Ansible Contracts in the South East

Ansible
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 22 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 56 44 64
Rank change year-on-year -12 +20 +6
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Ansible 119 197 175
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 3.37% 4.12% 3.15%
As % of the Systems Management category 24.39% 28.55% 24.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 144 124
10th Percentile £418 £416 £425
25th Percentile £450 £425 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £536 £591
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% -9.30% +7.50%
75th Percentile £600 £619 £688
90th Percentile £613 £675 £750
England median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.37% +0.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 8
10th Percentile - - £54.25
25th Percentile - - £56.41
Median hourly rate - - £58.67
75th Percentile - - £67.93
90th Percentile - - £74.10
England median hourly rate £59.25 £74.00 £74.50
% change year-on-year -19.93% -0.67% -12.87%

All Systems Management Skills
South East

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 the South East.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 488 690 712
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 13.83% 14.44% 12.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 331 510 512
10th Percentile £260 £278 £250
25th Percentile £401 £425 £432
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £588 £608 £664
90th Percentile £625 £675 £738
England median daily rate £510 £525 £560
% change year-on-year -2.86% -6.25% -2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 9 18
10th Percentile £18.87 £21.00 £19.02
25th Percentile £23.44 £30.00 £29.00
Median hourly rate £32.77 £36.17 £52.37
Median % change year-on-year -9.39% -30.94% +17.02%
75th Percentile £69.00 £40.25 £60.12
90th Percentile £85.65 £53.90 £68.31
England median hourly rate £52.50 £36.17 £49.87
% change year-on-year +45.17% -27.47% +116.80%

Ansible
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Ansible as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Ansible in the South East

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Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Ansible.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Ansible

Ansible
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ansible in the South East over the 6 months to 22 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Ansible in the South East

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Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Ansible.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Ansible

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DemandTrendContract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Ansible within the South East region over the 6 months to 22 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Hampshire -3 70 £575 +27.78% 17
Thames Valley -12 43 £450 -18.37% 31
Berkshire +15 39 £450 -28.00% 15
Oxfordshire -13 4 £525 +5.00% 10
Surrey +1 2 £555 -9.39% 3
West Sussex -6 2 £438 -23.91% 1
Middlesex - 2 £500 - 2
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 14 (11.76%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (10.92%) OpenStack
3 10 (8.40%) Apache
4 4 (3.36%) IIS
5 2 (1.68%) Camunda
6 1 (0.84%) Appian
6 1 (0.84%) Confluence
6 1 (0.84%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 51 (42.86%) Azure
2 49 (41.18%) AWS
3 35 (29.41%) OpenShift
4 16 (13.45%) GCP
5 12 (10.08%) Amazon EKS
6 8 (6.72%) GitHub
6 8 (6.72%) IaaS
6 8 (6.72%) PaaS
7 5 (4.20%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (1.68%) Cloudflare
9 1 (0.84%) Azure AKS
9 1 (0.84%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (0.84%) Datadog
9 1 (0.84%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (0.84%) Pulumi
9 1 (0.84%) Serverless
9 1 (0.84%) Stackdriver
9 1 (0.84%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 21 (17.65%) VPN
2 20 (16.81%) BGP
2 20 (16.81%) Firewall
3 16 (13.45%) DNS
3 16 (13.45%) OSPF
4 14 (11.76%) LAN
5 13 (10.92%) MPLS
5 13 (10.92%) Network Security
5 13 (10.92%) WAN
6 12 (10.08%) DHCP
6 12 (10.08%) SMTP
7 8 (6.72%) TCP/IP
8 7 (5.88%) VLAN
9 6 (5.04%) Cisco Firepower
9 6 (5.04%) Cisco IOS
9 6 (5.04%) Cisco ISE
9 6 (5.04%) Junos
10 5 (4.20%) Wireless
11 4 (3.36%) SNMP
11 4 (3.36%) TACACS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (6.72%) Amazon RDS
1 8 (6.72%) Big Data
1 8 (6.72%) Elasticsearch
2 7 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (5.88%) Redis
3 4 (3.36%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.84%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.84%) MySQL
4 1 (0.84%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 26 (21.85%) Jenkins
2 17 (14.29%) GitLab
3 14 (11.76%) JIRA
4 11 (9.24%) Selenium
4 11 (9.24%) SonarQube
5 10 (8.40%) Cucumber
6 9 (7.56%) REST Assured
7 6 (5.04%) Sonatype Nexus
8 5 (4.20%) Robot Framework
9 4 (3.36%) MSI
10 2 (1.68%) Git
11 1 (0.84%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.84%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.84%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.84%) Mocha
11 1 (0.84%) Subversion
General
1 39 (32.77%) Social Skills
2 14 (11.76%) Public Sector
3 12 (10.08%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (7.56%) Telecoms
5 8 (6.72%) Law
6 7 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (4.20%) Police
8 2 (1.68%) Finance
9 1 (0.84%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.84%) Retail
Job Titles
1 15 (12.61%) Platform Engineer
2 14 (11.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 14 (11.76%) Network Engineer
3 13 (10.92%) Support Engineer
4 12 (10.08%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 11 (9.24%) DevOps Engineer
6 10 (8.40%) Architect
7 9 (7.56%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
8 8 (6.72%) 3rd Line Support
8 8 (6.72%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
8 8 (6.72%) Cloud Engineer
9 7 (5.88%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
9 7 (5.88%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
9 7 (5.88%) Infrastructure Support
9 7 (5.88%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
9 7 (5.88%) Integration Engineer
10 6 (5.04%) Automation Engineer
10 6 (5.04%) Developer
10 6 (5.04%) Kubernetes Engineer
11 5 (4.20%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (12.61%) REST
2 11 (9.24%) Middleware
2 11 (9.24%) React
2 11 (9.24%) YAML
3 9 (7.56%) ARM Templates
3 9 (7.56%) Java EE
4 7 (5.88%) Elastic Stack
4 7 (5.88%) Kafka
5 6 (5.04%) Keycloak
5 6 (5.04%) NETCONF
6 5 (4.20%) YANG
7 4 (3.36%) JSON
7 4 (3.36%) Swagger
8 3 (2.52%) RESTful
9 2 (1.68%) Jinja
9 2 (1.68%) OAuth
9 2 (1.68%) OpenTelemetry
9 2 (1.68%) SOAP
10 1 (0.84%) OpenAPI
10 1 (0.84%) RESTCONF
Miscellaneous
1 18 (15.13%) Data Centre
2 16 (13.45%) PKI
3 15 (12.61%) Private Cloud
4 10 (8.40%) Hybrid Cloud
5 9 (7.56%) Cloud Native
5 9 (7.56%) Clustering
6 3 (2.52%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.68%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.68%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.68%) TM Forum
8 1 (0.84%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.84%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 42 (35.29%) Linux
2 21 (17.65%) Windows
3 15 (12.61%) Windows Server
4 13 (10.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (5.88%) Unix
5 7 (5.88%) Windows Server 2019
6 6 (5.04%) CentOS
7 4 (3.36%) VMS
8 3 (2.52%) Windows Server 2003
9 1 (0.84%) Solaris
9 1 (0.84%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (55.46%) DevOps
2 48 (40.34%) CI/CD
3 39 (32.77%) Infrastructure as Code
4 31 (26.05%) Agile
5 30 (25.21%) Containerisation
6 26 (21.85%) Problem-Solving
7 23 (19.33%) Configuration Management
8 22 (18.49%) Platform Engineering
9 19 (15.97%) Migration
9 19 (15.97%) Test Automation
10 16 (13.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 14 (11.76%) Machine Learning
11 14 (11.76%) Software Engineering
12 13 (10.92%) Observability
13 12 (10.08%) Deployment Automation
13 12 (10.08%) Infrastructure Automation
13 12 (10.08%) Open Source
13 12 (10.08%) Technical Leadership
14 11 (9.24%) Artificial Intelligence
14 11 (9.24%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 65 (54.62%) Python
2 46 (38.66%) PowerShell
3 23 (19.33%) Java
4 22 (18.49%) Bash
4 22 (18.49%) SQL
5 17 (14.29%) JavaScript
6 12 (10.08%) C#
7 6 (5.04%) PHP
7 6 (5.04%) VB
8 4 (3.36%) Go
9 3 (2.52%) Search Processing Language
10 2 (1.68%) Perl
11 1 (0.84%) Bicep
11 1 (0.84%) C
11 1 (0.84%) PromQL
Qualifications
1 70 (58.82%) Security Cleared
2 37 (31.09%) SC Cleared
3 33 (27.73%) DV Cleared
4 22 (18.49%) Cisco Certification
5 12 (10.08%) CCIE
6 11 (9.24%) CCNP
6 11 (9.24%) Degree
7 8 (6.72%) JNCIE
8 6 (5.04%) CCSA
8 6 (5.04%) CCSE
8 6 (5.04%) Check Point Certification
9 5 (4.20%) AWS Certification
10 2 (1.68%) Master's Degree
10 2 (1.68%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.84%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.84%) Computer Science Degree
11 1 (0.84%) JNCIP
11 1 (0.84%) OCP
11 1 (0.84%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.20%) QA
2 4 (3.36%) SLA
3 3 (2.52%) HIPAA
3 3 (2.52%) SOC 2
4 2 (1.68%) OASIS TOSCA
5 1 (0.84%) GDPR
System Software
1 27 (22.69%) VMware Infrastructure
2 24 (20.17%) Docker
3 17 (14.29%) Active Directory
4 9 (7.56%) VMware ESXi
5 8 (6.72%) BitLocker
5 8 (6.72%) Hyper-V
5 8 (6.72%) Microsoft App-V
5 8 (6.72%) Terminal Services
6 6 (5.04%) vSphere
7 4 (3.36%) VMware NSX
8 3 (2.52%) NFS
9 2 (1.68%) Virtual Machines
10 1 (0.84%) Firmware
10 1 (0.84%) GPFS
Systems Management
1 58 (48.74%) Kubernetes
2 57 (47.90%) Terraform
3 11 (9.24%) Grafana
4 9 (7.56%) Docker Swarm
4 9 (7.56%) Podman
4 9 (7.56%) Prometheus
4 9 (7.56%) Puppet
4 9 (7.56%) vCenter Server
5 8 (6.72%) Nagios
5 8 (6.72%) vMotion
6 6 (5.04%) FortiGate
6 6 (5.04%) Packer
7 5 (4.20%) Rsyslog
7 5 (4.20%) SCOM
8 4 (3.36%) WMI
9 3 (2.52%) Cilium
9 3 (2.52%) Proxmox
9 3 (2.52%) Rundeck
9 3 (2.52%) Salt
9 3 (2.52%) WSUS
Vendors
1 31 (26.05%) VMware
2 27 (22.69%) Cisco
3 26 (21.85%) Red Hat
4 23 (19.33%) Microsoft
5 16 (13.45%) Citrix
6 12 (10.08%) F5
6 12 (10.08%) Splunk
7 10 (8.40%) Juniper
8 9 (7.56%) CheckPoint
8 9 (7.56%) Google
8 9 (7.56%) HP
8 9 (7.56%) Symantec
9 8 (6.72%) Fortinet
9 8 (6.72%) Palo Alto
10 6 (5.04%) NVIDIA
11 4 (3.36%) Mellanox
12 3 (2.52%) SolarWinds
13 2 (1.68%) Huawei
13 2 (1.68%) NetCracker
13 2 (1.68%) ServiceNow