Ansible Contracts in England

Ansible
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 100 76 70
Rank change year-on-year -24 -6 -3
Contract jobs citing Ansible 819 1,579 2,414
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 2.22% 3.12% 3.39%
As % of the Systems Management category 18.84% 19.95% 21.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 567 1,169 1,721
10th Percentile £425 £450 £444
25th Percentile £488 £513 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £623 £600
Median % change year-on-year -11.65% +3.75% +14.29%
75th Percentile £650 £725 £688
90th Percentile £743 £800 £763
UK median daily rate £553 £600 £588
% change year-on-year -7.92% +2.13% +11.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 26 3
10th Percentile £46.25 £53.75 £55.50
25th Percentile £51.88 £59.44 £56.25
Median hourly rate £62.50 £73.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.38% +26.96% +43.75%
75th Percentile £72.22 £76.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £74.44 £78.00 £61.50
UK median hourly rate £66.25 £73.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -9.25% +32.73% +30.95%

All Systems Management Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 4,348 7,914 11,400
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.76% 15.66% 16.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,145 5,780 8,321
10th Percentile £250 £350 £361
25th Percentile £409 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - +15.00%
75th Percentile £625 £680 £675
90th Percentile £700 £755 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £563 £565
% change year-on-year -8.44% -0.44% +13.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 118 186 161
10th Percentile £14.00 £17.02 £13.87
25th Percentile £17.73 £25.18 £15.25
Median hourly rate £26.38 £57.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -54.12% +167.44% -10.42%
75th Percentile £50.19 £73.74 £42.20
90th Percentile £70.38 £82.50 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £57.50 £22.28
% change year-on-year -47.83% +158.08% -41.37%

Ansible
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Ansible in England

Ansible
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Ansible in England

Ansible
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ansible in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Ansible in England

Ansible
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Ansible in England.

Hourly rate trend for Ansible in England

Ansible
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Ansible in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Ansible in England

Ansible
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Ansible within the England region over the 6 months to 27 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
London -41 365 £575 -11.54% 122
South East +19 164 £550 - 50
North of England 0 128 £523 -11.06% 29
South West -5 102 £563 -2.17% 47
Yorkshire +61 65 £514 -17.76% 6
North West -40 55 £533 -9.36% 19
Midlands -15 21 £520 +4.00% 23
West Midlands -4 13 £536 +2.14% 11
East of England -7 12 £650 +18.18% 16
East Midlands +14 8 £498 +11.91% 12
North East -1 8 £550 -18.52% 4
Ansible
UK

Ansible
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 66 (8.06%) Confluence
2 42 (5.13%) OpenStack
3 26 (3.17%) nginx
4 23 (2.81%) Apache
5 9 (1.10%) Microsoft Exchange
6 7 (0.85%) Apache Solr
7 6 (0.73%) Apache Airflow
7 6 (0.73%) IIS
8 5 (0.61%) Anypoint
8 5 (0.61%) JBoss
8 5 (0.61%) SharePoint
9 4 (0.49%) Apache Spark
9 4 (0.49%) Drupal
9 4 (0.49%) Tomcat
10 3 (0.37%) CMS
10 3 (0.37%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.24%) Traefik
12 1 (0.12%) SAS
12 1 (0.12%) Skype for Business
12 1 (0.12%) WebLogic
Applications
1 4 (0.49%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.12%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (0.85%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.24%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.12%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 315 (38.46%) AWS
2 216 (26.37%) Azure
3 88 (10.74%) GitHub
4 86 (10.50%) GCP
5 52 (6.35%) Azure DevOps
6 50 (6.11%) Serverless
7 48 (5.86%) Amazon EC2
8 42 (5.13%) Amazon S3
9 38 (4.64%) AWS Lambda
9 38 (4.64%) OpenShift
10 35 (4.27%) AWS CloudFormation
11 30 (3.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 30 (3.66%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 29 (3.54%) PaaS
13 27 (3.30%) IaaS
14 26 (3.17%) Amazon EKS
15 22 (2.69%) SaaS
16 17 (2.08%) Cloud Computing
16 17 (2.08%) Slack
17 16 (1.95%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 105 (12.82%) Firewall
2 65 (7.94%) DNS
3 40 (4.88%) TCP/IP
4 39 (4.76%) VPN
5 30 (3.66%) BGP
5 30 (3.66%) VLAN
6 29 (3.54%) DHCP
6 29 (3.54%) SAN
7 28 (3.42%) Network Security
8 22 (2.69%) OSPF
9 21 (2.56%) Cisco ASA
9 21 (2.56%) Wi-Fi
10 19 (2.32%) IPsec
10 19 (2.32%) SSL
11 17 (2.08%) SNMP
12 16 (1.95%) Cisco Firepower
12 16 (1.95%) HSRP
12 16 (1.95%) MPLS
13 15 (1.83%) Cisco ISE
13 15 (1.83%) Spanning Tree
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (6.96%) Elasticsearch
2 56 (6.84%) PostgreSQL
3 48 (5.86%) MySQL
4 44 (5.37%) SQL Server
5 34 (4.15%) Relational Database
6 31 (3.79%) NoSQL
7 28 (3.42%) Amazon RDS
8 25 (3.05%) MongoDB
9 21 (2.56%) Big Data
10 20 (2.44%) Amazon Redshift
10 20 (2.44%) Data Lake
11 16 (1.95%) Apache Cassandra
12 14 (1.71%) RDBMS
13 9 (1.10%) Couchbase
13 9 (1.10%) DynamoDB
14 8 (0.98%) Amazon Aurora
14 8 (0.98%) BigQuery
14 8 (0.98%) InfluxDB
14 8 (0.98%) Oracle Database
14 8 (0.98%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 311 (37.97%) Jenkins
2 150 (18.32%) Git
3 134 (16.36%) GitLab
4 105 (12.82%) JIRA
5 52 (6.35%) SonarQube
6 48 (5.86%) Bitbucket
7 40 (4.88%) Selenium
8 36 (4.40%) Artifactory
9 33 (4.03%) Cucumber
10 32 (3.91%) Sonatype Nexus
11 30 (3.66%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 24 (2.93%) REST Assured
13 21 (2.56%) TeamCity
14 19 (2.32%) Robot Framework
15 18 (2.20%) Subversion
16 14 (1.71%) Visual Studio
17 13 (1.59%) CircleCI
18 12 (1.47%) Maven
19 10 (1.22%) JMeter
19 10 (1.22%) JUnit
General
1 174 (21.25%) Social Skills
2 103 (12.58%) Finance
3 92 (11.23%) Analytical Skills
4 77 (9.40%) Public Sector
5 34 (4.15%) Banking
6 27 (3.30%) Law
7 18 (2.20%) Aerospace
8 17 (2.08%) Telecoms
9 15 (1.83%) Legal
10 13 (1.59%) Investment Banking
10 13 (1.59%) Police
11 11 (1.34%) Retail
12 8 (0.98%) Financial Institution
13 6 (0.73%) Documentation Skills
13 6 (0.73%) Organisational Skills
14 5 (0.61%) German Language
14 5 (0.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 4 (0.49%) Influencing Skills
15 4 (0.49%) Manufacturing
15 4 (0.49%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 165 (20.15%) DevOps Engineer
2 84 (10.26%) Developer
3 77 (9.40%) Architect
4 75 (9.16%) Senior
5 67 (8.18%) Network Engineer
6 48 (5.86%) AWS Engineer
7 46 (5.62%) Lead
8 40 (4.88%) AWS DevOps
8 40 (4.88%) Linux Engineer
9 36 (4.40%) Platform Engineer
10 34 (4.15%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 32 (3.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 30 (3.66%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 27 (3.30%) Security Engineer
14 25 (3.05%) Automation Engineer
14 25 (3.05%) Azure Engineer
15 24 (2.93%) Cloud Engineer
15 24 (2.93%) Senior DevOps
15 24 (2.93%) Solutions Architect
16 23 (2.81%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (9.04%) Elastic Stack
2 63 (7.69%) REST
3 59 (7.20%) .NET
4 53 (6.47%) YAML
5 41 (5.01%) JSON
6 31 (3.79%) Node.js
7 29 (3.54%) Kafka
8 24 (2.93%) Java EE
9 23 (2.81%) .NET Core
10 22 (2.69%) RabbitMQ
11 21 (2.56%) LDAP
11 21 (2.56%) Spring
12 20 (2.44%) XML
13 18 (2.20%) RESTful
14 16 (1.95%) Jinja
15 15 (1.83%) ASP.NET
16 14 (1.71%) ARM Templates
16 14 (1.71%) Middleware
16 14 (1.71%) OpenID
17 13 (1.59%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 55 (6.72%) PKI
2 44 (5.37%) Public Cloud
3 39 (4.76%) Data Centre
3 39 (4.76%) Linux Command Line
4 34 (4.15%) Replication
5 27 (3.30%) Clustering
6 25 (3.05%) Cloud Native
7 22 (2.69%) Management Information System
8 18 (2.20%) Onboarding
8 18 (2.20%) Product Ownership
9 16 (1.95%) Data Protection Act
10 15 (1.83%) Greenfield Project
11 13 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
12 11 (1.34%) Private Cloud
13 10 (1.22%) Distributed Systems
13 10 (1.22%) Mobile App
14 9 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
15 8 (0.98%) Virtual Team
16 7 (0.85%) Fat Client
16 7 (0.85%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 364 (44.44%) Linux
2 158 (19.29%) Windows
3 83 (10.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 78 (9.52%) Unix
5 62 (7.57%) Windows Server
6 40 (4.88%) CentOS
7 26 (3.17%) Ubuntu
8 21 (2.56%) Solaris
9 20 (2.44%) Windows Server 2019
10 18 (2.20%) VMS
11 17 (2.08%) zOS
12 14 (1.71%) Oracle Linux
13 8 (0.98%) Android
14 7 (0.85%) Apple iOS
15 6 (0.73%) Debian
16 5 (0.61%) Windows Server 2012
17 3 (0.37%) Windows 10
17 3 (0.37%) Windows 2000
17 3 (0.37%) Windows Server 2016
17 3 (0.37%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 374 (45.67%) DevOps
2 322 (39.32%) CI/CD
3 212 (25.89%) Agile
4 201 (24.54%) Infrastructure as Code
5 171 (20.88%) Configuration Management
6 136 (16.61%) Problem-Solving
7 126 (15.38%) Containerisation
8 118 (14.41%) Continuous Integration
9 87 (10.62%) Scrum
9 87 (10.62%) Test Automation
10 76 (9.28%) ITIL
11 67 (8.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 61 (7.45%) Software Engineering
13 60 (7.33%) Platform Engineering
13 60 (7.33%) Task Automation
14 58 (7.08%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 57 (6.96%) Deployment Automation
16 56 (6.84%) Infrastructure Automation
17 53 (6.47%) High Availability
17 53 (6.47%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 430 (52.50%) Python
2 212 (25.89%) PowerShell
3 161 (19.66%) Bash
4 116 (14.16%) Java
5 74 (9.04%) SQL
6 70 (8.55%) Shell Script
7 59 (7.20%) Go
8 54 (6.59%) JavaScript
9 47 (5.74%) Perl
10 43 (5.25%) C#
11 31 (3.79%) Ruby
12 25 (3.05%) C
13 21 (2.56%) C++
14 16 (1.95%) JCL
14 16 (1.95%) REXX
15 13 (1.59%) Groovy
16 12 (1.47%) Tcl
17 8 (0.98%) TypeScript
18 7 (0.85%) Korn
19 6 (0.73%) Scala
Qualifications
1 354 (43.22%) Security Cleared
2 260 (31.75%) SC Cleared
3 99 (12.09%) DV Cleared
4 44 (5.37%) Cisco Certification
5 36 (4.40%) CCNP
6 34 (4.15%) Degree
7 23 (2.81%) CCNA
8 22 (2.69%) AWS Certification
9 14 (1.71%) Computer Science Degree
10 10 (1.22%) CCIE
11 8 (0.98%) Azure Certification
12 5 (0.61%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 5 (0.61%) RHCE
13 4 (0.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 3 (0.37%) BPSS Clearance
14 3 (0.37%) RHCSA
15 2 (0.24%) CEH
15 2 (0.24%) CISSP
15 2 (0.24%) GIAC
15 2 (0.24%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (4.40%) QA
2 17 (2.08%) GDPR
3 13 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (1.47%) NIST
5 8 (0.98%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 7 (0.85%) NCSC
6 7 (0.85%) RMADS
7 6 (0.73%) PCI DSS
8 5 (0.61%) HIPAA
9 4 (0.49%) Data Quality
9 4 (0.49%) SLA
10 3 (0.37%) ISO 22301
11 2 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.12%) Accessibility
12 1 (0.12%) ISO 20022
12 1 (0.12%) WCAG
System Software
1 231 (28.21%) Docker
2 85 (10.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 58 (7.08%) Active Directory
4 37 (4.52%) Virtual Machines
5 35 (4.27%) VMware NSX
6 34 (4.15%) vSphere
7 30 (3.66%) VMware ESXi
8 20 (2.44%) NFS
9 19 (2.32%) Hyper-V
10 18 (2.20%) Firmware
11 16 (1.95%) Time Sharing Option
12 6 (0.73%) KVM
13 4 (0.49%) Ceph
13 4 (0.49%) Virtual Servers
14 3 (0.37%) Apache ZooKeeper
14 3 (0.37%) Slurm Workload Manager
15 2 (0.24%) Oracle RAC
15 2 (0.24%) Varnish
15 2 (0.24%) Veritas Cluster Server
16 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 412 (50.31%) Terraform
2 272 (33.21%) Kubernetes
3 140 (17.09%) Puppet
4 94 (11.48%) Prometheus
5 92 (11.23%) Grafana
6 87 (10.62%) Progress Chef
7 38 (4.64%) Kibana
8 33 (4.03%) logstash
9 30 (3.66%) Docker Swarm
10 29 (3.54%) Packer
11 24 (2.93%) Tivoli Storage Manager
12 23 (2.81%) PowerCLI
13 21 (2.56%) Red Hat Satellite
14 19 (2.32%) vRealize
15 18 (2.20%) NetBackup
16 17 (2.08%) vCenter Server
17 16 (1.95%) Podman
18 14 (1.71%) Netcool
19 12 (1.47%) ZABBIX
20 11 (1.34%) Nessus
Vendors
1 136 (16.61%) VMware
2 91 (11.11%) Red Hat
3 77 (9.40%) Cisco
4 69 (8.42%) Microsoft
5 67 (8.18%) Dell
6 57 (6.96%) Splunk
7 56 (6.84%) IBM
8 53 (6.47%) Oracle
9 42 (5.13%) Atlassian
10 37 (4.52%) SolarWinds
11 36 (4.40%) HP
12 31 (3.79%) ServiceNow
13 30 (3.66%) Google
14 29 (3.54%) Citrix
15 25 (3.05%) F5
15 25 (3.05%) Veritas
16 24 (2.93%) Palo Alto
17 18 (2.20%) CA
17 18 (2.20%) Fortinet
18 17 (2.08%) Brocade