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

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 45 39
Rank change year-on-year -30 -6 +15
Contract jobs citing Ansible 80 77 135
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 2.27% 4.06% 4.44%
As % of the Systems Management category 18.96% 26.28% 33.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 64 108
10th Percentile £449 £463 £425
25th Percentile £488 £532 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £593 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.17% +7.73% -8.33%
75th Percentile £613 £649 £634
90th Percentile £684 £679 £700
England median daily rate £530 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% - -8.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 6
10th Percentile £89.52 £79.13 £64.25
25th Percentile £95.68 £79.77 £72.88
Median hourly rate £98.82 £80.83 £74.22
Median % change year-on-year +22.26% +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% +1.37%

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 422 293 408
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 11.95% 15.45% 13.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 268 218 313
10th Percentile £326 £246 £239
25th Percentile £425 £448 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £533
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% +3.19% -3.09%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £625
90th Percentile £705 £697 £690
England median daily rate £520 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +1.46% -2.38% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 8 12
10th Percentile £37.38 £16.80 -
25th Percentile £47.38 £18.60 £40.00
Median hourly rate £51.00 £67.50 £70.75
Median % change year-on-year -24.44% -4.59% -9.29%
75th Percentile £97.25 £79.03 £74.44
90th Percentile £100.00 £80.89 £77.19
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% +83.33% -45.45%

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

Ansible
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 23 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 23 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Ansible in the South West

Ansible
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 23 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 23 £538 -15.02% 13
Wiltshire -19 21 £553 -7.92% 1
Gloucestershire -11 15 £575 -7.26% 36
Bristol -12 15 £500 +14.94% 6
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 (3.75%) Confluence
2 2 (2.50%) IIS
3 1 (1.25%) Apache
3 1 (1.25%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.25%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 33 (41.25%) AWS
2 31 (38.75%) Azure
3 9 (11.25%) Azure DevOps
3 9 (11.25%) GCP
4 8 (10.00%) OpenShift
5 7 (8.75%) GitHub
6 6 (7.50%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (3.75%) Amazon S3
7 3 (3.75%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (3.75%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (3.75%) Datadog
7 3 (3.75%) Entra ID
7 3 (3.75%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 3 (3.75%) Serverless
8 2 (2.50%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (2.50%) IaaS
8 2 (2.50%) PaaS
9 1 (1.25%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (1.25%) SaaS
9 1 (1.25%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 25 (31.25%) Firewall
2 20 (25.00%) TCP/IP
3 19 (23.75%) DNS
4 17 (21.25%) DHCP
5 11 (13.75%) VSAN
6 5 (6.25%) VLAN
7 4 (5.00%) Network Security
7 4 (5.00%) VPN
8 3 (3.75%) BGP
8 3 (3.75%) OSPF
8 3 (3.75%) Software-Defined Networking
9 1 (1.25%) AMQP
9 1 (1.25%) Calico
9 1 (1.25%) Kerberos
9 1 (1.25%) NAS
9 1 (1.25%) NX-OS
9 1 (1.25%) SAN
9 1 (1.25%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.50%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (2.50%) BigQuery
1 2 (2.50%) InfluxDB
1 2 (2.50%) MongoDB
1 2 (2.50%) Relational Database
1 2 (2.50%) SAP HANA
1 2 (2.50%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.25%) Big Data
2 1 (1.25%) DynamoDB
2 1 (1.25%) Oracle Database
2 1 (1.25%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 21 (26.25%) Jenkins
2 11 (13.75%) GitLab
3 9 (11.25%) Git
3 9 (11.25%) JIRA
4 4 (5.00%) Bitbucket
5 2 (2.50%) Gradle
6 1 (1.25%) Artifactory
6 1 (1.25%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (1.25%) Burp Suite
6 1 (1.25%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.25%) eggPlant
6 1 (1.25%) Gatling
6 1 (1.25%) GoCD
6 1 (1.25%) JUnit
6 1 (1.25%) LoadRunner
6 1 (1.25%) Maven
6 1 (1.25%) REST Assured
6 1 (1.25%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.25%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 8 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
1 8 (10.00%) Public Sector
1 8 (10.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (2.50%) Banking
2 2 (2.50%) Finance
3 1 (1.25%) Advertising
3 1 (1.25%) Aerospace
3 1 (1.25%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (1.25%) Military
Job Titles
1 22 (27.50%) DevOps Engineer
2 17 (21.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 13 (16.25%) Senior
4 10 (12.50%) Software Engineer
5 9 (11.25%) Principal Engineer
6 8 (10.00%) Automation Engineer
7 7 (8.75%) Platform Engineer
8 5 (6.25%) Network Engineer
8 5 (6.25%) Senior DevOps
8 5 (6.25%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 4 (5.00%) Data Engineer
9 4 (5.00%) Java Engineer
10 3 (3.75%) Cloud Engineer
10 3 (3.75%) Data Migration Engineer
10 3 (3.75%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
10 3 (3.75%) GCP Engineer
10 3 (3.75%) Migration Engineer
10 3 (3.75%) Senior Platform Engineer
10 3 (3.75%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 2 (2.50%) GCP DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (16.25%) REST
2 9 (11.25%) Spring
2 9 (11.25%) Spring Boot
3 7 (8.75%) SOAP
4 6 (7.50%) .NET
5 4 (5.00%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (2.50%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (2.50%) JPA
6 2 (2.50%) LDAP
6 2 (2.50%) Node.js
6 2 (2.50%) React
6 2 (2.50%) YAML
7 1 (1.25%) Apache NiFi
7 1 (1.25%) ARM Templates
7 1 (1.25%) NETCONF
7 1 (1.25%) OpenTelemetry
7 1 (1.25%) Playwright
7 1 (1.25%) PySpark
7 1 (1.25%) Redux
7 1 (1.25%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 11 (13.75%) PKI
2 9 (11.25%) Data Centre
3 4 (5.00%) Cloud Native
3 4 (5.00%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (3.75%) Clustering
4 3 (3.75%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (3.75%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.50%) Replication
6 1 (1.25%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.25%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.25%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.25%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.25%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.25%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.25%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 38 (47.50%) Linux
2 26 (32.50%) Windows
3 7 (8.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (7.50%) Windows Server
5 2 (2.50%) Unix
6 1 (1.25%) CentOS
6 1 (1.25%) Rocky
6 1 (1.25%) SUSE
6 1 (1.25%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (48.75%) Infrastructure as Code
2 37 (46.25%) CI/CD
2 37 (46.25%) DevOps
3 25 (31.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 23 (28.75%) Problem-Solving
5 22 (27.50%) Agile
5 22 (27.50%) Containerisation
6 19 (23.75%) Infrastructure Automation
7 18 (22.50%) Platform Engineering
7 18 (22.50%) Technical Leadership
8 15 (18.75%) Configuration Management
8 15 (18.75%) DevSecOps
8 15 (18.75%) Software Engineering
9 13 (16.25%) Continuous Improvement
10 12 (15.00%) Cybersecurity
10 12 (15.00%) Mentoring
10 12 (15.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 12 (15.00%) Systems Engineering
11 11 (13.75%) Network Virtualisation
11 11 (13.75%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 44 (55.00%) Python
2 34 (42.50%) Bash
3 25 (31.25%) PowerShell
4 14 (17.50%) Java
5 8 (10.00%) SQL
6 3 (3.75%) Go
6 3 (3.75%) Shell Script
7 2 (2.50%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.25%) Bicep
8 1 (1.25%) C#
Qualifications
1 59 (73.75%) Security Cleared
2 38 (47.50%) DV Cleared
3 25 (31.25%) SC Cleared
4 6 (7.50%) VCAP
5 5 (6.25%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (5.00%) Degree
6 4 (5.00%) RHCE
6 4 (5.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 3 (3.75%) CCNP
7 3 (3.75%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (3.75%) OCA
7 3 (3.75%) Oracle Certification
7 3 (3.75%) RHCA
8 2 (2.50%) AWS Certification
8 2 (2.50%) CISSP
9 1 (1.25%) CCSP
9 1 (1.25%) CISM
9 1 (1.25%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (1.25%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.50%) Data Quality
2 5 (6.25%) QA
3 2 (2.50%) SLA
4 1 (1.25%) Government Security Classifications
4 1 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.25%) NCSC
4 1 (1.25%) NIST
System Software
1 32 (40.00%) Docker
2 23 (28.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (18.75%) Active Directory
3 15 (18.75%) Hyper-V
4 12 (15.00%) VMware NSX
4 12 (15.00%) vSphere
5 2 (2.50%) Corosync
5 2 (2.50%) KVM
5 2 (2.50%) VirtualBox
6 1 (1.25%) NFS
6 1 (1.25%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 50 (62.50%) Terraform
2 37 (46.25%) Kubernetes
3 9 (11.25%) Grafana
3 9 (11.25%) Prometheus
4 7 (8.75%) Progress Chef
4 7 (8.75%) VxRail
5 5 (6.25%) Puppet
6 3 (3.75%) Docker Swarm
7 2 (2.50%) Failover Clustering
7 2 (2.50%) Istio
7 2 (2.50%) Pacemaker
8 1 (1.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (1.25%) Argo
8 1 (1.25%) FortiGate
8 1 (1.25%) FreeIPA
8 1 (1.25%) Nagios
8 1 (1.25%) Podman
8 1 (1.25%) SELinux
8 1 (1.25%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (1.25%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 25 (31.25%) VMware
2 7 (8.75%) Microsoft
3 6 (7.50%) Red Hat
4 5 (6.25%) Cisco
4 5 (6.25%) CyberArk
4 5 (6.25%) InterSystems
5 4 (5.00%) Google
6 3 (3.75%) Oracle
6 3 (3.75%) Splunk
7 2 (2.50%) SAP
7 2 (2.50%) Thales
8 1 (1.25%) Dynatrace
8 1 (1.25%) F5
8 1 (1.25%) Fortinet
8 1 (1.25%) Infoblox
8 1 (1.25%) Juniper
8 1 (1.25%) MuleSoft
8 1 (1.25%) NetScout
8 1 (1.25%) SolarWinds