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

6 months to
3 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 208 195 135
Rank change year-on-year -13 -60 -30
Permanent jobs citing Ansible 743 1,430 2,866
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.47% 1.54% 2.61%
As % of the Systems Management category 15.87% 14.75% 17.43%
Number of salaries quoted 494 991 1,467
10th Percentile £50,000 £46,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £62,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,360 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.66% -6.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £110,875 £102,500 £107,500
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 4,682 9,698 16,447
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.26% 10.44% 14.96%
Number of salaries quoted 3,388 7,279 9,972
10th Percentile £38,250 £32,500 £35,400
25th Percentile £50,000 £45,000 £47,530
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -11.11% -3.57%
75th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £88,283
90th Percentile £115,000 £101,250 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £54,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -6.09% -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 3 April 2025.

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 3 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 +1 704 £75,000 +6.27% 767
UK excluding London -32 371 £70,000 +16.67% 362
London +11 343 £85,000 +3.03% 452
Work from Home -20 272 £75,000 +6.27% 481
South East +13 115 £72,500 +20.83% 117
North of England +34 111 £70,000 +11.50% 77
Midlands +78 68 £64,600 +12.35% 40
Yorkshire +66 53 £70,000 +11.50% 27
West Midlands +62 52 £64,600 +17.45% 25
North West -9 47 £72,500 +18.10% 45
South West -53 40 £70,000 +21.21% 68
East of England +44 26 £62,500 - 34
East Midlands +38 16 £40,000 -30.43% 15
North East +44 11 £42,500 -32.31% 5
Scotland +56 10 £75,360 +15.94% 18
Northern Ireland +31 6 £70,000 -36.36% 10
Isle of Man - 2 £42,250 -
Wales -8 1 £60,000 +20.00% 2

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 68 (9.15%) Confluence
2 24 (3.23%) nginx
3 19 (2.56%) Apache
4 12 (1.62%) JBoss
4 12 (1.62%) Red Hat Fuse
5 11 (1.48%) Apache Solr
6 9 (1.21%) Microsoft Exchange
6 9 (1.21%) Tomcat
7 6 (0.81%) IIS
8 5 (0.67%) Apache Airflow
8 5 (0.67%) SharePoint
9 4 (0.54%) Apache Spark
9 4 (0.54%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.27%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.27%) WebSphere Application Server
11 1 (0.13%) CICS
11 1 (0.13%) Jetty
Applications
1 5 (0.67%) Microsoft Office
1 5 (0.67%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 4 (0.54%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (0.54%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (0.40%) Fidessa
3 2 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.27%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.27%) PeopleSoft HCM
Cloud Services
1 363 (48.86%) AWS
2 275 (37.01%) Azure
3 140 (18.84%) GCP
4 99 (13.32%) GitHub
5 52 (7.00%) Serverless
6 51 (6.86%) Amazon EKS
7 45 (6.06%) AWS CloudFormation
7 45 (6.06%) PaaS
8 41 (5.52%) Amazon EC2
9 40 (5.38%) Amazon S3
10 38 (5.11%) SaaS
11 36 (4.85%) AWS Lambda
11 36 (4.85%) Azure DevOps
12 34 (4.58%) Amazon ECS
13 32 (4.31%) GitHub Actions
14 24 (3.23%) Datadog
14 24 (3.23%) IaaS
14 24 (3.23%) Microsoft 365
15 22 (2.96%) Pulumi
16 19 (2.56%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 116 (15.61%) Firewall
2 67 (9.02%) VPN
3 60 (8.08%) WAN
4 58 (7.81%) LAN
5 55 (7.40%) DNS
6 50 (6.73%) TCP/IP
7 36 (4.85%) Cisco ISE
8 32 (4.31%) SD-WAN
9 31 (4.17%) Network Security
10 30 (4.04%) BGP
11 27 (3.63%) Ethernet
12 22 (2.96%) Cisco Nexus
13 21 (2.83%) OSPF
14 19 (2.56%) DHCP
14 19 (2.56%) Wi-Fi
15 17 (2.29%) Cisco Firepower
15 17 (2.29%) MPLS
16 16 (2.15%) Cisco IOS
17 14 (1.88%) SAN
18 13 (1.75%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (9.42%) MySQL
2 64 (8.61%) Relational Database
3 38 (5.11%) PostgreSQL
4 27 (3.63%) SQL Server
5 22 (2.96%) NoSQL
6 20 (2.69%) MongoDB
7 13 (1.75%) Couchbase
7 13 (1.75%) Elasticsearch
8 9 (1.21%) Amazon RDS
9 8 (1.08%) Data Warehouse
9 8 (1.08%) MariaDB
10 7 (0.94%) Redis
11 6 (0.81%) Azure SQL Database
11 6 (0.81%) Data Lake
12 4 (0.54%) Amazon Athena
12 4 (0.54%) Amazon Redshift
12 4 (0.54%) Big Data
12 4 (0.54%) DynamoDB
13 3 (0.40%) Apache Cassandra
13 3 (0.40%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 181 (24.36%) Jenkins
2 151 (20.32%) Git
3 97 (13.06%) GitLab
4 91 (12.25%) JIRA
5 61 (8.21%) Bitbucket
6 47 (6.33%) Sonatype Nexus
7 39 (5.25%) SonarQube
8 29 (3.90%) Cucumber
9 28 (3.77%) Artifactory
9 28 (3.77%) JUnit
10 24 (3.23%) TeamCity
11 14 (1.88%) Maven
11 14 (1.88%) Mockito
12 13 (1.75%) IntelliJ
13 12 (1.62%) CircleCI
14 9 (1.21%) Selenium
15 8 (1.08%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 8 (1.08%) git-flow
15 8 (1.08%) Gradle
16 7 (0.94%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 175 (23.55%) Finance
2 155 (20.86%) Social Skills
3 68 (9.15%) Banking
4 43 (5.79%) Public Sector
5 39 (5.25%) Analytical Skills
6 33 (4.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 28 (3.77%) Telecoms
8 23 (3.10%) Law
9 14 (1.88%) Games
10 13 (1.75%) Electronics
11 8 (1.08%) Front Office
11 8 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
12 7 (0.94%) Investment Banking
13 6 (0.81%) Advertising
13 6 (0.81%) Marketing
13 6 (0.81%) Retail
14 4 (0.54%) Aerospace
14 4 (0.54%) Back Office
14 4 (0.54%) Financial Institution
15 3 (0.40%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 155 (20.86%) Senior
2 144 (19.38%) DevOps Engineer
3 83 (11.17%) Lead
4 74 (9.96%) Platform Engineer
5 63 (8.48%) Cloud Engineer
6 60 (8.08%) Architect
7 53 (7.13%) Senior DevOps
8 47 (6.33%) Network Engineer
9 46 (6.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 46 (6.19%) Linux Engineer
10 40 (5.38%) Administrator
11 39 (5.25%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 38 (5.11%) Developer
12 38 (5.11%) Systems Administrator
13 37 (4.98%) Azure Engineer
14 35 (4.71%) Automation Engineer
14 35 (4.71%) AWS DevOps
15 31 (4.17%) Systems Engineer
16 28 (3.77%) Java Developer
16 28 (3.77%) Network Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (6.86%) REST
2 41 (5.52%) .NET
3 40 (5.38%) Elastic Stack
4 39 (5.25%) Spring Boot
5 29 (3.90%) JSON
6 28 (3.77%) Spring
7 27 (3.63%) RabbitMQ
8 26 (3.50%) Node.js
9 24 (3.23%) ARM Templates
10 23 (3.10%) RESTful
11 20 (2.69%) YAML
12 19 (2.56%) Kafka
13 16 (2.15%) AWS CDK
14 15 (2.02%) Web Services
15 13 (1.75%) ActiveMQ
15 13 (1.75%) JMS
16 12 (1.62%) Apache Camel
16 12 (1.62%) Azure Blueprints
16 12 (1.62%) GraphQL
16 12 (1.62%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 79 (10.63%) Public Cloud
2 78 (10.50%) Management Information System
3 57 (7.67%) Data Centre
4 32 (4.31%) Hybrid Cloud
5 28 (3.77%) Cloud Native
6 19 (2.56%) Distributed Systems
7 18 (2.42%) Enterprise Software
7 18 (2.42%) IoT
8 15 (2.02%) Virtual Team
9 14 (1.88%) Clustering
9 14 (1.88%) Onboarding
10 13 (1.75%) Credit Derivative
10 13 (1.75%) Replication
11 11 (1.48%) NB-IoT
12 9 (1.21%) Distributed Computing
12 9 (1.21%) Hedge funds
12 9 (1.21%) Linux Command Line
13 8 (1.08%) Self-Motivation
14 7 (0.94%) Security Posture
15 5 (0.67%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 330 (44.41%) Linux
2 196 (26.38%) Windows
3 75 (10.09%) Windows Server
4 62 (8.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 24 (3.23%) CentOS
6 23 (3.10%) Unix
7 20 (2.69%) Ubuntu
8 9 (1.21%) Android
8 9 (1.21%) Debian
9 8 (1.08%) Rocky
10 7 (0.94%) VMS
10 7 (0.94%) Windows Server 2019
11 6 (0.81%) Oracle Linux
11 6 (0.81%) Solaris
12 5 (0.67%) Windows Server 2016
13 4 (0.54%) zOS
14 2 (0.27%) CoreOS
14 2 (0.27%) Windows 10
15 1 (0.13%) Amazon Linux
15 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 380 (51.14%) DevOps
2 361 (48.59%) CI/CD
3 278 (37.42%) Infrastructure as Code
4 161 (21.67%) Agile
5 146 (19.65%) Containerisation
6 106 (14.27%) Problem-Solving
7 99 (13.32%) Platform Engineering
8 92 (12.38%) Configuration Management
9 80 (10.77%) Mentoring
10 78 (10.50%) High Availability
11 76 (10.23%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 74 (9.96%) Deployment Automation
13 65 (8.75%) DevSecOps
14 57 (7.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 56 (7.54%) Continuous Integration
16 55 (7.40%) Software Engineering
17 53 (7.13%) Analytics
17 53 (7.13%) Coaching
17 53 (7.13%) Disaster Recovery
18 52 (7.00%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 395 (53.16%) Python
2 156 (21.00%) Bash
3 153 (20.59%) PowerShell
4 84 (11.31%) Java
5 51 (6.86%) C#
6 42 (5.65%) Bicep
7 41 (5.52%) SQL
8 34 (4.58%) Ruby
9 23 (3.10%) Go
9 23 (3.10%) JavaScript
10 19 (2.56%) Shell Script
11 17 (2.29%) C++
11 17 (2.29%) Perl
12 15 (2.02%) PHP
12 15 (2.02%) TypeScript
13 11 (1.48%) Groovy
14 8 (1.08%) Scala
15 5 (0.67%) Kusto Query Language
16 4 (0.54%) R
17 3 (0.40%) Gremlin
Qualifications
1 134 (18.03%) Security Cleared
2 81 (10.90%) Degree
3 79 (10.63%) SC Cleared
4 45 (6.06%) DV Cleared
5 42 (5.65%) AWS Certification
5 42 (5.65%) Cisco Certification
6 39 (5.25%) BPSS Clearance
7 38 (5.11%) CCNP
8 26 (3.50%) Azure Certification
9 22 (2.96%) CCNA
10 20 (2.69%) Computer Science Degree
11 17 (2.29%) Microsoft Certification
12 16 (2.15%) CCIE
12 16 (2.15%) JNCIS
13 14 (1.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 11 (1.48%) CompTIA Security+
14 11 (1.48%) Network+ Certification
14 11 (1.48%) OCP
14 11 (1.48%) Oracle Certification
15 6 (0.81%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (4.17%) SLA
2 26 (3.50%) QA
3 18 (2.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 14 (1.88%) NCSC
5 11 (1.48%) GDPR
6 9 (1.21%) SOC 2
7 7 (0.94%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 6 (0.81%) NIST
8 6 (0.81%) PCI DSS
9 5 (0.67%) HIPAA
10 3 (0.40%) Government Security Classifications
11 2 (0.27%) Accessibility
11 2 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.13%) Data Quality
System Software
1 213 (28.67%) Docker
2 90 (12.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 73 (9.83%) Active Directory
4 35 (4.71%) VMware NSX
5 30 (4.04%) vSphere
6 26 (3.50%) VMware ESXi
7 18 (2.42%) Hyper-V
8 16 (2.15%) Virtual Desktop
9 14 (1.88%) Virtual Machines
10 9 (1.21%) Veritas Cluster Server
11 4 (0.54%) Firmware
12 3 (0.40%) NFS
13 2 (0.27%) KVM
13 2 (0.27%) Postfix
13 2 (0.27%) SRDF
13 2 (0.27%) VirtualBox
13 2 (0.27%) Xen
14 1 (0.13%) PowerHA
14 1 (0.13%) Time Sharing Option
14 1 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 468 (62.99%) Terraform
2 292 (39.30%) Kubernetes
3 118 (15.88%) Puppet
4 96 (12.92%) Progress Chef
5 62 (8.34%) Grafana
6 58 (7.81%) Prometheus
7 28 (3.77%) FortiGate
8 23 (3.10%) Nagios
9 20 (2.69%) Podman
10 15 (2.02%) ZABBIX
11 14 (1.88%) Red Hat Satellite
12 12 (1.62%) Argo
13 11 (1.48%) Microsoft Intune
14 10 (1.35%) Proxmox
14 10 (1.35%) SCCM
15 9 (1.21%) Graylog
15 9 (1.21%) Rundeck
16 8 (1.08%) Istio
16 8 (1.08%) Nessus
16 8 (1.08%) Packer
Vendors
1 150 (20.19%) VMware
2 126 (16.96%) Cisco
3 92 (12.38%) Microsoft
4 69 (9.29%) Red Hat
5 57 (7.67%) Atlassian
6 51 (6.86%) F5
7 48 (6.46%) Google
8 33 (4.44%) CheckPoint
8 33 (4.44%) IBM
9 28 (3.77%) Oracle
9 28 (3.77%) Palo Alto
10 27 (3.63%) Splunk
11 25 (3.36%) SolarWinds
12 24 (3.23%) Blue Coat
13 22 (2.96%) Citrix
13 22 (2.96%) Juniper
13 22 (2.96%) NetApp
14 14 (1.88%) EMC
14 14 (1.88%) Fortinet
14 14 (1.88%) ServiceNow