Ansible Contracts in the UK excluding London

Ansible
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 69 80 74
Rank change year-on-year +11 -6 0
Contract jobs citing Ansible 425 502 721
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 3.29% 2.43% 3.16%
As % of the Systems Management category 21.55% 21.25% 21.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 307 362 507
10th Percentile £395 £425 £413
25th Percentile £456 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £547 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.64% -0.64% +2.33%
75th Percentile £609 £625 £641
90th Percentile £651 £690 £700
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +2.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 8 25
10th Percentile £79.13 £50.63 £53.75
25th Percentile £79.77 £55.13 £56.25
Median hourly rate £80.83 £66.25 £73.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.01% -9.25% +80.25%
75th Percentile £81.90 £74.58 £78.00
90th Percentile £82.53 £75.75 -
UK median hourly rate £44.50 £66.25 £73.00
% change year-on-year -32.83% -9.25% +80.25%

All Systems Management Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 1,972 2,362 3,387
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.26% 11.41% 14.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,384 1,753 2,430
10th Percentile £235 £213 £281
25th Percentile £387 £378 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £495 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.61% -5.71% +5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £619
90th Percentile £649 £650 £700
UK median daily rate £517 £515 £550
% change year-on-year +0.34% -6.36% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 63 130
10th Percentile £17.99 £14.00 £15.86
25th Percentile £20.68 £17.36 £20.22
Median hourly rate £37.50 £40.00 £43.38
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -7.78% +116.88%
75th Percentile £66.88 £49.38 £65.00
90th Percentile £83.58 £74.44 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £28.25 £30.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -5.83% -47.83% +162.68%

Ansible
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Ansible as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Ansible in the UK excluding London

Ansible
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Ansible in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Ansible in the UK excluding London

Ansible
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ansible in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Ansible in the UK excluding London

Ansible
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Ansible in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Ansible in the UK excluding London

Ansible
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Ansible within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 30 May 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
North of England +6 111 £500 -2.91% 401
South East -8 91 £513 -5.14% 565
South West +12 87 £600 +6.67% 232
Yorkshire +17 76 £500 +3.09% 172
East of England +70 51 £550 -12.00% 257
Midlands +32 51 £551 -0.45% 300
West Midlands +36 45 £563 -3.26% 169
Scotland -1 38 £479 -7.88% 70
North West -3 27 £555 +5.67% 188
Wales +6 8 £390 -39.49% 47
North East -1 8 £550 - 42
East Midlands +5 6 £500 +0.40% 110
Ansible
UK

Ansible
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 26 (6.12%) Confluence
2 17 (4.00%) Apache
3 10 (2.35%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (1.65%) Apache Spark
4 7 (1.65%) OpenStack
5 6 (1.41%) nginx
5 6 (1.41%) WebLogic
6 4 (0.94%) IIS
7 3 (0.71%) Documentum
7 3 (0.71%) FileNet
7 3 (0.71%) JBoss
7 3 (0.71%) Oracle Service Bus
7 3 (0.71%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 3 (0.71%) WebLogic Portal
7 3 (0.71%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.47%) Camunda
9 1 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.24%) Skype for Business
9 1 (0.24%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.24%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 11 (2.59%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.71%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (0.71%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (0.24%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 154 (36.24%) AWS
2 121 (28.47%) Azure
3 52 (12.24%) OpenShift
4 42 (9.88%) GitHub
5 38 (8.94%) GCP
6 34 (8.00%) Azure DevOps
7 21 (4.94%) Cohesity
8 20 (4.71%) AWS CloudFormation
8 20 (4.71%) Serverless
9 18 (4.24%) Amazon S3
10 16 (3.76%) Amazon EC2
11 13 (3.06%) AWS Lambda
12 12 (2.82%) Amazon EKS
12 12 (2.82%) GitHub Actions
12 12 (2.82%) PaaS
13 11 (2.59%) OCI
14 10 (2.35%) IaaS
14 10 (2.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 8 (1.88%) Amazon ECS
15 8 (1.88%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 94 (22.12%) DNS
2 68 (16.00%) Firewall
3 43 (10.12%) TCP/IP
4 41 (9.65%) VPN
5 38 (8.94%) Network Security
6 35 (8.24%) SAN
7 34 (8.00%) DHCP
8 24 (5.65%) BGP
9 19 (4.47%) Cisco ISE
10 16 (3.76%) HTTP
10 16 (3.76%) OSPF
10 16 (3.76%) SMTP
11 15 (3.53%) MPLS
11 15 (3.53%) WAN
12 14 (3.29%) LAN
13 12 (2.82%) VLAN
14 9 (2.12%) Cisco IOS
15 8 (1.88%) Cisco Firepower
15 8 (1.88%) IPsec
15 8 (1.88%) Junos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (3.76%) Amazon RDS
1 16 (3.76%) Big Data
2 14 (3.29%) Elasticsearch
2 14 (3.29%) Oracle Database
2 14 (3.29%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (2.82%) MongoDB
4 6 (1.41%) NoSQL
4 6 (1.41%) SQL Server
5 5 (1.18%) MySQL
5 5 (1.18%) Relational Database
6 4 (0.94%) DynamoDB
6 4 (0.94%) Flink
6 4 (0.94%) MariaDB
6 4 (0.94%) Redis
7 3 (0.71%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (0.71%) Hadoop
7 3 (0.71%) InfluxDB
7 3 (0.71%) Power Query
8 1 (0.24%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.24%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 116 (27.29%) Jenkins
2 77 (18.12%) Git
3 61 (14.35%) GitLab
4 59 (13.88%) JIRA
5 26 (6.12%) Bitbucket
6 16 (3.76%) Cucumber
6 16 (3.76%) SonarQube
7 13 (3.06%) Selenium
8 11 (2.59%) Artifactory
9 10 (2.35%) Visual Studio
10 9 (2.12%) Postman
10 9 (2.12%) REST Assured
11 7 (1.65%) MSI
12 6 (1.41%) Sonatype Nexus
12 6 (1.41%) Subversion
12 6 (1.41%) TeamCity
13 3 (0.71%) Chocolatey
13 3 (0.71%) PyCharm
13 3 (0.71%) Snyk
13 3 (0.71%) Vagrant
General
1 121 (28.47%) Social Skills
2 57 (13.41%) Finance
3 47 (11.06%) Analytical Skills
4 40 (9.41%) Public Sector
5 19 (4.47%) Banking
6 10 (2.35%) Telecoms
7 9 (2.12%) Legal
8 8 (1.88%) Law
9 7 (1.65%) Financial Institution
10 5 (1.18%) Police
11 4 (0.94%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (0.94%) Investment Banking
12 3 (0.71%) Electronics
12 3 (0.71%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.71%) Marketing
13 2 (0.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (0.47%) Military
13 2 (0.47%) Retail
14 1 (0.24%) Influencing Skills
14 1 (0.24%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 72 (16.94%) DevOps Engineer
2 44 (10.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 42 (9.88%) Network Engineer
4 33 (7.76%) Automation Engineer
5 29 (6.82%) Platform Engineer
6 25 (5.88%) Senior
7 21 (4.94%) Administrator
7 21 (4.94%) Linux Engineer
8 19 (4.47%) Developer
9 15 (3.53%) AWS Engineer
10 14 (3.29%) Linux Administrator
11 13 (3.06%) Architect
11 13 (3.06%) Support Engineer
12 12 (2.82%) Cloud Engineer
12 12 (2.82%) Lead
13 11 (2.59%) Infrastructure Support
13 11 (2.59%) Software Engineer
14 10 (2.35%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
14 10 (2.35%) Windows Engineer
15 9 (2.12%) 3rd Line Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (8.47%) REST
2 17 (4.00%) Middleware
3 16 (3.76%) Elastic Stack
4 13 (3.06%) ARM Templates
5 11 (2.59%) SOAP
6 10 (2.35%) Loki
7 9 (2.12%) Java EE
7 9 (2.12%) Kafka
8 8 (1.88%) NETCONF
8 8 (1.88%) RESTCONF
8 8 (1.88%) YAML
9 7 (1.65%) .NET
9 7 (1.65%) Gherkin
10 6 (1.41%) LDAP
10 6 (1.41%) Node.js
10 6 (1.41%) React
10 6 (1.41%) Software Packaging
11 5 (1.18%) AWS CDK
11 5 (1.18%) JSON
12 4 (0.94%) Apache NiFi
Miscellaneous
1 24 (5.65%) Data Centre
1 24 (5.65%) PKI
2 18 (4.24%) Public Cloud
3 16 (3.76%) Hybrid Cloud
4 14 (3.29%) Data Protection Act
5 12 (2.82%) Clustering
5 12 (2.82%) Linux Command Line
6 9 (2.12%) Cloud Native
6 9 (2.12%) Self-Motivation
7 7 (1.65%) Enterprise Storage
7 7 (1.65%) Private Cloud
8 6 (1.41%) Virtual Team
9 5 (1.18%) Replication
9 5 (1.18%) SCADA
10 4 (0.94%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (0.94%) Onboarding
11 3 (0.71%) EMC VMAX
11 3 (0.71%) Low-Code
11 3 (0.71%) LPAR
11 3 (0.71%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 181 (42.59%) Linux
2 124 (29.18%) Windows
3 77 (18.12%) Windows Server
4 54 (12.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 24 (5.65%) Unix
5 24 (5.65%) Windows Server 2016
6 23 (5.41%) Windows Server 2019
7 16 (3.76%) CentOS
7 16 (3.76%) Ubuntu
8 8 (1.88%) Solaris
9 7 (1.65%) AIX
10 4 (0.94%) VMS
11 3 (0.71%) OS/400
11 3 (0.71%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 3 (0.71%) Windows Server 2003
12 2 (0.47%) HPUX
12 2 (0.47%) Oracle Linux
13 1 (0.24%) Amazon Linux
13 1 (0.24%) Data ONTAP
13 1 (0.24%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 163 (38.35%) DevOps
2 142 (33.41%) CI/CD
3 108 (25.41%) Agile
4 106 (24.94%) Containerisation
5 96 (22.59%) Problem-Solving
6 92 (21.65%) Infrastructure as Code
7 81 (19.06%) Configuration Management
8 54 (12.71%) Infrastructure Automation
9 50 (11.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 49 (11.53%) Deployment Automation
11 44 (10.35%) Service Management
11 44 (10.35%) Task Automation
12 43 (10.12%) Test Automation
13 40 (9.41%) SIEM
14 37 (8.71%) Migration
15 35 (8.24%) Software Engineering
16 32 (7.53%) High Availability
17 31 (7.29%) ITIL
17 31 (7.29%) Performance Tuning
18 30 (7.06%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 252 (59.29%) Python
2 135 (31.76%) PowerShell
3 117 (27.53%) Bash
4 54 (12.71%) Java
5 42 (9.88%) Shell Script
6 17 (4.00%) SQL
7 16 (3.76%) Perl
8 13 (3.06%) C#
9 8 (1.88%) VB
10 6 (1.41%) Groovy
11 5 (1.18%) Bicep
11 5 (1.18%) Go
11 5 (1.18%) JavaScript
11 5 (1.18%) TypeScript
12 4 (0.94%) Ruby
13 3 (0.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 3 (0.71%) PHP
13 3 (0.71%) RPG
13 3 (0.71%) Rust
13 3 (0.71%) WebLogic Scripting Tool
Qualifications
1 195 (45.88%) Security Cleared
2 115 (27.06%) SC Cleared
3 81 (19.06%) DV Cleared
4 41 (9.65%) Cisco Certification
5 40 (9.41%) Degree
6 36 (8.47%) CCNP
7 27 (6.35%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 16 (3.76%) Oracle Certification
9 15 (3.53%) Computer Science Degree
10 12 (2.82%) RHCE
11 11 (2.59%) OCA
12 10 (2.35%) RHCA
13 9 (2.12%) AWS Certification
14 7 (1.65%) CCIE
15 6 (1.41%) CCSA
15 6 (1.41%) CCSE
15 6 (1.41%) Check Point Certification
16 5 (1.18%) OCP
17 4 (0.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 4 (0.94%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (2.59%) QA
2 10 (2.35%) PCI DSS
2 10 (2.35%) SLA
3 7 (1.65%) GDPR
4 5 (1.18%) Disclosure Scotland
4 5 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.18%) NCSC
4 5 (1.18%) NIST
5 4 (0.94%) SOC 2
6 2 (0.47%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.47%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.47%) OASIS TOSCA
7 1 (0.24%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.24%) COBIT
7 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 129 (30.35%) VMware Infrastructure
2 114 (26.82%) Docker
3 64 (15.06%) Active Directory
4 31 (7.29%) Hyper-V
5 24 (5.65%) VMware ESXi
6 23 (5.41%) vSphere
7 22 (5.18%) Virtual Servers
8 20 (4.71%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 13 (3.06%) VMware NSX
10 12 (2.82%) Veritas Cluster Server
11 8 (1.88%) BitLocker
11 8 (1.88%) Microsoft App-V
11 8 (1.88%) Terminal Services
12 6 (1.41%) Virtual Machines
13 4 (0.94%) Apache ZooKeeper
13 4 (0.94%) Firmware
14 3 (0.71%) KVM
14 3 (0.71%) NFS
14 3 (0.71%) PowerHA
14 3 (0.71%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 196 (46.12%) Terraform
2 162 (38.12%) Kubernetes
3 79 (18.59%) Puppet
4 40 (9.41%) Grafana
5 39 (9.18%) Prometheus
6 37 (8.71%) Progress Chef
7 30 (7.06%) vCenter Server
8 25 (5.88%) SCCM
9 22 (5.18%) WSUS
10 15 (3.53%) Nagios
11 11 (2.59%) Docker Swarm
11 11 (2.59%) Podman
12 9 (2.12%) FortiGate
13 8 (1.88%) vMotion
13 8 (1.88%) vRealize
14 6 (1.41%) Microsoft Clustering
14 6 (1.41%) PowerCLI
15 5 (1.18%) Kibana
15 5 (1.18%) Packer
15 5 (1.18%) VxRail
Vendors
1 162 (38.12%) VMware
2 69 (16.24%) Cisco
2 69 (16.24%) Red Hat
3 63 (14.82%) Microsoft
4 46 (10.82%) Splunk
5 44 (10.35%) Oracle
6 28 (6.59%) NetApp
6 28 (6.59%) ServiceNow
7 24 (5.65%) F5
8 23 (5.41%) Citrix
9 18 (4.24%) HP
10 17 (4.00%) Google
11 16 (3.76%) Atlassian
12 15 (3.53%) CheckPoint
13 14 (3.29%) SolarWinds
14 13 (3.06%) Fortinet
14 13 (3.06%) Palo Alto
15 11 (2.59%) IBM
15 11 (2.59%) Veritas
16 10 (2.35%) Dell