Ansible: market
Ansible is an agentless configuration management and automation tool: YAML playbooks configure servers, networks and applications over SSH. We track 3 461 open positions listing Ansible, 3 290 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. 32% of the postings allow fully remote work. Below is measured Ansible demand.
The Ansible market currently has 3,461 open roles, 3,290 of them freshly observed. Median salary $7,507/mo. Observed candidate pool — 694.
32% of Ansible postings allow fully remote work; the share counts only postings that state the work format.
⚠ salary known for 226 of 3461 jobs; remote share from 2793 with a stated format; 3290 counted as fresh observations; trend and hiring difficulty are not shown
Timeline: postings and sources
How many Ansible postings appeared each week since 10 Aug, and from how many sources. The second line separates market growth from coverage growth: a jump in the week new sources were connected means we started seeing more, not that the market grew.
New postings and active sources per week
Sources over the period: 139
New sources connected: 17 Aug +14 · 24 Aug +17 · 31 Aug +10 · 7 Sept +9 · 14 Sept +5 · 21 Sept +29 · 28 Sept +5 · 5 Oct +12 · 12 Oct +9
Week = posting first-seen date, all statuses. A posting belongs to the technology by its stack tag; the series starts on 10 Aug 2026 — earlier tags were assigned differently and are not comparable. Sources are distinct collection channels; their names are not published.
Salaries over time
Median Ansible salary per week, USD per month.
Median salary, USD per month
Only postings with a USD salary and a known period (month or year), $500–$50,000 per month. Weeks with fewer than 10 such postings are left blank — that means no data, not zero.
Remote work over time
Share of Ansible postings offering fully remote work, per week.
Remote postings, %
The share is among postings that state a format (remote, hybrid, office). Weeks with fewer than 10 such postings are left blank.
Countries over time
How the share of Ansible postings in each of the top countries changed, per week.
Postings in the country, %
Share among postings with a known country; the chart shows the five countries with the most postings over six months. Weeks with fewer than 20 postings with a known country are left blank. A rising share can mean a newly connected source in that country rather than market growth.
Demand and observed supply
| Open demand | 3,461 |
| Observed supply | 694 |
⚠ candidates matching a vacancy are not counted yet: demand and the observed pool are shown
Salary distribution
One in ten earns under $3,500, one in ten over $15,875. Half the market falls between $5,043 and $11,958. Sample: 226.
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 | 754 |
| US | 723 |
| RU | 280 |
| DE | 151 |
| IN | 143 |
| GB | 124 |
| SG | 74 |
| HK | 72 |
| TH | 42 |
| FR | 36 |
The top country for Ansible demand is Poland (754 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 | 2,018 |
| Platform Engineer | 382 |
| SRE | 234 |
| Security | 133 |
| Architect | 85 |
| Fullstack | 85 |
| Data | 72 |
| Backend | 70 |
| QA | 38 |
| PM | 16 |
⚠ the `Other` and `IT` buckets are excluded as non-roles
Demand by grade
| grade | jobs |
|---|---|
| senior | 1,177 |
| middle | 363 |
| principal | 146 |
| lead | 145 |
| junior | 109 |
Senior-and-above is about 76% of 1 940 graded Ansible postings.
⚠ demand side only: the grade of the observed pool is unknown for most of it
Employers
Demand is spread across 1,537 employers. The largest accounts for 1.6%, the top ten for 9.8%; the remaining 90.2% is long tail.
| share | value |
|---|---|
| top-1 | 1.6% |
| top-3 | 4.5% |
| top-10 | 9.8% |
| long tail | 90.2% |
⚠ names are not shown: staffing agencies and end employers are not yet told apart by the classifier
Where Zorky sees this market
Observed across 115 sources; the largest accounts for 21.3% — this market does not rest on a single channel.
Ansible postings arrive mostly from ATS & career sites and job boards & aggregators.
Recent openings
- Senior Cloud Platform Engineer
- Senior Infrastructure Engineer · US
- Network Security Engineer · US
- Network Security Engineer · US
- Software Engineer, Network Automation · US
- Network Engineer · US
- HPC Systems Engineer · US
- Solutions Architect · US
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 2026-10-22
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 3 461 open Ansible positions.