Ansible
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Ansible skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Ansible over the 6 months leading up to 8 December 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Dec 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 175 120 126
Rank change year-on-year -55 +6 -15
Permanent jobs citing Ansible 1,145 1,465 3,406
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.65% 2.77% 2.77%
As % of the Systems Management category 16.79% 18.28% 17.86%
Number of salaries quoted 674 961 1,858
10th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,250 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% +3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £87,500 £91,250 £93,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,289 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £64,600 £64,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +0.94% -1.54% +8.33%

All Systems Management Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 6,820 8,015 19,075
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.83% 15.13% 15.53%
Number of salaries quoted 3,966 6,365 11,409
10th Percentile £37,510 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £47,500 £48,091
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -3.70% -
75th Percentile £86,250 £84,056 £87,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £102,500 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £56,525 £57,500
% change year-on-year +1.72% -1.70% +3.60%

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 8 December 2024.

Salary histogram for Ansible in the UK

Ansible
Top 18 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 8 December 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 -46 1,082 £74,250 -1.00% 341
London -4 572 £80,000 - 179
Work from Home -32 549 £75,000 - 479
UK excluding London -115 539 £64,600 +0.94% 178
South East -80 160 £62,500 +7.11% 36
North of England -60 142 £59,500 -0.83% 68
South West -57 108 £75,000 +7.14% 21
North West -68 80 £60,000 +7.14% 33
Midlands -51 64 £62,500 -7.41% 22
West Midlands -16 56 £63,550 -9.21% 18
East of England -67 34 £60,250 -13.93% 9
North East -7 32 £44,274 -26.21% 14
Yorkshire -39 30 £65,750 +5.20% 21
Scotland -45 30 £60,000 -14.98% 12
East Midlands -58 8 £50,332 -16.11% 4
Wales +13 7 £49,500 -26.98% 4
Northern Ireland +6 5 - - 6
Isle of Man - 1 £50,000 -

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 37 (3.23%) nginx
2 35 (3.06%) Confluence
3 34 (2.97%) Apache
4 18 (1.57%) Microsoft Exchange
5 15 (1.31%) OpenStack
6 13 (1.14%) Apache Spark
6 13 (1.14%) SharePoint
7 9 (0.79%) IIS
8 8 (0.70%) Jupyter
9 7 (0.61%) JBoss
9 7 (0.61%) Tomcat
10 6 (0.52%) Red Hat Fuse
11 5 (0.44%) Apache Solr
12 3 (0.26%) Apache Airflow
13 1 (0.087%) CloudStack
13 1 (0.087%) Ethereum
13 1 (0.087%) Jetty
13 1 (0.087%) Solana
13 1 (0.087%) WebSphere
Applications
1 20 (1.75%) Simulink
2 5 (0.44%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.087%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 3 (0.26%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.17%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.17%) PeopleSoft HCM
3 1 (0.087%) Maximo
3 1 (0.087%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.087%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 501 (43.76%) AWS
2 466 (40.70%) Azure
3 183 (15.98%) GCP
4 123 (10.74%) GitHub
5 90 (7.86%) PaaS
6 83 (7.25%) Azure DevOps
7 67 (5.85%) Serverless
8 63 (5.50%) AWS CloudFormation
8 63 (5.50%) OpenShift
9 61 (5.33%) SaaS
10 58 (5.07%) Amazon EC2
10 58 (5.07%) GitHub Actions
11 54 (4.72%) IaaS
12 48 (4.19%) Amazon S3
13 44 (3.84%) AWS Lambda
14 35 (3.06%) Amazon EKS
15 32 (2.79%) Microsoft 365
16 30 (2.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 25 (2.18%) Datadog
18 24 (2.10%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 185 (16.16%) Firewall
2 135 (11.79%) Broadband
3 88 (7.69%) DNS
4 80 (6.99%) VPN
5 70 (6.11%) WAN
6 63 (5.50%) LAN
7 58 (5.07%) Network Security
8 48 (4.19%) BGP
9 45 (3.93%) TCP/IP
10 44 (3.84%) DHCP
11 33 (2.88%) MPLS
11 33 (2.88%) OSPF
12 30 (2.62%) Wi-Fi
13 26 (2.27%) SD-WAN
14 25 (2.18%) Remote Desktop
15 24 (2.10%) Internet
16 23 (2.01%) SSL
17 22 (1.92%) Cisco ISE
18 20 (1.75%) Wireshark
19 19 (1.66%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (6.38%) PostgreSQL
2 61 (5.33%) Amazon RDS
3 57 (4.98%) SQL Server
4 50 (4.37%) NoSQL
5 35 (3.06%) MongoDB
6 31 (2.71%) Relational Database
7 29 (2.53%) MySQL
8 28 (2.45%) Azure SQL Database
9 24 (2.10%) MariaDB
10 18 (1.57%) Elasticsearch
10 18 (1.57%) Redis
11 14 (1.22%) Big Data
12 12 (1.05%) Data Warehouse
13 10 (0.87%) Hadoop
14 9 (0.79%) DynamoDB
15 8 (0.70%) Apache Cassandra
15 8 (0.70%) Presto
16 7 (0.61%) Amazon Redshift
16 7 (0.61%) Data Lake
16 7 (0.61%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 206 (17.99%) Jenkins
2 163 (14.24%) Git
3 133 (11.62%) GitLab
4 62 (5.41%) JIRA
5 35 (3.06%) Octopus Deploy
6 33 (2.88%) Artifactory
6 33 (2.88%) Cucumber
7 31 (2.71%) TeamCity
8 27 (2.36%) Vagrant
9 26 (2.27%) SonarQube
10 22 (1.92%) Sonatype Nexus
11 21 (1.83%) Bitbucket
11 21 (1.83%) JUnit
12 17 (1.48%) Maven
13 13 (1.14%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 12 (1.05%) CircleCI
15 10 (0.87%) Mockito
16 9 (0.79%) IntelliJ
16 9 (0.79%) Selenium
17 8 (0.70%) Gradle
General
1 336 (29.34%) Social Skills
2 273 (23.84%) Finance
3 182 (15.90%) Analytical Skills
4 93 (8.12%) Banking
5 92 (8.03%) Public Sector
6 29 (2.53%) Telecoms
7 27 (2.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 25 (2.18%) Law
9 19 (1.66%) Retail
10 17 (1.48%) Tech for Good
11 14 (1.22%) Games
12 13 (1.14%) Documentation Skills
13 12 (1.05%) Legal
14 11 (0.96%) Investment Banking
14 11 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
15 8 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
16 7 (0.61%) Financial Institution
16 7 (0.61%) Influencing Skills
17 5 (0.44%) Advertising
17 5 (0.44%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 198 (17.29%) Senior
2 197 (17.21%) Lead
3 176 (15.37%) DevOps Engineer
4 131 (11.44%) Team Leader
5 106 (9.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 97 (8.47%) Cloud Engineer
7 95 (8.30%) Platform Engineer
8 89 (7.77%) Network Engineer
9 80 (6.99%) Linux Engineer
10 62 (5.41%) Administrator
10 62 (5.41%) Azure Engineer
11 58 (5.07%) AWS Engineer
12 55 (4.80%) Automation Engineer
13 50 (4.37%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 50 (4.37%) Systems Administrator
14 48 (4.19%) Architect
14 48 (4.19%) Software Engineer
15 45 (3.93%) Senior DevOps
16 41 (3.58%) Virtualisation Engineer
17 40 (3.49%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 178 (15.55%) Elastic Stack
2 38 (3.32%) YAML
3 36 (3.14%) Spring Boot
4 34 (2.97%) RabbitMQ
5 33 (2.88%) REST
6 30 (2.62%) Spring
7 28 (2.45%) Node.js
8 26 (2.27%) JSON
9 24 (2.10%) Middleware
10 21 (1.83%) RESTful
11 20 (1.75%) ARM Templates
11 20 (1.75%) Kafka
12 17 (1.48%) ActiveMQ
12 17 (1.48%) Azure Blueprints
13 16 (1.40%) LDAP
13 16 (1.40%) Web Services
14 15 (1.31%) SAML
15 14 (1.22%) React
16 13 (1.14%) Apache NiFi
17 11 (0.96%) Loki
Miscellaneous
1 139 (12.14%) Private Cloud
2 87 (7.60%) Data Centre
3 72 (6.29%) Public Cloud
4 71 (6.20%) Management Information System
5 60 (5.24%) Cloud Native
6 56 (4.89%) Linux Command Line
7 54 (4.72%) Hybrid Cloud
8 29 (2.53%) Self-Motivation
9 26 (2.27%) Onboarding
9 26 (2.27%) PKI
10 24 (2.10%) Clustering
11 23 (2.01%) Distributed Systems
12 20 (1.75%) Greenfield Project
12 20 (1.75%) IoT
13 17 (1.48%) Replication
14 14 (1.22%) Cyber Threat
14 14 (1.22%) Enterprise Cloud
15 11 (0.96%) Enterprise Software
16 10 (0.87%) Virtual Team
17 9 (0.79%) Credit Derivative
Operating Systems
1 585 (51.09%) Linux
2 231 (20.17%) Windows
3 124 (10.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 105 (9.17%) Windows Server
5 65 (5.68%) Ubuntu
6 55 (4.80%) CentOS
7 32 (2.79%) Unix
8 31 (2.71%) Android
9 14 (1.22%) Debian
10 12 (1.05%) Windows Server 2019
11 10 (0.87%) Solaris
11 10 (0.87%) SUSE
12 7 (0.61%) Oracle Linux
13 6 (0.52%) VMS
14 4 (0.35%) AIX
14 4 (0.35%) Rocky
14 4 (0.35%) Windows Server 2016
15 2 (0.17%) Amazon Linux
15 2 (0.17%) Windows Server 2012
15 2 (0.17%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 604 (52.75%) DevOps
2 519 (45.33%) CI/CD
3 375 (32.75%) Infrastructure as Code
4 365 (31.88%) Containerisation
5 299 (26.11%) Problem-Solving
6 267 (23.32%) Configuration Management
7 266 (23.23%) Mentoring
8 213 (18.60%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 205 (17.90%) Continuous Improvement
10 199 (17.38%) Continuous Integration
11 198 (17.29%) Agile
12 197 (17.21%) Computer Science
13 190 (16.59%) Deployment Automation
14 176 (15.37%) Task Automation
15 167 (14.59%) Observability
16 157 (13.71%) Continuous Deployment
17 151 (13.19%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 149 (13.01%) Roadmaps
19 145 (12.66%) Validation
20 144 (12.58%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 658 (57.47%) Python
2 309 (26.99%) Bash
3 291 (25.41%) PowerShell
4 159 (13.89%) Java
5 154 (13.45%) Shell Script
6 127 (11.09%) SQL
7 66 (5.76%) Perl
8 52 (4.54%) C++
9 45 (3.93%) JavaScript
10 34 (2.97%) Go
11 29 (2.53%) Kotlin
12 25 (2.18%) Ruby
13 24 (2.10%) C#
14 20 (1.75%) Bicep
14 20 (1.75%) TypeScript
15 14 (1.22%) PHP
15 14 (1.22%) Scala
16 11 (0.96%) Groovy
17 10 (0.87%) C
18 6 (0.52%) Rust
Qualifications
1 228 (19.91%) Security Cleared
2 225 (19.65%) Degree
3 174 (15.20%) Computer Science Degree
4 134 (11.70%) RHCSA
5 131 (11.44%) LPIC
6 128 (11.18%) Master's Degree
7 102 (8.91%) SC Cleared
8 79 (6.90%) DV Cleared
9 70 (6.11%) Cisco Certification
10 60 (5.24%) CCNP
11 44 (3.84%) AWS Certification
12 41 (3.58%) Azure Certification
13 30 (2.62%) Microsoft Certification
14 26 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
15 24 (2.10%) CCIE
16 23 (2.01%) JNCIS
17 21 (1.83%) CCNA
18 18 (1.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
19 17 (1.48%) RHCE
20 12 (1.05%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 127 (11.09%) NIST
2 123 (10.74%) SOC 2
3 17 (1.48%) NCSC
3 17 (1.48%) QA
4 14 (1.22%) GDPR
4 14 (1.22%) PCI DSS
5 13 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (1.05%) HIPAA
7 10 (0.87%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 9 (0.79%) SLA
9 4 (0.35%) Government Security Classifications
9 4 (0.35%) ISO 9001
10 3 (0.26%) COBIT
11 2 (0.17%) Accessibility
11 2 (0.17%) Data Quality
11 2 (0.17%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 441 (38.52%) Docker
2 158 (13.80%) VMware Infrastructure
3 91 (7.95%) Active Directory
4 36 (3.14%) Hyper-V
5 35 (3.06%) vSphere
6 30 (2.62%) VMware ESXi
7 24 (2.10%) XenApp
7 24 (2.10%) XenDesktop
8 22 (1.92%) VMware NSX
9 16 (1.40%) Virtual Machines
10 11 (0.96%) Virtual Servers
11 10 (0.87%) Firmware
12 7 (0.61%) Virtual Desktop
13 6 (0.52%) Apache ZooKeeper
13 6 (0.52%) Varnish
14 5 (0.44%) Ceph
14 5 (0.44%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 4 (0.35%) NFS
15 4 (0.35%) RACF
16 3 (0.26%) Samba
Systems Management
1 648 (56.59%) Terraform
2 381 (33.28%) Kubernetes
3 211 (18.43%) Prometheus
4 209 (18.25%) Grafana
5 188 (16.42%) Puppet
6 116 (10.13%) Progress Chef
7 27 (2.36%) Nagios
7 27 (2.36%) ZABBIX
8 24 (2.10%) Argo
9 23 (2.01%) FortiGate
9 23 (2.01%) Red Hat Satellite
10 21 (1.83%) Salt
11 19 (1.66%) Packer
11 19 (1.66%) Single Sign-On
12 16 (1.40%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 15 (1.31%) Failover Clustering
14 11 (0.96%) HAProxy
14 11 (0.96%) Microsoft Intune
14 11 (0.96%) Podman
15 9 (0.79%) Rancher
Vendors
1 219 (19.13%) VMware
2 153 (13.36%) Microsoft
3 137 (11.97%) Cisco
4 125 (10.92%) Red Hat
5 88 (7.69%) Google
6 43 (3.76%) Oracle
7 42 (3.67%) Citrix
8 34 (2.97%) F5
8 34 (2.97%) Splunk
9 33 (2.88%) Palo Alto
10 26 (2.27%) Atlassian
11 25 (2.18%) Fortinet
12 23 (2.01%) Arista
13 22 (1.92%) Aruba
13 22 (1.92%) IBM
13 22 (1.92%) Juniper
14 20 (1.75%) Xilinx
15 19 (1.66%) CheckPoint
16 16 (1.40%) BMC
16 16 (1.40%) NetApp