Ansible
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 64 72
Rank change year-on-year -36 +8 -7
Contract jobs citing Ansible 966 1,986 2,980
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.23% 3.32% 3.35%
As % of the Systems Management category 18.98% 20.65% 20.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 656 1,468 2,097
10th Percentile £425 £450 £438
25th Percentile £488 £507 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £553 £600 £588
Median % change year-on-year -7.92% +2.13% +11.90%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £688
90th Percentile £738 £798 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £550 £538
% change year-on-year - +2.33% +10.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 29 5
10th Percentile £46.75 £53.75 £37.00
25th Percentile £52.19 £56.88 £40.00
Median hourly rate £66.25 £73.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.25% +32.73% +30.95%
75th Percentile £74.44 £76.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £77.19 £78.00 £60.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.25 £73.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -14.73% +32.73% +37.50%

All Systems Management Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 5,089 9,618 14,243
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.75% 16.08% 16.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,637 6,947 10,288
10th Percentile £256 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £563 £565
Median % change year-on-year -8.44% -0.44% +13.00%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £700 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 125 211 185
10th Percentile £14.00 £16.54 £13.87
25th Percentile £17.75 £24.13 £15.75
Median hourly rate £30.00 £57.50 £22.28
Median % change year-on-year -47.83% +158.08% -41.37%
75th Percentile £53.75 £72.50 £47.96
90th Percentile £70.75 £82.50 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.50 £46.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -16.30% +130.00% -10.11%

Ansible
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Ansible in the UK

Ansible
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Ansible in the UK

Ansible
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Ansible in the UK

Ansible
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Ansible in the UK

Ansible
Hourly Rate Histogram

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

Hourly rate histogram for Ansible in the UK

Ansible
Top 16 Contract Locations

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 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
England -24 819 £550 -11.65% 288
UK excluding London -8 482 £550 - 198
London -41 365 £575 -11.54% 122
Work from Home -38 336 £564 -6.00% 173
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
Scotland -36 50 £525 +2.39% 23
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
Wales +8 7 £645 +22.76% 5

Ansible
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 71 (7.35%) Confluence
2 44 (4.55%) OpenStack
3 27 (2.80%) nginx
4 25 (2.59%) Apache
5 9 (0.93%) Microsoft Exchange
6 7 (0.72%) Apache Solr
6 7 (0.72%) IIS
7 6 (0.62%) Anypoint
7 6 (0.62%) Apache Airflow
8 5 (0.52%) JBoss
8 5 (0.52%) SharePoint
8 5 (0.52%) Tomcat
9 4 (0.41%) Apache Spark
9 4 (0.41%) Drupal
10 3 (0.31%) CMS
10 3 (0.31%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.21%) Oracle HTTP Server
11 2 (0.21%) Traefik
11 2 (0.21%) WebLogic
11 2 (0.21%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (0.41%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.10%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.10%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (0.72%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (0.52%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.21%) SAP Hybris
4 1 (0.10%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.10%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 386 (39.96%) AWS
2 259 (26.81%) Azure
3 116 (12.01%) GitHub
4 96 (9.94%) GCP
5 70 (7.25%) OpenShift
6 68 (7.04%) Azure DevOps
7 66 (6.83%) Serverless
8 64 (6.63%) Amazon EC2
9 60 (6.21%) Amazon S3
9 60 (6.21%) AWS CloudFormation
10 53 (5.49%) AWS Lambda
11 44 (4.55%) IaaS
12 43 (4.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 41 (4.24%) PaaS
14 37 (3.83%) Amazon EKS
15 36 (3.73%) SaaS
16 34 (3.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 28 (2.90%) GitHub Actions
18 19 (1.97%) Amazon ECS
18 19 (1.97%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 126 (13.04%) Firewall
2 70 (7.25%) DNS
3 50 (5.18%) TCP/IP
4 47 (4.87%) VPN
5 35 (3.62%) SAN
6 33 (3.42%) Network Security
7 32 (3.31%) BGP
8 31 (3.21%) DHCP
8 31 (3.21%) VLAN
9 26 (2.69%) SSL
10 24 (2.48%) OSPF
11 23 (2.38%) Wi-Fi
12 22 (2.28%) Cisco ASA
13 20 (2.07%) NAS
14 19 (1.97%) IPsec
14 19 (1.97%) SNMP
14 19 (1.97%) WAN
15 18 (1.86%) MPLS
16 17 (1.76%) HSRP
17 16 (1.66%) Spanning Tree
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (7.76%) PostgreSQL
2 70 (7.25%) Elasticsearch
3 61 (6.31%) MySQL
4 48 (4.97%) SQL Server
5 40 (4.14%) Relational Database
6 38 (3.93%) MongoDB
7 36 (3.73%) Amazon RDS
8 32 (3.31%) NoSQL
9 22 (2.28%) Big Data
10 20 (2.07%) Amazon Redshift
10 20 (2.07%) Data Lake
11 19 (1.97%) Apache Cassandra
12 18 (1.86%) RDBMS
13 14 (1.45%) Amazon Aurora
13 14 (1.45%) InfluxDB
14 10 (1.04%) Oracle Database
15 9 (0.93%) Couchbase
15 9 (0.93%) DynamoDB
16 8 (0.83%) BigQuery
16 8 (0.83%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 356 (36.85%) Jenkins
2 174 (18.01%) Git
3 148 (15.32%) GitLab
4 116 (12.01%) JIRA
5 67 (6.94%) SonarQube
6 54 (5.59%) Bitbucket
7 48 (4.97%) Cucumber
8 46 (4.76%) Artifactory
9 42 (4.35%) Selenium
10 40 (4.14%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 35 (3.62%) Sonatype Nexus
12 24 (2.48%) REST Assured
13 23 (2.38%) TeamCity
14 22 (2.28%) Maven
15 20 (2.07%) Robot Framework
16 19 (1.97%) Subversion
17 14 (1.45%) CircleCI
17 14 (1.45%) Visual Studio
18 10 (1.04%) JUnit
18 10 (1.04%) Travis CI
General
1 201 (20.81%) Social Skills
2 113 (11.70%) Finance
3 96 (9.94%) Analytical Skills
4 94 (9.73%) Public Sector
5 58 (6.00%) Banking
6 29 (3.00%) Investment Banking
7 27 (2.80%) Law
8 19 (1.97%) Telecoms
9 18 (1.86%) Aerospace
10 15 (1.55%) Legal
11 13 (1.35%) Police
12 11 (1.14%) Retail
13 8 (0.83%) Financial Institution
14 6 (0.62%) Documentation Skills
14 6 (0.62%) Influencing Skills
14 6 (0.62%) Organisational Skills
15 5 (0.52%) German Language
15 5 (0.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 4 (0.41%) Manufacturing
16 4 (0.41%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 187 (19.36%) DevOps Engineer
2 103 (10.66%) Developer
3 87 (9.01%) Senior
4 81 (8.39%) Architect
5 70 (7.25%) Network Engineer
6 61 (6.31%) AWS Engineer
7 50 (5.18%) AWS DevOps
8 48 (4.97%) Lead
9 46 (4.76%) Linux Engineer
10 44 (4.55%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 44 (4.55%) Platform Engineer
11 39 (4.04%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 38 (3.93%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 32 (3.31%) Cloud Engineer
14 30 (3.11%) Azure Engineer
15 28 (2.90%) Automation Engineer
16 27 (2.80%) Security Engineer
16 27 (2.80%) Senior DevOps
17 25 (2.59%) Python Engineer
18 24 (2.48%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (8.80%) Elastic Stack
2 70 (7.25%) REST
3 60 (6.21%) .NET
3 60 (6.21%) YAML
4 46 (4.76%) JSON
5 38 (3.93%) Node.js
6 32 (3.31%) Kafka
7 26 (2.69%) ARM Templates
7 26 (2.69%) RabbitMQ
8 24 (2.48%) Java EE
8 24 (2.48%) XML
9 23 (2.38%) .NET Core
9 23 (2.38%) RESTful
10 22 (2.28%) Spring
11 21 (2.17%) LDAP
12 17 (1.76%) Jinja
13 16 (1.66%) OpenID
14 15 (1.55%) ASP.NET
14 15 (1.55%) SAML
14 15 (1.55%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 60 (6.21%) PKI
2 55 (5.69%) Public Cloud
3 52 (5.38%) Data Centre
4 45 (4.66%) Linux Command Line
5 42 (4.35%) Replication
6 37 (3.83%) Cloud Native
7 32 (3.31%) Management Information System
8 28 (2.90%) Clustering
8 28 (2.90%) Onboarding
9 21 (2.17%) Product Ownership
10 19 (1.97%) Data Protection Act
11 18 (1.86%) Private Cloud
12 16 (1.66%) Greenfield Project
13 13 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
14 12 (1.24%) Mobile App
15 10 (1.04%) Distributed Systems
15 10 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
16 9 (0.93%) Virtual Team
17 7 (0.72%) Fat Client
17 7 (0.72%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 420 (43.48%) Linux
2 190 (19.67%) Windows
3 96 (9.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 93 (9.63%) Unix
5 68 (7.04%) Windows Server
6 40 (4.14%) CentOS
7 32 (3.31%) Ubuntu
8 21 (2.17%) Solaris
9 20 (2.07%) Windows Server 2019
9 20 (2.07%) zOS
10 18 (1.86%) VMS
11 15 (1.55%) Oracle Linux
12 10 (1.04%) Android
13 8 (0.83%) Apple iOS
14 6 (0.62%) Debian
15 5 (0.52%) Windows Server 2012
16 3 (0.31%) Windows 10
16 3 (0.31%) Windows 2000
16 3 (0.31%) Windows Server 2016
16 3 (0.31%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 438 (45.34%) DevOps
2 361 (37.37%) CI/CD
3 252 (26.09%) Agile
4 242 (25.05%) Infrastructure as Code
5 190 (19.67%) Configuration Management
6 156 (16.15%) Containerisation
7 153 (15.84%) Problem-Solving
8 144 (14.91%) Continuous Integration
9 111 (11.49%) Test Automation
10 103 (10.66%) Scrum
11 82 (8.49%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 80 (8.28%) ITIL
13 78 (8.07%) Software Engineering
14 77 (7.97%) Deployment Automation
15 73 (7.56%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 66 (6.83%) Migration
16 66 (6.83%) Platform Engineering
17 65 (6.73%) High Availability
17 65 (6.73%) Infrastructure Automation
18 64 (6.63%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 495 (51.24%) Python
2 225 (23.29%) PowerShell
3 191 (19.77%) Bash
4 120 (12.42%) Java
5 88 (9.11%) SQL
6 78 (8.07%) Shell Script
7 63 (6.52%) Go
8 57 (5.90%) JavaScript
9 56 (5.80%) Perl
10 45 (4.66%) Ruby
11 44 (4.55%) C#
12 26 (2.69%) C
12 26 (2.69%) Groovy
13 21 (2.17%) C++
13 21 (2.17%) Scala
14 19 (1.97%) JCL
14 19 (1.97%) REXX
15 18 (1.86%) TypeScript
16 12 (1.24%) Tcl
17 7 (0.72%) PHP
Qualifications
1 376 (38.92%) Security Cleared
2 281 (29.09%) SC Cleared
3 100 (10.35%) DV Cleared
4 45 (4.66%) Cisco Certification
5 42 (4.35%) Degree
6 36 (3.73%) CCNP
7 23 (2.38%) AWS Certification
7 23 (2.38%) CCNA
8 16 (1.66%) BPSS Clearance
8 16 (1.66%) Computer Science Degree
9 11 (1.14%) Azure Certification
9 11 (1.14%) CCIE
10 5 (0.52%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 5 (0.52%) RHCE
11 4 (0.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (0.41%) SANS
12 3 (0.31%) RHCSA
13 2 (0.21%) CEH
13 2 (0.21%) CISSP
13 2 (0.21%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (4.55%) QA
2 18 (1.86%) NCSC
3 17 (1.76%) GDPR
4 13 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (1.24%) NIST
6 8 (0.83%) Disclosure Scotland
6 8 (0.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 7 (0.72%) RMADS
8 6 (0.62%) PCI DSS
9 5 (0.52%) HIPAA
10 4 (0.41%) Data Quality
10 4 (0.41%) SLA
11 3 (0.31%) ISO 22301
12 2 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
13 1 (0.10%) Accessibility
13 1 (0.10%) ISO 20022
13 1 (0.10%) WCAG
System Software
1 267 (27.64%) Docker
2 92 (9.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 59 (6.11%) Active Directory
4 41 (4.24%) vSphere
5 40 (4.14%) VMware NSX
6 37 (3.83%) Virtual Machines
7 33 (3.42%) VMware ESXi
8 23 (2.38%) NFS
9 20 (2.07%) Hyper-V
10 19 (1.97%) Time Sharing Option
11 18 (1.86%) Firmware
12 8 (0.83%) KVM
13 5 (0.52%) vCloud
13 5 (0.52%) Virtual Servers
14 4 (0.41%) Ceph
15 3 (0.31%) Apache ZooKeeper
15 3 (0.31%) Slurm Workload Manager
16 2 (0.21%) Varnish
16 2 (0.21%) Veritas Cluster Server
16 2 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 490 (50.72%) Terraform
2 328 (33.95%) Kubernetes
3 163 (16.87%) Puppet
4 130 (13.46%) Grafana
5 118 (12.22%) Prometheus
6 99 (10.25%) Progress Chef
7 44 (4.55%) Kibana
8 36 (3.73%) Packer
9 33 (3.42%) logstash
10 31 (3.21%) Docker Swarm
11 27 (2.80%) Tivoli Storage Manager
12 26 (2.69%) Nagios
13 23 (2.38%) PowerCLI
14 22 (2.28%) vRealize
15 21 (2.17%) NetBackup
15 21 (2.17%) Red Hat Satellite
16 20 (2.07%) Graylog
17 19 (1.97%) vCenter Server
17 19 (1.97%) ZABBIX
18 16 (1.66%) Podman
Vendors
1 148 (15.32%) VMware
2 98 (10.14%) Red Hat
3 83 (8.59%) Cisco
4 82 (8.49%) Microsoft
5 71 (7.35%) Splunk
6 70 (7.25%) Dell
7 66 (6.83%) Oracle
8 63 (6.52%) IBM
9 44 (4.55%) Atlassian
10 38 (3.93%) SolarWinds
11 36 (3.73%) HP
12 35 (3.62%) ServiceNow
13 33 (3.42%) Google
14 31 (3.21%) Citrix
15 29 (3.00%) F5
16 28 (2.90%) Palo Alto
16 28 (2.90%) Veritas
17 22 (2.28%) CA
18 21 (2.17%) Fortinet
19 20 (2.07%) Brocade