Ansible Contracts in the South East

Ansible
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 67 63 81
Rank change year-on-year -4 +18 -14
Contract jobs citing Ansible 96 166 158
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 3.19% 2.99% 2.72%
As % of the Systems Management category 26.37% 23.22% 19.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 115 105
10th Percentile £413 - £425
25th Percentile £456 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.35%
75th Percentile £603 £622 £650
90th Percentile £634 £683 £738
England median daily rate £575 £550 £623
% change year-on-year +4.55% -11.65% +4.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 6
10th Percentile - - £55.94
25th Percentile - £46.25 £57.30
Median hourly rate - £47.50 £61.38
Median % change year-on-year - -22.61% +11.59%
75th Percentile - £59.38 £71.78
90th Percentile - £65.75 £74.36
England median hourly rate £71.85 £62.50 £73.00
% change year-on-year +14.96% -14.38% +26.96%

All Systems Management Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 364 715 809
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 12.09% 12.86% 13.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 268 504 593
10th Percentile £318 £209 £308
25th Percentile £425 £363 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £475 £543
Median % change year-on-year +5.37% -12.52% +8.60%
75th Percentile £591 £600 £625
90th Percentile £663 £650 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £575
% change year-on-year - -8.70% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 17 20
10th Percentile £20.77 £14.00 £18.27
25th Percentile £21.98 £23.63 £47.31
Median hourly rate £23.99 £47.50 £61.38
Median % change year-on-year -49.51% -22.61% +182.18%
75th Percentile £25.99 £50.00 £74.03
90th Percentile £27.20 £66.00 £76.31
England median hourly rate £27.38 £27.25 £57.50
% change year-on-year +0.46% -52.61% +167.44%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Ansible in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Ansible in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for Ansible in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Ansible in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Ansible in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Ansible within the South East region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Hampshire +15 45 £575 +27.78% 21
Thames Valley +18 44 £481 -19.79% 37
Berkshire +20 40 £494 -20.20% 21
Surrey +4 3 £619 +1.02% 7
Buckinghamshire +8 2 £425 -22.73% 10
West Sussex 0 2 £550 - 6
Oxfordshire -2 2 £488 -2.50% 10
Sussex - 1 - - 4
Middlesex - 1 - - 1
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 8 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (4.17%) Apache
3 1 (1.04%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 51 (53.13%) Azure
2 50 (52.08%) AWS
3 17 (17.71%) OpenShift
4 16 (16.67%) GCP
5 10 (10.42%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (8.33%) IaaS
6 8 (8.33%) PaaS
6 8 (8.33%) SaaS
7 7 (7.29%) Microsoft 365
8 6 (6.25%) GitHub
9 4 (4.17%) Cloudflare
10 2 (2.08%) Azure AKS
10 2 (2.08%) Azure Monitor
11 1 (1.04%) Amazon ECS
11 1 (1.04%) Amazon EKS
11 1 (1.04%) Amazon SQS
11 1 (1.04%) GitHub Actions
11 1 (1.04%) Pulumi
11 1 (1.04%) Serverless
11 1 (1.04%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 19 (19.79%) VPN
2 18 (18.75%) Firewall
3 17 (17.71%) DNS
4 14 (14.58%) BGP
4 14 (14.58%) DHCP
5 11 (11.46%) Network Security
5 11 (11.46%) SMTP
5 11 (11.46%) TCP/IP
6 9 (9.38%) Cisco ISE
6 9 (9.38%) MPLS
6 9 (9.38%) OSPF
6 9 (9.38%) VLAN
7 8 (8.33%) WAN
8 7 (7.29%) LAN
9 6 (6.25%) Cisco Firepower
9 6 (6.25%) Cisco IOS
9 6 (6.25%) Junos
10 4 (4.17%) Ethernet VPN
11 3 (3.13%) 5G
11 3 (3.13%) 5G NR
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (13.54%) Big Data
2 9 (9.38%) Amazon RDS
3 8 (8.33%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (2.08%) MongoDB
4 2 (2.08%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.04%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.04%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.04%) Redis
5 1 (1.04%) Sybase IQ
Development Applications
1 17 (17.71%) Jenkins
2 13 (13.54%) GitLab
3 11 (11.46%) Git
4 10 (10.42%) JIRA
5 9 (9.38%) Cucumber
5 9 (9.38%) REST Assured
5 9 (9.38%) Selenium
5 9 (9.38%) SonarQube
6 5 (5.21%) Robot Framework
7 2 (2.08%) Subversion
8 1 (1.04%) Artifactory
8 1 (1.04%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (1.04%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 32 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 22 (22.92%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (14.58%) Public Sector
4 9 (9.38%) Telecoms
5 8 (8.33%) Finance
5 8 (8.33%) Law
6 5 (5.21%) Police
7 1 (1.04%) Electronics
7 1 (1.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.04%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.04%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 18 (18.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 16 (16.67%) Network Engineer
3 9 (9.38%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
4 8 (8.33%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 8 (8.33%) 3rd Line Support
4 8 (8.33%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 8 (8.33%) Administrator
4 8 (8.33%) Support Engineer
5 7 (7.29%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
5 7 (7.29%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
5 7 (7.29%) Infrastructure Support
5 7 (7.29%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
5 7 (7.29%) Linux Administrator
5 7 (7.29%) Senior
5 7 (7.29%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 6 (6.25%) Cloud Engineer
6 6 (6.25%) DevOps Engineer
6 6 (6.25%) Platform Engineer
7 5 (5.21%) Automation Tester
7 5 (5.21%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (10.42%) ARM Templates
2 9 (9.38%) Java EE
2 9 (9.38%) REST
3 3 (3.13%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (3.13%) LDAP
4 2 (2.08%) YAML
5 1 (1.04%) AWS CDK
5 1 (1.04%) Jinja
5 1 (1.04%) JSON
5 1 (1.04%) Kafka
5 1 (1.04%) Keycloak
5 1 (1.04%) Loki
5 1 (1.04%) NETCONF
5 1 (1.04%) OpenTelemetry
5 1 (1.04%) RESTCONF
5 1 (1.04%) Serverless Framework
Miscellaneous
1 13 (13.54%) Cloud Native
1 13 (13.54%) Data Centre
1 13 (13.54%) Public Cloud
2 11 (11.46%) Hybrid Cloud
3 9 (9.38%) Self-Motivation
4 8 (8.33%) Clustering
4 8 (8.33%) PKI
5 3 (3.13%) Product Ownership
5 3 (3.13%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 2 (2.08%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (2.08%) Replication
7 1 (1.04%) Derivative
7 1 (1.04%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 44 (45.83%) Linux
2 29 (30.21%) Windows
3 20 (20.83%) Windows Server
4 14 (14.58%) Ubuntu
5 11 (11.46%) CentOS
5 11 (11.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (7.29%) Windows Server 2016
7 6 (6.25%) Unix
8 4 (4.17%) AIX
8 4 (4.17%) Solaris
9 3 (3.13%) Windows Server 2003
10 2 (2.08%) HPUX
11 1 (1.04%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (41.67%) DevOps
2 24 (25.00%) Configuration Management
3 23 (23.96%) Agile
3 23 (23.96%) Problem-Solving
4 22 (22.92%) Containerisation
5 18 (18.75%) Infrastructure as Code
5 18 (18.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 18 (18.75%) Test Automation
6 16 (16.67%) CI/CD
7 15 (15.63%) Infrastructure Automation
8 13 (13.54%) Continuous Improvement
9 12 (12.50%) Software Engineering
10 11 (11.46%) High Availability
10 11 (11.46%) Technical Leadership
11 10 (10.42%) Continuous Integration
12 9 (9.38%) Software Architecture
13 8 (8.33%) Artificial Intelligence
13 8 (8.33%) Machine Learning
13 8 (8.33%) Root Cause Analysis
13 8 (8.33%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 46 (47.92%) Python
2 30 (31.25%) PowerShell
3 15 (15.63%) Bash
4 9 (9.38%) Java
5 6 (6.25%) VB
6 4 (4.17%) Perl
7 2 (2.08%) Bicep
7 2 (2.08%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.04%) C#
8 1 (1.04%) C++
8 1 (1.04%) Go
8 1 (1.04%) Korn
8 1 (1.04%) PHP
Qualifications
1 57 (59.38%) Security Cleared
2 31 (32.29%) SC Cleared
3 26 (27.08%) DV Cleared
4 14 (14.58%) Cisco Certification
5 10 (10.42%) CCNP
6 8 (8.33%) Degree
7 6 (6.25%) CCIE
8 4 (4.17%) CCSA
8 4 (4.17%) CCSE
8 4 (4.17%) Check Point Certification
9 2 (2.08%) Azure Certification
9 2 (2.08%) JNCIP
10 1 (1.04%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.21%) SLA
2 2 (2.08%) GDPR
2 2 (2.08%) NIST
2 2 (2.08%) QA
System Software
1 28 (29.17%) Docker
2 24 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (11.46%) Active Directory
4 10 (10.42%) Hyper-V
4 10 (10.42%) VMware ESXi
4 10 (10.42%) vSphere
5 8 (8.33%) BitLocker
5 8 (8.33%) Microsoft App-V
5 8 (8.33%) Terminal Services
6 3 (3.13%) NFS
6 3 (3.13%) Samba
7 1 (1.04%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 46 (47.92%) Terraform
2 40 (41.67%) Kubernetes
3 16 (16.67%) Puppet
4 15 (15.63%) vCenter Server
5 9 (9.38%) Docker Swarm
5 9 (9.38%) Podman
6 8 (8.33%) Nagios
6 8 (8.33%) vMotion
7 7 (7.29%) Nessus
7 7 (7.29%) Progress Chef
8 6 (6.25%) FortiGate
9 5 (5.21%) yum
10 3 (3.13%) Grafana
11 2 (2.08%) Foglight
11 2 (2.08%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (2.08%) Oracle ZFS
11 2 (2.08%) Prometheus
11 2 (2.08%) Red Hat Satellite
11 2 (2.08%) SCCM
11 2 (2.08%) SELinux
Vendors
1 31 (32.29%) VMware
2 25 (26.04%) Microsoft
3 23 (23.96%) Cisco
4 19 (19.79%) Red Hat
5 18 (18.75%) Citrix
6 13 (13.54%) F5
6 13 (13.54%) HP
7 10 (10.42%) Symantec
8 9 (9.38%) Google
9 8 (8.33%) CheckPoint
10 5 (5.21%) Databricks
10 5 (5.21%) Fortinet
10 5 (5.21%) Palo Alto
11 4 (4.17%) Juniper
11 4 (4.17%) SolarWinds
11 4 (4.17%) Splunk
11 4 (4.17%) Zscaler
12 3 (3.13%) Mellanox
12 3 (3.13%) NVIDIA
13 2 (2.08%) Ericsson