Ansible Contract Job Trends in Buckinghamshire

Ansible
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire requiring Ansible skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 24 62
Rank change year-on-year -17 +38 -1
Contract jobs citing Ansible 1 24 5
As % of all contract jobs in Buckinghamshire 0.30% 6.35% 0.73%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.63% 33.80% 11.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 21 3
10th Percentile - £413 £443
25th Percentile £525 £440 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +8.91% -3.81% -4.55%
75th Percentile £575 £565 £600
90th Percentile - £675 £638
South East median daily rate £525 £525 £575
% change year-on-year - -8.70% +4.55%

All Systems Management Skills
Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 38 71 43
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 11.45% 18.78% 6.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 54 32
10th Percentile - £278 £210
25th Percentile £273 £354 £417
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £560
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -19.64% +6.67%
75th Percentile £563 £539 £673
90th Percentile £650 £625 £713
South East median daily rate £488 £500 £538
% change year-on-year -2.40% -6.98% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 1
10th Percentile - £30.60 -
25th Percentile - £31.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate - £35.08 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year - +84.64% +40.74%
75th Percentile - £37.06 £19.50
90th Percentile - £37.62 -
South East median hourly rate £26.39 £36.17 £55.00
% change year-on-year -27.04% -34.25% +22.22%

Ansible
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Ansible job vacancy trend in Buckinghamshire

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Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing Ansible

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Hourly Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing Ansible

Ansible
Contract Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Ansible within the Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 12 October 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Milton Keynes -15 1 £550 +6.80% 4
Ansible
South East

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) AI Transformation
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Podman
1 1 (100.00%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Zscaler