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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 62 83 66
Rank change year-on-year +21 -17 -1
Contract jobs citing Ansible 166 147 271
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 3.01% 2.58% 3.52%
As % of the Systems Management category 23.12% 18.85% 23.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 96 158
10th Percentile - £419 £425
25th Percentile £425 £463 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +15.79%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £678 £697 £711
England median daily rate £550 £624 £590
% change year-on-year -11.78% +5.72% +12.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 8 1
10th Percentile - £54.25 -
25th Percentile £46.25 £56.41 -
Median hourly rate £47.50 £58.67 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.04% +6.67% +45.70%
75th Percentile £48.75 £67.93 -
90th Percentile - £74.10 -
England median hourly rate £62.25 £73.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -14.73% +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 718 780 1,171
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 13.02% 13.71% 15.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 513 572 755
10th Percentile £213 £300 £250
25th Percentile £375 £425 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £530 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.38% +6.00% +7.76%
75th Percentile £600 £624 £614
90th Percentile £650 £698 £675
England median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - +12.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 21 27
10th Percentile £14.00 £18.50 £12.97
25th Percentile £17.91 £52.50 £20.63
Median hourly rate £43.00 £58.75 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.81% +173.26% -10.42%
75th Percentile £48.75 £73.71 £48.00
90th Percentile £55.25 £75.75 £68.00
England median hourly rate £25.71 £57.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -55.29% +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 8 May 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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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 8 May 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 +13 66 £600 +12.94% 14
Hampshire +1 63 £450 -10.00% 23
Berkshire +4 48 £619 +15.12% 10
Surrey +18 16 £613 - 4
West Sussex +12 14 £550 -5.17%
Buckinghamshire +14 9 £550 -13.73% 3
Oxfordshire +13 9 £500 +5.26% 1
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 3 (1.81%) Confluence
1 3 (1.81%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.20%) Apache
2 2 (1.20%) nginx
2 2 (1.20%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.60%) JBoss
3 1 (0.60%) Red Hat Fuse
3 1 (0.60%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.20%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (4.22%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 41 (24.70%) AWS
2 37 (22.29%) Azure
3 13 (7.83%) GitHub
4 9 (5.42%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (4.82%) Datadog
6 6 (3.61%) IaaS
7 5 (3.01%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 5 (3.01%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (3.01%) Amazon EKS
7 5 (3.01%) Amazon S3
8 3 (1.81%) CloudFront
8 3 (1.81%) GCP
8 3 (1.81%) OpenShift
8 3 (1.81%) Route 53
8 3 (1.81%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 2 (1.20%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (1.20%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (1.20%) Entra ID
9 2 (1.20%) Fastly
9 2 (1.20%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 15 (9.04%) DNS
2 11 (6.63%) Firewall
3 8 (4.82%) DHCP
3 8 (4.82%) SAN
4 6 (3.61%) Cisco IOS
5 5 (3.01%) VPN
6 4 (2.41%) NAS
6 4 (2.41%) SNA
6 4 (2.41%) VSAN
7 3 (1.81%) BGP
7 3 (1.81%) Fibre Channel
7 3 (1.81%) IOS XR
7 3 (1.81%) NX-OS
8 2 (1.20%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.60%) Cisco Nexus
9 1 (0.60%) InfiniBand
9 1 (0.60%) Junos
9 1 (0.60%) MPLS
9 1 (0.60%) Software-Defined Networking
9 1 (0.60%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (12.65%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (7.23%) MySQL
2 12 (7.23%) Relational Database
2 12 (7.23%) SQL Server
3 10 (6.02%) MongoDB
4 7 (4.22%) RDBMS
5 5 (3.01%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (1.81%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (1.81%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (1.20%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (1.20%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.60%) Big Data
8 1 (0.60%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 54 (32.53%) Jenkins
2 35 (21.08%) GitLab
3 31 (18.67%) Git
4 25 (15.06%) Selenium
4 25 (15.06%) SonarQube
5 24 (14.46%) Cucumber
5 24 (14.46%) REST Assured
6 16 (9.64%) JIRA
7 15 (9.04%) Sonatype Nexus
8 14 (8.43%) Robot Framework
8 14 (8.43%) Visual Studio
9 4 (2.41%) Bitbucket
10 3 (1.81%) Artifactory
11 2 (1.20%) JUnit
11 2 (1.20%) Subversion
12 1 (0.60%) Appium
12 1 (0.60%) Maven
12 1 (0.60%) MSI
12 1 (0.60%) NUnit
12 1 (0.60%) TeamCity
General
1 40 (24.10%) Social Skills
2 25 (15.06%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (11.45%) Law
4 13 (7.83%) Police
5 9 (5.42%) Public Sector
6 6 (3.61%) Finance
7 5 (3.01%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.81%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.20%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.60%) Advertising
10 1 (0.60%) Banking
10 1 (0.60%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.60%) Legal
Job Titles
1 25 (15.06%) DevOps Engineer
2 22 (13.25%) Linux Engineer
3 21 (12.65%) Security Engineer
4 19 (11.45%) Developer
5 17 (10.24%) Architect
5 17 (10.24%) Senior
6 16 (9.64%) Java Engineer
7 14 (8.43%) Platform Engineer
8 12 (7.23%) Security Architect
9 9 (5.42%) Network Engineer
9 9 (5.42%) Platform Specialist
10 7 (4.22%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 7 (4.22%) Java Developer
10 7 (4.22%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
10 7 (4.22%) Software Engineer
11 6 (3.61%) AWS Engineer
11 6 (3.61%) Azure Engineer
11 6 (3.61%) Cloud Engineer
11 6 (3.61%) Database Specialist
12 5 (3.01%) Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (18.67%) REST
2 24 (14.46%) Java EE
3 14 (8.43%) .NET
4 13 (7.83%) ARM Templates
4 13 (7.83%) ASP.NET
5 10 (6.02%) Elastic Stack
6 6 (3.61%) YAML
7 5 (3.01%) Django
7 5 (3.01%) RESTful
8 4 (2.41%) RabbitMQ
9 3 (1.81%) JSON
9 3 (1.81%) Keycloak
9 3 (1.81%) YANG
10 2 (1.20%) AngularJS
10 2 (1.20%) HornetQ
10 2 (1.20%) Node.js
10 2 (1.20%) OpenID
10 2 (1.20%) SOAP
10 2 (1.20%) Spring Boot
10 2 (1.20%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 41 (24.70%) PKI
2 21 (12.65%) Linux Command Line
3 9 (5.42%) Clustering
3 9 (5.42%) Public Cloud
4 8 (4.82%) Replication
5 6 (3.61%) Data Centre
6 4 (2.41%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (2.41%) Fat Client
6 4 (2.41%) Thin Client
7 3 (1.81%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.81%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.81%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.81%) Private Cloud
7 3 (1.81%) Smart Meter
8 2 (1.20%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (0.60%) Cloud Native
9 1 (0.60%) Grid Computing
9 1 (0.60%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 60 (36.14%) Linux
2 27 (16.27%) Windows
3 24 (14.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 20 (12.05%) Windows Server
5 18 (10.84%) Windows Server 2019
6 14 (8.43%) Unix
7 9 (5.42%) Solaris
7 9 (5.42%) VMS
8 7 (4.22%) Ubuntu
9 6 (3.61%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (31.93%) DevOps
2 49 (29.52%) Test Automation
3 42 (25.30%) Agile
4 41 (24.70%) Problem-Solving
5 33 (19.88%) Infrastructure as Code
6 32 (19.28%) Technical Leadership
7 31 (18.67%) Continuous Integration
8 27 (16.27%) Containerisation
9 25 (15.06%) Decision-Making
10 24 (14.46%) Software Architecture
10 24 (14.46%) Software Engineering
11 22 (13.25%) CI/CD
12 20 (12.05%) Configuration Management
12 20 (12.05%) Scrum
13 16 (9.64%) High Availability
14 15 (9.04%) Mentoring
15 14 (8.43%) Deployment Automation
15 14 (8.43%) Platform Engineering
16 13 (7.83%) Project Delivery
17 12 (7.23%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 75 (45.18%) Python
2 65 (39.16%) PowerShell
3 34 (20.48%) Bash
4 32 (19.28%) Java
5 14 (8.43%) C#
6 13 (7.83%) Shell Script
7 8 (4.82%) Perl
7 8 (4.82%) SQL
8 7 (4.22%) C++
9 6 (3.61%) Go
10 5 (3.01%) JavaScript
11 4 (2.41%) C
12 3 (1.81%) Ruby
12 3 (1.81%) T-SQL
13 2 (1.20%) AWK
13 2 (1.20%) Bourne shell
13 2 (1.20%) Korn
14 1 (0.60%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 117 (70.48%) Security Cleared
2 74 (44.58%) SC Cleared
3 27 (16.27%) DV Cleared
4 10 (6.02%) Degree
5 4 (2.41%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (1.81%) CCNP
6 3 (1.81%) RHCE
6 3 (1.81%) RHCSA
7 2 (1.20%) CCIE
7 2 (1.20%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.60%) HP ASE
8 1 (0.60%) JNCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.22%) RMADS
2 3 (1.81%) QA
3 2 (1.20%) GDPR
4 1 (0.60%) SLA
System Software
1 36 (21.69%) VMware Infrastructure
2 32 (19.28%) Docker
3 23 (13.86%) Active Directory
4 20 (12.05%) vSphere
5 10 (6.02%) VMware ESXi
5 10 (6.02%) VMware NSX
6 8 (4.82%) Virtual Machines
7 7 (4.22%) Hyper-V
8 3 (1.81%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (1.20%) Ceph
9 2 (1.20%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (1.20%) Varnish
9 2 (1.20%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 1 (0.60%) LXC
10 1 (0.60%) NFS
Systems Management
1 87 (52.41%) Terraform
2 49 (29.52%) Kubernetes
3 14 (8.43%) Podman
3 14 (8.43%) Red Hat Satellite
4 12 (7.23%) Docker Swarm
4 12 (7.23%) vRealize
5 9 (5.42%) Packer
5 9 (5.42%) Puppet
6 8 (4.82%) Progress Chef
7 7 (4.22%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 7 (4.22%) vCenter Server
8 6 (3.61%) Nessus
9 5 (3.01%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 5 (3.01%) Nagios
9 5 (3.01%) Rancher
9 5 (3.01%) WSUS
10 4 (2.41%) Prometheus
10 4 (2.41%) ZABBIX
11 3 (1.81%) Netcool
11 3 (1.81%) SELinux
Vendors
1 56 (33.73%) VMware
2 38 (22.89%) Red Hat
3 18 (10.84%) Oracle
4 14 (8.43%) SolarWinds
5 12 (7.23%) Microsoft
6 9 (5.42%) Cisco
6 9 (5.42%) Veritas
7 6 (3.61%) Dell
7 6 (3.61%) IBM
8 5 (3.01%) Arqiva
8 5 (3.01%) Splunk
9 4 (2.41%) CheckPoint
9 4 (2.41%) ServiceNow
9 4 (2.41%) Veeam
10 3 (1.81%) Dynatrace
10 3 (1.81%) EMC
10 3 (1.81%) Infoblox
10 3 (1.81%) New Relic
10 3 (1.81%) Nokia
10 3 (1.81%) TOWER Software