Ansible: Markt
Ansible is an agentless configuration management and automation tool: YAML playbooks configure servers, networks and applications over SSH. We track 3 832 open positions listing Ansible, 3 559 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.
Der Markt für Ansible hat derzeit 3.832 offene Rollen, davon 3.559 frisch beobachtet. Median salary $8.405/mo. Observed candidate pool — 700.
32% of Ansible postings allow fully remote work; the share counts only postings that state the work format.
⚠ salary known for 342 of 3832 jobs; remote share from 3071 with a stated format; 3559 counted as fresh observations; trend and hiring difficulty are not shown
Nachfrage und beobachtetes Angebot
| Offene Nachfrage | 3.832 |
| Beobachtetes Angebot | 700 |
⚠ candidates matching a vacancy are not counted yet: demand and the observed pool are shown
Gehaltsverteilung
Jeder Zehnte verdient unter $3.396, jeder Zehnte über $16.666. Die Hälfte des Markts liegt zwischen $5.500 und $14.100. Stichprobe: 342.
The range histogram for Ansible postings uses only postings with an explicit compensation range; the median is computed over the same sample.
Geografie der Nachfrage
| Land | Stellen |
|---|---|
| US | 874 |
| PL | 766 |
| RU | 282 |
| IN | 177 |
| DE | 173 |
| GB | 131 |
| SG | 82 |
| HK | 70 |
| FR | 40 |
| TH | 38 |
The top country for Ansible demand is the US (874 positions).
⚠ job counts only: salary by country is not published
Wird zusammen verwendet mit
Ansible most often appears next to AWS, Kubernetes and Docker. Terraform among the neighbours reflects the usual split: Terraform creates resources, Ansible configures them.
Rollen, die sie nutzen
| Rolle | Stellen |
|---|---|
| DevOps | 2.229 |
| Platform Engineer | 415 |
| SRE | 247 |
| Security | 168 |
| Fullstack | 97 |
| Architect | 93 |
| Data | 78 |
| Backend | 77 |
| QA | 43 |
| PM | 21 |
⚠ the `Other` and `IT` buckets are excluded as non-roles
Nachfrage nach Level
| Level | Stellen |
|---|---|
| senior | 1.330 |
| middle | 381 |
| lead | 182 |
| principal | 167 |
| junior | 122 |
Senior-and-above is about 77% of 2 182 graded Ansible postings.
⚠ demand side only: the grade of the observed pool is unknown for most of it
Arbeitgeber
Die Nachfrage verteilt sich auf 1.687 Arbeitgeber. Der größte steht für 1.5 %, die Top Ten für 9.3 %; die übrigen 90.7 % sind Long Tail.
| Anteil | Wert |
|---|---|
| Top-1 | 1.5% |
| Top-3 | 4.1% |
| Top-10 | 9.3% |
| Long Tail | 90.7% |
⚠ names are not shown: staffing agencies and end employers are not yet told apart by the classifier
Wo Zorky diesen Markt sieht
Beobachtet in 118 Quellen; die größte steht für 20.9 % — dieser Markt hängt nicht an einem einzigen Kanal.
Ansible postings arrive mostly from ATS & career sites and job boards & aggregators.
Neueste Ausschreibungen
- Administrator SAS Viya · PL · $4.125
- Python AI Engineer · PL
- Production Engineer (IC4) · US
- Network Automation & Reliability Engineer · US
- DevOps Engineer – Amdocs · MG
- Sr AI Engineer · US
- Technical Lead - Oracle DBA · IN
- Analyst Information Technology - (VMware , Azure/AWS, OCP) · IN
Benachbarte Märkte
⚠ adjacent markets for comparison are not defined yet
So wird gemessen
- Stelle
- an open job that cleared the quality gate and lists at least two technologies
- Beobachteter Kandidat
- a candidate whose stack contains this technology; an aggregate — not a single record leaves the perimeter
- Matchbarer Kandidat
- not counted yet
- Fenster
- jobs open at the moment the snapshot was built
Über die Daten
- Einige Aufschlüsselungen sind ausgeblendet: Die Datenabdeckung reicht noch nicht aus.
- Statistiken erscheinen nur, wo die Stichprobe eine Qualitätsschwelle passiert.
- Ein fehlender Block bedeutet nicht den Wert null.
Derzeit ausgeblendete Aufschlüsselungen: 7.
Datenstand 2026-10-26
Häufig gestellte Fragen
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 3 832 open Ansible positions.