Ansible Contracts in the UK excluding London

Ansible
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 83 75 78
Rank change year-on-year -8 +3 -4
Contract jobs citing Ansible 470 739 961
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.29% 3.14% 3.14%
As % of the Systems Management category 20.30% 21.01% 22.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 336 531 674
10th Percentile £425 £425 £425
25th Percentile £475 £487 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year - +2.33% +8.59%
75th Percentile £631 £650 £625
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £560 £600 £586
% change year-on-year -6.67% +2.39% +11.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 24 3
10th Percentile £46.25 £53.75 £43.00
25th Percentile £50.94 £56.25 £47.50
Median hourly rate £62.25 £73.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.73% +32.73% +37.50%
75th Percentile £74.44 £75.63 £56.25
90th Percentile £75.36 £78.00 £57.00
UK median hourly rate £62.25 £73.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -14.73% +32.73% +37.50%

All Systems Management Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 2,315 3,517 4,258
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.28% 14.96% 13.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,685 2,576 2,986
10th Percentile £213 £281 £237
25th Percentile £375 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.10% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £620 £600
90th Percentile £654 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £515 £563 £565
% change year-on-year -8.44% -0.44% +13.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 136 114
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.50 £12.92
25th Percentile £17.00 £20.22 £14.44
Median hourly rate £28.75 £44.88 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.93% +124.38% -9.09%
75th Percentile £48.75 £65.00 £41.13
90th Percentile £70.28 £75.25 £51.66
UK median hourly rate £25.77 £57.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year -55.19% +155.56% -43.04%

Ansible
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Ansible as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Ansible in the UK excluding London

Ansible
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Ansible in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Ansible in the UK excluding London

Ansible
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ansible in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Ansible in the UK excluding London

Ansible
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Ansible in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Ansible in the UK excluding London

Ansible
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Ansible in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Ansible in the UK excluding London

Ansible
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Ansible within the UK excluding London 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
South East +21 166 £550 - 46
North of England -3 116 £518 -13.73% 32
South West -7 104 £563 -5.26% 48
Yorkshire +69 66 £514 -17.76% 8
Scotland -32 48 £525 +2.04% 14
North West -43 42 £533 -9.36% 20
Midlands -8 20 £521 +4.25% 21
West Midlands -10 11 £613 +16.67% 10
East of England -17 11 £650 +21.50% 18
East Midlands +16 9 £499 +12.13% 11
North East -4 8 £550 -18.52% 4
Wales +7 7 £645 +22.76% 6
Ansible
UK

Ansible
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 50 (10.64%) Confluence
2 11 (2.34%) nginx
3 9 (1.91%) Apache
4 7 (1.49%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (1.28%) OpenStack
6 4 (0.85%) Apache Solr
7 3 (0.64%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.64%) CMS
7 3 (0.64%) Drupal
7 3 (0.64%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.43%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.43%) Traefik
9 1 (0.21%) EPiServer
9 1 (0.21%) IIS
9 1 (0.21%) JBoss
9 1 (0.21%) Red Hat Fuse
9 1 (0.21%) SAS
9 1 (0.21%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.21%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (1.49%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.21%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.21%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.21%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 167 (35.53%) AWS
2 110 (23.40%) Azure
3 49 (10.43%) GitHub
4 46 (9.79%) OpenShift
5 40 (8.51%) AWS CloudFormation
6 39 (8.30%) Amazon EC2
7 37 (7.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 36 (7.66%) Amazon S3
9 34 (7.23%) GCP
10 33 (7.02%) Serverless
11 27 (5.74%) Azure DevOps
12 26 (5.53%) AWS Lambda
13 13 (2.77%) Amazon EKS
14 11 (2.34%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 10 (2.13%) IaaS
15 10 (2.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 9 (1.91%) Apigee
17 8 (1.70%) Amazon ECS
17 8 (1.70%) Datadog
18 7 (1.49%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 63 (13.40%) Firewall
2 37 (7.87%) DNS
3 26 (5.53%) TCP/IP
4 24 (5.11%) VPN
5 21 (4.47%) SAN
6 17 (3.62%) VLAN
7 16 (3.40%) IPsec
8 15 (3.19%) BGP
8 15 (3.19%) Cisco ASA
9 14 (2.98%) OSPF
10 13 (2.77%) Network Security
10 13 (2.77%) SNMP
10 13 (2.77%) SSL
10 13 (2.77%) Wi-Fi
11 12 (2.55%) Cisco Firepower
11 12 (2.55%) Cisco ISE
11 12 (2.55%) EIGRP
11 12 (2.55%) HSRP
11 12 (2.55%) NetScaler
11 12 (2.55%) Spanning Tree
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (9.36%) PostgreSQL
2 38 (8.09%) MySQL
3 27 (5.74%) Relational Database
3 27 (5.74%) SQL Server
4 24 (5.11%) Elasticsearch
4 24 (5.11%) MongoDB
5 19 (4.04%) Amazon RDS
6 14 (2.98%) InfluxDB
7 13 (2.77%) NoSQL
8 12 (2.55%) RDBMS
9 11 (2.34%) Amazon Aurora
10 8 (1.70%) Amazon Redshift
11 7 (1.49%) Apache Cassandra
12 6 (1.28%) Data Lake
12 6 (1.28%) DynamoDB
12 6 (1.28%) Informix
13 4 (0.85%) Azure SQL Database
13 4 (0.85%) Couchbase
13 4 (0.85%) Oracle Database
14 3 (0.64%) ClickHouse
Development Applications
1 165 (35.11%) Jenkins
2 79 (16.81%) GitLab
3 73 (15.53%) Git
4 71 (15.11%) JIRA
5 44 (9.36%) SonarQube
6 38 (8.09%) Bitbucket
7 29 (6.17%) Selenium
8 28 (5.96%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 26 (5.53%) Cucumber
10 24 (5.11%) REST Assured
10 24 (5.11%) Sonatype Nexus
11 22 (4.68%) Artifactory
12 15 (3.19%) Robot Framework
13 14 (2.98%) Visual Studio
14 13 (2.77%) Maven
15 8 (1.70%) CircleCI
15 8 (1.70%) Gradle
16 7 (1.49%) Travis CI
17 6 (1.28%) Burp Suite
17 6 (1.28%) Subversion
General
1 124 (26.38%) Social Skills
2 78 (16.60%) Analytical Skills
3 42 (8.94%) Public Sector
4 27 (5.74%) Finance
5 19 (4.04%) Law
6 18 (3.83%) Aerospace
7 13 (2.77%) Police
8 11 (2.34%) Legal
9 10 (2.13%) Banking
10 6 (1.28%) Telecoms
11 5 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (0.85%) German Language
13 3 (0.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (0.64%) Manufacturing
13 3 (0.64%) Marketing
13 3 (0.64%) Retail
14 2 (0.43%) Advertising
14 2 (0.43%) Electronics
14 2 (0.43%) Investment Banking
14 2 (0.43%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 87 (18.51%) DevOps Engineer
2 48 (10.21%) Senior
3 47 (10.00%) Developer
4 32 (6.81%) Network Engineer
5 30 (6.38%) Linux Engineer
6 29 (6.17%) Platform Engineer
7 26 (5.53%) Architect
7 26 (5.53%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 24 (5.11%) Security Engineer
9 22 (4.68%) AWS Engineer
10 20 (4.26%) Lead
11 17 (3.62%) AWS DevOps
12 16 (3.40%) Cloud Engineer
12 16 (3.40%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 16 (3.40%) Java Engineer
13 15 (3.19%) Site Engineer
14 14 (2.98%) Storage Manager
15 13 (2.77%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 12 (2.55%) Administrator
16 12 (2.55%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (10.64%) REST
2 44 (9.36%) .NET
3 38 (8.09%) YAML
4 31 (6.60%) Elastic Stack
5 24 (5.11%) Java EE
6 23 (4.89%) .NET Core
7 20 (4.26%) JSON
8 18 (3.83%) RabbitMQ
9 15 (3.19%) AWS CDK
10 14 (2.98%) ARM Templates
11 13 (2.77%) ASP.NET
12 12 (2.55%) Jinja
12 12 (2.55%) Kafka
13 10 (2.13%) RESTful
14 8 (1.70%) Keycloak
14 8 (1.70%) Node.js
15 7 (1.49%) Apache NiFi
16 6 (1.28%) ActiveMQ
16 6 (1.28%) Django
16 6 (1.28%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 50 (10.64%) PKI
2 38 (8.09%) Linux Command Line
3 31 (6.60%) Public Cloud
4 30 (6.38%) Replication
5 25 (5.32%) Cloud Native
6 24 (5.11%) Data Centre
7 12 (2.55%) Clustering
8 10 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
8 10 (2.13%) Private Cloud
9 8 (1.70%) Management Information System
9 8 (1.70%) Mobile App
10 7 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
11 6 (1.28%) Data Structures
12 5 (1.06%) Fat Client
12 5 (1.06%) Product Ownership
12 5 (1.06%) Thin Client
13 4 (0.85%) Distributed Systems
13 4 (0.85%) Legacy Systems
13 4 (0.85%) Security Posture
14 3 (0.64%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 223 (47.45%) Linux
2 95 (20.21%) Windows
3 45 (9.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 38 (8.09%) Unix
5 29 (6.17%) Windows Server
6 19 (4.04%) Ubuntu
7 18 (3.83%) Windows Server 2019
8 15 (3.19%) zOS
9 12 (2.55%) Solaris
9 12 (2.55%) VMS
10 10 (2.13%) CentOS
11 6 (1.28%) Debian
12 4 (0.85%) Oracle Linux
13 3 (0.64%) Android
13 3 (0.64%) Apple iOS
13 3 (0.64%) Windows 2000
13 3 (0.64%) Windows XP
14 1 (0.21%) AIX
14 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 205 (43.62%) DevOps
2 163 (34.68%) CI/CD
3 129 (27.45%) Agile
4 110 (23.40%) Infrastructure as Code
5 101 (21.49%) Problem-Solving
6 93 (19.79%) Continuous Integration
7 83 (17.66%) Configuration Management
8 74 (15.74%) Containerisation
9 64 (13.62%) Test Automation
10 52 (11.06%) Scrum
11 48 (10.21%) Deployment Automation
12 45 (9.57%) Software Engineering
12 45 (9.57%) Task Automation
13 43 (9.15%) Change Management
14 42 (8.94%) Migration
15 41 (8.72%) ITIL
16 40 (8.51%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 35 (7.45%) Technical Leadership
18 34 (7.23%) Infrastructure Automation
19 33 (7.02%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 246 (52.34%) Python
2 138 (29.36%) PowerShell
3 102 (21.70%) Bash
4 59 (12.55%) Java
5 43 (9.15%) SQL
6 36 (7.66%) Shell Script
7 33 (7.02%) Go
8 30 (6.38%) Perl
9 22 (4.68%) C
10 20 (4.26%) Groovy
10 20 (4.26%) JavaScript
11 19 (4.04%) Ruby
12 15 (3.19%) C#
12 15 (3.19%) JCL
12 15 (3.19%) REXX
13 13 (2.77%) TypeScript
14 12 (2.55%) Tcl
15 9 (1.91%) C++
16 7 (1.49%) PHP
17 4 (0.85%) Scala
Qualifications
1 227 (48.30%) Security Cleared
2 138 (29.36%) SC Cleared
3 73 (15.53%) DV Cleared
4 24 (5.11%) Cisco Certification
5 20 (4.26%) CCNP
6 19 (4.04%) Degree
7 18 (3.83%) CCNA
8 6 (1.28%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (1.06%) CCIE
9 5 (1.06%) RHCE
10 3 (0.64%) RHCSA
11 2 (0.43%) AWS Certification
11 2 (0.43%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.43%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.43%) SANS
12 1 (0.21%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 1 (0.21%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.21%) GIAC
12 1 (0.21%) HP ASE
12 1 (0.21%) Linux+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (7.45%) QA
2 8 (1.70%) Disclosure Scotland
3 7 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (1.49%) RMADS
4 6 (1.28%) GDPR
4 6 (1.28%) NIST
5 4 (0.85%) HIPAA
6 3 (0.64%) ISO 22301
7 2 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.43%) NCSC
7 2 (0.43%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.43%) SLA
8 1 (0.21%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.21%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.21%) WCAG
System Software
1 125 (26.60%) Docker
2 59 (12.55%) VMware Infrastructure
3 30 (6.38%) Active Directory
4 29 (6.17%) vSphere
5 23 (4.89%) VMware NSX
6 22 (4.68%) VMware ESXi
7 17 (3.62%) NFS
8 15 (3.19%) Time Sharing Option
9 14 (2.98%) Hyper-V
10 12 (2.55%) Firmware
11 9 (1.91%) Virtual Machines
12 4 (0.85%) Virtual Servers
13 3 (0.64%) Apache ZooKeeper
14 2 (0.43%) Ceph
14 2 (0.43%) KVM
14 2 (0.43%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 2 (0.43%) Varnish
14 2 (0.43%) Veritas Cluster Server
15 1 (0.21%) Oracle RAC
15 1 (0.21%) Xen
Systems Management
1 237 (50.43%) Terraform
2 155 (32.98%) Kubernetes
3 71 (15.11%) Grafana
4 57 (12.13%) Prometheus
5 52 (11.06%) Puppet
6 40 (8.51%) Progress Chef
7 28 (5.96%) Docker Swarm
8 24 (5.11%) PowerCLI
9 19 (4.04%) NetBackup
10 18 (3.83%) Red Hat Satellite
11 17 (3.62%) Packer
12 16 (3.40%) Podman
12 16 (3.40%) Tivoli Storage Manager
13 15 (3.19%) Nagios
14 14 (2.98%) Kibana
15 13 (2.77%) vRealize
16 11 (2.34%) Graylog
16 11 (2.34%) HP Fortify
16 11 (2.34%) Nessus
17 9 (1.91%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 88 (18.72%) VMware
2 54 (11.49%) Red Hat
3 46 (9.79%) Dell
4 37 (7.87%) Microsoft
5 35 (7.45%) Atlassian
5 35 (7.45%) Oracle
6 34 (7.23%) Cisco
6 34 (7.23%) Splunk
7 30 (6.38%) IBM
8 29 (6.17%) SolarWinds
9 26 (5.53%) HP
9 26 (5.53%) Veritas
10 18 (3.83%) ServiceNow
11 16 (3.40%) Broadcom
11 16 (3.40%) Brocade
11 16 (3.40%) CA
11 16 (3.40%) Citrix
12 14 (2.98%) Google
13 12 (2.55%) Palo Alto
14 8 (1.70%) EMC