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 24 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 82 77 44
Rank change year-on-year -5 -33 +32
Contract jobs citing Ansible 38 45 153
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 2.32% 2.14% 5.70%
As % of the Systems Management category 17.12% 17.65% 29.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 39 95
10th Percentile £408 £427 £433
25th Percentile £423 £470 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £522 £513
Median % change year-on-year -4.21% +1.75% -2.29%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £575
90th Percentile £554 £634 £636
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +1.69%
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 £44.50 £62.50 £73.00
% change year-on-year -28.80% -14.38% +49.74%

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 222 255 523
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 13.53% 12.13% 19.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 157 188 357
10th Percentile £200 £200 £243
25th Percentile £394 £370 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £457 £488
Median % change year-on-year +5.04% -6.36% -7.14%
75th Percentile £538 £566 £550
90th Percentile £576 £634 £650
UK median daily rate £520 £513 £560
% change year-on-year +1.46% -8.48% -0.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 6
10th Percentile - - £19.49
25th Percentile - £15.10 £21.36
Median hourly rate - £15.97 £39.59
Median % change year-on-year - -59.66% -11.68%
75th Percentile - £16.85 £58.75
90th Percentile - - £59.65
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £28.75 £55.00
% change year-on-year -4.35% -47.73% +150.00%

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 24 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 24 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 -3 22 £450 -14.29% 24
Edinburgh +2 15 £513 -1.44% 25
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 1 (2.63%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 15 (39.47%) AWS
2 11 (28.95%) Azure
2 11 (28.95%) OpenShift
3 9 (23.68%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (18.42%) GitHub
5 6 (15.79%) AWS CloudFormation
5 6 (15.79%) Serverless
6 5 (13.16%) Amazon S3
6 5 (13.16%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (13.16%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (13.16%) SaaS
7 4 (10.53%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (10.53%) Amazon ECS
7 4 (10.53%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 3 (7.89%) AWS CodePipeline
8 3 (7.89%) AWS Fargate
8 3 (7.89%) PaaS
8 3 (7.89%) Power Automate
8 3 (7.89%) Power Platform
8 3 (7.89%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.26%) DNS
1 2 (5.26%) Firewall
2 1 (2.63%) HTTP
2 1 (2.63%) Reverse Proxy
2 1 (2.63%) SSL
2 1 (2.63%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (13.16%) MongoDB
2 4 (10.53%) MariaDB
2 4 (10.53%) MySQL
2 4 (10.53%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (7.89%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (7.89%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (7.89%) InfluxDB
3 3 (7.89%) Power Query
3 3 (7.89%) Redis
3 3 (7.89%) Relational Database
4 2 (5.26%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (2.63%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 14 (36.84%) Jenkins
2 11 (28.95%) Git
3 10 (26.32%) Bitbucket
4 4 (10.53%) JIRA
5 3 (7.89%) Artifactory
5 3 (7.89%) GitLab
5 3 (7.89%) IntelliJ
5 3 (7.89%) PyCharm
5 3 (7.89%) Visual Studio
5 3 (7.89%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (2.63%) SonarQube
General
1 13 (34.21%) Social Skills
2 12 (31.58%) Finance
3 7 (18.42%) Banking
4 4 (10.53%) Investment Banking
4 4 (10.53%) Public Sector
5 3 (7.89%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (5.26%) Legal
7 1 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.63%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (28.95%) DevOps Engineer
2 6 (15.79%) Applications Support
2 6 (15.79%) Platform Engineer
3 4 (10.53%) Applications Specialist
3 4 (10.53%) Applications Support Specialist
3 4 (10.53%) Developer
3 4 (10.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (10.53%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 4 (10.53%) Infrastructure Support
3 4 (10.53%) Infrastructure Support Specialist
3 4 (10.53%) Support Specialist
4 3 (7.89%) AWS Engineer
4 3 (7.89%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 3 (7.89%) DevOps Developer
4 3 (7.89%) Linux Specialist
4 3 (7.89%) Linux Support
4 3 (7.89%) Python Developer
5 2 (5.26%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 2 (5.26%) Lead
5 2 (5.26%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (23.68%) Loki
2 4 (10.53%) AWS CDK
2 4 (10.53%) Middleware
3 3 (7.89%) ARM Templates
3 3 (7.89%) HTML5 Canvas
3 3 (7.89%) JSON
3 3 (7.89%) YAML
4 2 (5.26%) .NET
5 1 (2.63%) Lambda Expressions
5 1 (2.63%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (2.63%) REST
5 1 (2.63%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.16%) Virtual Team
2 4 (10.53%) Data Protection Act
2 4 (10.53%) Linux Command Line
2 4 (10.53%) Public Cloud
3 3 (7.89%) Data Centre
3 3 (7.89%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (7.89%) Low-Code
4 1 (2.63%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (2.63%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (2.63%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.63%) Insider Threat
4 1 (2.63%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 26 (68.42%) Linux
2 13 (34.21%) Unix
3 10 (26.32%) Windows
4 8 (21.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (10.53%) Windows Server
6 2 (5.26%) Ubuntu
7 1 (2.63%) AIX
7 1 (2.63%) Amazon Linux
7 1 (2.63%) CentOS
7 1 (2.63%) Data ONTAP
7 1 (2.63%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (2.63%) VMS
7 1 (2.63%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (2.63%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 17 (44.74%) DevOps
3 15 (39.47%) Agile
4 14 (36.84%) Infrastructure as Code
5 8 (21.05%) ITIL
6 7 (18.42%) Containerisation
6 7 (18.42%) Kanban
6 7 (18.42%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 6 (15.79%) Problem Management
7 6 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (13.16%) Build Automation
8 5 (13.16%) Configuration Management
8 5 (13.16%) Deployment Automation
8 5 (13.16%) Scrum
8 5 (13.16%) SDLC
8 5 (13.16%) Test Automation
9 4 (10.53%) Disaster Recovery
9 4 (10.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 4 (10.53%) Mentoring
9 4 (10.53%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 31 (81.58%) Python
2 15 (39.47%) Bash
3 10 (26.32%) Shell Script
4 8 (21.05%) Java
4 8 (21.05%) PowerShell
5 7 (18.42%) C#
6 6 (15.79%) TypeScript
7 4 (10.53%) Groovy
8 3 (7.89%) Bicep
8 3 (7.89%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 3 (7.89%) SQL
9 2 (5.26%) Perl
10 1 (2.63%) Go
Qualifications
1 2 (5.26%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.63%) AWS Certification
2 1 (2.63%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 1 (2.63%) Azure Certification
2 1 (2.63%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (2.63%) OCP
2 1 (2.63%) Oracle Certification
2 1 (2.63%) SC Cleared
2 1 (2.63%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.16%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (2.63%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (2.63%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (2.63%) GDPR
2 1 (2.63%) NCSC
2 1 (2.63%) NIST
2 1 (2.63%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 10 (26.32%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (21.05%) Docker
2 8 (21.05%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 3 (7.89%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 2 (5.26%) Active Directory
4 2 (5.26%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (2.63%) Hyper-V
5 1 (2.63%) KVM
5 1 (2.63%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (2.63%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 24 (63.16%) Terraform
2 21 (55.26%) Kubernetes
3 16 (42.11%) Grafana
4 13 (34.21%) Prometheus
5 8 (21.05%) Progress Chef
6 4 (10.53%) Puppet
7 3 (7.89%) Kibana
8 2 (5.26%) HAProxy
9 1 (2.63%) linkerd
9 1 (2.63%) Nagios
9 1 (2.63%) Packer
9 1 (2.63%) PowerCLI
9 1 (2.63%) Red Hat Satellite
9 1 (2.63%) vRealize
Vendors
1 15 (39.47%) VMware
2 9 (23.68%) Splunk
3 8 (21.05%) Veritas
4 6 (15.79%) Red Hat
5 5 (13.16%) Microsoft
6 2 (5.26%) BeyondTrust
6 2 (5.26%) CyberArk
6 2 (5.26%) Dynatrace
6 2 (5.26%) Google
6 2 (5.26%) Oracle
7 1 (2.63%) Citrix
7 1 (2.63%) Commvault
7 1 (2.63%) Dell
7 1 (2.63%) ForgeRock
7 1 (2.63%) IBM
7 1 (2.63%) Imperva
7 1 (2.63%) NetApp
7 1 (2.63%) Palo Alto
7 1 (2.63%) Tanium