Ansible: market
Ansible is an agentless configuration management and automation tool: YAML playbooks configure servers, networks and applications over SSH. We track 3 268 open positions listing Ansible, 3 088 of them fresh. Ansible covers what remains after resources are created: OS configuration, application rollout, patching and network devices. Most of the demand comes from DevOps, Platform Engineer and SRE roles. It most often appears next to AWS, Kubernetes and Docker. 33% of the postings allow fully remote work. Below is measured Ansible demand.
The Ansible market currently has 3,268 open roles, 3,088 of them freshly observed. Median salary $7,500/mo. Observed candidate pool — 685.
33% of Ansible postings allow fully remote work; the share counts only postings that state the work format.
⚠ salary known for 197 of 3268 jobs; remote share from 2576 with a stated format; 3088 counted as fresh observations; trend and hiring difficulty are not shown
Demand and observed supply
| Open demand | 3,268 |
| Observed supply | 685 |
⚠ candidates matching a vacancy are not counted yet: demand and the observed pool are shown
Salary distribution
One in ten earns under $3,260, one in ten over $16,045. Half the market falls between $5,000 and $11,666. Sample: 197.
The range histogram for Ansible postings uses only postings with an explicit compensation range; the median is computed over the same sample.
Demand geography
| country | jobs |
|---|---|
| PL | 732 |
| US | 679 |
| RU | 264 |
| DE | 140 |
| IN | 125 |
| GB | 111 |
| SG | 70 |
| HK | 62 |
| TH | 40 |
| FR | 30 |
The top country for Ansible demand is Poland (732 positions).
⚠ job counts only: salary by country is not published
Used together with
Ansible most often appears next to AWS, Kubernetes and Docker. Terraform among the neighbours reflects the usual split: Terraform creates resources, Ansible configures them.
Roles that use it
| role | jobs |
|---|---|
| DevOps | 1,917 |
| Platform Engineer | 364 |
| SRE | 220 |
| Security | 129 |
| Fullstack | 83 |
| Architect | 78 |
| Data | 66 |
| Backend | 64 |
| QA | 35 |
| PM | 15 |
⚠ the `Other` and `IT` buckets are excluded as non-roles
Demand by grade
| grade | jobs |
|---|---|
| senior | 1,099 |
| middle | 343 |
| principal | 139 |
| lead | 132 |
| junior | 102 |
Senior-and-above is about 75% of 1 815 graded Ansible postings.
⚠ demand side only: the grade of the observed pool is unknown for most of it
Employers
Demand is spread across 1,458 employers. The largest accounts for 1.7%, the top ten for 10.1%; the remaining 89.9% is long tail.
| share | value |
|---|---|
| top-1 | 1.7% |
| top-3 | 4.7% |
| top-10 | 10.1% |
| long tail | 89.9% |
⚠ names are not shown: staffing agencies and end employers are not yet told apart by the classifier
Where Zorky sees this market
Observed across 107 sources; the largest accounts for 21.2% — this market does not rest on a single channel.
Ansible postings arrive mostly from ATS & career sites and job boards & aggregators.
Recent openings
- Engineering Manager · PL · $6,125
- Infrastructure Architect · TH
- Senior Data engineer · TH
- Senior DevOps Engineer · PL · $6,625
- Senior Cloud Engineer · PL · $5,338
- Test Environment Engineer · PL
- Site Reliability Engineer with Dynatrace · IN
- Site Reliability Engineer (Mobile Applications – iOS & Android) · IN
Adjacent markets
⚠ adjacent markets for comparison are not defined yet
How this is measured
- Vacancy
- an open job that cleared the quality gate and lists at least two technologies
- Observed candidate
- a candidate whose stack contains this technology; an aggregate — not a single record leaves the perimeter
- Matchable candidate
- not counted yet
- Window
- jobs open at the moment the snapshot was built
About the data
- Some breakdowns are hidden: their data coverage is not yet sufficient.
- Statistics are shown only where the sample clears a quality gate.
- A missing block does not mean a value of zero.
Breakdowns currently hidden: 7.
Data as of 2026-10-21
Frequently asked questions
Common questions about the Ansible market — short answers from the same data slice.
Ansible or Terraform — which should I learn?
Both, they complement each other: Terraform describes infrastructure (networks, VMs, clusters), Ansible — the state inside it (packages, configs, services). Postings often name them together.
What is asked about Ansible?
Role and playbook structure, inventory (including dynamic), idempotency, Jinja2 templates, Ansible Vault for secrets, role testing (Molecule).
Where is Ansible especially in demand?
In on-prem and hybrid infrastructure, network automation and teams with large server fleets. The slice tracks 3 268 open Ansible positions.