Ansible Contract Job Trends in Oxfordshire

Ansible
South East > Oxfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Oxfordshire requiring Ansible skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 15 16
Rank change year-on-year -9 +1 +8
Contract jobs citing Ansible 5 4 11
As % of all contract jobs in Oxfordshire 3.13% 2.92% 5.29%
As % of the Systems Management category 16.67% 40.00% 42.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 10
10th Percentile - - £548
25th Percentile £513 - £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -16.67% +20.00%
75th Percentile £538 - £663
90th Percentile - - £675
South East median daily rate £525 £550 £580
% change year-on-year -4.55% -5.17% +2.07%

All Systems Management Skills
Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 30 10 26
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 18.75% 7.30% 12.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 8 21
10th Percentile £166 £369 £413
25th Percentile £178 £444 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £225 £488 £600
Median % change year-on-year -53.85% -18.75% +23.72%
75th Percentile £333 £500 £650
90th Percentile £569 £508 £675
South East median daily rate £483 £500 £538
% change year-on-year -3.50% -6.98% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £34.20 - -
25th Percentile £48.00 - -
Median hourly rate £77.00 - -
75th Percentile £86.32 - -
90th Percentile £88.30 - -
South East median hourly rate £22.50 £34.00 £48.40
% change year-on-year -33.82% -29.75% +42.35%

Ansible
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Ansible job vacancy trend in Oxfordshire

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Daily Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing Ansible.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing Ansible

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Hourly Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing Ansible.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing Ansible

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Contract Job Locations in Oxfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Ansible within the Oxfordshire region over the 6 months to 3 November 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
Banbury - 4 - -
Oxford - 1 £525 - 2
Ansible
South East

Ansible
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Oxfordshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) AWS
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
1 5 (100.00%) GCP
2 1 (20.00%) Pulumi
Job Titles
1 1 (20.00%) Architect
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Consultant
1 1 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Splunk Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Linux
1 4 (80.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
2 4 (80.00%) Capacity Planning
2 4 (80.00%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (80.00%) Data Ingestion
2 4 (80.00%) Data Modelling
2 4 (80.00%) Mentoring
2 4 (80.00%) Performance Tuning
2 4 (80.00%) Security Monitoring
2 4 (80.00%) SIEM
2 4 (80.00%) Visualisation
3 1 (20.00%) Agile
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Operations
3 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Bash
1 5 (100.00%) Python
2 4 (80.00%) PowerShell
2 4 (80.00%) Search Processing Language
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (80.00%) HIPAA
1 4 (80.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Splunk