Ansible Contract Job Trends in Somerset

Ansible
South West > Somerset

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Somerset requiring Ansible skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 20 26
Rank change year-on-year -13 +6 +1
Contract jobs citing Ansible 1 11 4
As % of all contract jobs in Somerset 0.52% 6.75% 2.25%
As % of the Systems Management category 3.45% 34.38% 11.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 1
10th Percentile - £500 -
25th Percentile - £575 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £633 £425
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +48.82% -32.00%
75th Percentile - £665 £438
90th Percentile - £695 -
South West median daily rate £550 £538 £558
% change year-on-year +2.33% -3.59% -1.33%

All Systems Management Skills
Somerset

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 Somerset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 29 32 36
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Somerset 14.95% 19.63% 20.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 14 25
10th Percentile £220 £386 £233
25th Percentile £350 £431 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £563 £575
Median % change year-on-year -15.56% -2.17% +0.70%
75th Percentile £550 £698 £700
90th Percentile £575 £851 £751
South West median daily rate £550 £539 £550
% change year-on-year +2.09% -2.05% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61.50 £12.50 -
Median hourly rate £63.00 £13.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +384.62% - -
75th Percentile £64.50 £15.00 -
90th Percentile - £15.90 -
South West median hourly rate £86.00 £45.00 £72.50
% change year-on-year +91.11% -37.93% +11.54%

Ansible
Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

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

Ansible job vacancy trend in Somerset

Ansible
Daily Rate Trend in Somerset

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Somerset citing Ansible

Ansible
Contract Job Locations in Somerset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Ansible within the Somerset region over the 6 months to 17 December 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
Taunton - 1 £550 -
Ansible
South West

Ansible
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Somerset 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) NAS
1 1 (100.00%) SAN
1 1 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Architect
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Infrastructure Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Network Infrastructure Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Storage Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) BCP
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) FinOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (100.00%) MODAF
1 1 (100.00%) Network Segmentation
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Privileged Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) TOGAF
1 1 (100.00%) User Experience
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bicep
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Government Security Classifications
1 1 (100.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) VMware