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 1 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 81 105
Rank change year-on-year +26 +24 -63
Contract jobs citing Ansible 177 84 98
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 4.40% 2.05% 1.92%
As % of the Systems Management category 22.93% 14.89% 12.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 46 64
10th Percentile £358 £440 £433
25th Percentile £425 £476 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £548
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +0.46% -0.45%
75th Percentile £596 £622 £594
90th Percentile £650 £641 £675
England median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -0.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £61.63
25th Percentile - £82.50 £62.19
Median hourly rate - £85.00 £63.75
Median % change year-on-year - +33.33% -
75th Percentile - £87.50 £64.69
90th Percentile - - £64.88
England median hourly rate £48.00 £74.00 £76.53
% change year-on-year -35.14% -3.31% +4.84%

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 772 564 761
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 19.19% 13.75% 14.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 524 348 511
10th Percentile £250 £259 £313
25th Percentile £367 £379 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £493 £513
Median % change year-on-year -3.65% -3.80% -2.38%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £593
90th Percentile £637 £645 £675
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 11 47
10th Percentile £15.50 £24.18 £18.20
25th Percentile £16.91 £27.88 £40.11
Median hourly rate £20.65 £46.18 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year -55.28% - +108.58%
75th Percentile £63.49 £47.47 £46.53
90th Percentile £85.55 £87.50 £75.82
England median hourly rate £35.00 £38.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -7.89% -27.62% +119.57%

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 1 October 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 1 October 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 +26 110 £500 -12.09% 15
North West +4 48 £525 - 19
North East 0 19 £520 -5.45% 10
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 17 (9.60%) Confluence
2 8 (4.52%) Apache
3 7 (3.95%) Apache Spark
4 4 (2.26%) JBoss
5 3 (1.69%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.69%) Documentum
6 2 (1.13%) CICS
6 2 (1.13%) FileNet
6 2 (1.13%) Tomcat
6 2 (1.13%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.56%) CMS
7 1 (0.56%) IIS
7 1 (0.56%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 71 (40.11%) AWS
2 41 (23.16%) GCP
3 26 (14.69%) Serverless
4 25 (14.12%) Azure
5 13 (7.34%) AWS CloudFormation
6 12 (6.78%) Amazon EC2
6 12 (6.78%) GitHub
7 10 (5.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 10 (5.65%) Amazon S3
8 9 (5.08%) OpenShift
9 7 (3.95%) AWS Lambda
9 7 (3.95%) CloudBees
9 7 (3.95%) GitHub Actions
9 7 (3.95%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 6 (3.39%) Amazon SQS
11 5 (2.82%) Amazon ELB
12 4 (2.26%) Amazon ECS
12 4 (2.26%) Amazon EKS
12 4 (2.26%) Azure DevOps
12 4 (2.26%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 36 (20.34%) Firewall
2 30 (16.95%) TCP/IP
3 17 (9.60%) SSL
4 16 (9.04%) DNS
5 9 (5.08%) Wireshark
6 8 (4.52%) VPN
7 6 (3.39%) BIG-IP
7 6 (3.39%) HTTP
8 5 (2.82%) DMZ
8 5 (2.82%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 5 (2.82%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 5 (2.82%) SD-WAN
9 4 (2.26%) NAS
9 4 (2.26%) Network Security
9 4 (2.26%) SAN
10 3 (1.69%) Ethernet
10 3 (1.69%) WAN
11 2 (1.13%) Cisco Nexus
11 2 (1.13%) LAN
11 2 (1.13%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (12.43%) NoSQL
2 20 (11.30%) SQL Server
3 13 (7.34%) Oracle Database
4 8 (4.52%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (2.82%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (2.82%) DynamoDB
6 4 (2.26%) MongoDB
7 3 (1.69%) Apache Hive
7 3 (1.69%) Flink
7 3 (1.69%) Hadoop
7 3 (1.69%) HBase
7 3 (1.69%) Relational Database
8 2 (1.13%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 91 (51.41%) Jenkins
2 53 (29.94%) GitLab
3 52 (29.38%) Git
4 27 (15.25%) JIRA
5 16 (9.04%) Liquibase
5 16 (9.04%) Postman
6 6 (3.39%) Fiddler
7 3 (1.69%) Rational DOORS
7 3 (1.69%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (1.13%) Artifactory
8 2 (1.13%) CircleCI
8 2 (1.13%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.56%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.56%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.56%) Gradle
9 1 (0.56%) Mockito
9 1 (0.56%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.56%) Selenium
9 1 (0.56%) Subversion
9 1 (0.56%) Vagrant
General
1 58 (32.77%) Social Skills
2 47 (26.55%) Finance
3 29 (16.38%) Banking
4 21 (11.86%) Public Sector
5 16 (9.04%) Financial Institution
6 6 (3.39%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (3.39%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (2.82%) Investment Banking
8 4 (2.26%) Legal
8 4 (2.26%) Retail
9 2 (1.13%) Police
10 1 (0.56%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.56%) Law
10 1 (0.56%) Military
10 1 (0.56%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 40 (22.60%) DevOps Engineer
2 38 (21.47%) Senior
3 25 (14.12%) Automation Engineer
4 16 (9.04%) Senior DevOps
5 14 (7.91%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 13 (7.34%) Network Engineer
6 13 (7.34%) Software Engineer
7 11 (6.21%) AWS Engineer
7 11 (6.21%) Python Engineer
7 11 (6.21%) Technical Engineer
8 10 (5.65%) AWS DevOps
8 10 (5.65%) Senior Technical Engineer
9 9 (5.08%) Developer
9 9 (5.08%) Windows Engineer
10 7 (3.95%) Automation Specialist
10 7 (3.95%) Data Protection Engineer
10 7 (3.95%) Lead
10 7 (3.95%) Senior Software Engineer
10 7 (3.95%) Support Specialist
11 6 (3.39%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (12.99%) Elastic Stack
2 17 (9.60%) RESTful
3 15 (8.47%) REST
4 11 (6.21%) Kafka
5 10 (5.65%) FastAPI
6 9 (5.08%) Node.js
7 8 (4.52%) Keycloak
7 8 (4.52%) Middleware
8 6 (3.39%) Spark Streaming
9 3 (1.69%) Apache Beam
9 3 (1.69%) Gherkin
9 3 (1.69%) JDBC
9 3 (1.69%) OpenTelemetry
10 2 (1.13%) AWS CDK
10 2 (1.13%) LDAP
11 1 (0.56%) .NET
11 1 (0.56%) 802.1X
11 1 (0.56%) pytest
11 1 (0.56%) Spring
11 1 (0.56%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 19 (10.73%) Cloud Native
2 17 (9.60%) Public Cloud
3 14 (7.91%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (5.08%) Onboarding
5 7 (3.95%) Data Centre
5 7 (3.95%) Management Information System
5 7 (3.95%) Product Ownership
6 4 (2.26%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (2.26%) PKI
7 3 (1.69%) Clustering
7 3 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.69%) Replication
8 2 (1.13%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 2 (1.13%) Mainframe
9 1 (0.56%) Blockchain
9 1 (0.56%) IBM Mainframe
9 1 (0.56%) IBM XIV
9 1 (0.56%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.56%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 59 (33.33%) Linux
2 23 (12.99%) Windows
3 10 (5.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (3.95%) Unix
5 5 (2.82%) Solaris
6 4 (2.26%) Windows Server
7 3 (1.69%) AIX
7 3 (1.69%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
8 2 (1.13%) VMS
8 2 (1.13%) zOS
9 1 (0.56%) CentOS
9 1 (0.56%) MVS
9 1 (0.56%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.56%) SUSE
9 1 (0.56%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (64.97%) DevOps
2 88 (49.72%) CI/CD
3 68 (38.42%) Agile
4 58 (32.77%) Infrastructure as Code
5 41 (23.16%) Configuration Management
6 38 (21.47%) Infrastructure Automation
7 36 (20.34%) Migration
8 31 (17.51%) Containerisation
9 29 (16.38%) High Availability
9 29 (16.38%) Problem-Solving
10 28 (15.82%) Test Automation
11 22 (12.43%) Cybersecurity
12 20 (11.30%) Continuous Integration
12 20 (11.30%) Microservices
12 20 (11.30%) Root Cause Analysis
12 20 (11.30%) Software Engineering
13 19 (10.73%) Computer Science
13 19 (10.73%) Cost Optimisation
14 17 (9.60%) Scrum
14 17 (9.60%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 142 (80.23%) Python
2 59 (33.33%) Bash
3 28 (15.82%) Shell Script
4 25 (14.12%) Go
4 25 (14.12%) Java
5 19 (10.73%) PowerShell
6 9 (5.08%) SQL
7 8 (4.52%) Perl
8 6 (3.39%) JavaScript
9 3 (1.69%) C++
9 3 (1.69%) Rust
9 3 (1.69%) Search Processing Language
9 3 (1.69%) TypeScript
10 2 (1.13%) Groovy
11 1 (0.56%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 36 (20.34%) Security Cleared
2 31 (17.51%) SC Cleared
3 19 (10.73%) Computer Science Degree
3 19 (10.73%) Degree
4 15 (8.47%) AWS Certification
5 14 (7.91%) Master's Degree
6 11 (6.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (2.26%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 4 (2.26%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.13%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (1.13%) CCNP
8 2 (1.13%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (1.13%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 1 (0.56%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.56%) CCIE
9 1 (0.56%) CCNA
9 1 (0.56%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.95%) Accessibility
2 6 (3.39%) SOC 2
3 5 (2.82%) QA
4 3 (1.69%) GDPR
4 3 (1.69%) HIPAA
4 3 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.69%) NIST
5 2 (1.13%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (1.13%) COBIT
6 1 (0.56%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 43 (24.29%) Docker
2 27 (15.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (5.65%) Oracle RAC
4 7 (3.95%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 7 (3.95%) vSphere
5 6 (3.39%) Active Directory
5 6 (3.39%) VMware NSX
6 3 (1.69%) HDFS
6 3 (1.69%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (1.13%) Hyper-V
7 2 (1.13%) KVM
7 2 (1.13%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.56%) Firmware
8 1 (0.56%) NFS
8 1 (0.56%) SRDF
8 1 (0.56%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.56%) VirtualBox
8 1 (0.56%) Xen
Systems Management
1 85 (48.02%) Terraform
2 59 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 29 (16.38%) Grafana
4 26 (14.69%) Prometheus
4 26 (14.69%) Puppet
5 10 (5.65%) Data Guard
5 10 (5.65%) Microsoft Clustering
5 10 (5.65%) Progress Chef
5 10 (5.65%) yum
6 8 (4.52%) Argo
6 8 (4.52%) Istio
6 8 (4.52%) SCCM
7 7 (3.95%) NetBackup
8 5 (2.82%) Packer
8 5 (2.82%) vCenter Server
9 3 (1.69%) Hadoop YARN
9 3 (1.69%) Podman
9 3 (1.69%) SELinux
9 3 (1.69%) vRealize
10 2 (1.13%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 34 (19.21%) VMware
2 31 (17.51%) Microsoft
3 28 (15.82%) Oracle
4 26 (14.69%) Splunk
5 22 (12.43%) Red Hat
6 18 (10.17%) F5
7 16 (9.04%) MuleSoft
8 15 (8.47%) Google
9 9 (5.08%) Commvault
10 8 (4.52%) Cisco
11 7 (3.95%) CheckPoint
11 7 (3.95%) IBM
11 7 (3.95%) NetApp
11 7 (3.95%) ServiceNow
11 7 (3.95%) Veritas
12 6 (3.39%) Blue Coat
12 6 (3.39%) McAfee
12 6 (3.39%) Palo Alto
13 4 (2.26%) Dynatrace
13 4 (2.26%) Meraki