Ansible salary and demand: hiring trends through 2026
Reviewed by Mark Dickie · Last updated
Ansible is an open-source infrastructure-as-code and configuration management tool, and this report covers what the market pays people who work with it and how hiring demand for the technology has moved. Demand for Ansible skills remains steady, driven by its continued role in automating server provisioning and configuration across on-prem and cloud environments. The salary band reflects the technology's wide adoption in enterprise IT, where teams rely on it for playbook-driven automation without requiring agents on target hosts. Hiring interest has held firm as organizations maintain large Ansible estates even while adopting newer tooling alongside it.
What does the Ansible job market look like in 2026?
The data below covers Ansible as a whole, not split by seniority level. Salary percentiles show the spread across the market, and the demand series tracks how hiring interest has shifted over time.
| Figure on this page | What it tells you |
|---|---|
| Salary percentiles (10th, 25th, 50th, 75th, 90th) | The range employers pay for Ansible-related work across the market |
| Hiring-demand series | How interest in hiring Ansible-skilled workers has risen or fallen over time |
How to use this Ansible market data
- Compare your current offer against the percentile tables to see where it lands in the market spread.
- Check the demand series to gauge whether employer interest in Ansible skills is trending up or cooling off before you commit to a job search.
- Use both datasets together — a wide salary band with flat demand tells a different story than a tight band with rising demand.
Ansible salary & hiring demand
From live job postings, the median Ansible salary is £75,000, across 492 postings in September 2026. These figures are technology-wide across all seniority levels, as of September 2026.
| 25th percentile | £65,000 |
|---|---|
| Median (50th percentile) | £75,000 |
| 75th percentile | £97,500 |
Hiring demand over time
We're not publishing a month-by-month series yet: the number of postings Tarmac collects each month is still growing, so a month-on-month change would measure our coverage rather than the job market.