Ansible Contract Job Trends in Worcestershire

Ansible
West Midlands > Worcestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Worcestershire requiring Ansible skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 15 18
Rank change year-on-year -6 +3 +7
Contract jobs citing Ansible 13 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in Worcestershire 8.90% 1.54% 1.28%
As % of the Systems Management category 25.49% 12.50% 25.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 1 1
10th Percentile £525 - -
25th Percentile £553 - £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £350 £575
Median % change year-on-year +64.29% -39.13% -6.12%
75th Percentile £630 - £588
90th Percentile £738 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £550 £573 £550
% change year-on-year -3.93% +4.09% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £72.50 - -
Median hourly rate £75.00 - -
75th Percentile £77.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £75.00 - -

All Systems Management Skills
Worcestershire

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 Worcestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 51 8 4
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Worcestershire 34.93% 12.31% 5.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 5 3
10th Percentile - £207 £353
25th Percentile £525 - £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £300 £575
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% -47.83% +17.95%
75th Percentile £700 £350 £624
90th Percentile £750 £560 £646
West Midlands median daily rate £515 £500 £425
% change year-on-year +3.00% +17.65% -10.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £72.50 £15.22 -
Median hourly rate £75.00 £16.19 -
Median % change year-on-year +363.25% - -
75th Percentile £77.50 £17.16 -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £75.00 £12.18 £55.00
% change year-on-year +515.76% -77.85% +221.45%

Ansible
Job Vacancy Trend in Worcestershire

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

Ansible job vacancy trend in Worcestershire

Ansible
Daily Rate Trend in Worcestershire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Worcestershire citing Ansible.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Worcestershire citing Ansible

Ansible
Daily Rate Histogram in Worcestershire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ansible in Worcestershire over the 6 months to 17 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Ansible in Worcestershire

Ansible
Contract Job Locations in Worcestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Ansible within the Worcestershire region over the 6 months to 17 December 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
Malvern -17 6 £725 +107.14% 1
Worcester - 1 £588 - 1
Ansible
West Midlands

Ansible
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Worcestershire 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 6 (46.15%) OpenStack
2 1 (7.69%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 12 (92.31%) AWS
1 12 (92.31%) Azure
2 9 (69.23%) Amazon EKS
3 7 (53.85%) GitHub
3 7 (53.85%) GitHub Actions
4 6 (46.15%) AWS CloudFormation
4 6 (46.15%) GCP
5 5 (38.46%) Azure AKS
5 5 (38.46%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (38.46%) Datadog
5 5 (38.46%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 5 (38.46%) npm
5 5 (38.46%) OpenShift
5 5 (38.46%) Pulumi
6 1 (7.69%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) DNS
1 1 (7.69%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 13 (100.00%) GitLab
2 10 (76.92%) Git
3 7 (53.85%) Jenkins
4 6 (46.15%) Artifactory
5 5 (38.46%) Bitbucket
5 5 (38.46%) CircleCI
5 5 (38.46%) Cypress.io
5 5 (38.46%) Gradle
5 5 (38.46%) JUnit
5 5 (38.46%) Maven
5 5 (38.46%) Postman
5 5 (38.46%) Selenium
5 5 (38.46%) Snyk
5 5 (38.46%) SonarQube
5 5 (38.46%) Sonatype Nexus
5 5 (38.46%) webpack
6 1 (7.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 2 (15.38%) Aeronautics
Job Titles
1 7 (53.85%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (30.77%) AWS Engineer
3 3 (23.08%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Consultant
4 1 (7.69%) DevOps Consultant
4 1 (7.69%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior
4 1 (7.69%) Senior DevOps
4 1 (7.69%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Software Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (46.15%) REST
2 5 (38.46%) Elastic Stack
2 5 (38.46%) JSON
2 5 (38.46%) YAML
3 1 (7.69%) Apache NiFi
Miscellaneous
1 5 (38.46%) Private Cloud
2 1 (7.69%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (38.46%) Linux
1 5 (38.46%) Windows
2 4 (30.77%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 11 (84.62%) Infrastructure as Code
3 10 (76.92%) Continuous Improvement
4 8 (61.54%) DevOps
5 7 (53.85%) Configuration Management
5 7 (53.85%) Containerisation
5 7 (53.85%) Software Engineering
5 7 (53.85%) Test Automation
6 6 (46.15%) Agile
6 6 (46.15%) SDLC
6 6 (46.15%) Software Delivery
7 5 (38.46%) Cloud Security
7 5 (38.46%) Continuous Delivery
7 5 (38.46%) DevSecOps
7 5 (38.46%) Identity Access Management
7 5 (38.46%) Incident Response
7 5 (38.46%) Scaled Agile Framework
7 5 (38.46%) Task Automation
8 4 (30.77%) Change Control
9 2 (15.38%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 4 (30.77%) Python
2 3 (23.08%) Bash
3 2 (15.38%) Go
3 2 (15.38%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 12 (92.31%) Security Cleared
2 8 (61.54%) DV Cleared
3 5 (38.46%) AWS Certification
3 5 (38.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 5 (38.46%) Azure Certification
3 5 (38.46%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (30.77%) SC Cleared
5 2 (15.38%) Degree
6 1 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) QA
System Software
1 12 (92.31%) Docker
2 4 (30.77%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 13 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 10 (76.92%) Terraform
3 6 (46.15%) Grafana
3 6 (46.15%) Progress Chef
3 6 (46.15%) Prometheus
3 6 (46.15%) Puppet
4 5 (38.46%) Podman
Vendors
1 6 (46.15%) Splunk
2 5 (38.46%) Microsoft
3 2 (15.38%) Oracle
4 1 (7.69%) Red Hat
4 1 (7.69%) VMware