Ansible Contracts in the Midlands

Ansible
England > Midlands

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

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 71 111 109
Rank change year-on-year +40 -2 +5
Contract jobs citing Ansible 40 22 58
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.09% 0.80% 1.69%
As % of the Systems Management category 16.81% 7.94% 13.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 14 44
10th Percentile £395 £384 £422
25th Percentile £537 £499 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £510 £500
Median % change year-on-year +22.55% +2.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £694 £653 £650
90th Percentile £700 £688 £731
England median daily rate £575 £550 £623
% change year-on-year +4.55% -11.65% +4.62%

All Systems Management Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 238 277 434
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 12.43% 10.05% 12.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 164 218 300
10th Percentile £200 £189 £231
25th Percentile £314 £350 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £625
90th Percentile £689 £650 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £575
% change year-on-year - -8.70% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 7 17
10th Percentile £12.18 £21.49 £17.72
25th Percentile £12.94 £25.38 £20.00
Median hourly rate £16.19 £25.77 £21.67
Median % change year-on-year -37.16% +18.90% +31.33%
75th Percentile £17.89 £40.57 £40.25
90th Percentile £18.13 £55.00 £50.55
England median hourly rate £27.38 £27.25 £57.50
% change year-on-year +0.46% -52.61% +167.44%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Ansible in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Ansible in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Ansible in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Ansible within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 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
West Midlands +35 34 £625 +16.55% 38
East Midlands +7 6 £500 +0.20% 22
Ansible
England

Ansible
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 18 (45.00%) Azure
2 11 (27.50%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (20.00%) AWS
4 4 (10.00%) GitHub
5 2 (5.00%) GCP
5 2 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (2.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (2.50%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (2.50%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (2.50%) Amazon S3
6 1 (2.50%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (2.50%) SonarCloud
6 1 (2.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.00%) Firewall
1 2 (5.00%) Network Security
2 1 (2.50%) BGP
2 1 (2.50%) DHCP
2 1 (2.50%) DNS
2 1 (2.50%) DSL
2 1 (2.50%) EIGRP
2 1 (2.50%) Internet
2 1 (2.50%) LAN
2 1 (2.50%) OSPF
2 1 (2.50%) SD-WAN
2 1 (2.50%) SMTP
2 1 (2.50%) VLAN
2 1 (2.50%) VPN
2 1 (2.50%) WAN
2 1 (2.50%) Wireless
2 1 (2.50%) Wireless Security
2 1 (2.50%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.00%) Big Data
2 1 (2.50%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 9 (22.50%) GitLab
2 6 (15.00%) MSI
3 5 (12.50%) Git
4 4 (10.00%) SonarQube
5 3 (7.50%) Chocolatey
5 3 (7.50%) Jenkins
6 1 (2.50%) JIRA
6 1 (2.50%) Snyk
General
1 19 (47.50%) Social Skills
2 5 (12.50%) Public Sector
3 3 (7.50%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.00%) Finance
4 2 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (27.50%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (7.50%) Operations Engineer
2 3 (7.50%) Platform Engineer
3 2 (5.00%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (5.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
3 2 (5.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 2 (5.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 2 (5.00%) Network Engineer
3 2 (5.00%) Site Engineer
3 2 (5.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 1 (2.50%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (2.50%) Azure Platform Engineer
4 1 (2.50%) DevOps Automation Engineer
4 1 (2.50%) Elasticsearch Consultant
4 1 (2.50%) Kubernetes Engineer
4 1 (2.50%) Lead
4 1 (2.50%) Python Engineer
4 1 (2.50%) SIEM Consultant
4 1 (2.50%) SIEM Engineer
4 1 (2.50%) SIEM Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (15.00%) Software Packaging
2 3 (7.50%) .NET
3 2 (5.00%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (2.50%) 802.1X
4 1 (2.50%) REST
4 1 (2.50%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.50%) PKI
1 5 (12.50%) SCADA
2 2 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (2.50%) Operational Technology
3 1 (2.50%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 13 (32.50%) Linux
2 10 (25.00%) Windows
3 4 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (7.50%) Ubuntu
4 3 (7.50%) Windows Server
5 1 (2.50%) CentOS
5 1 (2.50%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (40.00%) DevOps
2 13 (32.50%) CI/CD
2 13 (32.50%) Infrastructure as Code
3 12 (30.00%) Software Delivery
4 9 (22.50%) Test Automation
5 8 (20.00%) Agile
5 8 (20.00%) ITSM
5 8 (20.00%) Software Engineering
6 7 (17.50%) Network Monitoring
6 7 (17.50%) Service Management
7 6 (15.00%) Containerisation
7 6 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (15.00%) Software Deployment
7 6 (15.00%) Software Distribution
7 6 (15.00%) Task Automation
8 5 (12.50%) Computer Science
8 5 (12.50%) SIEM
8 5 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 4 (10.00%) Process Improvement
9 4 (10.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 14 (35.00%) Python
2 13 (32.50%) PowerShell
3 11 (27.50%) Bash
4 3 (7.50%) C#
5 1 (2.50%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 24 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 22 (55.00%) SC Cleared
3 5 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (12.50%) Degree
4 2 (5.00%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.50%) CCNP
5 1 (2.50%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (2.50%) RHCE
5 1 (2.50%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.50%) NCSC
2 1 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.50%) QA
2 1 (2.50%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (27.50%) Docker
2 8 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (5.00%) Active Directory
4 1 (2.50%) Firmware
4 1 (2.50%) Hyper-V
4 1 (2.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 29 (72.50%) Terraform
2 11 (27.50%) Kubernetes
3 3 (7.50%) Opsview
4 1 (2.50%) Argo
4 1 (2.50%) FortiGate
4 1 (2.50%) Grafana
4 1 (2.50%) Kibana
4 1 (2.50%) logstash
4 1 (2.50%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.50%) QRadar
4 1 (2.50%) SELinux
Vendors
1 8 (20.00%) VMware
2 7 (17.50%) Broadcom
3 6 (15.00%) Tanium
4 3 (7.50%) PagerDuty
4 3 (7.50%) ServiceNow
5 2 (5.00%) Cisco
5 2 (5.00%) Databricks
5 2 (5.00%) Foundry
5 2 (5.00%) Red Hat
6 1 (2.50%) BT
6 1 (2.50%) IBM
6 1 (2.50%) Infoblox
6 1 (2.50%) Juniper
6 1 (2.50%) Microsoft
6 1 (2.50%) SolarWinds
6 1 (2.50%) Splunk
6 1 (2.50%) Zscaler