Ansible Contracts with Work from Home Options

Ansible
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 97 64 72
Rank change year-on-year -33 +8 -9
Contract jobs citing Ansible 329 878 1,535
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 2.18% 3.50% 3.50%
As % of the Systems Management category 20.16% 21.16% 21.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 225 666 1,096
10th Percentile £439 £450 £425
25th Percentile £500 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £564 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £650 £696 £675
90th Percentile £688 £753 £750
UK median daily rate £558 £600 £586
% change year-on-year -7.08% +2.39% +11.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 14 1
10th Percentile - £52.88 -
25th Percentile £58.75 £55.31 -
Median hourly rate £62.50 £61.30 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.97% +75.13% -16.67%
75th Percentile £66.25 £74.69 -
90th Percentile - £75.70 -
UK median hourly rate £62.25 £73.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -14.73% +32.73% +37.50%

All Systems Management Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 1,632 4,149 7,115
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.83% 16.54% 16.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,216 3,067 5,309
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £450 £470 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £558 £563
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% -0.89% +9.76%
75th Percentile £631 £675 £660
90th Percentile £700 £750 £743
UK median daily rate £515 £563 £565
% change year-on-year -8.44% -0.44% +13.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 76 49
10th Percentile £19.98 £25.36 £16.00
25th Percentile £46.25 £52.50 £20.75
Median hourly rate £47.75 £66.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.65% +65.00% -11.11%
75th Percentile £56.88 £76.13 £66.00
90th Percentile £62.75 £87.50 £79.50
UK median hourly rate £25.77 £57.50 £22.75
% change year-on-year -55.19% +152.75% -42.77%

Ansible
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Ansible as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Ansible trend for jobs with a WFH option

Ansible
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Ansible.

Ansible daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Ansible
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Ansible over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Ansible daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Ansible
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Ansible.

Ansible hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Ansible
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 27 (8.21%) Confluence
2 11 (3.34%) OpenStack
3 10 (3.04%) nginx
4 7 (2.13%) Apache
5 6 (1.82%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (1.22%) Apache Solr
6 4 (1.22%) IIS
7 3 (0.91%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.61%) Oracle HTTP Server
8 2 (0.61%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.61%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.30%) Anypoint
9 1 (0.30%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.30%) Apache Spark
9 1 (0.30%) EPiServer
9 1 (0.30%) SAS
9 1 (0.30%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.30%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (1.22%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 143 (43.47%) AWS
2 96 (29.18%) Azure
3 52 (15.81%) GitHub
4 37 (11.25%) GCP
5 29 (8.81%) IaaS
6 27 (8.21%) PaaS
7 26 (7.90%) OpenShift
7 26 (7.90%) Serverless
8 24 (7.29%) AWS CloudFormation
8 24 (7.29%) SaaS
9 22 (6.69%) AWS Lambda
9 22 (6.69%) Azure DevOps
10 20 (6.08%) Amazon S3
11 19 (5.78%) Amazon EC2
12 16 (4.86%) GitHub Actions
13 13 (3.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 11 (3.34%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 11 (3.34%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 10 (3.04%) Amazon EKS
15 10 (3.04%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 61 (18.54%) Firewall
2 28 (8.51%) DNS
2 28 (8.51%) TCP/IP
3 14 (4.26%) VLAN
4 13 (3.95%) SAN
5 12 (3.65%) BGP
5 12 (3.65%) DHCP
6 11 (3.34%) VPN
7 10 (3.04%) IPsec
8 9 (2.74%) Cisco ASA
8 9 (2.74%) Cisco ISE
8 9 (2.74%) OSPF
8 9 (2.74%) SSL
9 8 (2.43%) Cisco Firepower
9 8 (2.43%) NAS
9 8 (2.43%) WAN
10 7 (2.13%) EIGRP
10 7 (2.13%) HSRP
10 7 (2.13%) Kerberos
10 7 (2.13%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (9.12%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (6.38%) Elasticsearch
3 20 (6.08%) MySQL
4 18 (5.47%) SQL Server
5 17 (5.17%) Amazon RDS
6 13 (3.95%) Relational Database
7 12 (3.65%) MongoDB
7 12 (3.65%) NoSQL
8 6 (1.82%) Amazon Redshift
8 6 (1.82%) Apache Cassandra
8 6 (1.82%) Couchbase
8 6 (1.82%) Oracle Database
9 5 (1.52%) Amazon Aurora
9 5 (1.52%) Big Data
9 5 (1.52%) BigQuery
9 5 (1.52%) InfluxDB
9 5 (1.52%) Informix
9 5 (1.52%) RDBMS
10 4 (1.22%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (0.91%) Bigtable
Development Applications
1 116 (35.26%) Jenkins
2 49 (14.89%) JIRA
3 47 (14.29%) Git
4 45 (13.68%) GitLab
5 25 (7.60%) SonarQube
6 23 (6.99%) Bitbucket
7 18 (5.47%) Artifactory
8 14 (4.26%) TeamCity
9 11 (3.34%) Selenium
10 10 (3.04%) Cucumber
11 9 (2.74%) Maven
12 8 (2.43%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 8 (2.43%) REST Assured
13 7 (2.13%) CircleCI
14 5 (1.52%) Sonatype Nexus
14 5 (1.52%) Subversion
15 4 (1.22%) Postman
15 4 (1.22%) Travis CI
16 3 (0.91%) gulp
16 3 (0.91%) JMeter
General
1 87 (26.44%) Social Skills
2 57 (17.33%) Finance
3 46 (13.98%) Public Sector
4 24 (7.29%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (5.17%) Banking
6 15 (4.56%) Law
7 7 (2.13%) Police
8 5 (1.52%) Investment Banking
8 5 (1.52%) Retail
8 5 (1.52%) Telecoms
9 4 (1.22%) Legal
10 3 (0.91%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (0.91%) Financial Institution
10 3 (0.91%) Marketing
11 2 (0.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.30%) Electronics
12 1 (0.30%) Front Office
12 1 (0.30%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.30%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.30%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 76 (23.10%) DevOps Engineer
2 43 (13.07%) Senior
3 29 (8.81%) AWS Engineer
4 27 (8.21%) AWS DevOps
5 26 (7.90%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 26 (7.90%) Network Engineer
6 21 (6.38%) Lead
7 19 (5.78%) Developer
8 18 (5.47%) Automation Engineer
9 17 (5.17%) Senior DevOps
10 16 (4.86%) Architect
10 16 (4.86%) Linux Engineer
11 15 (4.56%) Platform Engineer
11 15 (4.56%) Python Engineer
12 14 (4.26%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 13 (3.95%) Data Engineer
13 13 (3.95%) DBA
14 11 (3.34%) Consultant
15 10 (3.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 9 (2.74%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (8.51%) REST
2 27 (8.21%) YAML
3 25 (7.60%) Elastic Stack
4 20 (6.08%) ARM Templates
5 16 (4.86%) JSON
6 14 (4.26%) Node.js
7 13 (3.95%) .NET
8 12 (3.65%) AWS CDK
9 10 (3.04%) Azure Blueprints
9 10 (3.04%) RabbitMQ
10 9 (2.74%) RESTful
11 8 (2.43%) Java EE
11 8 (2.43%) Kafka
11 8 (2.43%) LDAP
11 8 (2.43%) React
12 7 (2.13%) Middleware
13 6 (1.82%) Jinja
13 6 (1.82%) SAML
13 6 (1.82%) Spring
14 5 (1.52%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 24 (7.29%) Management Information System
2 21 (6.38%) Data Centre
3 20 (6.08%) Replication
4 19 (5.78%) Public Cloud
5 15 (4.56%) Greenfield Project
6 13 (3.95%) Clustering
6 13 (3.95%) Linux Command Line
7 10 (3.04%) Cloud Native
7 10 (3.04%) Onboarding
8 7 (2.13%) Product Ownership
9 6 (1.82%) PKI
9 6 (1.82%) Private Cloud
10 5 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (1.22%) Mobile App
11 4 (1.22%) Virtual Team
12 3 (0.91%) Credit Derivative
12 3 (0.91%) Distributed Applications
12 3 (0.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 3 (0.91%) Hybrid Cloud
12 3 (0.91%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 138 (41.95%) Linux
2 69 (20.97%) Windows
3 37 (11.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 26 (7.90%) Windows Server
5 24 (7.29%) Unix
6 13 (3.95%) Ubuntu
6 13 (3.95%) zOS
7 12 (3.65%) CentOS
8 11 (3.34%) Solaris
9 9 (2.74%) Oracle Linux
10 8 (2.43%) Android
11 7 (2.13%) Apple iOS
12 4 (1.22%) VMS
13 3 (0.91%) Windows Server 2012
14 2 (0.61%) Windows 10
14 2 (0.61%) Windows 2000
14 2 (0.61%) Windows Server 2016
14 2 (0.61%) Windows Server 2019
14 2 (0.61%) Windows XP
15 1 (0.30%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 166 (50.46%) DevOps
2 116 (35.26%) CI/CD
3 91 (27.66%) Infrastructure as Code
4 82 (24.92%) Agile
5 66 (20.06%) Configuration Management
6 56 (17.02%) Test Automation
7 54 (16.41%) Containerisation
8 47 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
9 41 (12.46%) Problem-Solving
10 34 (10.33%) High Availability
11 30 (9.12%) Software Engineering
12 26 (7.90%) Continuous Improvement
12 26 (7.90%) Disaster Recovery
13 25 (7.60%) Migration
13 25 (7.60%) Project Management
14 23 (6.99%) Deployment Automation
15 22 (6.69%) Infrastructure Automation
15 22 (6.69%) Mentoring
15 22 (6.69%) SDLC
15 22 (6.69%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 167 (50.76%) Python
2 66 (20.06%) Bash
3 54 (16.41%) PowerShell
4 45 (13.68%) Java
5 35 (10.64%) SQL
6 24 (7.29%) Perl
7 20 (6.08%) Go
8 19 (5.78%) JavaScript
9 16 (4.86%) Ruby
9 16 (4.86%) TypeScript
10 13 (3.95%) C
10 13 (3.95%) Shell Script
11 12 (3.65%) C++
11 12 (3.65%) JCL
11 12 (3.65%) REXX
12 8 (2.43%) Groovy
13 7 (2.13%) PHP
14 6 (1.82%) C#
14 6 (1.82%) Tcl
15 3 (0.91%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 99 (30.09%) Security Cleared
2 85 (25.84%) SC Cleared
3 18 (5.47%) Degree
4 17 (5.17%) Cisco Certification
5 16 (4.86%) CCNP
6 14 (4.26%) BPSS Clearance
6 14 (4.26%) DV Cleared
7 9 (2.74%) CCNA
8 8 (2.43%) CCIE
9 5 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (0.91%) AWS Certification
11 2 (0.61%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.61%) SANS
12 1 (0.30%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 1 (0.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.30%) CEH
12 1 (0.30%) CISSP
12 1 (0.30%) RHCE
12 1 (0.30%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (4.56%) QA
2 12 (3.65%) GDPR
3 10 (3.04%) NCSC
3 10 (3.04%) NIST
4 8 (2.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (2.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 4 (1.22%) Data Quality
6 4 (1.22%) HIPAA
7 3 (0.91%) Disclosure Scotland
7 3 (0.91%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.61%) SLA
9 1 (0.30%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.30%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.30%) WCAG
System Software
1 101 (30.70%) Docker
2 26 (7.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 24 (7.29%) VMware NSX
4 23 (6.99%) Active Directory
5 15 (4.56%) VMware ESXi
5 15 (4.56%) vSphere
6 12 (3.65%) NFS
6 12 (3.65%) Time Sharing Option
7 11 (3.34%) Virtual Machines
8 9 (2.74%) Firmware
9 5 (1.52%) vCloud
10 2 (0.61%) Ceph
10 2 (0.61%) Veritas Cluster Server
11 1 (0.30%) HDFS
11 1 (0.30%) Hyper-V
11 1 (0.30%) Postfix
11 1 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.30%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 178 (54.10%) Terraform
2 126 (38.30%) Kubernetes
3 60 (18.24%) Puppet
4 45 (13.68%) Grafana
5 44 (13.37%) Progress Chef
6 35 (10.64%) Prometheus
7 18 (5.47%) Tivoli Storage Manager
8 16 (4.86%) Kibana
9 11 (3.34%) Docker Swarm
10 10 (3.04%) logstash
10 10 (3.04%) Packer
10 10 (3.04%) Podman
11 8 (2.43%) NetBackup
12 7 (2.13%) EMC NetWorker
12 7 (2.13%) Nagios
12 7 (2.13%) Netcool
12 7 (2.13%) Tivoli
13 6 (1.82%) vRealize
14 5 (1.52%) Salt
14 5 (1.52%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 47 (14.29%) VMware
2 34 (10.33%) Cisco
3 30 (9.12%) Red Hat
4 28 (8.51%) Dell
4 28 (8.51%) Microsoft
4 28 (8.51%) Oracle
5 27 (8.21%) IBM
6 24 (7.29%) Splunk
7 19 (5.78%) SolarWinds
8 17 (5.17%) Google
9 15 (4.56%) CA
9 15 (4.56%) Qualys
10 14 (4.26%) ServiceNow
11 13 (3.95%) Atlassian
12 12 (3.65%) Broadcom
12 12 (3.65%) Brocade
12 12 (3.65%) Citrix
12 12 (3.65%) CyberArk
12 12 (3.65%) F5
12 12 (3.65%) HP