Ansible
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Ansible skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Ansible over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 200 122 112
Rank change year-on-year -78 -10 -20
Permanent jobs citing Ansible 1,498 2,703 5,512
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.43% 2.86% 3.27%
As % of the Systems Management category 15.15% 19.74% 17.57%
Number of salaries quoted 978 1,319 2,247
10th Percentile £42,882 £47,450 £45,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% +7.69%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £101,625 £105,000 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £65,351 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.19% +8.92% -

All Systems Management Skills
UK

Ansible is in the Systems Management category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 9,890 13,690 31,363
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.42% 14.46% 18.59%
Number of salaries quoted 7,029 8,736 14,030
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £48,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,206 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.32% -3.57% +7.69%
75th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £101,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £58,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year -5.17% - +5.45%

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 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Ansible in the UK

Ansible
Top 17 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 1 June 2024. 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 -60 1,304 £70,000 -2.78% 316
UK excluding London -81 949 £60,000 -8.19% 182
Work from Home -50 736 £65,000 -10.34% 154
London -30 490 £82,500 +3.13% 156
South West -20 301 £55,000 -8.33% 47
South East -46 246 £60,000 -14.29% 38
North of England -89 164 £62,783 -6.99% 36
North West -84 104 £62,783 -10.31% 22
Scotland -123 68 £65,000 -13.33% 17
Midlands -71 63 £57,500 -11.54% 22
Wales -18 52 £50,000 -14.89% 5
Yorkshire -31 49 £62,783 -3.41% 11
East of England -46 45 £65,000 - 17
West Midlands -44 33 £60,000 -11.11% 11
East Midlands -53 30 £57,500 +18.25% 11
North East -10 13 £62,783 +16.80% 3
Northern Ireland -14 13 £105,000 +61.54% 6

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
1 148 (9.88%) Apache
2 66 (4.41%) Apache Spark
2 66 (4.41%) OpenStack
3 50 (3.34%) nginx
4 20 (1.34%) Jupyter
5 17 (1.13%) Confluence
6 16 (1.07%) JBoss
7 11 (0.73%) Microsoft Exchange
8 10 (0.67%) Red Hat Fuse
9 8 (0.53%) IIS
10 7 (0.47%) Tomcat
11 5 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
12 4 (0.27%) Drupal
12 4 (0.27%) SharePoint
13 3 (0.20%) CloudStack
14 2 (0.13%) MQSeries
15 1 (0.067%) WebLogic
15 1 (0.067%) WordPress
Applications
1 18 (1.20%) Microsoft Office
1 18 (1.20%) Simulink
2 10 (0.67%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.067%) Weka
Business Applications
1 3 (0.20%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.067%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.067%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 769 (51.34%) AWS
2 644 (42.99%) Azure
3 220 (14.69%) GCP
4 162 (10.81%) OpenShift
5 126 (8.41%) Serverless
6 121 (8.08%) Amazon S3
7 115 (7.68%) GitHub
8 110 (7.34%) Amazon EKS
9 99 (6.61%) AWS CloudFormation
10 98 (6.54%) SaaS
11 96 (6.41%) Azure DevOps
12 83 (5.54%) PaaS
13 72 (4.81%) Amazon ECS
14 69 (4.61%) AWS Lambda
15 67 (4.47%) IaaS
16 54 (3.60%) Amazon EC2
17 50 (3.34%) Cloud Computing
18 47 (3.14%) GitHub Actions
19 42 (2.80%) Microsoft 365
20 30 (2.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 284 (18.96%) Firewall
2 149 (9.95%) VPN
3 143 (9.55%) DNS
4 124 (8.28%) Internet
5 103 (6.88%) WAN
6 94 (6.28%) TCP/IP
7 81 (5.41%) DHCP
8 73 (4.87%) LAN
9 71 (4.74%) SNMP
10 63 (4.21%) IPsec
11 48 (3.20%) HTTP
12 34 (2.27%) AMQP
12 34 (2.27%) Wireless
13 33 (2.20%) SAN
14 31 (2.07%) Network Security
15 25 (1.67%) BGP
15 25 (1.67%) Cisco ASA
16 24 (1.60%) SD-WAN
16 24 (1.60%) SSL
17 17 (1.13%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 136 (9.08%) PostgreSQL
2 100 (6.68%) Elasticsearch
3 92 (6.14%) MongoDB
4 79 (5.27%) Big Data
5 71 (4.74%) NoSQL
6 68 (4.54%) MySQL
7 57 (3.81%) SQL Server
8 52 (3.47%) Hadoop
9 43 (2.87%) Relational Database
10 29 (1.94%) Cloudera CDH
11 26 (1.74%) Redis
12 25 (1.67%) MariaDB
13 23 (1.54%) Azure SQL Database
14 22 (1.47%) Amazon RDS
15 20 (1.34%) Power BI
16 18 (1.20%) InfluxDB
17 16 (1.07%) Presto
18 15 (1.00%) Amazon Redshift
18 15 (1.00%) Data Warehouse
19 14 (0.93%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 393 (26.23%) Jenkins
2 291 (19.43%) Git
3 132 (8.81%) GitLab
4 123 (8.21%) JIRA
5 41 (2.74%) Bitbucket
5 41 (2.74%) SonarQube
6 33 (2.20%) Sonatype Nexus
7 30 (2.00%) TeamCity
8 29 (1.94%) Vagrant
9 27 (1.80%) Artifactory
10 26 (1.74%) Subversion
11 19 (1.27%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 18 (1.20%) JUnit
12 18 (1.20%) Octopus Deploy
13 16 (1.07%) Selenium
14 15 (1.00%) Visual Studio
15 14 (0.93%) Maven
16 13 (0.87%) CircleCI
16 13 (0.87%) IBM UrbanCode
16 13 (0.87%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 281 (18.76%) Finance
2 277 (18.49%) Social Skills
3 177 (11.82%) Aerospace
4 99 (6.61%) Public Sector
5 76 (5.07%) Banking
6 66 (4.41%) Analytical Skills
7 60 (4.01%) Retail
8 35 (2.34%) Telecoms
9 34 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 24 (1.60%) Presentation Skills
11 23 (1.54%) Legal
12 22 (1.47%) Law
13 20 (1.34%) Investment Banking
14 18 (1.20%) Automotive
15 11 (0.73%) Organisational Skills
16 9 (0.60%) Financial Institution
16 9 (0.60%) Tech for Good
17 7 (0.47%) Pharmaceutical
17 7 (0.47%) Publishing
18 6 (0.40%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 340 (22.70%) DevOps Engineer
2 317 (21.16%) Senior
3 219 (14.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 135 (9.01%) Software Engineer
5 130 (8.68%) Cloud Engineer
6 129 (8.61%) Linux Engineer
7 101 (6.74%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 98 (6.54%) Developer
9 94 (6.28%) Architect
10 88 (5.87%) Consultant
11 86 (5.74%) AWS Engineer
12 72 (4.81%) Senior DevOps
13 71 (4.74%) Lead
13 71 (4.74%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 67 (4.47%) Platform Engineer
15 66 (4.41%) Azure Engineer
16 59 (3.94%) Java Developer
17 54 (3.60%) NetApp Consultant
18 53 (3.54%) Network Engineer
19 50 (3.34%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 120 (8.01%) RabbitMQ
2 108 (7.21%) Elastic Stack
3 106 (7.08%) Node.js
4 94 (6.28%) Spring
5 91 (6.07%) Spring Boot
6 86 (5.74%) REST
6 86 (5.74%) YAML
7 71 (4.74%) AngularJS
8 62 (4.14%) .NET
9 61 (4.07%) JSON
10 55 (3.67%) XML
11 53 (3.54%) React
12 51 (3.40%) Web Services
13 49 (3.27%) Kafka
14 43 (2.87%) Swagger
15 39 (2.60%) ARM Templates
16 38 (2.54%) Apache Camel
17 34 (2.27%) Middleware
18 31 (2.07%) OpenAPI
19 30 (2.00%) Apache NiFi
Miscellaneous
1 141 (9.41%) Data Centre
2 123 (8.21%) Public Cloud
3 89 (5.94%) Cloud Native
4 71 (4.74%) Hybrid Cloud
5 69 (4.61%) Distributed Systems
6 58 (3.87%) Management Information System
7 42 (2.80%) PKI
8 40 (2.67%) Linux Command Line
9 36 (2.40%) Self-Motivation
10 34 (2.27%) Clustering
11 31 (2.07%) Onboarding
11 31 (2.07%) Replication
12 27 (1.80%) Product Ownership
13 25 (1.67%) IoT
14 23 (1.54%) Greenfield Project
15 19 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
16 16 (1.07%) Enterprise Cloud
17 15 (1.00%) Cyber Defence
18 14 (0.93%) Virtual Team
19 13 (0.87%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 862 (57.54%) Linux
2 409 (27.30%) Windows
3 237 (15.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 131 (8.74%) CentOS
5 114 (7.61%) Ubuntu
6 102 (6.81%) Windows Server
7 61 (4.07%) Unix
8 55 (3.67%) Data ONTAP
9 46 (3.07%) VMS
10 37 (2.47%) Debian
11 25 (1.67%) Android
12 24 (1.60%) Solaris
13 21 (1.40%) Oracle Linux
13 21 (1.40%) Windows Server 2019
14 19 (1.27%) CoreOS
15 18 (1.20%) Windows Server 2016
16 11 (0.73%) AIX
16 11 (0.73%) Windows 10
17 7 (0.47%) Windows Server 2012
18 6 (0.40%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 779 (52.00%) DevOps
2 547 (36.52%) Agile
3 453 (30.24%) CI/CD
4 402 (26.84%) Infrastructure as Code
5 265 (17.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 255 (17.02%) Actionable Insight
6 255 (17.02%) Configuration Management
7 250 (16.69%) Problem-Solving
8 240 (16.02%) Software Engineering
9 230 (15.35%) Containerisation
10 204 (13.62%) Collaborative Working
11 195 (13.02%) Mentoring
12 189 (12.62%) Scrum
13 157 (10.48%) Microservices
14 150 (10.01%) Kanban
15 145 (9.68%) Continuous Integration
16 141 (9.41%) Project Management
17 129 (8.61%) Open Source
17 129 (8.61%) Test Automation
18 109 (7.28%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 715 (47.73%) Python
2 337 (22.50%) Java
3 315 (21.03%) PowerShell
4 295 (19.69%) Bash
5 153 (10.21%) JavaScript
6 144 (9.61%) SQL
7 83 (5.54%) Shell Script
8 77 (5.14%) Kotlin
9 74 (4.94%) Go
10 72 (4.81%) Perl
11 64 (4.27%) C#
12 52 (3.47%) Scala
13 48 (3.20%) Ruby
14 43 (2.87%) C++
15 40 (2.67%) C
16 27 (1.80%) Groovy
17 19 (1.27%) PHP
18 17 (1.13%) TypeScript
19 15 (1.00%) Rust
20 12 (0.80%) Korn
Qualifications
1 546 (36.45%) Security Cleared
2 286 (19.09%) SC Cleared
3 268 (17.89%) DV Cleared
4 122 (8.14%) Degree
5 60 (4.01%) Computer Science Degree
6 43 (2.87%) Cisco Certification
7 42 (2.80%) AWS Certification
7 42 (2.80%) Azure Certification
8 31 (2.07%) CISSP
9 25 (1.67%) CCNA
10 24 (1.60%) CCNP
11 21 (1.40%) BPSS Clearance
12 17 (1.13%) CISM
12 17 (1.13%) CRISC
13 16 (1.07%) GIAC
13 16 (1.07%) ISSMP
14 14 (0.93%) Master's Degree
15 11 (0.73%) CCIE
16 10 (0.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 10 (0.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (2.40%) QA
2 16 (1.07%) COBIT
2 16 (1.07%) NCSC
3 13 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (0.80%) GDPR
5 11 (0.73%) PCI DSS
6 8 (0.53%) SLA
7 6 (0.40%) NIST
8 5 (0.33%) HIPAA
9 4 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.20%) Accessibility
11 2 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.13%) Data Quality
12 1 (0.067%) Disclosure Scotland
12 1 (0.067%) SEPA
System Software
1 594 (39.65%) Docker
2 217 (14.49%) VMware Infrastructure
3 129 (8.61%) Active Directory
4 115 (7.68%) Hyper-V
5 59 (3.94%) Virtual Machines
6 29 (1.94%) VMware ESXi
7 20 (1.34%) vSphere
8 19 (1.27%) Firmware
9 18 (1.20%) NFS
10 15 (1.00%) VMware NSX
11 14 (0.93%) KVM
12 11 (0.73%) Ceph
12 11 (0.73%) Virtual Desktop
13 10 (0.67%) pfSense
14 6 (0.40%) Virtual Servers
14 6 (0.40%) XenApp
14 6 (0.40%) XenDesktop
15 5 (0.33%) Citrix Hypervisor
15 5 (0.33%) DFS Replication
16 4 (0.27%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 820 (54.74%) Terraform
2 684 (45.66%) Kubernetes
3 330 (22.03%) Puppet
4 173 (11.55%) Progress Chef
5 145 (9.68%) Prometheus
6 97 (6.48%) Grafana
7 93 (6.21%) vCenter Server
8 44 (2.94%) Nagios
9 35 (2.34%) ZABBIX
10 33 (2.20%) HAProxy
11 32 (2.14%) Docker Swarm
12 25 (1.67%) Kibana
13 22 (1.47%) SCCM
14 21 (1.40%) Red Hat Satellite
15 20 (1.34%) Packer
16 19 (1.27%) Single Sign-On
17 17 (1.13%) Rancher
18 16 (1.07%) Active Directory Federation Services
18 16 (1.07%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
19 15 (1.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 281 (18.76%) Red Hat
2 277 (18.49%) VMware
3 160 (10.68%) Microsoft
4 98 (6.54%) Google
5 78 (5.21%) Cisco
6 76 (5.07%) Palo Alto
7 72 (4.81%) NetApp
8 71 (4.74%) Oracle
9 54 (3.60%) SolidFire
10 45 (3.00%) SaltStack
11 42 (2.80%) Splunk
12 39 (2.60%) ServiceNow
13 36 (2.40%) WSO2
14 35 (2.34%) Atlassian
14 35 (2.34%) Fortinet
15 29 (1.94%) Juniper
16 27 (1.80%) McAfee
16 27 (1.80%) New Relic
17 25 (1.67%) F5
18 22 (1.47%) Veeam