Ansible Contract Job Trends in Lancashire

Ansible
North West > Lancashire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Lancashire requiring Ansible skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 - 30
Rank change year-on-year - - -10
Contract jobs citing Ansible 4 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Lancashire 1.58% - 0.52%
As % of the Systems Management category 20.00% - 8.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £563 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - £540
Median % change year-on-year - - -10.00%
75th Percentile £638 - -
90th Percentile £668 - -
North West median daily rate £460 £573 £540
% change year-on-year -19.65% +6.02% -8.09%

All Systems Management Skills
Lancashire

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 Lancashire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 20 25 12
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Lancashire 7.91% 13.89% 6.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 15 9
10th Percentile £185 £400 £483
25th Percentile £238 £506 £540
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £588 £615 -
90th Percentile £690 £651 £650
North West median daily rate £481 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +1.18% -5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - £43.69 -
25th Percentile £39.53 £46.98 £26.25
Median hourly rate £42.69 £53.20 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.77% +93.45% -35.29%
75th Percentile £45.84 £58.68 £28.75
90th Percentile - £61.51 -
North West median hourly rate £55.00 £62.95 £17.72
% change year-on-year -12.63% +255.25% -40.24%

Ansible
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

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

Ansible job vacancy trend in Lancashire

Ansible
Daily Rate Trend in Lancashire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Lancashire citing Ansible

Ansible
Contract Job Locations in Lancashire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Ansible within the Lancashire region over the 6 months to 5 May 2026. 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
Blackpool - 4 £575 - 2
Ansible
North West

Ansible
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Lancashire 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) OCI
1 4 (100.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) Firewall
1 4 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 4 (100.00%) WAN
1 4 (100.00%) Wi-Fi
1 4 (100.00%) WLAN
2 3 (75.00%) BGP
2 3 (75.00%) BIG-IP
2 3 (75.00%) Ethernet VPN
2 3 (75.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 3 (75.00%) OSPF
2 3 (75.00%) VXLAN
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) GitLab
General
1 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 3 (75.00%) Senior
1 3 (75.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Data Centre
2 3 (75.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (75.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) High Availability
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 4 (100.00%) Zero Trust
2 3 (75.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) Load Balancing
2 3 (75.00%) Network Architecture
2 3 (75.00%) Network Design
2 3 (75.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Aruba
1 4 (100.00%) Palo Alto
2 3 (75.00%) Arista
2 3 (75.00%) F5