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 7 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 52 45
Rank change year-on-year -9 -7 +7
Contract jobs citing Ansible 102 64 107
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 2.75% 3.33% 4.00%
As % of the Systems Management category 26.42% 24.24% 29.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 52 83
10th Percentile £454 £463 £425
25th Percentile £513 £525 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £594 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.16% +7.95% -8.33%
75th Percentile £688 £649 £586
90th Percentile £793 £681 £631
England median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 2 5
10th Percentile £85.50 £79.13 £63.20
25th Percentile £90.00 £79.77 -
Median hourly rate £95.68 £80.83 £74.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.37% +9.23% -5.13%
75th Percentile £99.12 £81.90 -
90th Percentile £100.00 £82.53 £74.26
England median hourly rate £71.43 £59.25 £74.00
% change year-on-year +20.56% -19.93% -0.67%

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 386 264 361
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 10.42% 13.74% 13.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 252 197 257
10th Percentile £339 £235 £208
25th Percentile £445 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year - +2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £669 £625 £600
90th Percentile £737 £694 £666
England median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 8 8
10th Percentile £28.75 £16.80 £14.60
25th Percentile £50.00 £18.60 £45.88
Median hourly rate £75.00 £67.50 £70.75
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -4.59% -9.29%
75th Percentile £95.00 £79.03 £74.00
90th Percentile £99.53 £80.89 £74.13
England median hourly rate £67.47 £44.48 £38.25
% change year-on-year +51.70% +16.27% -23.08%

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

Ansible
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ansible in the South West over the 6 months to 7 September 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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Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Ansible in the South West over the 6 months to 7 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Ansible in the South West

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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 7 September 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
Somerset +1 37 £654 +3.36% 15
Gloucestershire +6 26 £575 -2.13% 40
Wiltshire -22 20 £588 -4.86% 9
Bristol -21 13 £525 +20.69% 6
Devon -21 1 - -
Ansible
England

Ansible
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 3 (2.94%) Confluence
2 2 (1.96%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.96%) IIS
3 1 (0.98%) Apache
3 1 (0.98%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.98%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 49 (48.04%) AWS
2 41 (40.20%) Azure
3 19 (18.63%) GCP
4 12 (11.76%) GitHub
5 11 (10.78%) OpenShift
6 10 (9.80%) GitHub Actions
7 9 (8.82%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (2.94%) Amazon S3
8 3 (2.94%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (2.94%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (2.94%) Datadog
8 3 (2.94%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 3 (2.94%) Serverless
9 2 (1.96%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (1.96%) Entra ID
10 1 (0.98%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (0.98%) AWS Fargate
10 1 (0.98%) Azure Key Vault
10 1 (0.98%) Azure Monitor
10 1 (0.98%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 38 (37.25%) Firewall
2 35 (34.31%) DNS
3 33 (32.35%) TCP/IP
4 28 (27.45%) DHCP
5 23 (22.55%) VSAN
6 8 (7.84%) VLAN
7 4 (3.92%) BGP
7 4 (3.92%) Network Security
7 4 (3.92%) VPN
8 3 (2.94%) OSPF
8 3 (2.94%) Software-Defined Networking
9 2 (1.96%) NX-OS
9 2 (1.96%) SAN
10 1 (0.98%) AMQP
10 1 (0.98%) Calico
10 1 (0.98%) Ethernet VPN
10 1 (0.98%) Kerberos
10 1 (0.98%) NAS
10 1 (0.98%) SSH
10 1 (0.98%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.96%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (1.96%) Big Data
1 2 (1.96%) BigQuery
1 2 (1.96%) InfluxDB
1 2 (1.96%) MongoDB
1 2 (1.96%) Relational Database
1 2 (1.96%) SAP HANA
2 1 (0.98%) DynamoDB
2 1 (0.98%) Hadoop
2 1 (0.98%) Oracle Database
2 1 (0.98%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (0.98%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 27 (26.47%) Jenkins
2 25 (24.51%) GitLab
3 9 (8.82%) JIRA
4 7 (6.86%) Git
5 2 (1.96%) Gradle
6 1 (0.98%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.98%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.98%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.98%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.98%) Gatling
6 1 (0.98%) GoCD
6 1 (0.98%) JUnit
6 1 (0.98%) LoadRunner
6 1 (0.98%) Maven
6 1 (0.98%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.98%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.98%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 9 (8.82%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (7.84%) Public Sector
2 8 (7.84%) Social Skills
3 2 (1.96%) Finance
4 1 (0.98%) Advertising
4 1 (0.98%) Banking
4 1 (0.98%) Local Government
4 1 (0.98%) Military
Job Titles
1 24 (23.53%) DevOps Engineer
2 16 (15.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 16 (15.69%) Platform Engineer
3 15 (14.71%) Senior
4 14 (13.73%) Principal Engineer
5 9 (8.82%) Developer
6 8 (7.84%) Software Developer
7 6 (5.88%) Network Engineer
8 5 (4.90%) Automation Engineer
8 5 (4.90%) Lead
8 5 (4.90%) QA Engineer
8 5 (4.90%) QA Test Engineer
8 5 (4.90%) Senior DevOps
8 5 (4.90%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 5 (4.90%) Test Engineer
9 4 (3.92%) Cloud Engineer
9 4 (3.92%) Data Engineer
9 4 (3.92%) Java Engineer
9 4 (3.92%) Senior Platform Engineer
9 4 (3.92%) Virtualisation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (76.47%) Terraform
2 9 (8.82%) Spring
2 9 (8.82%) Spring Boot
3 8 (7.84%) REST
4 6 (5.88%) YAML
5 5 (4.90%) .NET
6 4 (3.92%) RabbitMQ
7 3 (2.94%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (1.96%) JPA
8 2 (1.96%) JSON
8 2 (1.96%) LDAP
8 2 (1.96%) Node.js
8 2 (1.96%) React
8 2 (1.96%) SOAP
9 1 (0.98%) FreeMarker
9 1 (0.98%) Hibernate
9 1 (0.98%) JDBC
9 1 (0.98%) JSF
9 1 (0.98%) JSP
9 1 (0.98%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (17.65%) Data Centre
1 18 (17.65%) PKI
2 11 (10.78%) Cloud Native
3 5 (4.90%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (4.90%) Linux Command Line
3 5 (4.90%) Public Cloud
4 3 (2.94%) Clustering
4 3 (2.94%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.96%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.96%) Replication
6 1 (0.98%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.98%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.98%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.98%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.98%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 53 (51.96%) Linux
2 31 (30.39%) Windows
3 9 (8.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (6.86%) Unix
5 4 (3.92%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.98%) AIX
6 1 (0.98%) CentOS
6 1 (0.98%) Rocky
6 1 (0.98%) Solaris
6 1 (0.98%) SUSE
6 1 (0.98%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (65.69%) Infrastructure as Code
2 60 (58.82%) CI/CD
3 54 (52.94%) DevOps
4 37 (36.27%) Platform Engineering
5 36 (35.29%) Containerisation
6 34 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
7 32 (31.37%) DevSecOps
8 23 (22.55%) Agile
8 23 (22.55%) Problem-Solving
9 22 (21.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 21 (20.59%) Continuous Improvement
11 20 (19.61%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 19 (18.63%) Mentoring
12 19 (18.63%) Systems Engineering
13 18 (17.65%) SIEM
14 17 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
14 17 (16.67%) Infrastructure Automation
14 17 (16.67%) Network Virtualisation
15 15 (14.71%) Configuration Management
15 15 (14.71%) Customer Requirements
Programming Languages
1 57 (55.88%) Python
2 42 (41.18%) Bash
3 28 (27.45%) PowerShell
4 21 (20.59%) Java
5 8 (7.84%) C#
6 7 (6.86%) SQL
7 4 (3.92%) Shell Script
8 3 (2.94%) Go
9 2 (1.96%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.98%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 83 (81.37%) Security Cleared
2 64 (62.75%) DV Cleared
3 28 (27.45%) SC Cleared
4 15 (14.71%) VCAP
5 7 (6.86%) AWS Certification
6 5 (4.90%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 2 (1.96%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.96%) CISSP
7 2 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.96%) Degree
8 1 (0.98%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (0.98%) CCSK
8 1 (0.98%) CCSP
8 1 (0.98%) CISM
8 1 (0.98%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.98%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.98%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.98%) RHCE
8 1 (0.98%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.88%) Data Quality
1 6 (5.88%) QA
2 2 (1.96%) NCSC
2 2 (1.96%) NIST
3 1 (0.98%) Government Security Classifications
3 1 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.98%) JSP 440
3 1 (0.98%) SLA
System Software
1 44 (43.14%) Docker
2 39 (38.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 24 (23.53%) VMware NSX
3 24 (23.53%) vSphere
4 21 (20.59%) Active Directory
5 20 (19.61%) Hyper-V
6 5 (4.90%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (2.94%) VirtualBox
8 2 (1.96%) Corosync
8 2 (1.96%) KVM
8 2 (1.96%) NFS
9 1 (0.98%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.98%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 1 (0.98%) Veritas Volume Manager
Systems Management
1 61 (59.80%) Kubernetes
2 14 (13.73%) VxRail
3 11 (10.78%) Grafana
3 11 (10.78%) Prometheus
4 4 (3.92%) PowerCLI
4 4 (3.92%) vCenter Server
5 3 (2.94%) Docker Swarm
5 3 (2.94%) Progress Chef
6 2 (1.96%) Argo
6 2 (1.96%) Failover Clustering
6 2 (1.96%) Istio
6 2 (1.96%) Pacemaker
6 2 (1.96%) Puppet
7 1 (0.98%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.98%) FreeIPA
7 1 (0.98%) HAProxy
7 1 (0.98%) NetBackup
7 1 (0.98%) Podman
7 1 (0.98%) SELinux
7 1 (0.98%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 42 (41.18%) VMware
2 11 (10.78%) Google
3 8 (7.84%) CyberArk
3 8 (7.84%) Red Hat
4 7 (6.86%) Microsoft
5 6 (5.88%) Cisco
6 5 (4.90%) InterSystems
7 4 (3.92%) SaltStack
7 4 (3.92%) Splunk
8 3 (2.94%) Oracle
8 3 (2.94%) Thales
9 2 (1.96%) Atlassian
9 2 (1.96%) SAP
9 2 (1.96%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.98%) F5
10 1 (0.98%) Fortinet
10 1 (0.98%) Infoblox
10 1 (0.98%) Juniper
10 1 (0.98%) SolarWinds
10 1 (0.98%) Veritas