Ansible Contracts in the South West

Ansible
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West requiring Ansible skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Ansible over the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 47 48 52
Rank change year-on-year +1 +4 +15
Contract jobs citing Ansible 79 128 130
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 4.31% 3.92% 3.70%
As % of the Systems Management category 25.82% 29.98% 25.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 101 96
10th Percentile £481 £425 £433
25th Percentile £550 £513 £512
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% +6.19%
75th Percentile £649 £638 £675
90th Percentile £689 £700 £725
England median daily rate £550 £550 £603
% change year-on-year - -8.71% +0.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 15
10th Percentile £79.13 £64.25 £53.75
25th Percentile £79.77 £72.88 £70.50
Median hourly rate £80.83 £74.22 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.91% -4.85% +35.65%
75th Percentile £81.90 £74.44 -
90th Percentile £82.53 £75.97 £86.00
England median hourly rate £56.00 £74.00 £73.36
% change year-on-year -24.32% +0.88% +24.86%

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 306 427 503
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 16.68% 13.08% 14.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 226 325 407
10th Percentile £243 £234 £363
25th Percentile £448 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £533 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% -3.18% +7.32%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £653
90th Percentile £691 £690 £725
England median daily rate £513 £525 £575
% change year-on-year -2.38% -8.70% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 16 23
10th Percentile £17.13 - £53.75
25th Percentile £18.87 £40.00 £60.25
Median hourly rate £70.00 £51.00 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year +37.25% -34.62% +235.48%
75th Percentile £78.70 £74.11 £81.88
90th Percentile £80.59 £75.97 £89.50
England median hourly rate £48.50 £31.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +53.97% -45.22% +161.36%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing Ansible as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Ansible in the South West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Ansible in the South West.

Daily rate trend for Ansible in the South West

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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 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Ansible in the South West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Ansible in the South West.

Hourly rate trend 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 6 July 2025. 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 +15 29 £593 -4.05% 12
Gloucestershire +17 22 £615 +11.82% 58
Bristol +5 12 £458 -12.86% 34
Somerset +5 6 £633 +40.56% 9
Dorset +4 4 £550 +100.00% 6
Devon -8 1 £475 +5.56% 8
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 15 (18.99%) Confluence
2 5 (6.33%) Apache
3 2 (2.53%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.53%) nginx
Applications
1 8 (10.13%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 31 (39.24%) AWS
2 20 (25.32%) Azure
3 16 (20.25%) OpenShift
4 5 (6.33%) Amazon S3
4 5 (6.33%) GCP
5 4 (5.06%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (3.80%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (3.80%) Serverless
7 1 (1.27%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (1.27%) AWS Fargate
7 1 (1.27%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.27%) IaaS
7 1 (1.27%) npm
7 1 (1.27%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 22 (27.85%) DNS
2 9 (11.39%) TCP/IP
3 8 (10.13%) DHCP
3 8 (10.13%) HTTP
3 8 (10.13%) VPN
4 7 (8.86%) BGP
4 7 (8.86%) Firewall
4 7 (8.86%) IPsec
4 7 (8.86%) MPLS
4 7 (8.86%) Unified Communications
5 3 (3.80%) Cisco ISE
5 3 (3.80%) Network Security
6 1 (1.27%) AMQP
6 1 (1.27%) Kerberos
6 1 (1.27%) SAN
6 1 (1.27%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.80%) MongoDB
2 2 (2.53%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (2.53%) Hadoop
2 2 (2.53%) NoSQL
2 2 (2.53%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (2.53%) RDBMS
2 2 (2.53%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.27%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.27%) Big Data
3 1 (1.27%) Flink
3 1 (1.27%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 25 (31.65%) Jenkins
2 22 (27.85%) Git
3 15 (18.99%) JIRA
4 14 (17.72%) Bitbucket
5 12 (15.19%) GitLab
6 1 (1.27%) Artifactory
6 1 (1.27%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (1.27%) Cypress.io
6 1 (1.27%) Maven
6 1 (1.27%) Selenium
6 1 (1.27%) Snyk
6 1 (1.27%) SonarQube
General
1 20 (25.32%) Social Skills
2 13 (16.46%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (10.13%) Public Sector
4 2 (2.53%) Finance
4 2 (2.53%) Legal
5 1 (1.27%) Electronics
5 1 (1.27%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.27%) Marketing
5 1 (1.27%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (18.99%) DevOps Engineer
2 11 (13.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 9 (11.39%) Platform Engineer
4 8 (10.13%) Automation Engineer
4 8 (10.13%) Network Engineer
5 6 (7.59%) Software Engineer
6 5 (6.33%) Administrator
6 5 (6.33%) Linux Administrator
6 5 (6.33%) Linux Engineer
7 4 (5.06%) Linux/Unix DevOps
8 3 (3.80%) Automation Tester
8 3 (3.80%) Backend Developer
8 3 (3.80%) Developer
8 3 (3.80%) DevOps Administrator
8 3 (3.80%) Java Engineer
8 3 (3.80%) Linux DevOps Administrator
8 3 (3.80%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
8 3 (3.80%) Software Developer
8 3 (3.80%) Software Tester
8 3 (3.80%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (20.25%) REST
2 11 (13.92%) SOAP
3 7 (8.86%) NETCONF
3 7 (8.86%) RESTCONF
4 5 (6.33%) Elastic Stack
4 5 (6.33%) Node.js
5 4 (5.06%) Apache NiFi
6 3 (3.80%) Spring
6 3 (3.80%) Spring Boot
7 2 (2.53%) AngularJS
7 2 (2.53%) React
7 2 (2.53%) Vue
8 1 (1.27%) .NET
8 1 (1.27%) JPA
8 1 (1.27%) Kafka
8 1 (1.27%) ModSecurity
8 1 (1.27%) Playwright
8 1 (1.27%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (1.27%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.13%) PKI
2 3 (3.80%) Data Centre
2 3 (3.80%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (1.27%) Algorithms
3 1 (1.27%) Cyber Defence
3 1 (1.27%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (1.27%) Public Cloud
3 1 (1.27%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 57 (72.15%) Linux
2 37 (46.84%) Windows
3 20 (25.32%) Windows Server
4 10 (12.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (2.53%) CentOS
6 1 (1.27%) Ubuntu
6 1 (1.27%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (41.77%) Containerisation
2 27 (34.18%) CI/CD
2 27 (34.18%) Service Management
3 25 (31.65%) NsoIT
4 24 (30.38%) Infrastructure as Code
5 23 (29.11%) Configuration Management
6 21 (26.58%) DevOps
6 21 (26.58%) Problem-Solving
7 20 (25.32%) Agile
8 18 (22.78%) Validation
9 17 (21.52%) System Testing
10 15 (18.99%) Infrastructure Automation
10 15 (18.99%) Software Engineering
11 14 (17.72%) Deployment Automation
12 11 (13.92%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 11 (13.92%) Reverse Engineering
13 9 (11.39%) Platform Engineering
13 9 (11.39%) Task Automation
14 8 (10.13%) Critical Thinking
14 8 (10.13%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 57 (72.15%) Python
2 36 (45.57%) Bash
3 29 (36.71%) PowerShell
4 16 (20.25%) Java
5 3 (3.80%) Perl
5 3 (3.80%) SQL
6 2 (2.53%) C
7 1 (1.27%) C++
7 1 (1.27%) Go
7 1 (1.27%) Groovy
7 1 (1.27%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.27%) Ruby
7 1 (1.27%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 72 (91.14%) Security Cleared
2 47 (59.49%) SC Cleared
3 29 (36.71%) DV Cleared
4 18 (22.78%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 17 (21.52%) CCNP
5 17 (21.52%) Cisco Certification
6 11 (13.92%) OCA
6 11 (13.92%) Oracle Certification
6 11 (13.92%) RHCE
7 10 (12.66%) RHCA
8 9 (11.39%) Degree
9 1 (1.27%) AWS Certification
9 1 (1.27%) CISSP
9 1 (1.27%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (1.27%) ISTQB
9 1 (1.27%) Linux+ Certification
9 1 (1.27%) MCSA
9 1 (1.27%) MCSE
9 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.80%) NCSC
1 3 (3.80%) QA
2 1 (1.27%) Data Quality
System Software
1 33 (41.77%) Docker
2 31 (39.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (12.66%) VMware ESXi
4 8 (10.13%) Hyper-V
5 4 (5.06%) Active Directory
6 1 (1.27%) NFS
6 1 (1.27%) Samba
Systems Management
1 42 (53.16%) Terraform
2 37 (46.84%) Kubernetes
3 26 (32.91%) Puppet
4 12 (15.19%) Progress Chef
5 11 (13.92%) vCenter Server
6 10 (12.66%) Grafana
7 9 (11.39%) Prometheus
8 3 (3.80%) Automic
9 1 (1.27%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (1.27%) HAProxy
9 1 (1.27%) Kibana
9 1 (1.27%) logstash
9 1 (1.27%) Nagios
9 1 (1.27%) Nessus
9 1 (1.27%) OPNET
9 1 (1.27%) Packer
9 1 (1.27%) Podman
9 1 (1.27%) PowerCLI
9 1 (1.27%) SELinux
9 1 (1.27%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 44 (55.70%) VMware
2 23 (29.11%) Cisco
3 16 (20.25%) Atlassian
4 15 (18.99%) Red Hat
5 13 (16.46%) Oracle
6 4 (5.06%) F5
7 2 (2.53%) Microsoft
7 2 (2.53%) NetApp
7 2 (2.53%) SolarWinds
7 2 (2.53%) Splunk
8 1 (1.27%) Citrix
8 1 (1.27%) Infoblox
8 1 (1.27%) Juniper
8 1 (1.27%) NetScout
8 1 (1.27%) SAP
8 1 (1.27%) Veeam