Ansible Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Ansible
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring Ansible skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 49 64
Rank change year-on-year +24 +15 +3
Contract jobs citing Ansible 52 17 6
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 7.17% 2.46% 0.83%
As % of the Systems Management category 34.90% 30.36% 6.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 6 4
10th Percentile £468 £322 £448
25th Percentile £488 £359 £594
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £397 £713
Median % change year-on-year +32.24% -44.28% +38.35%
75th Percentile £568 £448 £750
90th Percentile £892 £481 -
West Midlands median daily rate £550 £573 £550
% change year-on-year -3.93% +4.09% +1.85%

All Systems Management Skills
Birmingham

Ansible falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills in Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 149 56 92
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 20.55% 8.12% 12.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 32 70
10th Percentile £360 £181 £300
25th Percentile £450 £281 £351
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £479 £393
Median % change year-on-year +2.09% +21.97% -18.44%
75th Percentile £541 £532 £500
90th Percentile £619 £589 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £515 £500 £425
% change year-on-year +3.00% +17.65% -10.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £39.98 - -
25th Percentile £45.94 - -
Median hourly rate £56.25 - £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +22.22%
75th Percentile £66.94 - -
90th Percentile £73.13 - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £75.00 £12.18 £55.00
% change year-on-year +515.76% -77.85% +221.45%

Ansible
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Ansible relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Ansible job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Ansible
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Ansible.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Ansible

Ansible
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ansible in Birmingham over the 6 months to 17 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Ansible in Birmingham

Ansible
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (7.69%) OpenStack
2 3 (5.77%) Apache
2 3 (5.77%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (5.77%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 17 (32.69%) AWS
2 16 (30.77%) Serverless
3 13 (25.00%) GCP
4 5 (9.62%) Azure
5 4 (7.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (7.69%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (7.69%) Amazon ELB
5 4 (7.69%) Amazon S3
5 4 (7.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 3 (5.77%) AWS KMS
6 3 (5.77%) Azure API Management
6 3 (5.77%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 3 (5.77%) Azure Functions
6 3 (5.77%) Azure Key Vault
6 3 (5.77%) Azure Logic Apps
6 3 (5.77%) Azure Monitor
6 3 (5.77%) Azure Service Bus
6 3 (5.77%) GitHub
6 3 (5.77%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (5.77%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 10 (19.23%) SSL
2 9 (17.31%) DNS
2 9 (17.31%) TCP/IP
3 8 (15.38%) Firewall
4 5 (9.62%) BIG-IP
4 5 (9.62%) DMZ
4 5 (9.62%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 5 (9.62%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 5 (9.62%) HTTP
4 5 (9.62%) Wireshark
5 4 (7.69%) VPN
6 3 (5.77%) Network Security
7 1 (1.92%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (26.92%) Elasticsearch
2 13 (25.00%) NoSQL
3 7 (13.46%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (5.77%) Apache Hive
4 3 (5.77%) Hadoop
4 3 (5.77%) HBase
Development Applications
1 20 (38.46%) Jenkins
2 17 (32.69%) GitLab
3 9 (17.31%) Liquibase
4 6 (11.54%) Git
5 5 (9.62%) Fiddler
6 3 (5.77%) JIRA
7 2 (3.85%) CircleCI
8 1 (1.92%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 31 (59.62%) Social Skills
2 13 (25.00%) Banking
3 11 (21.15%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (21.15%) Finance
4 9 (17.31%) Financial Institution
5 5 (9.62%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (9.62%) Investment Banking
6 3 (5.77%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (5.77%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.92%) Military
Job Titles
1 11 (21.15%) Cloud Engineer
1 11 (21.15%) Senior
2 10 (19.23%) DevOps Engineer
2 10 (19.23%) Site Engineer
2 10 (19.23%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 10 (19.23%) Splunk Engineer
3 9 (17.31%) GCP Engineer
3 9 (17.31%) Senior DevOps
3 9 (17.31%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 8 (15.38%) Software Engineer
5 6 (11.54%) AWS Engineer
5 6 (11.54%) Cloud Software Engineer
5 6 (11.54%) Network Engineer
5 6 (11.54%) Python Engineer
5 6 (11.54%) Senior Software Engineer
6 5 (9.62%) Developer
7 4 (7.69%) Automation Engineer
7 4 (7.69%) AWS Software Engineer
7 4 (7.69%) GCP Software Engineer
7 4 (7.69%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (57.69%) Elastic Stack
2 13 (25.00%) REST
2 13 (25.00%) RESTful
3 3 (5.77%) Kafka
3 3 (5.77%) RabbitMQ
3 3 (5.77%) Spark Streaming
4 2 (3.85%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 15 (28.85%) Management Information System
2 13 (25.00%) Public Cloud
3 11 (21.15%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (17.31%) Cloud Native
5 7 (13.46%) Onboarding
6 4 (7.69%) Data Centre
7 3 (5.77%) Product Ownership
8 2 (3.85%) Derivative
8 2 (3.85%) PKI
9 1 (1.92%) Security Posture
9 1 (1.92%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 30 (57.69%) Linux
2 10 (19.23%) Unix
3 2 (3.85%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (71.15%) DevOps
2 31 (59.62%) CI/CD
3 29 (55.77%) Containerisation
4 24 (46.15%) Computer Science
5 21 (40.38%) Migration
6 19 (36.54%) Change Management
7 17 (32.69%) Root Cause Analysis
8 16 (30.77%) Agile
8 16 (30.77%) Infrastructure as Code
9 15 (28.85%) Incident Response
9 15 (28.85%) Problem-Solving
10 14 (26.92%) High Availability
11 13 (25.00%) Cryptography
11 13 (25.00%) Data Modelling
11 13 (25.00%) Microservices
11 13 (25.00%) Observability
12 11 (21.15%) Cybersecurity
12 11 (21.15%) Data Security
12 11 (21.15%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 11 (21.15%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 42 (80.77%) Python
2 18 (34.62%) Bash
3 16 (30.77%) Go
4 6 (11.54%) SQL
5 3 (5.77%) Bicep
5 3 (5.77%) C#
5 3 (5.77%) JavaScript
5 3 (5.77%) Shell Script
6 2 (3.85%) Java
Qualifications
1 24 (46.15%) Computer Science Degree
1 24 (46.15%) Degree
2 12 (23.08%) Master's Degree
3 5 (9.62%) Security Cleared
4 3 (5.77%) SC Cleared
5 2 (3.85%) AWS Certification
5 2 (3.85%) AWS Certified Developer
5 2 (3.85%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (3.85%) CISM
5 2 (3.85%) CISSP
6 1 (1.92%) CCNP
6 1 (1.92%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.92%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.85%) QA
System Software
1 28 (53.85%) Docker
2 3 (5.77%) HDFS
3 1 (1.92%) Firmware
3 1 (1.92%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 34 (65.38%) Kubernetes
2 31 (59.62%) Terraform
3 17 (32.69%) Grafana
4 14 (26.92%) Kibana
4 14 (26.92%) Prometheus
5 13 (25.00%) Puppet
6 4 (7.69%) logstash
7 3 (5.77%) Argo
7 3 (5.77%) Hadoop YARN
Vendors
1 26 (50.00%) Splunk
2 10 (19.23%) F5
3 6 (11.54%) Google
4 5 (9.62%) Blue Coat
4 5 (9.62%) McAfee
4 5 (9.62%) NetApp
4 5 (9.62%) Palo Alto
5 4 (7.69%) CheckPoint
5 4 (7.69%) Microsoft
6 2 (3.85%) Calypso
6 2 (3.85%) VMware
7 1 (1.92%) Cisco
7 1 (1.92%) Juniper
7 1 (1.92%) NetScout
7 1 (1.92%) Red Hat