Ansible Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Ansible
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring Ansible skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 48 68
Rank change year-on-year -23 +20 +14
Contract jobs citing Ansible 13 11 8
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 1.33% 2.17% 0.74%
As % of the Systems Management category 7.26% 9.24% 7.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 6 7
10th Percentile £403 £393 £419
25th Percentile £447 £413 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £481 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.90% +1.32% -20.83%
75th Percentile £538 £580 £500
90th Percentile £550 £594 £550
Yorkshire median daily rate £493 £500 £480
% change year-on-year -1.50% +4.17% -20.86%

All Systems Management Skills
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 179 119 103
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 18.38% 23.43% 9.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 70 77
10th Percentile £313 £234 £312
25th Percentile £413 £374 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £506 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.23% +6.58% -13.64%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £575
90th Percentile £588 £751 £630
Yorkshire median daily rate £487 £500 £463
% change year-on-year -2.60% +8.11% -15.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £16.54 - -
25th Percentile £17.33 - -
Median hourly rate £19.21 - £62.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -0.80%
75th Percentile £20.53 - -
90th Percentile £20.99 - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £56.50 - £22.50
% change year-on-year - - -64.00%

Ansible
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Ansible relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire.

Ansible job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

Ansible
Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Ansible

Ansible
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ansible in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 17 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Ansible in West Yorkshire

Ansible
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 17 March 2026. 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
Leeds -23 13 £500 +3.90% 4
Ansible
Yorkshire

Ansible
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (7.69%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 7 (53.85%) AWS
2 5 (38.46%) Amazon S3
2 5 (38.46%) Azure
3 4 (30.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 4 (30.77%) Amazon EC2
3 4 (30.77%) Serverless
3 4 (30.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 3 (23.08%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (23.08%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (23.08%) GitHub
4 3 (23.08%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (15.38%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (15.38%) Amazon ELB
5 2 (15.38%) AWS CloudTrail
5 2 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (15.38%) Datadog
6 1 (7.69%) Apigee
6 1 (7.69%) AWS Fargate
6 1 (7.69%) GCP
6 1 (7.69%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (38.46%) Firewall
2 3 (23.08%) DNS
2 3 (23.08%) TCP/IP
3 2 (15.38%) Network Security
3 2 (15.38%) SSL
3 2 (15.38%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (15.38%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (7.69%) DynamoDB
2 1 (7.69%) MongoDB
2 1 (7.69%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (69.23%) Jenkins
2 8 (61.54%) Git
3 4 (30.77%) GitLab
4 1 (7.69%) CircleCI
4 1 (7.69%) JIRA
General
1 5 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Banking
3 1 (7.69%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Finance
3 1 (7.69%) Law
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Senior
2 3 (23.08%) Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Calypso Developer
3 2 (15.38%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Lead
3 2 (15.38%) Senior DevOps
3 2 (15.38%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) AWS Specialist
4 1 (7.69%) Cloud Specialist
4 1 (7.69%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Java Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Migration Specialist
4 1 (7.69%) Network Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Site Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (23.08%) Spring
2 2 (15.38%) Node.js
3 1 (7.69%) AngularJS
3 1 (7.69%) JWT
3 1 (7.69%) Kafka
3 1 (7.69%) OAuth
3 1 (7.69%) REST
3 1 (7.69%) Spring Boot
3 1 (7.69%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Derivative
1 2 (15.38%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (15.38%) Legacy Systems
1 2 (15.38%) Onboarding
1 2 (15.38%) Security Posture
2 1 (7.69%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.69%) Data Centre
2 1 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 5 (38.46%) Linux
1 5 (38.46%) Windows
2 2 (15.38%) Windows Server
3 1 (7.69%) Unix
3 1 (7.69%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (69.23%) CI/CD
2 8 (61.54%) DevOps
3 7 (53.85%) Infrastructure as Code
4 6 (46.15%) DevSecOps
5 4 (30.77%) Infrastructure Automation
5 4 (30.77%) Mentoring
6 3 (23.08%) Containerisation
6 3 (23.08%) High Availability
6 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 3 (23.08%) Key Management
6 3 (23.08%) Root Cause Analysis
6 3 (23.08%) Test Automation
6 3 (23.08%) Vulnerability Remediation
7 2 (15.38%) Business Case
7 2 (15.38%) Event-Driven
7 2 (15.38%) Incident Response
7 2 (15.38%) Migration
7 2 (15.38%) Roadmaps
7 2 (15.38%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 2 (15.38%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 9 (69.23%) Python
2 7 (53.85%) Bash
2 7 (53.85%) PowerShell
3 5 (38.46%) Java
4 3 (23.08%) SQL
5 1 (7.69%) C#
5 1 (7.69%) Go
5 1 (7.69%) JavaScript
5 1 (7.69%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) Security Cleared
2 2 (15.38%) SC Cleared
3 1 (7.69%) AWS Certification
3 1 (7.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (7.69%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (46.15%) Docker
2 2 (15.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (7.69%) Hyper-V
3 1 (7.69%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (7.69%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (61.54%) Terraform
2 4 (30.77%) Kubernetes
3 2 (15.38%) WSUS
4 1 (7.69%) Grafana
4 1 (7.69%) Progress Chef
4 1 (7.69%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) VMware
2 2 (15.38%) Calypso
2 2 (15.38%) CheckPoint
2 2 (15.38%) CloudEndure
2 2 (15.38%) F5
2 2 (15.38%) Palo Alto
3 1 (7.69%) Oracle
3 1 (7.69%) ServiceNow
3 1 (7.69%) Splunk