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

6 months to
2 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 201 197 134
Rank change year-on-year -4 -63 -29
Permanent jobs citing Ansible 745 1,428 2,883
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.47% 1.54% 2.61%
As % of the Systems Management category 15.90% 14.77% 17.44%
Number of salaries quoted 498 990 1,481
10th Percentile £50,000 £46,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £62,125 £55,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,180 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.40% -6.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £110,375 £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 4,686 9,665 16,527
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.27% 10.43% 14.94%
Number of salaries quoted 3,394 7,269 10,031
10th Percentile £38,500 £32,500 £35,400
25th Percentile £50,000 £45,000 £47,564
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 £88,750
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 2 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 2 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 -1 706 £75,000 +6.27% 744
UK excluding London -33 372 £70,000 +16.67% 350
London +6 344 £85,000 +3.03% 437
Work from Home -18 274 £75,000 +6.27% 474
South East +6 114 £72,500 +20.83% 109
North of England +36 112 £70,000 +11.50% 80
Midlands +75 68 £64,600 +12.35% 37
Yorkshire +56 53 £70,000 +11.50% 27
West Midlands +58 52 £64,600 +12.35% 23
North West -5 48 £72,500 +18.10% 48
South West -50 40 £70,000 +21.21% 67
East of England +36 26 £62,500 - 33
East Midlands +36 16 £40,000 -30.43% 14
North East +42 11 £42,500 -32.31% 5
Scotland +59 10 £75,360 +15.94% 16
Northern Ireland +33 6 £70,000 -36.36% 11
Wales -6 2 £54,750 +9.50% 1
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 68 (9.13%) Confluence
2 24 (3.22%) nginx
3 19 (2.55%) Apache
4 11 (1.48%) Apache Solr
4 11 (1.48%) JBoss
4 11 (1.48%) Red Hat Fuse
5 9 (1.21%) Microsoft Exchange
5 9 (1.21%) Tomcat
6 6 (0.81%) IIS
7 5 (0.67%) Apache Airflow
7 5 (0.67%) SharePoint
8 4 (0.54%) Apache Spark
8 4 (0.54%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.27%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.27%) WebSphere Application Server
10 1 (0.13%) CICS
10 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 (48.72%) AWS
2 272 (36.51%) Azure
3 139 (18.66%) GCP
4 98 (13.15%) GitHub
5 52 (6.98%) Serverless
6 50 (6.71%) Amazon EKS
7 47 (6.31%) AWS CloudFormation
8 46 (6.17%) PaaS
9 42 (5.64%) Amazon EC2
10 41 (5.50%) Amazon S3
11 37 (4.97%) AWS Lambda
11 37 (4.97%) SaaS
12 34 (4.56%) Azure DevOps
13 33 (4.43%) Amazon ECS
14 32 (4.30%) GitHub Actions
15 25 (3.36%) Datadog
16 24 (3.22%) IaaS
16 24 (3.22%) Microsoft 365
17 22 (2.95%) OpenShift
17 22 (2.95%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 116 (15.57%) Firewall
2 67 (8.99%) VPN
3 60 (8.05%) WAN
4 58 (7.79%) LAN
5 55 (7.38%) DNS
6 51 (6.85%) TCP/IP
7 36 (4.83%) Cisco ISE
8 32 (4.30%) SD-WAN
9 31 (4.16%) Network Security
10 30 (4.03%) BGP
11 27 (3.62%) Ethernet
12 22 (2.95%) Cisco Nexus
13 21 (2.82%) OSPF
14 19 (2.55%) DHCP
14 19 (2.55%) Wi-Fi
15 17 (2.28%) Cisco Firepower
15 17 (2.28%) MPLS
16 16 (2.15%) Cisco IOS
17 14 (1.88%) SAN
18 13 (1.74%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (9.40%) MySQL
2 63 (8.46%) Relational Database
3 37 (4.97%) PostgreSQL
4 27 (3.62%) SQL Server
5 22 (2.95%) NoSQL
6 20 (2.68%) MongoDB
7 13 (1.74%) Couchbase
7 13 (1.74%) Elasticsearch
8 9 (1.21%) Amazon RDS
9 8 (1.07%) Data Warehouse
9 8 (1.07%) 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 (24.30%) Jenkins
2 150 (20.13%) Git
3 98 (13.15%) GitLab
4 91 (12.21%) JIRA
5 61 (8.19%) Bitbucket
6 47 (6.31%) Sonatype Nexus
7 39 (5.23%) SonarQube
8 30 (4.03%) Cucumber
9 28 (3.76%) Artifactory
9 28 (3.76%) JUnit
10 24 (3.22%) TeamCity
11 15 (2.01%) Maven
11 15 (2.01%) Mockito
12 14 (1.88%) IntelliJ
13 12 (1.61%) CircleCI
14 9 (1.21%) Selenium
15 8 (1.07%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 8 (1.07%) git-flow
15 8 (1.07%) Gradle
16 7 (0.94%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 178 (23.89%) Finance
2 154 (20.67%) Social Skills
3 68 (9.13%) Banking
4 43 (5.77%) Public Sector
5 39 (5.23%) Analytical Skills
6 33 (4.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 28 (3.76%) Telecoms
8 23 (3.09%) Law
9 14 (1.88%) Games
10 13 (1.74%) Electronics
11 8 (1.07%) Front Office
11 8 (1.07%) 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
1 158 (21.21%) Senior
2 143 (19.19%) DevOps Engineer
3 83 (11.14%) Lead
4 74 (9.93%) Platform Engineer
5 62 (8.32%) Cloud Engineer
6 59 (7.92%) Architect
7 54 (7.25%) Senior DevOps
8 47 (6.31%) Network Engineer
9 46 (6.17%) Linux Engineer
10 45 (6.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 40 (5.37%) Administrator
12 39 (5.23%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 38 (5.10%) Developer
13 38 (5.10%) Systems Administrator
14 36 (4.83%) AWS DevOps
15 35 (4.70%) Automation Engineer
15 35 (4.70%) Azure Engineer
16 32 (4.30%) Systems Engineer
17 28 (3.76%) Java Developer
17 28 (3.76%) Network Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (6.71%) REST
2 41 (5.50%) .NET
3 40 (5.37%) Elastic Stack
4 39 (5.23%) Spring Boot
5 29 (3.89%) JSON
6 28 (3.76%) Spring
7 27 (3.62%) RabbitMQ
8 26 (3.49%) Node.js
9 23 (3.09%) ARM Templates
10 22 (2.95%) RESTful
11 20 (2.68%) YAML
12 19 (2.55%) Kafka
13 16 (2.15%) AWS CDK
14 15 (2.01%) Web Services
15 14 (1.88%) ActiveMQ
15 14 (1.88%) JMS
16 12 (1.61%) Azure Blueprints
16 12 (1.61%) GraphQL
17 11 (1.48%) Apache Camel
17 11 (1.48%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 79 (10.60%) Public Cloud
2 78 (10.47%) Management Information System
3 59 (7.92%) Data Centre
4 31 (4.16%) Hybrid Cloud
5 27 (3.62%) Cloud Native
6 19 (2.55%) Enterprise Software
7 18 (2.42%) Distributed Systems
7 18 (2.42%) IoT
8 15 (2.01%) Virtual Team
9 14 (1.88%) Clustering
9 14 (1.88%) Credit Derivative
9 14 (1.88%) Onboarding
10 13 (1.74%) 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 (1.07%) Self-Motivation
14 7 (0.94%) Security Posture
15 5 (0.67%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 334 (44.83%) Linux
2 198 (26.58%) Windows
3 76 (10.20%) Windows Server
4 62 (8.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 24 (3.22%) CentOS
6 23 (3.09%) Unix
7 20 (2.68%) Ubuntu
8 9 (1.21%) Android
8 9 (1.21%) Debian
9 8 (1.07%) 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%) Windows Server 2008
15 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 378 (50.74%) DevOps
2 361 (48.46%) CI/CD
3 277 (37.18%) Infrastructure as Code
4 162 (21.74%) Agile
5 150 (20.13%) Containerisation
6 108 (14.50%) Problem-Solving
7 99 (13.29%) Platform Engineering
8 90 (12.08%) Configuration Management
9 80 (10.74%) High Availability
9 80 (10.74%) Mentoring
10 75 (10.07%) Deployment Automation
10 75 (10.07%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 64 (8.59%) DevSecOps
12 58 (7.79%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 56 (7.52%) Continuous Integration
13 56 (7.52%) Software Engineering
14 54 (7.25%) Disaster Recovery
15 53 (7.11%) Analytics
15 53 (7.11%) Coaching
16 52 (6.98%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 397 (53.29%) Python
2 156 (20.94%) Bash
3 154 (20.67%) PowerShell
4 85 (11.41%) Java
5 51 (6.85%) C#
6 42 (5.64%) Bicep
7 41 (5.50%) SQL
8 34 (4.56%) Ruby
9 24 (3.22%) Go
10 23 (3.09%) JavaScript
11 19 (2.55%) Shell Script
12 18 (2.42%) C++
13 17 (2.28%) Perl
14 15 (2.01%) PHP
14 15 (2.01%) TypeScript
15 11 (1.48%) Groovy
16 8 (1.07%) Scala
17 5 (0.67%) Kusto Query Language
18 4 (0.54%) R
18 4 (0.54%) Rust
Qualifications
1 133 (17.85%) Security Cleared
2 80 (10.74%) Degree
3 78 (10.47%) SC Cleared
4 45 (6.04%) DV Cleared
5 44 (5.91%) Cisco Certification
6 42 (5.64%) AWS Certification
7 39 (5.23%) BPSS Clearance
8 38 (5.10%) CCNP
9 25 (3.36%) Azure Certification
10 22 (2.95%) CCNA
11 20 (2.68%) Computer Science Degree
12 18 (2.42%) CCIE
13 17 (2.28%) Microsoft Certification
14 16 (2.15%) JNCIS
15 14 (1.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 11 (1.48%) CompTIA Security+
16 11 (1.48%) Network+ Certification
16 11 (1.48%) OCP
16 11 (1.48%) Oracle Certification
17 6 (0.81%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (4.03%) SLA
2 26 (3.49%) QA
3 19 (2.55%) 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
1 212 (28.46%) Docker
2 92 (12.35%) VMware Infrastructure
3 73 (9.80%) Active Directory
4 35 (4.70%) VMware NSX
5 33 (4.43%) vSphere
6 26 (3.49%) 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
1 469 (62.95%) Terraform
2 291 (39.06%) Kubernetes
3 119 (15.97%) Puppet
4 96 (12.89%) Progress Chef
5 61 (8.19%) Grafana
6 57 (7.65%) Prometheus
7 28 (3.76%) FortiGate
8 23 (3.09%) Nagios
9 20 (2.68%) Podman
10 15 (2.01%) ZABBIX
11 14 (1.88%) Red Hat Satellite
12 12 (1.61%) Argo
13 11 (1.48%) Microsoft Intune
14 10 (1.34%) Proxmox
14 10 (1.34%) SCCM
15 9 (1.21%) Graylog
15 9 (1.21%) Rundeck
16 8 (1.07%) Nessus
16 8 (1.07%) Packer
16 8 (1.07%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 152 (20.40%) VMware
2 129 (17.32%) Cisco
3 91 (12.21%) Microsoft
4 71 (9.53%) Red Hat
5 57 (7.65%) Atlassian
6 51 (6.85%) F5
7 48 (6.44%) Google
8 34 (4.56%) IBM
9 33 (4.43%) CheckPoint
10 28 (3.76%) Oracle
10 28 (3.76%) Palo Alto
11 27 (3.62%) Splunk
12 25 (3.36%) SolarWinds
13 24 (3.22%) Blue Coat
14 22 (2.95%) Juniper
14 22 (2.95%) NetApp
15 21 (2.82%) Citrix
16 14 (1.88%) EMC
16 14 (1.88%) Fortinet
16 14 (1.88%) ServiceNow