Ansible Contracts in South Yorkshire

Ansible
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Yorkshire 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 9 46
Rank change year-on-year +1 +37 -24
Contract jobs citing Ansible 52 57 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 13.94% 12.47% 2.07%
As % of the Systems Management category 45.22% 42.86% 11.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 36 7
10th Percentile £359 £415 £571
25th Percentile £397 £430 £622
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £514 £650
Median % change year-on-year -2.72% -20.92% +23.81%
75th Percentile £611 £564 £681
90th Percentile £650 £641 £693
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £514 £625
% change year-on-year -2.72% -17.76% +19.05%

All Systems Management Skills
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 115 133 93
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 30.83% 29.10% 17.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 91 74
10th Percentile £359 £250 £406
25th Percentile £390 £407 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £470 £610
Median % change year-on-year +6.38% -22.95% +16.19%
75th Percentile £600 £559 £700
90th Percentile £676 £625 -
Yorkshire median daily rate £481 £470 £550
% change year-on-year +2.39% -14.55% +10.00%
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% -6.32%
75th Percentile - £23.75 £22.50
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate - £22.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year - -64.00% +212.50%

Ansible
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Ansible in South Yorkshire

Ansible
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Ansible in South Yorkshire

Ansible
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Ansible in South Yorkshire

Ansible
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire 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
Sheffield +2 51 £500 -4.31% 15
Doncaster - 1 £675 - 8
Ansible
Yorkshire

Ansible
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 (7.69%) Confluence
2 1 (1.92%) Apache
2 1 (1.92%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.92%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (3.85%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (3.85%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 12 (23.08%) GitHub
2 6 (11.54%) OCI
3 2 (3.85%) AWS
3 2 (3.85%) GCP
4 1 (1.92%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (1.92%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (1.92%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 9 (17.31%) SMTP
2 8 (15.38%) DNS
3 6 (11.54%) SAN
4 5 (9.62%) Network Security
5 4 (7.69%) Firewall
5 4 (7.69%) NAS
5 4 (7.69%) TCP/IP
6 3 (5.77%) Cisco Nexus
6 3 (5.77%) DWDM
6 3 (5.77%) LAN
6 3 (5.77%) VPN
6 3 (5.77%) WAN
7 1 (1.92%) BGP
7 1 (1.92%) EIGRP
7 1 (1.92%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 1 (1.92%) HTTPS
7 1 (1.92%) OSPF
7 1 (1.92%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (25.00%) Oracle Database
2 1 (1.92%) Big Data
2 1 (1.92%) Delta Lake
2 1 (1.92%) Hadoop
2 1 (1.92%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 21 (40.38%) Jenkins
2 12 (23.08%) Git
3 8 (15.38%) JIRA
4 7 (13.46%) Cucumber
4 7 (13.46%) Visual Studio
5 4 (7.69%) GitLab
6 3 (5.77%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (5.77%) Vagrant
7 2 (3.85%) Selenium
7 2 (3.85%) TestNG
8 1 (1.92%) Subversion
General
1 23 (44.23%) Social Skills
2 20 (38.46%) Finance
3 9 (17.31%) Banking
4 6 (11.54%) Financial Institution
5 1 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.92%) Investment Banking
5 1 (1.92%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (17.31%) Automation Engineer
2 7 (13.46%) Database Engineer
2 7 (13.46%) Oracle Database Engineer
3 5 (9.62%) Data Engineer
3 5 (9.62%) DevOps Engineer
3 5 (9.62%) Network Engineer
3 5 (9.62%) Senior
4 4 (7.69%) Data Protection Engineer
4 4 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (5.77%) Windows Engineer
6 2 (3.85%) Consultant
6 2 (3.85%) DevOps Automation Engineer
6 2 (3.85%) Senior DevOps
6 2 (3.85%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 1 (1.92%) Automation Specialist
7 1 (1.92%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (1.92%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 1 (1.92%) Lead
7 1 (1.92%) Python Engineer
7 1 (1.92%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (25.00%) REST
2 7 (13.46%) Gherkin
3 4 (7.69%) Middleware
4 2 (3.85%) pytest
4 2 (3.85%) RESTful
5 1 (1.92%) LAPP Stack
5 1 (1.92%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 10 (19.23%) Data Protection Act
2 6 (11.54%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (7.69%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (3.85%) EMC VMAX
4 2 (3.85%) Enterprise Storage
4 2 (3.85%) LPAR
4 2 (3.85%) Mainframe
4 2 (3.85%) Management Information System
4 2 (3.85%) Replication
5 1 (1.92%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (1.92%) IBM Mainframe
5 1 (1.92%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.92%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.92%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 12 (23.08%) Windows
2 9 (17.31%) Linux
3 4 (7.69%) Windows Server
4 3 (5.77%) Unix
5 2 (3.85%) OS/400
5 2 (3.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.92%) AIX
6 1 (1.92%) Solaris
6 1 (1.92%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (36.54%) CI/CD
1 19 (36.54%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (28.85%) Infrastructure Automation
3 14 (26.92%) Data Protection
4 12 (23.08%) Containerisation
5 10 (19.23%) Agile
5 10 (19.23%) Performance Tuning
6 9 (17.31%) ITSM
6 9 (17.31%) SIEM
7 8 (15.38%) DevOps
7 8 (15.38%) Migration
8 6 (11.54%) Change Management
8 6 (11.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 6 (11.54%) Test Automation
9 5 (9.62%) Computer Science
9 5 (9.62%) Task Automation
10 4 (7.69%) Kanban
10 4 (7.69%) Scrum
11 3 (5.77%) Configuration Management
11 3 (5.77%) Network Architecture
Programming Languages
1 30 (57.69%) Python
2 18 (34.62%) PowerShell
3 13 (25.00%) Shell Script
4 4 (7.69%) Bash
5 3 (5.77%) Ruby
6 2 (3.85%) RPG
7 1 (1.92%) ActionScript
7 1 (1.92%) ActionScript 2.0
7 1 (1.92%) Go
7 1 (1.92%) Groovy
7 1 (1.92%) JCL
7 1 (1.92%) Korn
7 1 (1.92%) Perl
7 1 (1.92%) REXX
Qualifications
1 5 (9.62%) Computer Science Degree
1 5 (9.62%) Degree
1 5 (9.62%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 4 (7.69%) OCP
2 4 (7.69%) Oracle Certification
3 3 (5.77%) CCNP
3 3 (5.77%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (3.85%) CCNA
4 2 (3.85%) JNCIA
4 2 (3.85%) JNCIS
4 2 (3.85%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.92%) IBM Certification
5 1 (1.92%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.92%) Accessibility
1 1 (1.92%) GDPR
1 1 (1.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (1.92%) PCI DSS
1 1 (1.92%) QA
1 1 (1.92%) SOC 2
System Software
1 13 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 12 (23.08%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (23.08%) vSphere
3 11 (21.15%) Docker
4 4 (7.69%) VMware NSX
5 3 (5.77%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (5.77%) VirtualBox
6 2 (3.85%) PowerHA
7 1 (1.92%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 14 (26.92%) Kubernetes
2 8 (15.38%) Terraform
3 7 (13.46%) Puppet
4 6 (11.54%) vRealize
5 4 (7.69%) Progress Chef
5 4 (7.69%) vCenter Server
6 2 (3.85%) Control-M
7 1 (1.92%) Nagios
7 1 (1.92%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 14 (26.92%) VMware
2 13 (25.00%) Oracle
3 7 (13.46%) Cisco
4 4 (7.69%) Commvault
4 4 (7.69%) Red Hat
4 4 (7.69%) Splunk
5 3 (5.77%) Arista
6 2 (3.85%) 3PAR
6 2 (3.85%) Brocade
6 2 (3.85%) EMC
6 2 (3.85%) HP
6 2 (3.85%) IBM
6 2 (3.85%) Microsoft
7 1 (1.92%) Databricks
7 1 (1.92%) F5
7 1 (1.92%) Google
7 1 (1.92%) IBM Sterling