Ansible Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Ansible
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Ansible skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 46 92 90
Rank change year-on-year +46 -2 -45
Contract jobs citing Ansible 228 73 106
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 4.92% 2.02% 2.26%
As % of the Systems Management category 24.65% 12.59% 15.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 147 39 69
10th Percentile £339 £440 £416
25th Percentile £413 £493 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £573 £525
Median % change year-on-year -14.93% +9.05% -12.50%
75th Percentile £538 £632 £580
90th Percentile £624 £650 £616
England median daily rate £525 £600 £565
% change year-on-year -12.50% +6.19% -9.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 3
10th Percentile - £73.50 -
25th Percentile - £75.00 £61.25
Median hourly rate - £80.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year - +28.00% +17.92%
75th Percentile - £85.00 £64.38
90th Percentile - £86.50 £64.75
England median hourly rate £79.00 £74.22 £68.63
% change year-on-year +6.44% +8.14% -5.98%

All Systems Management Skills
North of 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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 925 580 702
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 19.97% 16.03% 14.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 642 333 492
10th Percentile £300 £250 £270
25th Percentile £399 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.40% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £544 £588 £583
90th Percentile £635 £656 £650
England median daily rate £513 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -4.65% -2.27% -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 13 49
10th Percentile £15.50 £21.67 £17.74
25th Percentile £18.87 £24.18 £21.25
Median hourly rate £50.25 £46.18 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +8.81% - +75.36%
75th Percentile £57.50 - £53.75
90th Percentile £72.13 £75.64 £78.00
England median hourly rate £47.50 £31.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +53.23% -32.87% +37.85%

Ansible
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Ansible job vacancy trend in the North of England

Ansible
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Ansible.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Ansible

Ansible
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ansible in the North of England over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Ansible in the North of England

Ansible
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Ansible.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Ansible

Ansible
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 14 December 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
Yorkshire +36 154 £485 -16.10% 31
North West -4 55 £400 -27.27% 38
North East 0 19 £520 -15.79% 6
Ansible
England

Ansible
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 29 (12.72%) Confluence
2 8 (3.51%) Apache
3 4 (1.75%) JBoss
4 3 (1.32%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.32%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.88%) CICS
5 2 (0.88%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.88%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.44%) CMS
6 1 (0.44%) Documentum
6 1 (0.44%) IIS
6 1 (0.44%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.44%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 6 (2.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 92 (40.35%) AWS
2 63 (27.63%) GCP
3 42 (18.42%) Azure
4 40 (17.54%) OpenShift
5 39 (17.11%) Serverless
6 28 (12.28%) GitHub
7 16 (7.02%) AWS CloudFormation
8 14 (6.14%) Amazon EC2
9 12 (5.26%) Amazon S3
10 11 (4.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 10 (4.39%) Azure DevOps
12 9 (3.95%) CloudBees
12 9 (3.95%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 8 (3.51%) GitHub Actions
14 7 (3.07%) Amazon ELB
15 6 (2.63%) AWS KMS
15 6 (2.63%) AWS Lambda
16 4 (1.75%) Cohesity
16 4 (1.75%) Datadog
17 3 (1.32%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 28 (12.28%) Firewall
2 23 (10.09%) DNS
3 22 (9.65%) SSL
4 21 (9.21%) TCP/IP
5 12 (5.26%) Network Security
5 12 (5.26%) Wireshark
6 11 (4.82%) BIG-IP
7 10 (4.39%) HTTP
8 9 (3.95%) VPN
9 6 (2.63%) DMZ
9 6 (2.63%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 6 (2.63%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 6 (2.63%) SD-WAN
10 5 (2.19%) VSAN
11 4 (1.75%) NAS
11 4 (1.75%) SAN
11 4 (1.75%) WAN
12 3 (1.32%) Ethernet
13 2 (0.88%) LAN
13 2 (0.88%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (14.91%) NoSQL
2 19 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (7.02%) SQL Server
4 10 (4.39%) Oracle Database
5 4 (1.75%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (1.75%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.32%) Apache Hive
6 3 (1.32%) DynamoDB
6 3 (1.32%) Hadoop
6 3 (1.32%) HBase
7 2 (0.88%) MySQL
8 1 (0.44%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.44%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.44%) Power BI
8 1 (0.44%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 109 (47.81%) Jenkins
2 77 (33.77%) GitLab
3 43 (18.86%) Git
4 39 (17.11%) JIRA
5 23 (10.09%) Liquibase
6 13 (5.70%) Sonatype Nexus
7 9 (3.95%) Fiddler
8 4 (1.75%) Postman
9 3 (1.32%) Artifactory
9 3 (1.32%) CircleCI
9 3 (1.32%) Rational DOORS
10 2 (0.88%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.88%) Gradle
10 2 (0.88%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.44%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.44%) Maven
11 1 (0.44%) Mockito
11 1 (0.44%) Robot Framework
11 1 (0.44%) Selenium
11 1 (0.44%) Travis CI
General
1 85 (37.28%) Social Skills
2 55 (24.12%) Finance
3 44 (19.30%) Banking
4 25 (10.96%) Financial Institution
5 22 (9.65%) Public Sector
6 7 (3.07%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (2.19%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.32%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (1.32%) Law
8 3 (1.32%) Legal
8 3 (1.32%) Retail
9 2 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.88%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (0.88%) Police
9 2 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.44%) Military
10 1 (0.44%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 43 (18.86%) DevOps Engineer
2 36 (15.79%) Senior
3 30 (13.16%) Automation Engineer
4 19 (8.33%) Software Engineer
5 18 (7.89%) Network Engineer
6 17 (7.46%) Cloud Engineer
7 15 (6.58%) AWS Engineer
7 15 (6.58%) GCP Engineer
7 15 (6.58%) Senior DevOps
8 14 (6.14%) Developer
8 14 (6.14%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 12 (5.26%) Python Engineer
10 10 (4.39%) Analyst
10 10 (4.39%) Business Analyst
10 10 (4.39%) Senior Software Engineer
10 10 (4.39%) Technical Analyst
10 10 (4.39%) Technical Business Analyst
11 9 (3.95%) Data Protection Engineer
11 9 (3.95%) Lead
12 8 (3.51%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (18.86%) Elastic Stack
2 35 (15.35%) REST
3 33 (14.47%) RESTful
4 11 (4.82%) Node.js
5 10 (4.39%) FastAPI
6 8 (3.51%) Keycloak
7 7 (3.07%) Middleware
8 6 (2.63%) Kafka
9 5 (2.19%) Spring
10 4 (1.75%) OpenTelemetry
11 3 (1.32%) Spark Streaming
11 3 (1.32%) Spring Boot
12 2 (0.88%) ARM Templates
12 2 (0.88%) AWS CDK
12 2 (0.88%) Gherkin
12 2 (0.88%) LDAP
13 1 (0.44%) .NET
13 1 (0.44%) JWT
13 1 (0.44%) Web Services
13 1 (0.44%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 30 (13.16%) Distributed Systems
1 30 (13.16%) Public Cloud
2 27 (11.84%) Cloud Native
3 14 (6.14%) Product Ownership
4 12 (5.26%) Hybrid Cloud
4 12 (5.26%) Onboarding
5 9 (3.95%) Clustering
5 9 (3.95%) Data Centre
5 9 (3.95%) PKI
6 7 (3.07%) Management Information System
7 6 (2.63%) Data Protection Act
7 6 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.75%) Enterprise Storage
9 3 (1.32%) Replication
9 3 (1.32%) Synthetic Data
10 2 (0.88%) Derivative
10 2 (0.88%) Mainframe
10 2 (0.88%) Security Posture
11 1 (0.44%) IBM Mainframe
11 1 (0.44%) RSA SecurID
Operating Systems
1 84 (36.84%) Linux
2 27 (11.84%) Windows
3 7 (3.07%) Windows Server
4 6 (2.63%) VMS
5 5 (2.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (1.32%) Solaris
6 3 (1.32%) Unix
7 2 (0.88%) zOS
8 1 (0.44%) CentOS
8 1 (0.44%) MVS
8 1 (0.44%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 144 (63.16%) DevOps
2 133 (58.33%) CI/CD
3 89 (39.04%) Infrastructure as Code
4 74 (32.46%) Agile
5 58 (25.44%) Containerisation
6 54 (23.68%) Infrastructure Automation
7 52 (22.81%) Migration
8 48 (21.05%) High Availability
9 46 (20.18%) Test Automation
10 41 (17.98%) Root Cause Analysis
11 36 (15.79%) Microservices
12 35 (15.35%) Configuration Management
13 34 (14.91%) Problem-Solving
14 33 (14.47%) Computer Science
14 33 (14.47%) Continuous Integration
15 29 (12.72%) Cybersecurity
16 28 (12.28%) Change Management
16 28 (12.28%) Cryptography
16 28 (12.28%) Software Engineering
17 27 (11.84%) Non-Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 164 (71.93%) Python
2 80 (35.09%) Bash
3 38 (16.67%) Go
4 28 (12.28%) PowerShell
5 26 (11.40%) Java
6 24 (10.53%) Shell Script
7 9 (3.95%) SQL
8 8 (3.51%) Perl
9 7 (3.07%) Groovy
9 7 (3.07%) JavaScript
10 3 (1.32%) C++
10 3 (1.32%) Search Processing Language
10 3 (1.32%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.44%) C#
11 1 (0.44%) Rust
Qualifications
1 39 (17.11%) Security Cleared
2 34 (14.91%) Degree
3 33 (14.47%) Computer Science Degree
4 30 (13.16%) SC Cleared
5 28 (12.28%) Master's Degree
6 13 (5.70%) AWS Certification
7 9 (3.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (1.75%) Azure Certification
8 4 (1.75%) CISM
8 4 (1.75%) CISSP
8 4 (1.75%) OCP
8 4 (1.75%) Oracle Certification
9 3 (1.32%) AWS Certified Developer
9 3 (1.32%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 3 (1.32%) CCNP
9 3 (1.32%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.88%) CCIE
11 1 (0.44%) CCIE Data Center
11 1 (0.44%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.07%) Accessibility
2 6 (2.63%) QA
3 3 (1.32%) HIPAA
3 3 (1.32%) SOC 2
4 2 (0.88%) COBIT
5 1 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.44%) GDPR
5 1 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.44%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 57 (25.00%) Docker
2 18 (7.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (5.26%) Active Directory
3 12 (5.26%) VMware NSX
4 10 (4.39%) Hyper-V
4 10 (4.39%) Oracle RAC
4 10 (4.39%) vSphere
5 8 (3.51%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (1.75%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (1.32%) HDFS
7 3 (1.32%) KVM
8 1 (0.44%) Ceph
8 1 (0.44%) Firmware
8 1 (0.44%) NFS
8 1 (0.44%) QEMU
8 1 (0.44%) SRDF
8 1 (0.44%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 1 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.44%) Xen
Systems Management
1 137 (60.09%) Terraform
2 91 (39.91%) Kubernetes
3 51 (22.37%) Grafana
4 47 (20.61%) Prometheus
5 17 (7.46%) Puppet
6 13 (5.70%) Argo
6 13 (5.70%) NetBackup
7 10 (4.39%) Data Guard
7 10 (4.39%) yum
8 9 (3.95%) Istio
8 9 (3.95%) Microsoft Clustering
9 8 (3.51%) Progress Chef
10 7 (3.07%) vCenter Server
11 6 (2.63%) Nagios
11 6 (2.63%) Packer
11 6 (2.63%) Podman
11 6 (2.63%) SCCM
12 3 (1.32%) Hadoop YARN
12 3 (1.32%) SELinux
12 3 (1.32%) vRealize
Vendors
1 40 (17.54%) Splunk
2 31 (13.60%) VMware
3 30 (13.16%) Microsoft
4 28 (12.28%) Red Hat
5 26 (11.40%) F5
6 22 (9.65%) Google
7 18 (7.89%) Oracle
8 13 (5.70%) Commvault
9 10 (4.39%) Blue Coat
9 10 (4.39%) Cisco
9 10 (4.39%) McAfee
9 10 (4.39%) Palo Alto
10 9 (3.95%) CheckPoint
10 9 (3.95%) Veritas
11 8 (3.51%) NetApp
12 7 (3.07%) ServiceNow
12 7 (3.07%) Sonatype
13 6 (2.63%) Dell
13 6 (2.63%) IBM
13 6 (2.63%) SolarWinds