Ansible Contracts

Ansible
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 75 100 65
Rank change year-on-year +25 -35 +6
Contract jobs citing Ansible 939 975 1,984
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 3.21% 2.24% 3.32%
As % of the Systems Management category 20.40% 18.95% 20.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 608 660 1,466
10th Percentile £413 £425 £450
25th Percentile £479 £488 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £553 £600
Median % change year-on-year +3.17% -7.92% +2.13%
75th Percentile £653 £650 £700
90th Percentile £738 £738 £798
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 12 29
10th Percentile £46.98 £46.75 £53.75
25th Percentile £58.56 £52.19 £56.88
Median hourly rate £71.85 £66.25 £73.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.45% -9.25% +32.73%
75th Percentile £79.77 £74.44 £76.00
90th Percentile £81.68 £77.19 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £80.83 £62.25 £73.00
% change year-on-year +29.85% -14.73% +32.73%

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 4,603 5,146 9,616
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.74% 11.80% 16.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,154 3,676 6,945
10th Percentile £313 £257 £356
25th Percentile £419 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £563
Median % change year-on-year +1.92% -8.43% -0.44%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £675
90th Percentile £725 £700 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 127 209
10th Percentile £13.75 £14.00 £16.48
25th Percentile £20.13 £17.77 £22.75
Median hourly rate £26.45 £30.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.83% -47.83% +155.56%
75th Percentile £51.75 £54.38 £71.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £70.50 £82.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.34 £38.50 £43.75
% change year-on-year -34.18% -12.00% +118.75%

Ansible
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Ansible as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Ansible in the UK

Ansible
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Ansible.

Daily rate trend for Ansible in the UK

Ansible
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ansible over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Ansible in the UK

Ansible
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Ansible.

Hourly rate trend for Ansible in the UK

Ansible
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Ansible over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Ansible in the UK

Ansible
Top 16 Contract 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 30 April 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
England +27 769 £575 +4.55% 485
London +33 391 £600 +4.35% 229
UK excluding London +7 381 £550 - 280
Work from Home +34 327 £550 -2.48% 351
North of England -1 99 £525 +0.48% 67
South East -7 97 £550 - 60
South West +23 85 £600 +6.67% 52
Yorkshire +13 61 £500 -2.72% 24
Midlands +43 41 £625 +20.19% 42
Scotland 0 41 £473 -9.86% 16
West Midlands +38 35 £626 +16.64% 29
North West -14 30 £573 +7.51% 39
East of England +45 24 £530 -18.46% 29
North East 0 8 £558 +1.36% 4
East Midlands +8 6 £500 +0.40% 12
Wales +4 6 £390 -39.49% 6

Ansible
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 35 (3.73%) Confluence
2 28 (2.98%) Apache
2 28 (2.98%) Apache Spark
3 22 (2.34%) OpenStack
4 19 (2.02%) nginx
5 11 (1.17%) Microsoft Exchange
6 9 (0.96%) IIS
7 6 (0.64%) WebLogic
8 5 (0.53%) Documentum
8 5 (0.53%) FileNet
8 5 (0.53%) JBoss
8 5 (0.53%) Tomcat
8 5 (0.53%) WebSphere
9 4 (0.43%) SharePoint
10 3 (0.32%) WebLogic Portal
11 2 (0.21%) CMS
11 2 (0.21%) Headless CMS
11 2 (0.21%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.21%) Oracle Service Bus
11 2 (0.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 9 (0.96%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (0.75%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.21%) Notion
3 2 (0.21%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.21%) Oracle BPM
1 2 (0.21%) SAP IBP
1 2 (0.21%) SAP S/4HANA
1 2 (0.21%) Shopify
2 1 (0.11%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.11%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.11%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.11%) SAP HCM
2 1 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 361 (38.45%) AWS
2 258 (27.48%) Azure
3 118 (12.57%) GCP
4 108 (11.50%) GitHub
5 103 (10.97%) OpenShift
6 58 (6.18%) AWS CloudFormation
7 55 (5.86%) Azure DevOps
8 53 (5.64%) Amazon EC2
9 52 (5.54%) Amazon S3
9 52 (5.54%) Serverless
10 39 (4.15%) PaaS
11 38 (4.05%) AWS Lambda
12 32 (3.41%) IaaS
13 31 (3.30%) Amazon EKS
14 28 (2.98%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 25 (2.66%) GitHub Actions
15 25 (2.66%) SaaS
16 20 (2.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 16 (1.70%) Azure AKS
17 16 (1.70%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 128 (13.63%) Firewall
2 116 (12.35%) DNS
3 73 (7.77%) TCP/IP
3 73 (7.77%) VPN
4 57 (6.07%) Network Security
5 56 (5.96%) BGP
6 49 (5.22%) DHCP
7 48 (5.11%) OSPF
8 40 (4.26%) WAN
9 35 (3.73%) HTTP
10 30 (3.19%) MPLS
11 27 (2.88%) LAN
12 26 (2.77%) SMTP
13 22 (2.34%) Multicast
14 20 (2.13%) SAN
15 17 (1.81%) VLAN
16 16 (1.70%) Cisco Nexus
17 15 (1.60%) 4G
17 15 (1.60%) Cisco ISE
17 15 (1.60%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (4.90%) Amazon RDS
2 41 (4.37%) Elasticsearch
3 40 (4.26%) PostgreSQL
4 33 (3.51%) Big Data
5 26 (2.77%) Hadoop
6 24 (2.56%) SQL Server
7 23 (2.45%) Oracle Database
8 19 (2.02%) MongoDB
8 19 (2.02%) NoSQL
9 17 (1.81%) MySQL
10 14 (1.49%) Relational Database
11 11 (1.17%) Amazon Aurora
12 9 (0.96%) Amazon Redshift
13 8 (0.85%) Redis
14 6 (0.64%) Data Lake
15 5 (0.53%) MariaDB
15 5 (0.53%) Oracle Reports
15 5 (0.53%) SAP HANA
16 4 (0.43%) Data Warehouse
16 4 (0.43%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 265 (28.22%) Jenkins
2 162 (17.25%) GitLab
3 150 (15.97%) Git
4 74 (7.88%) JIRA
5 39 (4.15%) Bitbucket
6 37 (3.94%) Cucumber
7 28 (2.98%) SonarQube
8 24 (2.56%) Artifactory
9 21 (2.24%) Sonatype Nexus
10 18 (1.92%) Selenium
11 15 (1.60%) Subversion
12 14 (1.49%) TeamCity
13 10 (1.06%) Maven
13 10 (1.06%) Visual Studio
14 9 (0.96%) REST Assured
15 6 (0.64%) CircleCI
15 6 (0.64%) JMeter
15 6 (0.64%) MSI
15 6 (0.64%) Robot Framework
15 6 (0.64%) Vagrant
General
1 262 (27.90%) Social Skills
2 164 (17.47%) Finance
3 124 (13.21%) Banking
4 116 (12.35%) Analytical Skills
5 67 (7.14%) Public Sector
6 55 (5.86%) Investment Banking
7 39 (4.15%) Telecoms
8 22 (2.34%) Organisational Skills
9 18 (1.92%) Financial Institution
10 16 (1.70%) Documentation Skills
11 13 (1.38%) Law
12 10 (1.06%) Legal
13 9 (0.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 9 (0.96%) Presentation Skills
14 6 (0.64%) Multimedia
15 5 (0.53%) Front Office
15 5 (0.53%) Marketing
15 5 (0.53%) Military
15 5 (0.53%) Police
16 4 (0.43%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 185 (19.70%) DevOps Engineer
2 114 (12.14%) Senior
3 95 (10.12%) Developer
4 84 (8.95%) Network Engineer
5 72 (7.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 60 (6.39%) Architect
7 57 (6.07%) Platform Engineer
8 55 (5.86%) Automation Engineer
9 49 (5.22%) AWS Engineer
10 44 (4.69%) Senior DevOps
10 44 (4.69%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 42 (4.47%) Python Developer
12 40 (4.26%) Linux Engineer
13 36 (3.83%) Kubernetes Engineer
14 34 (3.62%) Lead
15 32 (3.41%) AWS DevOps
15 32 (3.41%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 29 (3.09%) Cloud Engineer
17 28 (2.98%) Site Reliability Engineer
18 26 (2.77%) Gen AI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (6.92%) REST
2 49 (5.22%) Elastic Stack
3 38 (4.05%) React
4 31 (3.30%) .NET
4 31 (3.30%) FastAPI
5 29 (3.09%) Django
6 25 (2.66%) Kafka
7 22 (2.34%) YAML
8 20 (2.13%) LDAP
9 19 (2.02%) OpenTelemetry
10 18 (1.92%) Spring
11 17 (1.81%) ARM Templates
11 17 (1.81%) Middleware
11 17 (1.81%) Node.js
12 15 (1.60%) OAuth
12 15 (1.60%) Spring Boot
13 14 (1.49%) OpenID
14 13 (1.38%) RESTful
15 12 (1.28%) SOAP
16 11 (1.17%) XACML
Miscellaneous
1 89 (9.48%) Cloud Native
2 52 (5.54%) Public Cloud
3 50 (5.32%) Data Centre
4 43 (4.58%) Hybrid Cloud
5 26 (2.77%) Clustering
6 23 (2.45%) Self-Motivation
7 21 (2.24%) Private Cloud
7 21 (2.24%) Replication
8 19 (2.02%) PKI
9 17 (1.81%) Algorithms
9 17 (1.81%) Data Protection Act
10 15 (1.60%) Hedge funds
10 15 (1.60%) Linux Command Line
11 14 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
11 14 (1.49%) Onboarding
12 12 (1.28%) Team-Oriented Environment
13 10 (1.06%) Product Ownership
14 9 (0.96%) Greenfield Project
15 8 (0.85%) Distributed Systems
15 8 (0.85%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 391 (41.64%) Linux
2 172 (18.32%) Windows
3 117 (12.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 85 (9.05%) Windows Server
5 70 (7.45%) Unix
6 31 (3.30%) CentOS
6 31 (3.30%) Ubuntu
7 19 (2.02%) Solaris
8 17 (1.81%) AIX
9 14 (1.49%) Windows Server 2016
10 10 (1.06%) VMS
11 9 (0.96%) Rocky
11 9 (0.96%) SUSE
12 5 (0.53%) HPUX
12 5 (0.53%) Oracle Linux
12 5 (0.53%) Windows Server 2019
13 4 (0.43%) OS/400
13 4 (0.43%) Windows Server 2003
14 3 (0.32%) Amazon Linux
14 3 (0.32%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 415 (44.20%) DevOps
2 401 (42.71%) CI/CD
3 235 (25.03%) Infrastructure as Code
4 229 (24.39%) Containerisation
5 226 (24.07%) Agile
6 204 (21.73%) Problem-Solving
7 188 (20.02%) Configuration Management
8 125 (13.31%) High Availability
9 118 (12.57%) Infrastructure Automation
10 101 (10.76%) Migration
11 98 (10.44%) Test Automation
12 93 (9.90%) Task Automation
13 91 (9.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 85 (9.05%) Software Engineering
15 82 (8.73%) Continuous Improvement
16 79 (8.41%) Continuous Integration
17 72 (7.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 71 (7.56%) Deployment Automation
19 70 (7.45%) Observability
20 64 (6.82%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 555 (59.11%) Python
2 235 (25.03%) Bash
3 191 (20.34%) PowerShell
4 123 (13.10%) Java
5 74 (7.88%) SQL
6 56 (5.96%) Shell Script
7 44 (4.69%) Perl
7 44 (4.69%) TypeScript
8 41 (4.37%) C#
9 34 (3.62%) Go
10 20 (2.13%) JavaScript
11 17 (1.81%) Groovy
11 17 (1.81%) Scala
12 14 (1.49%) Ruby
13 8 (0.85%) PL/SQL
14 7 (0.75%) Bicep
14 7 (0.75%) Rust
14 7 (0.75%) VB
15 6 (0.64%) PHP
16 5 (0.53%) C++
Qualifications
1 295 (31.42%) Security Cleared
2 214 (22.79%) SC Cleared
3 88 (9.37%) DV Cleared
4 80 (8.52%) Degree
5 63 (6.71%) Cisco Certification
6 53 (5.64%) CCNP
7 39 (4.15%) Computer Science Degree
8 29 (3.09%) AWS Certification
9 27 (2.88%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 24 (2.56%) CCIE
11 21 (2.24%) Oracle Certification
12 15 (1.60%) RHCE
13 11 (1.17%) CCNA
13 11 (1.17%) OCA
14 10 (1.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 10 (1.06%) OCP
14 10 (1.06%) RHCA
15 9 (0.96%) Azure Certification
16 7 (0.75%) VCAP
17 6 (0.64%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (3.30%) QA
2 19 (2.02%) GDPR
3 15 (1.60%) NIST
4 13 (1.38%) PCI DSS
5 11 (1.17%) SLA
6 10 (1.06%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 8 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.53%) NCSC
9 4 (0.43%) Disclosure Scotland
9 4 (0.43%) HIPAA
10 3 (0.32%) Data Quality
11 2 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.11%) Accessibility
12 1 (0.11%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 1 (0.11%) COBIT
12 1 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.11%) FedRAMP
12 1 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 1 (0.11%) SOC 2
System Software
1 277 (29.50%) Docker
2 140 (14.91%) VMware Infrastructure
3 70 (7.45%) Active Directory
4 40 (4.26%) vSphere
5 38 (4.05%) Hyper-V
6 30 (3.19%) VMware ESXi
7 24 (2.56%) VMware NSX
8 17 (1.81%) Virtual Machines
9 13 (1.38%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 11 (1.17%) NFS
11 9 (0.96%) BitLocker
11 9 (0.96%) Microsoft App-V
11 9 (0.96%) Terminal Services
12 7 (0.75%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 7 (0.75%) Firmware
13 5 (0.53%) KVM
14 4 (0.43%) PowerHA
14 4 (0.43%) Samba
14 4 (0.43%) Veritas Volume Manager
14 4 (0.43%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 478 (50.91%) Terraform
2 404 (43.02%) Kubernetes
3 163 (17.36%) Puppet
4 109 (11.61%) Progress Chef
5 101 (10.76%) Grafana
6 79 (8.41%) Prometheus
7 39 (4.15%) vCenter Server
8 28 (2.98%) Argo
9 26 (2.77%) Packer
10 22 (2.34%) Nagios
11 18 (1.92%) Podman
12 17 (1.81%) Red Hat Satellite
13 15 (1.60%) vRealize
14 13 (1.38%) PowerCLI
14 13 (1.38%) ZABBIX
15 12 (1.28%) Rancher
16 11 (1.17%) Docker Swarm
16 11 (1.17%) FortiGate
17 10 (1.06%) Consul
17 10 (1.06%) QRadar
Vendors
1 203 (21.62%) VMware
2 133 (14.16%) Red Hat
3 110 (11.71%) Cisco
4 89 (9.48%) Oracle
5 77 (8.20%) Microsoft
6 59 (6.28%) Splunk
7 46 (4.90%) F5
8 42 (4.47%) Google
9 38 (4.05%) Fortinet
10 37 (3.94%) ServiceNow
11 29 (3.09%) CheckPoint
12 28 (2.98%) Citrix
12 28 (2.98%) IBM
13 27 (2.88%) Arista
14 25 (2.66%) SolarWinds
15 22 (2.34%) HP
15 22 (2.34%) SAP
16 20 (2.13%) Palo Alto
17 18 (1.92%) CyberArk
17 18 (1.92%) Dell