Ansible Contracts in Edinburgh

Ansible
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh 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 51 48 49
Rank change year-on-year -3 +1 +28
Contract jobs citing Ansible 16 24 70
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 2.56% 2.94% 5.37%
As % of the Systems Management category 21.33% 25.00% 26.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 22 64
10th Percentile £463 £421 £432
25th Percentile £479 £436 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £503
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% +5.42% -2.57%
75th Percentile £538 £619 £538
90th Percentile £569 £634 £563
Scotland median daily rate £473 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -9.86% +2.34% -2.29%

All Systems Management Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 75 96 265
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 12.00% 11.78% 20.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 71 196
10th Percentile £160 £240 £248
25th Percentile £205 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £479
Median % change year-on-year - +4.38% -8.76%
75th Percentile £538 £634 £523
90th Percentile £560 £688 £559
Scotland median daily rate £474 £475 £490
% change year-on-year -0.26% -2.96% -2.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 2
10th Percentile £21.18 - £21.30
25th Percentile £22.50 £15.10 £21.36
Median hourly rate £23.00 £15.97 £21.47
Median % change year-on-year +44.02% -25.60% -50.94%
75th Percentile £24.00 £16.85 £21.57
90th Percentile £24.11 - £21.63
Scotland median hourly rate £23.00 £37.99 £56.25
% change year-on-year -39.45% -32.47% +25.50%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Ansible in Edinburgh

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for Ansible in Edinburgh

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Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate histogram for Ansible in Edinburgh

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (12.50%) CMS
1 2 (12.50%) Headless CMS
2 1 (6.25%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 8 (50.00%) AWS
2 5 (31.25%) AWS CloudFormation
2 5 (31.25%) Azure
2 5 (31.25%) Serverless
3 4 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
3 4 (25.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 4 (25.00%) Amazon S3
3 4 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
3 4 (25.00%) OpenShift
4 3 (18.75%) Amazon ECS
4 3 (18.75%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 3 (18.75%) AWS CodeBuild
4 3 (18.75%) AWS CodeDeploy
4 3 (18.75%) AWS CodePipeline
4 3 (18.75%) AWS Fargate
4 3 (18.75%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (18.75%) PaaS
4 3 (18.75%) Route 53
4 3 (18.75%) SaaS
5 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 2 (12.50%) DNS
1 2 (12.50%) Firewall
2 1 (6.25%) HTTP
2 1 (6.25%) Reverse Proxy
2 1 (6.25%) SSL
2 1 (6.25%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (31.25%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (18.75%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (18.75%) InfluxDB
2 3 (18.75%) MongoDB
3 2 (12.50%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (12.50%) MariaDB
3 2 (12.50%) MySQL
3 2 (12.50%) Power Query
3 2 (12.50%) Redis
Development Applications
1 8 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (18.75%) Artifactory
3 2 (12.50%) Git
3 2 (12.50%) GitLab
General
1 4 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (18.75%) Banking
2 3 (18.75%) Finance
2 3 (18.75%) Public Sector
3 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (31.25%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (25.00%) Platform Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) AWS Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Architect
4 2 (12.50%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) AWS DevOps
5 1 (6.25%) Build Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) e-Learning Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Lead
5 1 (6.25%) Linux Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Linux Server Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Senior
5 1 (6.25%) Server Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Systems Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Unix Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (25.00%) AWS CDK
2 2 (12.50%) ARM Templates
2 2 (12.50%) CSS
2 2 (12.50%) HTML5 Canvas
2 2 (12.50%) JSON
2 2 (12.50%) Middleware
2 2 (12.50%) Next.js
2 2 (12.50%) Playwright
2 2 (12.50%) Vitest
2 2 (12.50%) YAML
3 1 (6.25%) Loki
3 1 (6.25%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (6.25%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Enterprise Software
1 3 (18.75%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (12.50%) Low-Code
3 1 (6.25%) Data Centre
3 1 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (6.25%) e-Learning
3 1 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (6.25%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (37.50%) Linux
1 6 (37.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (18.75%) Unix
2 3 (18.75%) Windows
3 2 (12.50%) Ubuntu
3 2 (12.50%) Windows Server
4 1 (6.25%) AIX
4 1 (6.25%) Amazon Linux
4 1 (6.25%) Data ONTAP
4 1 (6.25%) Oracle Linux
4 1 (6.25%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (6.25%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 7 (43.75%) Agile
3 6 (37.50%) Containerisation
3 6 (37.50%) DevOps
3 6 (37.50%) Kanban
4 5 (31.25%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (31.25%) Scrum
5 3 (18.75%) Platform Engineering
5 3 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (12.50%) Design Patterns
6 2 (12.50%) End-to-End Testing
6 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Automation
6 2 (12.50%) ITIL
6 2 (12.50%) Log Analytics
6 2 (12.50%) Mentoring
6 2 (12.50%) Observability
6 2 (12.50%) Problem Management
6 2 (12.50%) Service-Level Objective
6 2 (12.50%) Software Delivery
6 2 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (68.75%) Python
2 10 (62.50%) Bash
3 4 (25.00%) Groovy
3 4 (25.00%) PowerShell
3 4 (25.00%) SQL
4 3 (18.75%) TypeScript
5 2 (12.50%) Bicep
5 2 (12.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (12.50%) Java
5 2 (12.50%) Perl
5 2 (12.50%) Shell Script
6 1 (6.25%) Go
Qualifications
1 1 (6.25%) AWS Certification
1 1 (6.25%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 1 (6.25%) Azure Certification
1 1 (6.25%) ITIL Certification
1 1 (6.25%) OCP
1 1 (6.25%) Oracle Certification
1 1 (6.25%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (18.75%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (6.25%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (6.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (6.25%) GDPR
2 1 (6.25%) PCI DSS
2 1 (6.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (25.00%) Docker
2 3 (18.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (6.25%) Hyper-V
3 1 (6.25%) KVM
3 1 (6.25%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 6 (37.50%) Grafana
2 6 (37.50%) Terraform
3 3 (18.75%) Kibana
3 3 (18.75%) Progress Chef
3 3 (18.75%) Prometheus
4 2 (12.50%) HAProxy
5 1 (6.25%) linkerd
5 1 (6.25%) Nagios
5 1 (6.25%) Puppet
5 1 (6.25%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 4 (25.00%) Red Hat
1 4 (25.00%) VMware
2 3 (18.75%) Microsoft
3 2 (12.50%) Dynatrace
3 2 (12.50%) Google
3 2 (12.50%) Oracle
4 1 (6.25%) Citrix
4 1 (6.25%) Commvault
4 1 (6.25%) ForgeRock
4 1 (6.25%) IBM
4 1 (6.25%) Imperva
4 1 (6.25%) NetApp
4 1 (6.25%) Palo Alto
4 1 (6.25%) Splunk
4 1 (6.25%) Tanium