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 4 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 197 124 112
Rank change year-on-year -73 -12 -20
Permanent jobs citing Ansible 1,500 2,687 5,578
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.42% 2.86% 3.27%
As % of the Systems Management category 15.20% 19.79% 17.61%
Number of salaries quoted 975 1,311 2,267
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £45,300
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 £107,100
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% +12.50% -

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 9,867 13,578 31,672
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.33% 14.46% 18.59%
Number of salaries quoted 6,979 8,683 14,141
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £48,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,500 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.37% -3.57% +7.69%
75th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £101,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £58,750 £58,000
% change year-on-year -6.38% +1.29% +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 4 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 4 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 -65 1,307 £70,000 -2.78% 305
UK excluding London -91 951 £60,000 -11.11% 183
Work from Home -50 735 £65,000 -10.34% 162
London -32 490 £82,500 +3.13% 136
South West -23 301 £55,000 -8.33% 52
South East -44 245 £60,000 -14.89% 37
North of England -96 164 £62,783 -6.99% 35
North West -90 105 £62,783 -10.31% 23
Scotland -124 68 £65,000 -13.33% 16
Midlands -69 64 £57,500 -11.54% 20
Wales -17 52 £50,000 -14.89% 5
Yorkshire -24 48 £62,783 -3.41% 9
East of England -54 47 £67,500 +3.85% 19
West Midlands -31 34 £60,000 -11.11% 10
East Midlands -60 30 £57,500 +18.25% 10
Northern Ireland -12 13 £105,000 +61.54% 5
North East -13 13 £62,783 +14.15% 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
1 148 (9.87%) Apache
2 66 (4.40%) Apache Spark
2 66 (4.40%) OpenStack
3 50 (3.33%) nginx
4 20 (1.33%) 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
11 5 (0.33%) SharePoint
12 4 (0.27%) Drupal
13 3 (0.20%) CloudStack
14 2 (0.13%) MQSeries
15 1 (0.067%) WebLogic
15 1 (0.067%) WordPress
Applications
1 20 (1.33%) Simulink
2 18 (1.20%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (0.67%) Microsoft Excel
4 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 (51.27%) AWS
2 647 (43.13%) Azure
3 219 (14.60%) GCP
4 160 (10.67%) OpenShift
5 125 (8.33%) Serverless
6 121 (8.07%) Amazon S3
7 114 (7.60%) GitHub
8 109 (7.27%) Amazon EKS
9 100 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
9 100 (6.67%) SaaS
10 98 (6.53%) Azure DevOps
11 83 (5.53%) PaaS
12 71 (4.73%) Amazon ECS
13 69 (4.60%) AWS Lambda
13 69 (4.60%) IaaS
14 54 (3.60%) Amazon EC2
15 50 (3.33%) Cloud Computing
16 47 (3.13%) GitHub Actions
17 43 (2.87%) Microsoft 365
18 30 (2.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 284 (18.93%) Firewall
2 151 (10.07%) VPN
3 142 (9.47%) DNS
4 124 (8.27%) Internet
5 103 (6.87%) WAN
6 94 (6.27%) TCP/IP
7 81 (5.40%) DHCP
8 73 (4.87%) LAN
9 71 (4.73%) SNMP
10 63 (4.20%) IPsec
11 47 (3.13%) 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%) Cisco ASA
16 24 (1.60%) BGP
16 24 (1.60%) SD-WAN
17 23 (1.53%) SSL
18 17 (1.13%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 136 (9.07%) PostgreSQL
2 100 (6.67%) Elasticsearch
3 92 (6.13%) MongoDB
4 79 (5.27%) Big Data
5 72 (4.80%) NoSQL
6 68 (4.53%) MySQL
7 57 (3.80%) SQL Server
8 52 (3.47%) Hadoop
9 43 (2.87%) Relational Database
10 29 (1.93%) Cloudera CDH
11 26 (1.73%) Redis
12 25 (1.67%) MariaDB
13 23 (1.53%) Azure SQL Database
14 22 (1.47%) Amazon RDS
15 20 (1.33%) 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
1 392 (26.13%) Jenkins
2 291 (19.40%) Git
3 132 (8.80%) GitLab
4 123 (8.20%) JIRA
5 41 (2.73%) SonarQube
6 40 (2.67%) Bitbucket
7 33 (2.20%) Sonatype Nexus
8 31 (2.07%) Vagrant
9 30 (2.00%) TeamCity
10 27 (1.80%) Artifactory
11 26 (1.73%) Subversion
12 19 (1.27%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 18 (1.20%) JUnit
13 18 (1.20%) Octopus Deploy
14 16 (1.07%) Selenium
15 15 (1.00%) Visual Studio
16 14 (0.93%) Maven
17 13 (0.87%) CircleCI
17 13 (0.87%) Team Foundation Server
17 13 (0.87%) Terragrunt
General
1 279 (18.60%) Finance
2 276 (18.40%) Social Skills
3 177 (11.80%) Aerospace
4 99 (6.60%) Public Sector
5 74 (4.93%) Banking
6 66 (4.40%) Analytical Skills
7 60 (4.00%) Retail
8 35 (2.33%) Telecoms
9 34 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 23 (1.53%) Legal
11 22 (1.47%) Law
11 22 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
12 19 (1.27%) Investment Banking
13 18 (1.20%) Automotive
14 11 (0.73%) Organisational Skills
15 9 (0.60%) Financial Institution
15 9 (0.60%) Tech for Good
16 7 (0.47%) Pharmaceutical
16 7 (0.47%) Publishing
17 6 (0.40%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 337 (22.47%) DevOps Engineer
2 316 (21.07%) Senior
3 219 (14.60%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 138 (9.20%) Software Engineer
5 130 (8.67%) Cloud Engineer
6 128 (8.53%) Linux Engineer
7 101 (6.73%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 97 (6.47%) Developer
9 94 (6.27%) Architect
10 88 (5.87%) Consultant
11 84 (5.60%) AWS Engineer
12 71 (4.73%) Lead
13 69 (4.60%) Platform Engineer
13 69 (4.60%) Senior DevOps
14 68 (4.53%) Azure Engineer
14 68 (4.53%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 58 (3.87%) Java Developer
16 54 (3.60%) NetApp Consultant
16 54 (3.60%) Network Engineer
17 49 (3.27%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 120 (8.00%) RabbitMQ
2 108 (7.20%) Elastic Stack
3 105 (7.00%) Node.js
4 93 (6.20%) Spring
5 90 (6.00%) Spring Boot
6 86 (5.73%) YAML
7 85 (5.67%) REST
8 70 (4.67%) AngularJS
9 62 (4.13%) .NET
10 60 (4.00%) JSON
11 54 (3.60%) XML
12 53 (3.53%) React
13 51 (3.40%) Web Services
14 49 (3.27%) Kafka
15 43 (2.87%) Swagger
16 40 (2.67%) ARM Templates
17 38 (2.53%) Apache Camel
18 36 (2.40%) Middleware
19 31 (2.07%) OpenAPI
20 30 (2.00%) Apache NiFi
Miscellaneous
1 141 (9.40%) Data Centre
2 121 (8.07%) Public Cloud
3 90 (6.00%) Cloud Native
4 71 (4.73%) Hybrid Cloud
5 69 (4.60%) Distributed Systems
6 58 (3.87%) Management Information System
7 42 (2.80%) PKI
8 39 (2.60%) Linux Command Line
9 36 (2.40%) Self-Motivation
10 34 (2.27%) Clustering
11 32 (2.13%) Onboarding
12 31 (2.07%) Replication
13 27 (1.80%) Product Ownership
14 25 (1.67%) IoT
15 23 (1.53%) Greenfield Project
16 19 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
17 16 (1.07%) Enterprise Cloud
18 15 (1.00%) Cyber Defence
19 14 (0.93%) Virtual Team
20 13 (0.87%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 858 (57.20%) Linux
2 410 (27.33%) Windows
3 235 (15.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 131 (8.73%) CentOS
5 116 (7.73%) Ubuntu
6 101 (6.73%) Windows Server
7 61 (4.07%) Unix
8 55 (3.67%) Data ONTAP
9 47 (3.13%) VMS
10 37 (2.47%) Debian
11 27 (1.80%) 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
1 775 (51.67%) DevOps
2 545 (36.33%) Agile
3 456 (30.40%) CI/CD
4 401 (26.73%) Infrastructure as Code
5 266 (17.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 257 (17.13%) Configuration Management
7 255 (17.00%) Actionable Insight
8 251 (16.73%) Problem-Solving
9 242 (16.13%) Software Engineering
10 231 (15.40%) Containerisation
11 206 (13.73%) Collaborative Working
12 192 (12.80%) Mentoring
13 188 (12.53%) Scrum
14 158 (10.53%) Microservices
15 149 (9.93%) Kanban
16 144 (9.60%) Continuous Integration
17 142 (9.47%) Project Management
18 129 (8.60%) Open Source
19 127 (8.47%) Test Automation
20 107 (7.13%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 720 (48.00%) Python
2 337 (22.47%) Java
3 319 (21.27%) PowerShell
4 297 (19.80%) Bash
5 155 (10.33%) JavaScript
6 145 (9.67%) SQL
7 83 (5.53%) Shell Script
8 79 (5.27%) Kotlin
9 73 (4.87%) Go
10 70 (4.67%) Perl
11 65 (4.33%) C#
12 51 (3.40%) Scala
13 47 (3.13%) Ruby
14 45 (3.00%) C++
15 40 (2.67%) C
16 25 (1.67%) Groovy
17 19 (1.27%) PHP
18 17 (1.13%) TypeScript
19 15 (1.00%) Rust
20 11 (0.73%) Korn
Qualifications
1 546 (36.40%) Security Cleared
2 285 (19.00%) SC Cleared
3 266 (17.73%) DV Cleared
4 127 (8.47%) Degree
5 63 (4.20%) Computer Science Degree
6 43 (2.87%) Cisco Certification
7 42 (2.80%) Azure Certification
8 41 (2.73%) AWS Certification
9 32 (2.13%) CISSP
10 25 (1.67%) CCNA
11 24 (1.60%) CCNP
12 21 (1.40%) BPSS Clearance
13 17 (1.13%) CISM
13 17 (1.13%) CRISC
14 16 (1.07%) GIAC
14 16 (1.07%) ISSMP
15 15 (1.00%) Master's Degree
16 11 (0.73%) CCIE
17 10 (0.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 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
1 593 (39.53%) Docker
2 217 (14.47%) VMware Infrastructure
3 130 (8.67%) Active Directory
4 114 (7.60%) Hyper-V
5 59 (3.93%) Virtual Machines
6 29 (1.93%) VMware ESXi
7 20 (1.33%) 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
1 822 (54.80%) Terraform
2 684 (45.60%) Kubernetes
3 331 (22.07%) Puppet
4 173 (11.53%) Progress Chef
5 144 (9.60%) Prometheus
6 96 (6.40%) Grafana
7 93 (6.20%) vCenter Server
8 44 (2.93%) Nagios
9 35 (2.33%) ZABBIX
10 33 (2.20%) HAProxy
11 32 (2.13%) Docker Swarm
12 25 (1.67%) Kibana
13 22 (1.47%) SCCM
14 20 (1.33%) Packer
14 20 (1.33%) Red Hat Satellite
15 19 (1.27%) Single Sign-On
16 16 (1.07%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 16 (1.07%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
16 16 (1.07%) Rancher
17 15 (1.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 280 (18.67%) Red Hat
2 279 (18.60%) VMware
3 161 (10.73%) Microsoft
4 96 (6.40%) Google
5 79 (5.27%) Cisco
6 76 (5.07%) Palo Alto
7 72 (4.80%) NetApp
7 72 (4.80%) Oracle
8 54 (3.60%) SolidFire
9 44 (2.93%) SaltStack
10 42 (2.80%) Splunk
11 39 (2.60%) ServiceNow
12 36 (2.40%) Atlassian
12 36 (2.40%) WSO2
13 35 (2.33%) Fortinet
14 29 (1.93%) Juniper
15 28 (1.87%) McAfee
16 27 (1.80%) New Relic
17 25 (1.67%) F5
18 22 (1.47%) Veeam