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

6 months to
11 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 42 47
Rank change year-on-year -39 +5 -1
Contract jobs citing Ansible 63 87 124
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 1.82% 4.92% 3.76%
As % of the Systems Management category 16.32% 27.27% 28.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 75 95
10th Percentile £450 £496 £425
25th Percentile £485 £551 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -5.38%
75th Percentile £613 £649 £681
90th Percentile £629 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -9.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 5
10th Percentile - £79.13 £62.60
25th Percentile - £79.77 £72.50
Median hourly rate - £80.83 £74.44
Median % change year-on-year - +8.58% -4.56%
75th Percentile - £81.90 -
90th Percentile - £82.53 £76.28
England median hourly rate £63.14 £44.50 £72.00
% change year-on-year +41.88% -38.19% -1.85%

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 386 319 437
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 11.12% 18.04% 13.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 253 243 340
10th Percentile £306 £265 £215
25th Percentile £425 £447 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £563 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.78% +7.14% -4.55%
75th Percentile £609 £638 £600
90th Percentile £688 £699 £690
England median daily rate £511 £513 £523
% change year-on-year -0.29% -1.91% -9.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 8 15
10th Percentile £46.00 £16.80 -
25th Percentile £46.50 £18.60 -
Median hourly rate £51.00 £65.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.54% +62.50% -48.55%
75th Percentile - £79.03 £74.22
90th Percentile - £80.89 £76.28
England median hourly rate £57.88 £40.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year +44.71% +33.33% -43.32%

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 11 June 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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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 11 June 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 -17 21 £564 -3.63%
Gloucestershire -10 15 £575 -6.50% 23
Bristol -24 14 £513 +7.89% 9
Somerset -17 6 £488 -22.92% 1
Dorset -11 1 £300 -45.45%
Devon -20 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 2 (3.17%) Confluence
1 2 (3.17%) IIS
2 1 (1.59%) Apache
2 1 (1.59%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.59%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 23 (36.51%) Azure
2 20 (31.75%) AWS
3 8 (12.70%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (12.70%) GCP
4 7 (11.11%) GitHub
5 6 (9.52%) GitHub Actions
5 6 (9.52%) OpenShift
6 4 (6.35%) Entra ID
6 4 (6.35%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 3 (4.76%) Amazon S3
7 3 (4.76%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (4.76%) Serverless
8 2 (3.17%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (3.17%) IaaS
8 2 (3.17%) PaaS
9 1 (1.59%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (1.59%) Google Compute Engine
9 1 (1.59%) SaaS
9 1 (1.59%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (15.87%) Firewall
2 6 (9.52%) DNS
3 5 (7.94%) TCP/IP
4 4 (6.35%) DHCP
4 4 (6.35%) Network Security
5 3 (4.76%) VLAN
6 2 (3.17%) AMQP
7 1 (1.59%) BGP
7 1 (1.59%) Cisco ASA
7 1 (1.59%) Cisco ISE
7 1 (1.59%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (1.59%) Kerberos
7 1 (1.59%) NAS
7 1 (1.59%) NX-OS
7 1 (1.59%) OSPF
7 1 (1.59%) SAN
7 1 (1.59%) SSH
7 1 (1.59%) tcpdump
7 1 (1.59%) VPN
7 1 (1.59%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.76%) InfluxDB
2 2 (3.17%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (3.17%) BigQuery
2 2 (3.17%) MongoDB
2 2 (3.17%) Relational Database
2 2 (3.17%) SAP HANA
3 1 (1.59%) Big Data
3 1 (1.59%) DynamoDB
3 1 (1.59%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.59%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 19 (30.16%) Jenkins
2 9 (14.29%) Git
3 8 (12.70%) GitLab
3 8 (12.70%) JIRA
4 4 (6.35%) Bitbucket
5 3 (4.76%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (1.59%) Artifactory
6 1 (1.59%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (1.59%) Burp Suite
6 1 (1.59%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.59%) eggPlant
6 1 (1.59%) Gatling
6 1 (1.59%) GoCD
6 1 (1.59%) Gradle
6 1 (1.59%) LoadRunner
6 1 (1.59%) Maven
6 1 (1.59%) REST Assured
6 1 (1.59%) SonarQube
General
1 8 (12.70%) Social Skills
2 7 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (4.76%) Public Sector
4 1 (1.59%) Aerospace
4 1 (1.59%) Banking
4 1 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (1.59%) Finance
4 1 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (1.59%) Military
Job Titles
1 23 (36.51%) DevOps Engineer
2 12 (19.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 10 (15.87%) Software Engineer
4 9 (14.29%) Automation Engineer
5 5 (7.94%) Senior
6 4 (6.35%) Data Engineer
6 4 (6.35%) GCP Engineer
6 4 (6.35%) Java Engineer
6 4 (6.35%) Senior DevOps
6 4 (6.35%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 3 (4.76%) Data Migration Engineer
7 3 (4.76%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
7 3 (4.76%) GCP DevOps
7 3 (4.76%) GCP DevOps Engineer
7 3 (4.76%) Migration Engineer
7 3 (4.76%) Network Engineer
8 2 (3.17%) Applications Support Engineer
8 2 (3.17%) Java Software Engineer
8 2 (3.17%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 2 (3.17%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (17.46%) REST
2 9 (14.29%) Spring
2 9 (14.29%) Spring Boot
3 7 (11.11%) SOAP
4 6 (9.52%) .NET
5 3 (4.76%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (3.17%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (3.17%) Kafka
6 2 (3.17%) React
7 1 (1.59%) AngularJS
7 1 (1.59%) Apache NiFi
7 1 (1.59%) ARM Templates
7 1 (1.59%) Jinja
7 1 (1.59%) JPA
7 1 (1.59%) LDAP
7 1 (1.59%) Node.js
7 1 (1.59%) Playwright
7 1 (1.59%) PySpark
7 1 (1.59%) Quarkus
7 1 (1.59%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.35%) Linux Command Line
2 3 (4.76%) Data Centre
2 3 (4.76%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (3.17%) Cloud Native
3 2 (3.17%) Clustering
3 2 (3.17%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (3.17%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (3.17%) Replication
4 1 (1.59%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (1.59%) PKI
4 1 (1.59%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 25 (39.68%) Linux
2 12 (19.05%) Windows
3 6 (9.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (7.94%) Windows Server
5 2 (3.17%) CentOS
5 2 (3.17%) Unix
6 1 (1.59%) Rocky
6 1 (1.59%) SUSE
6 1 (1.59%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (53.97%) DevOps
2 25 (39.68%) CI/CD
3 24 (38.10%) Infrastructure as Code
4 19 (30.16%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 17 (26.98%) Agile
6 15 (23.81%) Infrastructure Automation
7 14 (22.22%) Containerisation
7 14 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
7 14 (22.22%) Software Engineering
8 13 (20.63%) Configuration Management
9 9 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 8 (12.70%) Migration
11 7 (11.11%) Observability
11 7 (11.11%) Root Cause Analysis
11 7 (11.11%) Service Management
11 7 (11.11%) Test Automation
12 6 (9.52%) Continuous Improvement
12 6 (9.52%) High Availability
13 5 (7.94%) Data Migration
13 5 (7.94%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 31 (49.21%) Python
2 19 (30.16%) Bash
3 13 (20.63%) Java
4 11 (17.46%) PowerShell
5 7 (11.11%) SQL
6 2 (3.17%) Go
6 2 (3.17%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.59%) Bicep
7 1 (1.59%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 43 (68.25%) Security Cleared
2 23 (36.51%) SC Cleared
3 21 (33.33%) DV Cleared
4 5 (7.94%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (6.35%) Degree
6 3 (4.76%) CCNP
6 3 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (4.76%) OCA
6 3 (4.76%) Oracle Certification
6 3 (4.76%) RHCA
6 3 (4.76%) RHCE
6 3 (4.76%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (1.59%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (1.59%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.59%) CCSK
7 1 (1.59%) CCSP
7 1 (1.59%) CISM
7 1 (1.59%) CISSP
7 1 (1.59%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (1.59%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (9.52%) Data Quality
2 4 (6.35%) QA
3 2 (3.17%) NIST
3 2 (3.17%) SLA
4 1 (1.59%) Government Security Classifications
4 1 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.59%) NCSC
4 1 (1.59%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 19 (30.16%) Docker
2 8 (12.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (7.94%) Active Directory
4 3 (4.76%) Hyper-V
5 2 (3.17%) Corosync
5 2 (3.17%) KVM
5 2 (3.17%) VirtualBox
5 2 (3.17%) vSphere
6 1 (1.59%) NFS
6 1 (1.59%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (1.59%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 36 (57.14%) Terraform
2 26 (41.27%) Kubernetes
3 8 (12.70%) Grafana
4 7 (11.11%) Progress Chef
4 7 (11.11%) Prometheus
5 6 (9.52%) Puppet
6 3 (4.76%) Docker Swarm
7 2 (3.17%) Failover Clustering
7 2 (3.17%) Istio
7 2 (3.17%) Pacemaker
8 1 (1.59%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (1.59%) Argo
8 1 (1.59%) FortiGate
8 1 (1.59%) FreeIPA
8 1 (1.59%) Nagios
8 1 (1.59%) SCOM
8 1 (1.59%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (1.59%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 10 (15.87%) VMware
2 7 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 5 (7.94%) InterSystems
3 5 (7.94%) Red Hat
4 3 (4.76%) Cisco
4 3 (4.76%) Google
4 3 (4.76%) Oracle
4 3 (4.76%) Splunk
5 2 (3.17%) F5
5 2 (3.17%) SAP
6 1 (1.59%) Broadcom
6 1 (1.59%) CheckPoint
6 1 (1.59%) Citrix
6 1 (1.59%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.59%) Fortinet
6 1 (1.59%) Infoblox
6 1 (1.59%) Juniper
6 1 (1.59%) NetScout
6 1 (1.59%) SolarWinds