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 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 69 68
Rank change year-on-year +10 -1 +11
Contract jobs citing Ansible 41 44 49
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 3.39% 2.48% 2.71%
As % of the Systems Management category 24.12% 20.95% 21.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 30 29
10th Percentile £359 £511 £405
25th Percentile £400 £581 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £625 £700
Median % change year-on-year -28.00% -10.71% +40.00%
75th Percentile £500 £650 £738
90th Percentile £501 £688 £765
South East median daily rate £525 £550 £593
% change year-on-year -4.55% -7.17% +7.73%
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 - - £58.67
% change year-on-year - - -38.24%

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 170 210 226
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 14.07% 11.84% 12.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 152 161
10th Percentile £358 £231 £213
25th Percentile £400 £454 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -19.57% - +12.75%
75th Percentile £550 £614 £699
90th Percentile £630 £650 £750
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £563
% change year-on-year - -11.11% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 4
10th Percentile - - £51.87
25th Percentile - - £55.09
Median hourly rate £18.87 - £62.38
Median % change year-on-year - - -22.03%
75th Percentile £36.94 - £67.00
90th Percentile £47.77 - £68.80
South East median hourly rate £32.77 £36.17 £55.00
% change year-on-year -9.39% -34.25% +23.60%

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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 August 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 August 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 +16 25 £450 -28.00% 3
Wokingham - 4 £400 -
Windsor - 3 £500 -
Bracknell 0 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 7 (17.07%) OpenStack
2 2 (4.88%) Camunda
Cloud Services
1 24 (58.54%) AWS
2 21 (51.22%) Azure
3 7 (17.07%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (12.20%) GitHub
5 4 (9.76%) GCP
6 2 (4.88%) Azure AKS
6 2 (4.88%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (4.88%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (2.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (2.44%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (2.44%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (2.44%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (2.44%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
7 1 (2.44%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (2.44%) Datadog
7 1 (2.44%) OpenShift
7 1 (2.44%) Serverless
7 1 (2.44%) SonarCloud
7 1 (2.44%) Stackdriver
7 1 (2.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (21.95%) BGP
1 9 (21.95%) Firewall
2 8 (19.51%) Network Security
2 8 (19.51%) OSPF
3 7 (17.07%) TCP/IP
4 6 (14.63%) VLAN
4 6 (14.63%) VPN
5 4 (9.76%) MPLS
6 2 (4.88%) 4G
6 2 (4.88%) 5G
6 2 (4.88%) DOCSIS
6 2 (4.88%) GPON
6 2 (4.88%) LAN
6 2 (4.88%) LTE
6 2 (4.88%) Radio Access Network
6 2 (4.88%) VoIP
6 2 (4.88%) WAN
6 2 (4.88%) xDSL
7 1 (2.44%) Ethernet VPN
7 1 (2.44%) IPFIX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.32%) Big Data
2 1 (2.44%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (2.44%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (2.44%) DynamoDB
2 1 (2.44%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.44%) MySQL
2 1 (2.44%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.44%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.44%) Redis
Development Applications
1 16 (39.02%) Jenkins
2 12 (29.27%) GitLab
3 9 (21.95%) Cucumber
3 9 (21.95%) JIRA
3 9 (21.95%) REST Assured
3 9 (21.95%) Selenium
3 9 (21.95%) SonarQube
4 4 (9.76%) Git
5 1 (2.44%) Artifactory
5 1 (2.44%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (2.44%) Cypress.io
5 1 (2.44%) Mocha
5 1 (2.44%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 21 (51.22%) Social Skills
2 10 (24.39%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (19.51%) Law
3 8 (19.51%) Telecoms
4 4 (9.76%) Finance
4 4 (9.76%) Police
5 1 (2.44%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (14.63%) Cloud Engineer
2 5 (12.20%) Java Engineer
2 5 (12.20%) Java Software Engineer
2 5 (12.20%) Software Engineer
2 5 (12.20%) Support Engineer
3 4 (9.76%) Architect
3 4 (9.76%) Developer
3 4 (9.76%) Java Developer
3 4 (9.76%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
4 3 (7.32%) AWS Engineer
4 3 (7.32%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 3 (7.32%) Platform Engineer
5 2 (4.88%) Automation Engineer
5 2 (4.88%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 2 (4.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (4.88%) Network Engineer
5 2 (4.88%) OSS Architect
6 1 (2.44%) Azure Architect
6 1 (2.44%) Azure Platform Engineer
6 1 (2.44%) DevSecOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (24.39%) REST
2 9 (21.95%) ARM Templates
2 9 (21.95%) Java EE
3 2 (4.88%) NETCONF
4 1 (2.44%) AWS CDK
4 1 (2.44%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (2.44%) Fastify
4 1 (2.44%) GraphQL
4 1 (2.44%) Jinja
4 1 (2.44%) JSON
4 1 (2.44%) Node.js
4 1 (2.44%) OAuth
4 1 (2.44%) OAuth2
4 1 (2.44%) OpenAPI
4 1 (2.44%) OpenID
4 1 (2.44%) RESTCONF
4 1 (2.44%) RESTful
4 1 (2.44%) Swagger
4 1 (2.44%) YAML
4 1 (2.44%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 10 (24.39%) Cloud Native
2 3 (7.32%) Data Centre
3 2 (4.88%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (4.88%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (4.88%) Product Ownership
3 2 (4.88%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (4.88%) TM Forum
4 1 (2.44%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 12 (29.27%) Linux
2 5 (12.20%) Windows
3 3 (7.32%) Ubuntu
3 3 (7.32%) Windows Server
4 2 (4.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (2.44%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (70.73%) DevOps
2 16 (39.02%) Configuration Management
3 14 (34.15%) Containerisation
3 14 (34.15%) Infrastructure as Code
4 12 (29.27%) CI/CD
4 12 (29.27%) Software Engineering
5 11 (26.83%) Technical Leadership
6 9 (21.95%) Continuous Integration
6 9 (21.95%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (21.95%) Software Architecture
6 9 (21.95%) Test Automation
7 8 (19.51%) Open Source
8 7 (17.07%) Security Monitoring
8 7 (17.07%) SIEM
9 6 (14.63%) Migration
9 6 (14.63%) Proactive Monitoring
9 6 (14.63%) Security Operations
10 5 (12.20%) Continuous Improvement
10 5 (12.20%) Microservices
10 5 (12.20%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 24 (58.54%) Python
2 9 (21.95%) Java
3 8 (19.51%) PowerShell
4 7 (17.07%) Bash
5 2 (4.88%) Bicep
5 2 (4.88%) SQL
6 1 (2.44%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.44%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 13 (31.71%) Security Cleared
2 12 (29.27%) SC Cleared
3 10 (24.39%) Cisco Certification
4 8 (19.51%) CCNP
5 6 (14.63%) CCSA
5 6 (14.63%) CCSE
5 6 (14.63%) Check Point Certification
6 3 (7.32%) CCIE
7 2 (4.88%) Degree
7 2 (4.88%) JNCIE
7 2 (4.88%) Master's Degree
7 2 (4.88%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (2.44%) AWS Certification
8 1 (2.44%) Azure Certification
8 1 (2.44%) DV Cleared
8 1 (2.44%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.88%) OASIS TOSCA
System Software
1 14 (34.15%) Docker
2 5 (12.20%) vSphere
3 3 (7.32%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (2.44%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 23 (56.10%) Kubernetes
2 22 (53.66%) Terraform
3 9 (21.95%) Docker Swarm
3 9 (21.95%) Podman
4 3 (7.32%) Puppet
5 2 (4.88%) Amdocs OSS
5 2 (4.88%) Grafana
5 2 (4.88%) Progress Chef
5 2 (4.88%) yum
6 1 (2.44%) Prometheus
6 1 (2.44%) QRadar
Vendors
1 9 (21.95%) Cisco
2 7 (17.07%) Palo Alto
3 6 (14.63%) CheckPoint
4 5 (12.20%) Microsoft
5 4 (9.76%) VMware
6 3 (7.32%) Databricks
7 2 (4.88%) Amdocs
7 2 (4.88%) Ericsson
7 2 (4.88%) Fortinet
7 2 (4.88%) Google
7 2 (4.88%) Huawei
7 2 (4.88%) NetCracker
7 2 (4.88%) Nokia
7 2 (4.88%) Red Hat
7 2 (4.88%) Splunk
8 1 (2.44%) F5
8 1 (2.44%) HP
8 1 (2.44%) Juniper
8 1 (2.44%) New Relic
8 1 (2.44%) SolarWinds