Ansible Contracts in the South West

Ansible
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 61 56 85
Rank change year-on-year -5 +29 -23
Contract jobs citing Ansible 102 154 98
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 3.22% 4.23% 2.63%
As % of the Systems Management category 25.06% 25.41% 18.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 112 76
10th Percentile £513 £441 £425
25th Percentile £518 £511 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% +9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £700 £675 £595
90th Percentile - £700 £650
England median daily rate £550 £623 £600
% change year-on-year -11.65% +3.75% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 10 1
10th Percentile £57.10 £53.75 -
25th Percentile £58.75 £57.94 -
Median hourly rate £74.44 £75.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -1.40% +31.30% +43.75%
75th Percentile - £78.00 -
90th Percentile £76.28 £78.80 -
England median hourly rate £62.50 £73.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -14.38% +26.96% +43.75%

All Systems Management Skills
South West

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 South West with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 407 606 543
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 12.85% 16.64% 14.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 311 500 378
10th Percentile £205 £318 £261
25th Percentile £397 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £599 £650 £590
90th Percentile £700 £719 £675
England median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 23 20
10th Percentile - £53.75 £11.17
25th Percentile - £62.85 £16.85
Median hourly rate £40.00 £73.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -45.21% +265.00% -54.25%
75th Percentile £72.85 £78.35 £50.00
90th Percentile £76.28 £87.20 £55.03
England median hourly rate £26.38 £57.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -54.12% +167.44% -10.42%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Ansible in the South West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Ansible in the South West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ansible in the South West over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Ansible in the South West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Ansible in the South West

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Ansible in the South West over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Ansible in the South West

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Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Gloucestershire -6 36 £550 -4.35% 22
Wiltshire -15 36 £700 +27.27% 6
Bristol +2 17 £525 -8.70% 14
Dorset - 5 £275 - 1
Devon -1 4 £550 -21.43% 3
Somerset +2 2 - - 1
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 30 (29.41%) Confluence
2 5 (4.90%) Apache
2 5 (4.90%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (3.92%) Apache Solr
3 4 (3.92%) nginx
4 1 (0.98%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.98%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 1 (0.98%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 35 (34.31%) AWS
2 26 (25.49%) Azure
3 15 (14.71%) OpenShift
4 13 (12.75%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (7.84%) Serverless
6 7 (6.86%) GCP
7 6 (5.88%) Amazon EC2
7 6 (5.88%) Amazon S3
7 6 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
7 6 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (2.94%) GitHub
9 2 (1.96%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (1.96%) PaaS
10 1 (0.98%) Azure Functions
10 1 (0.98%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (0.98%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (13.73%) Firewall
2 9 (8.82%) VPN
3 8 (7.84%) Network Security
3 8 (7.84%) TCP/IP
4 7 (6.86%) AMQP
5 6 (5.88%) DNS
6 4 (3.92%) HTTPS
6 4 (3.92%) IPsec
6 4 (3.92%) SAN
6 4 (3.92%) Software-Defined Networking
7 2 (1.96%) Cisco ASA
7 2 (1.96%) Cisco Nexus
7 2 (1.96%) DMZ
7 2 (1.96%) IPv4
7 2 (1.96%) OSPF
7 2 (1.96%) VLAN
8 1 (0.98%) DHCP
8 1 (0.98%) Internet
8 1 (0.98%) SSL
8 1 (0.98%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (7.84%) InfluxDB
1 8 (7.84%) SQL Server
2 6 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (5.88%) Relational Database
3 5 (4.90%) MySQL
4 4 (3.92%) Amazon Aurora
4 4 (3.92%) Couchbase
4 4 (3.92%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.98%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 40 (39.22%) Jenkins
2 34 (33.33%) JIRA
3 30 (29.41%) Bitbucket
4 22 (21.57%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 9 (8.82%) Artifactory
6 7 (6.86%) Git
6 7 (6.86%) GitLab
7 6 (5.88%) SonarQube
8 3 (2.94%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.98%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.98%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.98%) GoCD
9 1 (0.98%) JMeter
9 1 (0.98%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.98%) Selenium
General
1 31 (30.39%) Social Skills
2 20 (19.61%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (17.65%) Aerospace
4 10 (9.80%) Legal
5 4 (3.92%) German Language
5 4 (3.92%) Public Sector
6 3 (2.94%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.96%) Electronics
7 2 (1.96%) Finance
7 2 (1.96%) Marketing
7 2 (1.96%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.98%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 29 (28.43%) DevOps Engineer
2 20 (19.61%) Developer
3 14 (13.73%) Senior
4 7 (6.86%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 6 (5.88%) Database Engineer
5 6 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 6 (5.88%) Lead
5 6 (5.88%) Network Engineer
5 6 (5.88%) Senior Database Engineer
6 4 (3.92%) Integration Engineer
6 4 (3.92%) Platform Engineer
6 4 (3.92%) Senior Integration Engineer
6 4 (3.92%) Senior Test and Integration Engineer
6 4 (3.92%) Senior Test Engineer
6 4 (3.92%) Test and Integration Engineer
6 4 (3.92%) Test Engineer
7 3 (2.94%) Automation Test Lead
7 3 (2.94%) Cloud Engineer
7 3 (2.94%) Senior DevOps
7 3 (2.94%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (25.49%) .NET
2 22 (21.57%) .NET Core
3 11 (10.78%) RabbitMQ
4 10 (9.80%) YAML
5 8 (7.84%) REST
6 6 (5.88%) Apache NiFi
7 4 (3.92%) JSON
7 4 (3.92%) LEMP Stack
8 3 (2.94%) ModSecurity
9 2 (1.96%) .NET Framework
10 1 (0.98%) Elastic Stack
10 1 (0.98%) Kafka
10 1 (0.98%) Keycloak
10 1 (0.98%) NumPy
10 1 (0.98%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 10 (9.80%) Cloud Native
2 6 (5.88%) Linux Command Line
3 5 (4.90%) PKI
4 4 (3.92%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.94%) Data Centre
5 3 (2.94%) Public Cloud
5 3 (2.94%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.98%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.98%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 62 (60.78%) Linux
2 22 (21.57%) Windows
3 5 (4.90%) CentOS
3 5 (4.90%) Windows Server
4 4 (3.92%) Unix
5 3 (2.94%) VMS
5 3 (2.94%) Windows 2000
5 3 (2.94%) Windows XP
6 2 (1.96%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.98%) Solaris
7 1 (0.98%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.98%) Windows 7
7 1 (0.98%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (56.86%) CI/CD
2 52 (50.98%) DevOps
3 35 (34.31%) Configuration Management
4 28 (27.45%) Task Automation
5 27 (26.47%) Infrastructure Automation
6 24 (23.53%) Infrastructure as Code
6 24 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
7 23 (22.55%) Agile
7 23 (22.55%) Continuous Integration
8 22 (21.57%) Deployment Automation
8 22 (21.57%) OO
8 22 (21.57%) OOP
9 12 (11.76%) Containerisation
9 12 (11.76%) Software Engineering
10 11 (10.78%) Software Delivery
11 10 (9.80%) Migration
11 10 (9.80%) Service Management
11 10 (9.80%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 8 (7.84%) Continuous Improvement
13 7 (6.86%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 54 (52.94%) Python
2 50 (49.02%) PowerShell
3 22 (21.57%) Bash
4 16 (15.69%) SQL
5 15 (14.71%) C
6 12 (11.76%) Java
7 11 (10.78%) Go
8 8 (7.84%) Shell Script
9 4 (3.92%) PHP
10 3 (2.94%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.98%) Bicep
11 1 (0.98%) C++
11 1 (0.98%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 73 (71.57%) Security Cleared
2 39 (38.24%) DV Cleared
3 36 (35.29%) SC Cleared
4 4 (3.92%) CCNP
4 4 (3.92%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (3.92%) Degree
5 2 (1.96%) CCIE
5 2 (1.96%) CCNA
6 1 (0.98%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.98%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (0.98%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.98%) GIAC
6 1 (0.98%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.98%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.84%) QA
2 4 (3.92%) GDPR
2 4 (3.92%) HIPAA
2 4 (3.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (3.92%) NIST
3 1 (0.98%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.98%) SLA
3 1 (0.98%) WCAG
System Software
1 37 (36.27%) Docker
2 15 (14.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (12.75%) VMware NSX
4 9 (8.82%) VMware ESXi
4 9 (8.82%) vSphere
5 7 (6.86%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.98%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.98%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 1 (0.98%) NFS
6 1 (0.98%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 56 (54.90%) Terraform
2 36 (35.29%) Kubernetes
3 23 (22.55%) PowerCLI
4 14 (13.73%) Grafana
4 14 (13.73%) Prometheus
5 10 (9.80%) Progress Chef
6 8 (7.84%) Puppet
7 7 (6.86%) Docker Swarm
8 3 (2.94%) OPNET
9 1 (0.98%) Dell DRAC
9 1 (0.98%) Kibana
9 1 (0.98%) Packer
9 1 (0.98%) SCOM
9 1 (0.98%) SELinux
9 1 (0.98%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.98%) WSUS
Vendors
1 31 (30.39%) Atlassian
2 22 (21.57%) Dell
2 22 (21.57%) HP
3 19 (18.63%) VMware
4 14 (13.73%) Microsoft
5 7 (6.86%) Google
5 7 (6.86%) Red Hat
6 5 (4.90%) Cisco
6 5 (4.90%) Fortinet
7 4 (3.92%) CyberArk
7 4 (3.92%) F5
8 3 (2.94%) Juniper
8 3 (2.94%) SolarWinds
9 2 (1.96%) Palo Alto
9 2 (1.96%) SAP
9 2 (1.96%) Splunk
10 1 (0.98%) Citrix
10 1 (0.98%) Oracle
10 1 (0.98%) Veeam