Ansible Contracts in the South East

Ansible
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 65 84 65
Rank change year-on-year +19 -19 -6
Contract jobs citing Ansible 164 158 275
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 2.97% 2.71% 3.54%
As % of the Systems Management category 23.30% 19.48% 23.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 104 162
10th Percentile £425 £425 £425
25th Percentile £444 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +21.05%
75th Percentile £622 £650 £650
90th Percentile £683 £738 £700
England median daily rate £550 £623 £600
% change year-on-year -11.65% +3.75% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 1
10th Percentile - £55.94 -
25th Percentile £46.25 £57.30 -
Median hourly rate £47.50 £61.38 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.61% +11.59% +52.78%
75th Percentile £59.38 £71.78 -
90th Percentile £65.75 £74.36 -
England median hourly rate £62.50 £73.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -14.38% +26.96% +43.75%

All Systems Management Skills
South East

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 the South East with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 704 811 1,186
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 12.74% 13.91% 15.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 501 592 784
10th Percentile £208 £313 £250
25th Percentile £363 £425 £387
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £543 £500
Median % change year-on-year -12.48% +8.55% +7.53%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £613
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 20 27
10th Percentile £14.00 £18.27 £13.05
25th Percentile £21.72 £47.31 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £61.38 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.94% +185.47% -10.42%
75th Percentile £49.06 £74.03 £48.00
90th Percentile £66.25 £76.31 £68.00
England median hourly rate £26.38 £57.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -54.12% +167.44% -10.42%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Ansible as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Ansible in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Ansible in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Ansible in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for Ansible in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Ansible in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Ansible in the South East

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Hourly rate histogram for Ansible in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Ansible within the South East 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
Thames Valley +5 71 £600 +10.34% 15
Hampshire 0 56 £450 -14.29% 24
Berkshire +1 51 £619 +4.43% 9
Surrey +13 16 £613 - 3
West Sussex +11 14 £550 -5.17%
Buckinghamshire +14 11 £570 -2.98% 4
Oxfordshire +8 9 £500 +5.26% 2
East Sussex +13 7 £538 - 1
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 4 (2.44%) nginx
1 4 (2.44%) OpenStack
2 3 (1.83%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.22%) Apache
3 2 (1.22%) Confluence
4 1 (0.61%) JBoss
4 1 (0.61%) Red Hat Fuse
4 1 (0.61%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.22%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (4.27%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 42 (25.61%) AWS
2 36 (21.95%) Azure
3 13 (7.93%) GitHub
4 8 (4.88%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (4.88%) Datadog
5 7 (4.27%) Amazon EKS
6 6 (3.66%) IaaS
7 5 (3.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 5 (3.05%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (3.05%) Amazon S3
8 4 (2.44%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (2.44%) Serverless
9 3 (1.83%) CloudFront
9 3 (1.83%) GCP
9 3 (1.83%) OpenShift
9 3 (1.83%) Route 53
9 3 (1.83%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 2 (1.22%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (1.22%) Entra ID
10 2 (1.22%) Fastly
Communications & Networking
1 15 (9.15%) DNS
2 12 (7.32%) Firewall
3 8 (4.88%) DHCP
3 8 (4.88%) SAN
4 7 (4.27%) Cisco IOS
5 5 (3.05%) VPN
6 4 (2.44%) BGP
6 4 (2.44%) IOS XR
6 4 (2.44%) NAS
6 4 (2.44%) SNA
6 4 (2.44%) VSAN
7 3 (1.83%) Fibre Channel
7 3 (1.83%) NX-OS
8 2 (1.22%) MPLS
8 2 (1.22%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.61%) Cisco Nexus
9 1 (0.61%) Junos
9 1 (0.61%) Network Security
9 1 (0.61%) Software-Defined Networking
9 1 (0.61%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (14.02%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (8.54%) Relational Database
3 12 (7.32%) MySQL
3 12 (7.32%) SQL Server
4 10 (6.10%) MongoDB
5 7 (4.27%) RDBMS
6 5 (3.05%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (1.83%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (1.83%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (1.22%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (1.22%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.61%) Big Data
9 1 (0.61%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 56 (34.15%) Jenkins
2 34 (20.73%) Git
2 34 (20.73%) GitLab
3 25 (15.24%) Selenium
3 25 (15.24%) SonarQube
4 24 (14.63%) Cucumber
4 24 (14.63%) REST Assured
5 15 (9.15%) JIRA
5 15 (9.15%) Sonatype Nexus
6 14 (8.54%) Robot Framework
6 14 (8.54%) Visual Studio
7 4 (2.44%) Bitbucket
7 4 (2.44%) JUnit
8 3 (1.83%) Artifactory
9 2 (1.22%) Subversion
10 1 (0.61%) Maven
10 1 (0.61%) MSI
10 1 (0.61%) MSTest
10 1 (0.61%) SpecFlow
10 1 (0.61%) TeamCity
General
1 40 (24.39%) Social Skills
2 25 (15.24%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (11.59%) Law
4 13 (7.93%) Police
5 10 (6.10%) Public Sector
6 7 (4.27%) Finance
7 5 (3.05%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.83%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.22%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.61%) Advertising
10 1 (0.61%) Banking
10 1 (0.61%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.61%) Legal
Job Titles
1 24 (14.63%) DevOps Engineer
2 22 (13.41%) Linux Engineer
3 20 (12.20%) Developer
4 18 (10.98%) Security Engineer
5 17 (10.37%) Architect
5 17 (10.37%) Senior
6 16 (9.76%) Java Engineer
7 14 (8.54%) Platform Engineer
8 12 (7.32%) Security Architect
9 10 (6.10%) Network Engineer
10 9 (5.49%) Java Developer
10 9 (5.49%) Platform Specialist
11 7 (4.27%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 7 (4.27%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
11 7 (4.27%) Software Engineer
12 6 (3.66%) AWS Engineer
12 6 (3.66%) Azure Engineer
12 6 (3.66%) Cloud Engineer
12 6 (3.66%) Database Specialist
13 5 (3.05%) Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (19.51%) REST
2 24 (14.63%) Java EE
3 14 (8.54%) .NET
4 13 (7.93%) ARM Templates
4 13 (7.93%) ASP.NET
5 11 (6.71%) Elastic Stack
6 7 (4.27%) RESTful
7 6 (3.66%) YAML
8 5 (3.05%) Django
9 4 (2.44%) AngularJS
9 4 (2.44%) JSON
9 4 (2.44%) Node.js
9 4 (2.44%) RabbitMQ
9 4 (2.44%) SOAP
9 4 (2.44%) Spring
9 4 (2.44%) Spring Boot
9 4 (2.44%) Web Services
9 4 (2.44%) YANG
10 3 (1.83%) J2EE
11 2 (1.22%) VCL
Miscellaneous
1 38 (23.17%) PKI
2 21 (12.80%) Linux Command Line
3 9 (5.49%) Clustering
3 9 (5.49%) Public Cloud
4 8 (4.88%) Replication
5 6 (3.66%) Data Centre
6 4 (2.44%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (2.44%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (2.44%) Fat Client
6 4 (2.44%) Thin Client
7 3 (1.83%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.83%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.83%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.83%) Private Cloud
7 3 (1.83%) Smart Meter
8 1 (0.61%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.61%) Grid Computing
8 1 (0.61%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 58 (35.37%) Linux
2 27 (16.46%) Windows
3 24 (14.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 20 (12.20%) Windows Server
5 18 (10.98%) Windows Server 2019
6 14 (8.54%) Unix
7 9 (5.49%) Solaris
7 9 (5.49%) VMS
8 7 (4.27%) Ubuntu
9 6 (3.66%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (32.93%) DevOps
2 48 (29.27%) Test Automation
3 43 (26.22%) Agile
4 41 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 33 (20.12%) Infrastructure as Code
6 32 (19.51%) Technical Leadership
7 30 (18.29%) Continuous Integration
8 27 (16.46%) Containerisation
9 25 (15.24%) Decision-Making
10 24 (14.63%) Software Architecture
10 24 (14.63%) Software Engineering
11 22 (13.41%) Scrum
12 21 (12.80%) CI/CD
13 20 (12.20%) Configuration Management
14 16 (9.76%) High Availability
15 15 (9.15%) Mentoring
16 14 (8.54%) Deployment Automation
16 14 (8.54%) Platform Engineering
17 12 (7.32%) Disaster Recovery
17 12 (7.32%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 73 (44.51%) Python
2 62 (37.80%) PowerShell
3 34 (20.73%) Bash
3 34 (20.73%) Java
4 14 (8.54%) C#
5 13 (7.93%) Shell Script
6 8 (4.88%) Perl
6 8 (4.88%) SQL
7 7 (4.27%) C++
7 7 (4.27%) JavaScript
8 4 (2.44%) C
8 4 (2.44%) Go
9 3 (1.83%) Ruby
9 3 (1.83%) T-SQL
10 2 (1.22%) AWK
10 2 (1.22%) Bourne shell
10 2 (1.22%) Korn
11 1 (0.61%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 112 (68.29%) Security Cleared
2 74 (45.12%) SC Cleared
3 23 (14.02%) DV Cleared
4 10 (6.10%) Degree
5 5 (3.05%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (2.44%) CCNP
7 3 (1.83%) RHCE
7 3 (1.83%) RHCSA
8 2 (1.22%) CCIE
8 2 (1.22%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.61%) HP ASE
9 1 (0.61%) JNCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.27%) RMADS
2 3 (1.83%) QA
3 2 (1.22%) GDPR
4 1 (0.61%) SLA
System Software
1 34 (20.73%) Docker
1 34 (20.73%) VMware Infrastructure
2 23 (14.02%) Active Directory
3 20 (12.20%) vSphere
4 10 (6.10%) VMware ESXi
5 9 (5.49%) VMware NSX
6 8 (4.88%) Virtual Machines
7 7 (4.27%) Hyper-V
8 3 (1.83%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (1.22%) Ceph
9 2 (1.22%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (1.22%) Varnish
9 2 (1.22%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 1 (0.61%) LXC
10 1 (0.61%) NFS
Systems Management
1 83 (50.61%) Terraform
2 49 (29.88%) Kubernetes
3 14 (8.54%) Podman
3 14 (8.54%) Red Hat Satellite
4 12 (7.32%) Docker Swarm
4 12 (7.32%) vRealize
5 9 (5.49%) Packer
5 9 (5.49%) Puppet
6 8 (4.88%) Progress Chef
7 7 (4.27%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 7 (4.27%) vCenter Server
8 6 (3.66%) Nessus
9 5 (3.05%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 5 (3.05%) Nagios
9 5 (3.05%) WSUS
10 4 (2.44%) Prometheus
10 4 (2.44%) Rancher
10 4 (2.44%) ZABBIX
11 3 (1.83%) Grafana
11 3 (1.83%) Netcool
Vendors
1 54 (32.93%) VMware
2 38 (23.17%) Red Hat
3 18 (10.98%) Oracle
4 14 (8.54%) SolarWinds
5 12 (7.32%) Microsoft
6 11 (6.71%) Cisco
7 9 (5.49%) Veritas
8 6 (3.66%) Dell
8 6 (3.66%) IBM
9 5 (3.05%) Arqiva
9 5 (3.05%) CheckPoint
9 5 (3.05%) Splunk
10 4 (2.44%) Nokia
10 4 (2.44%) Veeam
11 3 (1.83%) Dynatrace
11 3 (1.83%) EMC
11 3 (1.83%) Infoblox
11 3 (1.83%) New Relic
11 3 (1.83%) ServiceNow
11 3 (1.83%) TOWER Software