Ansible Contracts in the West Midlands

Ansible
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 63 98 92
Rank change year-on-year +35 -6 0
Contract jobs citing Ansible 34 13 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 2.53% 0.67% 1.97%
As % of the Systems Management category 18.18% 7.07% 15.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 10 34
10th Percentile £373 £451 £422
25th Percentile £546 £500 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £536 £525
Median % change year-on-year +16.55% +2.14% -2.78%
75th Percentile £697 £688 £669
90th Percentile £700 £694 £731
England median daily rate £575 £550 £623
% change year-on-year +4.55% -11.65% +4.62%

All Systems Management Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 187 184 310
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 13.90% 9.45% 13.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 147 209
10th Percentile £200 £200 £310
25th Percentile £310 £350 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £525
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -19.05% +16.67%
75th Percentile £600 £550 £673
90th Percentile £700 £647 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £575
% change year-on-year - -8.70% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 7
10th Percentile £12.18 £23.52 £17.25
25th Percentile £12.94 £35.33 £17.72
Median hourly rate £16.19 £55.00 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -70.56% +197.30% +14.76%
75th Percentile £17.89 - £43.59
90th Percentile £18.13 - £66.00
England median hourly rate £27.38 £27.25 £57.50
% change year-on-year +0.46% -52.61% +167.44%

Ansible
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Ansible as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Ansible in the West Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Ansible in the West Midlands

Ansible
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ansible in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Ansible in the West Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Ansible within the West Midlands 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
Birmingham +32 16 £689 +96.86% 13
Shropshire +4 8 £583 +11.48% 2
Warwickshire +4 4 £551 -18.37% 3
Worcestershire +2 3 £700 +47.37% 4
Herefordshire - 3 £700 - 3
Ansible
England

Ansible
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 12 (35.29%) Azure
2 6 (17.65%) AWS
2 6 (17.65%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (8.82%) GitHub
4 2 (5.88%) GCP
4 2 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (2.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (2.94%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (2.94%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (2.94%) Amazon S3
5 1 (2.94%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (2.94%) SonarCloud
5 1 (2.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.88%) Network Security
2 1 (2.94%) BGP
2 1 (2.94%) DSL
2 1 (2.94%) EIGRP
2 1 (2.94%) Firewall
2 1 (2.94%) Internet
2 1 (2.94%) LAN
2 1 (2.94%) OSPF
2 1 (2.94%) SD-WAN
2 1 (2.94%) SMTP
2 1 (2.94%) VLAN
2 1 (2.94%) WAN
2 1 (2.94%) Wireless
2 1 (2.94%) Wireless Security
2 1 (2.94%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.94%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 9 (26.47%) GitLab
2 6 (17.65%) MSI
3 1 (2.94%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.94%) JIRA
3 1 (2.94%) Snyk
3 1 (2.94%) SonarQube
General
1 19 (55.88%) Social Skills
2 5 (14.71%) Public Sector
3 1 (2.94%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (2.94%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (23.53%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (8.82%) Operations Engineer
3 2 (5.88%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 2 (5.88%) Site Engineer
3 2 (5.88%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 1 (2.94%) Consultant
4 1 (2.94%) Elasticsearch Consultant
4 1 (2.94%) Elasticsearch Engineer
4 1 (2.94%) Kubernetes Engineer
4 1 (2.94%) Lead
4 1 (2.94%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (2.94%) Network Engineer
4 1 (2.94%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (2.94%) Python Engineer
4 1 (2.94%) Security Consultant
4 1 (2.94%) SIEM Consultant
4 1 (2.94%) SIEM Engineer
4 1 (2.94%) SIEM Specialist
4 1 (2.94%) Technical Engineer
4 1 (2.94%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (17.65%) Software Packaging
2 2 (5.88%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (2.94%) 802.1X
3 1 (2.94%) REST
3 1 (2.94%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (14.71%) PKI
1 5 (14.71%) SCADA
2 1 (2.94%) Operational Technology
2 1 (2.94%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (2.94%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 10 (29.41%) Linux
2 7 (20.59%) Windows
3 4 (11.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (35.29%) Software Delivery
2 11 (32.35%) DevOps
3 10 (29.41%) CI/CD
3 10 (29.41%) Infrastructure as Code
4 8 (23.53%) ITSM
4 8 (23.53%) Software Engineering
5 7 (20.59%) Network Monitoring
5 7 (20.59%) Service Management
5 7 (20.59%) Test Automation
6 6 (17.65%) Containerisation
6 6 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (17.65%) Software Deployment
6 6 (17.65%) Software Distribution
7 5 (14.71%) Agile
7 5 (14.71%) Computer Science
7 5 (14.71%) SIEM
8 4 (11.76%) Cost Optimisation
8 4 (11.76%) Root Cause Analysis
8 4 (11.76%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 4 (11.76%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 12 (35.29%) Python
2 11 (32.35%) Bash
3 8 (23.53%) PowerShell
4 1 (2.94%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 23 (67.65%) Security Cleared
2 21 (61.76%) SC Cleared
3 5 (14.71%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (14.71%) Degree
4 2 (5.88%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.94%) CCNP
5 1 (2.94%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (2.94%) RHCE
5 1 (2.94%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.82%) NCSC
2 1 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.94%) QA
System Software
1 8 (23.53%) Docker
1 8 (23.53%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (5.88%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.94%) Hyper-V
3 1 (2.94%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 24 (70.59%) Terraform
2 8 (23.53%) Kubernetes
3 3 (8.82%) Opsview
4 1 (2.94%) Argo
4 1 (2.94%) Grafana
4 1 (2.94%) Kibana
4 1 (2.94%) logstash
4 1 (2.94%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.94%) QRadar
4 1 (2.94%) SELinux
Vendors
1 8 (23.53%) VMware
2 7 (20.59%) Broadcom
3 6 (17.65%) Tanium
4 3 (8.82%) PagerDuty
5 2 (5.88%) Foundry
5 2 (5.88%) Red Hat
6 1 (2.94%) BT
6 1 (2.94%) Cisco
6 1 (2.94%) IBM
6 1 (2.94%) Infoblox
6 1 (2.94%) Juniper
6 1 (2.94%) SolarWinds
6 1 (2.94%) Splunk
6 1 (2.94%) Zscaler