Ansible Contracts in Cheshire

Ansible
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire requiring Ansible skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Ansible over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 44 44
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 +5
Contract jobs citing Ansible 14 14 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 3.12% 2.78% 3.58%
As % of the Systems Management category 17.28% 23.33% 22.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 13 17
10th Percentile - £467 £317
25th Percentile £463 £487 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £573 £525 £463
Median % change year-on-year +9.05% +13.51% -18.32%
75th Percentile £638 £582 £510
90th Percentile £715 - £655
North West median daily rate £573 £533 £588
% change year-on-year +7.51% -9.36% +5.86%

All Systems Management Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 81 60 86
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 18.04% 11.90% 16.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 37 68
10th Percentile £307 £184 £200
25th Percentile £354 £385 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £454
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +4.68% -2.42%
75th Percentile £501 £538 £571
90th Percentile £638 £582 £641
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 8 5
10th Percentile - £16.72 £12.35
25th Percentile £81.75 £17.49 £14.00
Median hourly rate £83.50 £17.72 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +371.22% -11.40% -
75th Percentile £85.25 - £22.41
90th Percentile - £17.74 £48.41
North West median hourly rate £62.50 £17.72 £30.00
% change year-on-year +252.71% -40.93% +50.00%

Ansible
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Job postings citing Ansible as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Job vacancy trend for Ansible in Cheshire

Ansible
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Ansible in Cheshire.

Daily rate trend for Ansible in Cheshire

Ansible
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ansible in Cheshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Ansible in Cheshire

Ansible
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Ansible within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Knutsford -7 8 £475 -16.08% 4
Chester - 1 £600 - 1
Ansible
North West

Ansible
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (7.14%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 3 (21.43%) OpenShift
2 2 (14.29%) AWS
3 1 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (7.14%) Power Platform
3 1 (7.14%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (42.86%) Firewall
2 1 (7.14%) BGP
2 1 (7.14%) Cisco IOS
2 1 (7.14%) DMZ
2 1 (7.14%) DNS
2 1 (7.14%) DWDM
2 1 (7.14%) Internet
2 1 (7.14%) IPsec
2 1 (7.14%) L2TP
2 1 (7.14%) MPLS
2 1 (7.14%) Multicast
2 1 (7.14%) Network Security
2 1 (7.14%) OSPF
2 1 (7.14%) SSL
2 1 (7.14%) VPN
2 1 (7.14%) WAN
2 1 (7.14%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (7.14%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (28.57%) SQL Server
2 1 (7.14%) Power BI
2 1 (7.14%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (35.71%) GitLab
2 4 (28.57%) Git
2 4 (28.57%) Jenkins
2 4 (28.57%) JIRA
General
1 5 (35.71%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (35.71%) Social Skills
2 3 (21.43%) Banking
2 3 (21.43%) Finance
3 2 (14.29%) Legal
4 1 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) Automation Engineer
1 4 (28.57%) Senior
1 4 (28.57%) Senior Automation Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Architect
3 2 (14.29%) Automation Developer
3 2 (14.29%) AWS Architect
3 2 (14.29%) AWS Solution Architect
3 2 (14.29%) Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Python Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Cloud Solutions Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Data Scientist
4 1 (7.14%) Implementation Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Network Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Network Implementation Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (28.57%) Kafka
2 1 (7.14%) 802.1X
2 1 (7.14%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Onboarding
2 2 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 2 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (14.29%) Public Cloud
3 1 (7.14%) Blockchain
3 1 (7.14%) Private Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (78.57%) CI/CD
2 10 (71.43%) DevOps
3 8 (57.14%) Configuration Management
4 6 (42.86%) Data Migration
4 6 (42.86%) Migration
4 6 (42.86%) Task Automation
4 6 (42.86%) Technical Leadership
4 6 (42.86%) Validation
5 5 (35.71%) Agile
5 5 (35.71%) Data Ingestion
5 5 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure Automation
6 4 (28.57%) Microservices
6 4 (28.57%) Regulatory Compliance
6 4 (28.57%) Scrum
6 4 (28.57%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 4 (28.57%) Sprint Planning
6 4 (28.57%) Sprint Review
6 4 (28.57%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 12 (85.71%) Python
2 8 (57.14%) Bash
3 5 (35.71%) PowerShell
3 5 (35.71%) SQL
4 2 (14.29%) Java
5 1 (7.14%) Perl
5 1 (7.14%) R
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) CCNP
1 3 (21.43%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (14.29%) CCNA
3 1 (7.14%) AWS Certification
3 1 (7.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (7.14%) CCIE
3 1 (7.14%) Degree
3 1 (7.14%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (57.14%) Kubernetes
2 6 (42.86%) Progress Chef
3 4 (28.57%) Terraform
4 1 (7.14%) Grafana
4 1 (7.14%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (42.86%) Fortinet
2 5 (35.71%) Infoblox
2 5 (35.71%) ServiceNow
3 4 (28.57%) Oracle
4 1 (7.14%) Arista
4 1 (7.14%) Cisco
4 1 (7.14%) McAfee
4 1 (7.14%) Red Hat
4 1 (7.14%) Splunk
4 1 (7.14%) VMware