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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 135 206 126
Rank change year-on-year +71 -80 -21
Permanent jobs citing Ansible 1,182 1,444 2,853
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.27% 1.47% 2.74%
As % of the Systems Management category 23.77% 14.45% 18.67%
Number of salaries quoted 472 987 1,408
10th Percentile £50,000 £45,000 £46,320
25th Percentile £61,250 £52,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £90,313
90th Percentile £109,750 £101,250 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% -7.69% +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 4,972 9,994 15,281
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.53% 10.16% 14.69%
Number of salaries quoted 3,338 7,234 9,375
10th Percentile £37,250 £32,500 £35,400
25th Percentile £48,842 £45,000 £48,091
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,212 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.35% -11.11% -3.57%
75th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £100,525 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%

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 30 April 2025.

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 30 April 2025. 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 +80 1,140 £75,000 +7.14% 485
UK excluding London +84 807 £70,000 +16.67% 280
North of England +185 501 £70,000 +11.50% 67
North West +151 425 £72,500 +15.48% 39
London +25 340 £85,000 +3.03% 229
Work from Home -6 310 £75,000 +7.14% 351
South East +30 146 £68,750 +14.58% 60
Yorkshire +82 67 £70,000 +11.50% 24
Midlands +66 65 £64,600 +12.35% 42
West Midlands +67 46 £75,000 +25.00% 29
South West -53 38 £75,000 +35.14% 52
East of England +55 37 £62,500 +4.17% 29
East Midlands +39 19 £40,000 -30.43% 12
Scotland +70 12 £75,360 +15.94% 16
Northern Ireland +32 10 £55,000 -47.62% 11
North East +48 9 £49,500 -21.16% 4
Isle of Man - 2 £42,250 -

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 67 (5.67%) Confluence
2 30 (2.54%) nginx
3 17 (1.44%) Apache
4 15 (1.27%) Tomcat
5 14 (1.18%) Microsoft Exchange
6 12 (1.02%) JBoss
6 12 (1.02%) Red Hat Fuse
7 11 (0.93%) Apache Solr
8 9 (0.76%) IIS
9 5 (0.42%) Apache Airflow
9 5 (0.42%) SharePoint
10 4 (0.34%) OpenStack
11 3 (0.25%) Apache Spark
12 2 (0.17%) WebSphere
12 2 (0.17%) WebSphere Application Server
13 1 (0.085%) CICS
13 1 (0.085%) Jetty
Applications
1 8 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (0.59%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 6 (0.51%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (0.34%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (0.25%) Fidessa
3 2 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.17%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.17%) PeopleSoft HCM
Cloud Services
1 412 (34.86%) AWS
2 339 (28.68%) Azure
3 140 (11.84%) GCP
4 101 (8.54%) Amazon EKS
5 96 (8.12%) AWS CloudFormation
6 89 (7.53%) GitHub
7 55 (4.65%) Serverless
8 43 (3.64%) Amazon S3
9 40 (3.38%) Amazon EC2
9 40 (3.38%) AWS Lambda
9 40 (3.38%) Azure DevOps
9 40 (3.38%) PaaS
10 39 (3.30%) SaaS
11 35 (2.96%) Amazon ECS
12 26 (2.20%) Microsoft 365
13 25 (2.12%) Datadog
13 25 (2.12%) GitHub Actions
14 23 (1.95%) Pulumi
15 20 (1.69%) IaaS
15 20 (1.69%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 471 (39.85%) DNS
2 461 (39.00%) VPN
3 119 (10.07%) Firewall
4 66 (5.58%) WAN
5 62 (5.25%) LAN
6 57 (4.82%) TCP/IP
7 38 (3.21%) DHCP
8 35 (2.96%) Network Security
8 35 (2.96%) SD-WAN
9 34 (2.88%) Cisco ISE
10 29 (2.45%) Ethernet
11 27 (2.28%) BGP
12 23 (1.95%) OSPF
13 21 (1.78%) Cisco Nexus
13 21 (1.78%) SAN
14 18 (1.52%) Wi-Fi
15 14 (1.18%) Cisco IOS
16 13 (1.10%) Cisco Firepower
16 13 (1.10%) IPsec
16 13 (1.10%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (6.01%) Elasticsearch
2 68 (5.75%) MySQL
3 65 (5.50%) Relational Database
4 39 (3.30%) PostgreSQL
5 36 (3.05%) SQL Server
6 22 (1.86%) Amazon RDS
7 21 (1.78%) NoSQL
8 19 (1.61%) MongoDB
9 14 (1.18%) Couchbase
10 8 (0.68%) Amazon Aurora
11 6 (0.51%) Data Lake
11 6 (0.51%) Data Warehouse
12 5 (0.42%) Power BI
12 5 (0.42%) Redis
13 4 (0.34%) Apache Cassandra
13 4 (0.34%) Azure SQL Database
13 4 (0.34%) MariaDB
14 3 (0.25%) Big Data
14 3 (0.25%) DynamoDB
14 3 (0.25%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 190 (16.07%) Jenkins
2 148 (12.52%) Git
3 103 (8.71%) GitLab
4 91 (7.70%) JIRA
5 68 (5.75%) Bitbucket
6 48 (4.06%) Sonatype Nexus
7 43 (3.64%) SonarQube
8 35 (2.96%) Cucumber
8 35 (2.96%) JUnit
9 24 (2.03%) Artifactory
10 23 (1.95%) Maven
11 22 (1.86%) Mockito
12 18 (1.52%) TeamCity
13 14 (1.18%) IntelliJ
13 14 (1.18%) Selenium
14 11 (0.93%) CircleCI
15 9 (0.76%) Gradle
16 8 (0.68%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 8 (0.68%) git-flow
16 8 (0.68%) TestNG
General
1 576 (48.73%) Finance
2 494 (41.79%) Analytical Skills
3 489 (41.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 174 (14.72%) Social Skills
5 69 (5.84%) Banking
6 41 (3.47%) Public Sector
7 29 (2.45%) Telecoms
8 28 (2.37%) Law
9 13 (1.10%) Electronics
10 10 (0.85%) Investment Banking
10 10 (0.85%) Manufacturing
11 9 (0.76%) Games
12 8 (0.68%) Front Office
12 8 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
13 7 (0.59%) Advertising
13 7 (0.59%) Marketing
14 6 (0.51%) Retail
15 4 (0.34%) Back Office
15 4 (0.34%) Documentation Skills
15 4 (0.34%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 486 (41.12%) Developer
2 446 (37.73%) Software Developer
3 149 (12.61%) Senior
4 127 (10.74%) DevOps Engineer
5 85 (7.19%) Platform Engineer
6 84 (7.11%) Lead
7 68 (5.75%) Cloud Engineer
8 59 (4.99%) Architect
9 56 (4.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 49 (4.15%) Senior DevOps
11 43 (3.64%) Network Engineer
12 42 (3.55%) Azure Engineer
13 37 (3.13%) Linux Engineer
14 36 (3.05%) Administrator
15 35 (2.96%) AWS DevOps
16 34 (2.88%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 33 (2.79%) Systems Administrator
18 32 (2.71%) Automation Engineer
19 31 (2.62%) Senior Cloud Engineer
20 29 (2.45%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (7.78%) .NET
2 74 (6.26%) Node.js
3 66 (5.58%) REST
4 50 (4.23%) Spring Boot
5 49 (4.15%) Pandas
6 43 (3.64%) Elastic Stack
7 38 (3.21%) Spring
8 31 (2.62%) JSON
9 30 (2.54%) RESTful
10 27 (2.28%) RabbitMQ
11 25 (2.12%) Kafka
12 24 (2.03%) ARM Templates
13 17 (1.44%) AWS CDK
13 17 (1.44%) YAML
14 16 (1.35%) ActiveMQ
15 15 (1.27%) Web Services
16 14 (1.18%) JMS
17 12 (1.02%) GraphQL
17 12 (1.02%) J2EE
17 12 (1.02%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 448 (37.90%) Cyberattack
2 79 (6.68%) Public Cloud
3 76 (6.43%) Management Information System
4 58 (4.91%) Data Centre
5 39 (3.30%) Hybrid Cloud
6 30 (2.54%) Cloud Native
7 29 (2.45%) Clustering
8 20 (1.69%) Distributed Systems
8 20 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
9 16 (1.35%) IoT
10 14 (1.18%) Credit Derivative
11 13 (1.10%) Virtual Team
12 12 (1.02%) Hedge funds
12 12 (1.02%) Replication
13 11 (0.93%) NB-IoT
13 11 (0.93%) Onboarding
14 9 (0.76%) Distributed Computing
14 9 (0.76%) Linux Command Line
14 9 (0.76%) Self-Motivation
15 8 (0.68%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 785 (66.41%) Linux
2 454 (38.41%) Android
3 219 (18.53%) Windows
4 97 (8.21%) Windows Server
5 60 (5.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 29 (2.45%) Unix
7 26 (2.20%) CentOS
8 21 (1.78%) Ubuntu
9 10 (0.85%) Windows Server 2019
10 9 (0.76%) Rocky
10 9 (0.76%) Windows Server 2016
11 7 (0.59%) Solaris
11 7 (0.59%) VMS
12 6 (0.51%) Oracle Linux
13 5 (0.42%) Debian
14 4 (0.34%) Windows Server 2008
14 4 (0.34%) zOS
15 3 (0.25%) Windows 10
15 3 (0.25%) Windows Server 2012
16 2 (0.17%) CoreOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 601 (50.85%) Agile
2 460 (38.92%) Design Patterns
3 457 (38.66%) OOP
4 456 (38.58%) OO
5 455 (38.49%) Line Management
6 449 (37.99%) Mathematics
7 446 (37.73%) Android Development
8 415 (35.11%) CI/CD
9 367 (31.05%) DevOps
10 279 (23.60%) Infrastructure as Code
11 188 (15.91%) Containerisation
12 113 (9.56%) Platform Engineering
12 113 (9.56%) Problem-Solving
13 102 (8.63%) Software Engineering
14 96 (8.12%) Configuration Management
15 87 (7.36%) High Availability
16 83 (7.02%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 77 (6.51%) Kanban
18 74 (6.26%) Mentoring
19 70 (5.92%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 830 (70.22%) Python
2 540 (45.69%) Java
3 472 (39.93%) Go
4 466 (39.42%) C++
5 158 (13.37%) PowerShell
6 153 (12.94%) Bash
7 74 (6.26%) JavaScript
8 55 (4.65%) Rust
9 52 (4.40%) C#
10 40 (3.38%) Bicep
10 40 (3.38%) SQL
11 33 (2.79%) Ruby
12 22 (1.86%) Shell Script
13 19 (1.61%) Perl
14 18 (1.52%) TypeScript
15 15 (1.27%) PHP
16 14 (1.18%) Groovy
17 5 (0.42%) Kusto Query Language
17 5 (0.42%) Scala
18 4 (0.34%) R
Qualifications
1 585 (49.49%) Security Cleared
2 497 (42.05%) DV Cleared
3 89 (7.53%) Degree
4 83 (7.02%) SC Cleared
5 45 (3.81%) AWS Certification
6 41 (3.47%) Cisco Certification
7 38 (3.21%) CCNP
8 35 (2.96%) BPSS Clearance
9 29 (2.45%) Azure Certification
10 24 (2.03%) CCNA
11 23 (1.95%) Computer Science Degree
12 18 (1.52%) JNCIS
13 16 (1.35%) Microsoft Certification
14 13 (1.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 12 (1.02%) CCIE
15 12 (1.02%) Network+ Certification
16 11 (0.93%) CompTIA Security+
16 11 (0.93%) OCP
16 11 (0.93%) Oracle Certification
17 7 (0.59%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (2.54%) SLA
2 24 (2.03%) QA
3 19 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 15 (1.27%) GDPR
5 11 (0.93%) NCSC
6 10 (0.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 10 (0.85%) SOC 2
7 7 (0.59%) HIPAA
7 7 (0.59%) NIST
8 6 (0.51%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (0.25%) Government Security Classifications
10 2 (0.17%) Accessibility
10 2 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 1 (0.085%) NIST 800
System Software
1 673 (56.94%) Docker
2 101 (8.54%) VMware Infrastructure
3 88 (7.45%) Active Directory
4 40 (3.38%) VMware ESXi
5 37 (3.13%) VMware NSX
6 36 (3.05%) vSphere
7 31 (2.62%) Hyper-V
8 18 (1.52%) Virtual Desktop
9 15 (1.27%) Virtual Machines
10 9 (0.76%) Veritas Cluster Server
11 5 (0.42%) BitLocker
11 5 (0.42%) Microsoft App-V
11 5 (0.42%) Terminal Services
12 4 (0.34%) Firmware
13 3 (0.25%) NFS
14 2 (0.17%) KVM
14 2 (0.17%) Postfix
14 2 (0.17%) SRDF
14 2 (0.17%) VirtualBox
14 2 (0.17%) Xen
Systems Management
1 508 (42.98%) Terraform
2 354 (29.95%) Kubernetes
3 124 (10.49%) Puppet
4 95 (8.04%) Progress Chef
5 63 (5.33%) Grafana
6 57 (4.82%) Prometheus
7 29 (2.45%) FortiGate
7 29 (2.45%) Nagios
8 20 (1.69%) Podman
9 16 (1.35%) Packer
9 16 (1.35%) vCenter Server
10 13 (1.10%) Microsoft Intune
10 13 (1.10%) SCCM
11 12 (1.02%) Proxmox
12 11 (0.93%) Argo
12 11 (0.93%) Kustomize
13 10 (0.85%) Nessus
13 10 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
13 10 (0.85%) vMotion
14 9 (0.76%) Graylog
Vendors
1 159 (13.45%) VMware
2 123 (10.41%) Cisco
3 116 (9.81%) Microsoft
4 68 (5.75%) Red Hat
5 53 (4.48%) F5
6 52 (4.40%) Atlassian
7 49 (4.15%) Google
8 35 (2.96%) CheckPoint
8 35 (2.96%) IBM
9 34 (2.88%) Citrix
10 32 (2.71%) Oracle
10 32 (2.71%) Palo Alto
11 30 (2.54%) Splunk
12 25 (2.12%) Blue Coat
12 25 (2.12%) Juniper
13 22 (1.86%) SolarWinds
14 19 (1.61%) NetApp
15 17 (1.44%) EMC
15 17 (1.44%) HP
16 16 (1.35%) Fortinet