Ansible Contracts in Berkshire

Ansible
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring Ansible skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Ansible over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 53 73 70
Rank change year-on-year +20 -3 +10
Contract jobs citing Ansible 40 51 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 3.41% 2.57% 2.49%
As % of the Systems Management category 25.97% 21.07% 22.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 30 25
10th Percentile £387 £511 £393
25th Percentile £415 £547 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £619 £593
Median % change year-on-year -20.20% +4.43% +18.50%
75th Percentile £501 £675 £700
90th Percentile £582 £690 £784
South East median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £56.88
Median hourly rate - - £58.75
75th Percentile - - £60.63
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate - £47.50 £61.38
% change year-on-year - -22.61% +11.59%

All Systems Management Skills
Berkshire

Ansible falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 154 242 201
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 13.13% 12.20% 11.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 179 142
10th Percentile £400 £205 £363
25th Percentile £450 £275 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +2.38%
75th Percentile £590 £608 £675
90th Percentile £675 £632 £750
South East median daily rate £501 £475 £543
% change year-on-year +5.37% -12.52% +8.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 10
10th Percentile - - £50.53
25th Percentile - - £58.91
Median hourly rate - £65.00 £68.00
Median % change year-on-year - -4.41% -6.21%
75th Percentile - - £75.56
90th Percentile - - £81.98
South East median hourly rate £23.99 £47.50 £61.38
% change year-on-year -49.51% -22.61% +182.18%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Ansible in Berkshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Ansible in Berkshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ansible in Berkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Ansible in Berkshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Ansible in Berkshire

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Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Ansible within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Reading +11 22 £450 -28.00% 19
Wokingham -5 6 £400 - 2
Windsor - 5 £500 -
Bracknell +14 2 - - 1
Ansible
South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 (7.50%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 28 (70.00%) Azure
2 27 (67.50%) AWS
3 8 (20.00%) GCP
4 7 (17.50%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (12.50%) GitHub
6 2 (5.00%) Azure AKS
6 2 (5.00%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (2.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (2.50%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (2.50%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (2.50%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (2.50%) Amazon S3
7 1 (2.50%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (2.50%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (2.50%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
7 1 (2.50%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (2.50%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (2.50%) Serverless
7 1 (2.50%) SonarCloud
7 1 (2.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (25.00%) BGP
1 10 (25.00%) TCP/IP
2 9 (22.50%) VLAN
3 7 (17.50%) Firewall
4 6 (15.00%) Network Security
5 5 (12.50%) MPLS
5 5 (12.50%) OSPF
6 4 (10.00%) VPN
7 3 (7.50%) DHCP
7 3 (7.50%) DNS
7 3 (7.50%) FTP
7 3 (7.50%) SMTP
7 3 (7.50%) tcpdump
7 3 (7.50%) Telnet
8 1 (2.50%) Cisco IOS
8 1 (2.50%) Cisco Nexus
8 1 (2.50%) EIGRP
8 1 (2.50%) Junos
8 1 (2.50%) Software-Defined Networking
8 1 (2.50%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (12.50%) Big Data
2 1 (2.50%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (2.50%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 16 (40.00%) Jenkins
2 10 (25.00%) GitLab
3 9 (22.50%) Cucumber
3 9 (22.50%) JIRA
3 9 (22.50%) REST Assured
3 9 (22.50%) Selenium
3 9 (22.50%) SonarQube
4 6 (15.00%) Git
5 5 (12.50%) Robot Framework
6 1 (2.50%) Artifactory
6 1 (2.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (2.50%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 19 (47.50%) Social Skills
2 17 (42.50%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (20.00%) Law
4 6 (15.00%) Finance
4 6 (15.00%) Telecoms
5 4 (10.00%) Police
6 1 (2.50%) Electronics
6 1 (2.50%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.50%) Marketing
6 1 (2.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (12.50%) Automation Tester
1 5 (12.50%) AWS Engineer
1 5 (12.50%) Cloud Platform Engineer
1 5 (12.50%) Java Engineer
1 5 (12.50%) Java Software Engineer
1 5 (12.50%) Platform Engineer
1 5 (12.50%) Software Engineer
1 5 (12.50%) Telecoms Tester
1 5 (12.50%) Tester
2 4 (10.00%) Administrator
2 4 (10.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
2 4 (10.00%) Developer
2 4 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (10.00%) Java Developer
2 4 (10.00%) Linux Administrator
2 4 (10.00%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
3 3 (7.50%) Network Engineer
4 2 (5.00%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (5.00%) Azure Platform Engineer
5 1 (2.50%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (22.50%) ARM Templates
1 9 (22.50%) Java EE
1 9 (22.50%) REST
2 3 (7.50%) LDAP
3 1 (2.50%) AWS CDK
3 1 (2.50%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (2.50%) Jinja
3 1 (2.50%) JSON
3 1 (2.50%) NETCONF
3 1 (2.50%) RESTCONF
3 1 (2.50%) Serverless Framework
Miscellaneous
1 10 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 9 (22.50%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (7.50%) Product Ownership
4 2 (5.00%) Data Centre
4 2 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.50%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 14 (35.00%) Linux
2 8 (20.00%) Windows
3 5 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (12.50%) Ubuntu
3 5 (12.50%) Windows Server
4 2 (5.00%) AIX
4 2 (5.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (50.00%) Configuration Management
1 20 (50.00%) DevOps
2 18 (45.00%) Containerisation
3 14 (35.00%) Test Automation
4 13 (32.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 13 (32.50%) Problem-Solving
5 12 (30.00%) Software Engineering
6 9 (22.50%) Continuous Integration
6 9 (22.50%) Software Architecture
6 9 (22.50%) Technical Leadership
7 7 (17.50%) Root Cause Analysis
8 6 (15.00%) High Availability
8 6 (15.00%) Infrastructure Automation
8 6 (15.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 5 (12.50%) Continuous Delivery
9 5 (12.50%) Customer-Centric Approach
9 5 (12.50%) Customer-Centricity
9 5 (12.50%) Decision-Making
9 5 (12.50%) Security Monitoring
9 5 (12.50%) Server Building
Programming Languages
1 22 (55.00%) Python
2 10 (25.00%) PowerShell
3 9 (22.50%) Java
4 2 (5.00%) Bash
4 2 (5.00%) Bicep
5 1 (2.50%) Shell Script
5 1 (2.50%) VB
Qualifications
1 18 (45.00%) Security Cleared
2 16 (40.00%) SC Cleared
3 6 (15.00%) CCNP
3 6 (15.00%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (10.00%) CCSA
4 4 (10.00%) CCSE
4 4 (10.00%) Check Point Certification
5 2 (5.00%) DV Cleared
6 1 (2.50%) CCIE
6 1 (2.50%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.00%) NIST
System Software
1 19 (47.50%) Docker
2 3 (7.50%) NFS
2 3 (7.50%) Samba
2 3 (7.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (5.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 20 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 20 (50.00%) Terraform
2 9 (22.50%) Docker Swarm
2 9 (22.50%) Podman
3 5 (12.50%) yum
4 4 (10.00%) Progress Chef
4 4 (10.00%) Puppet
5 2 (5.00%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (5.00%) SCCM
6 1 (2.50%) FortiGate
6 1 (2.50%) Grafana
6 1 (2.50%) Prometheus
6 1 (2.50%) QRadar
Vendors
1 8 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 8 (20.00%) VMware
2 7 (17.50%) Cisco
3 5 (12.50%) Databricks
3 5 (12.50%) Palo Alto
3 5 (12.50%) Red Hat
4 4 (10.00%) CheckPoint
4 4 (10.00%) HP
5 1 (2.50%) Citrix
5 1 (2.50%) F5
5 1 (2.50%) Fortinet
5 1 (2.50%) Google
5 1 (2.50%) Juniper
5 1 (2.50%) New Relic
5 1 (2.50%) SAP
5 1 (2.50%) SolarWinds
5 1 (2.50%) Splunk