Ansible : marché
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.
Le marché Ansible compte actuellement 3 832 postes ouverts, dont 3 559 observés récemment. 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
Demande et offre observée
| Demande ouverte | 3 832 |
| Offre observée | 700 |
⚠ candidates matching a vacancy are not counted yet: demand and the observed pool are shown
Distribution des salaires
Un sur dix gagne moins de $3 396, un sur dix plus de $16 666. La moitié du marché se situe entre $5 500 et $14 100. Échantillon: 342.
The range histogram for Ansible postings uses only postings with an explicit compensation range; the median is computed over the same sample.
Géographie de la demande
| pays | offres |
|---|---|
| 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
Utilisée avec
Ansible most often appears next to AWS, Kubernetes and Docker. Terraform among the neighbours reflects the usual split: Terraform creates resources, Ansible configures them.
Métiers qui l'utilisent
| métier | offres |
|---|---|
| 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
Demande par niveau
| niveau | offres |
|---|---|
| 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
Employeurs
La demande est répartie entre 1 687 employeurs. Le plus grand en représente 1.5 %, les dix premiers 9.3 % ; les 90.7 % restants forment la longue traîne.
| part | valeur |
|---|---|
| top 1 | 1.5% |
| top 3 | 4.1% |
| top 10 | 9.3% |
| longue traîne | 90.7% |
⚠ names are not shown: staffing agencies and end employers are not yet told apart by the classifier
Où Zorky voit ce marché
Observé sur 118 sources ; la plus grande en représente 20.9 % : ce marché ne repose pas sur un seul canal.
Ansible postings arrive mostly from ATS & career sites and job boards & aggregators.
Postes récents
- 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
Marchés voisins
⚠ adjacent markets for comparison are not defined yet
Comment c'est mesuré
- Offre
- an open job that cleared the quality gate and lists at least two technologies
- Candidat observé
- a candidate whose stack contains this technology; an aggregate — not a single record leaves the perimeter
- Candidat correspondant
- not counted yet
- Fenêtre
- jobs open at the moment the snapshot was built
À propos des données
- Certaines ventilations sont masquées : leur couverture de données n'est pas encore suffisante.
- Les statistiques ne sont affichées que là où l'échantillon passe un contrôle qualité.
- Un bloc absent ne signifie pas une valeur nulle.
Ventilations masquées actuellement : 7.
Données au 2026-10-26
Questions fréquentes
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.