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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 49 57
Rank change year-on-year -10 +8 +2
Contract jobs citing Ansible 59 107 117
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 2.99% 4.02% 3.64%
As % of the Systems Management category 19.28% 27.37% 25.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 80 81
10th Percentile £450 £425 £510
25th Percentile £525 £459 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £546 £600
Median % change year-on-year +7.09% -8.96% +9.09%
75th Percentile £649 £586 £713
90th Percentile £684 £633 £775
England median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -1.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 14
10th Percentile - - £72.75
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - £74.00 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year - -5.13% -
75th Percentile - £74.44 -
90th Percentile - - £87.00
England median hourly rate £48.00 £74.00 £76.53
% change year-on-year -35.14% -3.31% +4.84%

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 306 391 452
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 15.49% 14.70% 14.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 227 268 341
10th Percentile £235 £220 £375
25th Percentile £413 £425 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £533 £558
Median % change year-on-year +0.84% -4.39% +6.19%
75th Percentile £622 £613 £675
90th Percentile £695 £673 £738
England median daily rate £502 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.41% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 7 20
10th Percentile £16.47 £14.30 £19.18
25th Percentile £18.33 £44.75 £70.06
Median hourly rate £36.00 £74.00 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year -51.35% -5.13% +194.34%
75th Percentile £68.75 £74.22 -
90th Percentile £78.50 £74.44 £85.50
England median hourly rate £36.75 £40.00 £51.25
% change year-on-year -8.13% -21.95% +114.35%

Ansible
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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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 18 September 2025.

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 18 September 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 0 22 £606 +6.36% 1
Gloucestershire +11 16 £555 -1.33% 26
Bristol +6 10 £435 -17.14% 9
Dorset +3 4 £550 +100.00%
Somerset -2 4 £633 -
Devon -10 1 £475 +5.56% 1
Ansible
England

Ansible
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 9 (15.25%) Confluence
2 6 (10.17%) Apache
3 3 (5.08%) nginx
4 2 (3.39%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 8 (13.56%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 24 (40.68%) AWS
2 11 (18.64%) Azure
3 9 (15.25%) OpenShift
4 8 (13.56%) GCP
5 6 (10.17%) Amazon S3
5 6 (10.17%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (8.47%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (5.08%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (5.08%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (5.08%) npm
7 3 (5.08%) Serverless
8 2 (3.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (3.39%) Amazon ELB
8 2 (3.39%) IaaS
8 2 (3.39%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 1 (1.69%) GitHub
9 1 (1.69%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (1.69%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (20.34%) DNS
2 10 (16.95%) VPN
3 8 (13.56%) Firewall
4 7 (11.86%) BGP
4 7 (11.86%) IPsec
4 7 (11.86%) MPLS
4 7 (11.86%) Unified Communications
5 4 (6.78%) TCP/IP
6 3 (5.08%) AMQP
7 2 (3.39%) Network Security
7 2 (3.39%) SSL
8 1 (1.69%) SAN
8 1 (1.69%) Software-Defined Networking
8 1 (1.69%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.08%) RDBMS
1 3 (5.08%) Relational Database
2 2 (3.39%) Big Data
2 2 (3.39%) Hadoop
2 2 (3.39%) InfluxDB
2 2 (3.39%) MongoDB
2 2 (3.39%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.69%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.69%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (1.69%) Flink
3 1 (1.69%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 19 (32.20%) Jenkins
2 18 (30.51%) GitLab
3 14 (23.73%) Git
4 9 (15.25%) JIRA
5 5 (8.47%) Bitbucket
6 4 (6.78%) Maven
7 3 (5.08%) Artifactory
7 3 (5.08%) SonarQube
8 2 (3.39%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (1.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (1.69%) CircleCI
9 1 (1.69%) Cypress.io
9 1 (1.69%) GoCD
9 1 (1.69%) Selenium
9 1 (1.69%) Snyk
General
1 13 (22.03%) Social Skills
2 11 (18.64%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (13.56%) Public Sector
4 5 (8.47%) Finance
5 3 (5.08%) Aerospace
6 2 (3.39%) Electronics
6 2 (3.39%) Manufacturing
6 2 (3.39%) Marketing
6 2 (3.39%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (15.25%) DevOps Engineer
2 8 (13.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 8 (13.56%) Network Engineer
3 6 (10.17%) Developer
3 6 (10.17%) Platform Engineer
4 4 (6.78%) Backend Developer
4 4 (6.78%) Linux/Unix DevOps
4 4 (6.78%) Support Engineer
5 3 (5.08%) Administrator
5 3 (5.08%) Automation Engineer
5 3 (5.08%) Automation Tester
5 3 (5.08%) Java Engineer
5 3 (5.08%) Linux Administrator
5 3 (5.08%) Linux Engineer
5 3 (5.08%) Software Developer
5 3 (5.08%) Software Engineer
5 3 (5.08%) Software Tester
5 3 (5.08%) Tester
6 2 (3.39%) DevOps Administrator
6 2 (3.39%) Linux DevOps Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (11.86%) NETCONF
1 7 (11.86%) REST
1 7 (11.86%) RESTCONF
2 6 (10.17%) Elastic Stack
2 6 (10.17%) Node.js
3 5 (8.47%) Apache NiFi
4 3 (5.08%) AngularJS
4 3 (5.08%) React
4 3 (5.08%) Vue
5 2 (3.39%) SOAP
5 2 (3.39%) Spring
5 2 (3.39%) Spring Boot
6 1 (1.69%) .NET
6 1 (1.69%) Kafka
6 1 (1.69%) Middleware
6 1 (1.69%) ModSecurity
6 1 (1.69%) OpenID
6 1 (1.69%) Playwright
6 1 (1.69%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (15.25%) PKI
2 4 (6.78%) Data Centre
3 3 (5.08%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (5.08%) Management Information System
4 2 (3.39%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.69%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.69%) CMDB
5 1 (1.69%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (1.69%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 27 (45.76%) Linux
2 12 (20.34%) Windows
3 5 (8.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (6.78%) CentOS
5 2 (3.39%) Windows Server
6 1 (1.69%) Ubuntu
6 1 (1.69%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (50.85%) CI/CD
2 27 (45.76%) Infrastructure as Code
3 21 (35.59%) Containerisation
3 21 (35.59%) DevOps
4 13 (22.03%) Configuration Management
5 12 (20.34%) Agile
6 11 (18.64%) NsoIT
7 10 (16.95%) Infrastructure Automation
8 9 (15.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 9 (15.25%) Service Management
8 9 (15.25%) Software Engineering
8 9 (15.25%) Test Automation
8 9 (15.25%) Validation
9 8 (13.56%) DevSecOps
9 8 (13.56%) Problem-Solving
9 8 (13.56%) System Testing
10 7 (11.86%) Critical Thinking
10 7 (11.86%) Network Virtualisation
11 6 (10.17%) Continuous Integration
11 6 (10.17%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 36 (61.02%) Python
2 20 (33.90%) Bash
3 13 (22.03%) PowerShell
4 8 (13.56%) Java
5 5 (8.47%) C
6 2 (3.39%) C++
6 2 (3.39%) Go
6 2 (3.39%) JavaScript
6 2 (3.39%) Perl
6 2 (3.39%) Shell Script
6 2 (3.39%) SQL
7 1 (1.69%) Groovy
7 1 (1.69%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 50 (84.75%) Security Cleared
2 26 (44.07%) DV Cleared
2 26 (44.07%) SC Cleared
3 10 (16.95%) Degree
4 8 (13.56%) CCNP
4 8 (13.56%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (8.47%) AWS Certification
6 4 (6.78%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 3 (5.08%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (5.08%) Azure Certification
8 2 (3.39%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (1.69%) CCA
9 1 (1.69%) CISSP
9 1 (1.69%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (1.69%) ISTQB
9 1 (1.69%) Master's Degree
9 1 (1.69%) OCA
9 1 (1.69%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (1.69%) RHCA
9 1 (1.69%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.78%) QA
2 2 (3.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (3.39%) NCSC
3 1 (1.69%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.69%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (1.69%) NIST
System Software
1 24 (40.68%) Docker
2 14 (23.73%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (18.64%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (8.47%) vSphere
5 3 (5.08%) VMware NSX
6 1 (1.69%) Active Directory
6 1 (1.69%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 38 (64.41%) Terraform
2 24 (40.68%) Kubernetes
3 15 (25.42%) Grafana
4 12 (20.34%) Prometheus
5 10 (16.95%) Puppet
6 4 (6.78%) vCenter Server
7 3 (5.08%) Podman
7 3 (5.08%) Progress Chef
8 2 (3.39%) Packer
9 1 (1.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (1.69%) Dell DRAC
9 1 (1.69%) FreeIPA
9 1 (1.69%) HAProxy
9 1 (1.69%) Kibana
9 1 (1.69%) logstash
9 1 (1.69%) Nessus
9 1 (1.69%) OPNET
9 1 (1.69%) SCOM
9 1 (1.69%) vRealize
Vendors
1 23 (38.98%) VMware
2 10 (16.95%) Atlassian
3 9 (15.25%) Cisco
4 5 (8.47%) Red Hat
4 5 (8.47%) Splunk
5 4 (6.78%) Oracle
6 3 (5.08%) F5
7 2 (3.39%) CheckPoint
7 2 (3.39%) Citrix
7 2 (3.39%) Palo Alto
7 2 (3.39%) SAP
8 1 (1.69%) CyberArk
8 1 (1.69%) Dell
8 1 (1.69%) HP
8 1 (1.69%) Infoblox
8 1 (1.69%) Juniper
8 1 (1.69%) Microsoft
8 1 (1.69%) NetScout
8 1 (1.69%) SolarWinds
8 1 (1.69%) TOWER Software