Ansible Contracts in Reading

Ansible
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 38 49 53
Rank change year-on-year +11 +4 +14
Contract jobs citing Ansible 22 43 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 3.69% 3.61% 3.27%
As % of the Systems Management category 34.92% 24.02% 28.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 28 21
10th Percentile £369 £513 £478
25th Percentile £436 £594 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £625 £625
Median % change year-on-year -28.00% - +17.65%
75th Percentile £583 £678 £750
90th Percentile £608 £695 £784
Berkshire median daily rate £494 £619 £593
% change year-on-year -20.20% +4.43% +18.50%

All Systems Management Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 63 179 121
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 10.55% 15.02% 11.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 134 89
10th Percentile £409 £205 £425
25th Percentile £450 £213 £504
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £575 £593
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% -2.95% +8.72%
75th Percentile £663 £608 £700
90th Percentile £686 £650 £763
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
10th Percentile - - £56.00
25th Percentile - - £61.25
Median hourly rate - £65.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - -7.14% +600.00%
75th Percentile - - £75.69
90th Percentile - - £79.10
Berkshire median hourly rate - £65.00 £68.00
% change year-on-year - -4.41% -6.21%

Ansible
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Ansible in Reading

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Ansible in Reading

Ansible
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

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

Daily rate histogram for Ansible in Reading

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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:

Cloud Services
1 17 (77.27%) AWS
1 17 (77.27%) Azure
2 5 (22.73%) GCP
3 1 (4.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (4.55%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (4.55%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (4.55%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (4.55%) Amazon S3
3 1 (4.55%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (4.55%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (4.55%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
3 1 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (4.55%) Azure AKS
3 1 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (4.55%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (4.55%) GitHub
3 1 (4.55%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (4.55%) Serverless
3 1 (4.55%) SonarCloud
3 1 (4.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (40.91%) BGP
1 9 (40.91%) TCP/IP
1 9 (40.91%) VLAN
2 6 (27.27%) Firewall
3 5 (22.73%) MPLS
4 4 (18.18%) Network Security
4 4 (18.18%) OSPF
4 4 (18.18%) VPN
5 1 (4.55%) Cisco Firepower
5 1 (4.55%) Cisco IOS
5 1 (4.55%) Cisco ISE
5 1 (4.55%) Junos
5 1 (4.55%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.55%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (4.55%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 7 (31.82%) Jenkins
2 6 (27.27%) Cucumber
2 6 (27.27%) GitLab
2 6 (27.27%) JIRA
2 6 (27.27%) REST Assured
2 6 (27.27%) Selenium
2 6 (27.27%) SonarQube
3 5 (22.73%) Robot Framework
4 1 (4.55%) Artifactory
4 1 (4.55%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 14 (63.64%) Social Skills
2 13 (59.09%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (27.27%) Telecoms
4 5 (22.73%) Law
5 4 (18.18%) Police
6 1 (4.55%) Electronics
6 1 (4.55%) Finance
6 1 (4.55%) Manufacturing
6 1 (4.55%) Marketing
6 1 (4.55%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (22.73%) Automation Tester
1 5 (22.73%) Java Engineer
1 5 (22.73%) Java Software Engineer
1 5 (22.73%) Software Engineer
1 5 (22.73%) Telecoms Tester
1 5 (22.73%) Tester
2 4 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (18.18%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
3 1 (4.55%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (4.55%) Cisco Engineer
3 1 (4.55%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 1 (4.55%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (4.55%) Consultant
3 1 (4.55%) Developer
3 1 (4.55%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
3 1 (4.55%) IT Engineer
3 1 (4.55%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (4.55%) Java Developer
3 1 (4.55%) Juniper Engineer
3 1 (4.55%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (27.27%) ARM Templates
1 6 (27.27%) Java EE
1 6 (27.27%) REST
2 1 (4.55%) AWS CDK
2 1 (4.55%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (4.55%) Serverless Framework
Miscellaneous
1 8 (36.36%) Cloud Native
2 5 (22.73%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (13.64%) Product Ownership
4 1 (4.55%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 4 (18.18%) Linux
2 3 (13.64%) Windows
3 2 (9.09%) AIX
3 2 (9.09%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (59.09%) Containerisation
2 11 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 9 (40.91%) Configuration Management
4 8 (36.36%) DevOps
4 8 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (31.82%) Infrastructure as Code
5 7 (31.82%) Software Engineering
6 6 (27.27%) Continuous Integration
6 6 (27.27%) Software Architecture
6 6 (27.27%) Technical Leadership
7 5 (22.73%) Test Strategy
8 4 (18.18%) Infrastructure Automation
8 4 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 4 (18.18%) Proactive Monitoring
8 4 (18.18%) Security Monitoring
8 4 (18.18%) Security Operations
8 4 (18.18%) SIEM
9 3 (13.64%) Continuous Improvement
10 2 (9.09%) Coaching
10 2 (9.09%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 13 (59.09%) Python
2 6 (27.27%) Java
3 3 (13.64%) PowerShell
4 2 (9.09%) Bash
5 1 (4.55%) Bicep
5 1 (4.55%) Shell Script
5 1 (4.55%) VB
Qualifications
1 8 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 7 (31.82%) SC Cleared
3 4 (18.18%) CCNP
3 4 (18.18%) CCSA
3 4 (18.18%) CCSE
3 4 (18.18%) Check Point Certification
3 4 (18.18%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (4.55%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.09%) NIST
System Software
1 15 (68.18%) Docker
2 2 (9.09%) Hyper-V
2 2 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 15 (68.18%) Kubernetes
2 10 (45.45%) Terraform
3 6 (27.27%) Docker Swarm
3 6 (27.27%) Podman
4 4 (18.18%) Progress Chef
4 4 (18.18%) Puppet
5 2 (9.09%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (9.09%) SCCM
6 1 (4.55%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 5 (22.73%) Cisco
2 4 (18.18%) CheckPoint
2 4 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 4 (18.18%) Palo Alto
3 3 (13.64%) VMware
4 1 (4.55%) Citrix
4 1 (4.55%) F5
4 1 (4.55%) Juniper
4 1 (4.55%) New Relic
4 1 (4.55%) SAP