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 28 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 93 83 76
Rank change year-on-year -10 -7 -34
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Ansible 42 41 71
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.90% 1.68% 2.49%
As % of the Systems Management category 14.00% 15.83% 15.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 29 52
10th Percentile £350 £440 £450
25th Percentile £463 £488 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £515 £556
Median % change year-on-year +16.46% -7.38% -3.26%
75th Percentile £650 £565 £594
90th Percentile £719 £650 £661
England median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £61.63
25th Percentile - - £62.19
Median hourly rate - - £63.75
75th Percentile - - £64.69
90th Percentile - - £64.88
England median hourly rate £59.25 £74.00 £74.50
% change year-on-year -19.93% -0.67% -1.97%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 300 259 467
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 13.59% 10.63% 16.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 207 180 315
10th Percentile £264 £213 £325
25th Percentile £350 £372 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £458 £484 £513
Median % change year-on-year -5.43% -5.61% -2.38%
75th Percentile £557 £575 £585
90th Percentile £652 £650 £675
England median daily rate £508 £525 £560
% change year-on-year -3.33% -6.25% -2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 6 46
10th Percentile - £27.88 £17.00
25th Percentile £18.87 £33.67 £20.60
Median hourly rate £63.40 £46.18 £46.03
Median % change year-on-year +37.29% +0.33% +134.37%
75th Percentile £71.56 £48.11 £46.70
90th Percentile £85.18 £76.38 £64.38
England median hourly rate £52.50 £36.17 £49.87
% change year-on-year +45.17% -27.47% +116.80%

Ansible
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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Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

Ansible
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ansible in the North West over the 6 months to 28 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Ansible in the North West

Ansible
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

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DemandTrendContract 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 28 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Manchester -4 22 £650 +18.18% 10
Cheshire -4 15 £475 -9.09% 3
Merseyside - 3 £300 -
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 3 (7.14%) Apache
1 3 (7.14%) JBoss
2 1 (2.38%) Documentum
2 1 (2.38%) FileNet
2 1 (2.38%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (2.38%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (2.38%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (2.38%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 12 (28.57%) AWS
2 6 (14.29%) Azure
3 5 (11.90%) GCP
4 2 (4.76%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (4.76%) Serverless
5 1 (2.38%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (2.38%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (2.38%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (2.38%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.38%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (2.38%) OpenShift
5 1 (2.38%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 7 (16.67%) Firewall
2 6 (14.29%) SSL
3 3 (7.14%) DMZ
3 3 (7.14%) DNS
3 3 (7.14%) TCP/IP
4 2 (4.76%) BIG-IP
4 2 (4.76%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 2 (4.76%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 2 (4.76%) HTTP
4 2 (4.76%) VSAN
4 2 (4.76%) WAN
4 2 (4.76%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (4.76%) Wireshark
5 1 (2.38%) Cisco IOS
5 1 (2.38%) LAN
5 1 (2.38%) Multicast
5 1 (2.38%) Network Security
5 1 (2.38%) VLAN
5 1 (2.38%) VoIP
5 1 (2.38%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (19.05%) SQL Server
2 4 (9.52%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (7.14%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.38%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.38%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.38%) Power BI
4 1 (2.38%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (26.19%) GitLab
1 11 (26.19%) Jenkins
2 9 (21.43%) Git
3 8 (19.05%) JIRA
4 3 (7.14%) Rational DOORS
5 2 (4.76%) Fiddler
6 1 (2.38%) Artifactory
6 1 (2.38%) Bitbucket
6 1 (2.38%) Gradle
6 1 (2.38%) JUnit
6 1 (2.38%) Mockito
6 1 (2.38%) Robot Framework
General
1 17 (40.48%) Social Skills
2 11 (26.19%) Finance
3 5 (11.90%) Banking
3 5 (11.90%) Public Sector
4 4 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (4.76%) Investment Banking
5 2 (4.76%) Legal
5 2 (4.76%) Military
5 2 (4.76%) Retail
6 1 (2.38%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.38%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (16.67%) Automation Specialist
1 7 (16.67%) Support Specialist
2 5 (11.90%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 4 (9.52%) Network Engineer
3 4 (9.52%) Software Engineer
4 3 (7.14%) Architect
4 3 (7.14%) Automation Engineer
4 3 (7.14%) Developer
4 3 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (7.14%) Python Engineer
4 3 (7.14%) Senior
5 2 (4.76%) AWS Architect
5 2 (4.76%) AWS Engineer
5 2 (4.76%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (4.76%) AWS Solution Architect
5 2 (4.76%) Junior Network Engineer
5 2 (4.76%) Senior DevOps
5 2 (4.76%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 2 (4.76%) VMware Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (16.67%) Kafka
2 3 (7.14%) Node.js
3 2 (4.76%) AWS CDK
4 1 (2.38%) .NET
4 1 (2.38%) 802.1X
4 1 (2.38%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (2.38%) Middleware
4 1 (2.38%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (2.38%) pytest
4 1 (2.38%) Spring
4 1 (2.38%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.52%) Hybrid Cloud
1 4 (9.52%) Onboarding
2 3 (7.14%) Cloud Native
2 3 (7.14%) Management Information System
2 3 (7.14%) PKI
3 2 (4.76%) Data Centre
3 2 (4.76%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.38%) Blockchain
4 1 (2.38%) Clustering
4 1 (2.38%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (2.38%) IBM XIV
4 1 (2.38%) Private Cloud
4 1 (2.38%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 7 (16.67%) Linux
2 3 (7.14%) Windows
3 1 (2.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (54.76%) DevOps
2 20 (47.62%) CI/CD
3 12 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
4 11 (26.19%) Agile
4 11 (26.19%) Configuration Management
5 9 (21.43%) Migration
5 9 (21.43%) Test Automation
6 7 (16.67%) Business Process Analysis
6 7 (16.67%) Risk Management
6 7 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 7 (16.67%) Translating Business Requirements
7 6 (14.29%) Containerisation
7 6 (14.29%) Data Migration
7 6 (14.29%) Infrastructure Automation
7 6 (14.29%) Security Hardening
7 6 (14.29%) Validation
8 5 (11.90%) DevSecOps
8 5 (11.90%) Process Improvement
8 5 (11.90%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 5 (11.90%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 25 (59.52%) Python
2 9 (21.43%) Bash
3 7 (16.67%) Java
4 6 (14.29%) SQL
5 5 (11.90%) PowerShell
6 3 (7.14%) C++
6 3 (7.14%) Perl
7 2 (4.76%) Go
7 2 (4.76%) Shell Script
7 2 (4.76%) TypeScript
8 1 (2.38%) R
8 1 (2.38%) Rust
Qualifications
1 11 (26.19%) Security Cleared
2 9 (21.43%) SC Cleared
3 5 (11.90%) Degree
4 4 (9.52%) Azure Certification
5 3 (7.14%) CCNP
5 3 (7.14%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (4.76%) AWS Certification
6 2 (4.76%) CCNA
6 2 (4.76%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (2.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (2.38%) CCIE
7 1 (2.38%) Master's Degree
7 1 (2.38%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (16.67%) Accessibility
2 3 (7.14%) QA
3 1 (2.38%) COBIT
3 1 (2.38%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.38%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (11.90%) Docker
2 3 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (7.14%) vSphere
3 2 (4.76%) VMware NSX
4 1 (2.38%) Active Directory
4 1 (2.38%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 16 (38.10%) Terraform
2 14 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 6 (14.29%) Progress Chef
4 3 (7.14%) Podman
4 3 (7.14%) SELinux
5 2 (4.76%) Packer
5 2 (4.76%) PowerCLI
5 2 (4.76%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (2.38%) Grafana
6 1 (2.38%) Prometheus
6 1 (2.38%) SCCM
6 1 (2.38%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 11 (26.19%) ServiceNow
2 8 (19.05%) Oracle
3 5 (11.90%) VMware
4 4 (9.52%) Fortinet
4 4 (9.52%) IBM
4 4 (9.52%) Microsoft
5 3 (7.14%) Infoblox
5 3 (7.14%) McAfee
6 2 (4.76%) Blue Coat
6 2 (4.76%) Cisco
6 2 (4.76%) F5
6 2 (4.76%) NetApp
6 2 (4.76%) Splunk
7 1 (2.38%) Arista
7 1 (2.38%) BMC
7 1 (2.38%) Citrix
7 1 (2.38%) Dynatrace
7 1 (2.38%) InterSystems
7 1 (2.38%) Red Hat
7 1 (2.38%) Remedy