Ansible Contracts in Wales

Ansible
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wales 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 37 45
Rank change year-on-year 0 +8 +19
Contract jobs citing Ansible 6 7 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 2.05% 1.77% 2.52%
As % of the Systems Management category 13.95% 13.21% 15.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 7 14
10th Percentile £367 £563 £273
25th Percentile £373 £592 £320
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £390 £645 £513
Median % change year-on-year -39.49% +25.76% +5.13%
75th Percentile £401 £678 £550
90th Percentile £403 £689 £576
UK median daily rate £570 £553 £600
% change year-on-year +3.17% -7.92% +2.13%

All Systems Management Skills
Wales

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 Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 43 53 106
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 14.68% 13.42% 16.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 46 73
10th Percentile £187 £413 £273
25th Percentile £213 £470 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £405 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -21.36% -1.90% +9.19%
75th Percentile £475 £600 £575
90th Percentile £589 £658 £646
UK median daily rate £525 £515 £563
% change year-on-year +1.90% -8.41% -0.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 2
10th Percentile £28.50 - £15.05
25th Percentile £31.88 - £15.13
Median hourly rate £37.50 - £15.50
Median % change year-on-year - - -12.06%
75th Percentile £41.25 - £16.13
90th Percentile - - £16.35
UK median hourly rate £26.45 £30.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -11.83% -47.83% +155.56%

Ansible
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Ansible in Wales

Ansible
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

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

Daily rate trend for Ansible in Wales

Ansible
Contract Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Ansible within the Wales region over the 6 months to 1 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
South Wales +4 5 £405 -37.16% 10
Dyfed - 1 £375 -
Ansible
UK

Ansible
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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 5 (83.33%) WebLogic
2 3 (50.00%) Apache
2 3 (50.00%) JBoss
2 3 (50.00%) nginx
2 3 (50.00%) WebLogic Portal
2 3 (50.00%) WebSphere
3 2 (33.33%) Oracle Service Bus
3 2 (33.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (16.67%) Tomcat
4 1 (16.67%) WebSphere Application Server
Business Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) AWS
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
1 3 (50.00%) GitHub
1 3 (50.00%) OCI
1 3 (50.00%) OpenShift
2 2 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) SSL
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 2 (33.33%) Subversion
2 1 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) Middleware
2 2 (33.33%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (16.67%) JSON
3 1 (16.67%) JWT
3 1 (16.67%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Public Cloud
2 1 (16.67%) LPAR
2 1 (16.67%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (16.67%) OS/400
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) CI/CD
2 3 (50.00%) API Management
2 3 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (50.00%) DevOps
2 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 3 (50.00%) Microservices
3 2 (33.33%) ITIL
3 2 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (33.33%) SOA
4 1 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (16.67%) Identity Management
4 1 (16.67%) Migration
4 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (16.67%) Requirements Gathering
4 1 (16.67%) Roadmaps
4 1 (16.67%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Java
2 2 (33.33%) Python
2 2 (33.33%) WebLogic Scripting Tool
3 1 (16.67%) RPG
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) QA
2 1 (16.67%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Docker
1 3 (50.00%) LXC
2 1 (16.67%) PowerHA
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle Identity Management
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Oracle
2 3 (50.00%) Red Hat
3 2 (33.33%) ServiceNow
4 1 (16.67%) IBM