Ansible Contracts in the Midlands

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England > Midlands

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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 96 104 101
Rank change year-on-year +8 -3 -20
Contract jobs citing Ansible 37 54 110
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.33% 1.65% 2.18%
As % of the Systems Management category 12.09% 12.86% 20.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 39 67
10th Percentile £347 £439 £381
25th Percentile £505 £478 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -7.41% +20.00%
75th Percentile £585 £650 £625
90th Percentile £688 £731 £675
England median daily rate £550 £613 £599
% change year-on-year -10.20% +2.25% +13.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £65.00 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 - -
75th Percentile £75.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £66.25 £73.00 £58.75
% change year-on-year -9.25% +24.26% +25.67%

All Systems Management Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 306 420 544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 10.96% 12.84% 10.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 243 285 351
10th Percentile £201 £303 £213
25th Percentile £350 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £500 £465
Median % change year-on-year -9.00% +7.53% +13.41%
75th Percentile £575 £631 £550
90th Percentile £645 £700 £631
England median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - +10.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 15 19
10th Percentile £21.49 £17.72 £10.68
25th Percentile £25.38 £19.13 £12.83
Median hourly rate £25.77 £21.67 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year +18.90% +31.33% -8.33%
75th Percentile £40.57 £33.37 £21.13
90th Percentile £63.00 £55.70 £23.90
England median hourly rate £27.50 £52.93 £21.50
% change year-on-year -48.04% +146.16% -11.89%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Ansible in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Ansible in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ansible in the Midlands over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Ansible in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Ansible within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 2 June 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
West Midlands -3 25 £582 +10.86% 11
East Midlands +11 12 £499 +1.84% 11
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 5 (13.51%) Confluence
2 4 (10.81%) Apache
3 3 (8.11%) CMS
3 3 (8.11%) Drupal
4 1 (2.70%) SAS
4 1 (2.70%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 11 (29.73%) Azure
2 10 (27.03%) AWS
3 4 (10.81%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (10.81%) GCP
4 2 (5.41%) Power Platform
5 1 (2.70%) Azure App Service
5 1 (2.70%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (2.70%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (2.70%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (2.70%) GitHub
5 1 (2.70%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.81%) DNS
2 3 (8.11%) Cisco Nexus
2 3 (8.11%) Firewall
2 3 (8.11%) Network Security
2 3 (8.11%) SAN
2 3 (8.11%) SSL
3 1 (2.70%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.11%) SQL Server
2 2 (5.41%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (5.41%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.70%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (2.70%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (2.70%) Apache Hive
3 1 (2.70%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (2.70%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (2.70%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.70%) Hadoop
3 1 (2.70%) Impala
3 1 (2.70%) MySQL
3 1 (2.70%) Pentaho
3 1 (2.70%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 14 (37.84%) Git
2 8 (21.62%) GitLab
3 6 (16.22%) Artifactory
3 6 (16.22%) Jenkins
3 6 (16.22%) JIRA
4 4 (10.81%) JMeter
5 3 (8.11%) Selenium
5 3 (8.11%) Sonatype Nexus
5 3 (8.11%) Subversion
6 1 (2.70%) Bitbucket
6 1 (2.70%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (2.70%) TeamCity
General
1 5 (13.51%) Public Sector
2 3 (8.11%) Social Skills
3 2 (5.41%) Finance
4 1 (2.70%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.70%) Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (10.81%) DevOps Engineer
1 4 (10.81%) Linux Systems Administrator
1 4 (10.81%) Platform Engineer
1 4 (10.81%) Systems Administrator
2 3 (8.11%) Analyst
2 3 (8.11%) DevOps Specialist
2 3 (8.11%) Network Engineer
2 3 (8.11%) Test Analyst
3 2 (5.41%) Architect
3 2 (5.41%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 2 (5.41%) Junior
3 2 (5.41%) Subject Matter Expert
3 2 (5.41%) VMware Specialist
4 1 (2.70%) Azure Architect
4 1 (2.70%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (2.70%) Data Engineer
4 1 (2.70%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 1 (2.70%) Linux Build Engineer
4 1 (2.70%) OAT Tester
4 1 (2.70%) Platform Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (29.73%) YAML
2 4 (10.81%) LDAP
3 2 (5.41%) Apache NiFi
3 2 (5.41%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (5.41%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.81%) Cloud Native
1 4 (10.81%) Linux Command Line
2 3 (8.11%) Mobile App
2 3 (8.11%) Private Cloud
3 1 (2.70%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.70%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 19 (51.35%) Linux
2 17 (45.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 17 (45.95%) Windows
3 3 (8.11%) Windows Server
4 2 (5.41%) Unix
5 1 (2.70%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (40.54%) Infrastructure as Code
2 12 (32.43%) Validation
3 11 (29.73%) Configuration Management
3 11 (29.73%) Infrastructure Automation
3 11 (29.73%) Virtual Infrastructure
4 10 (27.03%) CI/CD
4 10 (27.03%) DevOps
5 7 (18.92%) Agile
5 7 (18.92%) Platform Engineering
5 7 (18.92%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 4 (10.81%) Continuous Delivery
6 4 (10.81%) Incident Management
6 4 (10.81%) Kanban
6 4 (10.81%) Operational Acceptance Testing
6 4 (10.81%) Performance Testing
6 4 (10.81%) Project Delivery
6 4 (10.81%) Root Cause Analysis
6 4 (10.81%) Scrum
6 4 (10.81%) SDLC
6 4 (10.81%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 17 (45.95%) PowerShell
2 8 (21.62%) Python
3 4 (10.81%) Shell Script
4 2 (5.41%) SQL
5 1 (2.70%) Bicep
5 1 (2.70%) HiveQL
5 1 (2.70%) Java
5 1 (2.70%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 22 (59.46%) Security Cleared
2 18 (48.65%) SC Cleared
3 3 (8.11%) CCNA
3 3 (8.11%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (8.11%) DV Cleared
4 2 (5.41%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (5.41%) Degree
5 1 (2.70%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.70%) RHCE
5 1 (2.70%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.81%) QA
2 1 (2.70%) Data Quality
System Software
1 12 (32.43%) Virtual Machines
2 11 (29.73%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (13.51%) Docker
3 5 (13.51%) Hyper-V
4 2 (5.41%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (2.70%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 21 (56.76%) Terraform
2 14 (37.84%) Progress Chef
3 12 (32.43%) Puppet
4 11 (29.73%) Salt
5 4 (10.81%) Kubernetes
5 4 (10.81%) Red Hat Satellite
6 2 (5.41%) SCCM
6 2 (5.41%) SCOM
6 2 (5.41%) SCSM
7 1 (2.70%) PowerBroker
7 1 (2.70%) Rancher
Vendors
1 17 (45.95%) Red Hat
2 13 (35.14%) VMware
3 9 (24.32%) SaltStack
4 6 (16.22%) ServiceNow
5 3 (8.11%) CheckPoint
5 3 (8.11%) Cisco
5 3 (8.11%) F5
5 3 (8.11%) Microsoft
5 3 (8.11%) Salesforce
6 1 (2.70%) Denodo
6 1 (2.70%) Guidewire
6 1 (2.70%) Informatica
6 1 (2.70%) Oracle
6 1 (2.70%) Talend