Ansible Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Ansible
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 71 102 64
Rank change year-on-year +31 -38 +8
Contract jobs citing Ansible 325 336 927
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 3.28% 2.19% 3.59%
As % of the Systems Management category 21.19% 20.40% 21.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 209 229 710
10th Percentile £413 £450 £450
25th Percentile £465 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £564 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.48% -6.00% +4.35%
75th Percentile £669 £650 £688
90th Percentile £881 £690 £750
UK median daily rate £570 £553 £600
% change year-on-year +3.17% -7.92% +2.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 13
10th Percentile - £60.13 £54.00
25th Percentile - £62.19 £56.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £68.75 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% -5.17% +107.14%
75th Percentile - £74.69 £75.00
90th Percentile - £76.38 £76.00
UK median hourly rate £71.85 £66.25 £73.00
% change year-on-year +8.45% -9.25% +32.73%

All Systems Management Skills
Work from Home

Ansible falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 1,534 1,647 4,293
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 15.49% 10.73% 16.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,114 1,220 3,179
10th Percentile £386 £356 £400
25th Percentile £440 £450 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.47% -3.64% -2.22%
75th Percentile £626 £631 £675
90th Percentile £788 £700 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £515 £563
% change year-on-year +1.90% -8.41% -0.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 23 73
10th Percentile £16.10 £21.73 £26.55
25th Percentile £25.50 £38.58 £55.00
Median hourly rate £40.88 £47.50 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.95% -28.03% +65.00%
75th Percentile £64.69 £58.13 £77.50
90th Percentile £71.38 £67.25 £87.50
UK median hourly rate £26.45 £30.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -11.83% -47.83% +155.56%

Ansible
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Ansible as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Ansible trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Ansible
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Ansible.

Ansible daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Ansible
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Ansible over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Ansible daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Ansible
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Ansible.

Ansible hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Ansible
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 15 (4.62%) OpenStack
2 11 (3.38%) Apache Spark
3 9 (2.77%) Apache
4 7 (2.15%) Confluence
5 6 (1.85%) nginx
6 5 (1.54%) IIS
7 2 (0.62%) Documentum
7 2 (0.62%) FileNet
7 2 (0.62%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.62%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.31%) Oracle Coherence
8 1 (0.31%) SAS
8 1 (0.31%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.31%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 3 (0.92%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.62%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.31%) Notion
3 1 (0.31%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.31%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (0.31%) SAP HCM
1 1 (0.31%) SAP IBP
1 1 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 123 (37.85%) AWS
2 71 (21.85%) Azure
3 42 (12.92%) GitHub
4 38 (11.69%) AWS CloudFormation
5 35 (10.77%) Amazon EC2
6 30 (9.23%) GCP
7 26 (8.00%) Serverless
8 25 (7.69%) Amazon S3
9 22 (6.77%) OpenShift
10 19 (5.85%) Amazon EKS
10 19 (5.85%) AWS Lambda
10 19 (5.85%) Azure DevOps
11 18 (5.54%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 15 (4.62%) PaaS
13 14 (4.31%) GitHub Actions
14 12 (3.69%) Route 53
15 11 (3.38%) IaaS
16 10 (3.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 10 (3.08%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 10 (3.08%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 43 (13.23%) DNS
2 40 (12.31%) Firewall
3 23 (7.08%) TCP/IP
4 22 (6.77%) VPN
5 16 (4.92%) HTTP
6 12 (3.69%) BGP
6 12 (3.69%) DHCP
6 12 (3.69%) MPLS
6 12 (3.69%) OSPF
7 9 (2.77%) Network Security
8 8 (2.46%) Cisco Nexus
9 7 (2.15%) Cisco ISE
9 7 (2.15%) Internet
9 7 (2.15%) SMTP
9 7 (2.15%) WAN
10 6 (1.85%) Kerberos
10 6 (1.85%) VXLAN
11 5 (1.54%) Multicast
11 5 (1.54%) SSL
11 5 (1.54%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (7.38%) Amazon RDS
2 22 (6.77%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (4.92%) Elasticsearch
4 13 (4.00%) Big Data
5 12 (3.69%) Hadoop
6 10 (3.08%) Amazon Aurora
6 10 (3.08%) MongoDB
7 7 (2.15%) SQL Server
8 6 (1.85%) Amazon Redshift
8 6 (1.85%) MySQL
8 6 (1.85%) Oracle Database
9 5 (1.54%) NoSQL
9 5 (1.54%) Redis
10 4 (1.23%) Data Lake
10 4 (1.23%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (1.23%) SAP HANA
11 3 (0.92%) Hazelcast
11 3 (0.92%) InfluxDB
11 3 (0.92%) MariaDB
11 3 (0.92%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 111 (34.15%) Jenkins
2 61 (18.77%) GitLab
3 44 (13.54%) Git
4 21 (6.46%) JIRA
5 10 (3.08%) Bitbucket
6 9 (2.77%) Artifactory
7 8 (2.46%) Maven
7 8 (2.46%) Selenium
7 8 (2.46%) SonarQube
7 8 (2.46%) Sonatype Nexus
8 7 (2.15%) Cucumber
9 5 (1.54%) REST Assured
10 4 (1.23%) CircleCI
10 4 (1.23%) MSI
11 3 (0.92%) JMeter
11 3 (0.92%) Subversion
12 2 (0.62%) Vagrant
12 2 (0.62%) Visual Studio
13 1 (0.31%) Liquibase
13 1 (0.31%) Mockito
General
1 82 (25.23%) Social Skills
2 55 (16.92%) Analytical Skills
3 46 (14.15%) Banking
4 40 (12.31%) Finance
5 29 (8.92%) Investment Banking
6 24 (7.38%) Public Sector
7 20 (6.15%) Organisational Skills
8 11 (3.38%) Telecoms
9 5 (1.54%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (1.54%) Law
9 5 (1.54%) Police
10 4 (1.23%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.62%) Legal
12 1 (0.31%) Front Office
12 1 (0.31%) Health Technology
12 1 (0.31%) Military
12 1 (0.31%) Multimedia
12 1 (0.31%) Retail
12 1 (0.31%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 79 (24.31%) DevOps Engineer
2 60 (18.46%) Senior
3 35 (10.77%) Developer
4 33 (10.15%) Senior DevOps
4 33 (10.15%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 28 (8.62%) Network Engineer
6 26 (8.00%) Python Developer
7 24 (7.38%) AWS Engineer
7 24 (7.38%) Platform Engineer
8 23 (7.08%) Architect
9 21 (6.46%) Gen AI Developer
10 20 (6.15%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
11 19 (5.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 19 (5.85%) Kubernetes Engineer
12 15 (4.62%) AWS DevOps
12 15 (4.62%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 14 (4.31%) Linux Engineer
14 13 (4.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 12 (3.69%) Senior Platform Engineer
15 12 (3.69%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (8.92%) Elastic Stack
2 24 (7.38%) .NET
2 24 (7.38%) React
3 23 (7.08%) Django
3 23 (7.08%) FastAPI
4 21 (6.46%) REST
5 10 (3.08%) OpenTelemetry
6 9 (2.77%) OAuth
6 9 (2.77%) OpenID
7 8 (2.46%) LDAP
7 8 (2.46%) OAuth2
7 8 (2.46%) Spring
7 8 (2.46%) YAML
8 7 (2.15%) ARM Templates
8 7 (2.15%) Kafka
8 7 (2.15%) Node.js
8 7 (2.15%) SAML
8 7 (2.15%) XACML
9 5 (1.54%) Keycloak
9 5 (1.54%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 30 (9.23%) Cloud Native
2 17 (5.23%) Private Cloud
3 15 (4.62%) Data Centre
4 14 (4.31%) Public Cloud
5 9 (2.77%) Hybrid Cloud
6 8 (2.46%) Self-Motivation
7 7 (2.15%) Linux Command Line
7 7 (2.15%) Replication
8 6 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (1.85%) Onboarding
9 4 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (1.23%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (1.23%) LPAR
9 4 (1.23%) Product Ownership
10 3 (0.92%) Clustering
10 3 (0.92%) Data Structures
10 3 (0.92%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 3 (0.92%) PKI
10 3 (0.92%) Virtual Team
11 2 (0.62%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 133 (40.92%) Linux
2 60 (18.46%) Windows
3 40 (12.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 26 (8.00%) Unix
5 23 (7.08%) Windows Server
6 9 (2.77%) Ubuntu
7 6 (1.85%) SUSE
8 5 (1.54%) AIX
8 5 (1.54%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (1.23%) CentOS
9 4 (1.23%) OS/400
9 4 (1.23%) Solaris
9 4 (1.23%) VMS
9 4 (1.23%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.62%) Amazon Linux
10 2 (0.62%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (0.62%) zOS
11 1 (0.31%) Data ONTAP
11 1 (0.31%) HPUX
11 1 (0.31%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 152 (46.77%) DevOps
2 147 (45.23%) CI/CD
3 101 (31.08%) Infrastructure as Code
4 86 (26.46%) Agile
5 82 (25.23%) Containerisation
6 62 (19.08%) Configuration Management
7 61 (18.77%) Problem-Solving
8 51 (15.69%) Migration
9 44 (13.54%) Continuous Integration
10 37 (11.38%) Infrastructure Automation
11 36 (11.08%) Continuous Improvement
12 35 (10.77%) High Availability
13 34 (10.46%) Deployment Automation
13 34 (10.46%) SDLC
14 27 (8.31%) Observability
15 26 (8.00%) Artificial Intelligence
15 26 (8.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 26 (8.00%) Task Automation
15 26 (8.00%) Use Case
16 25 (7.69%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 193 (59.38%) Python
2 95 (29.23%) Bash
3 72 (22.15%) PowerShell
4 51 (15.69%) Java
5 34 (10.46%) SQL
6 29 (8.92%) C#
6 29 (8.92%) TypeScript
7 15 (4.62%) Shell Script
8 10 (3.08%) Perl
9 8 (2.46%) Groovy
9 8 (2.46%) JavaScript
10 7 (2.15%) Go
11 6 (1.85%) Ruby
12 4 (1.23%) RPG
13 2 (0.62%) C++
13 2 (0.62%) JCL
13 2 (0.62%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.62%) REXX
13 2 (0.62%) Rust
13 2 (0.62%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 100 (30.77%) Security Cleared
2 97 (29.85%) SC Cleared
3 28 (8.62%) Degree
4 19 (5.85%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (4.31%) AWS Certification
5 14 (4.31%) Cisco Certification
6 10 (3.08%) CCNP
7 9 (2.77%) CCIE
8 6 (1.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 6 (1.85%) Oracle Certification
9 5 (1.54%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 4 (1.23%) CCNA
10 4 (1.23%) DV Cleared
10 4 (1.23%) OCP
11 3 (0.92%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (0.92%) RHCE
11 3 (0.92%) RHCSA
12 2 (0.62%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 2 (0.62%) Azure Certification
12 2 (0.62%) CCIE Data Center
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (3.38%) QA
2 6 (1.85%) NIST
3 4 (1.23%) Disclosure Scotland
4 3 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.62%) GDPR
5 2 (0.62%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.31%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.31%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.31%) FedRAMP
6 1 (0.31%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (0.31%) NCSC
6 1 (0.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 110 (33.85%) Docker
2 36 (11.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 26 (8.00%) Active Directory
4 9 (2.77%) vSphere
5 5 (1.54%) Hyper-V
5 5 (1.54%) NFS
5 5 (1.54%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (1.54%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (1.23%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 4 (1.23%) PowerHA
6 4 (1.23%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 3 (0.92%) RACF
7 3 (0.92%) Samba
7 3 (0.92%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.62%) Ceph
8 2 (0.62%) Time Sharing Option
9 1 (0.31%) Firmware
9 1 (0.31%) HDFS
9 1 (0.31%) KVM
9 1 (0.31%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 176 (54.15%) Terraform
2 145 (44.62%) Kubernetes
3 53 (16.31%) Puppet
4 51 (15.69%) Progress Chef
5 50 (15.38%) Grafana
6 38 (11.69%) Prometheus
7 18 (5.54%) Argo
8 10 (3.08%) Packer
9 7 (2.15%) Single Sign-On
10 6 (1.85%) Nagios
10 6 (1.85%) Red Hat Satellite
11 5 (1.54%) Docker Swarm
11 5 (1.54%) Podman
11 5 (1.54%) ZABBIX
12 4 (1.23%) Kibana
12 4 (1.23%) SCCM
12 4 (1.23%) vCenter Server
12 4 (1.23%) WSUS
13 3 (0.92%) Control-M
13 3 (0.92%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 52 (16.00%) VMware
2 46 (14.15%) Red Hat
3 31 (9.54%) Cisco
4 21 (6.46%) Microsoft
5 20 (6.15%) F5
6 19 (5.85%) Oracle
6 19 (5.85%) Splunk
7 12 (3.69%) SAP
8 11 (3.38%) Dynatrace
9 9 (2.77%) CyberArk
10 8 (2.46%) CheckPoint
10 8 (2.46%) Google
10 8 (2.46%) Okta
10 8 (2.46%) Palo Alto
10 8 (2.46%) SolarWinds
11 7 (2.15%) Broadcom
11 7 (2.15%) Fortinet
11 7 (2.15%) IBM
12 6 (1.85%) Dell
12 6 (1.85%) HP