Ansible Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Ansible
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work 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 12 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 95 148 97
Rank change year-on-year +53 -51 +20
Permanent jobs citing Ansible 771 692 1,157
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 3.66% 2.10% 3.30%
As % of the Systems Management category 32.70% 19.46% 22.27%
Number of salaries quoted 173 439 739
10th Percentile £51,500 £40,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £52,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £62,783 £71,000
Median % change year-on-year +19.46% -11.57% +1.43%
75th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £96,000 £105,000 £106,289
UK median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% +3.57%

All Systems Management Skills
Work from Home

Ansible falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring systems management skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 2,358 3,556 5,196
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 11.21% 10.79% 14.82%
Number of salaries quoted 1,198 2,524 4,119
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £48,417 £47,500 £53,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £64,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.65% -7.86% -
75th Percentile £86,250 £84,930 £87,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £105,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £66,769 £62,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +6.83% -7.41% -

Ansible
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Ansible as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Ansible trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

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Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Ansible.

Ansible salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Ansible
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Ansible over the 6 months to 12 July 2025.

Ansible salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 9 (1.17%) Apache
1 9 (1.17%) Confluence
2 7 (0.91%) IIS
3 5 (0.65%) nginx
3 5 (0.65%) Tomcat
4 4 (0.52%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.26%) Apache Solr
5 2 (0.26%) BizTalk Server
5 2 (0.26%) WebSphere
5 2 (0.26%) WebSphere Application Server
6 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.13%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 1 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 399 (51.75%) AWS
2 215 (27.89%) Pulumi
3 139 (18.03%) Azure
4 66 (8.56%) Amazon EKS
5 62 (8.04%) AWS CloudFormation
6 46 (5.97%) GCP
7 26 (3.37%) SaaS
8 24 (3.11%) GitHub
9 22 (2.85%) AWS Lambda
9 22 (2.85%) Azure DevOps
9 22 (2.85%) Serverless
10 20 (2.59%) PaaS
11 19 (2.46%) Amazon EC2
11 19 (2.46%) Amazon S3
12 14 (1.82%) Datadog
12 14 (1.82%) IaaS
13 11 (1.43%) OCI
14 9 (1.17%) Cloud Computing
14 9 (1.17%) GitHub Actions
14 9 (1.17%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 287 (37.22%) VPN
2 268 (34.76%) Cisco IOS
3 218 (28.27%) Broadband
4 41 (5.32%) Firewall
5 29 (3.76%) WAN
6 27 (3.50%) DNS
6 27 (3.50%) LAN
6 27 (3.50%) TCP/IP
7 16 (2.08%) DHCP
8 15 (1.95%) BGP
9 14 (1.82%) OSPF
10 13 (1.69%) Network Security
10 13 (1.69%) VLAN
11 9 (1.17%) SD-WAN
11 9 (1.17%) Wireless
12 5 (0.65%) EIGRP
12 5 (0.65%) WLAN
13 4 (0.52%) IPv4
13 4 (0.52%) SAN
13 4 (0.52%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 220 (28.53%) NoSQL
2 218 (28.27%) Relational Database
3 215 (27.89%) RDBMS
4 52 (6.74%) Elasticsearch
5 12 (1.56%) SQL Server
6 10 (1.30%) MongoDB
7 8 (1.04%) MySQL
8 6 (0.78%) Amazon RDS
8 6 (0.78%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (0.39%) ClickHouse
10 2 (0.26%) Couchbase
10 2 (0.26%) Oracle Exadata
11 1 (0.13%) Apache Cassandra
11 1 (0.13%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (0.13%) InfluxDB
11 1 (0.13%) Oracle Database
11 1 (0.13%) Redis
Development Applications
1 215 (27.89%) Jaeger
2 57 (7.39%) Jenkins
3 50 (6.49%) Git
4 44 (5.71%) GitLab
5 26 (3.37%) SonarQube
6 25 (3.24%) Sonatype Nexus
7 16 (2.08%) JIRA
8 13 (1.69%) Cucumber
8 13 (1.69%) Maven
9 11 (1.43%) IntelliJ
10 10 (1.30%) JUnit
10 10 (1.30%) Mockito
11 9 (1.17%) Artifactory
12 5 (0.65%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 4 (0.52%) Bitbucket
13 4 (0.52%) TeamCity
14 3 (0.39%) IBM UrbanCode
14 3 (0.39%) Selenium
14 3 (0.39%) Subversion
15 2 (0.26%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 544 (70.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 325 (42.15%) Analytical Skills
3 66 (8.56%) Finance
4 55 (7.13%) Social Skills
5 21 (2.72%) Banking
6 15 (1.95%) Telecoms
7 10 (1.30%) Public Sector
8 7 (0.91%) Law
9 4 (0.52%) Marketing
10 3 (0.39%) Aviation
10 3 (0.39%) Electronics
10 3 (0.39%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.26%) Advertising
11 2 (0.26%) French Language
11 2 (0.26%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.26%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.26%) Retail
12 1 (0.13%) Automotive
12 1 (0.13%) Front Office
12 1 (0.13%) Games
Job Titles
1 278 (36.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 251 (32.56%) Lead
3 216 (28.02%) Team Leader
4 74 (9.60%) Senior
5 61 (7.91%) Developer
6 60 (7.78%) DevOps Engineer
7 49 (6.36%) Software Developer
8 33 (4.28%) Platform Engineer
9 30 (3.89%) AWS DevOps
10 28 (3.63%) Cloud Engineer
11 24 (3.11%) AWS Engineer
11 24 (3.11%) Senior DevOps
12 23 (2.98%) Network Engineer
13 22 (2.85%) Azure Engineer
14 20 (2.59%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 18 (2.33%) Python Engineer
16 17 (2.20%) Senior Cloud Engineer
17 16 (2.08%) Automation Engineer
17 16 (2.08%) Linux Engineer
18 14 (1.82%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 490 (63.55%) Elastic Stack
2 215 (27.89%) OpenTelemetry
3 57 (7.39%) Node.js
4 53 (6.87%) .NET
5 49 (6.36%) Pandas
6 35 (4.54%) REST
7 15 (1.95%) ARM Templates
7 15 (1.95%) Spring
7 15 (1.95%) Spring Boot
8 10 (1.30%) ActiveMQ
8 10 (1.30%) JMS
8 10 (1.30%) YAML
9 9 (1.17%) SailPoint
10 7 (0.91%) RabbitMQ
11 6 (0.78%) GraphQL
11 6 (0.78%) Jinja
12 5 (0.65%) Azure Blueprints
12 5 (0.65%) Middleware
13 4 (0.52%) AngularJS
13 4 (0.52%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 311 (40.34%) Cyberattack
2 37 (4.80%) Hybrid Cloud
3 26 (3.37%) Management Information System
4 19 (2.46%) Cloud Native
5 15 (1.95%) Clustering
6 13 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
7 12 (1.56%) Data Centre
7 12 (1.56%) Public Cloud
8 11 (1.43%) Replication
9 10 (1.30%) Credit Derivative
10 6 (0.78%) Virtual Team
11 5 (0.65%) Distributed Computing
11 5 (0.65%) Onboarding
12 4 (0.52%) Distributed Systems
12 4 (0.52%) Security Posture
12 4 (0.52%) Self-Motivation
13 3 (0.39%) Data Protection Act
13 3 (0.39%) Enterprise Cloud
13 3 (0.39%) Mainframe
14 2 (0.26%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 638 (82.75%) Linux
2 321 (41.63%) Windows
3 311 (40.34%) Android
4 235 (30.48%) Unix
5 29 (3.76%) Windows Server
6 26 (3.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 8 (1.04%) CentOS
8 6 (0.78%) Windows Server 2019
9 5 (0.65%) Solaris
9 5 (0.65%) Windows Server 2008
9 5 (0.65%) Windows Server 2016
10 4 (0.52%) Oracle Linux
10 4 (0.52%) Windows Server 2012
11 2 (0.26%) Debian
11 2 (0.26%) Rocky
11 2 (0.26%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 625 (81.06%) DevOps
2 494 (64.07%) Task Automation
3 325 (42.15%) Infrastructure as Code
4 313 (40.60%) Platform Engineering
5 312 (40.47%) Containerisation
5 312 (40.47%) Line Management
5 312 (40.47%) Problem-Solving
6 311 (40.34%) Mathematics
7 291 (37.74%) Agile
8 287 (37.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 264 (34.24%) Risk Management
9 264 (34.24%) Storage Management
10 252 (32.68%) High Availability
11 243 (31.52%) Mentoring
12 238 (30.87%) Roadmaps
13 222 (28.79%) Continuous Integration
13 222 (28.79%) Performance Optimisation
14 216 (28.02%) GitOps
15 215 (27.89%) Cost Optimisation
15 215 (27.89%) Resource Management
Programming Languages
1 681 (88.33%) Python
2 532 (69.00%) Bash
3 315 (40.86%) PowerShell
4 287 (37.22%) Java
5 275 (35.67%) Go
6 274 (35.54%) JavaScript
7 63 (8.17%) C++
8 49 (6.36%) Rust
9 16 (2.08%) Perl
10 12 (1.56%) Shell Script
11 11 (1.43%) SQL
12 8 (1.04%) Groovy
13 7 (0.91%) Bicep
14 5 (0.65%) TypeScript
15 4 (0.52%) PHP
15 4 (0.52%) R
16 3 (0.39%) Ruby
17 2 (0.26%) C#
18 1 (0.13%) C
18 1 (0.13%) Scala
Qualifications
1 239 (31.00%) AWS Certification
2 84 (10.89%) Security Cleared
3 61 (7.91%) DV Cleared
4 20 (2.59%) SC Cleared
5 16 (2.08%) Azure Certification
6 15 (1.95%) Degree
7 9 (1.17%) Cisco Certification
8 6 (0.78%) CCNP
9 5 (0.65%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (0.65%) CCNA
9 5 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (0.52%) CCIE
10 4 (0.52%) CISSP
10 4 (0.52%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (0.39%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 3 (0.39%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 3 (0.39%) OCP
11 3 (0.39%) Oracle Certification
12 2 (0.26%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 2 (0.26%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (1.69%) GDPR
2 12 (1.56%) QA
3 11 (1.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 6 (0.78%) NCSC
5 5 (0.65%) SLA
6 4 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.26%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.13%) Government Security Classifications
8 1 (0.13%) NIST
8 1 (0.13%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 586 (76.01%) Docker
2 275 (35.67%) Hyper-V
3 265 (34.37%) vSphere
4 263 (34.11%) VMware NSX
5 26 (3.37%) Active Directory
5 26 (3.37%) VMware Infrastructure
6 8 (1.04%) VMware ESXi
7 7 (0.91%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 5 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
9 3 (0.39%) KVM
10 2 (0.26%) Firmware
10 2 (0.26%) NFS
10 2 (0.26%) SRDF
10 2 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.26%) Xen
11 1 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 669 (86.77%) Terraform
2 359 (46.56%) Kubernetes
3 237 (30.74%) Prometheus
4 222 (28.79%) Argo
5 216 (28.02%) Kustomize
6 23 (2.98%) Puppet
7 22 (2.85%) Grafana
8 11 (1.43%) Progress Chef
8 11 (1.43%) Red Hat Satellite
9 10 (1.30%) SCCM
10 9 (1.17%) SCOM
11 7 (0.91%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
11 7 (0.91%) WSUS
12 4 (0.52%) Microsoft Intune
13 3 (0.39%) Istio
13 3 (0.39%) Packer
14 2 (0.26%) FortiGate
14 2 (0.26%) Kibana
14 2 (0.26%) logstash
14 2 (0.26%) Salt
Vendors
1 298 (38.65%) Cisco
2 266 (34.50%) Splunk
3 265 (34.37%) Juniper
4 262 (33.98%) 3PAR
5 219 (28.40%) Google
6 39 (5.06%) Red Hat
7 38 (4.93%) Microsoft
8 37 (4.80%) VMware
9 26 (3.37%) Palo Alto
10 21 (2.72%) Oracle
11 20 (2.59%) IBM
12 19 (2.46%) Aruba
13 16 (2.08%) Fortinet
14 13 (1.69%) Mellanox
14 13 (1.69%) NVIDIA
15 11 (1.43%) SolarWinds
16 9 (1.17%) EMC
17 8 (1.04%) Atlassian
18 7 (0.91%) F5
19 6 (0.78%) ServiceNow