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

6 months to
5 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 198 125 112
Rank change year-on-year -73 -13 -20
Permanent jobs citing Ansible 1,503 2,673 5,574
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.41% 2.86% 3.27%
As % of the Systems Management category 15.20% 19.81% 17.61%
Number of salaries quoted 976 1,300 2,257
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,250 £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 £101,250 £105,000 £107,000
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 9,888 13,492 31,644
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.29% 14.45% 18.59%
Number of salaries quoted 6,977 8,609 14,064
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 £83,250 £87,500 £85,625
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £101,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £58,750 £58,750
% change year-on-year -6.38% - +6.82%

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 5 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 5 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 -67 1,311 £70,000 -2.78% 292
UK excluding London -82 954 £60,000 -11.11% 174
Work from Home -55 734 £65,000 -10.34% 158
London -38 490 £82,500 +6.45% 133
South West -21 302 £55,000 -8.33% 42
South East -55 246 £60,000 -15.49% 41
North of England -103 164 £62,783 -6.99% 34
North West -83 105 £62,783 -10.31% 22
Scotland -131 68 £65,000 -13.33% 13
Midlands -70 65 £57,500 -11.54% 20
Wales -24 52 £50,000 -14.89% 5
Yorkshire -29 48 £62,783 -3.41% 10
East of England -60 47 £67,500 +3.85% 19
West Midlands -43 35 £60,000 -11.11% 10
East Midlands -56 30 £57,500 +18.25% 10
Northern Ireland -15 13 £105,000 +61.54% 6
North East -16 13 £62,783 +14.15% 2

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 (9.85%) Apache
2 66 (4.39%) Apache Spark
2 66 (4.39%) OpenStack
3 50 (3.33%) nginx
4 20 (1.33%) Jupyter
5 17 (1.13%) Confluence
6 16 (1.06%) 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 (51.16%) AWS
2 649 (43.18%) Azure
3 218 (14.50%) GCP
4 160 (10.65%) OpenShift
5 124 (8.25%) Serverless
6 121 (8.05%) Amazon S3
7 113 (7.52%) GitHub
8 108 (7.19%) Amazon EKS
9 100 (6.65%) AWS CloudFormation
9 100 (6.65%) SaaS
10 97 (6.45%) Azure DevOps
11 83 (5.52%) PaaS
12 71 (4.72%) Amazon ECS
13 69 (4.59%) IaaS
14 68 (4.52%) AWS Lambda
15 54 (3.59%) Amazon EC2
16 50 (3.33%) Cloud Computing
17 46 (3.06%) GitHub Actions
18 44 (2.93%) Microsoft 365
19 30 (2.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 285 (18.96%) Firewall
2 152 (10.11%) VPN
3 143 (9.51%) DNS
4 124 (8.25%) Internet
5 103 (6.85%) WAN
6 94 (6.25%) TCP/IP
7 81 (5.39%) DHCP
8 73 (4.86%) LAN
9 71 (4.72%) SNMP
10 63 (4.19%) IPsec
11 47 (3.13%) HTTP
12 34 (2.26%) AMQP
12 34 (2.26%) Wireless
13 33 (2.20%) SAN
14 31 (2.06%) Network Security
15 25 (1.66%) 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
1 135 (8.98%) PostgreSQL
2 100 (6.65%) Elasticsearch
3 92 (6.12%) MongoDB
4 79 (5.26%) Big Data
5 72 (4.79%) NoSQL
6 68 (4.52%) MySQL
7 58 (3.86%) SQL Server
8 52 (3.46%) Hadoop
9 43 (2.86%) Relational Database
10 29 (1.93%) Cloudera CDH
11 26 (1.73%) Redis
12 25 (1.66%) MariaDB
13 23 (1.53%) Azure SQL Database
14 22 (1.46%) Amazon RDS
15 20 (1.33%) Power BI
16 18 (1.20%) InfluxDB
17 16 (1.06%) Presto
18 15 (1.00%) Amazon Redshift
18 15 (1.00%) Data Warehouse
19 14 (0.93%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 392 (26.08%) Jenkins
2 291 (19.36%) Git
3 133 (8.85%) GitLab
4 123 (8.18%) JIRA
5 41 (2.73%) SonarQube
6 40 (2.66%) Bitbucket
7 33 (2.20%) Sonatype Nexus
8 31 (2.06%) Vagrant
9 30 (2.00%) TeamCity
10 27 (1.80%) Artifactory
11 26 (1.73%) Subversion
12 19 (1.26%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 18 (1.20%) JUnit
13 18 (1.20%) Octopus Deploy
14 16 (1.06%) Selenium
15 15 (1.00%) Visual Studio
16 14 (0.93%) Maven
17 13 (0.86%) Team Foundation Server
17 13 (0.86%) Terragrunt
18 12 (0.80%) CircleCI
General
1 279 (18.56%) Finance
2 276 (18.36%) Social Skills
3 177 (11.78%) Aerospace
4 99 (6.59%) Public Sector
5 74 (4.92%) Banking
6 66 (4.39%) Analytical Skills
7 60 (3.99%) Retail
8 35 (2.33%) Telecoms
9 34 (2.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 23 (1.53%) Legal
11 22 (1.46%) Law
11 22 (1.46%) Presentation Skills
12 19 (1.26%) Investment Banking
13 18 (1.20%) Automotive
14 12 (0.80%) 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 (22.42%) DevOps Engineer
2 319 (21.22%) Senior
3 220 (14.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 140 (9.31%) Software Engineer
5 129 (8.58%) Cloud Engineer
6 128 (8.52%) Linux Engineer
7 102 (6.79%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 97 (6.45%) Developer
9 94 (6.25%) Architect
10 88 (5.85%) Consultant
11 84 (5.59%) AWS Engineer
12 71 (4.72%) Lead
13 69 (4.59%) Azure Engineer
13 69 (4.59%) Platform Engineer
13 69 (4.59%) Senior DevOps
14 68 (4.52%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 58 (3.86%) Java Developer
16 54 (3.59%) NetApp Consultant
16 54 (3.59%) Network Engineer
17 49 (3.26%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 120 (7.98%) RabbitMQ
2 107 (7.12%) Elastic Stack
3 105 (6.99%) Node.js
4 93 (6.19%) Spring
5 90 (5.99%) Spring Boot
6 87 (5.79%) YAML
7 85 (5.66%) REST
8 70 (4.66%) AngularJS
9 62 (4.13%) .NET
10 60 (3.99%) JSON
11 54 (3.59%) XML
12 53 (3.53%) React
13 51 (3.39%) Web Services
14 49 (3.26%) Kafka
15 43 (2.86%) Swagger
16 40 (2.66%) ARM Templates
17 38 (2.53%) Apache Camel
18 36 (2.40%) Middleware
19 31 (2.06%) OpenAPI
20 30 (2.00%) Apache NiFi
Miscellaneous
1 141 (9.38%) Data Centre
2 121 (8.05%) Public Cloud
3 90 (5.99%) Cloud Native
4 71 (4.72%) Hybrid Cloud
5 69 (4.59%) Distributed Systems
6 57 (3.79%) Management Information System
7 42 (2.79%) PKI
8 39 (2.59%) Linux Command Line
9 36 (2.40%) Self-Motivation
10 34 (2.26%) Clustering
11 31 (2.06%) Onboarding
11 31 (2.06%) Replication
12 28 (1.86%) Product Ownership
13 25 (1.66%) IoT
14 23 (1.53%) Greenfield Project
15 19 (1.26%) Legacy Systems
16 16 (1.06%) Enterprise Cloud
17 15 (1.00%) Cyber Defence
18 13 (0.86%) Private Cloud
18 13 (0.86%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 859 (57.15%) Linux
2 411 (27.35%) Windows
3 235 (15.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 131 (8.72%) CentOS
5 116 (7.72%) Ubuntu
6 102 (6.79%) Windows Server
7 61 (4.06%) Unix
8 55 (3.66%) Data ONTAP
9 47 (3.13%) VMS
10 37 (2.46%) 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 (1.26%) 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
1 776 (51.63%) DevOps
2 546 (36.33%) Agile
3 456 (30.34%) CI/CD
4 400 (26.61%) Infrastructure as Code
5 267 (17.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 257 (17.10%) Configuration Management
7 255 (16.97%) Actionable Insight
8 252 (16.77%) Problem-Solving
9 242 (16.10%) Software Engineering
10 232 (15.44%) Containerisation
11 205 (13.64%) Collaborative Working
12 192 (12.77%) Mentoring
13 187 (12.44%) Scrum
14 159 (10.58%) Microservices
15 148 (9.85%) Kanban
16 143 (9.51%) Continuous Integration
17 142 (9.45%) Project Management
18 129 (8.58%) Open Source
19 127 (8.45%) Test Automation
20 107 (7.12%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 725 (48.24%) Python
2 338 (22.49%) Java
3 320 (21.29%) PowerShell
4 297 (19.76%) Bash
5 156 (10.38%) JavaScript
6 145 (9.65%) SQL
7 82 (5.46%) Shell Script
8 78 (5.19%) Kotlin
9 75 (4.99%) Go
10 70 (4.66%) Perl
11 68 (4.52%) C#
12 50 (3.33%) Scala
13 47 (3.13%) Ruby
14 45 (2.99%) C++
15 40 (2.66%) C
16 25 (1.66%) Groovy
17 19 (1.26%) PHP
18 17 (1.13%) TypeScript
19 15 (1.00%) Rust
20 11 (0.73%) Korn
Qualifications
1 548 (36.46%) Security Cleared
2 284 (18.90%) SC Cleared
3 268 (17.83%) DV Cleared
4 127 (8.45%) Degree
5 63 (4.19%) Computer Science Degree
6 43 (2.86%) Cisco Certification
7 42 (2.79%) Azure Certification
8 41 (2.73%) AWS Certification
9 32 (2.13%) CISSP
10 25 (1.66%) CCNA
11 24 (1.60%) CCNP
12 20 (1.33%) BPSS Clearance
13 17 (1.13%) CISM
13 17 (1.13%) CRISC
14 16 (1.06%) GIAC
14 16 (1.06%) 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 (1.06%) COBIT
2 16 (1.06%) NCSC
3 13 (0.86%) 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 (39.52%) Docker
2 218 (14.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 130 (8.65%) Active Directory
4 114 (7.58%) Hyper-V
5 59 (3.93%) Virtual Machines
6 29 (1.93%) VMware ESXi
7 20 (1.33%) vSphere
8 19 (1.26%) Firmware
9 18 (1.20%) NFS
10 15 (1.00%) VMware NSX
11 14 (0.93%) KVM
12 12 (0.80%) Virtual Desktop
13 11 (0.73%) Ceph
14 10 (0.67%) pfSense
15 6 (0.40%) Virtual Servers
15 6 (0.40%) XenApp
15 6 (0.40%) XenDesktop
16 5 (0.33%) Citrix Hypervisor
16 5 (0.33%) DFS Replication
17 4 (0.27%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 824 (54.82%) Terraform
2 685 (45.58%) Kubernetes
3 331 (22.02%) Puppet
4 173 (11.51%) Progress Chef
5 144 (9.58%) Prometheus
6 96 (6.39%) Grafana
7 93 (6.19%) 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 (1.66%) Kibana
13 22 (1.46%) SCCM
14 20 (1.33%) Packer
14 20 (1.33%) Red Hat Satellite
15 19 (1.26%) Single Sign-On
16 16 (1.06%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 16 (1.06%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
16 16 (1.06%) Rancher
17 15 (1.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 280 (18.63%) Red Hat
1 280 (18.63%) VMware
2 161 (10.71%) Microsoft
3 95 (6.32%) Google
4 80 (5.32%) Cisco
5 76 (5.06%) Palo Alto
6 72 (4.79%) NetApp
6 72 (4.79%) Oracle
7 54 (3.59%) SolidFire
8 44 (2.93%) SaltStack
9 42 (2.79%) Splunk
10 39 (2.59%) ServiceNow
11 36 (2.40%) Atlassian
11 36 (2.40%) WSO2
12 35 (2.33%) Fortinet
13 29 (1.93%) Juniper
14 27 (1.80%) McAfee
14 27 (1.80%) New Relic
15 25 (1.66%) F5
16 22 (1.46%) Veeam