Ansible Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Ansible
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring Ansible skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 64 97
Rank change year-on-year +35 +33 -43
Contract jobs citing Ansible 112 42 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 7.39% 2.81% 1.11%
As % of the Systems Management category 29.87% 16.60% 8.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 31 8
10th Percentile £384 £425 £524
25th Percentile £430 £467 £558
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £573 £635
Median % change year-on-year -16.16% -9.84% +15.45%
75th Percentile £544 £624 £678
90th Percentile £626 £645 £714
England median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -0.41%

All Systems Management Skills
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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 375 253 261
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 24.74% 16.93% 12.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 235 177 181
10th Percentile £241 £313 £325
25th Percentile £382 £400 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -9.09% +6.80%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £625
90th Percentile £600 £641 £700
England median daily rate £507 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.43% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £39.17 - -
25th Percentile £65.98 - £41.50
Median hourly rate £110.65 - £43.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +91.11%
75th Percentile £155.33 - £44.50
90th Percentile £182.13 - -
England median hourly rate £39.00 £40.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -2.50% -23.81% +119.57%

Ansible
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Job postings citing Ansible as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Ansible in Yorkshire

Ansible
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Ansible

Ansible
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ansible in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 15 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Ansible in Yorkshire

Ansible
Contract Job Locations in 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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 15 September 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
South Yorkshire +11 86 £480 -16.16% 4
West Yorkshire +17 25 £500 -11.50% 2
Ansible
England

Ansible
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 13 (11.61%) Confluence
2 7 (6.25%) Apache Spark
3 4 (3.57%) Apache
4 3 (2.68%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.79%) CICS
5 2 (1.79%) Tomcat
5 2 (1.79%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.89%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (0.89%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 41 (36.61%) AWS
2 31 (27.68%) GCP
3 19 (16.96%) Serverless
4 16 (14.29%) Azure
5 12 (10.71%) GitHub
6 8 (7.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 8 (7.14%) Amazon S3
7 7 (6.25%) AWS CloudFormation
7 7 (6.25%) CloudBees
7 7 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
8 6 (5.36%) Amazon EC2
8 6 (5.36%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 4 (3.57%) Amazon ELB
9 4 (3.57%) Amazon SQS
9 4 (3.57%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (3.57%) OCI
10 3 (2.68%) Amazon ECS
10 3 (2.68%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (2.68%) AWS KMS
10 3 (2.68%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 29 (25.89%) Firewall
2 22 (19.64%) TCP/IP
3 13 (11.61%) DNS
4 8 (7.14%) NAS
4 8 (7.14%) SAN
5 6 (5.36%) SSL
5 6 (5.36%) VPN
6 3 (2.68%) Ethernet
6 3 (2.68%) Network Security
6 3 (2.68%) SD-WAN
6 3 (2.68%) Wireshark
7 1 (0.89%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (0.89%) FCoE
7 1 (0.89%) Fibre Channel
7 1 (0.89%) iSCSI
7 1 (0.89%) LAN
7 1 (0.89%) Multicast
7 1 (0.89%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (16.96%) NoSQL
2 13 (11.61%) Oracle Database
3 11 (9.82%) SQL Server
4 4 (3.57%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (3.57%) DynamoDB
5 3 (2.68%) Apache Hive
5 3 (2.68%) Flink
5 3 (2.68%) Hadoop
5 3 (2.68%) HBase
5 3 (2.68%) MongoDB
5 3 (2.68%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.89%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 71 (63.39%) Jenkins
2 40 (35.71%) Git
3 35 (31.25%) GitLab
4 16 (14.29%) JIRA
4 16 (14.29%) Postman
5 14 (12.50%) Liquibase
6 2 (1.79%) Cucumber
6 2 (1.79%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.89%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.89%) JMeter
7 1 (0.89%) Selenium
7 1 (0.89%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.89%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.89%) Subversion
7 1 (0.89%) Vagrant
General
1 41 (36.61%) Social Skills
2 35 (31.25%) Finance
3 20 (17.86%) Banking
4 14 (12.50%) Financial Institution
5 7 (6.25%) Public Sector
6 6 (5.36%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.79%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.79%) Legal
7 2 (1.79%) Police
7 2 (1.79%) Retail
8 1 (0.89%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.89%) Law
8 1 (0.89%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 32 (28.57%) DevOps Engineer
2 31 (27.68%) Senior
3 22 (19.64%) Automation Engineer
4 12 (10.71%) Senior DevOps
5 11 (9.82%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 11 (9.82%) Technical Engineer
6 10 (8.93%) Senior Technical Engineer
7 9 (8.04%) Windows Engineer
8 7 (6.25%) AWS Engineer
8 7 (6.25%) Data Protection Engineer
8 7 (6.25%) Software Engineer
9 6 (5.36%) AWS DevOps
9 6 (5.36%) Data Engineer
9 6 (5.36%) Python Engineer
10 5 (4.46%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 5 (4.46%) Cloud Engineer
10 5 (4.46%) Linux Engineer
10 5 (4.46%) Senior Software Engineer
10 5 (4.46%) Senior Windows Engineer
11 4 (3.57%) VMWare Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (15.18%) Elastic Stack
2 15 (13.39%) RESTful
3 14 (12.50%) REST
4 10 (8.93%) FastAPI
4 10 (8.93%) Middleware
5 6 (5.36%) Spark Streaming
6 3 (2.68%) Apache Beam
6 3 (2.68%) JDBC
6 3 (2.68%) Kafka
7 2 (1.79%) Gherkin
7 2 (1.79%) LDAP
7 2 (1.79%) OpenTelemetry
8 1 (0.89%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 15 (13.39%) Cloud Native
2 13 (11.61%) Public Cloud
3 12 (10.71%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (6.25%) Product Ownership
5 5 (4.46%) Data Centre
6 4 (3.57%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (3.57%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (3.57%) Management Information System
7 3 (2.68%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.79%) Clustering
8 2 (1.79%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 2 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.79%) Mainframe
8 2 (1.79%) Replication
9 1 (0.89%) Enterprise Storage
9 1 (0.89%) IBM Mainframe
9 1 (0.89%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 50 (44.64%) Linux
2 23 (20.54%) Windows
3 8 (7.14%) Windows Server
4 7 (6.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (6.25%) Unix
5 5 (4.46%) Solaris
6 3 (2.68%) AIX
6 3 (2.68%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
7 2 (1.79%) VMS
7 2 (1.79%) zOS
8 1 (0.89%) CentOS
8 1 (0.89%) MVS
8 1 (0.89%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (0.89%) SUSE
8 1 (0.89%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (73.21%) DevOps
2 53 (47.32%) Agile
3 50 (44.64%) CI/CD
4 33 (29.46%) Infrastructure Automation
5 32 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
6 31 (27.68%) Configuration Management
7 27 (24.11%) Infrastructure as Code
8 22 (19.64%) Containerisation
9 20 (17.86%) Cybersecurity
9 20 (17.86%) High Availability
10 18 (16.07%) Migration
10 18 (16.07%) Scrum
11 17 (15.18%) Test Automation
12 16 (14.29%) Computer Science
13 15 (13.39%) Cost Optimisation
13 15 (13.39%) Data Security
14 14 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
14 14 (12.50%) Microservices
14 14 (12.50%) Software Engineering
15 13 (11.61%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 95 (84.82%) Python
2 29 (25.89%) Bash
2 29 (25.89%) Shell Script
3 17 (15.18%) PowerShell
4 16 (14.29%) Go
5 14 (12.50%) Java
6 3 (2.68%) Search Processing Language
6 3 (2.68%) SQL
7 1 (0.89%) Groovy
7 1 (0.89%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.89%) Perl
7 1 (0.89%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 16 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
1 16 (14.29%) Degree
2 13 (11.61%) Security Cleared
3 12 (10.71%) AWS Certification
3 12 (10.71%) Master's Degree
4 9 (8.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 8 (7.14%) SC Cleared
6 4 (3.57%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 2 (1.79%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.89%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.89%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.36%) SOC 2
2 3 (2.68%) GDPR
2 3 (2.68%) HIPAA
2 3 (2.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (2.68%) NIST
3 2 (1.79%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (1.79%) COBIT
System Software
1 30 (26.79%) Docker
2 27 (24.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (8.93%) Oracle RAC
4 9 (8.04%) Active Directory
5 8 (7.14%) vSphere
6 7 (6.25%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 7 (6.25%) VMware NSX
7 6 (5.36%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (2.68%) HDFS
9 2 (1.79%) Hyper-V
9 2 (1.79%) KVM
10 1 (0.89%) NFS
10 1 (0.89%) SRDF
10 1 (0.89%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.89%) VirtualBox
10 1 (0.89%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.89%) Xen
Systems Management
1 44 (39.29%) Terraform
2 30 (26.79%) Kubernetes
3 25 (22.32%) Puppet
4 19 (16.96%) Grafana
4 19 (16.96%) Prometheus
5 10 (8.93%) Data Guard
5 10 (8.93%) Microsoft Clustering
5 10 (8.93%) yum
6 8 (7.14%) vCenter Server
7 7 (6.25%) NetBackup
7 7 (6.25%) SCCM
7 7 (6.25%) vRealize
8 3 (2.68%) Hadoop YARN
9 2 (1.79%) Kustomize
9 2 (1.79%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.89%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.89%) SCOM
10 1 (0.89%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 31 (27.68%) VMware
2 27 (24.11%) Microsoft
3 23 (20.54%) Splunk
4 18 (16.07%) Oracle
5 16 (14.29%) MuleSoft
6 13 (11.61%) Red Hat
7 12 (10.71%) Google
8 11 (9.82%) F5
9 9 (8.04%) Commvault
10 7 (6.25%) Veritas
11 6 (5.36%) CheckPoint
11 6 (5.36%) Cisco
12 4 (3.57%) Databricks
12 4 (3.57%) Palo Alto
13 3 (2.68%) Dell
13 3 (2.68%) Dynatrace
13 3 (2.68%) HP
13 3 (2.68%) Juniper
13 3 (2.68%) Meraki
13 3 (2.68%) Nokia