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

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 51 39
Rank change year-on-year -13 -12 +15
Contract jobs citing Ansible 95 71 130
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 2.65% 3.74% 4.61%
As % of the Systems Management category 21.84% 25.45% 33.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 58 107
10th Percentile £452 £476 £425
25th Percentile £500 £550 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £553 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.92% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £667 £649 £635
90th Percentile £780 £677 £700
England median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -11.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 2 7
10th Percentile £84.00 £79.13 £65.90
25th Percentile £90.63 £79.77 £73.25
Median hourly rate £98.82 £80.83 £74.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.26% +9.23% -5.13%
75th Percentile £99.71 £81.90 £74.44
90th Percentile £100.00 £82.53 £75.66
England median hourly rate £70.50 £59.25 £74.00
% change year-on-year +18.99% -19.93% +0.39%

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 435 279 392
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 12.12% 14.72% 13.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 278 209 301
10th Percentile £322 £262 £225
25th Percentile £429 £447 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year - +2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £620 £626 £625
90th Percentile £730 £696 £700
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 8 9
10th Percentile £20.13 £16.80 £62.20
25th Percentile £47.38 £18.60 £72.50
Median hourly rate £51.00 £67.50 £74.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.44% -8.78% -5.13%
75th Percentile £97.25 £79.03 £74.44
90th Percentile £99.88 £80.89 £77.60
England median hourly rate £65.45 £54.75 £36.83
% change year-on-year +19.54% +48.65% -28.13%

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 7 August 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 August 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 August 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 -2 33 £670 +5.93% 9
Wiltshire -22 21 £553 -7.92% 4
Gloucestershire -7 20 £575 -7.26% 40
Bristol -16 15 £500 +16.28% 14
Devon -18 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 (3.16%) Confluence
2 2 (2.11%) IIS
3 1 (1.05%) Apache
3 1 (1.05%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.05%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 42 (44.21%) AWS
2 34 (35.79%) Azure
3 12 (12.63%) GCP
4 8 (8.42%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (8.42%) OpenShift
5 7 (7.37%) GitHub
6 6 (6.32%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (3.16%) Amazon S3
7 3 (3.16%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (3.16%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (3.16%) Datadog
7 3 (3.16%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 3 (3.16%) Serverless
8 2 (2.11%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (2.11%) Entra ID
9 1 (1.05%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (1.05%) Google Compute Engine
9 1 (1.05%) IaaS
9 1 (1.05%) PaaS
9 1 (1.05%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 33 (34.74%) Firewall
2 27 (28.42%) TCP/IP
3 25 (26.32%) DNS
4 23 (24.21%) DHCP
5 18 (18.95%) VSAN
6 5 (5.26%) VLAN
7 4 (4.21%) Network Security
7 4 (4.21%) VPN
8 3 (3.16%) BGP
8 3 (3.16%) OSPF
8 3 (3.16%) Software-Defined Networking
9 1 (1.05%) AMQP
9 1 (1.05%) Calico
9 1 (1.05%) Kerberos
9 1 (1.05%) NAS
9 1 (1.05%) NX-OS
9 1 (1.05%) SAN
9 1 (1.05%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.11%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (2.11%) BigQuery
1 2 (2.11%) InfluxDB
1 2 (2.11%) MongoDB
1 2 (2.11%) Relational Database
1 2 (2.11%) SAP HANA
1 2 (2.11%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.05%) Big Data
2 1 (1.05%) DynamoDB
2 1 (1.05%) Oracle Database
2 1 (1.05%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 24 (25.26%) Jenkins
2 15 (15.79%) GitLab
3 8 (8.42%) Git
3 8 (8.42%) JIRA
4 4 (4.21%) Bitbucket
5 2 (2.11%) Gradle
6 1 (1.05%) Artifactory
6 1 (1.05%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (1.05%) Burp Suite
6 1 (1.05%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.05%) eggPlant
6 1 (1.05%) Gatling
6 1 (1.05%) GoCD
6 1 (1.05%) JUnit
6 1 (1.05%) LoadRunner
6 1 (1.05%) Maven
6 1 (1.05%) REST Assured
6 1 (1.05%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.05%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 10 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
1 10 (10.53%) Social Skills
2 9 (9.47%) Public Sector
3 2 (2.11%) Banking
3 2 (2.11%) Finance
4 1 (1.05%) Advertising
4 1 (1.05%) Aerospace
4 1 (1.05%) Military
Job Titles
1 23 (24.21%) DevOps Engineer
2 18 (18.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 14 (14.74%) Platform Engineer
3 14 (14.74%) Senior
4 13 (13.68%) Principal Engineer
5 10 (10.53%) Software Engineer
6 9 (9.47%) Automation Engineer
7 5 (5.26%) Developer
7 5 (5.26%) Lead
7 5 (5.26%) Network Engineer
7 5 (5.26%) Senior DevOps
7 5 (5.26%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 4 (4.21%) Cloud Engineer
8 4 (4.21%) Data Engineer
8 4 (4.21%) Java Engineer
8 4 (4.21%) Senior Platform Engineer
8 4 (4.21%) Software Developer
9 3 (3.16%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
9 3 (3.16%) Lead DevOps
9 3 (3.16%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (13.68%) REST
2 9 (9.47%) Spring
2 9 (9.47%) Spring Boot
3 7 (7.37%) SOAP
4 6 (6.32%) .NET
5 4 (4.21%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (2.11%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (2.11%) JPA
6 2 (2.11%) LDAP
6 2 (2.11%) Node.js
6 2 (2.11%) React
6 2 (2.11%) YAML
7 1 (1.05%) Apache NiFi
7 1 (1.05%) HTML
7 1 (1.05%) NETCONF
7 1 (1.05%) OpenTelemetry
7 1 (1.05%) Playwright
7 1 (1.05%) PySpark
7 1 (1.05%) Quarkus
7 1 (1.05%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 17 (17.89%) PKI
2 15 (15.79%) Data Centre
3 7 (7.37%) Cloud Native
4 4 (4.21%) Linux Command Line
4 4 (4.21%) Public Cloud
5 3 (3.16%) Clustering
5 3 (3.16%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (3.16%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.11%) Replication
7 1 (1.05%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.05%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.05%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (1.05%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.05%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.05%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 48 (50.53%) Linux
2 34 (35.79%) Windows
3 7 (7.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (6.32%) Windows Server
5 3 (3.16%) Unix
6 1 (1.05%) CentOS
6 1 (1.05%) Rocky
6 1 (1.05%) SUSE
6 1 (1.05%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (52.63%) Infrastructure as Code
2 46 (48.42%) CI/CD
3 44 (46.32%) DevOps
4 30 (31.58%) Technical Leadership
5 29 (30.53%) Platform Engineering
6 28 (29.47%) Containerisation
7 27 (28.42%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 26 (27.37%) Problem-Solving
9 24 (25.26%) DevSecOps
10 22 (23.16%) Agile
10 22 (23.16%) Infrastructure Automation
11 20 (21.05%) Continuous Improvement
12 18 (18.95%) Mentoring
12 18 (18.95%) Software Engineering
12 18 (18.95%) Systems Engineering
13 17 (17.89%) SIEM
14 16 (16.84%) Cybersecurity
14 16 (16.84%) Network Virtualisation
15 15 (15.79%) Configuration Management
15 15 (15.79%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 57 (60.00%) Python
2 45 (47.37%) Bash
3 33 (34.74%) PowerShell
4 17 (17.89%) Java
5 8 (8.42%) SQL
6 4 (4.21%) C#
7 3 (3.16%) Go
7 3 (3.16%) Shell Script
8 2 (2.11%) JavaScript
9 1 (1.05%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 70 (73.68%) Security Cleared
2 49 (51.58%) DV Cleared
3 28 (29.47%) SC Cleared
4 11 (11.58%) VCAP
5 6 (6.32%) AWS Certification
6 5 (5.26%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (5.26%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 4 (4.21%) Degree
7 4 (4.21%) RHCE
8 3 (3.16%) CCNP
8 3 (3.16%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (3.16%) OCA
8 3 (3.16%) Oracle Certification
8 3 (3.16%) RHCA
9 2 (2.11%) CISSP
10 1 (1.05%) CCSP
10 1 (1.05%) CISM
10 1 (1.05%) Master's Degree
10 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (1.05%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.32%) Data Quality
2 5 (5.26%) QA
3 1 (1.05%) Government Security Classifications
3 1 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.05%) NCSC
3 1 (1.05%) NIST
3 1 (1.05%) SLA
System Software
1 38 (40.00%) Docker
2 30 (31.58%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (21.05%) Active Directory
4 19 (20.00%) Hyper-V
4 19 (20.00%) VMware NSX
4 19 (20.00%) vSphere
5 2 (2.11%) Corosync
5 2 (2.11%) KVM
5 2 (2.11%) VirtualBox
6 1 (1.05%) NFS
6 1 (1.05%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 63 (66.32%) Terraform
2 47 (49.47%) Kubernetes
3 13 (13.68%) VxRail
4 9 (9.47%) Grafana
4 9 (9.47%) Prometheus
5 7 (7.37%) Progress Chef
6 5 (5.26%) Puppet
7 3 (3.16%) Docker Swarm
8 2 (2.11%) Failover Clustering
8 2 (2.11%) Istio
8 2 (2.11%) Pacemaker
9 1 (1.05%) Argo
9 1 (1.05%) FortiGate
9 1 (1.05%) FreeIPA
9 1 (1.05%) Nagios
9 1 (1.05%) Podman
9 1 (1.05%) SELinux
9 1 (1.05%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 33 (34.74%) VMware
2 7 (7.37%) CyberArk
2 7 (7.37%) Google
2 7 (7.37%) Microsoft
3 6 (6.32%) Red Hat
4 5 (5.26%) Cisco
4 5 (5.26%) InterSystems
5 3 (3.16%) Oracle
5 3 (3.16%) Splunk
5 3 (3.16%) Thales
6 2 (2.11%) SAP
7 1 (1.05%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.05%) F5
7 1 (1.05%) Fortinet
7 1 (1.05%) Infoblox
7 1 (1.05%) Juniper
7 1 (1.05%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.05%) NetScout
7 1 (1.05%) SolarWinds