Ansible Contract Job Trends in Portsmouth

Ansible
Hampshire > Portsmouth

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Portsmouth requiring Ansible skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 23 -
Rank change year-on-year +1 - -
Contract jobs citing Ansible 10 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Portsmouth 4.05% 1.67% -
As % of the Systems Management category 40.00% 25.00% -
Number of daily rates quoted 9 2 0
10th Percentile - £470 -
25th Percentile £416 £479 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £514 -
Median % change year-on-year -0.29% - -
75th Percentile £538 £554 -
90th Percentile - £567 -
Hampshire median daily rate £548 £575 £450
% change year-on-year -4.78% +27.78% -10.00%

All Systems Management Skills
Portsmouth

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 Portsmouth.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 25 8 8
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Portsmouth 10.12% 6.67% 2.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 6 6
10th Percentile £416 £281 £406
25th Percentile £461 £400 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £438 £460
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -4.89% -8.00%
75th Percentile £565 £491 £539
90th Percentile £625 £534 £560
Hampshire median daily rate £550 £550 £470
% change year-on-year - +17.02% -13.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £44.86 - -
Median hourly rate £48.72 - -
75th Percentile £52.58 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Hampshire median hourly rate £43.75 £19.97 £15.00
% change year-on-year +119.08% +33.13% -73.59%

Ansible
Job Vacancy Trend in Portsmouth

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

Ansible job vacancy trend in Portsmouth

Ansible
Daily Rate Trend in Portsmouth

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Portsmouth citing Ansible

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Portsmouth 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 7 (70.00%) AWS
2 6 (60.00%) GitHub
2 6 (60.00%) OpenShift
3 5 (50.00%) Azure
3 5 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (80.00%) PostgreSQL
1 8 (80.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 7 (70.00%) GitLab
General
1 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (80.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Administrator
2 2 (20.00%) Systems Administrator
3 1 (10.00%) Linux Administrator
3 1 (10.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (80.00%) Kafka
1 8 (80.00%) Keycloak
2 3 (30.00%) YAML
3 1 (10.00%) Elastic Stack
Operating Systems
1 5 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) CI/CD
1 8 (80.00%) Containerisation
1 8 (80.00%) DevOps
1 8 (80.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 7 (70.00%) GitOps
2 7 (70.00%) Observability
2 7 (70.00%) Platform Engineering
3 4 (40.00%) DevSecOps
3 4 (40.00%) SBOM
4 2 (20.00%) Agile
4 2 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (10.00%) Immutable Infrastructure
5 1 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (10.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 9 (90.00%) Python
2 8 (80.00%) Bash
3 2 (20.00%) C++
3 2 (20.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 10 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 10 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (40.00%) NCSC
2 2 (20.00%) JSP 440
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Docker
1 2 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (80.00%) Grafana
1 8 (80.00%) Kubernetes
1 8 (80.00%) Prometheus
1 8 (80.00%) Terraform
2 7 (70.00%) Argo
3 5 (50.00%) Istio
3 5 (50.00%) linkerd
4 2 (20.00%) Rancher
5 1 (10.00%) Packer
Vendors
1 8 (80.00%) Splunk
2 7 (70.00%) VMware
3 5 (50.00%) Red Hat
4 2 (20.00%) F5