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

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 206 125 106
Rank change year-on-year -81 -19 -19
Permanent jobs citing Ansible 1,450 2,862 5,180
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.47% 2.76% 3.31%
As % of the Systems Management category 14.52% 18.82% 18.25%
Number of salaries quoted 987 1,412 2,422
10th Percentile £44,500 £46,350 £45,513
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 £106,250
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 9,987 15,208 28,384
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.13% 14.65% 18.14%
Number of salaries quoted 7,206 9,346 14,192
10th Percentile £32,750 £35,450 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,091 £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 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +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 3 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 3 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 -70 1,252 £70,000 - 301
UK excluding London -84 927 £60,000 -7.69% 191
Work from Home -46 729 £70,000 -6.67% 167
London -30 468 £82,500 +3.13% 130
South West -18 283 £55,500 -11.20% 48
South East -30 249 £60,000 -14.29% 50
North of England -81 164 £62,783 -3.41% 30
North West -70 99 £62,783 -6.99% 19
Scotland -119 68 £65,000 -13.33% 15
Midlands -76 60 £57,500 -11.54% 23
Yorkshire -20 54 £62,783 -3.41% 7
Wales -8 53 £50,000 -14.89% 5
East of England -35 40 £60,000 -7.69% 17
West Midlands -35 30 £60,000 -11.11% 11
East Midlands -53 30 £57,500 +27.78% 11
Northern Ireland +1 13 £90,000 +38.46% 8
North East -6 13 £62,783 +14.15% 4

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
1 140 (9.66%) Apache
2 72 (4.97%) OpenStack
3 56 (3.86%) Apache Spark
4 47 (3.24%) nginx
5 20 (1.38%) Jupyter
6 17 (1.17%) Confluence
7 14 (0.97%) 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 12 (0.83%) Simulink
3 11 (0.76%) 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
1 752 (51.86%) AWS
2 609 (42.00%) Azure
3 211 (14.55%) GCP
4 150 (10.34%) OpenShift
5 137 (9.45%) Serverless
6 125 (8.62%) Amazon S3
7 120 (8.28%) GitHub
8 115 (7.93%) Amazon EKS
9 100 (6.90%) Azure DevOps
10 95 (6.55%) AWS CloudFormation
11 91 (6.28%) SaaS
12 81 (5.59%) Amazon ECS
13 78 (5.38%) PaaS
14 73 (5.03%) IaaS
15 72 (4.97%) AWS Lambda
16 56 (3.86%) Amazon EC2
17 52 (3.59%) GitHub Actions
18 42 (2.90%) Microsoft 365
19 37 (2.55%) Cloud Computing
20 28 (1.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 281 (19.38%) Firewall
2 151 (10.41%) VPN
3 136 (9.38%) DNS
4 121 (8.34%) Internet
5 100 (6.90%) WAN
6 87 (6.00%) TCP/IP
7 77 (5.31%) DHCP
8 73 (5.03%) LAN
9 71 (4.90%) SNMP
10 62 (4.28%) IPsec
11 45 (3.10%) HTTP
12 32 (2.21%) Wireless
13 30 (2.07%) AMQP
13 30 (2.07%) SAN
14 28 (1.93%) BGP
15 25 (1.72%) Network Security
16 24 (1.66%) Cisco ASA
16 24 (1.66%) SD-WAN
17 21 (1.45%) SSL
18 17 (1.17%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 138 (9.52%) PostgreSQL
2 106 (7.31%) Elasticsearch
3 91 (6.28%) MongoDB
4 73 (5.03%) Big Data
4 73 (5.03%) MySQL
5 69 (4.76%) NoSQL
6 61 (4.21%) SQL Server
7 51 (3.52%) Relational Database
8 47 (3.24%) Hadoop
9 31 (2.14%) InfluxDB
10 25 (1.72%) Cloudera CDH
11 24 (1.66%) Amazon RDS
11 24 (1.66%) MariaDB
11 24 (1.66%) Redis
12 20 (1.38%) Power BI
13 17 (1.17%) Azure SQL Database
13 17 (1.17%) Presto
14 13 (0.90%) Amazon Redshift
15 12 (0.83%) BigQuery
15 12 (0.83%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 387 (26.69%) Jenkins
2 291 (20.07%) Git
3 141 (9.72%) GitLab
4 111 (7.66%) JIRA
5 44 (3.03%) SonarQube
6 40 (2.76%) Sonatype Nexus
7 39 (2.69%) Bitbucket
8 32 (2.21%) Artifactory
9 29 (2.00%) Subversion
10 27 (1.86%) TeamCity
11 23 (1.59%) Vagrant
12 21 (1.45%) JUnit
13 20 (1.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 20 (1.38%) Selenium
14 18 (1.24%) IBM UrbanCode
15 16 (1.10%) Maven
16 14 (0.97%) CircleCI
17 13 (0.90%) Team Foundation Server
18 12 (0.83%) Octopus Deploy
19 11 (0.76%) Cucumber
General
1 268 (18.48%) Finance
2 254 (17.52%) Social Skills
3 147 (10.14%) Aerospace
4 99 (6.83%) Public Sector
5 77 (5.31%) Banking
6 60 (4.14%) Analytical Skills
7 59 (4.07%) Retail
8 37 (2.55%) Telecoms
9 35 (2.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 28 (1.93%) Presentation Skills
11 23 (1.59%) Legal
12 22 (1.52%) Law
13 21 (1.45%) Investment Banking
14 13 (0.90%) Automotive
15 10 (0.69%) Financial Institution
16 9 (0.62%) Tech for Good
17 8 (0.55%) Organisational Skills
18 7 (0.48%) Games
18 7 (0.48%) Pharmaceutical
18 7 (0.48%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 345 (23.79%) DevOps Engineer
2 295 (20.34%) Senior
3 213 (14.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 131 (9.03%) Cloud Engineer
5 125 (8.62%) Linux Engineer
6 107 (7.38%) Software Engineer
7 99 (6.83%) AWS Engineer
8 95 (6.55%) Architect
8 95 (6.55%) Developer
9 91 (6.28%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 89 (6.14%) Consultant
11 81 (5.59%) Senior DevOps
12 80 (5.52%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 77 (5.31%) Lead
14 70 (4.83%) Azure Engineer
15 67 (4.62%) Java Developer
16 64 (4.41%) Platform Engineer
17 57 (3.93%) AWS DevOps
18 54 (3.72%) NetApp Consultant
19 52 (3.59%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 124 (8.55%) Elastic Stack
2 119 (8.21%) RabbitMQ
3 100 (6.90%) Spring
4 98 (6.76%) Node.js
5 96 (6.62%) Spring Boot
6 90 (6.21%) YAML
7 88 (6.07%) REST
8 79 (5.45%) AngularJS
9 69 (4.76%) JSON
10 63 (4.34%) .NET
11 61 (4.21%) XML
12 58 (4.00%) Web Services
13 51 (3.52%) React
14 47 (3.24%) Kafka
15 44 (3.03%) Apache Camel
16 27 (1.86%) Apache NiFi
17 26 (1.79%) Middleware
17 26 (1.79%) OpenAPI
17 26 (1.79%) Swagger
18 25 (1.72%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 147 (10.14%) Data Centre
2 143 (9.86%) Public Cloud
3 86 (5.93%) Distributed Systems
4 74 (5.10%) Hybrid Cloud
5 73 (5.03%) Cloud Native
6 56 (3.86%) Management Information System
7 48 (3.31%) Linux Command Line
8 42 (2.90%) PKI
9 37 (2.55%) Self-Motivation
10 33 (2.28%) Clustering
11 30 (2.07%) Replication
12 28 (1.93%) Onboarding
13 21 (1.45%) IoT
14 20 (1.38%) Greenfield Project
15 19 (1.31%) Legacy Systems
16 17 (1.17%) Enterprise Cloud
17 16 (1.10%) Virtual Team
18 14 (0.97%) Cyber Defence
18 14 (0.97%) Product Ownership
19 11 (0.76%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 870 (60.00%) Linux
2 422 (29.10%) Windows
3 223 (15.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 122 (8.41%) CentOS
5 107 (7.38%) Windows Server
6 98 (6.76%) Ubuntu
7 58 (4.00%) Unix
8 54 (3.72%) Data ONTAP
9 44 (3.03%) VMS
10 35 (2.41%) Debian
11 22 (1.52%) Windows Server 2019
12 20 (1.38%) CoreOS
13 19 (1.31%) Android
13 19 (1.31%) Solaris
14 18 (1.24%) Windows Server 2016
15 17 (1.17%) Oracle Linux
16 12 (0.83%) Windows 10
17 8 (0.55%) AIX
17 8 (0.55%) Windows Server 2012
18 6 (0.41%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 769 (53.03%) DevOps
2 522 (36.00%) Agile
3 441 (30.41%) CI/CD
4 413 (28.48%) Infrastructure as Code
5 280 (19.31%) Actionable Insight
6 261 (18.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 233 (16.07%) Configuration Management
8 231 (15.93%) Containerisation
9 228 (15.72%) Software Engineering
10 227 (15.66%) Problem-Solving
11 192 (13.24%) Scrum
12 188 (12.97%) Mentoring
13 175 (12.07%) Collaborative Working
14 170 (11.72%) Microservices
15 164 (11.31%) Kanban
16 152 (10.48%) Continuous Integration
17 139 (9.59%) Project Management
18 128 (8.83%) Test Automation
19 115 (7.93%) ITIL
20 103 (7.10%) Infrastructure Management
Programming Languages
1 687 (47.38%) Python
2 325 (22.41%) Java
3 309 (21.31%) Bash
4 302 (20.83%) PowerShell
5 143 (9.86%) JavaScript
6 142 (9.79%) SQL
7 87 (6.00%) Shell Script
8 75 (5.17%) Go
8 75 (5.17%) Perl
9 65 (4.48%) Kotlin
10 60 (4.14%) C#
11 51 (3.52%) Ruby
12 47 (3.24%) Scala
13 33 (2.28%) Groovy
14 32 (2.21%) C
15 30 (2.07%) C++
16 24 (1.66%) PHP
17 21 (1.45%) TypeScript
18 13 (0.90%) Korn
18 13 (0.90%) Rust
Qualifications
1 523 (36.07%) Security Cleared
2 264 (18.21%) DV Cleared
2 264 (18.21%) SC Cleared
3 113 (7.79%) Degree
4 49 (3.38%) Computer Science Degree
5 43 (2.97%) Cisco Certification
6 33 (2.28%) Azure Certification
7 29 (2.00%) AWS Certification
8 26 (1.79%) CISSP
9 25 (1.72%) CCNA
10 24 (1.66%) CCNP
11 22 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
12 15 (1.03%) CISM
12 15 (1.03%) CRISC
12 15 (1.03%) GIAC
12 15 (1.03%) ISSMP
13 11 (0.76%) CCIE
13 11 (0.76%) Master's Degree
14 10 (0.69%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 9 (0.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (2.28%) QA
2 15 (1.03%) COBIT
3 14 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 14 (0.97%) NCSC
4 12 (0.83%) GDPR
5 8 (0.55%) PCI DSS
6 5 (0.34%) SLA
7 4 (0.28%) HIPAA
8 3 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 3 (0.21%) NIST
9 1 (0.069%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.069%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.069%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.069%) SEPA
System Software
1 589 (40.62%) Docker
2 203 (14.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 134 (9.24%) Active Directory
4 118 (8.14%) Hyper-V
5 53 (3.66%) Virtual Machines
6 29 (2.00%) VMware ESXi
7 20 (1.38%) NFS
8 19 (1.31%) Firmware
8 19 (1.31%) vSphere
9 14 (0.97%) VMware NSX
10 12 (0.83%) KVM
11 10 (0.69%) pfSense
12 8 (0.55%) Ceph
13 7 (0.48%) Virtual Desktop
14 6 (0.41%) DFS Replication
15 5 (0.34%) Citrix Hypervisor
16 4 (0.28%) Embedded Firmware
17 3 (0.21%) oVirt
17 3 (0.21%) Slurm Workload Manager
17 3 (0.21%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 780 (53.79%) Terraform
2 651 (44.90%) Kubernetes
3 337 (23.24%) Puppet
4 180 (12.41%) Progress Chef
5 145 (10.00%) Prometheus
6 108 (7.45%) Grafana
7 94 (6.48%) vCenter Server
8 38 (2.62%) Nagios
9 36 (2.48%) HAProxy
9 36 (2.48%) ZABBIX
10 30 (2.07%) Docker Swarm
11 29 (2.00%) Kibana
12 28 (1.93%) Salt
13 22 (1.52%) Packer
13 22 (1.52%) SCCM
14 21 (1.45%) Red Hat Satellite
15 20 (1.38%) Rancher
16 16 (1.10%) FortiGate
16 16 (1.10%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
17 15 (1.03%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 264 (18.21%) Red Hat
2 260 (17.93%) VMware
3 147 (10.14%) Microsoft
4 94 (6.48%) Google
5 79 (5.45%) Cisco
6 75 (5.17%) Palo Alto
7 70 (4.83%) NetApp
8 63 (4.34%) Oracle
9 54 (3.72%) SolidFire
10 42 (2.90%) SaltStack
10 42 (2.90%) WSO2
11 36 (2.48%) Fortinet
12 32 (2.21%) Splunk
13 31 (2.14%) Juniper
14 29 (2.00%) Atlassian
15 27 (1.86%) McAfee
16 26 (1.79%) ServiceNow
17 25 (1.72%) IBM
18 23 (1.59%) Veeam
19 22 (1.52%) New Relic