Ansible Contracts in England

Ansible
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 101 80 68
Rank change year-on-year -21 -12 0
Contract jobs citing Ansible 814 1,437 2,415
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 2.23% 2.99% 3.43%
As % of the Systems Management category 18.53% 19.25% 21.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 574 1,060 1,729
10th Percentile £417 £450 £438
25th Percentile £475 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £623 £595
Median % change year-on-year -11.65% +4.62% +13.33%
75th Percentile £650 £730 £688
90th Percentile £741 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £588
% change year-on-year -8.33% +2.13% +11.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 26 2
10th Percentile £46.25 £53.75 -
25th Percentile £50.94 £57.30 £57.50
Median hourly rate £62.25 £72.75 £58.75
Median % change year-on-year -14.43% +23.83% +46.88%
75th Percentile £74.44 £77.50 £61.25
90th Percentile £75.36 £80.50 £62.00
UK median hourly rate £62.25 £72.50 £48.75
% change year-on-year -14.14% +48.72% +16.07%

All Systems Management Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 4,393 7,466 11,231
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.05% 15.52% 15.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,217 5,412 8,220
10th Percentile £258 £351 £356
25th Percentile £413 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -9.57% - +12.20%
75th Percentile £625 £680 £675
90th Percentile £700 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £560 £565
% change year-on-year -8.48% -0.88% +13.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 105 176 156
10th Percentile £14.00 £16.25 £13.31
25th Percentile £17.72 £23.13 £15.25
Median hourly rate £25.77 £52.32 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -50.75% +143.33% -10.42%
75th Percentile £48.75 £70.56 £36.25
90th Percentile £71.25 £82.75 £58.13
UK median hourly rate £25.77 £55.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -53.15% +150.00% -45.00%

Ansible
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Ansible in England

Ansible
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Ansible in England

Ansible
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ansible in England over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Ansible in England

Ansible
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Ansible in England

Ansible
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Ansible in England over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Ansible in England

Ansible
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Ansible within the England region over the 6 months to 17 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
London -38 360 £575 -12.21% 144
South East +25 166 £547 -0.64% 38
North of England +8 121 £515 -12.32% 33
South West -17 104 £558 -7.08% 46
Yorkshire +60 73 £485 -19.17% 5
North West -45 40 £533 -9.36% 25
Midlands -3 24 £520 +4.00% 18
West Midlands -8 13 £638 +21.43% 10
East Midlands +12 11 £417 -6.40% 8
East of England -11 11 £625 +20.19% 17
North East -3 8 £550 -15.38% 3
Ansible
UK

Ansible
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 72 (8.85%) Confluence
2 34 (4.18%) OpenStack
3 25 (3.07%) Apache
4 24 (2.95%) nginx
5 9 (1.11%) Apache Airflow
6 8 (0.98%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (0.74%) Apache Solr
7 6 (0.74%) IIS
7 6 (0.74%) JBoss
8 5 (0.61%) Anypoint
9 4 (0.49%) Apache Spark
9 4 (0.49%) Drupal
9 4 (0.49%) SharePoint
10 3 (0.37%) CMS
10 3 (0.37%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.37%) Tomcat
11 2 (0.25%) Traefik
11 2 (0.25%) WebSphere
12 1 (0.12%) SAS
12 1 (0.12%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (0.37%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.12%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (0.86%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.12%) R3 Corda
2 1 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.12%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 308 (37.84%) AWS
2 206 (25.31%) Azure
3 89 (10.93%) GCP
4 88 (10.81%) GitHub
5 50 (6.14%) Azure DevOps
6 47 (5.77%) Amazon EC2
7 44 (5.41%) Serverless
8 43 (5.28%) Amazon S3
9 42 (5.16%) OpenShift
10 34 (4.18%) AWS Lambda
11 33 (4.05%) PaaS
12 31 (3.81%) AWS CloudFormation
13 27 (3.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 27 (3.32%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 22 (2.70%) IaaS
15 21 (2.58%) Amazon EKS
16 16 (1.97%) Apigee
17 15 (1.84%) Cloud Computing
17 15 (1.84%) SaaS
17 15 (1.84%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 98 (12.04%) Firewall
2 62 (7.62%) DNS
3 40 (4.91%) TCP/IP
4 34 (4.18%) VPN
5 28 (3.44%) VLAN
6 27 (3.32%) BGP
7 26 (3.19%) SAN
8 25 (3.07%) DHCP
9 24 (2.95%) Network Security
10 22 (2.70%) OSPF
10 22 (2.70%) SSL
11 20 (2.46%) Wi-Fi
12 19 (2.33%) Cisco ASA
12 19 (2.33%) IPsec
13 17 (2.09%) Cisco Nexus
13 17 (2.09%) SNMP
14 16 (1.97%) Cisco Firepower
14 16 (1.97%) Cisco ISE
14 16 (1.97%) HSRP
15 15 (1.84%) Spanning Tree
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (7.13%) Elasticsearch
2 54 (6.63%) PostgreSQL
3 46 (5.65%) MySQL
4 45 (5.53%) SQL Server
5 32 (3.93%) Relational Database
6 31 (3.81%) NoSQL
7 25 (3.07%) Amazon RDS
7 25 (3.07%) MongoDB
8 20 (2.46%) Amazon Redshift
9 19 (2.33%) Big Data
9 19 (2.33%) Data Lake
10 16 (1.97%) Apache Cassandra
11 12 (1.47%) RDBMS
12 9 (1.11%) Couchbase
12 9 (1.11%) DynamoDB
13 8 (0.98%) BigQuery
13 8 (0.98%) Data Warehouse
13 8 (0.98%) InfluxDB
13 8 (0.98%) Oracle Database
13 8 (0.98%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 313 (38.45%) Jenkins
2 155 (19.04%) Git
3 137 (16.83%) GitLab
4 105 (12.90%) JIRA
5 53 (6.51%) Bitbucket
5 53 (6.51%) SonarQube
6 43 (5.28%) Artifactory
7 41 (5.04%) Selenium
8 36 (4.42%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 36 (4.42%) Sonatype Nexus
9 33 (4.05%) Cucumber
10 25 (3.07%) TeamCity
11 24 (2.95%) REST Assured
12 19 (2.33%) Robot Framework
13 18 (2.21%) Subversion
14 16 (1.97%) CircleCI
15 14 (1.72%) Visual Studio
16 13 (1.60%) Maven
16 13 (1.60%) Travis CI
17 10 (1.23%) JMeter
General
1 175 (21.50%) Social Skills
2 106 (13.02%) Finance
3 95 (11.67%) Analytical Skills
4 70 (8.60%) Public Sector
5 39 (4.79%) Banking
6 28 (3.44%) Law
7 18 (2.21%) Aerospace
8 16 (1.97%) Telecoms
9 15 (1.84%) Legal
10 13 (1.60%) Police
10 13 (1.60%) Retail
11 11 (1.35%) Financial Institution
11 11 (1.35%) Investment Banking
12 6 (0.74%) Documentation Skills
12 6 (0.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 6 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (0.49%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (0.49%) Manufacturing
13 4 (0.49%) Marketing
14 3 (0.37%) German Language
Job Titles
1 181 (22.24%) DevOps Engineer
2 76 (9.34%) Developer
3 74 (9.09%) Architect
3 74 (9.09%) Senior
4 63 (7.74%) Network Engineer
5 53 (6.51%) AWS Engineer
6 42 (5.16%) AWS DevOps
7 40 (4.91%) Linux Engineer
8 37 (4.55%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 37 (4.55%) Lead
8 37 (4.55%) Platform Engineer
9 36 (4.42%) Automation Engineer
10 30 (3.69%) Senior DevOps
11 29 (3.56%) Security Engineer
11 29 (3.56%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 28 (3.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 24 (2.95%) Cloud Engineer
14 23 (2.83%) Azure Engineer
14 23 (2.83%) Security Architect
15 22 (2.70%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (8.85%) Elastic Stack
2 64 (7.86%) REST
3 61 (7.49%) .NET
4 51 (6.27%) YAML
5 41 (5.04%) JSON
6 31 (3.81%) Kafka
7 28 (3.44%) Node.js
8 27 (3.32%) RabbitMQ
9 24 (2.95%) Java EE
10 23 (2.83%) .NET Core
11 20 (2.46%) XML
12 18 (2.21%) Spring
13 17 (2.09%) LDAP
14 16 (1.97%) Jinja
14 16 (1.97%) OpenID
14 16 (1.97%) RESTful
15 15 (1.84%) ASP.NET
16 14 (1.72%) ARM Templates
16 14 (1.72%) Middleware
16 14 (1.72%) React
Miscellaneous
1 56 (6.88%) PKI
2 41 (5.04%) Linux Command Line
2 41 (5.04%) Public Cloud
3 38 (4.67%) Data Centre
4 33 (4.05%) Replication
5 26 (3.19%) Clustering
6 22 (2.70%) Product Ownership
7 21 (2.58%) Management Information System
8 18 (2.21%) Cloud Native
9 16 (1.97%) Onboarding
10 14 (1.72%) Greenfield Project
11 13 (1.60%) Data Protection Act
11 13 (1.60%) Enterprise Software
12 11 (1.35%) Mobile App
13 10 (1.23%) Private Cloud
14 9 (1.11%) Data Structures
14 9 (1.11%) Distributed Systems
14 9 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
15 7 (0.86%) Fat Client
15 7 (0.86%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 365 (44.84%) Linux
2 146 (17.94%) Windows
3 76 (9.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 74 (9.09%) Unix
5 58 (7.13%) Windows Server
6 33 (4.05%) CentOS
7 22 (2.70%) Ubuntu
8 20 (2.46%) Windows Server 2019
9 19 (2.33%) Solaris
10 18 (2.21%) VMS
11 17 (2.09%) zOS
12 11 (1.35%) Android
12 11 (1.35%) Apple iOS
12 11 (1.35%) Oracle Linux
13 6 (0.74%) Debian
14 3 (0.37%) Windows 2000
14 3 (0.37%) Windows Server 2016
14 3 (0.37%) Windows XP
15 2 (0.25%) Windows 10
15 2 (0.25%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 379 (46.56%) DevOps
2 332 (40.79%) CI/CD
3 217 (26.66%) Agile
4 186 (22.85%) Infrastructure as Code
5 175 (21.50%) Configuration Management
6 144 (17.69%) Problem-Solving
7 137 (16.83%) Containerisation
8 122 (14.99%) Continuous Integration
9 100 (12.29%) Test Automation
10 90 (11.06%) Scrum
11 74 (9.09%) ITIL
12 65 (7.99%) Task Automation
13 60 (7.37%) Deployment Automation
14 59 (7.25%) Software Engineering
15 58 (7.13%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 58 (7.13%) Platform Engineering
16 56 (6.88%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 52 (6.39%) Infrastructure Automation
18 50 (6.14%) SDLC
19 47 (5.77%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 438 (53.81%) Python
2 221 (27.15%) PowerShell
3 158 (19.41%) Bash
4 114 (14.00%) Java
5 75 (9.21%) Shell Script
6 73 (8.97%) SQL
7 60 (7.37%) Go
8 51 (6.27%) JavaScript
9 44 (5.41%) Perl
10 43 (5.28%) C#
11 27 (3.32%) C
12 22 (2.70%) Ruby
13 20 (2.46%) C++
14 16 (1.97%) JCL
14 16 (1.97%) REXX
15 14 (1.72%) Groovy
16 12 (1.47%) Tcl
17 7 (0.86%) TypeScript
18 6 (0.74%) Scala
19 5 (0.61%) PHP
Qualifications
1 348 (42.75%) Security Cleared
2 240 (29.48%) SC Cleared
3 112 (13.76%) DV Cleared
4 42 (5.16%) Cisco Certification
5 35 (4.30%) Degree
6 34 (4.18%) CCNP
7 23 (2.83%) AWS Certification
7 23 (2.83%) CCNA
8 16 (1.97%) Computer Science Degree
9 11 (1.35%) CCIE
10 8 (0.98%) Azure Certification
11 5 (0.61%) RHCE
12 3 (0.37%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 3 (0.37%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (0.37%) RHCSA
13 2 (0.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 2 (0.25%) CISSP
13 2 (0.25%) GIAC
13 2 (0.25%) Master's Degree
13 2 (0.25%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (4.67%) QA
2 14 (1.72%) GDPR
3 13 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (1.35%) NIST
5 7 (0.86%) PCI DSS
5 7 (0.86%) RMADS
6 6 (0.74%) NCSC
6 6 (0.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 4 (0.49%) Data Quality
7 4 (0.49%) HIPAA
7 4 (0.49%) SLA
8 3 (0.37%) ISO 22301
9 2 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.12%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 242 (29.73%) Docker
2 85 (10.44%) VMware Infrastructure
3 54 (6.63%) Active Directory
4 32 (3.93%) vSphere
5 31 (3.81%) Virtual Machines
6 28 (3.44%) VMware NSX
7 24 (2.95%) VMware ESXi
8 21 (2.58%) Hyper-V
9 20 (2.46%) NFS
10 18 (2.21%) Firmware
11 16 (1.97%) Time Sharing Option
12 5 (0.61%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 5 (0.61%) KVM
13 4 (0.49%) Ceph
14 3 (0.37%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 3 (0.37%) Virtual Servers
15 2 (0.25%) Varnish
15 2 (0.25%) Veritas Cluster Server
16 1 (0.12%) Oracle RAC
16 1 (0.12%) Xen
Systems Management
1 409 (50.25%) Terraform
2 292 (35.87%) Kubernetes
3 134 (16.46%) Puppet
4 96 (11.79%) Prometheus
5 93 (11.43%) Grafana
6 75 (9.21%) Progress Chef
7 34 (4.18%) Kibana
8 33 (4.05%) Docker Swarm
9 31 (3.81%) logstash
10 27 (3.32%) Packer
11 24 (2.95%) PowerCLI
12 22 (2.70%) Tivoli Storage Manager
13 19 (2.33%) Red Hat Satellite
14 18 (2.21%) NetBackup
15 17 (2.09%) Podman
16 13 (1.60%) vRealize
17 12 (1.47%) Netcool
18 11 (1.35%) HP Fortify
18 11 (1.35%) Nessus
18 11 (1.35%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 127 (15.60%) VMware
2 85 (10.44%) Red Hat
3 74 (9.09%) Cisco
4 67 (8.23%) Microsoft
5 61 (7.49%) Dell
6 59 (7.25%) Splunk
7 56 (6.88%) IBM
8 52 (6.39%) Oracle
9 37 (4.55%) Atlassian
10 35 (4.30%) HP
11 33 (4.05%) SolarWinds
12 31 (3.81%) Google
13 29 (3.56%) Citrix
14 26 (3.19%) F5
14 26 (3.19%) ServiceNow
15 25 (3.07%) Veritas
16 20 (2.46%) Palo Alto
17 18 (2.21%) CA
17 18 (2.21%) CheckPoint
17 18 (2.21%) CyberArk