Ansible: mercado
Ansible is an agentless configuration management and automation tool: YAML playbooks configure servers, networks and applications over SSH. We track 3 929 open positions listing Ansible, 3 580 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, Docker and Kubernetes. 31% of the postings allow fully remote work. Below is measured Ansible demand.
O mercado de Ansible tem agora 3.929 vagas abertas, 3.580 delas observadas recentemente. Median salary $8.321/mo. Observed candidate pool — 705.
31% of Ansible postings allow fully remote work; the share counts only postings that state the work format.
⚠ salary known for 355 of 3929 jobs; remote share from 3130 with a stated format; 3580 counted as fresh observations; trend and hiring difficulty are not shown
Timeline: postings and sources
How many Ansible postings appeared each week since Aug 10, 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: 156
New sources connected: Aug 17 +13 · Aug 24 +18 · Aug 31 +10 · Sep 7 +9 · Sep 14 +5 · Sep 21 +29 · Sep 28 +5 · Oct 5 +12 · Oct 12 +9 · Oct 19 +17
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.
Demanda e oferta observada
| Demanda aberta | 3.929 |
| Oferta observada | 705 |
⚠ candidates matching a vacancy are not counted yet: demand and the observed pool are shown
Distribuição de salários
Um em cada dez ganha menos de $3.375, um em cada dez mais de $16.666. Metade do mercado fica entre $5.427 e $13.819. Amostra: 355.
The range histogram for Ansible postings uses only postings with an explicit compensation range; the median is computed over the same sample.
Geografia da demanda
| país | vagas |
|---|---|
| US | 900 |
| PL | 773 |
| RU | 281 |
| IN | 195 |
| DE | 179 |
| GB | 132 |
| SG | 84 |
| HK | 71 |
| FR | 41 |
| SE | 39 |
The top country for Ansible demand is the US (900 positions).
⚠ job counts only: salary by country is not published
Usada junto com
Ansible most often appears next to AWS, Docker and Kubernetes. Terraform among the neighbours reflects the usual split: Terraform creates resources, Ansible configures them.
Cargos que a usam
| cargo | vagas |
|---|---|
| DevOps | 2.134 |
| Platform Engineer | 425 |
| SRE | 248 |
| Security | 230 |
| Architect | 130 |
| Fullstack | 115 |
| Backend | 99 |
| Data | 73 |
| QA | 46 |
| AI Engineer | 25 |
⚠ the `Other` and `IT` buckets are excluded as non-roles
Demanda por nível
| nível | vagas |
|---|---|
| senior | 1.355 |
| middle | 389 |
| lead | 188 |
| principal | 181 |
| junior | 142 |
Senior-and-above is about 76% of 2 255 graded Ansible postings.
⚠ demand side only: the grade of the observed pool is unknown for most of it
Empregadores
A demanda está distribuída entre 1.733 empregador. O maior responde por 1.4%, os dez primeiros por 9.1%; os 90.9% restantes são cauda longa.
| proporção | valor |
|---|---|
| top 1 | 1.4% |
| top 3 | 4.0% |
| top 10 | 9.1% |
| cauda longa | 90.9% |
⚠ names are not shown: staffing agencies and end employers are not yet told apart by the classifier
Onde o Zorky vê este mercado
Observado em 117 fontes; a maior responde por 20.8%: este mercado não depende de um único canal.
Ansible postings arrive mostly from ATS & career sites and job boards & aggregators.
Vagas recentes
- DevOps Engineer (AI Inference) · PL · $4.600
- Learning Management System Application Architect · US
- DevOps Engineer (DST) (Logos) · RU
- AWS Cloud Technical Architect
- AWS Cloud Solution Architect
- DevOps-инженер · KZ
- DevOps инженер · RU
- DevOps-инженер (Москва) · RU
Mercados adjacentes
⚠ adjacent markets for comparison are not defined yet
Como é medido
- Vaga
- an open job that cleared the quality gate and lists at least two technologies
- Candidato observado
- a candidate whose stack contains this technology; an aggregate — not a single record leaves the perimeter
- Candidato compatível
- not counted yet
- Janela
- jobs open at the moment the snapshot was built
Sobre os dados
- Alguns detalhamentos estão ocultos: a cobertura de dados deles ainda não é suficiente.
- As estatísticas só aparecem onde a amostra passa por um controle de qualidade.
- A ausência de um bloco não significa valor zero.
Detalhamentos ocultos no momento: 7.
Dados de 2026-10-27
Perguntas frequentes
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 3 929 open Ansible positions.