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 27 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 47 63
Rank change year-on-year -32 +16 -14
Contract jobs citing Ansible 63 79 98
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 2.23% 4.43% 3.14%
As % of the Systems Management category 15.48% 24.69% 23.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 61 69
10th Percentile £450 £440 £465
25th Percentile £500 £513 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £628 £625 £700
90th Percentile £760 £700 £740
England median daily rate £520 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -13.33% +9.09% -9.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 2
10th Percentile £79.80 - £60.13
25th Percentile £81.00 - £62.19
Median hourly rate £83.00 £74.44 £68.75
Median % change year-on-year +11.50% +8.28% +14.11%
75th Percentile £86.00 - £74.69
90th Percentile £87.80 - £76.38
England median hourly rate £80.50 £74.44 £64.88
% change year-on-year +8.14% +14.73% -5.97%

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 407 320 419
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 14.44% 17.93% 13.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 318 225 312
10th Percentile £375 £340 £300
25th Percentile £463 £463 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +6.98% -2.27%
75th Percentile £675 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £734 £712
England median daily rate £500 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -9.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 14
10th Percentile £72.00 £24.00 -
25th Percentile £81.00 £41.25 -
Median hourly rate £89.00 £70.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.14% +75.00% -38.46%
75th Percentile £119.00 £72.22 £73.75
90th Percentile - £73.55 £77.13
England median hourly rate £54.00 £26.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +103.77% -33.75% -23.27%

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 27 February 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
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 27 February 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 -8 23 £575 - 12
Bristol -23 19 £525 +2.44% 4
Gloucestershire -17 15 £550 -10.57% 15
Dorset - 5 £525 -
Somerset -15 1 £550 -12.00% 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 9 (14.29%) Apache
2 6 (9.52%) Confluence
3 2 (3.17%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (3.17%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 18 (28.57%) AWS
2 10 (15.87%) Azure
3 8 (12.70%) IaaS
4 7 (11.11%) npm
4 7 (11.11%) OpenShift
5 5 (7.94%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (4.76%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (4.76%) Entra ID
6 3 (4.76%) GCP
7 2 (3.17%) Amazon S3
7 2 (3.17%) GitHub
7 2 (3.17%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 2 (3.17%) OCI
8 1 (1.59%) AWS CloudTrail
8 1 (1.59%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (1.59%) Datadog
8 1 (1.59%) PaaS
8 1 (1.59%) SaaS
8 1 (1.59%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (11.11%) AMQP
2 4 (6.35%) TCP/IP
3 3 (4.76%) Network Security
4 2 (3.17%) DHCP
4 2 (3.17%) DNS
5 1 (1.59%) BGP
5 1 (1.59%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (1.59%) Cisco ISE
5 1 (1.59%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (1.59%) Firewall
5 1 (1.59%) HTTP
5 1 (1.59%) NAS
5 1 (1.59%) OSPF
5 1 (1.59%) SAN
5 1 (1.59%) SD-WAN
5 1 (1.59%) tcpdump
5 1 (1.59%) VLAN
5 1 (1.59%) VPN
5 1 (1.59%) WAN
5 1 (1.59%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.35%) RDBMS
1 4 (6.35%) Relational Database
2 3 (4.76%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (4.76%) InfluxDB
3 2 (3.17%) Hadoop
3 2 (3.17%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.59%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (1.59%) Big Data
4 1 (1.59%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.59%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.59%) MySQL
4 1 (1.59%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.59%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.59%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.59%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 21 (33.33%) Git
2 19 (30.16%) GitLab
2 19 (30.16%) Jenkins
3 8 (12.70%) Artifactory
3 8 (12.70%) Maven
4 7 (11.11%) Bitbucket
4 7 (11.11%) JIRA
5 4 (6.35%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (1.59%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (1.59%) GoCD
6 1 (1.59%) Mocha
6 1 (1.59%) SonarQube
General
1 20 (31.75%) Social Skills
2 10 (15.87%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (14.29%) Public Sector
4 3 (4.76%) Aerospace
4 3 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (3.17%) Finance
6 1 (1.59%) Advertising
6 1 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.59%) Military
Job Titles
1 22 (34.92%) DevOps Engineer
2 9 (14.29%) Automation Engineer
2 9 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 7 (11.11%) Applications Engineer
3 7 (11.11%) Applications Support
3 7 (11.11%) Applications Support Engineer
3 7 (11.11%) Support Engineer
4 6 (9.52%) Lead
4 6 (9.52%) Platform Engineer
5 5 (7.94%) Software Engineer
6 4 (6.35%) Senior
6 4 (6.35%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 4 (6.35%) VMware Engineer
6 4 (6.35%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (4.76%) Architect
8 2 (3.17%) Developer
8 2 (3.17%) Linux Engineer
8 2 (3.17%) Network Engineer
8 2 (3.17%) Security Architect
8 2 (3.17%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (17.46%) REST
2 9 (14.29%) Apache NiFi
3 3 (4.76%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (4.76%) Kafka
4 2 (3.17%) JWT
4 2 (3.17%) OAuth
4 2 (3.17%) OAuth2
4 2 (3.17%) Spring
4 2 (3.17%) Spring Boot
5 1 (1.59%) AngularJS
5 1 (1.59%) ARM Templates
5 1 (1.59%) Express.js
5 1 (1.59%) Jest
5 1 (1.59%) ModSecurity
5 1 (1.59%) NestJS
5 1 (1.59%) Node.js
5 1 (1.59%) OpenTelemetry
5 1 (1.59%) React
5 1 (1.59%) SOAP
5 1 (1.59%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 8 (12.70%) Data Centre
2 3 (4.76%) Cloud Native
3 2 (3.17%) Replication
4 1 (1.59%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.59%) Client/Server
4 1 (1.59%) Clustering
4 1 (1.59%) CMDB
4 1 (1.59%) Data Fabric
4 1 (1.59%) DataPower
4 1 (1.59%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.59%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.59%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.59%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 28 (44.44%) Linux
2 25 (39.68%) Windows
3 7 (11.11%) Windows Server
4 6 (9.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (7.94%) CentOS
6 4 (6.35%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (57.14%) CI/CD
1 36 (57.14%) DevOps
2 21 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 19 (30.16%) Problem-Solving
4 18 (28.57%) Agile
5 12 (19.05%) Containerisation
5 12 (19.05%) Microservices
6 11 (17.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 11 (17.46%) Service Management
7 10 (15.87%) Continuous Improvement
7 10 (15.87%) Deployment Automation
7 10 (15.87%) Test Automation
7 10 (15.87%) Workflow
8 9 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 9 (14.29%) Software Engineering
8 9 (14.29%) Task Automation
8 9 (14.29%) User Experience
9 8 (12.70%) Configuration Management
9 8 (12.70%) Decision-Making
10 7 (11.11%) Data Centre Operations
Programming Languages
1 31 (49.21%) Python
2 25 (39.68%) PowerShell
3 14 (22.22%) Bash
4 11 (17.46%) Java
5 4 (6.35%) SQL
6 3 (4.76%) JavaScript
7 2 (3.17%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.59%) Bicep
8 1 (1.59%) C
8 1 (1.59%) C#
8 1 (1.59%) Go
8 1 (1.59%) PHP
8 1 (1.59%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 49 (77.78%) Security Cleared
2 31 (49.21%) SC Cleared
3 27 (42.86%) DV Cleared
4 8 (12.70%) Degree
5 6 (9.52%) OCA
5 6 (9.52%) Oracle Certification
5 6 (9.52%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 5 (7.94%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (6.35%) CCNP
7 4 (6.35%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (4.76%) MCSA
8 3 (4.76%) MCSE
8 3 (4.76%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (4.76%) RHCA
8 3 (4.76%) RHCE
9 2 (3.17%) Master's Degree
10 1 (1.59%) Azure Certification
10 1 (1.59%) CISSP
10 1 (1.59%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (1.59%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (14.29%) QA
2 2 (3.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (3.17%) NCSC
2 2 (3.17%) NIST
2 2 (3.17%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.59%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.59%) GDPR
3 1 (1.59%) Government Security Classifications
3 1 (1.59%) JSP 440
3 1 (1.59%) SLA
System Software
1 21 (33.33%) Docker
2 9 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (6.35%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.59%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.59%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 50 (79.37%) Terraform
2 33 (52.38%) Kubernetes
3 16 (25.40%) Grafana
4 9 (14.29%) Prometheus
5 8 (12.70%) Packer
6 6 (9.52%) Progress Chef
6 6 (9.52%) Puppet
7 4 (6.35%) Nessus
8 3 (4.76%) Podman
8 3 (4.76%) PowerCLI
8 3 (4.76%) Proxmox
9 2 (3.17%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (1.59%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (1.59%) Argo
10 1 (1.59%) FreeIPA
10 1 (1.59%) Kibana
10 1 (1.59%) logstash
10 1 (1.59%) Nagios
10 1 (1.59%) Rancher
10 1 (1.59%) SCOM
Vendors
1 18 (28.57%) VMware
2 12 (19.05%) Oracle
3 8 (12.70%) Red Hat
4 5 (7.94%) Microsoft
5 4 (6.35%) Atlassian
5 4 (6.35%) SolarWinds
5 4 (6.35%) Veeam
6 2 (3.17%) Broadcom
6 2 (3.17%) Cisco
6 2 (3.17%) Google
7 1 (1.59%) CheckPoint
7 1 (1.59%) Citrix
7 1 (1.59%) F5
7 1 (1.59%) IBM
7 1 (1.59%) TOWER Software