazon RDS
13 23 (1.54%) Azure SQL Database
14 20 (1.34%) Power BI
15 19 (1.27%) InfluxDB
16 17 (1.14%) Presto
17 14 (0.94%) Amazon Redshift
17 14 (0.94%) Data Warehouse
18 13 (0.87%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 407 (27.24%) Jenkins
2 299 (20.01%) Git
3 130 (8.70%) GitLab
4 125 (8.37%) JIRA
5 43 (2.88%) Bitbucket
6 42 (2.81%) SonarQube
7 38 (2.54%) Sonatype Nexus
8 31 (2.07%) TeamCity
9 29 (1.94%) Artifactory
9 29 (1.94%) Subversion
10 27 (1.81%) Vagrant
11 20 (1.34%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 18 (1.20%) IBM UrbanCode
12 18 (1.20%) Octopus Deploy
13 17 (1.14%) JUnit
14 15 (1.00%) Selenium
14 15 (1.00%) Visual Studio
15 13 (0.87%) CircleCI
15 13 (0.87%) Team Foundation Server
15 13 (0.87%) Terragrunt
General
1 277 (18.54%) Finance
2 276 (18.47%) Social Skills
3 175 (11.71%) Aerospace
4 102 (6.83%) Public Sector
5 78 (5.22%) Banking
6 64 (4.28%) Analytical Skills
7 59 (3.95%) Retail
8 37 (2.48%) Telecoms
9 34 (2.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 30 (2.01%) Presentation Skills
11 23 (1.54%) Legal
12 22 (1.47%) Law
13 20 (1.34%) Investment Banking
14 15 (1.00%) Automotive
15 12 (0.80%) Organisational Skills
16 9 (0.60%) Financial Institution
16 9 (0.60%) Tech for Good
17 7 (0.47%) Pharmaceutical
17 7 (0.47%) Publishing
18 6 (0.40%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 344 (23.03%) DevOps Engineer
2 316 (21.15%) Senior
3 218 (14.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 131 (8.77%) Cloud Engineer
5 130 (8.70%) Linux Engineer
6 126 (8.43%) Software Engineer
7 104 (6.96%) Developer
8 98 (6.56%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 93 (6.22%) AWS Engineer
10 92 (6.16%) Architect
11 89 (5.96%) Consultant
12 79 (5.29%) Senior DevOps
13 78 (5.22%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 72 (4.82%) Lead
15 70 (4.69%) Platform Engineer
16 65 (4.35%) Azure Engineer
16 65 (4.35%) Java Developer
17 54 (3.61%) NetApp Consultant
18 52 (3.48%) AWS DevOps
19 50 (3.35%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 120 (8.03%) RabbitMQ
2 116 (7.76%) Elastic Stack
3 112 (7.50%) Node.js
4 100 (6.69%) Spring
5 97 (6.49%) Spring Boot
6 91 (6.09%) REST
7 89 (5.96%) YAML
8 79 (5.29%) AngularJS
9 67 (4.48%) JSON
10 66 (4.42%) .NET
11 62 (4.15%) XML
12 55 (3.68%) Web Services
13 54 (3.61%) React
14 46 (3.08%) Kafka
15 43 (2.88%) Apache Camel
16 41 (2.74%) Swagger
17 38 (2.54%) ARM Templates
18 31 (2.07%) Middleware
19 30 (2.01%) Apache NiFi
20 29 (1.94%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 139 (9.30%) Data Centre
2 131 (8.77%) Public Cloud
3 87 (5.82%) Cloud Native
4 76 (5.09%) Distributed Systems
5 72 (4.82%) Hybrid Cloud
6 57 (3.82%) Management Information System
7 42 (2.81%) Linux Command Line
7 42 (2.81%) PKI
8 37 (2.48%) Self-Motivation
9 35 (2.34%) Clustering
10 31 (2.07%) Replication
11 29 (1.94%) Onboarding
12 28 (1.87%) Product Ownership
13 23 (1.54%) Greenfield Project
13 23 (1.54%) IoT
14 20 (1.34%) Legacy Systems
15 17 (1.14%) Enterprise Cloud
16 15 (1.00%) Cyber Defence
16 15 (1.00%) Virtual Team
17 13 (0.87%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 868 (58.10%) Linux
2 411 (27.51%) Windows
3 236 (15.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 130 (8.70%) CentOS
5 109 (7.30%) Ubuntu
6 101 (6.76%) Windows Server
7 60 (4.02%) Unix
8 55 (3.68%) Data ONTAP
9 45 (3.01%) VMS
10 36 (2.41%) Debian
11 23 (1.54%) Android
12 22 (1.47%) Solaris
13 21 (1.41%) Oracle Linux
13 21 (1.41%) Windows Server 2019
14 19 (1.27%) CoreOS
15 18 (1.20%) Windows Server 2016
16 11 (0.74%) Windows 10
17 9 (0.60%) AIX
18 8 (0.54%) Windows Server 2012
19 6 (0.40%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 787 (52.68%) DevOps
2 558 (37.35%) Agile
3 452 (30.25%) CI/CD
4 422 (28.25%) Infrastructure as Code
5 263 (17.60%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 257 (17.20%) Actionable Insight
7 249 (16.67%) Configuration Management
8 245 (16.40%) Problem-Solving
9 233 (15.60%) Software Engineering
10 229 (15.33%) Containerisation
11 202 (13.52%) Collaborative Working
12 201 (13.45%) Mentoring
13 195 (13.05%) Scrum
14 159 (10.64%) Microservices
15 155 (10.37%) Kanban
16 145 (9.71%) Continuous Integration
17 141 (9.44%) Project Management
18 133 (8.90%) Test Automation
19 123 (8.23%) Open Source
20 113 (7.56%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 715 (47.86%) Python
2 340 (22.76%) Java
3 309 (20.68%) PowerShell
4 301 (20.15%) Bash
5 160 (10.71%) JavaScript
6 152 (10.17%) SQL
7 85 (5.69%) Shell Script
8 77 (5.15%) Go
9 74 (4.95%) Perl
10 70 (4.69%) Kotlin
11 66 (4.42%) C#
12 48 (3.21%) Ruby
12 48 (3.21%) Scala
13 41 (2.74%) C++
14 39 (2.61%) C
15 32 (2.14%) Groovy
16 21 (1.41%) PHP
17 19 (1.27%) TypeScript
18 15 (1.00%) Rust
19 11 (0.74%) Korn
Qualifications
1 551 (36.88%) Security Cleared
2 291 (19.48%) SC Cleared
3 269 (18.01%) DV Cleared
4 120 (8.03%) Degree
5 57 (3.82%) Computer Science Degree
6 46 (3.08%) Azure Certification
7 45 (3.01%) AWS Certification
8 42 (2.81%) Cisco Certification
9 29 (1.94%) CISSP
10 25 (1.67%) CCNA
11 23 (1.54%) CCNP
12 21 (1.41%) BPSS Clearance
13 17 (1.14%) CISM
13 17 (1.14%) CRISC
14 16 (1.07%) GIAC
14 16 (1.07%) ISSMP
15 14 (0.94%) Master's Degree
16 11 (0.74%) CCIE
17 10 (0.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 10 (0.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (2.34%) QA
2 16 (1.07%) COBIT
3 15 (1.00%) NCSC
4 13 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (0.80%) GDPR
6 10 (0.67%) PCI DSS
7 6 (0.40%) NIST
7 6 (0.40%) SLA
8 5 (0.33%) HIPAA
9 4 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.13%) Accessibility
10 2 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 2 (0.13%) Data Quality
11 1 (0.067%) Disclosure Scotland
11 1 (0.067%) SEPA
System Software
1 601 (40.23%) Docker
2 208 (13.92%) VMware Infrastructure
3 129 (8.63%) Active Directory
4 119 (7.97%) Hyper-V
5 57 (3.82%) Virtual Machines
6 29 (1.94%) VMware ESXi
7 19 (1.27%) Firmware
7 19 (1.27%) vSphere
8 18 (1.20%) NFS
9 13 (0.87%) KVM
9 13 (0.87%) VMware NSX
10 12 (0.80%) Ceph
11 10 (0.67%) pfSense
11 10 (0.67%) Virtual Desktop
12 5 (0.33%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 5 (0.33%) DFS Replication
12 5 (0.33%) Virtual Servers
13 4 (0.27%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 4 (0.27%) XenApp
13 4 (0.27%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 822 (55.02%) Terraform
2 687 (45.98%) Kubernetes
3 332 (22.22%) Puppet
4 182 (12.18%) Progress Chef
5 141 (9.44%) Prometheus
6 96 (6.43%) Grafana
7 93 (6.22%) vCenter Server
8 44 (2.95%) Nagios
9 35 (2.34%) HAProxy
9 35 (2.34%) ZABBIX
10 32 (2.14%) Docker Swarm
11 27 (1.81%) Kibana
12 23 (1.54%) SCCM
13 21 (1.41%) Packer
14 20 (1.34%) Red Hat Satellite
15 19 (1.27%) Salt
15 19 (1.27%) Single Sign-On
16 18 (1.20%) Rancher
17 17 (1.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
18 16 (1.07%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
Vendors
1 274 (18.34%) Red Hat
2 264 (17.67%) VMware
3 156 (10.44%) Microsoft
4 100 (6.69%) Google
5 77 (5.15%) Cisco
6 76 (5.09%) Palo Alto
7 72 (4.82%) NetApp
8 70 (4.69%) Oracle
9 54 (3.61%) SolidFire
10 44 (2.95%) SaltStack
11 41 (2.74%) WSO2
12 39 (2.61%) ServiceNow
13 38 (2.54%) Splunk
14 36 (2.41%) Atlassian
15 35 (2.34%) Fortinet
16 29 (1.94%) Juniper
17 26 (1.74%) McAfee
17 26 (1.74%) New Relic
18 25 (1.67%) IBM
19 24 (1.61%) F5