Ansible Contracts in the North of England

Ansible
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 80 75 66
Rank change year-on-year -5 -9 +12
Contract jobs citing Ansible 116 167 243
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 2.49% 2.93% 3.41%
As % of the Systems Management category 22.35% 19.83% 23.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 134 186
10th Percentile £416 £456 £444
25th Percentile £443 £525 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year -13.73% +14.29% +5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £655 £623
90th Percentile £638 £700 £656
England median daily rate £550 £624 £590
% change year-on-year -11.78% +5.72% +12.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52.50 - -
Median hourly rate £55.00 - -
75th Percentile £57.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £62.25 £73.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -14.73% +26.96% +43.75%

All Systems Management Skills
North of 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 the North of England with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 519 842 1,048
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 11.14% 14.75% 14.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 363 621 809
10th Percentile £235 £325 £250
25th Percentile £392 £444 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% +16.67%
75th Percentile £580 £638 £615
90th Percentile £645 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - +12.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 51 19
10th Percentile £16.89 £17.50 £15.58
25th Percentile £17.72 £22.27 £16.95
Median hourly rate £22.50 £37.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +87.50% -17.36%
75th Percentile £48.75 £49.52 £41.85
90th Percentile £80.38 £65.00 £51.91
England median hourly rate £25.71 £57.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -55.29% +167.44% -10.42%

Ansible
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Ansible in the North of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Ansible in the North of England

Ansible
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ansible in the North of England over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Ansible in the North of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Ansible in the North of England

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Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 7 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
Yorkshire +68 66 £514 -17.76% 8
North West -44 42 £533 -9.36% 20
North East -5 8 £550 -18.52% 4
Ansible
England

Ansible
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 10 (8.62%) Confluence
2 5 (4.31%) nginx
3 4 (3.45%) OpenStack
4 3 (2.59%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (2.59%) Jupyter
5 2 (1.72%) Traefik
Cloud Services
1 38 (32.76%) AWS
2 30 (25.86%) GitHub
3 23 (19.83%) Azure
4 17 (14.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 16 (13.79%) GCP
6 12 (10.34%) Amazon EC2
7 9 (7.76%) Apigee
8 8 (6.90%) AWS CloudFormation
9 7 (6.03%) Amazon S3
9 7 (6.03%) AWS Lambda
9 7 (6.03%) Serverless
10 6 (5.17%) Amazon ELB
10 6 (5.17%) CloudBees
10 6 (5.17%) Kong
10 6 (5.17%) Snowflake
10 6 (5.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 5 (4.31%) GitHub Actions
12 3 (2.59%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 2 (1.72%) Google Compute Engine
13 2 (1.72%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 25 (21.55%) Firewall
2 15 (12.93%) VLAN
3 13 (11.21%) Wi-Fi
4 12 (10.34%) BGP
4 12 (10.34%) Cisco ASA
4 12 (10.34%) Cisco Firepower
4 12 (10.34%) Cisco ISE
4 12 (10.34%) EIGRP
4 12 (10.34%) HSRP
4 12 (10.34%) IPsec
4 12 (10.34%) NetScaler
4 12 (10.34%) OSPF
4 12 (10.34%) SNMP
4 12 (10.34%) Spanning Tree
5 11 (9.48%) DNS
6 9 (7.76%) SSL
7 8 (6.90%) TCP/IP
8 6 (5.17%) HTTP
8 6 (5.17%) VPN
9 4 (3.45%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (9.48%) Elasticsearch
1 11 (9.48%) MySQL
2 8 (6.90%) NoSQL
3 7 (6.03%) Apache Cassandra
4 6 (5.17%) Data Lake
4 6 (5.17%) DynamoDB
5 5 (4.31%) SQL Server
6 4 (3.45%) Amazon Redshift
6 4 (3.45%) MongoDB
6 4 (3.45%) Relational Database
7 3 (2.59%) ClickHouse
8 2 (1.72%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.86%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.86%) Oracle Exadata
9 1 (0.86%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.86%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 44 (37.93%) Jenkins
2 25 (21.55%) GitLab
3 20 (17.24%) Git
4 13 (11.21%) JIRA
5 11 (9.48%) SonarQube
6 7 (6.03%) CircleCI
7 6 (5.17%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 6 (5.17%) Travis CI
8 4 (3.45%) AppScan
8 4 (3.45%) Burp Suite
8 4 (3.45%) Maven
8 4 (3.45%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (2.59%) Bitbucket
9 3 (2.59%) gulp
10 1 (0.86%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.86%) Gradle
10 1 (0.86%) Liquibase
10 1 (0.86%) Postman
General
1 40 (34.48%) Social Skills
2 31 (26.72%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (13.79%) Public Sector
4 13 (11.21%) Finance
5 3 (2.59%) Banking
5 3 (2.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (2.59%) Retail
6 1 (0.86%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 19 (16.38%) DevOps Engineer
2 17 (14.66%) Network Engineer
3 14 (12.07%) Storage Manager
4 11 (9.48%) Senior
5 10 (8.62%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 10 (8.62%) Storage Engineer
6 8 (6.90%) Senior Network Engineer
7 7 (6.03%) AWS DevOps
7 7 (6.03%) Site Engineer
8 6 (5.17%) Automation Engineer
8 6 (5.17%) Data Protection Engineer
8 6 (5.17%) Developer
8 6 (5.17%) Lead
8 6 (5.17%) Operations Engineer
9 5 (4.31%) Data Engineer
9 5 (4.31%) DevOps Platform Engineer
9 5 (4.31%) Platform Engineer
9 5 (4.31%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
10 4 (3.45%) AWS Engineer
10 4 (3.45%) DevOps Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (18.97%) YAML
2 14 (12.07%) Elastic Stack
3 13 (11.21%) JSON
4 12 (10.34%) Jinja
5 9 (7.76%) Kafka
6 6 (5.17%) ActiveMQ
6 6 (5.17%) REST
6 6 (5.17%) XML
7 5 (4.31%) Node.js
7 5 (4.31%) SAML
8 4 (3.45%) Keycloak
8 4 (3.45%) OAuth
8 4 (3.45%) RESTful
9 3 (2.59%) .NET
9 3 (2.59%) Apache Beam
9 3 (2.59%) OpenID
9 3 (2.59%) React
10 2 (1.72%) cloud-init
11 1 (0.86%) Oracle GoldenGate
11 1 (0.86%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 15 (12.93%) Replication
2 14 (12.07%) Data Centre
3 9 (7.76%) Public Cloud
4 7 (6.03%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (5.17%) Data Structures
6 5 (4.31%) Linux Command Line
7 4 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (2.59%) Mobile App
9 2 (1.72%) Clustering
9 2 (1.72%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (1.72%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (1.72%) PKI
9 2 (1.72%) Product Ownership
9 2 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (1.72%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.86%) Cloud Native
10 1 (0.86%) Credit Risk
10 1 (0.86%) IoT
10 1 (0.86%) Mashup
10 1 (0.86%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 59 (50.86%) Linux
2 28 (24.14%) Windows
3 15 (12.93%) zOS
4 8 (6.90%) Unix
5 4 (3.45%) Oracle Linux
6 3 (2.59%) Android
6 3 (2.59%) Apple iOS
6 3 (2.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (1.72%) CentOS
8 1 (0.86%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.86%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.86%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (55.17%) DevOps
2 50 (43.10%) CI/CD
3 42 (36.21%) Agile
4 32 (27.59%) Change Management
5 27 (23.28%) Infrastructure as Code
6 26 (22.41%) Continuous Integration
7 25 (21.55%) Containerisation
8 24 (20.69%) Problem-Solving
9 22 (18.97%) ITIL
10 21 (18.10%) Project Management
11 18 (15.52%) Configuration Management
12 17 (14.66%) ITSM
13 16 (13.79%) Scrum
13 16 (13.79%) Software Testing
13 16 (13.79%) Stakeholder Management
13 16 (13.79%) Storage Management
14 14 (12.07%) Migration
14 14 (12.07%) Problem Management
15 13 (11.21%) Service Delivery
16 12 (10.34%) Network Management
Programming Languages
1 70 (60.34%) Python
2 28 (24.14%) Bash
3 18 (15.52%) PowerShell
4 17 (14.66%) Perl
5 15 (12.93%) JCL
5 15 (12.93%) REXX
6 14 (12.07%) Go
7 12 (10.34%) Tcl
8 11 (9.48%) Java
8 11 (9.48%) JavaScript
9 8 (6.90%) Ruby
9 8 (6.90%) SQL
10 6 (5.17%) Groovy
11 5 (4.31%) Shell Script
12 4 (3.45%) Scala
13 2 (1.72%) C
14 1 (0.86%) ActionScript
14 1 (0.86%) C++
14 1 (0.86%) Fortran
14 1 (0.86%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 23 (19.83%) Security Cleared
2 20 (17.24%) SC Cleared
3 15 (12.93%) CCNA
3 15 (12.93%) CCNP
3 15 (12.93%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (2.59%) CCIE
5 2 (1.72%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (12.93%) QA
2 3 (2.59%) ISO 22301
2 3 (2.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.72%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (1.72%) NCSC
3 2 (1.72%) NIST
3 2 (1.72%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 38 (32.76%) Docker
2 15 (12.93%) NFS
2 15 (12.93%) Time Sharing Option
3 12 (10.34%) Firmware
4 3 (2.59%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 2 (1.72%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.86%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.86%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.86%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 47 (40.52%) Terraform
2 36 (31.03%) Kubernetes
3 30 (25.86%) Puppet
4 21 (18.10%) Grafana
4 21 (18.10%) Prometheus
5 16 (13.79%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 15 (12.93%) Progress Chef
7 14 (12.07%) NetBackup
8 10 (8.62%) HP Fortify
9 9 (7.76%) Docker Swarm
10 7 (6.03%) Kibana
11 6 (5.17%) logstash
12 4 (3.45%) Graylog
12 4 (3.45%) Nessus
12 4 (3.45%) WebInspect
12 4 (3.45%) yum
13 3 (2.59%) Packer
14 2 (1.72%) Consul
14 2 (1.72%) Graphite
14 2 (1.72%) PowerBroker
Vendors
1 22 (18.97%) IBM
2 20 (17.24%) Splunk
3 16 (13.79%) Broadcom
3 16 (13.79%) Brocade
3 16 (13.79%) Cisco
3 16 (13.79%) Dell
4 15 (12.93%) CA
5 14 (12.07%) Veritas
6 13 (11.21%) Citrix
7 12 (10.34%) Palo Alto
7 12 (10.34%) SolarWinds
8 8 (6.90%) Oracle
9 7 (6.03%) VMware
10 6 (5.17%) Microsoft
10 6 (5.17%) PagerDuty
10 6 (5.17%) ServiceNow
10 6 (5.17%) Solace
11 5 (4.31%) EMC
11 5 (4.31%) Google
12 4 (3.45%) Atlassian