Ansible Contracts in the Thames Valley

Ansible
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 73 78 91
Rank change year-on-year +5 +13 -27
Contract jobs citing Ansible 71 73 75
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 2.65% 2.49% 2.15%
As % of the Systems Management category 22.12% 20.17% 19.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 48 48
10th Percentile £425 £421 £396
25th Percentile £513 £469 £442
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £544 £525
Median % change year-on-year +10.34% +3.57% +13.51%
75th Percentile £650 £691 £619
90th Percentile £688 £760 £650
South East median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +21.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £46.25 £56.88 -
Median hourly rate £47.50 £58.75 -
Median % change year-on-year -19.15% - -
75th Percentile £59.38 £60.63 -
90th Percentile £65.75 - -
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £61.38 £55.00
% change year-on-year -22.61% +11.59% +52.78%

All Systems Management Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 321 362 393
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 11.99% 12.33% 11.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 245 272 281
10th Percentile £205 £301 £238
25th Percentile £300 £423 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% +2.50% +9.53%
75th Percentile £608 £616 £613
90th Percentile £650 £724 £656
South East median daily rate £475 £543 £500
% change year-on-year -12.48% +8.55% +7.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 11 7
10th Percentile £21.34 £48.50 £16.20
25th Percentile £28.41 £54.69 £21.84
Median hourly rate £38.75 £66.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.29% +5.60% +4.17%
75th Percentile £52.81 £75.38 £68.75
90th Percentile £66.50 £81.37 £76.25
South East median hourly rate £43.00 £61.38 £21.50
% change year-on-year -29.94% +185.47% -10.42%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Ansible as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Ansible in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Ansible in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Ansible in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate histogram for Ansible in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Ansible in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Ansible in the Thames Valley

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

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

Hourly rate histogram for Ansible in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Ansible within the Thames Valley 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
Berkshire +1 51 £619 +4.43% 8
Buckinghamshire +14 11 £570 -2.98% 4
Oxfordshire +8 9 £500 +5.26% 2
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South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (5.63%) OpenStack
2 2 (2.82%) Confluence
2 2 (2.82%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.82%) nginx
3 1 (1.41%) JBoss
3 1 (1.41%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 2 (2.82%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 22 (30.99%) AWS
2 21 (29.58%) Azure
3 5 (7.04%) Amazon EKS
3 5 (7.04%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (5.63%) Amazon ECS
4 4 (5.63%) Serverless
5 3 (4.23%) GCP
6 2 (2.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (2.82%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (2.82%) Amazon S3
6 2 (2.82%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.41%) Azure AKS
7 1 (1.41%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (1.41%) GitHub
7 1 (1.41%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 1 (1.41%) OpenShift
7 1 (1.41%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (11.27%) Firewall
2 7 (9.86%) DHCP
2 7 (9.86%) DNS
3 4 (5.63%) Cisco IOS
3 4 (5.63%) NAS
3 4 (5.63%) SAN
3 4 (5.63%) SNA
3 4 (5.63%) VPN
4 3 (4.23%) NX-OS
4 3 (4.23%) VSAN
5 2 (2.82%) TCP/IP
6 1 (1.41%) BGP
6 1 (1.41%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (1.41%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 1 (1.41%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 1 (1.41%) InfiniBand
6 1 (1.41%) IOS XR
6 1 (1.41%) MPLS
6 1 (1.41%) Network Security
6 1 (1.41%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (14.08%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (8.45%) MySQL
2 6 (8.45%) Relational Database
2 6 (8.45%) SQL Server
3 5 (7.04%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (2.82%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (2.82%) MongoDB
4 2 (2.82%) Oracle Database
4 2 (2.82%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.41%) Big Data
5 1 (1.41%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 42 (59.15%) Jenkins
2 25 (35.21%) Selenium
2 25 (35.21%) SonarQube
3 24 (33.80%) Cucumber
3 24 (33.80%) REST Assured
4 17 (23.94%) Git
4 17 (23.94%) GitLab
5 15 (21.13%) JIRA
6 7 (9.86%) Visual Studio
7 4 (5.63%) JUnit
8 1 (1.41%) Appium
8 1 (1.41%) Bitbucket
8 1 (1.41%) Maven
8 1 (1.41%) MSTest
8 1 (1.41%) NUnit
8 1 (1.41%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (1.41%) SpecFlow
8 1 (1.41%) Spinnaker
8 1 (1.41%) TeamCity
General
1 26 (36.62%) Social Skills
2 24 (33.80%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (26.76%) Law
4 13 (18.31%) Police
5 5 (7.04%) Public Sector
6 4 (5.63%) Finance
7 3 (4.23%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (2.82%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.41%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 16 (22.54%) Java Engineer
2 14 (19.72%) Developer
3 10 (14.08%) Senior
4 9 (12.68%) Java Developer
5 8 (11.27%) DevOps Engineer
6 7 (9.86%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
6 7 (9.86%) Software Engineer
7 6 (8.45%) Network Engineer
8 5 (7.04%) Java Software Engineer
8 5 (7.04%) Lead
8 5 (7.04%) Senior Java Engineer
8 5 (7.04%) Senior Java Software Engineer
8 5 (7.04%) Senior Software Engineer
9 4 (5.63%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 4 (5.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 4 (5.63%) SC Cleared Java Developer
10 3 (4.23%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
10 3 (4.23%) Java Architect
10 3 (4.23%) Java Technical Architect
10 3 (4.23%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (39.44%) REST
2 24 (33.80%) Java EE
3 13 (18.31%) ARM Templates
4 10 (14.08%) Elastic Stack
5 8 (11.27%) .NET
6 7 (9.86%) ASP.NET
7 4 (5.63%) AngularJS
7 4 (5.63%) Node.js
7 4 (5.63%) RESTful
7 4 (5.63%) SOAP
7 4 (5.63%) Spring
7 4 (5.63%) Spring Boot
7 4 (5.63%) Web Services
8 3 (4.23%) J2EE
8 3 (4.23%) YAML
9 2 (2.82%) RabbitMQ
10 1 (1.41%) .NET Core
10 1 (1.41%) Apache Camel
10 1 (1.41%) Kafka
10 1 (1.41%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (9.86%) PKI
2 4 (5.63%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (5.63%) Fat Client
2 4 (5.63%) Thin Client
3 3 (4.23%) Data Centre
3 3 (4.23%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (2.82%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.82%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (2.82%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.41%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.41%) Grid Computing
5 1 (1.41%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.41%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 16 (22.54%) Linux
2 8 (11.27%) Windows
3 5 (7.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (5.63%) Ubuntu
4 4 (5.63%) Windows Server
4 4 (5.63%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (4.23%) Unix
6 2 (2.82%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (53.52%) DevOps
2 35 (49.30%) Problem-Solving
3 29 (40.85%) Continuous Integration
4 28 (39.44%) Test Automation
5 26 (36.62%) Technical Leadership
6 25 (35.21%) Decision-Making
7 24 (33.80%) Software Architecture
7 24 (33.80%) Software Engineering
8 22 (30.99%) Infrastructure as Code
9 17 (23.94%) Configuration Management
9 17 (23.94%) Containerisation
10 10 (14.08%) Agile
11 9 (12.68%) CI/CD
11 9 (12.68%) Digital Transformation Programme
12 8 (11.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 7 (9.86%) Deployment Automation
13 7 (9.86%) Mentoring
14 5 (7.04%) Kanban
14 5 (7.04%) Scrum
15 4 (5.63%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 28 (39.44%) Java
2 16 (22.54%) PowerShell
3 15 (21.13%) Python
4 8 (11.27%) C#
5 4 (5.63%) Bash
5 4 (5.63%) JavaScript
6 3 (4.23%) SQL
7 2 (2.82%) Go
7 2 (2.82%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.41%) Perl
Qualifications
1 50 (70.42%) Security Cleared
2 45 (63.38%) SC Cleared
3 7 (9.86%) Degree
4 4 (5.63%) CCNP
4 4 (5.63%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (4.23%) DV Cleared
6 2 (2.82%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.41%) CCIE
7 1 (1.41%) HP ASE
7 1 (1.41%) JNCIE
7 1 (1.41%) RHCE
7 1 (1.41%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.82%) QA
2 1 (1.41%) SLA
System Software
1 22 (30.99%) Docker
2 7 (9.86%) VMware ESXi
2 7 (9.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (8.45%) Active Directory
4 5 (7.04%) VMware NSX
5 3 (4.23%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (2.82%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 2 (2.82%) vSphere
7 1 (1.41%) Hyper-V
7 1 (1.41%) NFS
Systems Management
1 29 (40.85%) Terraform
2 26 (36.62%) Kubernetes
3 12 (16.90%) Docker Swarm
3 12 (16.90%) Podman
4 7 (9.86%) vCenter Server
5 6 (8.45%) vRealize
6 4 (5.63%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 4 (5.63%) Nessus
6 4 (5.63%) Prometheus
6 4 (5.63%) Red Hat Satellite
6 4 (5.63%) WSUS
6 4 (5.63%) ZABBIX
7 3 (4.23%) Grafana
7 3 (4.23%) Netcool
7 3 (4.23%) Puppet
8 2 (2.82%) Graylog
8 2 (2.82%) Kibana
8 2 (2.82%) Packer
8 2 (2.82%) Progress Chef
8 2 (2.82%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 17 (23.94%) VMware
2 10 (14.08%) Red Hat
3 9 (12.68%) Microsoft
4 6 (8.45%) Oracle
5 5 (7.04%) Cisco
6 4 (5.63%) CheckPoint
6 4 (5.63%) Nokia
6 4 (5.63%) Veeam
7 3 (4.23%) Dynatrace
7 3 (4.23%) IBM
7 3 (4.23%) Infoblox
7 3 (4.23%) ServiceNow
8 2 (2.82%) Dell
8 2 (2.82%) Splunk
9 1 (1.41%) Checkmarx
9 1 (1.41%) F5
9 1 (1.41%) Google
9 1 (1.41%) Juniper
9 1 (1.41%) LogRhythm
9 1 (1.41%) SolarWinds