Ansible Contracts in Cheshire

Ansible
North West > Cheshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire with a requirement for Ansible skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Ansible over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 43 44 50
Rank change year-on-year +1 +6 -6
Contract jobs citing Ansible 14 19 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 2.79% 3.58% 1.32%
As % of the Systems Management category 23.73% 22.09% 12.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 17 2
10th Percentile £467 £317 £526
25th Percentile £487 £325 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £463 £566
Median % change year-on-year +13.51% -18.32% +29.73%
75th Percentile £582 £510 £585
90th Percentile - £655 £591
North West median daily rate £533 £588 £555
% change year-on-year -9.36% +5.86% +11.00%

All Systems Management Skills
Cheshire

Ansible is in the Systems Management category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 59 86 58
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 11.75% 16.23% 10.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 68 32
10th Percentile £230 £200 £160
25th Percentile £396 £325 £324
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £454 £465
Median % change year-on-year +6.01% -2.42% +20.00%
75th Percentile £541 £571 £544
90th Percentile £583 £641 £624
North West median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 5 0
10th Percentile £16.72 £12.35 -
25th Percentile £17.49 £14.00 -
Median hourly rate £17.72 £20.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -11.40% - -
75th Percentile - £22.41 -
90th Percentile £17.74 £48.41 -
North West median hourly rate £17.72 £30.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -40.93% +50.00% -56.28%

Ansible
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Ansible in Cheshire

Ansible
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Ansible in Cheshire.

Daily rate trend for Ansible in Cheshire

Ansible
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Ansible within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 29 April 2024. 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
Knutsford +11 11 £566 +73.62%
Warrington +3 1 £500 +8.11%
Ansible
North West

Ansible
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 8 (57.14%) AWS
1 8 (57.14%) Azure
2 4 (28.57%) SaaS
3 2 (14.29%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 7 (50.00%) DSL
2 1 (7.14%) DMZ
2 1 (7.14%) Firewall
2 1 (7.14%) Network Security
2 1 (7.14%) VPN
Development Applications
1 7 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 7 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 7 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 7 (50.00%) Finance
1 7 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (42.86%) Public Sector
3 1 (7.14%) Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (50.00%) Windows Engineer
2 6 (42.86%) Developer
3 5 (35.71%) Python Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Automation Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Build Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Network Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Network Security Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Security Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Windows Build Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (28.57%) Django
1 4 (28.57%) FastAPI
1 4 (28.57%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 8 (57.14%) Public Cloud
2 7 (50.00%) Virtual Team
3 1 (7.14%) Cloud Native
3 1 (7.14%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (7.14%) PKI
3 1 (7.14%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 12 (85.71%) Unix
1 12 (85.71%) Windows
2 7 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (57.14%) CI/CD
1 8 (57.14%) DevOps
2 7 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 7 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
2 7 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 7 (50.00%) Server Building
3 6 (42.86%) Infrastructure Automation
4 5 (35.71%) Observability
5 4 (28.57%) API Development
5 4 (28.57%) Software Engineering
6 2 (14.29%) Architectural Patterns
6 2 (14.29%) Design Patterns
7 1 (7.14%) Continuous Delivery
7 1 (7.14%) Continuous Integration
7 1 (7.14%) Disaster Recovery
7 1 (7.14%) Hardware Maintenance
7 1 (7.14%) High Availability
7 1 (7.14%) Microservices
7 1 (7.14%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 7 (50.00%) Ruby
2 6 (42.86%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
1 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (85.71%) Progress Chef
2 7 (50.00%) CFEngine
2 7 (50.00%) PowerBroker
2 7 (50.00%) Puppet
3 6 (42.86%) Terraform
4 2 (14.29%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (50.00%) Atlassian
2 2 (14.29%) VMware
3 1 (7.14%) F5
3 1 (7.14%) Fortinet
3 1 (7.14%) Palo Alto