Ansible Contract Job Trends in Reading

Ansible
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Reading requiring Ansible skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 59 62
Rank change year-on-year +5 +3 -13
Contract jobs citing Ansible 25 32 26
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 3.45% 3.08% 2.53%
As % of the Systems Management category 20.83% 28.32% 17.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 21 16
10th Percentile £430 £394 £519
25th Percentile £500 £520 £540
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% -3.85% +13.04%
75th Percentile £704 £700 £738
90th Percentile £771 - £750
Berkshire median daily rate £492 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -21.28% -3.85% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £72.40 - -
25th Percentile £76.00 - -
Median hourly rate £82.00 - -
75th Percentile £84.00 - -
90th Percentile £85.20 - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £82.00 - -

All Systems Management Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 120 113 146
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 16.55% 10.89% 14.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 78 127
10th Percentile £255 £400 £205
25th Percentile £411 £475 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £600 £650 £618
90th Percentile £646 £700 £693
Berkshire median daily rate £475 £520 £468
% change year-on-year -8.65% +11.11% -10.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile £59.50 - -
25th Percentile £66.25 - -
Median hourly rate £78.50 - £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +18.18%
75th Percentile £83.00 - -
90th Percentile £84.80 - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £20.00 - £49.73
% change year-on-year - - -9.58%

Ansible
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Ansible job vacancy trend in Reading

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Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Ansible

Ansible
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ansible in Reading over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Ansible in Reading

Ansible
Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Ansible

Ansible
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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:

Application Platforms
1 12 (48.00%) OpenStack
2 2 (8.00%) Appian
3 1 (4.00%) Apache
Applications
1 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (8.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (8.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 17 (68.00%) AWS
2 11 (44.00%) Azure
3 6 (24.00%) OpenShift
4 4 (16.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (12.00%) GCP
6 2 (8.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 2 (8.00%) IaaS
6 2 (8.00%) PaaS
6 2 (8.00%) Tricentis Tosca
7 1 (4.00%) Datadog
7 1 (4.00%) GitHub
7 1 (4.00%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 14 (56.00%) BGP
1 14 (56.00%) MPLS
1 14 (56.00%) WAN
2 12 (48.00%) LAN
3 8 (32.00%) SNMP
3 8 (32.00%) TACACS
4 6 (24.00%) OSPF
4 6 (24.00%) TCP/IP
4 6 (24.00%) Wireless
5 5 (20.00%) Firewall
6 4 (16.00%) DHCP
6 4 (16.00%) DNS
7 1 (4.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.00%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (4.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (4.00%) MySQL
2 1 (4.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (4.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 5 (20.00%) GitLab
2 2 (8.00%) Cucumber
2 2 (8.00%) Git
2 2 (8.00%) Robot Framework
2 2 (8.00%) Selenium
2 2 (8.00%) SonarQube
3 1 (4.00%) Artifactory
3 1 (4.00%) Cypress.io
3 1 (4.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (4.00%) Mocha
General
1 14 (56.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (24.00%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (12.00%) Telecoms
4 2 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (4.00%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 8 (32.00%) IP Specialist
2 6 (24.00%) Architect
2 6 (24.00%) Designer
2 6 (24.00%) IP Architect
2 6 (24.00%) IP Designer
3 4 (16.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (16.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (16.00%) Senior
3 4 (16.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Head of Development
5 1 (4.00%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (40.00%) NETCONF
2 9 (36.00%) YANG
3 7 (28.00%) REST
4 4 (16.00%) Jinja
5 2 (8.00%) JSON
5 2 (8.00%) Kafka
5 2 (8.00%) OpenConfig
5 2 (8.00%) RESTCONF
5 2 (8.00%) XML
6 1 (4.00%) Apache NiFi
6 1 (4.00%) Fastify
6 1 (4.00%) GraphQL
6 1 (4.00%) Jest
6 1 (4.00%) Node.js
6 1 (4.00%) OAuth
6 1 (4.00%) OAuth2
6 1 (4.00%) OpenAPI
6 1 (4.00%) OpenID
6 1 (4.00%) RESTful
6 1 (4.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (56.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 8 (32.00%) Data Centre
3 7 (28.00%) Cloud Native
4 4 (16.00%) PKI
5 2 (8.00%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (8.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (24.00%) Linux
2 5 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (48.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 11 (44.00%) CI/CD
2 11 (44.00%) DevOps
3 9 (36.00%) Microservices
4 8 (32.00%) Network Design
5 7 (28.00%) Roadmaps
5 7 (28.00%) Strategic Thinking
6 6 (24.00%) Containerisation
6 6 (24.00%) Enterprise Architecture
6 6 (24.00%) Incident Response
6 6 (24.00%) Network Architecture
6 6 (24.00%) Network Segmentation
6 6 (24.00%) TOGAF
6 6 (24.00%) Validation
7 5 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (16.00%) DevSecOps
8 4 (16.00%) Infrastructure as Code
8 4 (16.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 4 (16.00%) Platform Engineering
8 4 (16.00%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 25 (100.00%) Python
2 6 (24.00%) PowerShell
3 5 (20.00%) Bash
4 3 (12.00%) JavaScript
5 2 (8.00%) Shell Script
6 1 (4.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (60.00%) Cisco Certification
2 14 (56.00%) CCIE
2 14 (56.00%) JNCIE
3 10 (40.00%) AWS Certification
4 4 (16.00%) Security Cleared
5 3 (12.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (12.00%) SC Cleared
5 3 (12.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 1 (4.00%) CCNA
6 1 (4.00%) CCNP
6 1 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (4.00%) Degree
6 1 (4.00%) JNCIP
6 1 (4.00%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (4.00%) NIST
1 1 (4.00%) QA
System Software
1 10 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (32.00%) Docker
3 6 (24.00%) Active Directory
3 6 (24.00%) VMware NSX
4 4 (16.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 15 (60.00%) Terraform
2 9 (36.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (8.00%) logstash
3 2 (8.00%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (4.00%) Grafana
4 1 (4.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 10 (40.00%) Cisco
1 10 (40.00%) VMware
2 8 (32.00%) F5
2 8 (32.00%) Fortinet
2 8 (32.00%) Juniper
3 6 (24.00%) Microsoft
4 3 (12.00%) Google
4 3 (12.00%) Red Hat
5 2 (8.00%) Veracode
6 1 (4.00%) Splunk