Ansible Contract Job Trends in Knutsford

Ansible
Cheshire > Knutsford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Knutsford requiring Ansible skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 19 3
Rank change year-on-year -29 -16 +14
Contract jobs citing Ansible 5 8 39
As % of all contract jobs in Knutsford 2.20% 7.77% 41.94%
As % of the Systems Management category 7.35% 50.00% 76.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 5 30
10th Percentile £242 £562 £487
25th Percentile £274 £580 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £320 £625 £560
Median % change year-on-year -48.80% +11.61% +26.41%
75th Percentile £338 £638 £583
90th Percentile £350 - £599
Cheshire median daily rate £333 £625 £550
% change year-on-year -46.80% +13.64% +18.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £80.00 -
Cheshire median hourly rate - £80.00 -

All Systems Management Skills
Knutsford

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 Knutsford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 68 16 51
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 29.96% 15.53% 54.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 13 39
10th Percentile £305 £324 £493
25th Percentile £333 £356 £498
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £404 £425 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.06% -22.73% +26.44%
75th Percentile £468 £638 £583
90th Percentile £553 - £588
Cheshire median daily rate £402 £425 £525
% change year-on-year -5.41% -19.05% +19.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £80.00 -
Cheshire median hourly rate £16.00 £24.18 £17.72
% change year-on-year -33.83% +36.46% -

Ansible
Job Vacancy Trend in Knutsford

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

Ansible job vacancy trend in Knutsford

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Daily Rate Trend in Knutsford

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Knutsford citing Ansible

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Daily Rate Histogram in Knutsford

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ansible in Knutsford over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Ansible in Knutsford

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Knutsford 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 1 (20.00%) Apache
1 1 (20.00%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
1 2 (40.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
1 2 (40.00%) Datadog
1 2 (40.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
1 1 (20.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) CircleCI
1 2 (40.00%) GitLab
1 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Developer
1 2 (40.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (20.00%) Kafka
2 1 (20.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (20.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Linux
1 3 (60.00%) Windows
2 2 (40.00%) Unix
2 2 (40.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) DevOps
1 3 (60.00%) High Availability
1 3 (60.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) Change Control
2 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (40.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 2 (40.00%) DevSecOps
2 2 (40.00%) Incident Response
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (40.00%) Task Automation
2 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (40.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
3 1 (20.00%) Change Management
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Monitoring
3 1 (20.00%) Observability
3 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Proactive Monitoring
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) Bash
2 2 (40.00%) Java
2 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Terraform
2 2 (40.00%) Grafana
2 2 (40.00%) Prometheus
3 1 (20.00%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) IBM
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle