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 10 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 119 125 109
Rank change year-on-year +6 -16 -25
Permanent jobs citing Ansible 1,464 3,405 4,040
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.80% 2.79% 3.18%
As % of the Systems Management category 18.43% 17.95% 19.15%
Number of salaries quoted 952 1,846 2,501
10th Percentile £48,075 £46,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £74,589 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.55% +6.56% +7.69%
75th Percentile £90,781 £93,750 £86,250
90th Percentile £106,289 £107,500 £101,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% +5.73%

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 7,942 18,973 21,100
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 15.19% 15.52% 16.60%
Number of salaries quoted 6,281 11,371 14,021
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £48,091 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% - +12.50%
75th Percentile £84,056 £87,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £105,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,525 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -1.70% - +9.52%

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 10 December 2023.

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 10 December 2023. 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 +8 1,299 £75,000 - 384
UK excluding London +50 832 £65,000 - 242
Work from Home +26 692 £75,000 - 209
London -9 560 £80,000 -5.88% 186
South East +86 232 £58,350 -10.23% 78
South West +30 218 £70,000 +21.74% 34
North of England +58 192 £60,000 -11.11% 59
North West +69 109 £55,000 -18.52% 21
Yorkshire +61 83 £62,500 -3.39% 34
Scotland +28 67 £70,576 +12.92% 25
Midlands -20 66 £67,500 +3.85% 24
East of England +26 38 £70,000 +16.67% 19
East Midlands -10 34 £60,000 -7.69% 10
West Midlands +23 32 £70,000 +7.69% 14
Northern Ireland +43 19 £110,000 +76.00% 2
Wales +7 18 £67,788 +12.98% 3
North East +13 6 £60,000 -14.29% 4

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 84 (5.74%) Confluence
2 67 (4.58%) Apache
3 28 (1.91%) nginx
4 24 (1.64%) OpenStack
5 21 (1.43%) Apache Spark
6 14 (0.96%) MS Exchange
6 14 (0.96%) SharePoint
6 14 (0.96%) Tomcat
7 13 (0.89%) JBoss
8 12 (0.82%) IIS
8 12 (0.82%) Jupyter
9 11 (0.75%) WebLogic
10 10 (0.68%) Red Hat Fuse
10 10 (0.68%) WebSphere
11 9 (0.61%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 5 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
13 4 (0.27%) MQSeries
14 3 (0.20%) Luigi
15 2 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
15 2 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 9 (0.61%) AutoCAD
1 9 (0.61%) PTC Creo
1 9 (0.61%) SOLIDWORKS
2 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.068%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (0.48%) SAP Business One
2 2 (0.14%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.14%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 821 (56.08%) AWS
2 695 (47.47%) Azure
3 218 (14.89%) OpenShift
4 188 (12.84%) GCP
5 179 (12.23%) PaaS
5 179 (12.23%) SaaS
6 172 (11.75%) IaaS
7 143 (9.77%) Azure DevOps
8 125 (8.54%) Serverless
9 115 (7.86%) GitHub
10 99 (6.76%) AWS CloudFormation
11 82 (5.60%) Amazon EKS
12 73 (4.99%) AWS Lambda
13 65 (4.44%) Amazon EC2
14 52 (3.55%) Amazon S3
14 52 (3.55%) Microsoft 365
15 47 (3.21%) Amazon ECS
15 47 (3.21%) OCI
16 45 (3.07%) Datadog
16 45 (3.07%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 181 (12.36%) DNS
2 157 (10.72%) TCP/IP
3 142 (9.70%) DHCP
4 132 (9.02%) Firewall
5 94 (6.42%) HTTP
6 83 (5.67%) VPN
7 79 (5.40%) SAN
8 55 (3.76%) WAN
9 48 (3.28%) LAN
10 41 (2.80%) OSPF
11 39 (2.66%) IPv4
12 37 (2.53%) BGP
12 37 (2.53%) Internet
13 36 (2.46%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
13 36 (2.46%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 30 (2.05%) VLAN
15 26 (1.78%) MPLS
16 25 (1.71%) Network Security
17 22 (1.50%) SD-WAN
18 18 (1.23%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (6.01%) PostgreSQL
2 68 (4.64%) Big Data
3 59 (4.03%) MySQL
4 52 (3.55%) SQL Server
5 41 (2.80%) Amazon RDS
6 36 (2.46%) MongoDB
7 35 (2.39%) Elasticsearch
7 35 (2.39%) NoSQL
8 33 (2.25%) Relational Database
9 25 (1.71%) DynamoDB
10 23 (1.57%) Hadoop
11 21 (1.43%) Data Lake
11 21 (1.43%) InfluxDB
12 17 (1.16%) Amazon Redshift
12 17 (1.16%) Apache Cassandra
13 12 (0.82%) Amazon Athena
14 10 (0.68%) Presto
14 10 (0.68%) SAP HANA
15 9 (0.61%) MariaDB
15 9 (0.61%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 384 (26.23%) Jenkins
2 234 (15.98%) Git
3 132 (9.02%) GitLab
4 125 (8.54%) JIRA
5 93 (6.35%) Artifactory
6 81 (5.53%) Bitbucket
7 64 (4.37%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 55 (3.76%) SonarQube
9 50 (3.42%) Maven
10 43 (2.94%) CircleCI
11 38 (2.60%) Sonatype Nexus
12 30 (2.05%) Selenium
13 25 (1.71%) TeamCity
14 21 (1.43%) Liquibase
15 20 (1.37%) Team Foundation Server
16 18 (1.23%) git-flow
17 17 (1.16%) Cucumber
18 15 (1.02%) JUnit
19 14 (0.96%) Subversion
20 12 (0.82%) Chocolatey
General
1 300 (20.49%) Finance
2 293 (20.01%) Social Skills
3 142 (9.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 88 (6.01%) Public Sector
5 80 (5.46%) Banking
6 78 (5.33%) Presentation Skills
7 71 (4.85%) Aerospace
8 62 (4.23%) Retail
9 47 (3.21%) Analytical Skills
10 45 (3.07%) Organisational Skills
11 26 (1.78%) Front Office
12 18 (1.23%) Telecoms
13 17 (1.16%) Law
14 16 (1.09%) Investment Banking
15 15 (1.02%) Financial Institution
16 14 (0.96%) Documentation Skills
17 11 (0.75%) Influencing Skills
18 10 (0.68%) Games
19 9 (0.61%) Legal
20 5 (0.34%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 497 (33.95%) DevOps Engineer
2 284 (19.40%) Senior
3 243 (16.60%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 149 (10.18%) Senior DevOps
5 148 (10.11%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 141 (9.63%) Architect
7 127 (8.67%) AWS Engineer
8 117 (7.99%) Cloud Engineer
9 107 (7.31%) Lead
10 90 (6.15%) Azure Engineer
11 84 (5.74%) AWS DevOps
11 84 (5.74%) Infrastructure Architect
11 84 (5.74%) Linux Engineer
12 83 (5.67%) Developer
13 77 (5.26%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 72 (4.92%) Platform Engineer
15 67 (4.58%) Software Engineer
16 57 (3.89%) Azure DevOps Engineer
17 54 (3.69%) Java Developer
18 48 (3.28%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 141 (9.63%) Elastic Stack
2 98 (6.69%) Kafka
3 83 (5.67%) REST
4 81 (5.53%) YAML
5 55 (3.76%) RabbitMQ
6 54 (3.69%) JSON
6 54 (3.69%) Spring
7 51 (3.48%) Spring Boot
8 47 (3.21%) React
9 42 (2.87%) .NET
10 39 (2.66%) Node.js
11 37 (2.53%) AngularJS
12 30 (2.05%) LDAP
13 28 (1.91%) Spine.js
14 25 (1.71%) Web Services
15 23 (1.57%) RESTful
16 21 (1.43%) XML
17 19 (1.30%) ARM Templates
18 17 (1.16%) Apache Camel
18 17 (1.16%) Apache NiFi
Miscellaneous
1 218 (14.89%) Public Cloud
2 113 (7.72%) Data Centre
3 99 (6.76%) Private Cloud
4 76 (5.19%) Cloud Native
5 72 (4.92%) Virtual Team
6 65 (4.44%) Distributed Systems
7 48 (3.28%) Hybrid Cloud
8 42 (2.87%) Linux Command Line
9 27 (1.84%) Derivative
10 26 (1.78%) Greenfield Project
11 25 (1.71%) PKI
12 24 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
13 17 (1.16%) Enterprise Software
14 16 (1.09%) Onboarding
15 12 (0.82%) Cyber Defence
15 12 (0.82%) Legacy Systems
15 12 (0.82%) Management Information System
16 11 (0.75%) Hedge funds
16 11 (0.75%) Product Ownership
17 9 (0.61%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 818 (55.87%) Linux
2 437 (29.85%) Windows
3 188 (12.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 132 (9.02%) Windows Server
5 110 (7.51%) Unix
6 92 (6.28%) Ubuntu
7 57 (3.89%) CentOS
8 49 (3.35%) Android
9 34 (2.32%) Debian
10 22 (1.50%) VMS
11 20 (1.37%) Windows Server 2019
12 17 (1.16%) Solaris
13 14 (0.96%) Windows 10
13 14 (0.96%) Windows Server 2012
14 12 (0.82%) Fedora
15 11 (0.75%) AIX
15 11 (0.75%) HPUX
16 9 (0.61%) Windows Server 2016
17 6 (0.41%) CoreOS
18 4 (0.27%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 858 (58.61%) DevOps
2 632 (43.17%) Infrastructure as Code
3 583 (39.82%) Agile
4 544 (37.16%) CI/CD
5 359 (24.52%) Containerisation
6 284 (19.40%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 276 (18.85%) Actionable Insight
8 243 (16.60%) Configuration Management
9 192 (13.11%) Continuous Integration
10 188 (12.84%) DevSecOps
11 175 (11.95%) Software Engineering
12 167 (11.41%) Problem-Solving
13 166 (11.34%) Microservices
14 159 (10.86%) Scrum
15 154 (10.52%) Mentoring
16 132 (9.02%) Kanban
17 114 (7.79%) Collaborative Working
18 93 (6.35%) Platform Engineering
18 93 (6.35%) Task Automation
19 89 (6.08%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 826 (56.42%) Python
2 525 (35.86%) Bash
3 504 (34.43%) PowerShell
4 374 (25.55%) Java
5 107 (7.31%) SQL
6 101 (6.90%) Perl
7 92 (6.28%) Shell Script
8 84 (5.74%) Ruby
9 68 (4.64%) JavaScript
10 56 (3.83%) Go
11 48 (3.28%) Groovy
12 35 (2.39%) PHP
12 35 (2.39%) TypeScript
13 33 (2.25%) Kotlin
14 32 (2.19%) C#
15 28 (1.91%) Bicep
16 27 (1.84%) Scala
17 16 (1.09%) Korn
18 15 (1.02%) C++
19 10 (0.68%) Rust
Qualifications
1 321 (21.93%) Security Cleared
2 191 (13.05%) SC Cleared
3 156 (10.66%) Degree
4 104 (7.10%) Cisco Certification
5 103 (7.04%) DV Cleared
6 56 (3.83%) AWS Certification
7 45 (3.07%) Computer Science Degree
8 39 (2.66%) Azure Certification
9 38 (2.60%) Microsoft Certification
10 29 (1.98%) CCNA
10 29 (1.98%) CCNP
11 24 (1.64%) MCSE
12 19 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
13 18 (1.23%) CISSP
14 16 (1.09%) MCSA
15 14 (0.96%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 14 (0.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 13 (0.89%) CCSP
17 12 (0.82%) Master's Degree
17 12 (0.82%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (4.30%) QA
2 13 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (0.48%) NIST
4 5 (0.34%) PCI DSS
5 3 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (0.20%) GDPR
6 2 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (0.14%) ISO 9001
6 2 (0.14%) Software Quality Assurance
7 1 (0.068%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.068%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.068%) ISO 22301
7 1 (0.068%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 1 (0.068%) RMADS
7 1 (0.068%) SLA
System Software
1 575 (39.28%) Docker
2 197 (13.46%) VMware Infrastructure
3 165 (11.27%) Active Directory
4 108 (7.38%) Hyper-V
5 21 (1.43%) Virtual Machines
6 19 (1.30%) vSphere
7 14 (0.96%) VMware NSX
8 11 (0.75%) KVM
9 9 (0.61%) VMware ESXi
10 7 (0.48%) Ceph
11 5 (0.34%) NFS
11 5 (0.34%) Varnish
11 5 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
12 4 (0.27%) DFS Replication
12 4 (0.27%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 2 (0.14%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 2 (0.14%) Firmware
13 2 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
13 2 (0.14%) Postfix
13 2 (0.14%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 939 (64.14%) Terraform
2 681 (46.52%) Kubernetes
3 393 (26.84%) Puppet
4 125 (8.54%) Progress Chef
5 104 (7.10%) Grafana
6 89 (6.08%) Prometheus
7 49 (3.35%) Packer
8 30 (2.05%) Nagios
9 29 (1.98%) SCCM
10 20 (1.37%) Red Hat Satellite
10 20 (1.37%) Salt
11 18 (1.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 18 (1.23%) Kibana
11 18 (1.23%) ZABBIX
12 16 (1.09%) Microsoft Intune
12 16 (1.09%) Rancher
13 15 (1.02%) HAProxy
13 15 (1.02%) Kustomize
13 15 (1.02%) SCOM
13 15 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 234 (15.98%) VMware
2 209 (14.28%) Red Hat
3 152 (10.38%) Oracle
4 141 (9.63%) Cisco
5 140 (9.56%) Microsoft
6 92 (6.28%) Splunk
7 56 (3.83%) Google
8 53 (3.62%) Fortinet
9 44 (3.01%) F5
9 44 (3.01%) TOWER Software
10 41 (2.80%) Juniper
11 39 (2.66%) CheckPoint
11 39 (2.66%) ServiceNow
12 35 (2.39%) CyberArk
13 34 (2.32%) AppDynamics
13 34 (2.32%) IBM
14 29 (1.98%) Atlassian
14 29 (1.98%) New Relic
15 27 (1.84%) Citrix
16 23 (1.57%) SaltStack