Ansible Contracts in England

Ansible
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 78 91 82
Rank change year-on-year +13 -9 -15
Contract jobs citing Ansible 829 897 1,347
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 3.23% 2.42% 2.84%
As % of the Systems Management category 20.58% 19.32% 18.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 557 615 995
10th Percentile £406 £425 £450
25th Percentile £475 £475 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £601
Median % change year-on-year - -8.41% +0.08%
75th Percentile £630 £650 £731
90th Percentile £716 £750 £800
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 8 32
10th Percentile £37.75 £53.08 £53.75
25th Percentile £39.44 £62.75 £58.59
Median hourly rate £53.50 £74.00 £73.36
Median % change year-on-year -27.70% +0.88% +24.86%
75th Percentile £74.96 £74.58 £78.00
90th Percentile £80.83 £75.75 £89.30
UK median hourly rate £53.50 £74.00 £73.00
% change year-on-year -27.70% +1.37% +48.98%

All Systems Management Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 4,028 4,643 7,123
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.71% 12.51% 15.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,690 3,353 5,149
10th Percentile £305 £300 £350
25th Percentile £409 £415 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -8.70% -
75th Percentile £610 £625 £688
90th Percentile £700 £700 £775
UK median daily rate £511 £520 £550
% change year-on-year -1.73% -5.45% -3.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 96 161
10th Percentile £19.63 £16.13 £18.50
25th Percentile £26.34 £20.50 £25.71
Median hourly rate £48.50 £31.25 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +55.20% -43.18% +150.00%
75th Percentile £63.49 £49.06 £73.75
90th Percentile £79.61 £71.25 £83.75
UK median hourly rate £35.14 £32.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +8.11% -43.48% +155.56%

Ansible
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Ansible in England

Ansible
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Ansible in England

Ansible
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Ansible in England

Ansible
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Ansible in England.

Hourly rate trend for Ansible in England

Ansible
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Ansible in England over the 6 months to 1 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Ansible in England

Ansible
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Ansible within the England region over the 6 months to 1 July 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
London +28 379 £575 - 1,002
North of England +11 124 £500 -3.40% 196
South East -2 109 £513 -6.82% 289
Yorkshire +16 85 £500 -2.72% 67
South West 0 79 £600 +9.09% 149
Midlands +20 53 £550 +4.76% 115
East of England +60 52 £550 - 96
West Midlands +22 47 £554 -2.85% 79
North West +4 31 £537 +2.29% 118
North East 0 8 £550 - 11
East Midlands -6 6 £500 - 36
Ansible
UK

Ansible
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 42 (5.07%) Confluence
2 33 (3.98%) Apache
3 24 (2.90%) Apache Spark
4 17 (2.05%) Microsoft Exchange
5 12 (1.45%) OpenStack
6 9 (1.09%) IIS
7 7 (0.84%) JBoss
7 7 (0.84%) nginx
8 4 (0.48%) Documentum
8 4 (0.48%) FileNet
9 3 (0.36%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.24%) Anypoint
10 2 (0.24%) Camunda
10 2 (0.24%) Mule
10 2 (0.24%) SharePoint
10 2 (0.24%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.12%) Apache Airflow
11 1 (0.12%) MQSeries
11 1 (0.12%) Skype for Business
11 1 (0.12%) WebLogic
Applications
1 16 (1.93%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (0.84%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (0.24%) Endur
1 2 (0.24%) ION MarketView
1 2 (0.24%) Shopify
2 1 (0.12%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.12%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 340 (41.01%) AWS
2 234 (28.23%) Azure
3 110 (13.27%) GCP
4 103 (12.42%) GitHub
5 76 (9.17%) OpenShift
6 60 (7.24%) AWS CloudFormation
7 52 (6.27%) Azure DevOps
8 42 (5.07%) Amazon S3
9 40 (4.83%) Amazon EKS
10 39 (4.70%) Amazon EC2
10 39 (4.70%) Serverless
11 33 (3.98%) GitHub Actions
12 32 (3.86%) PaaS
13 29 (3.50%) AWS Lambda
14 28 (3.38%) IaaS
15 25 (3.02%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 21 (2.53%) Cohesity
17 18 (2.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 17 (2.05%) Entra ID
19 16 (1.93%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 159 (19.18%) Firewall
2 132 (15.92%) DNS
3 80 (9.65%) VPN
4 72 (8.69%) BGP
5 68 (8.20%) TCP/IP
6 60 (7.24%) OSPF
7 58 (7.00%) Network Security
8 43 (5.19%) SAN
9 39 (4.70%) DHCP
9 39 (4.70%) WAN
10 34 (4.10%) MPLS
11 28 (3.38%) LAN
12 27 (3.26%) Multicast
13 23 (2.77%) IPsec
14 22 (2.65%) SMTP
15 19 (2.29%) Cisco ISE
16 18 (2.17%) Cisco Nexus
16 18 (2.17%) HTTP
16 18 (2.17%) VLAN
17 17 (2.05%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (4.58%) Amazon RDS
2 35 (4.22%) PostgreSQL
3 28 (3.38%) Elasticsearch
4 27 (3.26%) Big Data
5 19 (2.29%) Oracle Database
6 18 (2.17%) SQL Server
7 15 (1.81%) Hadoop
8 14 (1.69%) MySQL
9 13 (1.57%) NoSQL
10 12 (1.45%) Relational Database
11 11 (1.33%) MongoDB
12 8 (0.97%) Amazon Aurora
12 8 (0.97%) Data Lake
12 8 (0.97%) Redis
13 6 (0.72%) Data Warehouse
14 5 (0.60%) Amazon Redshift
14 5 (0.60%) DynamoDB
14 5 (0.60%) MariaDB
15 4 (0.48%) Flink
15 4 (0.48%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 237 (28.59%) Jenkins
2 155 (18.70%) Git
3 140 (16.89%) GitLab
4 84 (10.13%) JIRA
5 29 (3.50%) SonarQube
6 26 (3.14%) Artifactory
6 26 (3.14%) Sonatype Nexus
7 25 (3.02%) Bitbucket
8 22 (2.65%) Cucumber
9 16 (1.93%) Selenium
9 16 (1.93%) TeamCity
10 15 (1.81%) Postman
11 12 (1.45%) Maven
11 12 (1.45%) Subversion
12 10 (1.21%) MSI
13 9 (1.09%) REST Assured
14 8 (0.97%) Vagrant
15 7 (0.84%) Visual Studio
16 6 (0.72%) CircleCI
16 6 (0.72%) Gradle
General
1 226 (27.26%) Social Skills
2 157 (18.94%) Finance
3 99 (11.94%) Analytical Skills
4 74 (8.93%) Banking
5 71 (8.56%) Public Sector
6 27 (3.26%) Telecoms
7 22 (2.65%) Investment Banking
8 14 (1.69%) Organisational Skills
9 12 (1.45%) Law
10 11 (1.33%) Documentation Skills
10 11 (1.33%) Financial Institution
10 11 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
11 9 (1.09%) Retail
12 6 (0.72%) Multimedia
13 5 (0.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 5 (0.60%) Legal
13 5 (0.60%) Police
14 4 (0.48%) Electronics
14 4 (0.48%) Manufacturing
14 4 (0.48%) Military
Job Titles
1 138 (16.65%) DevOps Engineer
2 126 (15.20%) Network Engineer
3 72 (8.69%) Senior
4 63 (7.60%) Developer
5 60 (7.24%) Architect
6 55 (6.63%) Automation Engineer
7 54 (6.51%) Platform Engineer
8 52 (6.27%) AWS Engineer
9 50 (6.03%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 37 (4.46%) Administrator
11 36 (4.34%) Linux Engineer
12 33 (3.98%) Python Engineer
13 32 (3.86%) Kubernetes Engineer
14 28 (3.38%) Lead
15 27 (3.26%) AWS DevOps
16 26 (3.14%) Cloud Engineer
17 25 (3.02%) Cisco Engineer
18 24 (2.90%) AWS DevOps Engineer
18 24 (2.90%) Linux Administrator
18 24 (2.90%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (7.72%) REST
2 45 (5.43%) Elastic Stack
3 36 (4.34%) Kafka
4 33 (3.98%) React
5 19 (2.29%) .NET
6 18 (2.17%) OpenTelemetry
6 18 (2.17%) Spring
6 18 (2.17%) YAML
7 17 (2.05%) Middleware
8 16 (1.93%) ARM Templates
9 15 (1.81%) Django
9 15 (1.81%) FastAPI
9 15 (1.81%) JSON
9 15 (1.81%) Node.js
10 14 (1.69%) SOAP
11 13 (1.57%) RESTful
12 12 (1.45%) LDAP
13 11 (1.33%) Spring Boot
13 11 (1.33%) XML
14 10 (1.21%) NETCONF
Miscellaneous
1 52 (6.27%) Data Centre
2 46 (5.55%) Cloud Native
3 37 (4.46%) PKI
4 36 (4.34%) Hybrid Cloud
4 36 (4.34%) Public Cloud
5 23 (2.77%) Clustering
6 20 (2.41%) Hedge funds
7 18 (2.17%) Private Cloud
8 17 (2.05%) Linux Command Line
9 13 (1.57%) Data Protection Act
9 13 (1.57%) Replication
9 13 (1.57%) Self-Motivation
10 11 (1.33%) Enterprise Storage
11 10 (1.21%) Onboarding
12 9 (1.09%) Management Information System
12 9 (1.09%) Product Ownership
13 7 (0.84%) Distributed Systems
14 5 (0.60%) Greenfield Project
14 5 (0.60%) SCADA
14 5 (0.60%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 316 (38.12%) Linux
2 160 (19.30%) Windows
3 89 (10.74%) Windows Server
4 84 (10.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 38 (4.58%) Unix
6 29 (3.50%) Windows Server 2019
7 28 (3.38%) CentOS
8 24 (2.90%) Windows Server 2016
9 21 (2.53%) Ubuntu
10 14 (1.69%) Solaris
11 8 (0.97%) VMS
12 7 (0.84%) Rocky
13 5 (0.60%) AIX
13 5 (0.60%) Oracle Linux
13 5 (0.60%) SUSE
14 4 (0.48%) Debian
14 4 (0.48%) Windows Server 2003
15 3 (0.36%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
16 2 (0.24%) Windows 10
16 2 (0.24%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 363 (43.79%) DevOps
2 330 (39.81%) CI/CD
3 241 (29.07%) Infrastructure as Code
4 201 (24.25%) Containerisation
5 196 (23.64%) Agile
6 184 (22.20%) Configuration Management
7 170 (20.51%) Problem-Solving
8 99 (11.94%) Migration
9 97 (11.70%) Infrastructure Automation
10 87 (10.49%) Deployment Automation
10 87 (10.49%) High Availability
10 87 (10.49%) Test Automation
11 78 (9.41%) Task Automation
12 65 (7.84%) Software Engineering
13 64 (7.72%) Continuous Integration
14 63 (7.60%) Platform Engineering
15 61 (7.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 61 (7.36%) Observability
16 55 (6.63%) Continuous Improvement
17 49 (5.91%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 508 (61.28%) Python
2 194 (23.40%) PowerShell
3 189 (22.80%) Bash
4 101 (12.18%) Java
5 62 (7.48%) SQL
6 49 (5.91%) Shell Script
7 41 (4.95%) Go
8 37 (4.46%) C#
9 34 (4.10%) Perl
10 27 (3.26%) JavaScript
11 18 (2.17%) Groovy
12 17 (2.05%) TypeScript
13 14 (1.69%) C++
14 11 (1.33%) PHP
15 10 (1.21%) Ruby
16 8 (0.97%) Bicep
16 8 (0.97%) VB
17 5 (0.60%) PL/SQL
17 5 (0.60%) Rust
18 4 (0.48%) C
Qualifications
1 307 (37.03%) Security Cleared
2 195 (23.52%) SC Cleared
3 109 (13.15%) DV Cleared
4 82 (9.89%) Cisco Certification
5 74 (8.93%) Degree
6 71 (8.56%) CCNP
7 31 (3.74%) Computer Science Degree
8 29 (3.50%) AWS Certification
9 27 (3.26%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 21 (2.53%) CCIE
10 21 (2.53%) Oracle Certification
11 16 (1.93%) CCNA
12 13 (1.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 13 (1.57%) OCA
12 13 (1.57%) RHCE
13 10 (1.21%) OCP
13 10 (1.21%) RHCA
14 9 (1.09%) Azure Certification
15 8 (0.97%) JNCIA
16 6 (0.72%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (3.26%) QA
2 22 (2.65%) PCI DSS
3 17 (2.05%) GDPR
4 11 (1.33%) SLA
5 8 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (0.84%) NIST
7 6 (0.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 4 (0.48%) Accessibility
8 4 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
8 4 (0.48%) HIPAA
8 4 (0.48%) NCSC
9 3 (0.36%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.24%) Data Quality
10 2 (0.24%) OASIS TOSCA
11 1 (0.12%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.12%) COBIT
System Software
1 215 (25.93%) Docker
2 137 (16.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 84 (10.13%) Active Directory
4 37 (4.46%) VMware ESXi
5 26 (3.14%) Hyper-V
5 26 (3.14%) vSphere
6 20 (2.41%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 20 (2.41%) Virtual Servers
7 18 (2.17%) VMware NSX
8 11 (1.33%) Firmware
8 11 (1.33%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 11 (1.33%) Virtual Machines
9 9 (1.09%) BitLocker
9 9 (1.09%) Microsoft App-V
9 9 (1.09%) Terminal Services
10 7 (0.84%) NFS
11 5 (0.60%) VirtualBox
12 4 (0.48%) iptables
13 3 (0.36%) FreeRADIUS
14 2 (0.24%) PowerHA
Systems Management
1 405 (48.85%) Terraform
2 337 (40.65%) Kubernetes
3 155 (18.70%) Puppet
4 81 (9.77%) Grafana
5 74 (8.93%) Progress Chef
6 70 (8.44%) Prometheus
7 35 (4.22%) vCenter Server
8 26 (3.14%) SCCM
8 26 (3.14%) WSUS
9 23 (2.77%) Nagios
10 21 (2.53%) Podman
11 19 (2.29%) Packer
12 16 (1.93%) Argo
13 13 (1.57%) Rancher
14 12 (1.45%) FortiGate
14 12 (1.45%) Salt
15 11 (1.33%) Docker Swarm
15 11 (1.33%) Red Hat Satellite
15 11 (1.33%) vRealize
15 11 (1.33%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 188 (22.68%) VMware
2 127 (15.32%) Cisco
3 105 (12.67%) Microsoft
4 95 (11.46%) Red Hat
5 77 (9.29%) Oracle
6 70 (8.44%) Splunk
7 50 (6.03%) F5
8 47 (5.67%) Arista
9 46 (5.55%) ServiceNow
10 38 (4.58%) Fortinet
11 35 (4.22%) CheckPoint
12 32 (3.86%) Google
13 29 (3.50%) NetApp
13 29 (3.50%) SolarWinds
14 27 (3.26%) Citrix
14 27 (3.26%) Palo Alto
15 24 (2.90%) IBM
16 20 (2.41%) HP
17 18 (2.17%) MuleSoft
18 17 (2.05%) Juniper