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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 95 72
Rank change year-on-year +22 -23 -2
Contract jobs citing Ansible 976 986 1,776
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 3.35% 2.30% 3.16%
As % of the Systems Management category 21.08% 18.98% 20.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 629 679 1,298
10th Percentile £406 £425 £450
25th Percentile £475 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +2.13%
75th Percentile £635 £650 £700
90th Percentile £719 £725 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 8 34
10th Percentile £37.45 £50.63 £53.75
25th Percentile £39.25 £55.13 £57.30
Median hourly rate £44.50 £66.25 £73.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.83% -9.25% +80.25%
75th Percentile £78.70 £74.58 £78.00
90th Percentile £81.26 £75.75 £87.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £80.83 £66.25 £73.00
% change year-on-year +22.01% -9.25% +80.25%

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 4,631 5,194 8,858
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.88% 12.11% 15.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,144 3,765 6,327
10th Percentile £313 £275 £350
25th Percentile £413 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -6.36% -2.48%
75th Percentile £606 £625 £675
90th Percentile £700 £700 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £493 £495 £525
% change year-on-year -0.35% -5.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 99 207
10th Percentile £13.75 £14.00 £17.63
25th Percentile £19.97 £20.25 £25.71
Median hourly rate £28.50 £30.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -47.83% +162.68%
75th Percentile £63.25 £52.63 £73.73
90th Percentile £78.96 £71.25 £83.30
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £40.00 £42.75
% change year-on-year -6.25% -6.43% +113.75%

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 31 May 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 31 May 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 31 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
England +21 811 £550 - 762
UK excluding London +12 430 £550 - 471
London +30 384 £575 - 343
Work from Home +27 333 £550 -2.48% 525
North of England +4 111 £500 -2.91% 147
South East -6 94 £519 -5.08% 112
South West +16 89 £600 +6.67% 66
Yorkshire +13 76 £500 +3.09% 53
East of England +60 51 £550 -12.00% 38
Midlands +27 51 £551 +0.18% 51
West Midlands +32 45 £563 -3.26% 37
Scotland -2 38 £479 -7.88% 28
North West -3 27 £555 +5.67% 89
Wales +5 8 £390 -39.49% 4
North East 0 8 £550 - 6
East Midlands +3 6 £500 +0.20% 12

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 44 (4.51%) Confluence
2 31 (3.18%) Apache Spark
3 29 (2.97%) Apache
4 23 (2.36%) OpenStack
5 14 (1.43%) Microsoft Exchange
6 13 (1.33%) nginx
7 11 (1.13%) IIS
8 10 (1.02%) Documentum
8 10 (1.02%) FileNet
9 7 (0.72%) JBoss
9 7 (0.72%) WebLogic
10 6 (0.61%) WebSphere
11 4 (0.41%) SharePoint
11 4 (0.41%) Tomcat
12 3 (0.31%) Oracle Service Bus
12 3 (0.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 3 (0.31%) WebLogic Portal
13 2 (0.20%) Camunda
13 2 (0.20%) Gunicorn
14 1 (0.10%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 16 (1.64%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (0.82%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.20%) Notion
3 2 (0.20%) Trello
4 1 (0.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (0.31%) Oracle BPM
2 2 (0.20%) SAP IBP
2 2 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.20%) Shopify
3 1 (0.10%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.10%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.10%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.10%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.10%) SAP HCM
3 1 (0.10%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 400 (40.98%) AWS
2 261 (26.74%) Azure
3 123 (12.60%) GCP
3 123 (12.60%) GitHub
4 94 (9.63%) OpenShift
5 73 (7.48%) AWS CloudFormation
6 63 (6.45%) Serverless
7 61 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
8 58 (5.94%) Azure DevOps
9 56 (5.74%) Amazon S3
10 43 (4.41%) AWS Lambda
11 41 (4.20%) PaaS
12 39 (4.00%) Amazon EKS
13 35 (3.59%) IaaS
14 34 (3.48%) GitHub Actions
14 34 (3.48%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 26 (2.66%) SaaS
16 25 (2.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 22 (2.25%) Amazon SQS
18 21 (2.15%) Cohesity
Communications & Networking
1 164 (16.80%) Firewall
2 154 (15.78%) DNS
3 87 (8.91%) VPN
4 83 (8.50%) TCP/IP
5 76 (7.79%) BGP
6 67 (6.86%) Network Security
7 63 (6.45%) OSPF
8 51 (5.23%) DHCP
9 46 (4.71%) SAN
10 45 (4.61%) WAN
11 37 (3.79%) MPLS
12 33 (3.38%) LAN
13 32 (3.28%) HTTP
14 31 (3.18%) Multicast
15 23 (2.36%) Cisco Nexus
15 23 (2.36%) SMTP
16 22 (2.25%) IPsec
17 21 (2.15%) Cisco ISE
18 20 (2.05%) VLAN
19 19 (1.95%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (5.02%) Amazon RDS
2 41 (4.20%) Elasticsearch
3 40 (4.10%) PostgreSQL
4 32 (3.28%) Big Data
5 25 (2.56%) Oracle Database
6 23 (2.36%) Hadoop
7 19 (1.95%) MongoDB
7 19 (1.95%) NoSQL
7 19 (1.95%) SQL Server
8 17 (1.74%) MySQL
9 12 (1.23%) Amazon Aurora
9 12 (1.23%) Relational Database
10 7 (0.72%) Amazon Redshift
10 7 (0.72%) Oracle Reports
10 7 (0.72%) Redis
11 6 (0.61%) Data Lake
11 6 (0.61%) DynamoDB
11 6 (0.61%) MariaDB
12 5 (0.51%) InfluxDB
12 5 (0.51%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 262 (26.84%) Jenkins
2 169 (17.32%) GitLab
3 166 (17.01%) Git
4 91 (9.32%) JIRA
5 38 (3.89%) Cucumber
6 35 (3.59%) Bitbucket
7 29 (2.97%) Artifactory
8 28 (2.87%) SonarQube
8 28 (2.87%) Sonatype Nexus
9 17 (1.74%) Subversion
9 17 (1.74%) TeamCity
10 15 (1.54%) Selenium
11 14 (1.43%) Maven
12 12 (1.23%) Visual Studio
13 10 (1.02%) Postman
14 9 (0.92%) REST Assured
15 8 (0.82%) MSI
16 6 (0.61%) CircleCI
16 6 (0.61%) Gradle
16 6 (0.61%) Vagrant
General
1 272 (27.87%) Social Skills
2 168 (17.21%) Finance
3 110 (11.27%) Banking
4 109 (11.17%) Analytical Skills
5 76 (7.79%) Public Sector
6 45 (4.61%) Investment Banking
7 28 (2.87%) Telecoms
8 20 (2.05%) Organisational Skills
9 18 (1.84%) Documentation Skills
10 12 (1.23%) Financial Institution
10 12 (1.23%) Law
11 10 (1.02%) Legal
11 10 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
12 6 (0.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 6 (0.61%) Multimedia
12 6 (0.61%) Retail
13 5 (0.51%) Military
13 5 (0.51%) Police
14 4 (0.41%) Front Office
14 4 (0.41%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 182 (18.65%) DevOps Engineer
2 121 (12.40%) Network Engineer
3 102 (10.45%) Senior
4 97 (9.94%) Developer
5 72 (7.38%) Architect
6 62 (6.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 59 (6.05%) Automation Engineer
7 59 (6.05%) Platform Engineer
8 58 (5.94%) AWS Engineer
9 46 (4.71%) Linux Engineer
10 43 (4.41%) Kubernetes Engineer
11 42 (4.30%) Senior DevOps
12 41 (4.20%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 35 (3.59%) AWS DevOps
14 34 (3.48%) Python Developer
15 33 (3.38%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 33 (3.38%) Lead
16 32 (3.28%) Administrator
17 31 (3.18%) Cloud Engineer
18 28 (2.87%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (7.17%) REST
2 45 (4.61%) Elastic Stack
3 33 (3.38%) React
4 27 (2.77%) Kafka
5 26 (2.66%) .NET
6 23 (2.36%) OpenTelemetry
7 22 (2.25%) LDAP
7 22 (2.25%) Spring
8 21 (2.15%) Django
8 21 (2.15%) Middleware
9 20 (2.05%) FastAPI
10 19 (1.95%) YAML
11 18 (1.84%) ARM Templates
12 17 (1.74%) Node.js
13 16 (1.64%) JSON
13 16 (1.64%) RESTful
13 16 (1.64%) Spring Boot
14 15 (1.54%) OAuth
15 14 (1.43%) OpenID
16 13 (1.33%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 63 (6.45%) Cloud Native
1 63 (6.45%) Data Centre
2 46 (4.71%) Public Cloud
3 39 (4.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 30 (3.07%) PKI
5 27 (2.77%) Clustering
6 24 (2.46%) Linux Command Line
7 19 (1.95%) Hedge funds
7 19 (1.95%) Replication
8 18 (1.84%) Algorithms
9 17 (1.74%) Data Protection Act
9 17 (1.74%) Private Cloud
10 16 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
11 11 (1.13%) Enterprise Software
11 11 (1.13%) Onboarding
12 10 (1.02%) Enterprise Storage
12 10 (1.02%) Management Information System
13 9 (0.92%) Virtual Team
14 7 (0.72%) Product Ownership
15 5 (0.51%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 391 (40.06%) Linux
2 176 (18.03%) Windows
3 123 (12.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 98 (10.04%) Windows Server
5 51 (5.23%) Unix
6 28 (2.87%) CentOS
7 26 (2.66%) Windows Server 2016
7 26 (2.66%) Windows Server 2019
8 25 (2.56%) Ubuntu
9 20 (2.05%) Solaris
10 9 (0.92%) AIX
10 9 (0.92%) SUSE
10 9 (0.92%) VMS
11 8 (0.82%) Rocky
12 5 (0.51%) Oracle Linux
13 4 (0.41%) OS/400
13 4 (0.41%) Windows Server 2003
14 3 (0.31%) HPUX
14 3 (0.31%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
14 3 (0.31%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 424 (43.44%) DevOps
2 392 (40.16%) CI/CD
3 255 (26.13%) Infrastructure as Code
4 238 (24.39%) Agile
5 225 (23.05%) Containerisation
6 195 (19.98%) Configuration Management
7 194 (19.88%) Problem-Solving
8 109 (11.17%) Infrastructure Automation
9 108 (11.07%) Migration
10 102 (10.45%) High Availability
11 97 (9.94%) Test Automation
12 94 (9.63%) Task Automation
13 92 (9.43%) Deployment Automation
14 83 (8.50%) Software Engineering
15 77 (7.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 71 (7.27%) Continuous Integration
17 69 (7.07%) Observability
18 64 (6.56%) Continuous Improvement
18 64 (6.56%) Platform Engineering
19 61 (6.25%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 584 (59.84%) Python
2 241 (24.69%) Bash
3 214 (21.93%) PowerShell
4 124 (12.70%) Java
5 68 (6.97%) SQL
6 61 (6.25%) Shell Script
7 42 (4.30%) Perl
8 41 (4.20%) C#
9 36 (3.69%) Go
10 27 (2.77%) TypeScript
11 23 (2.36%) JavaScript
12 20 (2.05%) Groovy
13 18 (1.84%) Scala
14 13 (1.33%) Ruby
15 11 (1.13%) Rust
16 9 (0.92%) C++
16 9 (0.92%) VB
17 8 (0.82%) Bicep
18 6 (0.61%) PL/SQL
19 4 (0.41%) RPG
Qualifications
1 329 (33.71%) Security Cleared
2 222 (22.75%) SC Cleared
3 106 (10.86%) DV Cleared
4 89 (9.12%) Degree
5 78 (7.99%) Cisco Certification
6 67 (6.86%) CCNP
7 40 (4.10%) Computer Science Degree
8 35 (3.59%) AWS Certification
9 27 (2.77%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 23 (2.36%) CCIE
11 21 (2.15%) Oracle Certification
12 15 (1.54%) RHCE
13 14 (1.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 12 (1.23%) Azure Certification
15 11 (1.13%) CCNA
15 11 (1.13%) OCA
16 10 (1.02%) OCP
16 10 (1.02%) RHCA
17 8 (0.82%) JNCIA
18 7 (0.72%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (2.87%) QA
2 22 (2.25%) GDPR
3 21 (2.15%) PCI DSS
4 13 (1.33%) SLA
5 10 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 10 (1.02%) NIST
5 10 (1.02%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 5 (0.51%) Disclosure Scotland
6 5 (0.51%) NCSC
7 4 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
7 4 (0.41%) HIPAA
7 4 (0.41%) SOC 2
8 3 (0.31%) Data Quality
9 2 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.20%) OASIS TOSCA
10 1 (0.10%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.10%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.10%) COBIT
10 1 (0.10%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.10%) FedRAMP
System Software
1 253 (25.92%) Docker
2 166 (17.01%) VMware Infrastructure
3 93 (9.53%) Active Directory
4 41 (4.20%) VMware ESXi
5 36 (3.69%) vSphere
6 35 (3.59%) Hyper-V
7 22 (2.25%) Virtual Servers
8 21 (2.15%) VMware NSX
9 20 (2.05%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 16 (1.64%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 16 (1.64%) Virtual Machines
11 12 (1.23%) Firmware
12 10 (1.02%) NFS
13 9 (0.92%) BitLocker
13 9 (0.92%) Microsoft App-V
13 9 (0.92%) Terminal Services
14 7 (0.72%) Apache ZooKeeper
15 4 (0.41%) KVM
15 4 (0.41%) Veritas File System
15 4 (0.41%) Veritas Volume Manager
Systems Management
1 486 (49.80%) Terraform
2 395 (40.47%) Kubernetes
3 167 (17.11%) Puppet
4 103 (10.55%) Grafana
5 93 (9.53%) Progress Chef
6 81 (8.30%) Prometheus
7 34 (3.48%) vCenter Server
8 28 (2.87%) Argo
9 25 (2.56%) SCCM
10 24 (2.46%) WSUS
11 23 (2.36%) Nagios
12 21 (2.15%) Podman
13 20 (2.05%) Packer
14 15 (1.54%) Rancher
14 15 (1.54%) Red Hat Satellite
15 14 (1.43%) PowerCLI
16 13 (1.33%) FortiGate
16 13 (1.33%) vRealize
17 12 (1.23%) ZABBIX
18 11 (1.13%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 226 (23.16%) VMware
2 138 (14.14%) Cisco
3 127 (13.01%) Red Hat
4 97 (9.94%) Microsoft
5 93 (9.53%) Oracle
6 79 (8.09%) Splunk
7 57 (5.84%) F5
8 50 (5.12%) ServiceNow
9 42 (4.30%) Arista
10 41 (4.20%) Google
11 40 (4.10%) Fortinet
12 37 (3.79%) CheckPoint
13 33 (3.38%) NetApp
14 30 (3.07%) Palo Alto
15 29 (2.97%) IBM
16 28 (2.87%) Citrix
16 28 (2.87%) SolarWinds
17 23 (2.36%) SAP
18 21 (2.15%) HP
19 19 (1.95%) Dell