Hybrid/Remote Ansible Job Trends

Ansible
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring Ansible skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 221 96 177
Rank change year-on-year -125 +81 -69
Permanent jobs citing Ansible 210 554 611
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.08% 3.70% 1.80%
As % of the Systems Management category 13.32% 27.05% 16.46%
Number of salaries quoted 134 164 473
10th Percentile £46,446 £51,625 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £65,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +15.38% -10.34%
75th Percentile £77,500 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £84,681 £95,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -3.45%

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 1,576 2,048 3,713
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.12% 13.67% 10.96%
Number of salaries quoted 1,085 1,190 2,870
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £36,500
25th Percentile £46,446 £49,636 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £67,626 £64,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.58% +4.85% -7.86%
75th Percentile £78,750 £87,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £61,206
% change year-on-year -3.70% +10.28% -9.32%

Ansible
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Ansible and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Ansible job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Ansible
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Ansible.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Ansible

Ansible
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Ansible over the 6 months to 7 June 2026.

Ansible salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Ansible
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 9 (4.29%) OpenStack
2 4 (1.90%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.43%) Apache Solr
3 3 (1.43%) ArcGIS
3 3 (1.43%) GeoServer
3 3 (1.43%) Oracle Spatial
4 2 (0.95%) Apache
4 2 (0.95%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.95%) WordPress
5 1 (0.48%) Confluence
5 1 (0.48%) Drupal
5 1 (0.48%) IIS
5 1 (0.48%) JBoss
5 1 (0.48%) NetWeaver
5 1 (0.48%) nginx
5 1 (0.48%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 4 (1.90%) Weka
2 1 (0.48%) EngageOne
2 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.48%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.90%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (0.48%) Magento
2 1 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.48%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 139 (66.19%) AWS
2 101 (48.10%) Azure
3 38 (18.10%) GCP
4 36 (17.14%) GitHub
5 24 (11.43%) Amazon EKS
5 24 (11.43%) GitHub Actions
6 20 (9.52%) OCI
7 19 (9.05%) AWS CloudFormation
7 19 (9.05%) Serverless
8 18 (8.57%) Pulumi
9 16 (7.62%) Amazon S3
10 13 (6.19%) Amazon EC2
11 12 (5.71%) AWS Lambda
12 11 (5.24%) Microsoft 365
12 11 (5.24%) SaaS
13 10 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
14 9 (4.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 9 (4.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 7 (3.33%) Entra ID
15 7 (3.33%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 51 (24.29%) Firewall
2 23 (10.95%) WAN
3 18 (8.57%) Broadband
3 18 (8.57%) DNS
3 18 (8.57%) LAN
4 17 (8.10%) NGFW
4 17 (8.10%) VPN
5 15 (7.14%) VXLAN
5 15 (7.14%) Wi-Fi
5 15 (7.14%) Wireshark
6 12 (5.71%) DHCP
7 11 (5.24%) Cisco ASA
8 10 (4.76%) VLAN
9 9 (4.29%) Cisco Firepower
9 9 (4.29%) Network Security
9 9 (4.29%) Unified Communications
9 9 (4.29%) WebEx
10 8 (3.81%) SD-WAN
11 5 (2.38%) MPLS
11 5 (2.38%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (10.00%) NoSQL
1 21 (10.00%) Relational Database
2 18 (8.57%) RDBMS
3 16 (7.62%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (3.33%) SQL Server
5 6 (2.86%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (2.38%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (2.38%) MongoDB
6 5 (2.38%) MySQL
7 4 (1.90%) Redis
8 3 (1.43%) Apache Cassandra
8 3 (1.43%) Flink
8 3 (1.43%) GIS
8 3 (1.43%) QGIS
9 2 (0.95%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (0.95%) Metadata
9 2 (0.95%) Neo4j
10 1 (0.48%) Big Data
10 1 (0.48%) MariaDB
10 1 (0.48%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 34 (16.19%) Git
2 29 (13.81%) Jenkins
3 22 (10.48%) GitLab
4 18 (8.57%) Jaeger
5 9 (4.29%) Visual Studio Code
6 5 (2.38%) Bitbucket
6 5 (2.38%) JIRA
7 3 (1.43%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 3 (1.43%) Selenium
7 3 (1.43%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.95%) JMeter
8 2 (0.95%) Maven
9 1 (0.48%) Eclipse
9 1 (0.48%) Gatling
9 1 (0.48%) git-flow
9 1 (0.48%) JUnit
9 1 (0.48%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.48%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.48%) Vagrant
General
1 52 (24.76%) Social Skills
2 40 (19.05%) Public Sector
3 27 (12.86%) Finance
4 26 (12.38%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (11.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 23 (10.95%) Retail
7 13 (6.19%) Marketing
8 12 (5.71%) Banking
8 12 (5.71%) Telecoms
9 11 (5.24%) Law
10 7 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
11 6 (2.86%) Health Technology
11 6 (2.86%) Tech for Good
12 5 (2.38%) Legal
12 5 (2.38%) Manufacturing
12 5 (2.38%) Military
13 4 (1.90%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (1.43%) Aviation
15 2 (0.95%) Aerospace
15 2 (0.95%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 42 (20.00%) Lead
2 35 (16.67%) Senior
3 32 (15.24%) Cloud Engineer
4 31 (14.76%) DevOps Engineer
5 29 (13.81%) Platform Engineer
6 27 (12.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 17 (8.10%) Network Manager
8 16 (7.62%) Azure Engineer
9 15 (7.14%) Network Operations Manager
9 15 (7.14%) Operations Manager
10 13 (6.19%) Architect
11 12 (5.71%) Team Leader
12 11 (5.24%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 11 (5.24%) Developer
12 11 (5.24%) Java Developer
12 11 (5.24%) Lead DevOps
13 10 (4.76%) Azure Platform Engineer
13 10 (4.76%) Lead Cloud Engineer
13 10 (4.76%) Senior DevOps
13 10 (4.76%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (11.43%) Elastic Stack
2 18 (8.57%) OpenTelemetry
3 17 (8.10%) Spring
4 15 (7.14%) Spring Boot
5 13 (6.19%) Kafka
6 12 (5.71%) Node.js
7 9 (4.29%) AngularJS
7 9 (4.29%) React
7 9 (4.29%) XMPP
8 7 (3.33%) .NET
8 7 (3.33%) YAML
9 6 (2.86%) React Native
9 6 (2.86%) REST
9 6 (2.86%) Web Services
10 5 (2.38%) OAuth
10 5 (2.38%) OpenID
10 5 (2.38%) SAML
11 4 (1.90%) JSON
11 4 (1.90%) RabbitMQ
12 3 (1.43%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 35 (16.67%) Data Centre
2 26 (12.38%) Hybrid Cloud
3 20 (9.52%) PKI
4 18 (8.57%) Private Cloud
5 17 (8.10%) Cloud Native
5 17 (8.10%) Public Cloud
6 11 (5.24%) Onboarding
7 10 (4.76%) Video Conferencing
8 9 (4.29%) FlexPod
9 7 (3.33%) Distributed Systems
9 7 (3.33%) Management Information System
9 7 (3.33%) Mobile App
10 6 (2.86%) CMDB
10 6 (2.86%) Replication
11 5 (2.38%) Cyberattack
11 5 (2.38%) Product Ownership
12 4 (1.90%) Clustering
12 4 (1.90%) Enterprise Cloud
12 4 (1.90%) Security Posture
13 3 (1.43%) Cyber Defence
Operating Systems
1 100 (47.62%) Linux
2 32 (15.24%) Unix
2 32 (15.24%) Windows
3 25 (11.90%) Windows Server
4 12 (5.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 12 (5.71%) Ubuntu
5 10 (4.76%) Debian
6 7 (3.33%) Android
6 7 (3.33%) CentOS
7 6 (2.86%) Apple iOS
8 3 (1.43%) VMS
9 1 (0.48%) FreeBSD
9 1 (0.48%) OpenBSD
9 1 (0.48%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (58.57%) DevOps
2 109 (51.90%) Infrastructure as Code
3 99 (47.14%) CI/CD
4 82 (39.05%) Agile
5 66 (31.43%) Mentoring
6 54 (25.71%) Containerisation
7 52 (24.76%) Problem-Solving
8 49 (23.33%) Roadmaps
9 46 (21.90%) Continuous Improvement
10 42 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
11 39 (18.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 36 (17.14%) Continuous Integration
13 34 (16.19%) Infrastructure Automation
14 32 (15.24%) Coaching
15 29 (13.81%) High Availability
15 29 (13.81%) ITIL
15 29 (13.81%) Microservices
16 28 (13.33%) Configuration Management
17 25 (11.90%) Task Automation
18 23 (10.95%) GitOps
Programming Languages
1 109 (51.90%) Python
2 47 (22.38%) Java
3 43 (20.48%) Bash
4 31 (14.76%) PowerShell
5 27 (12.86%) Go
6 26 (12.38%) JavaScript
7 7 (3.33%) TypeScript
8 6 (2.86%) SQL
9 5 (2.38%) Perl
9 5 (2.38%) Rust
10 4 (1.90%) C#
10 4 (1.90%) PHP
11 3 (1.43%) Scala
12 2 (0.95%) Groovy
13 1 (0.48%) ABAP
13 1 (0.48%) Bicep
13 1 (0.48%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.48%) Ruby
13 1 (0.48%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 53 (25.24%) Security Cleared
2 41 (19.52%) SC Cleared
3 34 (16.19%) AWS Certification
4 27 (12.86%) Degree
5 19 (9.05%) Azure Certification
6 10 (4.76%) DV Cleared
7 6 (2.86%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (2.86%) CISSP
7 6 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (2.86%) DBS Check
7 6 (2.86%) SANS
8 5 (2.38%) CCNP
8 5 (2.38%) GIAC
8 5 (2.38%) ISACA
9 4 (1.90%) CCIE
10 3 (1.43%) CCSA
10 3 (1.43%) CCSE
10 3 (1.43%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (1.43%) JNCIE
10 3 (1.43%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.29%) NIST
2 8 (3.81%) QA
3 5 (2.38%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.90%) GDPR
4 4 (1.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.43%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.43%) SLA
6 1 (0.48%) NCSC
System Software
1 73 (34.76%) Docker
2 28 (13.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (10.00%) Active Directory
4 13 (6.19%) vSphere
5 11 (5.24%) VMware NSX
6 6 (2.86%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 6 (2.86%) Virtual Servers
7 5 (2.38%) Hyper-V
7 5 (2.38%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (1.90%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 4 (1.90%) Virtual Machines
9 3 (1.43%) KVM
10 1 (0.48%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 1 (0.48%) Firmware
10 1 (0.48%) iptables
10 1 (0.48%) QEMU
10 1 (0.48%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 1 (0.48%) Xen
Systems Management
1 162 (77.14%) Terraform
2 114 (54.29%) Kubernetes
3 43 (20.48%) Prometheus
4 40 (19.05%) Grafana
5 26 (12.38%) Puppet
6 20 (9.52%) Argo
7 18 (8.57%) Kustomize
8 13 (6.19%) Packer
8 13 (6.19%) Progress Chef
9 9 (4.29%) Cisco CUCM
9 9 (4.29%) Proxmox
10 8 (3.81%) ZABBIX
11 5 (2.38%) vCenter Server
12 3 (1.43%) Red Hat Satellite
13 2 (0.95%) FortiGate
13 2 (0.95%) Microsoft Intune
13 2 (0.95%) Salt
14 1 (0.48%) Consul
14 1 (0.48%) Kibana
14 1 (0.48%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 44 (20.95%) Microsoft
2 40 (19.05%) VMware
3 30 (14.29%) Google
4 27 (12.86%) Cisco
5 20 (9.52%) Palo Alto
6 18 (8.57%) Splunk
7 16 (7.62%) Fortinet
8 15 (7.14%) Arista
8 15 (7.14%) Aruba
8 15 (7.14%) NetScout
9 14 (6.67%) Red Hat
10 13 (6.19%) ServiceNow
11 8 (3.81%) F5
11 8 (3.81%) Oracle
12 6 (2.86%) EMC
12 6 (2.86%) NetApp
12 6 (2.86%) Salesforce
13 5 (2.38%) ForgeRock
13 5 (2.38%) Okta
14 4 (1.90%) Cribl.io