Ansible Contract Job Trends in Shropshire

Ansible
West Midlands > Shropshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Shropshire requiring Ansible skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 28 20
Rank change year-on-year -45 -8 +48
Contract jobs citing Ansible 3 4 1
As % of all contract jobs in Shropshire 0.57% 2.82% 1.10%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.86% 26.67% 16.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 1
10th Percentile £440 - -
25th Percentile £444 - £511
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £477 £523
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% -8.71% -12.18%
75th Percentile £461 £484 £534
90th Percentile £462 £487 -
West Midlands median daily rate £525 £669 £500
% change year-on-year -21.52% +33.80% -9.09%

All Systems Management Skills
Shropshire

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 Shropshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 105 15 6
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire 20.08% 10.56% 6.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 8 4
10th Percentile £430 £207 -
25th Percentile £462 £410 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £499 £484 £358
Median % change year-on-year +3.21% +35.06% -41.31%
75th Percentile £537 £529 £402
90th Percentile £562 £532 £481
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £477 £425
% change year-on-year +4.82% +12.24% -15.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £12.18 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £50.80 £16.19 £35.33
% change year-on-year +213.79% -54.17% +99.35%

Ansible
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

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

Ansible job vacancy trend in Shropshire

Ansible
Daily Rate Trend in Shropshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Shropshire citing Ansible

Ansible
Contract Job Locations in Shropshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Ansible within the Shropshire region over the 6 months to 2 March 2026. 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
Telford -40 3 £450 -5.66% 2
Ansible
West Midlands

Ansible
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Shropshire 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 3 (100.00%) Confluence
1 3 (100.00%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 3 (100.00%) Apache Hive
1 3 (100.00%) BusinessObjects
1 3 (100.00%) Hadoop
1 3 (100.00%) Impala
1 3 (100.00%) MySQL
1 3 (100.00%) Pentaho
1 3 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (100.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Bitbucket
1 3 (100.00%) GitLab
1 3 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (100.00%) JIRA
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Data Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Software Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Data Analytics Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) Analytics
1 3 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Data Analytics
1 3 (100.00%) Data Virtualisation
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) ETL
1 3 (100.00%) Scrum
1 3 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) HiveQL
1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) PL/SQL
1 3 (100.00%) Python
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) Degree
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Grafana
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Denodo
1 3 (100.00%) Informatica
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle
1 3 (100.00%) Talend