Ansible Contracts in Scotland

Ansible
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 76 81 43
Rank change year-on-year +5 -38 +24
Contract jobs citing Ansible 41 48 160
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 2.52% 2.17% 5.59%
As % of the Systems Management category 17.45% 17.27% 27.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 41 107
10th Percentile £408 £429 £445
25th Percentile £421 £475 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year -9.86% +2.34% -2.29%
75th Percentile £547 £600 £570
90th Percentile £583 £634 £629
UK median daily rate £570 £553 £600
% change year-on-year +3.17% -7.92% +2.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £56.25
Median hourly rate - - £57.50
75th Percentile - - £58.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £71.85 £66.25 £73.00
% change year-on-year +8.45% -9.25% +32.73%

All Systems Management Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 235 278 575
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 14.46% 12.54% 20.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 164 194 406
10th Percentile £198 £246 £260
25th Percentile £399 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £474 £475 £490
Median % change year-on-year -0.26% -2.96% -2.10%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £550
90th Percentile £576 £654 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £515 £563
% change year-on-year +1.90% -8.41% -0.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 6
10th Percentile £21.18 £19.59 £21.47
25th Percentile £22.50 £26.32 £30.00
Median hourly rate £23.00 £37.99 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year -39.45% -32.47% +25.50%
75th Percentile £24.00 £49.21 £58.75
90th Percentile £24.11 £55.68 £59.65
UK median hourly rate £26.45 £30.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -11.83% -47.83% +155.56%

Ansible
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Ansible as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Ansible in Scotland

Ansible
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Ansible in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Ansible in Scotland

Ansible
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ansible in Scotland over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Ansible in Scotland

Ansible
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Ansible in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for Ansible in Scotland

Ansible
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Ansible within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Glasgow +7 24 £450 -14.29% 8
Edinburgh -3 16 £525 -0.94% 8
Ansible
UK

Ansible
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 2 (4.88%) CMS
1 2 (4.88%) Headless CMS
2 1 (2.44%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 17 (41.46%) AWS
2 12 (29.27%) Azure
3 11 (26.83%) OpenShift
4 8 (19.51%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (17.07%) GitHub
6 6 (14.63%) AWS CloudFormation
6 6 (14.63%) Serverless
7 5 (12.20%) Amazon S3
7 5 (12.20%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (12.20%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (9.76%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (9.76%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (9.76%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 3 (7.32%) AWS CodeBuild
9 3 (7.32%) AWS CodeDeploy
9 3 (7.32%) AWS CodePipeline
9 3 (7.32%) AWS Fargate
9 3 (7.32%) PaaS
9 3 (7.32%) Route 53
9 3 (7.32%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.88%) DNS
1 2 (4.88%) Firewall
2 1 (2.44%) HTTP
2 1 (2.44%) Reverse Proxy
2 1 (2.44%) SSL
2 1 (2.44%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (12.20%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (9.76%) MongoDB
3 3 (7.32%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (7.32%) InfluxDB
3 3 (7.32%) MariaDB
3 3 (7.32%) MySQL
3 3 (7.32%) Relational Database
4 2 (4.88%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (4.88%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (4.88%) Power Query
4 2 (4.88%) Redis
5 1 (2.44%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 16 (39.02%) Jenkins
2 10 (24.39%) Bitbucket
3 9 (21.95%) Git
4 4 (9.76%) JIRA
5 3 (7.32%) Artifactory
5 3 (7.32%) GitLab
6 1 (2.44%) IntelliJ
6 1 (2.44%) PyCharm
6 1 (2.44%) SonarQube
6 1 (2.44%) Visual Studio
6 1 (2.44%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 15 (36.59%) Social Skills
2 10 (24.39%) Finance
3 8 (19.51%) Banking
4 5 (12.20%) Investment Banking
5 4 (9.76%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (7.32%) Public Sector
7 2 (4.88%) Legal
8 1 (2.44%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (2.44%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (21.95%) DevOps Engineer
2 7 (17.07%) Developer
3 6 (14.63%) Applications Support
3 6 (14.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (14.63%) Platform Engineer
4 4 (9.76%) Applications Specialist
4 4 (9.76%) Applications Support Specialist
4 4 (9.76%) Infrastructure Specialist
4 4 (9.76%) Infrastructure Support
4 4 (9.76%) Infrastructure Support Specialist
4 4 (9.76%) Python Developer
4 4 (9.76%) Support Specialist
5 3 (7.32%) AWS Engineer
5 3 (7.32%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 3 (7.32%) Linux Specialist
5 3 (7.32%) Linux Support
5 3 (7.32%) Senior
6 2 (4.88%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 2 (4.88%) CyberArk Engineer
6 2 (4.88%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (21.95%) Loki
2 6 (14.63%) Middleware
3 4 (9.76%) AWS CDK
4 2 (4.88%) .NET
4 2 (4.88%) ARM Templates
4 2 (4.88%) CSS
4 2 (4.88%) HTML5 Canvas
4 2 (4.88%) JSON
4 2 (4.88%) Next.js
4 2 (4.88%) Playwright
4 2 (4.88%) Vitest
4 2 (4.88%) YAML
5 1 (2.44%) Lambda Expressions
5 1 (2.44%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (2.44%) REST
5 1 (2.44%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.76%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (7.32%) Data Centre
2 3 (7.32%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (7.32%) Linux Command Line
2 3 (7.32%) Virtual Team
3 2 (4.88%) Low-Code
3 2 (4.88%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.44%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (2.44%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (2.44%) e-Learning
4 1 (2.44%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.44%) Insider Threat
4 1 (2.44%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.44%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 28 (68.29%) Linux
2 15 (36.59%) Unix
3 12 (29.27%) Windows
4 8 (19.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (9.76%) Windows Server
6 3 (7.32%) AIX
7 2 (4.88%) Ubuntu
8 1 (2.44%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (2.44%) CentOS
8 1 (2.44%) Data ONTAP
8 1 (2.44%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (2.44%) VMS
8 1 (2.44%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (2.44%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (39.02%) CI/CD
1 16 (39.02%) DevOps
2 14 (34.15%) Agile
3 13 (31.71%) Infrastructure as Code
4 8 (19.51%) Containerisation
4 8 (19.51%) ITIL
5 7 (17.07%) Configuration Management
5 7 (17.07%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 6 (14.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 6 (14.63%) Kanban
6 6 (14.63%) Problem Management
6 6 (14.63%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (12.20%) Build Automation
7 5 (12.20%) Deployment Automation
7 5 (12.20%) Infrastructure Automation
7 5 (12.20%) Issue Tracking
7 5 (12.20%) Scrum
7 5 (12.20%) Test Automation
8 4 (9.76%) Observability
8 4 (9.76%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 30 (73.17%) Python
2 14 (34.15%) Bash
3 10 (24.39%) Shell Script
4 8 (19.51%) TypeScript
5 7 (17.07%) C#
5 7 (17.07%) Java
5 7 (17.07%) PowerShell
6 4 (9.76%) Groovy
6 4 (9.76%) SQL
7 2 (4.88%) Bicep
7 2 (4.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (4.88%) Perl
8 1 (2.44%) Go
Qualifications
1 3 (7.32%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.88%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.44%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.44%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (2.44%) Azure Certification
3 1 (2.44%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (2.44%) OCP
3 1 (2.44%) Oracle Certification
3 1 (2.44%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.76%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (4.88%) NIST
3 1 (2.44%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (2.44%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (2.44%) GDPR
3 1 (2.44%) NCSC
3 1 (2.44%) PCI DSS
3 1 (2.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 10 (24.39%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (21.95%) Docker
3 8 (19.51%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 3 (7.32%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 3 (7.32%) Hyper-V
5 2 (4.88%) Active Directory
5 2 (4.88%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (2.44%) Firmware
6 1 (2.44%) KVM
6 1 (2.44%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (2.44%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 23 (56.10%) Terraform
2 22 (53.66%) Kubernetes
3 15 (36.59%) Grafana
4 12 (29.27%) Prometheus
5 9 (21.95%) Progress Chef
6 6 (14.63%) Puppet
7 3 (7.32%) Kibana
8 2 (4.88%) HAProxy
8 2 (4.88%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (4.88%) SCCM
9 1 (2.44%) linkerd
9 1 (2.44%) Nagios
9 1 (2.44%) Packer
9 1 (2.44%) PowerCLI
9 1 (2.44%) Red Hat Satellite
9 1 (2.44%) vRealize
Vendors
1 17 (41.46%) VMware
2 9 (21.95%) Splunk
3 8 (19.51%) Veritas
4 7 (17.07%) Microsoft
5 6 (14.63%) Red Hat
6 2 (4.88%) BeyondTrust
6 2 (4.88%) CyberArk
6 2 (4.88%) Dynatrace
6 2 (4.88%) Google
6 2 (4.88%) Oracle
7 1 (2.44%) Citrix
7 1 (2.44%) Commvault
7 1 (2.44%) Dell
7 1 (2.44%) ForgeRock
7 1 (2.44%) IBM
7 1 (2.44%) Imperva
7 1 (2.44%) NetApp
7 1 (2.44%) Palo Alto
7 1 (2.44%) Tanium