Ansible Contract Job Trends

Ansible
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Ansible skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 110 68 102
Rank change year-on-year -42 +34 -39
Contract jobs citing Ansible 1,003 989 987
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.36% 3.36% 2.21%
As % of the Systems Management category 15.91% 20.84% 18.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 711 619 641
10th Percentile £358 £412 £413
25th Percentile £425 £495 £483
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.87% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £588 £675 £650
90th Percentile £688 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £551 £540
% change year-on-year -9.17% +1.94% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 5 19
10th Percentile £56.86 £49.55 £50.25
25th Percentile £65.50 £65.00 £59.38
Median hourly rate £79.00 £74.44 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.13% +6.34% -3.78%
75th Percentile £84.50 £77.50 £76.53
90th Percentile £89.00 £83.50 £76.72
UK excluding London median hourly rate £79.00 £75.00 £68.63
% change year-on-year +5.33% +9.28% -5.98%

All Systems Management Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 6,303 4,746 5,347
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.81% 16.10% 11.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,351 3,144 3,820
10th Percentile £315 £313 £263
25th Percentile £413 £420 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £630
90th Percentile £688 £738 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £495
% change year-on-year -1.60% +1.01% -5.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 137 52 152
10th Percentile £18.80 £15.51 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.33 £22.14 £20.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £25.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +115.69% -32.00% -28.07%
75th Percentile £67.50 £59.06 £60.00
90th Percentile £79.70 £77.19 £76.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £24.18 £40.00
% change year-on-year +127.46% -39.55% -13.14%

Ansible
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Ansible relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Ansible job vacancy trend in the UK

Ansible
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Ansible.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Ansible

Ansible
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ansible over the 6 months to 11 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Ansible in the UK

Ansible
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Ansible.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Ansible

Ansible
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Ansible over the 6 months to 11 March 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Ansible in the UK

Ansible
Top 17 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 11 March 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
England -34 876 £520 -13.33% 231
UK excluding London -8 602 £500 -9.17% 187
London -66 293 £550 -9.17% 42
Work from Home -41 270 £513 -8.89% 107
North of England +15 250 £489 -13.50% 52
Yorkshire +1 181 £493 -6.19% 23
South East -35 122 £500 -10.19% 57
Midlands -28 92 £525 -9.95% 15
West Midlands -20 86 £525 -21.52% 14
South West -19 69 £550 -4.35% 43
North West -16 58 £456 -27.04% 17
Scotland +24 57 £450 -1.59% 8
East of England -14 30 £478 -4.40% 7
North East -13 11 £508 -7.68% 12
East Midlands -36 5 £525 +5.00%
Wales -6 3 £600 +60.00% 6
Northern Ireland - 1 £385 -

Ansible
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 69 (6.88%) Confluence
2 25 (2.49%) Apache
3 21 (2.09%) OpenStack
4 10 (1.00%) SAS
5 9 (0.90%) Apache Spark
6 7 (0.70%) IIS
6 7 (0.70%) nginx
7 5 (0.50%) Appian
7 5 (0.50%) SharePoint
7 5 (0.50%) WebSphere
8 4 (0.40%) JBoss
9 3 (0.30%) CICS
9 3 (0.30%) Ethereum
9 3 (0.30%) Hyperledger
10 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.100%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.100%) FileNet
11 1 (0.100%) IBM HTTP Server
11 1 (0.100%) Oracle HTTP Server
11 1 (0.100%) Tomcat
Applications
1 24 (2.39%) Microsoft Excel
1 24 (2.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 11 (1.10%) MS Visio
3 8 (0.80%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.40%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.100%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 428 (42.67%) AWS
2 312 (31.11%) Azure
3 209 (20.84%) GitHub
4 174 (17.35%) OpenShift
5 171 (17.05%) GCP
6 91 (9.07%) Serverless
7 88 (8.77%) GitHub Actions
8 81 (8.08%) AWS CloudFormation
9 73 (7.28%) Amazon S3
10 71 (7.08%) Amazon EC2
11 61 (6.08%) Azure DevOps
12 59 (5.88%) Amazon EKS
13 47 (4.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 43 (4.29%) AWS Lambda
15 37 (3.69%) Amazon ECS
16 34 (3.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 34 (3.39%) IaaS
17 26 (2.59%) Entra ID
18 19 (1.89%) Azure AKS
19 17 (1.69%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 147 (14.66%) Firewall
2 123 (12.26%) DNS
3 76 (7.58%) VPN
4 73 (7.28%) TCP/IP
5 67 (6.68%) Network Security
6 57 (5.68%) WAN
7 56 (5.58%) BGP
8 42 (4.19%) OSPF
9 41 (4.09%) DHCP
10 38 (3.79%) SAN
11 35 (3.49%) SD-WAN
12 34 (3.39%) MPLS
13 32 (3.19%) LAN
14 28 (2.79%) SSL
15 26 (2.59%) VXLAN
16 23 (2.29%) BIG-IP
16 23 (2.29%) Ethernet VPN
16 23 (2.29%) HTTP
17 21 (2.09%) Wireshark
18 19 (1.89%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 94 (9.37%) PostgreSQL
2 42 (4.19%) Amazon RDS
3 34 (3.39%) Elasticsearch
4 30 (2.99%) NoSQL
5 29 (2.89%) MongoDB
6 22 (2.19%) MySQL
6 22 (2.19%) SQL Server
7 17 (1.69%) Redis
8 15 (1.50%) Data Warehouse
8 15 (1.50%) DynamoDB
9 13 (1.30%) Oracle Database
9 13 (1.30%) Relational Database
10 9 (0.90%) Amazon Redshift
11 8 (0.80%) Hadoop
11 8 (0.80%) InfluxDB
12 6 (0.60%) Amazon Aurora
12 6 (0.60%) Data Lake
12 6 (0.60%) Power BI
12 6 (0.60%) Snowflake Schema
13 5 (0.50%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 321 (32.00%) Jenkins
2 214 (21.34%) GitLab
3 157 (15.65%) Git
4 98 (9.77%) JIRA
5 61 (6.08%) Sonatype Nexus
6 28 (2.79%) Bitbucket
7 26 (2.59%) JUnit
8 22 (2.19%) Cucumber
9 20 (1.99%) Artifactory
9 20 (1.99%) JMeter
10 18 (1.79%) Maven
11 16 (1.60%) CircleCI
11 16 (1.60%) Liquibase
11 16 (1.60%) SonarQube
12 14 (1.40%) Fiddler
13 12 (1.20%) Gradle
13 12 (1.20%) Robot Framework
14 9 (0.90%) Selenium
15 8 (0.80%) Snyk
15 8 (0.80%) Terragrunt
General
1 286 (28.51%) Social Skills
2 154 (15.35%) Finance
3 98 (9.77%) Banking
4 95 (9.47%) Public Sector
5 91 (9.07%) Analytical Skills
6 46 (4.59%) Documentation Skills
7 23 (2.29%) Financial Institution
8 15 (1.50%) Telecoms
9 12 (1.20%) Aerospace
10 11 (1.10%) Military
11 9 (0.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 9 (0.90%) Presentation Skills
12 7 (0.70%) Influencing Skills
12 7 (0.70%) Retail Banking
13 6 (0.60%) Advertising
13 6 (0.60%) Investment Banking
14 5 (0.50%) Law
15 3 (0.30%) Legal
15 3 (0.30%) Private Banking
15 3 (0.30%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 197 (19.64%) DevOps Engineer
2 115 (11.47%) Architect
3 105 (10.47%) Senior
4 77 (7.68%) Network Engineer
5 75 (7.48%) Developer
6 67 (6.68%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 64 (6.38%) Automation Engineer
8 57 (5.68%) Lead
9 56 (5.58%) Site Engineer
10 54 (5.38%) AWS Engineer
11 50 (4.99%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 43 (4.29%) Platform Engineer
13 37 (3.69%) Java Developer
14 34 (3.39%) Cloud Engineer
15 33 (3.29%) Senior DevOps
15 33 (3.29%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 31 (3.09%) Software Engineer
17 27 (2.69%) AWS DevOps
18 26 (2.59%) Administrator
18 26 (2.59%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (8.47%) Elastic Stack
1 85 (8.47%) REST
2 59 (5.88%) Kafka
3 39 (3.89%) Spring
4 33 (3.29%) RESTful
4 33 (3.29%) YAML
5 30 (2.99%) Node.js
6 22 (2.19%) JSON
7 21 (2.09%) OpenTelemetry
7 21 (2.09%) Spring Boot
8 18 (1.79%) LDAP
9 16 (1.60%) OAuth
10 15 (1.50%) Hibernate
10 15 (1.50%) Keycloak
11 14 (1.40%) AngularJS
11 14 (1.40%) Middleware
12 13 (1.30%) Loki
12 13 (1.30%) RabbitMQ
13 11 (1.10%) Apache NiFi
13 11 (1.10%) React
Miscellaneous
1 92 (9.17%) Cloud Native
2 88 (8.77%) Data Centre
3 65 (6.48%) Hybrid Cloud
4 54 (5.38%) Distributed Systems
5 53 (5.28%) Public Cloud
6 38 (3.79%) PKI
7 29 (2.89%) Clustering
8 27 (2.69%) Management Information System
9 25 (2.49%) Product Ownership
10 23 (2.29%) Legacy Systems
11 22 (2.19%) Onboarding
11 22 (2.19%) Private Cloud
12 21 (2.09%) Replication
13 19 (1.89%) Data Protection Act
13 19 (1.89%) Enterprise Storage
14 17 (1.69%) Virtual Team
15 16 (1.60%) Enterprise Software
16 10 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
17 8 (0.80%) Analytical Mindset
17 8 (0.80%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 379 (37.79%) Linux
2 167 (16.65%) Windows
3 101 (10.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 68 (6.78%) Windows Server
5 66 (6.58%) Unix
6 33 (3.29%) VMS
7 32 (3.19%) CentOS
8 30 (2.99%) Ubuntu
9 7 (0.70%) Data ONTAP
10 6 (0.60%) CoreOS
11 5 (0.50%) Debian
11 5 (0.50%) Windows Server 2003
12 4 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
13 3 (0.30%) AIX
13 3 (0.30%) Solaris
13 3 (0.30%) Windows Server 2016
13 3 (0.30%) zOS
14 1 (0.100%) Kali Linux
14 1 (0.100%) Oracle Linux
14 1 (0.100%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 556 (55.43%) CI/CD
2 498 (49.65%) DevOps
3 365 (36.39%) Infrastructure as Code
4 259 (25.82%) Containerisation
5 216 (21.54%) Agile
6 201 (20.04%) Problem-Solving
7 175 (17.45%) Migration
8 151 (15.05%) Observability
9 121 (12.06%) High Availability
10 120 (11.96%) Continuous Improvement
11 119 (11.86%) Configuration Management
11 119 (11.86%) Infrastructure Automation
11 119 (11.86%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 106 (10.57%) Test Automation
13 99 (9.87%) Platform Engineering
14 97 (9.67%) Incident Response
15 86 (8.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 82 (8.18%) Mentoring
16 82 (8.18%) Microservices
17 81 (8.08%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 545 (54.34%) Python
2 246 (24.53%) Bash
3 173 (17.25%) PowerShell
4 103 (10.27%) Java
5 75 (7.48%) SQL
6 49 (4.89%) Go
7 47 (4.69%) Shell Script
8 34 (3.39%) Perl
9 29 (2.89%) JavaScript
10 14 (1.40%) Ruby
11 13 (1.30%) C#
12 12 (1.20%) Groovy
13 9 (0.90%) PL/SQL
14 8 (0.80%) C++
14 8 (0.80%) TypeScript
15 7 (0.70%) MATLAB
16 6 (0.60%) Rust
17 5 (0.50%) Bicep
17 5 (0.50%) PHP
18 3 (0.30%) Assembly Language
Qualifications
1 314 (31.31%) Security Cleared
2 223 (22.23%) SC Cleared
3 75 (7.48%) DV Cleared
4 74 (7.38%) Degree
5 55 (5.48%) Cisco Certification
6 51 (5.08%) Computer Science Degree
7 47 (4.69%) CCNP
8 43 (4.29%) AWS Certification
9 33 (3.29%) CCIE
10 26 (2.59%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 25 (2.49%) Master's Degree
12 22 (2.19%) Azure Certification
13 21 (2.09%) Oracle Certification
14 20 (1.99%) RHCE
15 19 (1.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 18 (1.79%) Microsoft Certification
17 15 (1.50%) OCP
18 14 (1.40%) BPSS Clearance
18 14 (1.40%) CISSP
19 12 (1.20%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (3.49%) QA
2 19 (1.89%) GDPR
2 19 (1.89%) NCSC
3 17 (1.69%) SLA
4 15 (1.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 15 (1.50%) NIST
5 13 (1.30%) PCI DSS
6 6 (0.60%) Accessibility
7 4 (0.40%) JSP 440
8 3 (0.30%) COBIT
8 3 (0.30%) Data Quality
8 3 (0.30%) NIST 800
8 3 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.20%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.20%) ISO 8583
9 2 (0.20%) PSD2
9 2 (0.20%) SEPA
10 1 (0.100%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.100%) RMADS
System Software
1 259 (25.82%) Docker
2 115 (11.47%) VMware Infrastructure
3 71 (7.08%) Active Directory
4 60 (5.98%) vSphere
5 53 (5.28%) VMware NSX
6 45 (4.49%) Virtual Machines
7 32 (3.19%) Hyper-V
8 26 (2.59%) VMware ESXi
9 14 (1.40%) KVM
10 11 (1.10%) NFS
11 8 (0.80%) Firmware
11 8 (0.80%) Lustre
11 8 (0.80%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 7 (0.70%) GPFS
13 6 (0.60%) QEMU
14 5 (0.50%) BitLocker
14 5 (0.50%) Microsoft App-V
14 5 (0.50%) Oracle RAC
15 4 (0.40%) HDFS
16 3 (0.30%) Ceph
Systems Management
1 578 (57.63%) Terraform
2 407 (40.58%) Kubernetes
3 192 (19.14%) Grafana
4 158 (15.75%) Prometheus
5 100 (9.97%) Puppet
6 71 (7.08%) Progress Chef
7 54 (5.38%) Argo
8 46 (4.59%) vCenter Server
9 33 (3.29%) Kibana
10 32 (3.19%) Podman
11 27 (2.69%) Red Hat Satellite
12 23 (2.29%) Packer
13 21 (2.09%) NetBackup
14 14 (1.40%) PowerCLI
15 12 (1.20%) Salt
15 12 (1.20%) SCCM
16 11 (1.10%) Single Sign-On
17 10 (1.00%) Istio
17 10 (1.00%) Nagios
18 9 (0.90%) vRealize
Vendors
1 200 (19.94%) VMware
2 142 (14.16%) Red Hat
3 119 (11.86%) Splunk
4 108 (10.77%) Microsoft
5 101 (10.07%) Cisco
6 61 (6.08%) F5
7 51 (5.08%) Google
8 49 (4.89%) Palo Alto
9 47 (4.69%) Oracle
10 35 (3.49%) Arista
11 33 (3.29%) Pure Storage
12 32 (3.19%) ServiceNow
13 30 (2.99%) Fortinet
14 26 (2.59%) Juniper
15 25 (2.49%) CheckPoint
15 25 (2.49%) SolarWinds
16 23 (2.29%) NetApp
17 20 (1.99%) IBM
18 19 (1.89%) Sonatype
19 18 (1.79%) Dell