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

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 209 127 109
Rank change year-on-year -82 -18 -20
Permanent jobs citing Ansible 1,456 2,792 5,309
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.46% 2.82% 3.30%
As % of the Systems Management category 14.78% 19.14% 18.02%
Number of salaries quoted 973 1,352 2,322
10th Percentile £42,600 £46,350 £45,050
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 £107,225
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 9,851 14,586 29,467
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.86% 14.71% 18.33%
Number of salaries quoted 7,078 9,021 14,016
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,091 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,500 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.37% -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 £59,250 £59,526
% change year-on-year -7.17% -0.46% +8.23%

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 18 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 18 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 -67 1,260 £70,000 -2.78% 313
UK excluding London -81 937 £60,000 -7.69% 190
Work from Home -43 736 £67,500 -6.90% 168
London -37 464 £82,500 +3.13% 165
South West -20 290 £56,000 -6.67% 45
South East -24 255 £60,000 -14.29% 58
North of England -80 162 £62,783 -5.48% 38
North West -79 99 £62,783 -6.99% 25
Scotland -128 68 £65,000 -13.33% 8
Midlands -83 57 £57,500 -11.54% 20
Wales -12 53 £50,000 -14.89% 4
Yorkshire -19 52 £62,783 -3.41% 8
East of England -37 42 £61,250 -5.77% 15
East Midlands -48 29 £57,500 +27.78% 7
West Midlands -33 28 £60,000 -11.11% 13
North East -5 13 £62,783 +19.59% 5
Northern Ireland -14 13 £90,000 +38.46% 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
1 145 (9.96%) Apache
2 71 (4.88%) OpenStack
3 61 (4.19%) Apache Spark
4 49 (3.37%) nginx
5 21 (1.44%) Jupyter
6 17 (1.17%) Confluence
7 15 (1.03%) JBoss
8 12 (0.82%) Microsoft Exchange
9 10 (0.69%) IIS
9 10 (0.69%) Red Hat Fuse
10 5 (0.34%) Tomcat
11 4 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
11 4 (0.27%) Drupal
12 3 (0.21%) CloudStack
12 3 (0.21%) MQSeries
13 1 (0.069%) SharePoint
13 1 (0.069%) WebLogic
13 1 (0.069%) WebSphere
13 1 (0.069%) WordPress
Applications
1 17 (1.17%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (1.10%) 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 1 (0.069%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.069%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 743 (51.03%) AWS
2 619 (42.51%) Azure
3 210 (14.42%) GCP
4 164 (11.26%) OpenShift
5 135 (9.27%) Serverless
6 124 (8.52%) Amazon S3
7 120 (8.24%) GitHub
8 115 (7.90%) Amazon EKS
9 89 (6.11%) SaaS
10 86 (5.91%) Azure DevOps
11 83 (5.70%) AWS CloudFormation
12 82 (5.63%) PaaS
13 80 (5.49%) Amazon ECS
14 71 (4.88%) AWS Lambda
15 68 (4.67%) IaaS
16 53 (3.64%) Amazon EC2
17 50 (3.43%) GitHub Actions
18 41 (2.82%) Microsoft 365
19 37 (2.54%) Cloud Computing
20 27 (1.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 280 (19.23%) Firewall
2 148 (10.16%) VPN
3 134 (9.20%) DNS
4 121 (8.31%) Internet
5 94 (6.46%) WAN
6 87 (5.98%) TCP/IP
7 76 (5.22%) DHCP
8 69 (4.74%) SNMP
9 67 (4.60%) LAN
10 63 (4.33%) IPsec
11 44 (3.02%) HTTP
12 34 (2.34%) Wireless
13 32 (2.20%) AMQP
14 29 (1.99%) SAN
15 27 (1.85%) Network Security
16 25 (1.72%) BGP
17 24 (1.65%) Cisco ASA
18 23 (1.58%) SSL
19 22 (1.51%) SD-WAN
20 17 (1.17%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 138 (9.48%) PostgreSQL
2 104 (7.14%) Elasticsearch
3 95 (6.52%) MongoDB
4 75 (5.15%) Big Data
5 74 (5.08%) MySQL
6 73 (5.01%) NoSQL
7 62 (4.26%) SQL Server
8 50 (3.43%) Hadoop
8 50 (3.43%) Relational Database
9 27 (1.85%) Cloudera CDH
9 27 (1.85%) MariaDB
9 27 (1.85%) Redis
10 23 (1.58%) Amazon RDS
11 22 (1.51%) Azure SQL Database
12 20 (1.37%) InfluxDB
12 20 (1.37%) Power BI
13 17 (1.17%) Presto
14 13 (0.89%) Amazon Redshift
15 12 (0.82%) BigQuery
15 12 (0.82%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 386 (26.51%) Jenkins
2 292 (20.05%) Git
3 124 (8.52%) GitLab
4 109 (7.49%) JIRA
5 41 (2.82%) Bitbucket
6 38 (2.61%) Sonatype Nexus
7 30 (2.06%) SonarQube
7 30 (2.06%) TeamCity
8 29 (1.99%) Artifactory
8 29 (1.99%) Subversion
9 27 (1.85%) Vagrant
10 20 (1.37%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 18 (1.24%) IBM UrbanCode
11 18 (1.24%) JUnit
11 18 (1.24%) Octopus Deploy
12 17 (1.17%) Selenium
13 14 (0.96%) Maven
14 13 (0.89%) CircleCI
14 13 (0.89%) Team Foundation Server
14 13 (0.89%) Visual Studio
General
1 271 (18.61%) Finance
2 259 (17.79%) Social Skills
3 167 (11.47%) Aerospace
4 98 (6.73%) Public Sector
5 78 (5.36%) Banking
6 62 (4.26%) Analytical Skills
7 57 (3.91%) Retail
8 37 (2.54%) Telecoms
9 34 (2.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 30 (2.06%) Presentation Skills
11 24 (1.65%) Legal
12 23 (1.58%) Law
13 19 (1.30%) Investment Banking
14 15 (1.03%) Automotive
15 11 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
16 10 (0.69%) Financial Institution
17 9 (0.62%) Tech for Good
18 7 (0.48%) Pharmaceutical
18 7 (0.48%) Publishing
19 6 (0.41%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 328 (22.53%) DevOps Engineer
2 300 (20.60%) Senior
3 212 (14.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 126 (8.65%) Cloud Engineer
5 123 (8.45%) Linux Engineer
6 121 (8.31%) Software Engineer
7 105 (7.21%) Developer
8 94 (6.46%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 92 (6.32%) AWS Engineer
10 91 (6.25%) Architect
11 89 (6.11%) Consultant
12 78 (5.36%) Senior DevOps
13 77 (5.29%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 73 (5.01%) Lead
15 67 (4.60%) Platform Engineer
16 65 (4.46%) Java Developer
17 61 (4.19%) Azure Engineer
18 54 (3.71%) NetApp Consultant
19 52 (3.57%) AWS DevOps
20 49 (3.37%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 119 (8.17%) RabbitMQ
2 114 (7.83%) Elastic Stack
3 100 (6.87%) Spring
4 98 (6.73%) Node.js
5 96 (6.59%) Spring Boot
6 89 (6.11%) REST
6 89 (6.11%) YAML
7 78 (5.36%) AngularJS
8 67 (4.60%) JSON
9 65 (4.46%) .NET
10 61 (4.19%) XML
11 56 (3.85%) Web Services
12 51 (3.50%) React
13 44 (3.02%) Kafka
14 43 (2.95%) Apache Camel
15 40 (2.75%) Swagger
16 31 (2.13%) Middleware
17 29 (1.99%) Apache NiFi
18 28 (1.92%) OpenAPI
19 27 (1.85%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 140 (9.62%) Data Centre
2 133 (9.13%) Public Cloud
3 74 (5.08%) Distributed Systems
4 73 (5.01%) Hybrid Cloud
5 71 (4.88%) Cloud Native
6 56 (3.85%) Management Information System
7 43 (2.95%) Linux Command Line
7 43 (2.95%) PKI
8 37 (2.54%) Self-Motivation
9 34 (2.34%) Clustering
10 32 (2.20%) Replication
11 28 (1.92%) Onboarding
12 23 (1.58%) IoT
13 22 (1.51%) Greenfield Project
14 20 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
15 17 (1.17%) Enterprise Cloud
16 15 (1.03%) Cyber Defence
16 15 (1.03%) Product Ownership
17 14 (0.96%) Private Cloud
17 14 (0.96%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 858 (58.93%) Linux
2 407 (27.95%) Windows
3 229 (15.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 127 (8.72%) CentOS
5 106 (7.28%) Ubuntu
6 102 (7.01%) Windows Server
7 57 (3.91%) Unix
8 55 (3.78%) Data ONTAP
9 43 (2.95%) VMS
10 35 (2.40%) Debian
11 23 (1.58%) Android
12 22 (1.51%) Windows Server 2019
13 21 (1.44%) Solaris
14 19 (1.30%) CoreOS
14 19 (1.30%) Oracle Linux
15 18 (1.24%) Windows Server 2016
16 12 (0.82%) Windows 10
17 9 (0.62%) AIX
18 8 (0.55%) Windows Server 2012
19 6 (0.41%) Mesosphere
Processes & Methodologies
1 759 (52.13%) DevOps
2 533 (36.61%) Agile
3 426 (29.26%) CI/CD
4 403 (27.68%) Infrastructure as Code
5 258 (17.72%) Actionable Insight
5 258 (17.72%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 239 (16.41%) Problem-Solving
7 237 (16.28%) Configuration Management
8 228 (15.66%) Software Engineering
9 219 (15.04%) Containerisation
10 195 (13.39%) Collaborative Working
11 188 (12.91%) Mentoring
12 180 (12.36%) Scrum
13 159 (10.92%) Microservices
14 152 (10.44%) Kanban
15 144 (9.89%) Continuous Integration
16 139 (9.55%) Project Management
17 123 (8.45%) Test Automation
18 116 (7.97%) Open Source
19 113 (7.76%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 680 (46.70%) Python
2 337 (23.15%) Java
3 297 (20.40%) PowerShell
4 296 (20.33%) Bash
5 151 (10.37%) SQL
6 147 (10.10%) JavaScript
7 85 (5.84%) Shell Script
8 75 (5.15%) Go
9 71 (4.88%) Kotlin
9 71 (4.88%) Perl
10 64 (4.40%) C#
11 47 (3.23%) Ruby
11 47 (3.23%) Scala
12 39 (2.68%) C++
13 37 (2.54%) C
14 32 (2.20%) Groovy
15 21 (1.44%) PHP
16 19 (1.30%) TypeScript
17 14 (0.96%) Rust
18 10 (0.69%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 531 (36.47%) Security Cleared
2 276 (18.96%) SC Cleared
3 262 (17.99%) DV Cleared
4 119 (8.17%) Degree
5 55 (3.78%) Computer Science Degree
6 43 (2.95%) Cisco Certification
7 33 (2.27%) Azure Certification
8 31 (2.13%) AWS Certification
9 28 (1.92%) CISSP
10 25 (1.72%) CCNA
11 24 (1.65%) CCNP
12 20 (1.37%) BPSS Clearance
13 16 (1.10%) CISM
13 16 (1.10%) CRISC
13 16 (1.10%) GIAC
13 16 (1.10%) ISSMP
14 12 (0.82%) Master's Degree
15 11 (0.76%) CCIE
16 10 (0.69%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
17 9 (0.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (2.27%) QA
2 16 (1.10%) COBIT
3 14 (0.96%) NCSC
4 13 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (0.82%) GDPR
6 8 (0.55%) PCI DSS
7 6 (0.41%) SLA
8 5 (0.34%) HIPAA
9 3 (0.21%) NIST
10 2 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 1 (0.069%) Data Quality
11 1 (0.069%) Disclosure Scotland
11 1 (0.069%) ISO 9001
11 1 (0.069%) SEPA
System Software
1 579 (39.77%) Docker
2 203 (13.94%) VMware Infrastructure
3 128 (8.79%) Active Directory
4 116 (7.97%) Hyper-V
5 57 (3.91%) Virtual Machines
6 28 (1.92%) VMware ESXi
7 19 (1.30%) Firmware
7 19 (1.30%) vSphere
8 18 (1.24%) NFS
9 13 (0.89%) KVM
9 13 (0.89%) VMware NSX
10 11 (0.76%) Ceph
11 10 (0.69%) pfSense
12 9 (0.62%) Virtual Desktop
13 5 (0.34%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 5 (0.34%) DFS Replication
14 4 (0.27%) Embedded Firmware
14 4 (0.27%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 4 (0.27%) Virtual Servers
15 3 (0.21%) oVirt
Systems Management
1 792 (54.40%) Terraform
2 658 (45.19%) Kubernetes
3 330 (22.66%) Puppet
4 181 (12.43%) Progress Chef
5 138 (9.48%) Prometheus
6 95 (6.52%) Grafana
7 93 (6.39%) vCenter Server
8 42 (2.88%) Nagios
9 36 (2.47%) ZABBIX
10 35 (2.40%) HAProxy
11 31 (2.13%) Docker Swarm
12 28 (1.92%) Kibana
13 23 (1.58%) SCCM
14 21 (1.44%) Packer
15 20 (1.37%) Salt
16 18 (1.24%) Rancher
16 18 (1.24%) Red Hat Satellite
16 18 (1.24%) Single Sign-On
17 16 (1.10%) Active Directory Federation Services
17 16 (1.10%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
Vendors
1 265 (18.20%) Red Hat
2 259 (17.79%) VMware
3 150 (10.30%) Microsoft
4 96 (6.59%) Google
5 77 (5.29%) Cisco
6 76 (5.22%) Palo Alto
7 72 (4.95%) NetApp
8 67 (4.60%) Oracle
9 54 (3.71%) SolidFire
10 43 (2.95%) SaltStack
11 41 (2.82%) WSO2
12 37 (2.54%) Splunk
13 35 (2.40%) Fortinet
14 33 (2.27%) Atlassian
15 29 (1.99%) Juniper
16 26 (1.79%) McAfee
16 26 (1.79%) ServiceNow
17 25 (1.72%) IBM
17 25 (1.72%) New Relic
18 22 (1.51%) Veeam