Ansible Contract Job Trends in Newcastle upon Tyne

Ansible
Tyne and Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne requiring Ansible skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 21 -
Rank change year-on-year -20 - -
Contract jobs citing Ansible 11 13 0
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 2.68% 5.68% -
As % of the Systems Management category 13.92% 20.31% -
Number of daily rates quoted 11 8 0
10th Percentile - £364 -
25th Percentile £400 £402 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £495 -
Median % change year-on-year +1.01% - -
75th Percentile £531 £632 -
90th Percentile £588 £650 -
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £500 £495 -
% change year-on-year +1.01% - -

All Systems Management Skills
Newcastle upon Tyne

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 Newcastle upon Tyne.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 79 64 20
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 19.27% 27.95% 10.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 45 14
10th Percentile - £347 £131
25th Percentile £400 £413 £139
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £476 £515 £305
Median % change year-on-year -7.52% +68.85% -49.17%
75th Percentile £575 £590 £513
90th Percentile £600 £626 £535
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £475 £515 £305
% change year-on-year -7.77% +68.85% -49.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 3
10th Percentile £49.90 - -
25th Percentile £55.00 - £46.25
Median hourly rate £60.00 - £47.50
75th Percentile - - £48.75
90th Percentile £68.00 - -
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £60.00 - £47.50

Ansible
Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

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

Ansible job vacancy trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

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Daily Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Ansible.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Ansible

Ansible
Daily Rate Histogram in Newcastle upon Tyne

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ansible in Newcastle upon Tyne over the 6 months to 25 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Ansible in Newcastle upon Tyne

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne 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 (9.09%) CMS
1 1 (9.09%) Documentum
Cloud Services
1 10 (90.91%) AWS
2 6 (54.55%) Azure
3 3 (27.27%) Amazon EKS
3 3 (27.27%) GCP
4 2 (18.18%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (18.18%) Amazon S3
4 2 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (18.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (9.09%) Azure AKS
5 1 (9.09%) GitHub
5 1 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (9.09%) OpenShift
5 1 (9.09%) Power Platform
5 1 (9.09%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Power BI
1 1 (9.09%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (81.82%) GitLab
2 4 (36.36%) Jenkins
3 1 (9.09%) Artifactory
3 1 (9.09%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 3 (27.27%) Public Sector
2 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Developer
2 2 (18.18%) Lead
2 2 (18.18%) Lead Test Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Senior
2 2 (18.18%) Senior DevOps
2 2 (18.18%) Senior DevOps Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Test Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Architect
3 1 (9.09%) AWS Developer
3 1 (9.09%) DevOps Platform Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Full-Stack Python Developer
3 1 (9.09%) JavaScript Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Linux Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Python Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (27.27%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (18.18%) Gherkin
3 1 (9.09%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Data Centre
2 1 (9.09%) AI Agents
2 1 (9.09%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 6 (54.55%) Linux
2 4 (36.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (81.82%) CI/CD
1 9 (81.82%) DevOps
2 7 (63.64%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (36.36%) Observability
4 3 (27.27%) Mentoring
4 3 (27.27%) Test Automation
5 2 (18.18%) Agile
5 2 (18.18%) Coaching
5 2 (18.18%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 2 (18.18%) End-to-End Testing
5 2 (18.18%) Platform Engineering
5 2 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (18.18%) Technical Leadership
5 2 (18.18%) Test Strategy
6 1 (9.09%) Containerisation
6 1 (9.09%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
6 1 (9.09%) Full-Stack Development
6 1 (9.09%) LLM
6 1 (9.09%) MLOps
6 1 (9.09%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (63.64%) Bash
2 6 (54.55%) Python
3 3 (27.27%) JavaScript
4 1 (9.09%) Groovy
4 1 (9.09%) Java
4 1 (9.09%) Rust
4 1 (9.09%) Scala
4 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (72.73%) SC Cleared
1 8 (72.73%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) AWS Certification
2 1 (9.09%) Azure Certification
2 1 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (9.09%) Tableau Certification
System Software
1 6 (54.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (100.00%) Terraform
2 9 (81.82%) Kubernetes
3 4 (36.36%) Grafana
4 3 (27.27%) Prometheus
5 2 (18.18%) Packer
6 1 (9.09%) Argo
6 1 (9.09%) Istio
6 1 (9.09%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Dynatrace
2 1 (9.09%) Databricks
2 1 (9.09%) Google
2 1 (9.09%) Red Hat