Ansible Contract Job Trends in Northern Ireland

Ansible
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Northern Ireland requiring Ansible skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Ansible 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Northern Ireland 1.32% - -
As % of the Systems Management category 17.65% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £378 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £385 - -
75th Percentile £393 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%

All Systems Management Skills
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 17 17 5
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 7.49% 8.95% 2.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 13 1
10th Percentile £378 £161 -
25th Percentile £402 £200 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £325 £200
Median % change year-on-year +46.15% +62.50% -50.00%
75th Percentile £514 £470 -
90th Percentile £545 £554 -
UK median daily rate £513 £513 £515
% change year-on-year - -0.50% -6.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £25.75 - -
Median hourly rate £26.50 - -
75th Percentile £27.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £37.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year +46.67% +15.38% -43.48%

Ansible
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Ansible job vacancy trend in Northern Ireland

Ansible
Daily Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Ansible.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Ansible

Ansible
Contract Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Ansible within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 20 June 2026. 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
County Antrim - 2 - - 10
County Armagh - 1 £385 -
Ansible
UK

Ansible
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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:

Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (33.33%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) GCP
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) OpenShift
2 1 (33.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco Wireless
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) Internet
1 1 (33.33%) Kerberos
1 1 (33.33%) LAN
1 1 (33.33%) MPLS
1 1 (33.33%) SD-WAN
1 1 (33.33%) SNA
1 1 (33.33%) WAN
1 1 (33.33%) Wireless
1 1 (33.33%) WLAN
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Network Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Senior
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Native
1 2 (66.67%) Public Cloud
2 1 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) Code Quality
1 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Architecture Governance
2 1 (33.33%) Change Control
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
2 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven
2 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 1 (33.33%) Microservices
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) SDLC
2 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) Go
3 1 (33.33%) Bash
3 1 (33.33%) Java
3 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) CCNP
1 1 (33.33%) CCSP
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (33.33%) FortiGate
2 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco
1 1 (33.33%) Fortinet
1 1 (33.33%) Google