Ansible Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

Ansible
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring Ansible skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 42 43 60
Rank change year-on-year +1 +17 -1
Contract jobs citing Ansible 23 30 22
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 3.94% 4.69% 2.40%
As % of the Systems Management category 28.40% 27.52% 18.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 19 17
10th Percentile £429 £454 £458
25th Percentile £475 £479 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -6.36% +7.00%
75th Percentile £525 £538 £588
90th Percentile £535 £547 £618
Scotland median daily rate £500 £476 £550
% change year-on-year +5.04% -13.45% +4.76%

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 81 109 122
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 13.87% 17.03% 13.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 63 82
10th Percentile £458 £154 £400
25th Percentile £475 £403 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £477 £500
Median % change year-on-year +9.64% -4.65% +2.09%
75th Percentile £550 £532 £564
90th Percentile £625 £551 £625
Scotland median daily rate £500 £450 £515
% change year-on-year +11.11% -12.62% +5.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 0
Median hourly rate - £23.00 -
Scotland median hourly rate £50.00 £23.00 £58.20
% change year-on-year +117.39% -60.48% +228.44%

Ansible
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Ansible job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

Ansible
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Ansible

Ansible
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ansible in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 15 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Ansible in Edinburgh

Ansible
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 4 (17.39%) Confluence
2 1 (4.35%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 18 (78.26%) AWS
2 10 (43.48%) Azure
3 7 (30.43%) GCP
4 5 (21.74%) Amazon EC2
4 5 (21.74%) Amazon EKS
4 5 (21.74%) Amazon S3
4 5 (21.74%) OpenShift
4 5 (21.74%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 4 (17.39%) OCI
5 4 (17.39%) Serverless
6 3 (13.04%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (13.04%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (8.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (8.70%) AWS Control Tower
7 2 (8.70%) GitHub
8 1 (4.35%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 1 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (17.39%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (17.39%) MongoDB
2 3 (13.04%) NoSQL
3 2 (8.70%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (8.70%) InfluxDB
4 1 (4.35%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (4.35%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (4.35%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (4.35%) DynamoDB
4 1 (4.35%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 12 (52.17%) Jenkins
2 6 (26.09%) JIRA
3 4 (17.39%) GitLab
4 3 (13.04%) Git
4 3 (13.04%) Liquibase
5 1 (4.35%) Snyk
General
1 10 (43.48%) Banking
2 8 (34.78%) Finance
3 6 (26.09%) Retail Banking
4 5 (21.74%) Public Sector
4 5 (21.74%) Social Skills
5 4 (17.39%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (17.39%) Legal
5 4 (17.39%) Retail
6 1 (4.35%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 7 (30.43%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (21.74%) AWS Engineer
2 5 (21.74%) Site Engineer
2 5 (21.74%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 4 (17.39%) Implementation Specialist
4 3 (13.04%) Implementation Manager
4 3 (13.04%) Implementation Project Manager
4 3 (13.04%) Project Implementation Manager
4 3 (13.04%) Project Manager
4 3 (13.04%) Senior
5 2 (8.70%) AWS DevOps
5 2 (8.70%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Senior Software Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Software Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Systems Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) AWS Software Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Cloud Software Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Senior Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.04%) Elastic Stack
1 3 (13.04%) REST
1 3 (13.04%) RESTful
2 2 (8.70%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 6 (26.09%) Cloud Native
2 5 (21.74%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (13.04%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (13.04%) Public Cloud
4 1 (4.35%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 12 (52.17%) Linux
2 10 (43.48%) Unix
3 6 (26.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (21.74%) Windows
5 2 (8.70%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (91.30%) Agile
2 18 (78.26%) CI/CD
3 14 (60.87%) DevOps
3 14 (60.87%) Infrastructure as Code
4 8 (34.78%) Containerisation
5 7 (30.43%) Migration
6 5 (21.74%) Cybersecurity
6 5 (21.74%) Decision-Making
6 5 (21.74%) Incident Management
6 5 (21.74%) Incident Response
6 5 (21.74%) Observability
6 5 (21.74%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 5 (21.74%) Software Delivery
6 5 (21.74%) Software Engineering
6 5 (21.74%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (17.39%) Continuous Delivery
7 4 (17.39%) Infrastructure Automation
7 4 (17.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 4 (17.39%) Platform Engineering
7 4 (17.39%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 11 (47.83%) Python
2 8 (34.78%) Shell Script
3 7 (30.43%) Bash
4 5 (21.74%) Perl
5 4 (17.39%) Go
6 2 (8.70%) Java
6 2 (8.70%) PowerShell
7 1 (4.35%) Groovy
7 1 (4.35%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (21.74%) AWS Certification
2 3 (13.04%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 3 (13.04%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (13.04%) Degree
2 3 (13.04%) Master's Degree
3 2 (8.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (4.35%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (4.35%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (4.35%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (17.39%) COBIT
System Software
1 14 (60.87%) Docker
2 4 (17.39%) KVM
Systems Management
1 22 (95.65%) Terraform
2 16 (69.57%) Kubernetes
3 14 (60.87%) Grafana
4 9 (39.13%) Prometheus
5 4 (17.39%) Red Hat Satellite
6 2 (8.70%) Fluentd
6 2 (8.70%) HAProxy
6 2 (8.70%) Nagios
7 1 (4.35%) linkerd
Vendors
1 8 (34.78%) Oracle
2 5 (21.74%) Dynatrace
3 4 (17.39%) CheckPoint
3 4 (17.39%) Dell
3 4 (17.39%) F5
3 4 (17.39%) HP
3 4 (17.39%) Red Hat
4 3 (13.04%) Commvault
4 3 (13.04%) Splunk
5 2 (8.70%) Google
6 1 (4.35%) ForgeRock
6 1 (4.35%) IBM
6 1 (4.35%) IBM Sterling
6 1 (4.35%) Ping Identity