Ansible Contract Job Trends in the South West

Ansible
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Ansible skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 43 60
Rank change year-on-year -32 +17 -17
Contract jobs citing Ansible 66 84 104
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 1.97% 4.94% 3.28%
As % of the Systems Management category 16.54% 27.81% 25.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 73 78
10th Percentile £450 £443 £475
25th Percentile £496 £534 £518
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £551 £600 £558
Median % change year-on-year -8.13% +7.62% -7.08%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £700
90th Percentile £638 £712 -
England median daily rate £513 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -9.29% +2.73% -11.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 5
10th Percentile £79.80 £79.13 £57.10
25th Percentile £81.00 £79.77 £58.75
Median hourly rate £83.00 £80.83 £74.44
Median % change year-on-year +2.68% +8.58% -1.40%
75th Percentile £86.00 £81.90 -
90th Percentile £87.80 £82.53 £76.28
England median hourly rate £72.50 £44.50 £62.25
% change year-on-year +62.92% -28.51% -14.43%

All Systems Management Skills
South West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 399 302 407
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 11.93% 17.78% 12.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 275 237 318
10th Percentile £309 £259 £205
25th Percentile £449 £425 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £617 £625 £588
90th Percentile £738 £700 £696
England median daily rate £508 £525 £520
% change year-on-year -3.33% +0.96% -9.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 4 15
10th Percentile £46.05 £31.15 -
25th Percentile £49.13 £56.13 -
Median hourly rate £51.00 £74.35 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.41% +85.88% -45.21%
75th Percentile £58.00 £79.77 £72.85
90th Percentile £82.60 £81.68 £76.28
England median hourly rate £56.50 £27.75 £25.77
% change year-on-year +103.60% +7.70% -50.75%

Ansible
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Ansible job vacancy trend in the South West

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Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ansible in the South West over the 6 months to 18 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Ansible in the South West

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Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

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Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 18 May 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
Wiltshire -16 23 £564 -3.63% 5
Gloucestershire -9 17 £575 -6.50% 17
Bristol -20 16 £525 +19.32% 8
Somerset -14 6 £488 -22.00% 2
Dorset -9 1 £300 -45.45%
Devon - 1 - -
Ansible
England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 5 (7.58%) Apache
2 2 (3.03%) Apache Spark
2 2 (3.03%) Confluence
2 2 (3.03%) IIS
3 1 (1.52%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 18 (27.27%) Azure
2 15 (22.73%) AWS
3 7 (10.61%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (9.09%) GitHub
5 5 (7.58%) GCP
5 5 (7.58%) IaaS
6 4 (6.06%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (6.06%) Entra ID
6 4 (6.06%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (4.55%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 3 (4.55%) npm
7 3 (4.55%) OpenShift
8 2 (3.03%) PaaS
9 1 (1.52%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (1.52%) Azure Stack
9 1 (1.52%) OCI
9 1 (1.52%) SaaS
9 1 (1.52%) Serverless
9 1 (1.52%) Stackdriver
9 1 (1.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (13.64%) Firewall
2 5 (7.58%) DNS
3 4 (6.06%) AMQP
4 3 (4.55%) DHCP
4 3 (4.55%) Network Security
4 3 (4.55%) TCP/IP
5 2 (3.03%) VLAN
6 1 (1.52%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (1.52%) Cisco ISE
6 1 (1.52%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (1.52%) HTTP
6 1 (1.52%) Kerberos
6 1 (1.52%) NAS
6 1 (1.52%) NX-OS
6 1 (1.52%) OSPF
6 1 (1.52%) SAN
6 1 (1.52%) SSH
6 1 (1.52%) tcpdump
6 1 (1.52%) VXLAN
6 1 (1.52%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.55%) InfluxDB
2 2 (3.03%) Relational Database
2 2 (3.03%) SAP HANA
3 1 (1.52%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.52%) Big Data
3 1 (1.52%) BigQuery
3 1 (1.52%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (1.52%) Hadoop
3 1 (1.52%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.52%) RDBMS
3 1 (1.52%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (21.21%) Jenkins
2 11 (16.67%) Git
3 9 (13.64%) GitLab
4 7 (10.61%) JIRA
5 4 (6.06%) Artifactory
6 3 (4.55%) Bitbucket
6 3 (4.55%) Maven
6 3 (4.55%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (1.52%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (1.52%) Burp Suite
7 1 (1.52%) Cucumber
7 1 (1.52%) eggPlant
7 1 (1.52%) Gatling
7 1 (1.52%) GoCD
7 1 (1.52%) Gradle
7 1 (1.52%) LoadRunner
7 1 (1.52%) REST Assured
7 1 (1.52%) SonarQube
General
1 10 (15.15%) Social Skills
2 8 (12.12%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (7.58%) Public Sector
4 3 (4.55%) Aerospace
5 2 (3.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (3.03%) Military
6 1 (1.52%) Banking
6 1 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.52%) Finance
Job Titles
1 25 (37.88%) DevOps Engineer
2 14 (21.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 11 (16.67%) Software Engineer
4 10 (15.15%) Automation Engineer
5 6 (9.09%) Senior
6 5 (7.58%) Data Engineer
7 4 (6.06%) Applications Engineer
7 4 (6.06%) Applications Support
7 4 (6.06%) Applications Support Engineer
7 4 (6.06%) GCP DevOps
7 4 (6.06%) GCP DevOps Engineer
7 4 (6.06%) GCP Engineer
7 4 (6.06%) Network Engineer
7 4 (6.06%) Senior DevOps
7 4 (6.06%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 4 (6.06%) Support Engineer
8 3 (4.55%) Data Migration Engineer
8 3 (4.55%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
8 3 (4.55%) Java Engineer
8 3 (4.55%) Migration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (19.70%) REST
2 7 (10.61%) SOAP
2 7 (10.61%) Spring
2 7 (10.61%) Spring Boot
3 5 (7.58%) .NET
3 5 (7.58%) Apache NiFi
4 3 (4.55%) Kafka
5 2 (3.03%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (3.03%) React
6 1 (1.52%) AngularJS
6 1 (1.52%) ARM Templates
6 1 (1.52%) Jinja
6 1 (1.52%) LDAP
6 1 (1.52%) NETCONF
6 1 (1.52%) Node.js
6 1 (1.52%) Playwright
6 1 (1.52%) PySpark
6 1 (1.52%) Quarkus
6 1 (1.52%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (1.52%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.58%) Data Centre
2 3 (4.55%) Linux Command Line
2 3 (4.55%) Replication
3 2 (3.03%) Cloud Native
3 2 (3.03%) Clustering
3 2 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (3.03%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.52%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.52%) Client/Server
4 1 (1.52%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (1.52%) PKI
4 1 (1.52%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 24 (36.36%) Linux
2 16 (24.24%) Windows
3 7 (10.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (9.09%) Windows Server
5 3 (4.55%) CentOS
5 3 (4.55%) Ubuntu
6 1 (1.52%) Rocky
6 1 (1.52%) SUSE
6 1 (1.52%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (56.06%) DevOps
2 26 (39.39%) CI/CD
3 25 (37.88%) Infrastructure as Code
4 21 (31.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 17 (25.76%) Agile
6 16 (24.24%) Problem-Solving
6 16 (24.24%) Software Engineering
7 15 (22.73%) Infrastructure Automation
8 14 (21.21%) Containerisation
9 11 (16.67%) Configuration Management
10 9 (13.64%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 8 (12.12%) Migration
11 8 (12.12%) Root Cause Analysis
11 8 (12.12%) Test Automation
12 7 (10.61%) Continuous Improvement
12 7 (10.61%) Service Management
13 6 (9.09%) Decision-Making
13 6 (9.09%) High Availability
13 6 (9.09%) Microservices
14 5 (7.58%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 32 (48.48%) Python
2 18 (27.27%) Bash
3 16 (24.24%) PowerShell
4 12 (18.18%) Java
5 5 (7.58%) SQL
6 2 (3.03%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.52%) Bicep
7 1 (1.52%) C#
7 1 (1.52%) PHP
7 1 (1.52%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 44 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 23 (34.85%) DV Cleared
2 23 (34.85%) SC Cleared
3 6 (9.09%) Degree
4 5 (7.58%) Cisco Certification
4 5 (7.58%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (6.06%) CCNP
6 3 (4.55%) OCA
6 3 (4.55%) Oracle Certification
6 3 (4.55%) RHCA
6 3 (4.55%) RHCE
6 3 (4.55%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 2 (3.03%) Master's Degree
8 1 (1.52%) Azure Certification
8 1 (1.52%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (1.52%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (9.09%) Data Quality
1 6 (9.09%) QA
2 1 (1.52%) NIST
2 1 (1.52%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.52%) SLA
System Software
1 18 (27.27%) Docker
2 7 (10.61%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (7.58%) Active Directory
4 2 (3.03%) Corosync
4 2 (3.03%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.52%) KVM
5 1 (1.52%) NFS
5 1 (1.52%) VirtualBox
5 1 (1.52%) VMware NSX
5 1 (1.52%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 39 (59.09%) Terraform
2 28 (42.42%) Kubernetes
3 8 (12.12%) Grafana
4 6 (9.09%) Progress Chef
4 6 (9.09%) Puppet
5 5 (7.58%) Prometheus
6 2 (3.03%) Failover Clustering
6 2 (3.03%) Nessus
6 2 (3.03%) Pacemaker
6 2 (3.03%) Packer
7 1 (1.52%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (1.52%) FortiGate
7 1 (1.52%) FreeIPA
7 1 (1.52%) Istio
7 1 (1.52%) Kibana
7 1 (1.52%) logstash
7 1 (1.52%) Nagios
7 1 (1.52%) SCOM
7 1 (1.52%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (1.52%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 11 (16.67%) VMware
2 8 (12.12%) Red Hat
3 7 (10.61%) Microsoft
4 4 (6.06%) Cisco
4 4 (6.06%) InterSystems
4 4 (6.06%) Oracle
5 3 (4.55%) Google
6 2 (3.03%) F5
6 2 (3.03%) SAP
6 2 (3.03%) Splunk
7 1 (1.52%) Broadcom
7 1 (1.52%) CheckPoint
7 1 (1.52%) Citrix
7 1 (1.52%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.52%) Fortinet
7 1 (1.52%) Infoblox
7 1 (1.52%) Juniper
7 1 (1.52%) NetScout
7 1 (1.52%) SolarWinds