Ansible Contract Job Trends in Bristol

Ansible
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bristol requiring Ansible skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 41 70
Rank change year-on-year -10 +29 +9
Contract jobs citing Ansible 18 29 8
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 2.19% 4.14% 0.80%
As % of the Systems Management category 23.38% 46.03% 7.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 18 4
10th Percentile £75 £314 £530
25th Percentile £380 £440 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% -12.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £675 £594 £663
90th Percentile £775 £621 £775
South West median daily rate £550 £538 £558
% change year-on-year +2.33% -3.59% -1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 1
10th Percentile £79.40 - -
25th Percentile £80.00 - £58.75
Median hourly rate £81.00 £74.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.46% +18.40% -25.60%
75th Percentile £82.00 £74.22 £66.25
90th Percentile £82.60 £74.35 -
South West median hourly rate £83.00 £74.00 £78.00
% change year-on-year +12.16% -5.13% +23.81%

All Systems Management Skills
Bristol

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 Bristol.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 77 63 107
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 9.37% 9.00% 10.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 41 76
10th Percentile £360 £325 £306
25th Percentile £453 £440 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £525 £581
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% -9.68% +5.68%
75th Percentile £613 £575 £680
90th Percentile £716 £625 £706
South West median daily rate £550 £540 £550
% change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 5
10th Percentile £80.60 - £35.65
25th Percentile £83.00 - £58.75
Median hourly rate £119.00 £74.00 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year +60.81% +2.07% +11.54%
75th Percentile - £74.22 £76.25
90th Percentile - £74.35 -
South West median hourly rate £86.00 £45.00 £72.50
% change year-on-year +91.11% -37.93% +11.54%

Ansible
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Ansible job vacancy trend in Bristol

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Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Ansible

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Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ansible in Bristol over the 6 months to 16 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Ansible in Bristol

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Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Ansible.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Ansible

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol 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 10 (55.56%) Apache
2 2 (11.11%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 7 (38.89%) AWS
2 3 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
2 3 (16.67%) Azure
2 3 (16.67%) GCP
3 2 (11.11%) Amazon S3
3 2 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (11.11%) OpenShift
4 1 (5.56%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 1 (5.56%) AWS CloudTrail
4 1 (5.56%) AWS CodePipeline
4 1 (5.56%) AWS KMS
4 1 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (5.56%) Datadog
4 1 (5.56%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (11.11%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (11.11%) Hadoop
3 1 (5.56%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (5.56%) Big Data
3 1 (5.56%) DynamoDB
3 1 (5.56%) MongoDB
3 1 (5.56%) MySQL
3 1 (5.56%) Oracle Database
3 1 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (5.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (44.44%) Artifactory
1 8 (44.44%) GitLab
2 3 (16.67%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (16.67%) Aerospace
2 2 (11.11%) Finance
2 2 (11.11%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (55.56%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Data Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Lead
3 2 (11.11%) Senior
3 2 (11.11%) Site Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Consultant
4 1 (5.56%) Database Consultant
4 1 (5.56%) GCP DevOps
4 1 (5.56%) GCP DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) GCP Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Infrastructure Manager
4 1 (5.56%) Lead Consultant
4 1 (5.56%) Network Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Security Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Senior DevOps
4 1 (5.56%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (55.56%) Apache NiFi
2 8 (44.44%) REST
3 2 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (11.11%) Kafka
4 1 (5.56%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.11%) Cloud Native
1 2 (11.11%) Replication
2 1 (5.56%) Algorithms
2 1 (5.56%) Clustering
2 1 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (5.56%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (44.44%) Windows
2 2 (11.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (83.33%) CI/CD
2 14 (77.78%) DevOps
3 8 (44.44%) User Experience
3 8 (44.44%) Workflow
4 6 (33.33%) Decision-Making
4 6 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (27.78%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (22.22%) Computer Science
6 4 (22.22%) Software Engineering
7 3 (16.67%) Analytics
7 3 (16.67%) Containerisation
7 3 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 2 (11.11%) Data Ingestion
8 2 (11.11%) Data Pipeline
8 2 (11.11%) Data-Driven Decision Making
8 2 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
8 2 (11.11%) Machine Learning
8 2 (11.11%) Performance Tuning
8 2 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
8 2 (11.11%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 11 (61.11%) Python
2 8 (44.44%) PowerShell
3 3 (16.67%) SQL
4 2 (11.11%) Shell Script
5 1 (5.56%) Bash
5 1 (5.56%) Go
Qualifications
1 11 (61.11%) Security Cleared
2 7 (38.89%) DV Cleared
3 5 (27.78%) Degree
4 4 (22.22%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (16.67%) SC Cleared
6 2 (11.11%) AWS Certification
7 1 (5.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (5.56%) Azure Certification
7 1 (5.56%) CCNP
7 1 (5.56%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (5.56%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (44.44%) QA
2 1 (5.56%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (5.56%) NIST
System Software
1 6 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (100.00%) Terraform
2 13 (72.22%) Kubernetes
3 5 (27.78%) Grafana
3 5 (27.78%) Prometheus
4 2 (11.11%) Kibana
4 2 (11.11%) logstash
4 2 (11.11%) Progress Chef
5 1 (5.56%) Puppet
Vendors
1 8 (44.44%) Red Hat
2 1 (5.56%) Cisco
2 1 (5.56%) Google
2 1 (5.56%) Oracle