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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 207 127 109
Rank change year-on-year -80 -18 -21
Permanent jobs citing Ansible 1,451 2,795 5,203
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.46% 2.76% 3.32%
As % of the Systems Management category 14.64% 18.86% 18.09%
Number of salaries quoted 982 1,389 2,361
10th Percentile £43,005 £46,250 £46,250
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 £101,250 £105,000 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -

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 9,909 14,819 28,768
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.00% 14.62% 18.33%
Number of salaries quoted 7,136 9,161 14,046
10th Percentile £32,750 £35,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -3.57% +12.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,810 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.86% -3.65% +9.09%

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 9 May 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 9 May 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 -63 1,254 £70,000 - 296
UK excluding London -81 933 £60,000 -7.69% 184
Work from Home -50 725 £68,750 -5.17% 162
London -36 462 £80,000 - 131
South West -22 286 £55,500 -11.13% 48
South East -35 254 £60,000 -14.29% 47
North of England -71 163 £62,783 -3.93% 29
North West -73 98 £62,783 -6.99% 20
Scotland -117 68 £65,000 -13.33% 12
Midlands -95 59 £57,500 -11.54% 21
Yorkshire -10 54 £62,783 -3.67% 6
Wales -12 53 £50,000 -14.89% 6
East of England -32 40 £60,000 -7.69% 18
West Midlands -37 30 £60,000 -12.41% 10
East Midlands -57 29 £57,500 +27.78% 11
Northern Ireland -1 13 £90,000 +38.46% 6
North East -4 13 £62,783 +19.59% 3

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
1 143 (9.86%) Apache
2 72 (4.96%) OpenStack
3 59 (4.07%) Apache Spark
4 48 (3.31%) nginx
5 21 (1.45%) Jupyter
6 17 (1.17%) Confluence
7 15 (1.03%) JBoss
8 13 (0.90%) Microsoft Exchange
9 11 (0.76%) Red Hat Fuse
10 10 (0.69%) IIS
11 6 (0.41%) Tomcat
12 4 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
12 4 (0.28%) Drupal
13 3 (0.21%) CloudStack
13 3 (0.21%) MQSeries
14 2 (0.14%) SharePoint
15 1 (0.069%) WebLogic
15 1 (0.069%) WebSphere
15 1 (0.069%) WordPress
Applications
1 16 (1.10%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (0.96%) Simulink
3 10 (0.69%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.069%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.069%) PTC Creo
4 1 (0.069%) SOLIDWORKS
4 1 (0.069%) Weka
Business Applications
1 3 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (0.14%) SAP Business One
3 1 (0.069%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 754 (51.96%) AWS
2 616 (42.45%) Azure
3 212 (14.61%) GCP
4 151 (10.41%) OpenShift
5 137 (9.44%) Serverless
6 126 (8.68%) Amazon S3
7 121 (8.34%) GitHub
8 115 (7.93%) Amazon EKS
9 97 (6.69%) Azure DevOps
10 95 (6.55%) AWS CloudFormation
11 90 (6.20%) SaaS
12 81 (5.58%) Amazon ECS
12 81 (5.58%) PaaS
13 72 (4.96%) AWS Lambda
13 72 (4.96%) IaaS
14 56 (3.86%) Amazon EC2
15 52 (3.58%) GitHub Actions
16 41 (2.83%) Microsoft 365
17 37 (2.55%) Cloud Computing
18 28 (1.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 279 (19.23%) Firewall
2 149 (10.27%) VPN
3 134 (9.24%) DNS
4 119 (8.20%) Internet
5 95 (6.55%) WAN
6 86 (5.93%) TCP/IP
7 76 (5.24%) DHCP
8 70 (4.82%) SNMP
9 68 (4.69%) LAN
10 62 (4.27%) IPsec
11 43 (2.96%) HTTP
12 32 (2.21%) Wireless
13 31 (2.14%) AMQP
14 28 (1.93%) SAN
15 26 (1.79%) BGP
15 26 (1.79%) Network Security
16 24 (1.65%) Cisco ASA
17 23 (1.59%) SD-WAN
18 22 (1.52%) SSL
19 17 (1.17%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 139 (9.58%) PostgreSQL
2 106 (7.31%) Elasticsearch
3 94 (6.48%) MongoDB
4 76 (5.24%) MySQL
5 75 (5.17%) Big Data
6 71 (4.89%) NoSQL
7 60 (4.14%) SQL Server
8 51 (3.51%) Relational Database
9 49 (3.38%) Hadoop
10 32 (2.21%) InfluxDB
11 26 (1.79%) Cloudera CDH
11 26 (1.79%) MariaDB
11 26 (1.79%) Redis
12 24 (1.65%) Amazon RDS
13 20 (1.38%) Azure SQL Database
13 20 (1.38%) Power BI
14 17 (1.17%) Presto
15 13 (0.90%) Amazon Redshift
16 12 (0.83%) BigQuery
16 12 (0.83%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 389 (26.81%) Jenkins
2 293 (20.19%) Git
3 138 (9.51%) GitLab
4 109 (7.51%) JIRA
5 42 (2.89%) SonarQube
6 40 (2.76%) Bitbucket
7 39 (2.69%) Sonatype Nexus
8 30 (2.07%) Artifactory
9 29 (2.00%) Subversion
9 29 (2.00%) TeamCity
10 25 (1.72%) Vagrant
11 20 (1.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 20 (1.38%) JUnit
12 19 (1.31%) Selenium
13 18 (1.24%) IBM UrbanCode
14 15 (1.03%) Maven
14 15 (1.03%) Octopus Deploy
15 14 (0.96%) CircleCI
16 13 (0.90%) Team Foundation Server
17 10 (0.69%) Visual Studio
General
1 266 (18.33%) Finance
2 253 (17.44%) Social Skills
3 156 (10.75%) Aerospace
4 99 (6.82%) Public Sector
5 75 (5.17%) Banking
6 62 (4.27%) Analytical Skills
7 57 (3.93%) Retail
8 38 (2.62%) Telecoms
9 35 (2.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 30 (2.07%) Presentation Skills
11 23 (1.59%) Law
11 23 (1.59%) Legal
12 19 (1.31%) Investment Banking
13 13 (0.90%) Automotive
14 10 (0.69%) Financial Institution
15 9 (0.62%) Organisational Skills
15 9 (0.62%) Tech for Good
16 7 (0.48%) Pharmaceutical
16 7 (0.48%) Publishing
17 6 (0.41%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 347 (23.91%) DevOps Engineer
2 298 (20.54%) Senior
3 211 (14.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 129 (8.89%) Cloud Engineer
5 122 (8.41%) Linux Engineer
6 114 (7.86%) Software Engineer
7 97 (6.69%) AWS Engineer
7 97 (6.69%) Developer
8 91 (6.27%) Architect
9 90 (6.20%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 89 (6.13%) Consultant
11 82 (5.65%) Senior DevOps
12 81 (5.58%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 77 (5.31%) Lead
14 70 (4.82%) Azure Engineer
15 67 (4.62%) Java Developer
15 67 (4.62%) Platform Engineer
16 55 (3.79%) AWS DevOps
17 54 (3.72%) NetApp Consultant
18 51 (3.51%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 127 (8.75%) Elastic Stack
2 119 (8.20%) RabbitMQ
3 100 (6.89%) Spring
4 98 (6.75%) Node.js
5 97 (6.69%) Spring Boot
6 90 (6.20%) YAML
7 88 (6.06%) REST
8 80 (5.51%) AngularJS
9 67 (4.62%) JSON
10 64 (4.41%) .NET
11 61 (4.20%) XML
12 57 (3.93%) Web Services
13 51 (3.51%) React
14 46 (3.17%) Kafka
15 44 (3.03%) Apache Camel
16 29 (2.00%) Middleware
17 28 (1.93%) Swagger
18 27 (1.86%) Apache NiFi
18 27 (1.86%) OpenAPI
19 26 (1.79%) Material-UI
Miscellaneous
1 144 (9.92%) Public Cloud
2 143 (9.86%) Data Centre
3 86 (5.93%) Distributed Systems
4 73 (5.03%) Hybrid Cloud
5 72 (4.96%) Cloud Native
6 56 (3.86%) Management Information System
7 47 (3.24%) Linux Command Line
8 42 (2.89%) PKI
9 37 (2.55%) Self-Motivation
10 34 (2.34%) Clustering
11 31 (2.14%) Replication
12 28 (1.93%) Onboarding
13 21 (1.45%) Greenfield Project
13 21 (1.45%) IoT
14 19 (1.31%) Legacy Systems
15 17 (1.17%) Enterprise Cloud
16 15 (1.03%) Cyber Defence
16 15 (1.03%) Product Ownership
16 15 (1.03%) Virtual Team
17 12 (0.83%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 872 (60.10%) Linux
2 417 (28.74%) Windows
3 225 (15.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 126 (8.68%) CentOS
5 105 (7.24%) Windows Server
6 102 (7.03%) Ubuntu
7 58 (4.00%) Unix
8 54 (3.72%) Data ONTAP
9 42 (2.89%) VMS
10 35 (2.41%) Debian
11 22 (1.52%) Windows Server 2019
12 21 (1.45%) Android
13 20 (1.38%) CoreOS
13 20 (1.38%) Solaris
14 18 (1.24%) Oracle Linux
14 18 (1.24%) Windows Server 2016
15 12 (0.83%) Windows 10
16 8 (0.55%) AIX
16 8 (0.55%) Windows Server 2012
17 6 (0.41%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 768 (52.93%) DevOps
2 528 (36.39%) Agile
3 444 (30.60%) CI/CD
4 419 (28.88%) Infrastructure as Code
5 274 (18.88%) Actionable Insight
6 259 (17.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 236 (16.26%) Configuration Management
8 235 (16.20%) Software Engineering
9 233 (16.06%) Containerisation
10 232 (15.99%) Problem-Solving
11 194 (13.37%) Scrum
12 189 (13.03%) Mentoring
13 184 (12.68%) Collaborative Working
14 172 (11.85%) Microservices
15 164 (11.30%) Kanban
16 148 (10.20%) Continuous Integration
17 139 (9.58%) Project Management
18 127 (8.75%) Test Automation
19 115 (7.93%) ITIL
20 105 (7.24%) Infrastructure Management
Programming Languages
1 682 (47.00%) Python
2 325 (22.40%) Java
3 308 (21.23%) Bash
4 303 (20.88%) PowerShell
5 147 (10.13%) JavaScript
6 146 (10.06%) SQL
7 85 (5.86%) Shell Script
8 78 (5.38%) Go
9 72 (4.96%) Perl
10 68 (4.69%) Kotlin
11 62 (4.27%) C#
12 48 (3.31%) Ruby
13 47 (3.24%) Scala
14 35 (2.41%) C
14 35 (2.41%) C++
15 32 (2.21%) Groovy
16 24 (1.65%) PHP
17 21 (1.45%) TypeScript
18 14 (0.96%) Rust
19 11 (0.76%) Korn
Qualifications
1 527 (36.32%) Security Cleared
2 271 (18.68%) SC Cleared
3 261 (17.99%) DV Cleared
4 116 (7.99%) Degree
5 51 (3.51%) Computer Science Degree
6 43 (2.96%) Cisco Certification
7 33 (2.27%) Azure Certification
8 30 (2.07%) AWS Certification
9 26 (1.79%) CISSP
10 25 (1.72%) CCNA
11 24 (1.65%) CCNP
12 21 (1.45%) BPSS Clearance
13 15 (1.03%) CISM
13 15 (1.03%) CRISC
13 15 (1.03%) GIAC
13 15 (1.03%) ISSMP
14 11 (0.76%) CCIE
14 11 (0.76%) Master's Degree
15 10 (0.69%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 9 (0.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (2.27%) QA
2 15 (1.03%) COBIT
3 14 (0.96%) NCSC
4 13 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (0.83%) GDPR
6 8 (0.55%) PCI DSS
7 5 (0.34%) HIPAA
7 5 (0.34%) SLA
8 3 (0.21%) NIST
9 2 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.069%) Data Quality
10 1 (0.069%) Disclosure Scotland
10 1 (0.069%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.069%) SEPA
System Software
1 590 (40.66%) Docker
2 201 (13.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 131 (9.03%) Active Directory
4 115 (7.93%) Hyper-V
5 55 (3.79%) Virtual Machines
6 29 (2.00%) VMware ESXi
7 19 (1.31%) Firmware
7 19 (1.31%) NFS
7 19 (1.31%) vSphere
8 13 (0.90%) KVM
8 13 (0.90%) VMware NSX
9 10 (0.69%) Ceph
9 10 (0.69%) pfSense
10 8 (0.55%) Virtual Desktop
11 6 (0.41%) DFS Replication
12 5 (0.34%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 4 (0.28%) Embedded Firmware
13 4 (0.28%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 4 (0.28%) Virtual Servers
14 3 (0.21%) oVirt
Systems Management
1 786 (54.17%) Terraform
2 659 (45.42%) Kubernetes
3 333 (22.95%) Puppet
4 179 (12.34%) Progress Chef
5 148 (10.20%) Prometheus
6 110 (7.58%) Grafana
7 94 (6.48%) vCenter Server
8 40 (2.76%) Nagios
9 36 (2.48%) HAProxy
10 35 (2.41%) ZABBIX
11 31 (2.14%) Docker Swarm
12 29 (2.00%) Kibana
13 25 (1.72%) Salt
14 22 (1.52%) SCCM
15 21 (1.45%) Packer
16 20 (1.38%) Rancher
17 19 (1.31%) Red Hat Satellite
18 16 (1.10%) Active Directory Federation Services
18 16 (1.10%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
18 16 (1.10%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 260 (17.92%) Red Hat
2 258 (17.78%) VMware
3 147 (10.13%) Microsoft
4 94 (6.48%) Google
5 77 (5.31%) Cisco
6 75 (5.17%) Palo Alto
7 70 (4.82%) NetApp
8 64 (4.41%) Oracle
9 54 (3.72%) SolidFire
10 42 (2.89%) SaltStack
10 42 (2.89%) WSO2
11 36 (2.48%) Splunk
12 35 (2.41%) Fortinet
13 30 (2.07%) Atlassian
14 29 (2.00%) Juniper
15 26 (1.79%) McAfee
16 25 (1.72%) ServiceNow
17 24 (1.65%) IBM
17 24 (1.65%) New Relic
18 23 (1.59%) Veeam