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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 99 197 124
Rank change year-on-year +98 -73 -12
Permanent jobs citing Ansible 1,654 1,489 2,690
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.96% 1.44% 2.81%
As % of the Systems Management category 29.17% 15.08% 19.50%
Number of salaries quoted 456 974 1,310
10th Percentile £48,625 £42,664 £47,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £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 £90,000
90th Percentile £106,250 £102,125 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +12.50% -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 5,670 9,873 13,798
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.15% 9.52% 14.41%
Number of salaries quoted 3,113 7,021 8,779
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £35,200
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £47,595
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £61,206 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.28% -9.32% -3.57%
75th Percentile £88,750 £83,125 £87,500
90th Percentile £111,250 £100,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £59,526
% change year-on-year +9.09% -7.60% +0.89%

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 31 May 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 31 May 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 +104 1,608 £75,000 +7.14% 756
UK excluding London +110 1,137 £67,500 +12.50% 462
Work from Home +70 780 £75,000 +15.38% 524
North of England +196 769 £70,000 +11.50% 145
North West +164 680 £70,000 +11.50% 87
London +57 399 £82,500 - 345
South East +13 156 £65,000 +8.33% 108
Yorkshire +86 81 £74,870 +19.25% 53
Midlands +79 78 £72,500 +26.09% 50
East of England +68 62 £62,500 - 38
West Midlands +71 48 £75,000 +25.00% 37
South West -49 46 £57,500 +4.55% 65
East Midlands +43 30 £40,000 -30.43% 12
Scotland +72 18 £75,360 +15.94% 28
North East +45 8 £56,500 -10.01% 6
Northern Ireland +36 7 £55,000 -47.62% 25
Wales -9 2 £55,000 +10.00% 2
Isle of Man - 1 £34,500 -

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 69 (4.17%) Confluence
2 27 (1.63%) Apache
3 22 (1.33%) nginx
4 17 (1.03%) Tomcat
5 15 (0.91%) IIS
5 15 (0.91%) JBoss
6 14 (0.85%) Red Hat Fuse
7 12 (0.73%) Microsoft Exchange
8 9 (0.54%) Apache Airflow
9 7 (0.42%) Apache Solr
10 5 (0.30%) Apache Spark
10 5 (0.30%) Appian
10 5 (0.30%) SharePoint
11 4 (0.24%) WebSphere
12 2 (0.12%) BizTalk Server
12 2 (0.12%) CICS
12 2 (0.12%) WebSphere Application Server
13 1 (0.060%) OpenStack
Applications
1 7 (0.42%) Microsoft Office
1 7 (0.42%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 6 (0.36%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (0.30%) NetSuite
2 4 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.12%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.060%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.060%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.060%) PeopleSoft HCM
Cloud Services
1 623 (37.67%) AWS
2 343 (20.74%) Azure
3 233 (14.09%) Pulumi
4 134 (8.10%) GCP
5 104 (6.29%) Amazon EKS
6 95 (5.74%) AWS CloudFormation
7 80 (4.84%) GitHub
8 53 (3.20%) Amazon S3
8 53 (3.20%) Serverless
9 49 (2.96%) Azure DevOps
10 46 (2.78%) Amazon EC2
11 45 (2.72%) SaaS
12 39 (2.36%) AWS Lambda
13 38 (2.30%) PaaS
14 34 (2.06%) Amazon ECS
15 29 (1.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 26 (1.57%) Microsoft 365
17 25 (1.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 25 (1.51%) Datadog
18 22 (1.33%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 718 (43.41%) VPN
2 475 (28.72%) DNS
3 279 (16.87%) Cisco IOS
4 218 (13.18%) Broadband
5 134 (8.10%) Firewall
6 82 (4.96%) WAN
7 65 (3.93%) LAN
8 62 (3.75%) TCP/IP
9 41 (2.48%) SD-WAN
10 37 (2.24%) DHCP
11 36 (2.18%) Network Security
12 33 (2.00%) BGP
13 32 (1.93%) Cisco ISE
14 30 (1.81%) Ethernet
15 29 (1.75%) OSPF
16 23 (1.39%) SAN
17 22 (1.33%) VLAN
18 20 (1.21%) Cisco Nexus
19 17 (1.03%) Wi-Fi
20 14 (0.85%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 274 (16.57%) Relational Database
2 233 (14.09%) NoSQL
3 218 (13.18%) RDBMS
4 71 (4.29%) Elasticsearch
5 63 (3.81%) MySQL
6 41 (2.48%) SQL Server
7 39 (2.36%) PostgreSQL
8 34 (2.06%) Amazon RDS
9 20 (1.21%) MongoDB
10 10 (0.60%) Amazon Aurora
10 10 (0.60%) Couchbase
11 5 (0.30%) Data Warehouse
11 5 (0.30%) Power BI
12 4 (0.24%) Apache Cassandra
13 3 (0.18%) Amazon Athena
13 3 (0.18%) ClickHouse
13 3 (0.18%) Data Lake
13 3 (0.18%) DB2
13 3 (0.18%) Redis
14 2 (0.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 216 (13.06%) Jaeger
2 187 (11.31%) Jenkins
3 159 (9.61%) Git
4 97 (5.86%) GitLab
5 92 (5.56%) JIRA
6 64 (3.87%) Bitbucket
7 50 (3.02%) Sonatype Nexus
8 44 (2.66%) SonarQube
9 36 (2.18%) JUnit
10 26 (1.57%) Cucumber
11 24 (1.45%) Maven
12 22 (1.33%) Mockito
13 18 (1.09%) Selenium
14 17 (1.03%) TeamCity
15 15 (0.91%) Artifactory
15 15 (0.91%) IntelliJ
16 13 (0.79%) Vagrant
17 10 (0.60%) CircleCI
18 9 (0.54%) Atlassian Bamboo
19 8 (0.48%) TestNG
General
1 992 (59.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 744 (44.98%) Analytical Skills
3 580 (35.07%) Finance
4 172 (10.40%) Social Skills
5 58 (3.51%) Banking
6 44 (2.66%) Public Sector
7 38 (2.30%) Law
8 27 (1.63%) Telecoms
9 19 (1.15%) Marketing
10 14 (0.85%) Electronics
11 11 (0.67%) Manufacturing
12 8 (0.48%) Advertising
12 8 (0.48%) Investment Banking
12 8 (0.48%) Presentation Skills
13 7 (0.42%) Front Office
14 6 (0.36%) Games
15 5 (0.30%) Documentation Skills
16 3 (0.18%) Back Office
16 3 (0.18%) Financial Institution
16 3 (0.18%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 484 (29.26%) Developer
2 446 (26.96%) Software Developer
3 334 (20.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 302 (18.26%) Lead
5 220 (13.30%) Team Leader
6 154 (9.31%) Senior
7 127 (7.68%) DevOps Engineer
8 85 (5.14%) Platform Engineer
9 69 (4.17%) Cloud Engineer
10 60 (3.63%) Architect
11 59 (3.57%) Network Engineer
12 48 (2.90%) Senior DevOps
13 47 (2.84%) Azure Engineer
14 39 (2.36%) AWS Engineer
15 38 (2.30%) AWS DevOps
15 38 (2.30%) Linux Engineer
16 36 (2.18%) Support Engineer
17 35 (2.12%) Senior Cloud Engineer
18 33 (2.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
19 31 (1.87%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 514 (31.08%) Elastic Stack
2 215 (13.00%) OpenTelemetry
3 90 (5.44%) .NET
4 79 (4.78%) REST
5 69 (4.17%) Node.js
6 49 (2.96%) Pandas
7 44 (2.66%) Spring Boot
8 41 (2.48%) Spring
9 32 (1.93%) JSON
10 29 (1.75%) RESTful
11 26 (1.57%) ARM Templates
12 24 (1.45%) Kafka
13 18 (1.09%) ActiveMQ
14 17 (1.03%) YAML
15 15 (0.91%) SOAP
15 15 (0.91%) Web Services
16 14 (0.85%) J2EE
16 14 (0.85%) JMS
16 14 (0.85%) Middleware
16 14 (0.85%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 710 (42.93%) Cyberattack
2 78 (4.72%) Public Cloud
3 59 (3.57%) Data Centre
4 58 (3.51%) Management Information System
5 46 (2.78%) Hybrid Cloud
6 36 (2.18%) Cloud Native
7 32 (1.93%) Clustering
8 21 (1.27%) Distributed Systems
9 20 (1.21%) Enterprise Software
9 20 (1.21%) Replication
10 18 (1.09%) Virtual Team
11 14 (0.85%) Credit Derivative
11 14 (0.85%) Hedge funds
12 11 (0.67%) IoT
12 11 (0.67%) NB-IoT
12 11 (0.67%) PKI
13 10 (0.60%) Private Cloud
14 9 (0.54%) Distributed Computing
15 8 (0.48%) Algorithms
15 8 (0.48%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1,260 (76.18%) Linux
2 714 (43.17%) Android
3 473 (28.60%) Windows
4 249 (15.05%) Unix
5 96 (5.80%) Windows Server
6 74 (4.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 34 (2.06%) CentOS
8 23 (1.39%) Ubuntu
9 14 (0.85%) VMS
10 11 (0.67%) Windows Server 2019
11 10 (0.60%) Rocky
12 8 (0.48%) Debian
12 8 (0.48%) Windows Server 2016
13 7 (0.42%) Solaris
14 5 (0.30%) Oracle Linux
14 5 (0.30%) Windows Server 2008
15 4 (0.24%) Windows 10
15 4 (0.24%) Windows Server 2012
16 2 (0.12%) zOS
17 1 (0.060%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 859 (51.93%) DevOps
2 808 (48.85%) Agile
3 715 (43.23%) Line Management
4 710 (42.93%) Mathematics
5 524 (31.68%) Task Automation
6 496 (29.99%) Infrastructure as Code
7 461 (27.87%) OO
8 457 (27.63%) OOP
9 450 (27.21%) Design Patterns
10 446 (26.96%) Android Development
11 403 (24.37%) Containerisation
12 398 (24.06%) CI/CD
13 373 (22.55%) Platform Engineering
14 369 (22.31%) Problem-Solving
15 362 (21.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 289 (17.47%) Mentoring
17 283 (17.11%) High Availability
18 276 (16.69%) Continuous Integration
19 273 (16.51%) Storage Management
20 269 (16.26%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 1,319 (79.75%) Python
2 744 (44.98%) Java
3 686 (41.48%) Go
4 617 (37.30%) Bash
5 464 (28.05%) C++
6 417 (25.21%) PowerShell
7 288 (17.41%) JavaScript
8 53 (3.20%) Rust
9 46 (2.78%) C#
10 36 (2.18%) SQL
11 33 (2.00%) Bicep
12 28 (1.69%) Ruby
13 27 (1.63%) Shell Script
14 20 (1.21%) Groovy
14 20 (1.21%) TypeScript
15 19 (1.15%) Perl
16 18 (1.09%) PHP
17 5 (0.30%) Kusto Query Language
18 4 (0.24%) R
19 3 (0.18%) Gremlin
Qualifications
1 594 (35.91%) Security Cleared
2 505 (30.53%) DV Cleared
3 248 (14.99%) AWS Certification
4 87 (5.26%) SC Cleared
5 83 (5.02%) Degree
6 33 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
7 31 (1.87%) Azure Certification
7 31 (1.87%) Cisco Certification
8 27 (1.63%) CCNP
9 20 (1.21%) Computer Science Degree
10 17 (1.03%) CCNA
11 13 (0.79%) Network+ Certification
12 12 (0.73%) Microsoft Certification
13 11 (0.67%) CompTIA Security+
14 9 (0.54%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 8 (0.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 8 (0.48%) CCIE
16 6 (0.36%) JNCIA
16 6 (0.36%) JNCIS
17 5 (0.30%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (1.93%) SLA
2 24 (1.45%) QA
3 17 (1.03%) GDPR
3 17 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (0.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 10 (0.60%) SOC 2
6 9 (0.54%) NCSC
7 7 (0.42%) HIPAA
7 7 (0.42%) NIST
8 6 (0.36%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.12%) Accessibility
10 2 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 1 (0.060%) Government Security Classifications
11 1 (0.060%) NIST 800
System Software
1 1,147 (69.35%) Docker
2 302 (18.26%) vSphere
3 299 (18.08%) VMware NSX
4 291 (17.59%) Hyper-V
5 111 (6.71%) VMware Infrastructure
6 87 (5.26%) Active Directory
7 41 (2.48%) VMware ESXi
8 17 (1.03%) Virtual Machines
9 15 (0.91%) Virtual Desktop
10 9 (0.54%) Veritas Cluster Server
11 8 (0.48%) NFS
12 7 (0.42%) DFS Replication
13 6 (0.36%) BitLocker
13 6 (0.36%) Microsoft App-V
13 6 (0.36%) Terminal Services
14 3 (0.18%) Firmware
14 3 (0.18%) KVM
15 2 (0.12%) Postfix
15 2 (0.12%) SRDF
15 2 (0.12%) Xen
Systems Management
1 971 (58.71%) Terraform
2 554 (33.49%) Kubernetes
3 277 (16.75%) Prometheus
4 225 (13.60%) Argo
5 224 (13.54%) Kustomize
6 104 (6.29%) Puppet
7 76 (4.59%) Grafana
8 72 (4.35%) Progress Chef
9 32 (1.93%) FortiGate
10 26 (1.57%) Nagios
11 18 (1.09%) vCenter Server
12 15 (0.91%) Packer
12 15 (0.91%) Podman
13 14 (0.85%) SCCM
14 13 (0.79%) Microsoft Intune
14 13 (0.79%) Proxmox
15 12 (0.73%) vMotion
16 11 (0.67%) Nessus
17 9 (0.54%) Red Hat Satellite
17 9 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 397 (24.00%) Cisco
2 290 (17.53%) Splunk
3 288 (17.41%) Juniper
4 272 (16.44%) Google
5 262 (15.84%) 3PAR
6 178 (10.76%) VMware
7 120 (7.26%) Microsoft
8 67 (4.05%) Red Hat
9 49 (2.96%) Atlassian
10 40 (2.42%) F5
11 38 (2.30%) Palo Alto
12 37 (2.24%) CheckPoint
13 35 (2.12%) IBM
14 34 (2.06%) Citrix
15 30 (1.81%) Blue Coat
16 29 (1.75%) Oracle
17 28 (1.69%) ServiceNow
18 27 (1.63%) Fortinet
19 22 (1.33%) HP
20 20 (1.21%) SolarWinds