Ansible Contracts in the North West

Ansible
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 90 82 46
Rank change year-on-year -8 -36 +18
Contract jobs citing Ansible 30 55 141
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.52% 2.00% 4.41%
As % of the Systems Management category 9.77% 18.77% 26.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 42 110
10th Percentile £453 £451 £424
25th Percentile £463 £505 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £573 £533 £588
Median % change year-on-year +7.51% -9.36% +5.86%
75th Percentile £647 £575 £650
90th Percentile £715 £583 £688
England median daily rate £575 £550 £623
% change year-on-year +4.55% -11.65% +4.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £55.00 -
England median hourly rate £71.85 £62.50 £73.00
% change year-on-year +14.96% -14.38% +26.96%

All Systems Management Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 307 293 525
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 15.60% 10.64% 16.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 206 217 377
10th Percentile £250 £231 £325
25th Percentile £382 £375 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £548 £584 £626
90th Percentile £638 £650 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £575
% change year-on-year - -8.70% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 16 45
10th Percentile £45.45 £16.67 £16.85
25th Percentile £51.38 - £22.13
Median hourly rate £62.50 £17.72 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +252.71% -40.93% +50.00%
75th Percentile £74.50 £58.44 £49.52
90th Percentile £80.95 £91.25 £65.00
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 North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Ansible in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Ansible in the North West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for Ansible in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Ansible in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for Ansible in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West 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
Cheshire 0 14 £573 +9.05% 6
Manchester +3 11 £513 -6.82% 39
Merseyside +5 3 £625 - 2
Cumbria -9 2 - -
Ansible
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (6.67%) IIS
2 1 (3.33%) Documentum
2 1 (3.33%) FileNet
Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (3.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (3.33%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 13 (43.33%) AWS
2 9 (30.00%) Azure
3 5 (16.67%) OpenShift
4 4 (13.33%) GCP
5 3 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (6.67%) Amazon S3
6 2 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (6.67%) Entra ID
6 2 (6.67%) Nutanix
6 2 (6.67%) Serverless
6 2 (6.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (3.33%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (3.33%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (3.33%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (3.33%) Cloudflare
7 1 (3.33%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 7 (23.33%) Firewall
2 4 (13.33%) DNS
3 3 (10.00%) DHCP
4 2 (6.67%) Kerberos
4 2 (6.67%) NAS
4 2 (6.67%) Network Security
4 2 (6.67%) SAN
4 2 (6.67%) VPN
4 2 (6.67%) WAN
5 1 (3.33%) BGP
5 1 (3.33%) Cisco IOS
5 1 (3.33%) DMZ
5 1 (3.33%) DWDM
5 1 (3.33%) Internet
5 1 (3.33%) L2TP
5 1 (3.33%) MPLS
5 1 (3.33%) OSPF
5 1 (3.33%) SSH
5 1 (3.33%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (3.33%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (13.33%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.33%) MongoDB
3 1 (3.33%) NoSQL
3 1 (3.33%) Power BI
3 1 (3.33%) Relational Database
3 1 (3.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (36.67%) GitLab
2 8 (26.67%) Jenkins
3 5 (16.67%) Git
4 4 (13.33%) JIRA
5 1 (3.33%) Maven
General
1 8 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 6 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (10.00%) Banking
3 3 (10.00%) Finance
3 3 (10.00%) Public Sector
4 2 (6.67%) Legal
4 2 (6.67%) Military
5 1 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (23.33%) Senior
2 4 (13.33%) Automation Engineer
2 4 (13.33%) Developer
2 4 (13.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (13.33%) Senior Automation Engineer
3 3 (10.00%) Architect
3 3 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (10.00%) Linux Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) Automation Developer
4 2 (6.67%) AWS Architect
4 2 (6.67%) AWS Solution Architect
4 2 (6.67%) Lead
4 2 (6.67%) Principal DevOps Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) Principal Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) Python Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (6.67%) Unix Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) Senior DevOps
5 1 (3.33%) Service Management Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (20.00%) Kafka
2 2 (6.67%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (6.67%) LDAP
3 1 (3.33%) 802.1X
3 1 (3.33%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 5 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 3 (10.00%) Clustering
2 3 (10.00%) Onboarding
3 2 (6.67%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (6.67%) Public Cloud
4 1 (3.33%) Blockchain
4 1 (3.33%) Data Centre
4 1 (3.33%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.33%) Private Cloud
4 1 (3.33%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 11 (36.67%) Linux
2 4 (13.33%) CentOS
2 4 (13.33%) Windows
2 4 (13.33%) Windows Server
3 2 (6.67%) AIX
3 2 (6.67%) HPUX
3 2 (6.67%) Solaris
3 2 (6.67%) Ubuntu
3 2 (6.67%) Unix
3 2 (6.67%) VMS
3 2 (6.67%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (3.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 15 (50.00%) DevOps
2 12 (40.00%) Configuration Management
3 9 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (26.67%) Task Automation
5 7 (23.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 7 (23.33%) Migration
5 7 (23.33%) Technical Leadership
6 6 (20.00%) Agile
6 6 (20.00%) Containerisation
6 6 (20.00%) Data Migration
6 6 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
6 6 (20.00%) Microservices
6 6 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 6 (20.00%) Validation
7 5 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (16.67%) Data Ingestion
7 5 (16.67%) High Availability
7 5 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 4 (13.33%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 20 (66.67%) Python
2 14 (46.67%) Bash
3 6 (20.00%) PowerShell
4 5 (16.67%) SQL
5 4 (13.33%) Java
5 4 (13.33%) Perl
6 2 (6.67%) Shell Script
7 1 (3.33%) R
7 1 (3.33%) Rust
Qualifications
1 5 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 3 (10.00%) CCNP
2 3 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (10.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (6.67%) CCNA
3 2 (6.67%) Degree
4 1 (3.33%) AWS Certification
4 1 (3.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (3.33%) CCIE
4 1 (3.33%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (3.33%) Master's Degree
4 1 (3.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.67%) PCI DSS
2 1 (3.33%) COBIT
2 1 (3.33%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.33%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (13.33%) Active Directory
1 4 (13.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (10.00%) Docker
3 2 (6.67%) KVM
3 2 (6.67%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (6.67%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 15 (50.00%) Terraform
2 13 (43.33%) Kubernetes
3 11 (36.67%) Progress Chef
4 6 (20.00%) Puppet
5 4 (13.33%) Grafana
5 4 (13.33%) Prometheus
5 4 (13.33%) ZABBIX
6 2 (6.67%) Graylog
6 2 (6.67%) Nagios
7 1 (3.33%) Packer
Vendors
1 6 (20.00%) Fortinet
1 6 (20.00%) Oracle
1 6 (20.00%) ServiceNow
2 5 (16.67%) Infoblox
2 5 (16.67%) VMware
3 4 (13.33%) Red Hat
4 3 (10.00%) Cisco
5 2 (6.67%) Dell
5 2 (6.67%) HP
5 2 (6.67%) IBM
5 2 (6.67%) SolarWinds
5 2 (6.67%) Splunk
6 1 (3.33%) Arista
6 1 (3.33%) BMC
6 1 (3.33%) McAfee
6 1 (3.33%) Remedy