Ansible Contract Job Trends in Blackpool

Ansible
Lancashire > Blackpool

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Blackpool requiring Ansible skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 - 9
Rank change year-on-year - - -2
Contract jobs citing Ansible 4 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Blackpool 13.79% - 4.00%
As % of the Systems Management category 80.00% - 14.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £563 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - £540
Median % change year-on-year - - -10.00%
75th Percentile £638 - -
90th Percentile £668 - -
Lancashire median daily rate £575 - £540
% change year-on-year - - -10.00%

All Systems Management Skills
Blackpool

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 Blackpool.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 5 0 7
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Blackpool 17.24% - 28.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 7
10th Percentile - - £569
25th Percentile £563 - £606
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - £625
Median % change year-on-year - - -1.96%
75th Percentile £638 - £638
90th Percentile £668 - £650
Lancashire median daily rate £550 £575 £625
% change year-on-year -4.35% -8.00% +4.17%

Ansible
Job Vacancy Trend in Blackpool

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

Ansible job vacancy trend in Blackpool

Ansible
Daily Rate Trend in Blackpool

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Blackpool citing Ansible

Ansible
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Blackpool 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) OCI
1 4 (100.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) Firewall
1 4 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 4 (100.00%) WAN
1 4 (100.00%) Wi-Fi
1 4 (100.00%) WLAN
2 3 (75.00%) BGP
2 3 (75.00%) BIG-IP
2 3 (75.00%) Ethernet VPN
2 3 (75.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 3 (75.00%) OSPF
2 3 (75.00%) VXLAN
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) GitLab
General
1 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 3 (75.00%) Senior
1 3 (75.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Data Centre
2 3 (75.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (75.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) High Availability
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 4 (100.00%) Zero Trust
2 3 (75.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) Load Balancing
2 3 (75.00%) Network Architecture
2 3 (75.00%) Network Design
2 3 (75.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Aruba
1 4 (100.00%) Palo Alto
2 3 (75.00%) Arista
2 3 (75.00%) F5