Ansible Contracts in Sheffield

Ansible
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Sheffield 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 8 10 45
Rank change year-on-year +2 +35 -30
Contract jobs citing Ansible 51 47 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 15.99% 12.40% 2.42%
As % of the Systems Management category 48.11% 44.76% 12.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 28 7
10th Percentile £358 £431 £571
25th Percentile £394 £467 £622
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £523 £650
Median % change year-on-year -4.31% -19.62% +23.81%
75th Percentile £603 £623 £681
90th Percentile £650 £645 £693
South Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £514 £650
% change year-on-year -2.72% -20.92% +23.81%

All Systems Management Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 106 105 86
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 33.23% 27.70% 18.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 66 67
10th Percentile £358 £305 £463
25th Percentile £388 £430 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £514 £638
Median % change year-on-year -7.59% -19.37% +20.28%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £700
90th Percentile £670 £641 -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £470 £610
% change year-on-year +6.38% -22.95% +16.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £21.25 £17.50
Median hourly rate - £22.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year - +12.50% -
75th Percentile - £23.75 £22.50
90th Percentile - - -
South Yorkshire median hourly rate - £22.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +12.50% -6.32%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Job vacancy trend for Ansible in Sheffield

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Daily rate trend for Ansible in Sheffield

Ansible
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

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

Daily rate histogram for Ansible in Sheffield

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Sheffield 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 4 (7.84%) Confluence
2 1 (1.96%) Apache
2 1 (1.96%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.96%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (3.92%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (3.92%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 12 (23.53%) GitHub
2 6 (11.76%) OCI
3 2 (3.92%) GCP
4 1 (1.96%) AWS
4 1 (1.96%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 9 (17.65%) SMTP
2 8 (15.69%) DNS
3 6 (11.76%) SAN
4 5 (9.80%) Network Security
5 4 (7.84%) Firewall
5 4 (7.84%) NAS
5 4 (7.84%) TCP/IP
6 3 (5.88%) Cisco Nexus
6 3 (5.88%) DWDM
6 3 (5.88%) LAN
6 3 (5.88%) VPN
6 3 (5.88%) WAN
7 1 (1.96%) BGP
7 1 (1.96%) EIGRP
7 1 (1.96%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 1 (1.96%) HTTPS
7 1 (1.96%) OSPF
7 1 (1.96%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (25.49%) Oracle Database
2 1 (1.96%) Big Data
2 1 (1.96%) Delta Lake
2 1 (1.96%) Hadoop
2 1 (1.96%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 20 (39.22%) Jenkins
2 11 (21.57%) Git
3 8 (15.69%) JIRA
4 7 (13.73%) Cucumber
4 7 (13.73%) Visual Studio
5 4 (7.84%) GitLab
6 3 (5.88%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (5.88%) Vagrant
7 2 (3.92%) Selenium
7 2 (3.92%) TestNG
General
1 23 (45.10%) Social Skills
2 20 (39.22%) Finance
3 9 (17.65%) Banking
4 6 (11.76%) Financial Institution
5 1 (1.96%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.96%) Investment Banking
5 1 (1.96%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (17.65%) Automation Engineer
2 7 (13.73%) Database Engineer
2 7 (13.73%) Oracle Database Engineer
3 5 (9.80%) Data Engineer
3 5 (9.80%) Network Engineer
4 4 (7.84%) Data Protection Engineer
4 4 (7.84%) DevOps Engineer
4 4 (7.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (7.84%) Senior
5 3 (5.88%) Windows Engineer
6 2 (3.92%) Consultant
6 2 (3.92%) DevOps Automation Engineer
7 1 (1.96%) Cloud Automation Engineer
7 1 (1.96%) Cloud Engineer
7 1 (1.96%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 1 (1.96%) Lead
7 1 (1.96%) Python Engineer
7 1 (1.96%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 1 (1.96%) Technical Delivery Manager
7 1 (1.96%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (25.49%) REST
2 7 (13.73%) Gherkin
3 4 (7.84%) Middleware
4 2 (3.92%) pytest
4 2 (3.92%) RESTful
5 1 (1.96%) LAPP Stack
5 1 (1.96%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 10 (19.61%) Data Protection Act
2 6 (11.76%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (7.84%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (3.92%) EMC VMAX
4 2 (3.92%) Enterprise Storage
4 2 (3.92%) LPAR
4 2 (3.92%) Mainframe
4 2 (3.92%) Management Information System
4 2 (3.92%) Replication
5 1 (1.96%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (1.96%) IBM Mainframe
5 1 (1.96%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.96%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 12 (23.53%) Windows
2 9 (17.65%) Linux
3 4 (7.84%) Windows Server
4 3 (5.88%) Unix
5 2 (3.92%) OS/400
5 2 (3.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.96%) AIX
6 1 (1.96%) Solaris
6 1 (1.96%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (37.25%) CI/CD
1 19 (37.25%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (29.41%) Infrastructure Automation
3 14 (27.45%) Data Protection
4 12 (23.53%) Containerisation
5 10 (19.61%) Agile
5 10 (19.61%) Performance Tuning
6 9 (17.65%) ITSM
6 9 (17.65%) SIEM
7 8 (15.69%) Migration
8 7 (13.73%) DevOps
9 6 (11.76%) Change Management
9 6 (11.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 6 (11.76%) Test Automation
10 5 (9.80%) Computer Science
10 5 (9.80%) Task Automation
11 4 (7.84%) Kanban
11 4 (7.84%) Scrum
12 3 (5.88%) Configuration Management
12 3 (5.88%) Network Architecture
Programming Languages
1 30 (58.82%) Python
2 18 (35.29%) PowerShell
3 13 (25.49%) Shell Script
4 4 (7.84%) Bash
5 3 (5.88%) Ruby
6 2 (3.92%) RPG
7 1 (1.96%) ActionScript
7 1 (1.96%) ActionScript 2.0
7 1 (1.96%) Go
7 1 (1.96%) Groovy
7 1 (1.96%) JCL
7 1 (1.96%) Korn
7 1 (1.96%) Perl
7 1 (1.96%) REXX
Qualifications
1 5 (9.80%) Computer Science Degree
1 5 (9.80%) Degree
1 5 (9.80%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 4 (7.84%) OCP
2 4 (7.84%) Oracle Certification
3 3 (5.88%) CCNP
3 3 (5.88%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (3.92%) CCNA
4 2 (3.92%) JNCIA
4 2 (3.92%) JNCIS
5 1 (1.96%) IBM Certification
5 1 (1.96%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.96%) Accessibility
1 1 (1.96%) GDPR
1 1 (1.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (1.96%) PCI DSS
1 1 (1.96%) QA
1 1 (1.96%) SOC 2
System Software
1 13 (25.49%) Active Directory
2 12 (23.53%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (23.53%) vSphere
3 10 (19.61%) Docker
4 4 (7.84%) VMware NSX
5 3 (5.88%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (5.88%) VirtualBox
6 2 (3.92%) PowerHA
7 1 (1.96%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 13 (25.49%) Kubernetes
2 7 (13.73%) Puppet
2 7 (13.73%) Terraform
3 6 (11.76%) vRealize
4 4 (7.84%) Progress Chef
4 4 (7.84%) vCenter Server
5 2 (3.92%) Control-M
6 1 (1.96%) Nagios
6 1 (1.96%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 14 (27.45%) VMware
2 13 (25.49%) Oracle
3 7 (13.73%) Cisco
4 4 (7.84%) Commvault
4 4 (7.84%) Splunk
5 3 (5.88%) Arista
5 3 (5.88%) Red Hat
6 2 (3.92%) 3PAR
6 2 (3.92%) Brocade
6 2 (3.92%) EMC
6 2 (3.92%) HP
6 2 (3.92%) IBM
6 2 (3.92%) Microsoft
7 1 (1.96%) Databricks
7 1 (1.96%) F5
7 1 (1.96%) Google
7 1 (1.96%) IBM Sterling