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

6 months to
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 52 41
Rank change year-on-year -8 -11 +7
Contract jobs citing Ansible 106 69 122
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 2.89% 3.57% 4.41%
As % of the Systems Management category 26.70% 25.94% 32.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 54 98
10th Percentile £453 £463 £425
25th Percentile £507 £527 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £586 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.92% +6.59% -8.33%
75th Percentile £688 £649 £619
90th Percentile £794 £679 £688
England median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -8.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 2 7
10th Percentile £85.00 £79.13 £65.90
25th Percentile £90.00 £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 £99.41 £81.90 £74.44
90th Percentile £100.00 £82.53 £75.66
England median hourly rate £71.22 £59.25 £74.00
% change year-on-year +20.19% -19.93% -0.67%

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 397 266 377
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 10.83% 13.76% 13.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 261 198 284
10th Percentile £325 £235 £222
25th Percentile £449 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year - +2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £656 £625 £613
90th Percentile £738 £697 £675
England median daily rate £525 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 8 11
10th Percentile £25.88 £16.80 £15.50
25th Percentile £49.13 £18.60 £59.88
Median hourly rate £63.00 £67.50 £74.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -8.78% -5.13%
75th Percentile £95.96 £79.03 £74.44
90th Percentile £99.65 £80.89 £77.50
England median hourly rate £67.47 £51.00 £36.17
% change year-on-year +32.29% +41.02% -27.67%

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

Ansible
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ansible in the South West over the 6 months to 22 August 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

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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 22 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 22 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 +3 36 £670 +5.93% 3
Wiltshire -16 26 £575 -5.15% 6
Gloucestershire -2 23 £575 -3.16% 26
Bristol -13 15 £500 +14.94% 5
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 4 (3.77%) Confluence
2 2 (1.89%) IIS
3 1 (0.94%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.94%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (0.94%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 47 (44.34%) AWS
2 38 (35.85%) Azure
3 16 (15.09%) GCP
4 10 (9.43%) GitHub
5 9 (8.49%) OpenShift
6 8 (7.55%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (7.55%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (2.83%) Amazon S3
7 3 (2.83%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (2.83%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (2.83%) Datadog
7 3 (2.83%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 3 (2.83%) Serverless
8 2 (1.89%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (1.89%) Entra ID
9 1 (0.94%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (0.94%) Google Compute Engine
9 1 (0.94%) IaaS
9 1 (0.94%) PaaS
9 1 (0.94%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 37 (34.91%) Firewall
2 33 (31.13%) DNS
3 31 (29.25%) TCP/IP
4 27 (25.47%) DHCP
5 23 (21.70%) VSAN
6 7 (6.60%) VLAN
7 4 (3.77%) BGP
7 4 (3.77%) Network Security
7 4 (3.77%) VPN
8 3 (2.83%) OSPF
8 3 (2.83%) Software-Defined Networking
9 2 (1.89%) NX-OS
10 1 (0.94%) AMQP
10 1 (0.94%) Calico
10 1 (0.94%) Ethernet VPN
10 1 (0.94%) Kerberos
10 1 (0.94%) NAS
10 1 (0.94%) SAN
10 1 (0.94%) SSH
10 1 (0.94%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.89%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (1.89%) BigQuery
1 2 (1.89%) InfluxDB
1 2 (1.89%) MongoDB
1 2 (1.89%) Relational Database
1 2 (1.89%) SAP HANA
1 2 (1.89%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.94%) Big Data
2 1 (0.94%) DynamoDB
2 1 (0.94%) Oracle Database
2 1 (0.94%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 28 (26.42%) Jenkins
2 20 (18.87%) GitLab
3 9 (8.49%) Git
3 9 (8.49%) JIRA
4 4 (3.77%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.89%) Gradle
6 1 (0.94%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.94%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.94%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.94%) eggPlant
6 1 (0.94%) Gatling
6 1 (0.94%) GoCD
6 1 (0.94%) JUnit
6 1 (0.94%) LoadRunner
6 1 (0.94%) Maven
6 1 (0.94%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.94%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.94%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 11 (10.38%) Social Skills
2 10 (9.43%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (8.49%) Public Sector
4 2 (1.89%) Banking
4 2 (1.89%) Finance
5 1 (0.94%) Advertising
5 1 (0.94%) Military
Job Titles
1 23 (21.70%) DevOps Engineer
2 19 (17.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 16 (15.09%) Platform Engineer
4 15 (14.15%) Senior
5 14 (13.21%) Principal Engineer
6 9 (8.49%) Automation Engineer
6 9 (8.49%) Software Engineer
7 7 (6.60%) Developer
8 6 (5.66%) Network Engineer
8 6 (5.66%) Software Developer
9 5 (4.72%) Lead
9 5 (4.72%) Senior DevOps
9 5 (4.72%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 4 (3.77%) Architect
10 4 (3.77%) Cloud Engineer
10 4 (3.77%) Data Engineer
10 4 (3.77%) Java Engineer
10 4 (3.77%) QA Test Engineer
10 4 (3.77%) Senior Platform Engineer
10 4 (3.77%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (67.92%) Terraform
2 13 (12.26%) REST
3 9 (8.49%) Spring
3 9 (8.49%) Spring Boot
4 7 (6.60%) SOAP
5 6 (5.66%) .NET
6 4 (3.77%) RabbitMQ
6 4 (3.77%) YAML
7 2 (1.89%) Elastic Stack
7 2 (1.89%) JPA
7 2 (1.89%) JSON
7 2 (1.89%) LDAP
7 2 (1.89%) Node.js
7 2 (1.89%) React
8 1 (0.94%) OpenTelemetry
8 1 (0.94%) Playwright
8 1 (0.94%) PySpark
8 1 (0.94%) Quarkus
8 1 (0.94%) Redux
8 1 (0.94%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 18 (16.98%) PKI
2 17 (16.04%) Data Centre
3 9 (8.49%) Cloud Native
4 5 (4.72%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (4.72%) Linux Command Line
4 5 (4.72%) Public Cloud
5 3 (2.83%) Clustering
5 3 (2.83%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (2.83%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.89%) Replication
7 1 (0.94%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.94%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.94%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.94%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.94%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 52 (49.06%) Linux
2 35 (33.02%) Windows
3 7 (6.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (5.66%) Windows Server
5 5 (4.72%) Unix
6 1 (0.94%) CentOS
6 1 (0.94%) Rocky
6 1 (0.94%) SUSE
6 1 (0.94%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (57.55%) Infrastructure as Code
2 55 (51.89%) CI/CD
3 51 (48.11%) DevOps
4 34 (32.08%) Platform Engineering
5 33 (31.13%) Technical Leadership
6 32 (30.19%) Containerisation
7 29 (27.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 28 (26.42%) DevSecOps
9 26 (24.53%) Agile
9 26 (24.53%) Problem-Solving
10 24 (22.64%) Infrastructure Automation
11 23 (21.70%) Continuous Improvement
12 19 (17.92%) Mentoring
12 19 (17.92%) Systems Engineering
13 18 (16.98%) SIEM
13 18 (16.98%) Software Engineering
14 17 (16.04%) Configuration Management
14 17 (16.04%) Cybersecurity
14 17 (16.04%) Network Virtualisation
14 17 (16.04%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 62 (58.49%) Python
2 49 (46.23%) Bash
3 34 (32.08%) PowerShell
4 19 (17.92%) Java
5 8 (7.55%) SQL
6 6 (5.66%) C#
7 3 (2.83%) Go
7 3 (2.83%) Shell Script
8 2 (1.89%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.94%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 81 (76.42%) Security Cleared
2 58 (54.72%) DV Cleared
3 32 (30.19%) SC Cleared
4 15 (14.15%) VCAP
5 8 (7.55%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 7 (6.60%) AWS Certification
7 5 (4.72%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (3.77%) RHCE
9 3 (2.83%) CCNP
9 3 (2.83%) Degree
9 3 (2.83%) OCA
9 3 (2.83%) Oracle Certification
9 3 (2.83%) RHCA
10 2 (1.89%) CISSP
10 2 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
11 1 (0.94%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 1 (0.94%) CCSK
11 1 (0.94%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.94%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.94%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.66%) Data Quality
1 6 (5.66%) QA
2 1 (0.94%) Government Security Classifications
2 1 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.94%) NCSC
2 1 (0.94%) NIST
2 1 (0.94%) SLA
System Software
1 40 (37.74%) Docker
2 38 (35.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 24 (22.64%) VMware NSX
3 24 (22.64%) vSphere
4 21 (19.81%) Active Directory
5 20 (18.87%) Hyper-V
6 5 (4.72%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (2.83%) VirtualBox
8 2 (1.89%) Corosync
8 2 (1.89%) KVM
9 1 (0.94%) NFS
Systems Management
1 56 (52.83%) Kubernetes
2 14 (13.21%) VxRail
3 9 (8.49%) Grafana
3 9 (8.49%) Prometheus
4 7 (6.60%) Progress Chef
5 5 (4.72%) Puppet
6 4 (3.77%) PowerCLI
6 4 (3.77%) vCenter Server
7 3 (2.83%) Docker Swarm
8 2 (1.89%) Failover Clustering
8 2 (1.89%) Istio
8 2 (1.89%) Pacemaker
9 1 (0.94%) Argo
9 1 (0.94%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.94%) FreeIPA
9 1 (0.94%) Nagios
9 1 (0.94%) OPNET
9 1 (0.94%) Podman
9 1 (0.94%) SELinux
9 1 (0.94%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 42 (39.62%) VMware
2 9 (8.49%) Google
3 8 (7.55%) CyberArk
4 7 (6.60%) Microsoft
5 6 (5.66%) Cisco
5 6 (5.66%) Red Hat
6 5 (4.72%) InterSystems
7 4 (3.77%) SaltStack
8 3 (2.83%) Splunk
8 3 (2.83%) Thales
9 2 (1.89%) Atlassian
9 2 (1.89%) Oracle
9 2 (1.89%) SAP
10 1 (0.94%) F5
10 1 (0.94%) Fortinet
10 1 (0.94%) Infoblox
10 1 (0.94%) Juniper
10 1 (0.94%) MuleSoft
10 1 (0.94%) NetScout
10 1 (0.94%) SolarWinds