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

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 199 126 111
Rank change year-on-year -73 -15 -20
Permanent jobs citing Ansible 1,493 2,748 5,498
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.45% 2.82% 3.29%
As % of the Systems Management category 15.15% 19.27% 17.86%
Number of salaries quoted 980 1,323 2,293
10th Percentile £42,991 £47,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £101,375 £105,000 £106,250
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 9,853 14,263 30,780
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.60% 14.65% 18.44%
Number of salaries quoted 7,027 8,875 14,106
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,400 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,000 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.63% -3.57% +9.38%
75th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £101,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £59,526 £59,000
% change year-on-year -7.60% +0.89% +7.27%

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 28 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 28 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 -60 1,297 £70,000 -3.45% 404
UK excluding London -75 951 £60,000 -11.11% 273
Work from Home -40 742 £67,500 -6.90% 194
London -35 486 £82,500 +3.13% 242
South West -18 299 £55,000 -8.33% 41
South East -31 251 £60,000 -14.29% 131
North of England -82 164 £62,783 -6.99% 40
North West -77 102 £62,783 -10.31% 27
Scotland -119 69 £65,000 -13.33% 12
Midlands -68 62 £57,500 -11.54% 18
Wales -19 53 £50,000 -14.89% 6
Yorkshire -22 51 £63,891 -2.23% 9
East of England -47 43 £62,500 -3.85% 25
West Midlands -27 32 £60,000 -11.11% 14
East Midlands -48 30 £57,500 +27.78% 4
North East -5 13 £62,783 +19.59% 4
Northern Ireland -14 13 £105,000 +61.54% 5

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
1 149 (9.98%) Apache
2 70 (4.69%) OpenStack
3 66 (4.42%) Apache Spark
4 50 (3.35%) nginx
5 21 (1.41%) Jupyter
6 18 (1.21%) Confluence
7 16 (1.07%) JBoss
8 12 (0.80%) Microsoft Exchange
9 10 (0.67%) Red Hat Fuse
10 9 (0.60%) IIS
11 6 (0.40%) Tomcat
12 5 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
13 4 (0.27%) Drupal
14 3 (0.20%) CloudStack
14 3 (0.20%) SharePoint
15 2 (0.13%) MQSeries
16 1 (0.067%) WebLogic
16 1 (0.067%) WebSphere
16 1 (0.067%) WordPress
Applications
1 18 (1.21%) Microsoft Office
1 18 (1.21%) Simulink
2 10 (0.67%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.067%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.067%) PTC Creo
3 1 (0.067%) SOLIDWORKS
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 (51.51%) AWS
2 650 (43.54%) Azure
3 224 (15.00%) GCP
4 168 (11.25%) OpenShift
5 130 (8.71%) Serverless
6 124 (8.31%) Amazon S3
7 114 (7.64%) Amazon EKS
8 113 (7.57%) GitHub
9 98 (6.56%) AWS CloudFormation
10 96 (6.43%) SaaS
11 95 (6.36%) Azure DevOps
12 85 (5.69%) PaaS
13 77 (5.16%) Amazon ECS
14 69 (4.62%) IaaS
15 68 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
16 54 (3.62%) Amazon EC2
17 50 (3.35%) Cloud Computing
18 46 (3.08%) GitHub Actions
19 40 (2.68%) Microsoft 365
20 29 (1.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 282 (18.89%) Firewall
2 149 (9.98%) VPN
3 144 (9.65%) DNS
4 123 (8.24%) Internet
5 101 (6.76%) WAN
6 94 (6.30%) TCP/IP
7 81 (5.43%) DHCP
8 73 (4.89%) LAN
9 72 (4.82%) SNMP
10 63 (4.22%) IPsec
11 48 (3.22%) HTTP
12 33 (2.21%) AMQP
12 33 (2.21%) Wireless
13 32 (2.14%) SAN
14 29 (1.94%) Network Security
15 25 (1.67%) BGP
16 24 (1.61%) Cisco ASA
16 24 (1.61%) SSL
17 23 (1.54%) SD-WAN
18 17 (1.14%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 137 (9.18%) PostgreSQL
2 101 (6.76%) Elasticsearch
3 93 (6.23%) MongoDB
4 79 (5.29%) Big Data
5 75 (5.02%) NoSQL
6 70 (4.69%) MySQL
7 58 (3.88%) SQL Server
8 52 (3.48%) Hadoop
9 47 (3.15%) Relational Database
10 28 (1.88%) 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 (1.21%) InfluxDB
17 17 (1.14%) Presto
18 15 (1.00%) Amazon Redshift
18 15 (1.00%) Data Warehouse
19 14 (0.94%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 400 (26.79%) Jenkins
2 297 (19.89%) Git
3 128 (8.57%) GitLab
4 124 (8.31%) JIRA
5 41 (2.75%) Bitbucket
6 39 (2.61%) SonarQube
7 34 (2.28%) Sonatype Nexus
8 30 (2.01%) TeamCity
9 29 (1.94%) Vagrant
10 27 (1.81%) Artifactory
10 27 (1.81%) Subversion
11 20 (1.34%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 18 (1.21%) IBM UrbanCode
12 18 (1.21%) Octopus Deploy
13 17 (1.14%) JUnit
14 15 (1.00%) Selenium
14 15 (1.00%) Visual Studio
15 13 (0.87%) CircleCI
15 13 (0.87%) Maven
15 13 (0.87%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 281 (18.82%) Social Skills
2 277 (18.55%) Finance
3 178 (11.92%) Aerospace
4 99 (6.63%) Public Sector
5 77 (5.16%) Banking
6 65 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
7 60 (4.02%) Retail
8 37 (2.48%) Telecoms
9 34 (2.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 30 (2.01%) Presentation Skills
11 23 (1.54%) Legal
12 22 (1.47%) Law
13 18 (1.21%) Investment Banking
14 16 (1.07%) Automotive
15 12 (0.80%) 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
1 342 (22.91%) DevOps Engineer
2 322 (21.57%) Senior
3 214 (14.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 131 (8.77%) Software Engineer
5 129 (8.64%) Cloud Engineer
5 129 (8.64%) Linux Engineer
6 102 (6.83%) Developer
7 100 (6.70%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 94 (6.30%) Architect
9 89 (5.96%) Consultant
10 88 (5.89%) AWS Engineer
11 78 (5.22%) Senior DevOps
12 77 (5.16%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 71 (4.76%) Lead
14 68 (4.55%) Platform Engineer
15 66 (4.42%) Azure Engineer
16 63 (4.22%) Java Developer
17 54 (3.62%) NetApp Consultant
18 51 (3.42%) AWS DevOps
19 50 (3.35%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 120 (8.04%) RabbitMQ
2 113 (7.57%) Elastic Stack
3 110 (7.37%) Node.js
4 97 (6.50%) Spring
5 94 (6.30%) Spring Boot
6 89 (5.96%) REST
6 89 (5.96%) YAML
7 76 (5.09%) AngularJS
8 65 (4.35%) JSON
9 64 (4.29%) .NET
10 60 (4.02%) XML
11 54 (3.62%) Web Services
12 53 (3.55%) React
13 47 (3.15%) Kafka
14 42 (2.81%) Apache Camel
15 41 (2.75%) Swagger
16 38 (2.55%) ARM Templates
17 34 (2.28%) Middleware
18 30 (2.01%) Apache NiFi
19 29 (1.94%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 139 (9.31%) Data Centre
2 130 (8.71%) Public Cloud
3 88 (5.89%) Cloud Native
4 73 (4.89%) Distributed Systems
5 72 (4.82%) Hybrid Cloud
6 56 (3.75%) Management Information System
7 42 (2.81%) PKI
8 41 (2.75%) Linux Command Line
9 37 (2.48%) Self-Motivation
10 35 (2.34%) Clustering
11 31 (2.08%) Replication
12 29 (1.94%) Onboarding
13 28 (1.88%) Product Ownership
14 24 (1.61%) IoT
15 23 (1.54%) Greenfield Project
16 20 (1.34%) Legacy Systems
17 17 (1.14%) Enterprise Cloud
18 15 (1.00%) Cyber Defence
19 14 (0.94%) Virtual Team
20 12 (0.80%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 864 (57.87%) Linux
2 410 (27.46%) Windows
3 234 (15.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 129 (8.64%) CentOS
5 112 (7.50%) Ubuntu
6 99 (6.63%) Windows Server
7 61 (4.09%) Unix
8 55 (3.68%) Data ONTAP
9 46 (3.08%) VMS
10 36 (2.41%) Debian
11 25 (1.67%) Android
12 23 (1.54%) Solaris
13 21 (1.41%) Oracle Linux
13 21 (1.41%) Windows Server 2019
14 19 (1.27%) CoreOS
15 18 (1.21%) Windows Server 2016
16 11 (0.74%) Windows 10
17 10 (0.67%) AIX
18 8 (0.54%) Windows Server 2012
19 6 (0.40%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 785 (52.58%) DevOps
2 559 (37.44%) Agile
3 453 (30.34%) CI/CD
4 413 (27.66%) Infrastructure as Code
5 261 (17.48%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 257 (17.21%) Actionable Insight
7 251 (16.81%) Configuration Management
8 248 (16.61%) Problem-Solving
9 235 (15.74%) Software Engineering
10 228 (15.27%) Containerisation
11 205 (13.73%) Collaborative Working
12 199 (13.33%) Mentoring
13 193 (12.93%) Scrum
14 160 (10.72%) Microservices
15 154 (10.31%) Kanban
16 144 (9.65%) Continuous Integration
17 142 (9.51%) Project Management
18 133 (8.91%) Test Automation
19 125 (8.37%) Open Source
20 112 (7.50%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 713 (47.76%) Python
2 338 (22.64%) Java
3 311 (20.83%) PowerShell
4 295 (19.76%) Bash
5 158 (10.58%) JavaScript
6 152 (10.18%) SQL
7 84 (5.63%) Shell Script
8 75 (5.02%) Kotlin
9 74 (4.96%) Go
10 72 (4.82%) Perl
11 66 (4.42%) C#
12 50 (3.35%) Scala
13 46 (3.08%) Ruby
14 41 (2.75%) C++
15 39 (2.61%) C
16 32 (2.14%) Groovy
17 20 (1.34%) PHP
18 18 (1.21%) TypeScript
19 14 (0.94%) Rust
20 10 (0.67%) Korn
Qualifications
1 551 (36.91%) Security Cleared
2 289 (19.36%) SC Cleared
3 269 (18.02%) DV Cleared
4 121 (8.10%) Degree
5 59 (3.95%) Computer Science Degree
6 45 (3.01%) AWS Certification
6 45 (3.01%) Azure Certification
7 42 (2.81%) Cisco Certification
8 30 (2.01%) CISSP
9 25 (1.67%) CCNA
10 23 (1.54%) CCNP
11 20 (1.34%) BPSS Clearance
12 17 (1.14%) CISM
12 17 (1.14%) CRISC
13 16 (1.07%) GIAC
13 16 (1.07%) ISSMP
14 14 (0.94%) Master's Degree
15 11 (0.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 11 (0.74%) CCIE
16 10 (0.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (2.41%) QA
2 16 (1.07%) COBIT
3 15 (1.00%) NCSC
4 13 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (0.80%) GDPR
6 10 (0.67%) PCI DSS
7 7 (0.47%) SLA
8 6 (0.40%) NIST
9 5 (0.33%) HIPAA
10 4 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.20%) Accessibility
12 2 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 2 (0.13%) Data Quality
13 1 (0.067%) Disclosure Scotland
13 1 (0.067%) SEPA
System Software
1 596 (39.92%) Docker
2 210 (14.07%) VMware Infrastructure
3 127 (8.51%) Active Directory
4 119 (7.97%) Hyper-V
5 58 (3.88%) Virtual Machines
6 29 (1.94%) VMware ESXi
7 19 (1.27%) Firmware
7 19 (1.27%) vSphere
8 18 (1.21%) NFS
9 14 (0.94%) KVM
10 13 (0.87%) VMware NSX
11 11 (0.74%) Ceph
12 10 (0.67%) pfSense
12 10 (0.67%) Virtual Desktop
13 5 (0.33%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 5 (0.33%) DFS Replication
13 5 (0.33%) Virtual Servers
14 4 (0.27%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 4 (0.27%) XenApp
14 4 (0.27%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 821 (54.99%) Terraform
2 685 (45.88%) Kubernetes
3 329 (22.04%) Puppet
4 178 (11.92%) Progress Chef
5 143 (9.58%) Prometheus
6 97 (6.50%) Grafana
7 93 (6.23%) vCenter Server
8 44 (2.95%) Nagios
9 35 (2.34%) HAProxy
9 35 (2.34%) ZABBIX
10 32 (2.14%) Docker Swarm
11 25 (1.67%) Kibana
12 23 (1.54%) SCCM
13 20 (1.34%) Packer
14 19 (1.27%) Red Hat Satellite
14 19 (1.27%) Single Sign-On
15 17 (1.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 17 (1.14%) Rancher
16 16 (1.07%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
17 15 (1.00%) Salt
Vendors
1 274 (18.35%) Red Hat
2 267 (17.88%) VMware
3 155 (10.38%) Microsoft
4 101 (6.76%) Google
5 77 (5.16%) Cisco
6 76 (5.09%) Palo Alto
7 72 (4.82%) NetApp
8 71 (4.76%) Oracle
9 54 (3.62%) SolidFire
10 44 (2.95%) SaltStack
11 41 (2.75%) Splunk
12 40 (2.68%) WSO2
13 39 (2.61%) ServiceNow
14 35 (2.34%) Atlassian
14 35 (2.34%) Fortinet
15 29 (1.94%) Juniper
16 27 (1.81%) New Relic
17 26 (1.74%) McAfee
18 25 (1.67%) IBM
19 24 (1.61%) F5