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 22 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 71 91
Rank change year-on-year +4 +20 0
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Ansible 49 40 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 2.83% 2.11% 1.54%
As % of the Systems Management category 17.56% 17.09% 10.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 29 25
10th Percentile £400 £500 £413
25th Percentile £506 £550 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £585 £675
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% -13.33% +25.00%
75th Percentile £586 £656 £731
90th Percentile £638 £686 £745
England median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.37% +0.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £70.00 -
England median hourly rate £59.25 £74.00 £74.50
% change year-on-year -19.93% -0.67% -12.87%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 279 234 313
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 16.13% 12.34% 14.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 184 172 213
10th Percentile £266 £300 £300
25th Percentile £410 £358 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year +0.25% +5.26% -4.04%
75th Percentile £588 £583 £638
90th Percentile £638 £670 £730
England median daily rate £510 £525 £560
% change year-on-year -2.86% -6.25% -2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 2
10th Percentile - £56.00 £23.03
25th Percentile - £57.50 £30.19
Median hourly rate £36.00 £62.50 £42.25
Median % change year-on-year -42.40% +47.93% +156.06%
75th Percentile - £70.00 £54.19
90th Percentile - £73.00 £61.28
England median hourly rate £52.50 £36.17 £49.87
% change year-on-year +45.17% -27.47% +116.80%

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

Ansible
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Ansible

Ansible
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ansible in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 22 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Ansible in the West Midlands

Ansible
DemandTrendContract 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 22 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Birmingham +16 14 £488 -23.53% 6
Shropshire -5 9 £558 +8.36% 1
Warwickshire -16 9 £558 -4.21% 5
Worcestershire +5 8 £550 +15.79% 3
Coventry -1 6 £400 -27.27% 3
Herefordshire +5 1 £525 -15.80%
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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (8.16%) Apache
1 4 (8.16%) Apache Spark
2 3 (6.12%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (4.08%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 19 (38.78%) Azure
2 16 (32.65%) AWS
3 13 (26.53%) GitHub
4 9 (18.37%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (12.24%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (10.20%) Amazon EKS
6 5 (10.20%) GCP
7 3 (6.12%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (4.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (4.08%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (4.08%) Amazon S3
8 2 (4.08%) Azure AKS
8 2 (4.08%) Datadog
8 2 (4.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 1 (2.04%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (2.04%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 1 (2.04%) IaaS
9 1 (2.04%) OpenShift
9 1 (2.04%) PaaS
9 1 (2.04%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (14.29%) Firewall
2 6 (12.24%) Network Security
3 5 (10.20%) BIG-IP
4 4 (8.16%) Cisco ASA
4 4 (8.16%) Cisco ISE
4 4 (8.16%) Wireshark
5 3 (6.12%) BGP
5 3 (6.12%) EIGRP
5 3 (6.12%) OSPF
5 3 (6.12%) VLAN
5 3 (6.12%) WAN
6 2 (4.08%) DNS
6 2 (4.08%) LAN
6 2 (4.08%) SD-WAN
6 2 (4.08%) Wireless
6 2 (4.08%) Wireless Security
7 1 (2.04%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (2.04%) DMVPN
7 1 (2.04%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 1 (2.04%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.12%) Apache Hive
1 3 (6.12%) Hadoop
1 3 (6.12%) HBase
2 1 (2.04%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (2.04%) Big Data
2 1 (2.04%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 16 (32.65%) GitLab
2 8 (16.33%) Jenkins
3 6 (12.24%) Git
3 6 (12.24%) JIRA
4 3 (6.12%) SonarQube
5 2 (4.08%) Snyk
5 2 (4.08%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (2.04%) Artifactory
6 1 (2.04%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (2.04%) Bitbucket
6 1 (2.04%) CircleCI
6 1 (2.04%) Cypress.io
6 1 (2.04%) Fiddler
6 1 (2.04%) Gradle
6 1 (2.04%) JUnit
6 1 (2.04%) Maven
6 1 (2.04%) Postman
6 1 (2.04%) Selenium
6 1 (2.04%) webpack
General
1 18 (36.73%) Social Skills
2 3 (6.12%) Public Sector
3 2 (4.08%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.04%) Banking
4 1 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (2.04%) Investment Banking
4 1 (2.04%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (2.04%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (24.49%) DevOps Engineer
2 8 (16.33%) Network Engineer
3 6 (12.24%) Architect
4 5 (10.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (8.16%) Automation Engineer
5 4 (8.16%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (8.16%) Python Engineer
5 4 (8.16%) Systems Architect
6 3 (6.12%) AWS Engineer
6 3 (6.12%) Hadoop Engineer
6 3 (6.12%) Operations Engineer
6 3 (6.12%) Platform Engineer
7 2 (4.08%) Automation Developer
7 2 (4.08%) Consultant
7 2 (4.08%) Developer
7 2 (4.08%) Python Developer
7 2 (4.08%) Site Engineer
7 2 (4.08%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 1 (2.04%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
8 1 (2.04%) Kubernetes Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (10.20%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (8.16%) YAML
3 3 (6.12%) LDAP
3 3 (6.12%) Spark Streaming
4 2 (4.08%) 802.1X
5 1 (2.04%) ARM Templates
5 1 (2.04%) JSON
5 1 (2.04%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.20%) PKI
2 4 (8.16%) Data Centre
3 2 (4.08%) Management Information System
3 2 (4.08%) SCADA
4 1 (2.04%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (2.04%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.04%) Operational Technology
4 1 (2.04%) Private Cloud
4 1 (2.04%) Security Posture
4 1 (2.04%) Virtual Team
4 1 (2.04%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 10 (20.41%) Linux
2 8 (16.33%) Windows
3 3 (6.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (6.12%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (46.94%) CI/CD
2 20 (40.82%) Agile
3 19 (38.78%) DevOps
4 17 (34.69%) Infrastructure as Code
5 14 (28.57%) Configuration Management
6 12 (24.49%) Containerisation
7 11 (22.45%) Software Engineering
8 9 (18.37%) Problem-Solving
8 9 (18.37%) Software Delivery
8 9 (18.37%) Test Automation
9 8 (16.33%) Computer Science
10 6 (12.24%) Identity Access Management
10 6 (12.24%) Incident Response
10 6 (12.24%) Task Automation
10 6 (12.24%) Use Case
11 5 (10.20%) Continuous Improvement
11 5 (10.20%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 5 (10.20%) Load Balancing
11 5 (10.20%) Root Cause Analysis
11 5 (10.20%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 19 (38.78%) Python
2 9 (18.37%) Bash
3 8 (16.33%) PowerShell
4 5 (10.20%) Shell Script
5 3 (6.12%) Java
6 2 (4.08%) Go
7 1 (2.04%) Scala
7 1 (2.04%) SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (38.78%) Security Cleared
2 14 (28.57%) SC Cleared
3 9 (18.37%) Degree
4 7 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (10.20%) DV Cleared
6 4 (8.16%) CCNP
6 4 (8.16%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (6.12%) AWS Certification
7 3 (6.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (6.12%) Azure Certification
7 3 (6.12%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (2.04%) CCNA
8 1 (2.04%) JNCIA
8 1 (2.04%) JNCIS
8 1 (2.04%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.08%) NCSC
1 2 (4.08%) QA
2 1 (2.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 15 (30.61%) Docker
2 12 (24.49%) Active Directory
3 3 (6.12%) HDFS
3 3 (6.12%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (2.04%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (2.04%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 33 (67.35%) Terraform
2 15 (30.61%) Kubernetes
3 6 (12.24%) Puppet
4 4 (8.16%) Grafana
4 4 (8.16%) Prometheus
5 3 (6.12%) Hadoop YARN
5 3 (6.12%) Opsview
5 3 (6.12%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (4.08%) Progress Chef
7 1 (2.04%) Argo
7 1 (2.04%) Cisco CUCM
7 1 (2.04%) Consul
7 1 (2.04%) Kibana
7 1 (2.04%) logstash
7 1 (2.04%) Podman
7 1 (2.04%) QRadar
Vendors
1 8 (16.33%) Cisco
2 7 (14.29%) SolarWinds
3 6 (12.24%) F5
3 6 (12.24%) VMware
4 5 (10.20%) Broadcom
4 5 (10.20%) Palo Alto
4 5 (10.20%) ServiceNow
5 4 (8.16%) CheckPoint
5 4 (8.16%) Juniper
5 4 (8.16%) Splunk
6 3 (6.12%) ForgeRock
6 3 (6.12%) Microsoft
6 3 (6.12%) PagerDuty
7 1 (2.04%) Databricks
7 1 (2.04%) IBM
7 1 (2.04%) McAfee
7 1 (2.04%) NetApp
7 1 (2.04%) Oracle
7 1 (2.04%) Red Hat
7 1 (2.04%) Zscaler