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 17 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 43 44
Rank change year-on-year -33 +1 +9
Contract jobs citing Ansible 81 79 134
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 2.28% 4.21% 4.25%
As % of the Systems Management category 19.10% 26.60% 32.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 67 107
10th Percentile £449 £463 £425
25th Percentile £492 £542 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £613 £646 £631
90th Percentile £682 £678 £700
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 6
10th Percentile £88.77 £79.13 £64.25
25th Percentile £94.10 £79.77 £72.88
Median hourly rate £99.41 £80.83 £74.22
Median % change year-on-year +22.99% +8.91% -4.85%
75th Percentile £100.00 £81.90 £74.44
90th Percentile - £82.53 £75.97
England median hourly rate £70.00 £56.00 £74.00
% change year-on-year +25.00% -24.32% +0.88%

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 424 297 416
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 11.95% 15.84% 13.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 270 222 319
10th Percentile £315 £265 £273
25th Percentile £435 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year - +3.77% -3.64%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £613
90th Percentile £722 £692 £690
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 9 15
10th Percentile £34.50 £17.13 -
25th Percentile £46.50 £18.87 £40.00
Median hourly rate £51.00 £70.00 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.14% +12.90% -20.51%
75th Percentile £92.53 £78.70 £74.22
90th Percentile £100.00 £80.59 £76.28
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.50 £30.50
% change year-on-year +17.12% +81.97% -44.55%

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 17 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Ansible in the South West

Ansible
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

Ansible
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Ansible in the South West over the 6 months to 17 July 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 17 July 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 -9 22 £538 -15.02% 8
Wiltshire -23 22 £553 -7.92% 1
Gloucestershire -15 16 £575 -6.50% 33
Bristol -17 15 £500 +13.64% 4
Devon -15 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 (3.70%) Confluence
2 2 (2.47%) IIS
3 1 (1.23%) Apache
3 1 (1.23%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.23%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 34 (41.98%) AWS
2 33 (40.74%) Azure
3 9 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
3 9 (11.11%) GCP
4 8 (9.88%) OpenShift
5 7 (8.64%) GitHub
6 6 (7.41%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (4.94%) Entra ID
8 3 (3.70%) Amazon S3
8 3 (3.70%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (3.70%) Datadog
8 3 (3.70%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 3 (3.70%) Serverless
9 2 (2.47%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (2.47%) IaaS
9 2 (2.47%) PaaS
10 1 (1.23%) AWS Fargate
10 1 (1.23%) Google Compute Engine
10 1 (1.23%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 24 (29.63%) Firewall
2 20 (24.69%) TCP/IP
3 18 (22.22%) DNS
4 16 (19.75%) DHCP
5 10 (12.35%) VSAN
6 5 (6.17%) Network Security
6 5 (6.17%) VLAN
7 4 (4.94%) VPN
8 3 (3.70%) BGP
8 3 (3.70%) OSPF
8 3 (3.70%) Software-Defined Networking
9 1 (1.23%) AMQP
9 1 (1.23%) Calico
9 1 (1.23%) Kerberos
9 1 (1.23%) NAS
9 1 (1.23%) NX-OS
9 1 (1.23%) SAN
9 1 (1.23%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.70%) MongoDB
2 2 (2.47%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (2.47%) BigQuery
2 2 (2.47%) InfluxDB
2 2 (2.47%) Relational Database
2 2 (2.47%) SAP HANA
2 2 (2.47%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.23%) Big Data
3 1 (1.23%) DynamoDB
3 1 (1.23%) Oracle Database
3 1 (1.23%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 21 (25.93%) Jenkins
2 11 (13.58%) GitLab
3 9 (11.11%) Git
3 9 (11.11%) JIRA
4 4 (4.94%) Bitbucket
5 2 (2.47%) Gradle
6 1 (1.23%) Artifactory
6 1 (1.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (1.23%) Burp Suite
6 1 (1.23%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.23%) eggPlant
6 1 (1.23%) Gatling
6 1 (1.23%) GoCD
6 1 (1.23%) JUnit
6 1 (1.23%) LoadRunner
6 1 (1.23%) Maven
6 1 (1.23%) REST Assured
6 1 (1.23%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.23%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 8 (9.88%) Analytical Skills
1 8 (9.88%) Social Skills
2 7 (8.64%) Public Sector
3 2 (2.47%) Banking
3 2 (2.47%) Finance
4 1 (1.23%) Advertising
4 1 (1.23%) Aerospace
4 1 (1.23%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (1.23%) Military
Job Titles
1 22 (27.16%) DevOps Engineer
2 17 (20.99%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 13 (16.05%) Senior
4 10 (12.35%) Software Engineer
5 9 (11.11%) Automation Engineer
6 8 (9.88%) Principal Engineer
7 6 (7.41%) Platform Engineer
8 5 (6.17%) Network Engineer
8 5 (6.17%) Senior DevOps
8 5 (6.17%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 4 (4.94%) Data Engineer
9 4 (4.94%) Java Engineer
10 3 (3.70%) Cloud Engineer
10 3 (3.70%) Data Migration Engineer
10 3 (3.70%) Developer
10 3 (3.70%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
10 3 (3.70%) GCP Engineer
10 3 (3.70%) Migration Engineer
10 3 (3.70%) Senior Platform Engineer
10 3 (3.70%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (16.05%) REST
2 10 (12.35%) Spring
2 10 (12.35%) Spring Boot
3 7 (8.64%) SOAP
4 6 (7.41%) .NET
5 4 (4.94%) RabbitMQ
6 3 (3.70%) React
7 2 (2.47%) Elastic Stack
7 2 (2.47%) JPA
7 2 (2.47%) Kafka
7 2 (2.47%) LDAP
7 2 (2.47%) Node.js
7 2 (2.47%) YAML
8 1 (1.23%) FreeMarker
8 1 (1.23%) Hibernate
8 1 (1.23%) HTML5
8 1 (1.23%) JDBC
8 1 (1.23%) JSF
8 1 (1.23%) JSON
8 1 (1.23%) JSP
Miscellaneous
1 10 (12.35%) PKI
2 8 (9.88%) Data Centre
3 4 (4.94%) Cloud Native
3 4 (4.94%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (3.70%) Clustering
4 3 (3.70%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (3.70%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.47%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.47%) Replication
6 1 (1.23%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.23%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.23%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.23%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.23%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.23%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.23%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 38 (46.91%) Linux
2 25 (30.86%) Windows
3 7 (8.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (7.41%) Windows Server
5 2 (2.47%) Unix
6 1 (1.23%) CentOS
6 1 (1.23%) Rocky
6 1 (1.23%) SUSE
6 1 (1.23%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (48.15%) Infrastructure as Code
2 37 (45.68%) DevOps
3 36 (44.44%) CI/CD
4 25 (30.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 22 (27.16%) Agile
5 22 (27.16%) Containerisation
5 22 (27.16%) Problem-Solving
6 19 (23.46%) Infrastructure Automation
7 17 (20.99%) Platform Engineering
7 17 (20.99%) Technical Leadership
8 15 (18.52%) Configuration Management
8 15 (18.52%) Software Engineering
9 14 (17.28%) DevSecOps
10 13 (16.05%) Continuous Improvement
11 12 (14.81%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 11 (13.58%) Cybersecurity
12 11 (13.58%) Mentoring
12 11 (13.58%) Systems Engineering
13 10 (12.35%) Network Virtualisation
13 10 (12.35%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 43 (53.09%) Python
2 33 (40.74%) Bash
3 24 (29.63%) PowerShell
4 15 (18.52%) Java
5 8 (9.88%) SQL
6 3 (3.70%) Go
6 3 (3.70%) JavaScript
6 3 (3.70%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.23%) Bicep
7 1 (1.23%) C#
Qualifications
1 59 (72.84%) Security Cleared
2 37 (45.68%) DV Cleared
3 26 (32.10%) SC Cleared
4 5 (6.17%) Cisco Certification
4 5 (6.17%) VCAP
5 4 (4.94%) Degree
5 4 (4.94%) RHCE
5 4 (4.94%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 3 (3.70%) CCNP
6 3 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (3.70%) OCA
6 3 (3.70%) Oracle Certification
6 3 (3.70%) RHCA
7 2 (2.47%) AWS Certification
7 2 (2.47%) CISSP
8 1 (1.23%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (1.23%) CCSK
8 1 (1.23%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (1.23%) Master's Degree
8 1 (1.23%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.41%) Data Quality
2 5 (6.17%) QA
3 2 (2.47%) SLA
4 1 (1.23%) Government Security Classifications
4 1 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.23%) NCSC
4 1 (1.23%) NIST
System Software
1 32 (39.51%) Docker
2 22 (27.16%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (18.52%) Active Directory
4 14 (17.28%) Hyper-V
5 11 (13.58%) VMware NSX
5 11 (13.58%) vSphere
6 2 (2.47%) Corosync
6 2 (2.47%) KVM
6 2 (2.47%) VirtualBox
7 1 (1.23%) NFS
7 1 (1.23%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 51 (62.96%) Terraform
2 38 (46.91%) Kubernetes
3 9 (11.11%) Grafana
3 9 (11.11%) Prometheus
4 7 (8.64%) Progress Chef
5 6 (7.41%) Puppet
5 6 (7.41%) VxRail
6 3 (3.70%) Docker Swarm
7 2 (2.47%) Failover Clustering
7 2 (2.47%) Istio
7 2 (2.47%) Pacemaker
8 1 (1.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (1.23%) Argo
8 1 (1.23%) FortiGate
8 1 (1.23%) FreeIPA
8 1 (1.23%) Nagios
8 1 (1.23%) Podman
8 1 (1.23%) SELinux
8 1 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (1.23%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 24 (29.63%) VMware
2 8 (9.88%) Microsoft
3 6 (7.41%) Red Hat
4 5 (6.17%) Cisco
4 5 (6.17%) CyberArk
4 5 (6.17%) InterSystems
5 4 (4.94%) Google
6 3 (3.70%) Oracle
6 3 (3.70%) Splunk
7 2 (2.47%) SAP
7 2 (2.47%) Thales
8 1 (1.23%) Broadcom
8 1 (1.23%) Dynatrace
8 1 (1.23%) F5
8 1 (1.23%) Fortinet
8 1 (1.23%) Infoblox
8 1 (1.23%) Juniper
8 1 (1.23%) MuleSoft
8 1 (1.23%) NetScout
8 1 (1.23%) SolarWinds