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 23 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 76 101 79
Rank change year-on-year +25 -22 -11
Contract jobs citing Ansible 781 820 1,432
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 3.28% 2.26% 2.99%
As % of the Systems Management category 20.93% 18.74% 19.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 537 578 1,053
10th Percentile £413 £418 £450
25th Percentile £488 £475 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £623
Median % change year-on-year - -11.65% +4.62%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £731
90th Percentile £747 £738 £800
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +2.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 8 28
10th Percentile £37.45 £46.25 £53.75
25th Percentile £39.25 £50.94 £58.16
Median hourly rate £44.50 £62.25 £73.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.51% -14.73% +24.26%
75th Percentile £78.70 £74.44 £78.00
90th Percentile £81.26 £75.36 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £44.50 £62.25 £73.00
% change year-on-year -28.51% -14.73% +49.74%

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 3,731 4,376 7,410
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.65% 12.04% 15.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,568 3,224 5,370
10th Percentile £311 £261 £350
25th Percentile £413 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £575
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% -9.57% -
75th Percentile £621 £625 £684
90th Percentile £713 £700 £763
UK median daily rate £520 £513 £558
% change year-on-year +1.46% -8.15% -1.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 97 175
10th Percentile £18.13 £14.00 £16.37
25th Percentile £23.80 £17.78 £24.13
Median hourly rate £29.00 £25.77 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.56% -50.92% +144.19%
75th Percentile £63.40 £50.00 £73.73
90th Percentile £81.18 £71.25 £84.50
UK median hourly rate £27.75 £27.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +0.91% -50.00% +151.26%

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 23 May 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 23 May 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 23 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
London +33 376 £580 +0.87% 521
North of England +4 107 £525 +1.94% 461
South East +1 90 £513 -5.14% 612
South West +12 82 £600 +8.60% 278
Yorkshire +14 70 £500 +3.09% 185
East of England +65 49 £550 -12.00% 254
Midlands +40 46 £563 +8.27% 321
West Midlands +40 40 £595 -6.67% 182
North West -5 26 £537 +2.29% 233
North East +3 11 £565 +2.73% 44
East Midlands +6 6 £500 +0.40% 116
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 33 (4.23%) Confluence
2 29 (3.71%) Apache Spark
3 24 (3.07%) Apache
4 15 (1.92%) OpenStack
5 12 (1.54%) Microsoft Exchange
6 9 (1.15%) nginx
7 8 (1.02%) IIS
8 4 (0.51%) SharePoint
9 3 (0.38%) Documentum
9 3 (0.38%) FileNet
9 3 (0.38%) JBoss
10 2 (0.26%) Camunda
10 2 (0.26%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.26%) WebSphere
11 1 (0.13%) Apache Airflow
11 1 (0.13%) MQSeries
11 1 (0.13%) Oracle Coherence
11 1 (0.13%) Skype for Business
11 1 (0.13%) WebLogic
Applications
1 9 (1.15%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (0.90%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (0.26%) Shopify
2 1 (0.13%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.13%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 318 (40.72%) AWS
2 218 (27.91%) Azure
3 103 (13.19%) GCP
4 91 (11.65%) GitHub
5 76 (9.73%) OpenShift
6 54 (6.91%) AWS CloudFormation
7 42 (5.38%) Amazon S3
8 41 (5.25%) Azure DevOps
9 39 (4.99%) Serverless
10 38 (4.87%) Amazon EC2
11 33 (4.23%) PaaS
12 32 (4.10%) Amazon EKS
13 30 (3.84%) IaaS
14 29 (3.71%) AWS Lambda
15 24 (3.07%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 22 (2.82%) GitHub Actions
17 21 (2.69%) Cohesity
18 18 (2.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 18 (2.30%) SaaS
19 17 (2.18%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 133 (17.03%) DNS
2 128 (16.39%) Firewall
3 71 (9.09%) VPN
4 63 (8.07%) TCP/IP
5 59 (7.55%) Network Security
6 58 (7.43%) BGP
7 52 (6.66%) OSPF
8 47 (6.02%) DHCP
9 43 (5.51%) SAN
10 37 (4.74%) WAN
11 28 (3.59%) LAN
11 28 (3.59%) MPLS
12 27 (3.46%) HTTP
13 24 (3.07%) SMTP
14 23 (2.94%) Multicast
15 18 (2.30%) Cisco Nexus
16 15 (1.92%) Cisco ISE
16 15 (1.92%) Internet
16 15 (1.92%) SSL
17 14 (1.79%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (5.25%) Amazon RDS
2 33 (4.23%) PostgreSQL
3 32 (4.10%) Elasticsearch
4 30 (3.84%) Big Data
5 22 (2.82%) Hadoop
6 18 (2.30%) Oracle Database
7 17 (2.18%) NoSQL
7 17 (2.18%) SQL Server
8 12 (1.54%) MySQL
9 11 (1.41%) MongoDB
10 8 (1.02%) Amazon Aurora
10 8 (1.02%) Relational Database
11 6 (0.77%) Data Lake
12 5 (0.64%) Amazon Redshift
12 5 (0.64%) Data Warehouse
12 5 (0.64%) DynamoDB
13 4 (0.51%) Oracle Reports
13 4 (0.51%) Redis
14 3 (0.38%) Apache Cassandra
14 3 (0.38%) Hazelcast
Development Applications
1 203 (25.99%) Jenkins
2 131 (16.77%) GitLab
3 128 (16.39%) Git
4 68 (8.71%) JIRA
5 26 (3.33%) SonarQube
6 22 (2.82%) Cucumber
7 21 (2.69%) Sonatype Nexus
8 18 (2.30%) Bitbucket
9 16 (2.05%) TeamCity
10 15 (1.92%) Selenium
11 14 (1.79%) Artifactory
12 12 (1.54%) Subversion
13 11 (1.41%) Maven
14 9 (1.15%) REST Assured
15 8 (1.02%) Visual Studio
16 7 (0.90%) MSI
17 6 (0.77%) CircleCI
18 5 (0.64%) Gradle
18 5 (0.64%) Vagrant
19 4 (0.51%) git-flow
General
1 206 (26.38%) Social Skills
2 141 (18.05%) Finance
3 87 (11.14%) Analytical Skills
4 86 (11.01%) Banking
5 67 (8.58%) Public Sector
6 28 (3.59%) Investment Banking
7 27 (3.46%) Telecoms
8 20 (2.56%) Organisational Skills
9 14 (1.79%) Financial Institution
10 12 (1.54%) Law
11 10 (1.28%) Presentation Skills
12 9 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
13 8 (1.02%) Legal
14 6 (0.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 6 (0.77%) Multimedia
15 5 (0.64%) Front Office
15 5 (0.64%) Military
15 5 (0.64%) Police
16 4 (0.51%) Marketing
17 3 (0.38%) Retail
Job Titles
1 133 (17.03%) DevOps Engineer
2 95 (12.16%) Network Engineer
3 73 (9.35%) Senior
4 69 (8.83%) Developer
5 60 (7.68%) Architect
6 49 (6.27%) Automation Engineer
6 49 (6.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 45 (5.76%) Platform Engineer
8 42 (5.38%) AWS Engineer
9 37 (4.74%) Linux Engineer
10 34 (4.35%) Lead
11 32 (4.10%) Kubernetes Engineer
12 30 (3.84%) Administrator
13 29 (3.71%) Python Developer
14 25 (3.20%) AWS DevOps
14 25 (3.20%) Senior DevOps
15 24 (3.07%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 23 (2.94%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 23 (2.94%) Cloud Engineer
16 23 (2.94%) Linux Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (8.32%) REST
2 42 (5.38%) Elastic Stack
3 34 (4.35%) React
4 25 (3.20%) .NET
5 22 (2.82%) Django
5 22 (2.82%) FastAPI
6 20 (2.56%) Kafka
6 20 (2.56%) Spring
7 18 (2.30%) LDAP
7 18 (2.30%) OpenTelemetry
8 17 (2.18%) Node.js
9 15 (1.92%) ARM Templates
10 14 (1.79%) RESTful
10 14 (1.79%) Spring Boot
11 12 (1.54%) SOAP
12 11 (1.41%) Middleware
12 11 (1.41%) YAML
13 9 (1.15%) Java EE
13 9 (1.15%) OAuth
13 9 (1.15%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 50 (6.40%) Cloud Native
1 50 (6.40%) Data Centre
2 37 (4.74%) Hybrid Cloud
3 36 (4.61%) Public Cloud
4 27 (3.46%) Clustering
5 21 (2.69%) PKI
6 18 (2.30%) Hedge funds
6 18 (2.30%) Self-Motivation
7 17 (2.18%) Linux Command Line
7 17 (2.18%) Replication
8 13 (1.66%) Data Protection Act
8 13 (1.66%) Onboarding
8 13 (1.66%) Private Cloud
9 10 (1.28%) Enterprise Storage
10 7 (0.90%) Management Information System
10 7 (0.90%) Product Ownership
11 6 (0.77%) Distributed Systems
12 5 (0.64%) EMC VMAX
12 5 (0.64%) Enterprise Software
12 5 (0.64%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 312 (39.95%) Linux
2 151 (19.33%) Windows
3 92 (11.78%) Windows Server
4 89 (11.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 32 (4.10%) Unix
6 27 (3.46%) CentOS
7 26 (3.33%) Windows Server 2016
8 23 (2.94%) Windows Server 2019
9 22 (2.82%) Ubuntu
10 16 (2.05%) Solaris
11 8 (1.02%) VMS
12 7 (0.90%) Rocky
13 5 (0.64%) SUSE
14 4 (0.51%) AIX
14 4 (0.51%) Oracle Linux
14 4 (0.51%) Windows Server 2003
15 2 (0.26%) HPUX
15 2 (0.26%) OS/400
15 2 (0.26%) Windows 10
16 1 (0.13%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 337 (43.15%) DevOps
2 312 (39.95%) CI/CD
3 208 (26.63%) Infrastructure as Code
4 192 (24.58%) Containerisation
5 170 (21.77%) Agile
6 164 (21.00%) Problem-Solving
7 162 (20.74%) Configuration Management
8 93 (11.91%) High Availability
9 91 (11.65%) Infrastructure Automation
10 84 (10.76%) Migration
10 84 (10.76%) Test Automation
11 80 (10.24%) Deployment Automation
11 80 (10.24%) Task Automation
12 63 (8.07%) Continuous Integration
13 62 (7.94%) Software Engineering
14 61 (7.81%) Observability
15 60 (7.68%) Continuous Improvement
15 60 (7.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 53 (6.79%) Platform Engineering
16 53 (6.79%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 468 (59.92%) Python
2 191 (24.46%) Bash
3 182 (23.30%) PowerShell
4 106 (13.57%) Java
5 61 (7.81%) SQL
6 50 (6.40%) Shell Script
7 37 (4.74%) Perl
8 32 (4.10%) C#
9 31 (3.97%) Go
10 27 (3.46%) TypeScript
11 21 (2.69%) JavaScript
12 12 (1.54%) Groovy
13 10 (1.28%) Ruby
14 7 (0.90%) VB
15 5 (0.64%) Bicep
15 5 (0.64%) C++
15 5 (0.64%) PL/SQL
16 4 (0.51%) Rust
17 3 (0.38%) C
17 3 (0.38%) PHP
Qualifications
1 289 (37.00%) Security Cleared
2 188 (24.07%) SC Cleared
3 99 (12.68%) DV Cleared
4 65 (8.32%) Degree
5 63 (8.07%) Cisco Certification
6 54 (6.91%) CCNP
7 27 (3.46%) AWS Certification
7 27 (3.46%) Computer Science Degree
7 27 (3.46%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 19 (2.43%) CCIE
8 19 (2.43%) Oracle Certification
9 15 (1.92%) RHCE
10 12 (1.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 11 (1.41%) CCNA
11 11 (1.41%) OCA
12 10 (1.28%) RHCA
13 8 (1.02%) Azure Certification
13 8 (1.02%) OCP
14 6 (0.77%) CCSA
14 6 (0.77%) Check Point Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (3.20%) QA
2 21 (2.69%) GDPR
3 20 (2.56%) PCI DSS
4 11 (1.41%) SLA
5 9 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 9 (1.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 7 (0.90%) NIST
7 4 (0.51%) Actionable Recommendations
7 4 (0.51%) HIPAA
7 4 (0.51%) NCSC
7 4 (0.51%) SOC 2
8 3 (0.38%) Data Quality
9 2 (0.26%) OASIS TOSCA
10 1 (0.13%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.13%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.13%) COBIT
10 1 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 224 (28.68%) Docker
2 129 (16.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 87 (11.14%) Active Directory
4 33 (4.23%) Hyper-V
5 30 (3.84%) VMware ESXi
6 28 (3.59%) vSphere
7 20 (2.56%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 20 (2.56%) Virtual Servers
8 17 (2.18%) VMware NSX
9 11 (1.41%) Virtual Machines
10 9 (1.15%) BitLocker
10 9 (1.15%) Firmware
10 9 (1.15%) Microsoft App-V
10 9 (1.15%) Terminal Services
11 7 (0.90%) NFS
12 5 (0.64%) Veritas Cluster Server
13 4 (0.51%) Veritas File System
13 4 (0.51%) Veritas Volume Manager
14 3 (0.38%) iptables
14 3 (0.38%) Samba
Systems Management
1 398 (50.96%) Terraform
2 330 (42.25%) Kubernetes
3 138 (17.67%) Puppet
4 76 (9.73%) Grafana
5 70 (8.96%) Progress Chef
6 60 (7.68%) Prometheus
7 33 (4.23%) vCenter Server
8 23 (2.94%) WSUS
9 21 (2.69%) Nagios
9 21 (2.69%) SCCM
10 20 (2.56%) Podman
11 19 (2.43%) Argo
12 17 (2.18%) Packer
13 14 (1.79%) Rancher
13 14 (1.79%) Red Hat Satellite
14 12 (1.54%) FortiGate
14 12 (1.54%) ZABBIX
15 11 (1.41%) Docker Swarm
15 11 (1.41%) vRealize
16 10 (1.28%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 179 (22.92%) VMware
2 109 (13.96%) Cisco
2 109 (13.96%) Red Hat
3 84 (10.76%) Microsoft
4 68 (8.71%) Oracle
5 60 (7.68%) Splunk
6 47 (6.02%) F5
7 39 (4.99%) Arista
7 39 (4.99%) Fortinet
7 39 (4.99%) ServiceNow
8 32 (4.10%) Google
9 31 (3.97%) CheckPoint
9 31 (3.97%) NetApp
10 24 (3.07%) Citrix
10 24 (3.07%) IBM
11 22 (2.82%) SolarWinds
12 21 (2.69%) HP
13 19 (2.43%) Palo Alto
14 17 (2.18%) Infoblox
15 16 (2.05%) Dell